1.3 when?

1.3 when this year?

Maybe.

Unlikely.

But who knows.

So 1.2 is coming to EXP next week.

And we also touched on it two weeks ago that...

will be seeing all features everything that 1.2 will deliver once it's in the live game all those features will be on display on exp not in their finished state finished state for most of them but you will see them in there i mean yeah i guess you know you know the exp drill they're volatile very much ea feely in production stage so you will have a very clear clue of what's coming you will know exactly

how you can enjoy the game in 1.2.

Because again, according to my own humble opinion, it certainly gives the game more meat on its bones for how you play it compared to 1.1.

So that will be interesting.

So that will be interesting.

1.3 will have drones that can lift trains between tracks.

There will not be a video on Friday.

There will be a video in one week, exactly when 1.2 hits EXP.

Tuesday next week, we have the 1.2 patch notes video coming for you guys.

And before we talk about what's cooking on the dev side, let's speak a little bit about that Tuesday still on our end.

You have a video, a full-on patch notes-esque video, like if you have any gray hairs, you might remember the update 8 or earlier videos that Snut and Jace made together.

One in that style will be coming your way on Tuesday.

5 p.m. Swedish together with 1.2 EXP.

We'll also have a pre-stream, a countdown stream until EXP hits.

This stream will be in this format.

It's not going to be this interview couch setup that we save for the live releases.

Because, yeah, we save those for the live releases.

So expect that when 1.2 hits live servers on...

I almost said that.

I can't tell you that.

It's an estimate anyway, but yeah.

So we'll be having a dev stream, maybe a bit more involved, both me and Jason will be here in the screen, maybe guests.

It will start a smidge earlier, I believe, maybe like 2pm is a good time.

2, maybe even 1pm, and it will run until 1.2 hits EXP.

So for 3 or 4 hours from 1 or 2pm, Swedish, always Swedish time.

Or CET, I believe, yeah it's CET right now, CEST is like in a month.

1 CET or 2 CET until 5 CET We have a little countdown and hype obsession with you guys Two words away from getting my ass fired Or reprimanded I don't think I don't think I don't think I don't think our current estimate for live 1.2

Disclosing that will not get me outright fired, I'm pretty sure.

It will be...

It will be having me call to the principal's office tomorrow, but...

I've been there before.

I know how to flirt with him.

Is Sweden time the same as France time?

It is, and I know that because...

Wait a second.

Let me remember.

If I believe...

If I'm correct, ah shit, how was it?

I believe World of Warcraft, this is relevant, server time is based on France, because Blizzard's EU office is in France, and I remember server time in WoW being the same as Swedish time, so by proxy, if server time in WoW and Swedish time are the same, then Swedish time and French time should be the same.

Regardless,

Stream around 1 or 2 CET.

EXP launch 5 CET.

ASD community end.

Sweden is CET, yes.

In roughly 3 weeks we will be CEST, because we still do Summertime.

I'll ping on Discord and have like this fancy time converter ready for you anyways.

What do you think about the coffee cup race event?

We'll talk a lot about that next week, actually.

I want that to be... Oh, I should have written to you, Doug, today.

It fell through the cracks.

Or, no, it didn't.

It was yet again buried a bit too deep in a huge pile of ass.

uh of i meant to say anyway um to dig through because i missed most of last week being away uh so if you're here doug we want that to be part of the uh launch stream next week or countdown stream next week to some capacity so there you go i need a clock on screen no i don't you can do chat you can you can go you can google like right you can google swedish time to your time easily and just convert from there it's not it's not giga hard math

uh of i meant to say anyway um to dig through because i missed most of last week being away uh so if you're here doug we want that to be part of the uh launch stream next week or countdown stream next week to some capacity so there you go i need a clock on screen no i don't you can do chat you can you can go you can google like right you can google swedish time to your time easily and just convert from there it's not it's not giga hard math

Assshit!

So yeah, what do the green slugs mean?

We love timers and countdowns.

I can make you a countdown right now if you want.

Let's do... Let's do... Nah, wait.

Yeah, there we go.

Yeah, cool chat.

I'll see you soon.

Alright, anyway.

Red slug.

Underclock slug.

Hell yeah.

Oh.

Anyway.

Sweden does recognize daylight savings because... for some reason.

Ah, shit, Andrew.

We'll do our best to make that 12k for 1.23.

Which one would it be?

Alright.

Speaking of 1.3, update idea.

Just fix all the bugs.

This pioneer got it.

They got it.

They know where it's at.

Just fix all the bugs.

Ah.

1.3 confirmed?

I never said that.

Do-do-do-do... Just thought I'd ask if there's plans for more pipe junctions other than, well... Oh, you get T-junctions next week on the XP, so there's that.

In 1.2, basically.

Please, please, please give us a bright white swatch for console players.

Is there a swatch that PC has but not console?

Interesting.

If PC does not have that either then why don't we just go to both?

We talked about swatches two weeks or three weeks ago in one of the February dev streams where people asked for more swatches in general and also the ability to make and save their own swatches indefinitely

The long story short of swatches is that you have your 16 preset right now and adding any more is so costly on memory because no matter if you use swatches, any of the preset swatches or not, they all load more than once for every single buildable

you build them no matter what the color is so adding just one more swatch is going to increase performance requirements pretty exponentially not terribly but more like too much enough for us to be very hesitant to do so

so that's why we don't add swatches while it might while it may see seem like an easy thing to do it's like yeah just add more colors and mix more colors like yeah it's the backend is not really uh that optimized for it uh the final fix i have for you chat today i'm also gonna read off uh the document because like i already admitted and like we already established

so that's why we don't add swatches while it might while it may see seem like an easy thing to do it's like yeah just add more colors and mix more colors like yeah it's the backend is not really uh that optimized for it uh the final fix i have for you chat today i'm also gonna read off uh the document because like i already admitted and like we already established

I do not use trains at all.

And apparently there was a bug where you could not use the blueprint dismantle mode if your blueprint contained a railway switch.

Interesting.

I do know what that means, but my personal interest in this fix is pretty limited.

But there you go.

If your blueprint contains a railway switch, you should now be able to blueprint dismantle that.

Question, are we going to get caves to build in and more land also?

You guys want everything.

You want space, you want sea, you want caves, you want ice, you want islands, you want volcanoes.

Go play Minecraft or something.

I don't know, man.

You want it all.

Expansions.

Funny thing.

If you want expansions.

If you want expansions.

We shall see what we can do.

Why did you guys upgrade from Unreal Engine 5.3.2 to 5.6.1?

Was it a big task?

A big part of that was weather.

Weather was a big part of that, because when update 5, like the hard first number 5, happened instead of 4, we lost weather back in update 8, because we had rain before that.

Because the logic system that we depended on from Unreal Engine was lost or changed enough that we really could not have rain consistently back for 5.

with one with 561 we now can have rain with similar logic and even better weather changes than that um so weather is a part of it but then also future proofing the more you wait with updating an engine

the more painful the update is going to be when you have to make the jump for certain reasons and you haven't in a while.

So, just a basic example, jumping from 5.6.1 to maybe update 6 or Unreal Engine 6, if it's that soon, would be much easier than jumping from 5.3.1 to 6, so...

And again, it's also like Unreal's engine updates are also contributors to how we handle optimization of the game.

Optimization in the backend that we could have done or would not work as well with 5.31 will work better or at all with 5.61.

Makes sense to keep the steps small, yeah.

Can you fix it in 1.2 or take a look at pipelines?

I mean, if you want stuff fixed for 1.2, you can have the entire world be your oyster in a week on eXp and tell us exactly what you don't want or want with the update then.

So, yeah.

How stable is the current version of 1.2 in-house right now?

QA is pleasantly surprised.

Not surprised because they were expecting it to be, like, broken or on fire, but surprised that stuff seems to be keeping itself stable for longer than it should usually, when new things keep being almost hammered into the update, even this close to a major push on the XP.

So, looking good.

Looking good.

Will there be some love given to servers, dedicated servers, anytime in the future?

We get this question every time we stream.

Every single update we try to get them some love.

Manpower, hours in general.

It's a struggle.

It's transparency we just do not have.

uh the manpower contra hours right now to juggle future updates multiple updates not only 1.2 consoles dedicated servers and shenanigans it's just it's rough it's rough it's the saddest answer i know but it's rough

Uh...

So, yeah.

Question!

Did you change the way the vertical splitters and mergers work?

Like half-meter nudges and locking them in place and as well as them not locking on the lifts.

No, we have not changed how they work, but we do have QA.

It might be this exact issue or something very similar.

We had a...

I invited a deluge of vertical splitters and mergers

troubleshooting onto my own discord dms a couple of streams back and that has all been documented and sent to qa and they are looking into it and uh nudging like nudging distance and clipping were two major issues among others on in the document so they are looking into that at least

Any changes to trucks?

Check back in next week.

Check back in next week.

Are the tech EXP upgrades coming to stay in the 4.2?

Good question, because that's also something I should touch on.

No, they are not.

Tech EXP will remain...

Okay, so tech EXP is an EXP right now, and 1.2's EXP branch will essentially roll on to that tech EXP.

roll on and like overtake the I guess essentially next Tuesday the current exp branch will be that tech exp plus 1.2 on top of it because that tech base was pushed for 1.2 sake and then they are both being pushed together the tech upgrades and 1.2 to live when 1.2 hits live

Good question.

Good question.

When will the random ore resources be coming to EXP?

What are you talking about?

Have you played 1.2?

Are you still able to go back to 1.1 after trying 1.2?

Absolutely.

My current build and current progress is still in 1.1 on the live version.

Together with all of you.

I have played 1.2.

Not too much since New Years.

But...

I think...

If I envision myself playing the game and like having fun with it, like having, fun is fun, but having a clear tinge of like exciting, ooh, I wonder what happens this time around.

1.2 is absolutely more enticing for me to play.

That's vague, but that's where I'll leave it at.

Will multi-frame gen be supported in 1.2?

No idea.

Will Lumen Hardware RT be used or enableable in 1.2 or the near future?

Lumen will be as supported or usable, because we don't support it officially.

It will be as malleable by you guys as it is in 1.1.

Not better or worse.

Why did you guys lowball the Phase 5 Space Elevator part numbers?

They feel very low.

Well, if they feel low, why don't you change that?

Next week.

Hello, will the major bugs with trains and diagonal movement when using nudges be fixed in 1.2?

No.

They... Maybe for live, not the XP.

On XP, that's still there.

Will there be KBM option for console in version 1.2?

I wonder if that is in eXp, because that was always openly aimed to be in 1.2 Live, and that is still the case for 1.2 Live.

I wonder if that's somehow confirmable, because the thing with eXp is that it's not coming out on consoles.

eXp is PC only, so you couldn't actually properly check that, could you?

I have to...

The plan is TLDR to have it for live 1.2, yes, but that was always not a promise, but a name.

And that's been...

I hope I've been clear about that since I first started saying that.

1.2 patch notes when?

Tuesday, honestly, in exactly one week from now, minus one hour.

What's the timing of the 1.2 release on the 17th?

EXP, important, not live, EXP.

1700 CET, or Swedish time.

Tuesday.

With a stream before then, until then.

Are you actually fixing fluids or have you been baiting for six months?

No, fluid behavior will stay the same.

But the way you can engage with fluids will change.

With the fluid truck.

Because you know it exists, so I can say that openly.

Has a satisfactory hardcore option ever been discussed?

I will be open with you on this one, chat.

Hardcore satisfactory, as in you die once, you lose your save file, everything is deleted, permadeath, was on the table for 1.2.

It was.

We tried it.

And it makes no sense in our game.

Like, it just doesn't.

Especially considering, like, yeah, you'd think it's as easy as adding that state and then adding a few options boxes.

There is a bit more work that goes into it.

Again, because we have actually pitched and even tested it, the groundwork is kind of there for us to do it eventually.

It was supposed to be part of 1.2.

We opted for a much more, in my opinion, in everyone's here opinion, interesting game mode instead.

So you'll be getting that instead.

Might revisit Permadeath.

So we absolutely have considered it.

I have, in fact, permadied myself.

In Satisfactory.

So, yeah.