Hey everyone!
Update 9 is live, adding Instant Loading which increases world loading speed by more than 10000%, new awesome high-res screenshots that are automatically added to your Steam Screenshot library, and more!
This update took significantly longer than other updates due to the complexity a 10000% increase in speed means. Between the release of Update 8 and today, 8 different beta versions were released and tested by players in the official discord server. Thanks to their testing, all issues are hopefully fixed and even a change as complex as this should be perfectly stable now!
Instant Loading
The new Instant Loading works by storing everything that's needed for the whole viewdistance to load on disk, so that the CPU has almost nothing to do when you enter a world or walk somewhere where you have been before.
In earlier versions of the game, depending on your CPU, it was possible that you had to wait 1-3 minutes when entering a world until all the world in the distance was loaded. Now, with the new Instant Loading, the whole view distance will be fully loaded once the loading screen disappears.
If you are coming from a world that was generated in an older version, you need to enter the world, wait until everything has loaded (that's not faster yet), then leave the world again. Once you enter the world now, you benefit from the new Instant Loading!
Awesome 8K screenshots
You can now take awesome very high resolution screenshots in the game by pressing and holding both teleport buttons for half a second. The game will freeze for a second while it takes an almost-8K screenshot thats also tagged correctly as "cyubeVR" on Steam.
You will hear the screenshot sound from Steam, and the screenshot will appear in your screenshot library where you can upload it with 1 click to the Screenshots Section of the game on Steam to show everyone what awesome things you have built, or special areas in the world that you find worth sharing!
If you have anything great to share, you now have the ability to take great screenshots that you can show to people on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Imgur or all other places in the internet!
The screenshot is taken with the maximum resolution that Steam supports, which is more than 3 times the amount of pixels of 4K. If Steam ever supports more, I'll add support for more :)
You can already visit the Screenshots Section on Steam to look at some of the screenshots taken with the new feature by people testing the beta branch of the game:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1312508212
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1311405666
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1313158338
Other things
- There is a version number in the main menu now, so you can easily see if your game is updated correctly.
- The teleport beam now takes a short while before it reaches full length again after a teleport, so teleporting huge distances at very crazy speeds is less possible now. For regular usage, you won't really notice a difference. The general goal is having teleport and smooth locomotion balanced, so in future updates the speed you can travel at with smooth locomotion will be increased.
If you see any crashes or other bugs in this version, please make sure to read this thread and report them correctly so that they can be fixed in the next update.
As always, please make sure to give me feedback in the steam forums or on discord :)
Cheers!