September 19th, 2023 Livestream

Intro / State of Dev

https://youtu.be/WaY8B7wmt2g

Topics

• Features > Game Modes > Advanced Game Settings
• Features > Multiplayer > Dedicated Servers
• Features > Pioneer
• Satisfactory Updates > Released > Satisfactory 1.0
• Satisfactory Updates > Released > Satisfactory Update 8
• Coffee Stainers > Simon
• Satisfactory Updates > State of Dev
• Retail > Steam Store
• Technology > Unreal Engine > Unreal Engine 5

Transcript

thank you hey everybody s nut can't come to the door right now please leave a message after the beep beep all right whatever that [ __ ] hey everybody welcome to the weekly dab stream I'm still, I'm still not fully recovered, that's not yeah

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all right, welcome to the weekly devstream we're, We're very professional and, we hang out and, we talk about the game and [ __ ] I guess I don't know it's been a while since we did this two whole weeks I guess when I was booting up my computer today and I was like setting up stream I was like what do I usually do I can't remember I like it's been I've seen in one week and I already lost my mind or can't keep track of [ __ ] anyways, welcome everybody to the weak Dev stream I already said that, today is gonna be another chill satisfactory stream probably even more chill than usual because I am like I said I'm still not I'm not 100 back you know what I'm saying like that's, I got a nasty call last week and, it's a bummer actually- I realized too I forgot to say the last stream, we were actually not gonna stream last week anyways because, we were gonna go on a, like, coffee stain went on like a team building thing in in the woods in the Swedish Woods which which woods and, I was gonna participate in that I was really looking forward to that the day before the trip I got sick so, yay so guess I'm not a team player because I wasn't part of the team building experience anyways, but yeah welcome welcome to the stream, if this is your first time tuning in then, sorry this is a [ __ ] show, the Swedish of which exactly, you understand I'm the community manager here at Corpus christ Studios and, we're just gonna like hang out play the game play our dumb game please please satisfactory and talk about stuff and things that comes to mind you know what I mean, I don't have too much news today unfortunately, the news is the same as as it was two weeks ago put out a YouTube video two weeks ago gave him the state of latest date of death essentially we're working on update 8. and we are we we're knee deep in it we've decided to upgrade the engine again to 5.2 I know that 5.3 is out but we're not We're Not Gonna We're not gonna go for that one okay we're gonna it's not worth it at this time because the update will never come out if we keep updating the engine all the time, but one important thing I want to talk about when it comes to state of depth I'm actually going to switch the agenda now because I do want to address something real quick and that is that tomorrow in I can't do quick maths, tomorrow 10 a.m Swedish, sorry central eastern stand summer time standard time, there's gonna be a little bit of a maintenance window on our online services for steam, this is something that we this isn't it's it's like half tied to to the stuff that we're doing for update eight with updating, the game but also we need to do this on Early Access as well because there's some I actually don't remember what the reason was for this but something in the back end needs to be adjusted for Steam and they gave us like a deadline of like you guys need to do this before, before November or something like that and it needs to be in place by then and we don't exactly know, like we need to do tempted like online testing to to make sure that we got the fix in that we need to get in, so tomorrow at 10 A.M, Central CST yeah, if somebody could drop like time zones like the I think I had it in the Discord post, or in the, Reddit post but I already forgot but essentially, there's gonna be a maintenance window for online services which means that you won't be able to play online you won't be able to play satisfactory online so you won't be able to host and you won't be able to connect to people, that's one thing the annoying thing is is that due to the way we've made the game with how we possess characters in the game we typically grab your your online ID to like decide which character in the world we should, spawn as and at the we've had this in the game for a long time where if we don't find if we don't get an ID from the service either because you're playing offline or something fail with the service whatever then we'll assign you to a new character and you'll spawn as a new character in The Hub, which means your inventory will be empty and you'll be in the hub as a new character super Annoying It's been in the game for forever we are going to address that at some point the reason why we haven't addressed it since like forever is because we actually have ideas where we kind of want to make like a full-on system where when you like join a game we want you to be able to like pick which character you want to spawn as or like possess, so like if you have multiple players playing on a server and stuff like that or like if you're hosting something you would be able to like possess different characters, and that's a lot of work it's both programming work and it's also like UI and ux stuff so we've always been putting it off and decided not to do like a temp solution where for instance we would save like your last login player character or something like that I don't know why we haven't done that this is something I've argued tons and tons and tons about, it's quite frustrating I think why we haven't done that but hmm take it up with the boss, anyways that's me, venting anyways, so yeah if if you this will affect play P people playing a single player as well during that maintenance window so if you are playing single player and you're playing, during that maintenance window you will spawn as a new character you can still get your inventory back if you run over and and kill your old character and you loot the loot box and stuff like that but there are two caveats or not caveats there are two annoying exceptions one is if you're playing with creative mode or if you're playing with Advanced game settings and you've enabled god mode you will not be able to do that you will not be able to kill your old character pump because they will be Invincible okay short oversight from our part the other issue is that oh nice oh nice let me actually double check this link make sure it's unable to complete requests, wait what oh okay fixed it cool still can't go to the link anyways, yeah there are two there are two issues to look out for though if you're playing with Advanced game settings when you have god mode on you will not be able to kill your own character Pawn, I say Pawn because that's the underlying problem annoying name for it it's your player character so you will not be able to kill it because it's in god mode and it's invincible so that's one issue another issue is if you are in a vehicle when you saved last time and you log back in and you don't possess that character that character will be stuck in the vehicle the vehicle will you won't be able to dismantle the vehicle and you won't be able to get your inventory back also a little bit of an oversight a little bit on our part, also been in the game for forever I don't know why we haven't attempted to fix this up until this point but it is what it is and it is frustrating for you guys if you're new to this issue so be aware of those two cases, once the like once the maintenance window is over you guys will be able to like if you restart the session you'll be able to go back into your original player character so it shouldn't be too big of an issue if you are playing during those like two hours that we are scheduled maintenance, but it's something to bear in mind, it's a huge post that's nice thanks Mel, yeah we're reporting the vehicle issues for ages we we've, yeah we it's a known issue there's a ton of known issues with the game, and it's like we I wish I wish we could get around to all that stuff but it just takes so much time, to work in the game and make a game so we haven't got around to it yet but we will at some point I hope, so that's the important thing and, we probably will schedule a couple more maintenance Windows because like the the reason why we have this window is because we have an implementation in place but we want to we need to test it and we need to test it both on Early Access and we need to test it both on experimental, the back end that is I don't think the game will update or anything like that it's just back-end stuff, so so that's sort of what that maintenance window is for and hopefully it won't cause too many issues for folks but it probably will so just be aware and when you try to pick like the the time when there are as few people playing the game as possible which is which is at that time slot roughly, so and yeah if you're on Epic it doesn't matter no you won't be affected by this at all so it's just for people on Steam, so how long would it take two hours so it's between 10 AM CST and 12 p.m CST so it's two hours so like either, make sure to log in before that, I think I don't think you'll get booted out, I might be wrong but that's the case also for dedicated servers if you have a dedicated Service, dedicated servers are unaffected by this in the broad scope because like dedicated servers this is part of the like handling of like connecting and if you have a dedicated server you're not really part of that like Steam, tool set where we hook you up with other players you're just connecting to a dedicated server but the single player issue that I mentioned will will come back because like as soon as you connect to that dedicated server since you don't have your your player ID, you'll spawn as a new character on the dedicated server, and the same problem will happen, so yeah that's that's that's the important news I think to get it out of the way, so that we're doing maintenance good times I don't think we've ever done something like this before I think we've had like one we've had down time from time to time, due to, like online services being down whenever epic updates fortnite [ __ ] always something happens in the back end but the last couple of updates actually has been fine, so yeah questions on this topic I haven't gotten that many questions about this so I assume my announcement was perfectly, well formulized and there's no questions about anything everything makes sense

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, but that's that's that's how the cookie crumbles actually need to open that Reddit post again and see if I missed any messages because I haven't done that today I had a awful night tonight okay, my dog woke me up in at like 3 A.M needed to go out and take a [ __ ] and then after that I couldn't fall asleep again so I think I slept like three hours tonight it's like when it's like 4 a.m I'm like I might as well go up and work screw this [ __ ], let's see here here yeah cool yeah it's it's lucky I so whenever people stop me on the street they're always like oh cute dog I never had to respond to this because like I don't want to say thank you because it's not like I it's not like what well I made her cute you know it always feels weird, but but what I usually say is like yeah lucky for her because like she's she's a bit annoying she can be quite [ __ ] annoying or something you know what I'm saying she's cute you don't design your own dogs I mean I guess we are technically since, the way we, what's it called breed dogs it's a little bit of design right where you're like making sure I don't know, planning huge party at four EST okay perfect if you're up by then then go for it it the only as always the Australians get [ __ ] every time like time zone wise they always get screwed, Eugenics is that the thing I'm thinking of you Eugenics is scientifically Anonymous an immoral theory of racial Improvement oh geez plan breeding I don't know if it applies to, dogs though I think this is more of a problematic nature of humans yeah of human population so it's not it's not it's only applicable for humans so, not that, but anyways, will satisfactory will we stop doing updates besides actually after 1.0 I don't know I don't think I actually don't know we'll we'll see what we do I don't I think the feeling right now is that we'll do something more with it, Eugene's coming up oh please no don't don't don't let's not go down this hole okay let's let's, let's just not selective breeding was the word term I was looking for before that's the that's the one,

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it's too late to get a key from Simon yes it is way too late Christmas is like next week [ __ ] it's I mean I was looking at okay we're still in the state of Dev I guess so still relevant to talk about this I guess but I was looking at like okay when did we we announced updated when we started talking about update in [ __ ] April that's so messed up this update has been what's the name of that Greek, tale of like do the dude I think is the name of the dude where it's like pushing a boulder up a cliff Marv please oh that's not you can't say that in chat no I'm kidding I don't know why for some reason it looked like a slurp, platypus that's his name

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, yeah up today it's been bad it feels like we make so much progress and yet there's still so much work left, chat you're all being a bit Saucy right now [ __ ] bacas you're also see Bacchus remember we used to say Baka oh that was two thousand two twenty twenty nineteen yeah the old Greek philosopher [ __ ] Baka who would roll up a boulder and then I get murdered by his crewmate he's he's a bit sus it's a story you know what I'm saying, was that state of Dev I think that was state of Dev, like I always feel like there's stuff to talk about but we just we just we're just working on the game guys I don't know what to tell you, so, also oh it's cool it started running, we've started doing this since, coming back from vacation where, and I keep switching this up this formula on stream every every time but, one really nice thing that we're trying out is using, slido for questions so you guys have so if you do this exclamation mark Ama you can you get access to like a page where you can post questions and what we typically do is we usually have a q a we tend to try and- I try to save like the big q a for like more towards the end of the long stream segments that we have so in about two hours ish a little bit more maybe, I try and save like all the questions, on the slido pages I still answer questions see if I see them in chat that's where you go, but but it's great because you guys can post questions there you can also upload questions that you want me to address and then we'll just do a huge race and if people are here early and can't join for the later part of the Q a you can always check out the VOD for that section, I try to like save that section for one specific part I know we did it like in births bursts before but I think that was a little bit, unfair for some people who just wanted the Q a section, so try try and like keep it in one segment and, we'll play the game hopefully we'll actually I'm gonna boot up the game while we talk talk about I'm talking about this [ __ ] what's going on with the what's going what, oh no Cloud syncing what are you clouds thinking about stop that okay whatever, and, we'll do like a real quick recap of stereo Dev when we get to that segment as well so that's why the, agenda looks like a bit cluttered, we'll get to it when the game decides to stop Cloud syncing and it's when I'm in a game load of my save file it takes no time at all so don't worry about it

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yeah we're gonna have to yeah yeah that is unfortunate we're gonna update to 5.2 and then two days later epic is like here's 5.3 and we're like oh but there's nothing in 5.3 that's really interesting for us right now a lot of people I get this question a lot actually so I think there's some confusion into sir some tech that's in Unreal Engine that's new, because like folks I'll have access a ton if we're ever gonna add like nanites to foliage and they asked us like oh is that why you're upting the 5.2 so we can have Nan item foliage right now we just don't want to because we would need to redo the foliage and that's too much work so it's not really worth it and we're not even using we don't really have a need for nanite because our assets are not like our assets have been optimized for since the old way of doing things right with lods and stuff like that and for us to like re-import them and redo them for that and blah blah blah like it's like half worth it at this time there's more impressing matters to to look into wow what is this Cloud sync This Cloud sync is I don't trust it, and, most of the new stuff in 5.3 there was something that was interesting but it was not something that you guys would know what it what it was, but for the most part like most of the new stuff in 5.3 was like for more for like procedural stuff in that night and like landscape, Nani for Landscapes which maybe is interesting for us but not really worth it at this moment to upgrade for, I don't think the landscape is a huge bottleneck for us at the moment, not really worth re-implementing you know like re-implementing how we've set up our landscape to get like that safe but maybe it is in the future I don't know, and what else is new in in 5.3 the only thing I remember is that they finally implemented proper lighting for Ortho camera but we don't use that so it doesn't even matter I just thought that that was interesting that for the longest time they didn't support a lot of lighting techniques in North though, a reflection for Lumen yeah maybe we don't really support Lumen technically technically we don't really support women is just there in the game but it could be cool yeah I mean there are reflections in Lumen does I no wait that's also true Reflections are illuminum right now like there are reflections that Lumen comes with reflections in the initial release so I don't know sure what's new with Reflections in 5.3 it might be, more more Reflections it might be a different reflection technique, that's added on top of it