Ostranauts Hotfix Patch (0.12.1.19) Is Live!
Hey Folks!
Ostranauts v0.12.1.19 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 a bug that caused the ship rating kiosk to misidentify rooms, among other things.
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.
Today's patch is another small one, but with potentially bigger implications.
A few players reported that their new ship designs would frequently be mischaracterized by the ship rating kiosk as having new engineering rooms, despite adding toilets, nav stations, and other clearly non-engineering-room items.
After looking into one of the affected player save files, we found a bug in the way the game loads condition triggers (which are like a type of filter or test). In some cases where the trigger involved other triggers in a chain, the rest of the chain was ignored, and the trigger passed.
This caused things like the ship room spec to pass tests that should otherwise fail, and led to situations like too many rooms counting as engineering rooms.
It's hard to predict where else this might have broken things, as the code is used widely by the game. But there's a fair chance this solves some other bugs we've been unable to find so far.
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 v0.12.1.19 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 a bug that caused the ship rating kiosk to misidentify rooms, among other things.
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.
- Fixed a bug in the way the game loads filters, which could cause several hard-to-predict bugs.
- Fixed the ship rating kiosk deciding all new rooms were engineering rooms.
Today's patch is another small one, but with potentially bigger implications.
A few players reported that their new ship designs would frequently be mischaracterized by the ship rating kiosk as having new engineering rooms, despite adding toilets, nav stations, and other clearly non-engineering-room items.
After looking into one of the affected player save files, we found a bug in the way the game loads condition triggers (which are like a type of filter or test). In some cases where the trigger involved other triggers in a chain, the rest of the chain was ignored, and the trigger passed.
This caused things like the ship room spec to pass tests that should otherwise fail, and led to situations like too many rooms counting as engineering rooms.
It's hard to predict where else this might have broken things, as the code is used widely by the game. But there's a fair chance this solves some other bugs we've been unable to find so far.
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