November 10th, 2023 Video

Zombie Pioneers

https://youtube.com/embed/MfDPCzHzAJw?autoplay=1&start=294&end=479

Topics

• Features > Multiplayer
• Features > Pioneer
• Satisfactory Updates > Released > Satisfactory Update 8
• Technology

Transcript

stuff so one known issue is a bug that's been in the game since launch so this isn't anything new or anything like that that the way the game sort of like decides who you should, spawn as like which character is based on your session ID so that's your online ID and if you forever reason fail to connect to the services or if you're playing offline or whatever the game doesn't know like who you are in the world and it will spawn you as a new character there's a couple of reasons why we've designed the system to be in this way, and have these like unfortunate trade-offs but one is that we want to have like one seamless, online connectivity sort of experience so like being handling the game as one online game is is easier to handle like when people are connecting and and seamlessly be able to connect and all that stuff, the other reason is because we wanted to be able to like when you're having your save file you should be able to like use your one save file and send it over your friend and like being able to like determine like who what person were in the safe file and still connect and all that stuff and that's possible by doing it this way, but the trade-off of course is that if we don't have your online ID then we don't know who you are essentially in the safe file so in that case you will spawn as a new character in The Hub, you can still get your inventory back if you go over to your where you last save and and take care of business if you know what I'm saying very violently okay so if you do that you can get your inventory back, the unfortunate thing is that you will probably lose out your hot bar which sucks also if last time you Sav you in a vehicle, you won't be able to dismantle that vehicle and you won't be able to get the player out the only way to solve it at the moment is to use a editor it's really annoying and, we're not proud of that bug but we are going to in the future do something about it so like you can eject the player from vehicles and stuff like that and the reason I'm telling you about this bug is because there might be some edge cases where you might start the game offline without realizing it and that happens so if that happens, it's probably due to like the service either either failing to sign you in and getting you know proper authentication and stuff like that for the online services, and the way to resolve that is to to restart the game and one particular case when this can happen is when you first start the game from updating the first time because the game sort of takes longer, in the initial boot to do a lot a lot of stuff in the back end, such as like building shaders and stuff like that so it takes longer for the game to boot up the first time, and what happens then is you might time out when you're trying to connect and fail the sort of signin process essentially to the services and and yeah the way to circumvent that is to just restart the game again after the initial Boot and then hopefully that will sort of, resolve the issue and you should be online again and you shouldn't run into that offline issue we're going to address that issue in the future we actually have a pretty involved solution in mind where you can like sort of pick who to spawn as in the future potentially, we'll see how that goes but we have a solution in mind it's just that it's it's been taking us a bit to to sort of get to that and now that we have this new online subsystem in the in in place that sort of sets us up to be able to start working on that, whenever that happens, so yeah another known issue with the current