Today's hotfix continues our mission to get networking stable/working as much as possible for everyone. We're not all the way there yet, so the secondary purpose of this hotfix is to help us gather more specific information from those experiencing troubles.
WARNING: This patch will create a CRC mismatch between versions, which means you won't be able to join anyone without this patch. Please allow time for others to download the patch themselves.
Here's the gist of what we have packaged up in this patch:
- Better error reporting to replace 'waiting for online components to initialize' with more specific information.
- Fixed infinite spawning barnacles/algae/interior enemies bug.
- Added message to help identify hosts who will have more trouble getting players to join.
- Added "Bug Report" button to main menu to streamline reporting.
- Modified AIDM to have harsher difficulty ramping upon looping.
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ADDITIONALLY!
While we are working on repairing things on our end, we may have found a workaround option so that some of you having troubles hosting have something to try if you don't want to wait for an official fix:
Forwarding port 7777 should help improve hosting success rates.
Again, so sorry about the technical issues everyone, but rest assured we are all working on figuring out fixes constantly. These new error reports should help us nail down quicker which issues folks are running into, so hopefully this will help speed up the process.