Ostranauts Hotfix Patch (0.12.1.1) Is Live!
Hey Folks!
Ostranauts v0.12.1.1 is now available on Steam, and your clients should be updating shortly.
This is a hotfix update to our recently released "Rate My Ship" update, which fixes several issues with game timers, pathfinding, and other problems.
Saves from v0.12.0.0 and later should work. Note that if you were experiencing issues in the older save, this patch may fix some, but others may persist depending on the cause.
Several of this patch's changes involve pathfinding improvements. One is a performance optimization which tries to reuse existing pathfinding solutions more, and it should improve performance in high-traffic areas and areas with large spaces.
We also fixed a bug that caused AI to put a helmet on any time the pathfinder considered going through an airlock without air on the other side. Even if it ultimately didn't decide to.
AI also got a minor boost by having its list of possible actions updated to include some newer items.
A different batch of fixes focuses on timers, saving, and memory. Several timers in the game were using scaled time, meaning certain UIs would stop updating when the game paused. And an opposite situation for game special events continued even when the game was paused.
With regard to saving, the autosave timer now resets when the user executes a manual save. And there should be slightly improved RAM use after saving now.
Lastly, there were a handful of miscellaneous fixes to the game, including a few that caused missing or too many NPCs of certain types.
As always, there's plenty more for us to fix, change, and add! And we'll be continuing in roughly that order. In the meantime, let us know if this patch helps you out, as well as if it reveals new problems!
Best,
Daniel Fedor
Founder, Blue Bottle Games, LLC
Ostranauts v0.12.1.1 is now available on Steam, and your clients should be updating shortly.
This is a hotfix update to our recently released "Rate My Ship" update, which fixes several issues with game timers, pathfinding, and other problems.
Saves from v0.12.0.0 and later should work. Note that if you were experiencing issues in the older save, this patch may fix some, but others may persist depending on the cause.
- Added a performance optimization to pathfinding code.
- Changed AutoSave to reset interval timer when game manually saved.
- Changed AI to have more knowledge about how to use environmental objects.
- Fixed a possible memory leak when saving a game completes.
- Fixed a bug that caused AutoSave and Loading popups to stop updating while game was paused.
- Fixed a bug that caused AI to seek out and wear helmets if they even considered going through a voided airlock.
- Fixed a bug that caused wounds to be invisible on inventory paper doll after loading a save.
- Fixed a bug that caused special event timers (e.g. micrometeoroids) to update while game was paused.
- Fixed a bug that caused extra officers to spawn on OKLG stations instead of reusing existing ones.
- Fixed a bug that could allow important NPCs (like Flotilla fixer) to be used as NPC scavenger pilots.
- Fixed OKLG licensed kiosk action list so option 1 is Trade instead of License Info, for consistency with other kiosks.
- Fixed a null exception that could occur when updating the appearance of a destroyed object.
Several of this patch's changes involve pathfinding improvements. One is a performance optimization which tries to reuse existing pathfinding solutions more, and it should improve performance in high-traffic areas and areas with large spaces.
We also fixed a bug that caused AI to put a helmet on any time the pathfinder considered going through an airlock without air on the other side. Even if it ultimately didn't decide to.
AI also got a minor boost by having its list of possible actions updated to include some newer items.
A different batch of fixes focuses on timers, saving, and memory. Several timers in the game were using scaled time, meaning certain UIs would stop updating when the game paused. And an opposite situation for game special events continued even when the game was paused.
With regard to saving, the autosave timer now resets when the user executes a manual save. And there should be slightly improved RAM use after saving now.
Lastly, there were a handful of miscellaneous fixes to the game, including a few that caused missing or too many NPCs of certain types.
As always, there's plenty more for us to fix, change, and add! And we'll be continuing in roughly that order. In the meantime, let us know if this patch helps you out, as well as if it reveals new problems!
Best,
Daniel Fedor
Founder, Blue Bottle Games, LLC