We've been working hard and we've got a great patch for you all tonight. There's still a lot more left to do, but some fantastic progress has been made in this round. We've been listening closely and we know performance has been a major issue, so it's one of the primary things we've addressed in this patch -- and several smaller additions, and of course numerous fixes as well. We'll be back with more as usual -- and if you're itching to get your hands on the latest updates or fixes, check out the Experimental branch. Instructions to access it are available in our Steam forum (the experimental subforum). Experimental received numerous updates, one almost every day since the last default patch on April 1st -- and we'll be hard at work with a similar rollout plan for this next batch of updates. Thank you to everyone for your continued support & for your assistance with the bugs, we couldn't do it without you. Thank you very much!!

NOTABLE GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS, CHANGES & ADDITIONS

Performance Improvements -- Major performance improvements have been integrated with the Agent AI and Agent Pathfinding systems. The game is also now available in 64-bit and 32-bit flavors. Performance should be be substantially better than before; we have more work to do here, and quite sizable gains are still possible, but this should yield a substantially improved gameplay experience versus gameplay prior to this patch. Multiple Security Wings -- Passengers now use the proper security zone when two separate ‘wings’ are secured by different security zones Flight/Boarding Time “Resize” -- Flights can be ‘resized’ by hovering over their right edge in the Master Flight Schedule. Passengers arrive to your airport based on flight arrival time, not departure time, so this does lengthen the amount of time passengers have to catch their flight. Vehicle Zone Destinations -- Target selection has been improved substantially. Detailed overview available here: forum thread Security Exits -- Security exits should NOT be built on the exit to your security zone, only on separate exits -- exits “stop the flow” of security within your airport, and are designed to allow you to have dedicated exits instead of having passengers go through your security zone to leave your airport. Passenger Security & Traversal -- Passengers can no longer walk outdoors in a secure area, even to get to their gate

FULL CHANGE LOG

Major performance improvements to Agent Pathfinding & Agent AI

Fixed an issue with some sprites invisible on certain video cards (taxiways, runways)

Metal detector: arrows added & vertical orientations positions fixed

Body Scanner: arrows added & vertical orientations positions fixed

Vehicle targets improved; prefer to stay in 1 lane and will try to park better

Some needs were re-generating too fast; turned them down

Runway now requires connection to all functional gates in order to be functional

Added validation to walls that prevents objects being walled in & having unusable positions

Fixed an issue with construction indicator sometimes being in incorrect position

Fixed a bug that would cause hangars to incorrectly show “requires ramp area” error

Fixed a bug that caused canceling a Clear or Demolish project to not finish correctly

Fixed a bug with food inventory deliveries

Fixed a bug that would cause passengers to not become ‘nonsecure’ again after leaving a secured area

Fixed a bug that would cause passengers to become stuck in restrooms

Fixed a bug that caused Clear tasks to become Demolish tasks when loading a save

Added scheduled arrival & departure times to Aircraft hover

Passenger spawn changed to be based off of aircraft arrival time instead of departure time

Construction worker pathing improvements; prevent ‘stuck’ issues and more clearly show the cause when they happen

Fixed a bug that could cause passengers to get stuck/no path

Fixed a bug with queue settings not showing any options at higher zooms

Fixed a bug that caused passenger bags to flicker/wiggle

Improved performance for runway connection validations

Minor tweak to improve queue distribution; will be addressed further in future updates

Fixed issue with Flight Info Display causing stuck passengers in certain rotations

Small change to help ensure aircraft will depart if fully boarded

Several baggage car loading & unloading reliability improvements

Fixed bug that sometimes caused new Gate Agent Desks to not function right away

Autosave now always saves to ‘autosave.airport’

Fixed bug that prevented adding objects you have in inventory even if unable to afford them

Fixed bug that allowed outdoor trees to be placed on roads

Fixed a passenger behavior bug that over-allocated memory

Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause stuck vehicles

Construction/Worker performance optimizations; may temporarily result in more ‘task swapping’

Fixed a few worker ‘stuck’ issues

Fixed a bug that could cause garbage truck to drive into a position it couldn’t drive out of

Implemented several misc. memory optimizations

Fixed a bug that could cause janitors to get stuck

Fixed several construction related bugs; could cause them to get stuck or not finish projects

Improved performance of worker pathfinding substantially

Decreased memory allocations required during save game

Fixed a runway validation; runways now correctly require a taxiway (non-runway) connection on both ends (was causing stuck aircraft after undocking)

Made aircraft & baggage cars a bit more resilient to environment changes

Fixed a bug that prevented placing utility objects over existing conveyors

Fixed a bug with luggage when arriving to a destination that no longer exists

Several minor performance and memory allocation improvements

Improved Passenger need calculation performance

Performance improvements on construction tasks and construction indicator UI

Fixed a bug that could cause the vehicle spawn queue to back up excessively

Added additional checks to help prevent vehicle spawn queue backups

Fixed a bug with Gate Agent Desk assignments

Fixed several bug that could cause the game to crash

Fixed a validation for Gate Agent Desks

Fixed a bug that could cause passengers to get stuck on doors/corners

Fixed a bug that caused conveyors to unset Sidewalk tiles

Fixed a bug where loading save games could rarely lose state for an individual agent

Slightly lowered the chance of dirty floors in restrooms

Fixed a bug that allowed conveyor construction when bankrupt

Fixed a bug that allowed zones to be placed under security exits

Fixed a bug that prevented ‘require enclosed area’ from being satisfied by security exits

Added new ‘Sectors’ report, will be utilized further in the future

Added queue graphics

NOTABLE KNOWN ISSUES

Bag Scanner: Does not yet follow arrows in vertical orientations.

Multiple Wings: Passengers will not correctly exclude objects in other wings yet, though they will correctly use the proper security entrances.

Passenger Pathfinding: As part of the pathfinding optimizations, passengers may take slightly-strange paths especially around zones. We’ll be improving this in the future.

[ 2017-04-20 04:22:29 CET ] [ Original post ]