This patch is intended to go live pending a short testing period on the beta branch.
I have initiated a small contract for the services of an outsourcing agency to help with some of the boat load of manual "labor" that is game development. It's no doubt going to take them a bit to wade into the massive solution of code that makes up Solace Crafting, but I'm very excited to see what they can do!
In the meantime, there were problems with the last batch of building models that I outsourced and ended up finding someone else to do them. Most of them have been updated with the new models in this patch so they should all line up and are much more performant. There are still 1-2 pieces missing which you can tell by their slightly different color. As the new pieces are more more "generic" than the unnecessarily "boarded" look the other pieces had they will be very easy to apply a variety of different skins to. Currently we only have "wood" and "stone" but I would like to add more varieties including stucco, brick, and others.
I've also started interacting a bit directly with the developers of the networking software that I use. There is one major problem that has cropped up twice so far, each time on a different server, which I am still trying to track down. The cause is not making itself at all clear, but, from the developers, I've got some good ideas on things to try and have learned there are a number of different upgrades and tools that I haven't yet made use of yet as the software continues to improve.
All in all there's been a lot of work outside of "adding content" to the game these past couple weeks in preparation for this and that, but rest assured work continues and hopefully the ball will be rolling faster than ever here before too long!
v 0.6.3.10 2020.03.06
- Updated the majority of the new building models from 0.6.2.5 with tighter more performant models
- Fixed harvestable animal toughness and rarity not displaying properly on mouse over for multi-player clients
You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin.
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