We've had a lot of reports of control issues and especially mouse lag with the new 1.7 Patch and we've been working as quickly as we can, and we have a hotfix available now!
Thank you all so much for your patience -- we only have all of our personal computers to test with, so sometimes none of us experience issues that are then revealed once we go out to all of you. We know it sucks, but we're doing our best to fix things as quickly as possible when it happens. So thank you all for the feedback and support.
The hotfix includes the following changes:
- Addresses camera lag issues that have been reported.
- Fixed the most common crashes we've been seeing.
- Reduced reproduction of "always flowering" plants like grasses and small flowers to every 3 months instead of monthly.
- Made it so that plants no longer spawn in water. Note: your current plants growing in water have become waterlogged, and have died.
- Your animal territories will no longer split and locate on top of water.
- Green Hawk Moth is animated again.
- Updated some Biodex entries.
- Changed "Rotate Left" + "Rotate Right" in the options to "Move Left" + Move Right" since we realized our wording wasn't updated with the camera controller changes.
If your performance is dropping low because of a super full biodome and a lot going on, your camera performance may still drop some. We're working on some massive optimizations for 1.8 that we believe will address the remaining performance issues for a vast majority of users.
Mac users please note: windowed mode will no longer lock your cursor inside the window. We had to remove that as part of the mouse optimizations as it greatly reduced performance with the mouse, and are looking into getting it back, but wanted to get this fix out quickly. If you like to use edge bumping, you'll want to play in full screen mode right now.
Also, this is what our tech cofounder, Sam, looked like with all these issues (this is the picture that pops up in our Slack every time someone says the word "broken"):