Avorion News

[h2]Performance[/h2]"While working on our next free content update (more on that here) we've made major improvements to sector loading times, as well as some adjustments to our RAM management, that we didn't want to keep from you, so, enjoy!"

• Improved performance of base game loop (client & server) by 0.6ms (ca. +4% better performance at 60FPS)
  • Note: This was on our office workstations, impact on other machines can differ, but there should be a notable impact especially for older hardware
• Improved performance of loading screens when ambient shuttles are enabled, but none are active in the sector
• Drastically improved performance of loading screens when there are lots of asteroids and shaders are set to "Normal"
  • Note: 24s loading screen down to 6s loading screen for massive asteroid fields on our workstations at the office
• Improved general performance of scripts
• Strongly reduced memory usage of scripts
• Improved server performance when leaving rift sectors
• F10, /profile and /status no longer stall client/server during the output filedump

[h2]Modding[/h2]

• Dev-Script lib/entitydbg.lua is no longer added to everything by default but when pressing F4

Hello dear space farers, pirates, miners, explorers, and faction war wagers!

It's the end of the (work) year for us here at Boxelware and we'd like to take the time to share our plans for Avorion for 2023 with you.

Sadly, it looks like we were a little too ambitious with some things on our 2022 update schedule, so some features will have to be postponed to 2023. We've been hard at work, but some things just take time and we want to make sure to deliver only the best updates in the future.

For 2023, we now have a clearer schedule/roadmap/milestones (call it however you want) for the planned updates (yes they'll be free) which you can find on our updated roadmap! They include more content, blocks, a photo mode, and also some improvements to factions. With each update we also always want to include quality-of-life improvements, content, bug fixes, and, if possible, performance improvements.

Some of the latest performance improvements that we were working on are already available on the beta branch, and you should definitely check them out! Over there, we have improved general performance, but also greatly reduced loading screen times and memory usage of Avorion.

If you want the full overview, check out the updated roadmap here:
https://avorion.fandom.com/wiki/Roadmap

We hope you have some great fun with whatever solstice festivities you celebrate, happy holidays and a wonderful new year 2023.

We'll see you then!

- Boxelware

Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors.

This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK):
Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'.

[h2]Performance[/h2]"While working on our next free content update (more on that later this week) we've made some adjustments to our RAM management, that we didn't want to keep from you, so, enjoy!"

• Improved general performance of scripts
• Strongly reduced memory usage of scripts
• Improved server performance when leaving rift sectors

[h3]More Performance Updates 2022-12-21[/h3]"More performance updates as a small christmas gift for y'all!"

• Improved performance of base game loop (client & server) by 0.6ms (ca. +4% better performance at 60FPS)
  • Note: This was on our office workstations, impact on other machines can differ, but there should be a notable impact especially for older hardware
• Improved performance of loading screens when ambient shuttles are enabled, but none are active in the sector
• Drastically improved performance of loading screens when there are lots of asteroids and shaders are set to "Normal"
  • Note: 24s loading screen down to 6s loading screen for massive asteroid fields on our workstations at the office
• F10, /profile and /status no longer stall client/server during the output filedump
• Mostly for modders: Dev-Script is no longer added to everything by default but when pressing F4

Avorion has been on Steam for a few really exciting years now, and that time was a hell of an exciting ride for our team. But over the time Avorion always remained a passion project for us, adding new content, ideas, and a whole lot of love.

With the category Labor of Love at this year's Steam Awards, you can nominate not only new titles, but also a work that has still received good support and a lot of care from the devs over the years.

So, if you've been following us a bit on the exciting adventure of developing Avorion, enjoying the game all these years or maybe just discovered it for yourself - please consider nominating Avorion for the Labor of Love award!



You can submit your nominations as of now during the Steam Autumn Sale. The final voting for the most popular nominations will take place during the Winter Sale!

So submit your nomination, and maybe we'll see Avorion in the next round - you would make us very proud!


Thank you for your time!
Your Boxelware Team

In today's developer stream, Konstantin and Felix talk with you about the latest patch 2.3 for Avorion! Check out the stream right here on Steam or on our Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/boxelware.

We look forward to seeing you!