Multiplayer - First impression

AdaRynin shared this feedback 5 years ago
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Even with MP rubber banding, the vehicles are much more stable now! I did moon rover jumps that would previously have destroyed the vehicle. Planets look great by the way!


Main annoyance: During the whole Playtest I did not see or hear of one drop of Uranium. A single player cannot get far with solar powered vehicles. I spent hours driving around on the moon in solar rovers (and single large ion thruster abominations), and didn't find any uranium. Even together in a faction of half a dozen experienced players, playing for 2-3 days, we could not even collect enough ice to power hydrogen thrusters long enough to have at least one of us find Uranium. In short: What is the progression here?


When playing with a faction on the moon, I fell through the floor or I got stuck on invisible terrain or built blocks, repeatedly in the same spots. It was better right after reboots, but then got worse again. Fun fact: I ow can weld blocks from the inside...


When I logged into MP, my inventory always got deleted and reset to the default tools. There is no warning to store items before logging off (or when the server reboots!) so we lost a ton of stuff.


Walking and even standing was often jittery, as if it was correcting my position along a sawtooth pattern.


In MP, while fetching materials or after server restarts, I lost (unpowered) grids I had been working on. As a beginner, how do I power a new grid so quickly to not lose it?

Once I simply tabbed out and in for a moment, and all the mined ice pieces on the ground before my feet disapppeared. (In most cases, tabbing in an out worked well though.)


Sometimes when grinding in MP, everything stalled silently for 20 seconds. The grinding animation kept playing but I couldn't move.


I had the audio chat volume on 100% and PC audio up and music and other sounds low, and I could hear THAT people where speaking, but it was too quiet and choppy to be useful.

I understand that in MP you want a faction to stay together and not take shortcuts by respawning in random places. I made the mistake of joining a faction that accepted everyone, and I better should have shot anyone who respawned at my base, because they grinded down my survival kit and shot me. Can they then just join their pirate faction again and call them in to loot my base? I don't know what they did, because I could not get back there. Was respawning always like that?

Speaking of which, what does respawning "in spacesuit" mean, the tooltip is missing? It sounds like I will die again, floating alone in space... ;-)

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