Hey Astro Colonists! In preparation of a major content update, I want to improve overall performance and stability for both single and multiplayer. Knowing how much you struggled with AI disobedience, I finally managed to improve them.

Pathfinding

As you can see, with the new pathfinding astronauts and bots are finding the shortest path. It checks all possible ways to reach buildings and picks the best result. This also prevents from having invalid paths - showing the red line.
Previously, bots only checked the closest point, which could create a problem when it wasn't really reachable by any path.
In the new solution, multiple points path is checked, so it's finding the best match.

Game performance

I managed to improve performance of giant stations, which now scale way better and let you enjoy the game in high framerate practically indefinitely. The station before the update had some optimization issues, but with a few tricks - more LODS, better CPU calculations or disabling distant particles - it now runs at 60+ fps. Expect more optimization improvements in the future, especially one improving movement of a space stations.

Multiplayer

After many reports regarding sync issues, I took time to look into all of them and ensures that savegames can now sync without issues when starting a multiplayer game from a savegame.

Bug fixes & improvements

• fixed an issue with upgrading devices not having a correct state (showing red)
• fixed an issue where gates couldn't animate when resource moved through
• fixed an issue where max request resources stopped at 100
• fixed an issue where more transport bots were assigned than specified
• fixed a multiplayer issue where asteroid catcher would block another player when possessed by 2 players
• fixed a multiplayer issue where starting players would force gravity mode
• new auto-generated names for game lobbies

Please don't forget to leave a review if you played a game and enjoyed it, so it can be supported for years to come! Thanks guys so much for support! Tefel (Terad Games)

[ 2023-04-29 00:07:51 CET ] [ Original post ]