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Sneak peek: Changes in the shipyard



Hello everyone!

The next update will feature many submarine-related changes and additions, such as guns and upgrades as well as the introduction of submarine tiers, a new system of classifying submarines in terms of how advanced they are. Let’s take a look!

  • New guns! We’re adding two new large turrets: the double coilgun and the flak cannon. These together with the railgun are the new large weapons, which can only be mounted onto the new large hardpoints.
  • The Camel, a new Transport submarine, is being added. The other submarine classes have affordable starter options, and now the Transport class does too.
  • The Deep Diver class of submarines is being removed, and all the submarines in this class will become Scouts instead. Only Deep Divers have been able to get through the last few levels of the campaign, because even the fully upgraded hull of a ship other than a Deep Diver did not offer enough pressure resistance. We want to change that and allow you to finish the campaign by upgrading the ship of your choice.
  • The submarine upgrade system has got some adjustments to make individual upgrade levels count for more, and for all the different upgrades to stand out better. Different classes of subs also get slightly different upgrades, giving classes more purpose and identity.
  • Submarine tier, a completely new classification system, is being added to designate submarines as high or low end. Tier and class together determine how much you can upgrade a submarine, adding depth and dimension to the submarine system as a whole. Tiers will be assigned automatically to all existing subs based on price.

Want to find out more? Head over to our blog for a more detailed introduction of all the new content and features, and take a look at them in action in the Unstable test version. All these changes in the shipyard will be released in the next update, coming in early October!

Performance update, GeForce NOW and important information for MacOS players



Hello everyone!

The next Barotrauma update is coming in early October, and among other things, it will include a big change under the hood: we’re updating our .NET runtime to a new version, and this should yield significant performance gains. Combined with the ongoing optimization work, the .NET runtime update will help to make the game run considerably more smoothly for most players.

[h4]GeForce NOW[/h4]
Another exciting change is bringing Barotrauma to Nvidia’s cloud gaming platform GeForce NOW. While this will have no impact on those who can run Barotrauma on their systems currently, it will open possibilities for players on officially unsupported systems to get into playing. We’ve received a number of requests about this over the years and are happy to be making it happen now – you’ll find Barotrauma on GFN in the coming weeks.

[h4]To MacOS players[/h4]
Unfortunately the mentioned runtime update comes with a downside for players on older Mac systems: because the .NET 6 runtime does not support MacOS older than 10.15, Barotrauma will not be able to support versions 10.13 and 10.14 either, and we need to raise our official minimum technical requirements to match.

We’re very sorry to be cutting support for systems we have previously supported, but this change is inevitable: as the runtime is a core technology that the game relies on, and it has already dropped support for these systems on its end, we will have to follow suit sooner or later. We’ve decided to go through with the runtime update now, while still in early access, rather than later when it might affect a larger number of players.

[h5]Compatibility branch[/h5]
To help the affected Mac players continue having access to Barotrauma, we’re creating a compatibility branch which allows MacOS 10.13 and 10.14 users to keep playing the current version of the game. To our knowledge, 10.14 users should also be able to update their systems to stay compatible.

Additionally, the GeForce NOW access should help bridge the gap for players on the affected operating systems, and we hope these measures put together will take the worst of the edge off. MacOS 10.15 or newer, or other operating systems, should not experience any difficulties with the new runtime.


We’ll be back with more news about the update over the coming weeks. Stay tuned, and let us know in the comments if you have any questions!

Fix for MacOS v0.18.15.2

Hello MacOS players!

We've released a fix to address issues you've been having since the previous hotfix.


v0.18.15.2 (MacOS only)

- Fixed crashes on MacOS 10.13 and 10.14. This seems to have happened because Microsoft quietly dropped support for these versions in .NET Core in late 2021, and we didn't realize until this hotfix when we deployed with a sufficiently new version of the technology.
- Fixed inability to use the voice chat on some MacOS versions, due to the game not having permissions to access the microphone as a result of the aforementioned .NET Core upgrade.

Hotfix v0.18.15.1

Hello everyone!

We've just released a small hotfix to address a couple of issues that were discovered while we were away on our summer holidays. Stay tuned for continued content updates a little later and see the changelog for today's fixes below!


v0.18.15.1

- Fixed frequent crashing in the submarine editor. The crashes were caused by modifying multiple entities at the same time, such as by selecting an entity of the same type as the last entity that was edited.
- Fixed dragged objects becoming invisible if you bring the cursor over a UI element in the submarine editor.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused radio voice chat to be muffled.

Fix patch for the anniversary update



Hello everyone!

We've just released a bugfix patch to address issues in the latest update. Take a look below to see the full list of changes, and be sure to update your game to the latest version now.

Most of our team are on holidays until the end of July, but we will get back to reading the forums in earnest in August. Until then, we wish everyone a great summer!


v0.18.15.0

Changes:
- Show a warning when trying to switch to a submarine that's low on fuel or to a submarine that has no manually placed items to prevent softlocking the campaign if you switch to a sub that has no fuel. Whether a submarine is considered to have manually placed items can be set when saving it in the submarine editor (the checkbox "manually outfitted" in the saving dialog).
- Also show the low fuel warning when leaving an outpost without enough fuel.
- Handheld sonars can't detect minerals from inside the sub.
- Changed the plus and minus button in the campaign settings into arrows. The button on the right increases difficulty, which in the case of the starting balance and supplies means reducing them, making the plus and minus buttons misleading.
- Reduced costs of handheld weapon ammunition significantly.
- Slightly reduced effectiveness of harpoons and revolver round to compensate for the cheaper ammo.
- Changed recipes for Handcannon, Assault Rifle and Auto-Shotgun. Weapon crafting is more expensive, to compensate for cheaper ammo.
- Adjusted numerous other recipes and price costs of materials. Previously little used materials (like tin) are now used more.
- Partially reintroduced the "toggle inventory" keybind, now called "toggle entity list". Even though toggling the in-game inventory is no longer possible, the keybind can be used to change the hotkey for toggling the sub editor's entity list.

Fixes:
- Fixed shuttles getting misplaced when switching and transferring items to a new sub with shuttles.
- Fixed inability to damage items (such as monster eggs) with melee weapons or handheld weapons.
- Fixed "failed to parse the string 'COLOR.GUI.GREEN' to Color" errors when using the submarine upgrade interface in Spanish.
- Fixed items with a projectile component (e.g. bullets, harpoons, syringes) going through external walls when dropped.
- Fixed incorrect value in the "too many lights" error message in the sub editor.
- Fixed lightcomponent not getting refreshed when flipping a lightcomponent horizontally.
- Fixed extra cargo defined in the server settings spawning every round in multiplayer campaign.
- Fixes wreck corpses' damage visuals (bloodstains, burns) not showing client-side.
- Fixed wearables that are worn (or held) in multiple limbs applying skill bonuses multiple times (e.g. when holding a bandolier with both hands).
- Fixed console error when deselecting all target types from a motion sensor in the sub editor.
- Fixed crashing when multi-editing motion sensor targets in the sub editor.
- Fixed one of the path unlock event texts still using the old price (talking about 12,000 mk even though the price is 4,000 mk).
- Fixed money getting incorrectly deducted on the client side when buying items from the vending machine.
- Fixed item transfer taking items from non-interactable containers.
- Made depleted fuel sprite darker to match the rest of the "depleted" items.
- Fixed PUCS's autoinjection feature sometimes causing performance drops in multiplayer.
- Fixed "tried to overwrite a submarine that's not in a local package" error when you delete a sub that's in a local package and try to resave it.
- Fixed misaligned broken duffelbag sprite.
- Fixed full-white x-ray monitors.
- Fixed FPS drop when adjusting character appearance in the campaign setup menu or server lobby.
- Fixed tunnels at the beginning or end of the level sometimes being too narrow to pass through (especially with a small sub) when there's no outpost at that side of the level.
- Fixed missing background sprite in duct block.
- Fixed water particles not showing up when water is flowing down a duct block.
- Fixed changing the scale of resizeable structures (such as background doors) messing up the outline of linked subs in the sub editor.
- Fixed non-player-team interactable items getting transferred on sub switch.
- Fixed ballast flora root emitting particles when damaged client-side, even if it's already been destroyed.
- Fixed recycle recipes for Piercing Ammunition Box and Pulse Tri-Laser Fuel Box.
- Fixed friendly fire and karma always showing up as disabled on dedicated servers in the server list.
- Fixed some lights (e.g. vending machines, neon lights, holographics displays) looking different in the sub editor than they do in-game.
- Fixed undocked shuttles remaining undocked if you save and start a new game with the same submarine during the same session. Restarting the game fixed the issue though.
- Fixed sonar markers going crazy if the start and end locations have the same name + added some more variety to location names to prevent duplicate location names.
- Fixed multiediting an ItemComponent modifying all the components of that type in all the selected items (e.g. when editing the 1st light component of a switch, all lights in all switches would be edited).
- Fixed melee weapons not damaging structures from outside.

Modding:
- Fixed removing a door mid-round crashing the game. Does not affect the vanilla game, because doors are never removed mid-round.
- Fixed having a vending machine in your inventory crashing the game due to the 0-capacity input inventory of the machine.