TaleSpire News

Hey folks, this patch brings an assortment of fixes to bugs that have plagued us for far too long.

In no particular order, we have:

• A fix for the bug where hide-volumes that are created in empty zones were not saved
  
• A fix for a case where board deserialization taking multiple frames could result in a crash
  
• Fixed the scroll direction of the slider on the atmosphere panel
  
• Stopped sending send chat messages if they have a length of zero
  
• Started disabling all animators on asset load. This stops doors opening when being placed and props from animating when turned into creatures.
  
• Fixed a bug in hide-volumes where deleting volumes and switching boards could result in exceptions that stopped all hide volume UI from working
  
• A tweak so that sampling assets from the board now updates the highlighted category button in the UI
  

We hope to squash a bunch more bugs over the next week.

See you in the next patch!

This is the second in a series of patches related to recent connectivity issues.

We use a third-party service called Photon for our real-time traffic, and it has been under attack recently. This patch allows us to temporarily avoid certain Photon server regions when they have issues.

This change is a short-term workaround, but we will continue to work on this problem and ship more fixes over the next week.

We have pushed the first patch to begin working around the Photon issues.

This will be available to you on Steam shortly.

This first patch is a short-term workaround, but we will follow this up with more robust solutions as soon as we can.

Once again, thank you for your patience.

It has been 6 hours since the last reported outage on https://www.photonengine.com/status, so we are tentatively assuming that we are out of the woods for now.

If you are still experiencing connection issues that began with the outages over the last two days, then please reach out to us at Discord or [email protected]

Thank you for our patience through this, and let's hope we didn't just jinx it.

Hi everyone,

Due to "DDoS related issues" against a 3rd party service, TaleSpire has been experiencing connectivity issues across several regions.

These areas include Russia, India, South Africa, South Korea, Canada, and intermitantly across the EU.

So luckily, it's only affecting people in *checks map*... the world.

We use their service for real-time connectivity, so this is hitting TaleSpire pretty hard. Also, thanks to some very early-access coding, TaleSpire often isn't handling this loss of connectivity in a graceful way.

Our apologies for this. We are already looking into what we can do to improve this.

You can see the current status of the service we use here: https://www.photonengine.com/status

We'll keep you posted