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Interstellar Rift

Experimental version e0.2.15.00 is now live!
Hi everyone,

The latest update for Interstellar Rift (e0.2.15.00) is now available on the experimental branch.

We'll treat this one a little bit different than other experimental versions, as it wil go live for everyone pretty soon, instead of the normal 2 week gestation period. Our plan is to release it after the weekend on Monday the 22nd of June.

What's in this new update?

It contains reworks of some existing UI systems for the most part, we overhauled the mission system and with it refreshed the tutorials. You can now find a new mission tab on your GRIP where you can manage your accepted missions.

We've also added a couple of new building blocks, tweaked some of the weapons, and added a new advancement system, among other things.

Please check it out and don't hesitate to let us know if things are not working as you would expect!

For all the changes and bug fixes please see the patch notes linked below.

Thank you all for playing, and see you star-side!

- The Split Polygon Team.


Link to the patch notes

To enable the experimental branch, right click on Interstellar Rift in Steam, go to the beta tab, and select the "experimental IR beta patches" option

Please note that galaxy files opened in the experimental build, may turn out to be broken when going back to the regular build. It is recommended to start a new save file when trying the experimental build.

Patch notes for Interstellar Rift 0.2.14.110

BUG FIXES

  • Disabled desync debugging that was accidentally pushed to everyone and slowing everyone down

  • Fixed a case where we would fail to send a packet because compression would make it larger, this should fix some people not being able to log in (thanks 7thCore)

  • Fixed a client crash that could occur when teleporting off a ship while looking at a device that could be interacted with


NOTES

  • Servers need to be updated. No Rebuilds required.

  • If your preferred server has not updated yet, you can switch to the 'previous' branch until it has updated.

  • Please report failed rifts or duplicated ships on our Discord or on the bug reporting subforum, and include at least the following details:
    • what server you were on
    • The name of your ship
    • The system you were rifting from
    • The system you were rifting to

Patch notes for Interstellar Rift 0.2.14.100

BUG FIXES

  • Fixed a desync that could occur when a ship was destroyed or would self destruct

  • Fixed a client crash that could occur when teleporting off a ship while looking at a device that could be interacted with


NOTES

  • Servers need to be updated. No Rebuilds required.

  • If your preferred server has not updated yet, you can switch to the 'previous' branch until it has updated.

  • Please report failed rifts or duplicated ships on our Discord or on the bug reporting subforum, and include at least the following details:
    • what server you were on
    • The name of your ship
    • The system you were rifting from
    • The system you were rifting to

Patch notes for Interstellar Rift 0.2.14.93

BUG FIXES

  • Fixed a client crash that could occur when entering the cockpit with a mission that had a target entity


NOTES

  • Servers don't need to update. No Rebuilds required.

  • If your preferred server has not updated yet, you can switch to the 'previous' branch until it has updated. If you have launched a game in the new version already your saves will not work on the 'previous' branch!

  • Please report failed rifts or duplicated ships on our Discord or on the bug reporting subforum, and include at least the following details:
    • what server you were on
    • The name of your ship
    • The system you were rifting from
    • The system you were rifting to

Patch notes for Interstellar Rift 0.2.14.92

BUG FIXES

  • Fixed full rebuilds (rebuildserver 2) (fixed in 0.2.14.91)

  • Reverted improve how we check if a file exists as it lead to no textures being able to load for a few people (fixed in 0.2.14.91)

  • Improve memory efficiency of ship baking to avoid out of memory crashes

  • Fixed a threading related server crash that could occur when checking if a player had an illegal activity mission

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to load corrupted save or ship metadata

  • Fixed a client crash that could occur when a single-player server instance crashed


PERFORMANCE

  • Increase performance of ship baking


NOTES

  • Servers only need to update if they want to take advantage of the crash fixes. No Rebuilds required.

  • If your preferred server has not updated yet, you can switch to the 'previous' branch until it has updated. If you have launched a game in the new version already your saves will not work on the 'previous' branch!

  • Please report failed rifts or duplicated ships on our Discord or on the bug reporting subforum, and include at least the following details:
    • what server you were on
    • The name of your ship
    • The system you were rifting from
    • The system you were rifting to

Patch notes for Interstellar Rift 0.2.14.90

BUG FIXES

  • Fixed a desync related to mining

  • Fixed a threading related server crash that could occur when a player logged in multiple times before their system would be loaded

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a system

  • Fixed a client crash that could occur when adding rules in the drone bay enhancement cartridge UI

  • Fixed a client crash that could occur upon leaving the game

PERFORMANCE

  • Improve performance when encountering a drone for the first time in a session

  • Improve how we check if a file exists

NOTES

  • Servers only need to update if they want to take advantage of the crash fix. No Rebuilds required.

  • If your preferred server has not updated yet, you can switch to the 'previous' branch until it has updated. If you have launched a game in the new version already your saves will not work on the 'previous' branch!

  • Please report failed rifts or duplicated ships on our Discord or on the bug reporting subforum, and include at least the following details:
    • what server you were on
    • The name of your ship
    • The system you were rifting from
    • The system you were rifting to

Patch notes for Interstellar Rift 0.2.14.82

BUG FIXES

  • Fixed a server crash that could occur when killing a player that was not on a ship (introduced by a crash fix yesterday)


NOTES

  • Servers only need to update if they want to take advantage of the crash fix. No Rebuilds required.

  • If your preferred server has not updated yet, you can switch to the 'previous' branch until it has updated. If you have launched a game in the new version already your saves will not work on the 'previous' branch!

  • Please report failed rifts or duplicated ships on our Discord or on the bug reporting subforum, and include at least the following details:
    • what server you were on
    • The name of your ship
    • The system you were rifting from
    • The system you were rifting to

Patch notes for Interstellar Rift 0.2.14.81

FEATURES

  • Changed how we react to crashes and errors while saving to further reduce the chance of corrupted saves


BUG FIXES

  • Worked around running out of memory when baking ship exteriors by force invoking the garbage collector when this happens

  • Fixed a crash when the port set in the config is invalid

  • Fixed a server crash that could occur when a ship was spawned

  • Fixed a server crash that could occur during tile generation

  • Worked around a server crash that could occur when a ship that was somehow not in a system was being removed from a system

  • Fixed an editor crash that occured when exporting a ship to the workshop while you were upgrading it

  • Fixed an editor crash that could occur when placing an exterior prop

  • Fixed an editor crash that could occur in the power editor

  • Fixed a client crash that could occur when a system event objective to construct a ship was completed

  • Fixed a client crash that could occur when handing in a system event while the ship got destroyed

  • Fixed a client crash that could occur during rendering

  • Fixed a client crash that could occur when caching textures. We'll now crash later if the storage device in question is having major problems, but will ignore minor problems that only pop up during the caching

  • Request the correct OpenGL version. This might fix crashes on old driver versions as we were using newer OpenGL functionality than we were telling the GPU driver

  • Fixed a client crash that occurred when cargo was teleported at the exact moment that the ship was destroyed

  • Fixed a rare hang on exit

NOTES

  • Servers only need to update if they want to take advantage of the crash fixes. No Rebuilds required.

  • If your preferred server has not updated yet, you can switch to the 'previous' branch until it has updated. If you have launched a game in the new version already your saves will not work on the 'previous' branch!

  • Please report failed rifts or duplicated ships on our Discord or on the bug reporting subforum, and include at least the following details:
    • what server you were on
    • The name of your ship
    • The system you were rifting from
    • The system you were rifting to

Patch notes for Interstellar Rift 0.2.14.80

BUG FIXES

  • Fixed upgrading device state save data when ships were loaded from the editor

  • Fixed a desync related to automated turrets

  • Fixed per system rebuilding when MultithreadedSystemUpdate is enabled

  • Fixed an error when trying to retrieve a ship from private ship storage

  • Fixed a server crash that occurred during a server wide rules and station rebuild

  • Fixed a threading related server crash that could occur when a ghost client connected or disconnected

  • Fixed two client crashes that could occur in the respawn window

  • Fixed a client crash that occurred when cargo was teleported at the exact moment that the ship was destroyed

  • Fixed a client crash that could occur when upgrading ships

NOTES

  • Servers only need to update if they want to take advantage of the crash and desync fixes. No Rebuilds required.

  • If your preferred server has not updated yet, you can switch to the 'previous' branch until it has updated. If you have launched a game in the new version already your saves will not work on the 'previous' branch!

  • Please report failed rifts or duplicated ships on our Discord or on the bug reporting subforum, and include at least the following details:
    • what server you were on
    • The name of your ship
    • The system you were rifting from
    • The system you were rifting to

Patch notes for Interstellar Rift 0.2.14.70

IMPORTANT NOTES


This version changes the format of our saves, files in the old format will be upgraded when they are loaded, this can result in a small, one-time, performance hit when an old file is loaded. The first time launch of a (dedicated) server on this version will take a while (It took ~5 minutes on the official PvE server save) as it will need to upgrade some player data of every player that has been on your server, the time this process takes scales by how many players have ever been on your server. Processes should not be killed during this upgrade as this will definitely corrupt your save!

After opening any save in the new version, it is very unlikely that any save (even if it is a different one) will work in a previous version of Interstellar Rift. As such, if you want to be able to switch between 0.2.14.60 and 0.2.14.70 you will have to manually back up and restore your saves.

(Ships uploaded to the workshop in previous versions will continue to work, and ships uploaded to the workshop in 0.2.14.70 will work in previous versions of the game)

PERFORMANCE

  • Changes to the save file format and saving and loading process aimed at reducing peak memory usage and latency caused by high peak memory usage.

CHANGES

  • Force Windows 7 to use TLS 1.2 when connecting to HTTPS endpoints (i.e. newsfeed & master server). TLS 1.0 support on the master server will be turned off next week, when this happens Interstellar Rift versions before 0.2.14.70 (on Windows 7) won't be able to connect to the master server anymore.

NOTES

  • Servers will need to be updated and restarted. No Rebuilds required.

  • If your preferred server has not updated yet, you can switch to the 'previous' branch until it has updated. If you have launched a game in the new version already your saves will not work on the 'previous' branch!

  • Please report failed rifts or duplicated ships on our Discord or on the bug reporting subforum, and include at least the following details:
    • what server you were on
    • The name of your ship
    • The system you were rifting from
    • The system you were rifting to
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