Hello explorers! We've had another very successful round of Experimental builds and are now graduating them to the Main branch, which we're calling the Voyager Update!
[h2]Passenger Vehicle Space Travel[/h2]
We've hammered on multiplayer and are proud to announce we have vehicular travel across planets with passengers! Needless to say, we're very excited about this - it's been on our roadmap forever and we're so glad to finally get this in.
[h2]Cross Planet Travel[/h2]
Proteus 2 is our first multimap world. You can now travel to the next side of the world, in a vehicle, on foot, or even with a Space Ship. You can also travel with your friends as passengers of your vehicle.
[h2]Space Station Travel Improvements[/h2]
We touched up the ability to park and save your Space Station above Zer or Proteus 2, in both single and multiplayer.
[h2]Proteus 2 Site A Remastered[/h2]
We also restored the original Proteus 2 Site A map and added it back to the game. We also went ahead and remastered the texturing, lighting, sand dunes, and grassy areas. A nice walk down nostalgia lane, taking in this expansive and beautiful 4K map again.
[h2]Smoother First Person Movement[/h2]
We rewrote how the first person camera moves, allowing for the smoothest camera we've ever had for first person mode.
[h2]Zer Changes[/h2]
Improved light handing of the Blue Dwarf star, and strangely the gravity has increased on Zer.
[h2]Better Terrain Sand[/h2]
Sort of a small detail, but it matters to us so we're calling it out. We increased the depth of how sand gets layered onto the ground, giving a more realistic look to dusty worlds like Proteus 2.
[h2]Softer Crafting Progression[/h2]
Slight balancing to some early game recipes.
[h2]Multiplayer GAV[/h2]
One person drives, the other shoots. Ready to go bug hunting?
[h2]Faster Mech and Mecha Crab[/h2]
They're faster. Much faster. Like, twice as fast. But not too fast - that wouldn't feel right.
[h2]Multiplayer Buggie[/h2]
Passenger and driver are now properly positioned in the Buggie for local and remote clients in multiplayer.
[h2]Creature Health Meter[/h2]
We added the health indicators back in and made some improvements under the hood, making combat feel a little bit better.
[h2]Change List[/h2]
Added - Remastered Proteus Site A
Added - Support for more forms of intraplanetary and interplanetary travel
Added - Support for ground travel between sites
Added - Support for multiplayer ground/space travel
Added - Support for World Boundaries to allow cross planet ground travel
Added - Instanced Grass to Proteus Site A
Added - Color coding to Proficiency upgrades
Added - Sound to showing and hiding Repair Wireframes
Added - Sound to all Tools for affective interactions
Added - Support for Voice Log count alerts
Added - Upgraded OMPA and Mining Bot dust particles
Added - support to show Creator in Private Universe Button
Added - support to show storage amount on Item Icons
Added - support for creatures to pause during cinematics
Added - 6 Passenger seats to the Corsair
Added - "Empty" if Barrel has no contents
Added - support for Low Orbit spawn points
Added - low orbit spawn points to all planets
Added - creatures to Proteus 2 Site A
Added - Proteus 2 Site A Level Design scene
Added - Proteus2A LevelDesign to build settings
Added - Red Berry Trees to Proteus 2 Site A
Added - tool for anchoring objects to the world
Added - Timer on ground lerping for First Person after entering ground
Added - Support for health indicators for creatures
Added - Support for improved first person camera for Pod interior
Added - support for saving and loading persistence files in ScriptableObject form
Changed - Switched world loading to use Loading Screens and transition cinematics to improve game stability
Changed - Increased size of Center Text Alerts
Changed - Removed black border from Large Satelite Dish icon
Changed - Player physical material to be slippery on dynamic objects
Changed - Reduced volume on OMMA
Changed - Rotated ground UV's in Habitat to be square with the first Coupler
Changed - Reduced specularity on Hovercraft engines
Changed - missions no longer reprompt after loading back in from save
Changed - Grass shader to Tint instead of HSL due to graphics glitches
Changed - Reduced specularity on Cryochamber glass
Changed - Avatar Selection button to display PLanet location instead of Server Name
Changed - Zer lighting is less bright
Changed - Zer is no longer low gravity
Changed - Workbench upgrades are no longer mutually exclusive
Changed - Switched out Makeshift Patch Tape with Makeshift Cloth Bundle in all buildable recipes to remove the need to find a Berry early on to build
Changed - Removed Berry collection objective from temporary Sample Plant Life mission
Changed - Increased resolution of collision for Rock 4 on Proteus 2
Changed - Increased sand depth to -1000 on terrain
Changed - Improved sand dunes material
Changed - Improved flying insect wing material
Changed - Force an Asset Save after saving new PersistenceSaveAsset file
Changed - Meteors now properly despawn after 5 minutes to not cause performance issues
Changed - The Giant Worm will no longer spawn within 1 minute of level loads
Changed - Crafted tools requiring Makeshift Patch Tape now only require Makeshift Cloth Bundles
Changed - Optimized vehicle seat model
Changed - Adjusted remote player position for Hovercraft
Changed - Increased speed of MechaCrab
Changed - Increased speed of the Mech
Fixed - Spaceships should no longer get lost during space travel
Fixed - Spacestations should no longer get lost during space travel
Fixed - Vehicles should no longer become inoperable if another player joins the room while piloted
Fixed - Placement markers when placing buildables are now properly networked in multiplayer
Fixed - Zinc can now be found in trace mineral veins on Proteus 2
Fixed - Repairable objects are now properly synced in multiplayer
Fixed - Vehicle headlights are now properly synced in multiplayer
Fixed - Remote pilot position for Buggie.
Fixed - Passenger positioning in Buggie
Fixed - Changed Terrain materials to use distance settings on Terrain asset to eliminate texture patching
Fixed - Rigidbody interpolation to Player for smoother hovering
Fixed - Unintentional continuous weather syncing causing multiplayer slowdown
Fixed - Private universes should now properly be wiped when deleted
Fixed - Private Server button to show players in Universe and World
Fixed - Shower to properly clean player suit and give correct speed burst
Fixed - Remote weapons that were showing extra limbs
Fixed - Improved surface normals on Airlock model
Fixed - Cleaned up decal sorting and improved various materials for Furniture items
Fixed - Dropped/Spawned items now properly network their position to remote clients
Fixed - Spaceship engine rotations should now be properly networked
Fixed - Spaceship should now properly sync position while landing
Fixed - Passengers in the Buggie should no longer collide with the body of the vehicle while inside it
Fixed - When master client switches while a player is joining, new player should now properly load in
Fixed - Smoothed out spaceship engine syncing
Fixed - Spacestations should no longer get lost during travel
Fixed - Spaceship ramp state is now networked to all players
Fixed - Passengers in vehicles no longer collide with pilots on remote clients
Fixed - jitter in First Person Helmet
Fixed - planetside objects appearing while loading in Low Orbit
Fixed - Added fail safe on Meteor explosions
Fixed - jitter in GUI
Fixed - mipping on GUI textures
Fixed - Creatures should now sync much better during combat
Fixed - Remote players will no longer disappear when entering a spaceship interior or getting on an elevator
Fixed - Remote players piloting vehicles will no longer rubberband around the drivers seat
Fixed - borders of Proteus 2 Site A sand dunes
Fixed - Remote seated players should now be visible
Fixed - Vehicle engine spamming the log in multiplayer
Fixed - Intermittent crashing on Zer
Fixed - Items aquired in and around the crashed pod can now be properly recycled withour relogging
Fixed - Patched the hole in Epsilon mine on Proteus 2
Fixed - New private universes created or updated by their owner will now display the owners username
Fixed - Death is now properly synced in multiplayer
Fixed - Other players should no longer display as (Deceased) after they respawn in multiplayer
Fixed - Passengers can no longer initiate travel
Fixed - Arachnoid animator warning
Fixed - PersistenceSaveAsset
Fixed - Singleplayer games are now properly marked as offline and no longer connect other players
Fixed - The player is no longer teleported back to last boarded position when exiting vehicles
Fixed - Meteors should no longer arrive every 10~30 seconds on Lutari
Fixed - Intraplanetary ground travel is no longer possible while within a cave
Fixed - Dungeon entrance on Zer no longer sends the player to the void
Fixed - Extreme number of dropped items within a world will no longer cause all networking to break
Fixed - Players should no longer jitter in vehicle seats in multiplayer
Fixed - Turret on GAV should now properly sync in multiplayer
Fixed - Improved seating positions for SpaceShip Interior for remote Pilot and Passengers
Fixed - Improved resolution of Buggie UI
Fixed - Improved seated animation
Fixed - Proteus A Cinematic Camera position
Fixed - Smoothed out spaceship landing sequence in multiplayer
Fixed - Landing gear no longer rubber bands outside of spaceship while flying
Fixed - Landing gear no longer extends outside of spaceship when landing
Fixed - Passengers will now exit their seat in the proper positions
Fixed - Tool redicle from appearing when going in and out of pause screen
Fixed - Crafting Table Fuel sync in multiplayer
Fixed - Mech animations should now sync in multiplayer
Fixed - Improved remote passenger positions for Rover
Fixed - players disappearing when one player enters a Mech
Fixed - Optimized mech perfomance impact when not boarded
Well, that's all for now. Next update rounds will be focused to single player!
-Brian
I literally laughed out loud at this:
"I dated a Jawa for while. They’re quite furry."