NOTE: We are now restarting official servers for the patch
NINJA EDIT: WOoooooOoo we pushed the patch live and then the internet in our office went out before we could restart the official servers, so Martin is breaking speed limits to get home and restart the servers with the patch. Of course after we waited half an hour for it to come back up it came online again right after he left. So it goes!
Another day another patch! :P
We've been up a long time working on server performance and we're not all the way there yet but we made some headway. We also added and fixed some stuff along the way, so without further ado here is Patch 5! (Now Live)
-SHOUTOUT: Thank you to the folks that logged onto the TestLagFixServer this morning at 0400 EST and all through the day!!!
-SHOUTOUT: Dafacey - Pet Durations are in GAME hours not irl hours.
-IMPROVEMENT: Dramatically reduce CPU overhead of moving players on the server. Hopefully helps with the lag issues we are seeing.
-IMPROVEMENT: Move saving to a separate thread. Removes the MEGA hitches we see in profiles! Hopefully helps with the lag issues we are seeing.
-IMPROVEMENT: Many more server optimizations.
-IMPROVEMENT: Fossils now have a pretty new look!
-IMPROVEMENT: We now show the PATCH # as the map name so you can see which servers are updated.
-IMPROVEMENT: InGame Server browser will only show COMPATIBLE game servers to the client you have.
-IMPROVEMENT: The PATCH version of the game is displayed in the Map Column of the Steam Server Browser
-IMPROVEMENT: Server browser can now sort by servers you have been in before
-IMPROVEMENT: A New Dance Has Been Added.
-IMPROVEMENT: Three New Music Tracks Added.
-BUGFIX: Harvesters should correctly harvest when no one is near them again.
-BUGFIX: Server Browser - Fixed sorting by server name.
-BUGFIX: Server Browser - Fixed Refresh.
-BUGFIX: Server Browser - Fixed sorting by players.
-BUGFIX: Fix Large Numbers of CampFires causing a crash on the server randomly.
-BALANCE: Fixed being able to take down forcefield doors with melee weapons.