Fiona here.
The old saying goes, "It's 5 o clock somewhere". Well today I am repurposing it to "Its still Monday somewhere"
It was a holiday in the UK (our May Day falls on the first Monday in May not May 1st).
Last Week
Last week was spent trying to get the new update live and we very much hope that will be happening today - we will let you know as soon as we know, we had hoped for Thursday, then Friday but I am feeling confident enough to say, surely today!
A reminder of what's in this patch:
Waiting longer before a challenge starts, ensuring all players have received the data (note you will therefore notice a longer load if the challenge is large or players have low bandwidth/high latency)
Fixing an issue where a default engine cap meant large challenges were not being broadcast to players
Displaying challenge size as a percentage in the map popup, so players can see when they are near or over the limit
Preventing hosts from launching challenges over 100% of the allowed size in multiplayer (these can still be played offline)
As a result of these we are hoping to see a significant improvement in the amount of Online crashes and disconnects ! Note there is still one disconnect issue remaining due to latency issues which we are still investigating. Players who are geographically closer to one another are less likely to encounter these issues.
What's happening this week
Physics - Our CTO Phil and I have been through the entire Physics thread on Discord, and we’ll be sharing a detailed update on this later in the week.
We’ll post a summary on Discord, along with a much more in-depth write-up here for those who want to get into the detail.
Funding ongoing updates remains a challenge, but we are committed to continuing to fix the issues being raised wherever we can. We will share news with what our next update will include and an idea on timescale soon.
Part 3 of our very old Story will also be going live.
Clip Competition voting - Paid members have until end of Thursday to get your votes in. Please do take part if you can!
Checking the time .... yep still Monday somewhere
Thanks as ever for your support!