Dear Stormworkers,
Last week we release the huge new multiplayer update! Since then we have been playing with you on dedicated servers, reading your comments, issue reports, discussion on discord, watching Camodo, NJersey videos and even watching Raptor's 3 hour long stream!
It has been great fun, and really exciting to launch this next chapter of playing Stormworks together. We have been carefully listening to your comments and next Friday, we will be releasing a multiplayer minor update to address these issues.
Input Latency
In some situations, input latency can build up when players are using a fast vehicle, and the server slows down for a brief moment every now and again, for example when loading tiles. This can make it difficult to control aircraft with sensitive controls, and was a major concern for many players. We have re-written the timing code so that clients now stay very close to the timing of the server. This reduces input latency to very low values, making it possible to fly nimble aircraft with great responsiveness!
Authorised Players
Many of you are concerned about any and all players being able to join and start spawning vehicles immediately. This can cause problems where players spawn vehicles inside other vehicles, spawn flare factories, or other behavior which can negatively impact the server. Most servers have become passworded to control who can join. We are adding admin controls to authorise specific players with the ability to spawn vehicles, as well as return vehicles to workbench and the creative menu. We are also adding a setting to despawn players who have left the game. These changes will greatly ease the practicalities of running a public server.
Dedicated Server Providers
Many of you want to be able to rent servers, so we have been talking to some server companies about the support they need. We are adding new dedicated server command lines to set the working directory and IP binding when starting a server.
We also have a very long list of fixes, including some really important changes, and are adding more fixes every day.
Thank you for helping with all your thoughts and feedback, it is greatly appreciated. We can't wait to share the new updates with you next week as we continue to improve the quality of the game experience!
Much love <3,
The Stormworks Developers