A few bugs I've noticed recently

Thanks for the constuctive report.

The only thing I don't understand is moving your prop near a wall making your prop or boat disappear. I've never heard or seen anything like that so if that's happening then either it's only happening for you, or the bug only started occurring recently, or it was always a bug and has gone unnoticed; which I highly doubt.

As far as the other things I'll look into them as soon as I get the chance, and attempt to fix them. But honestly I have also never heard or witnessed them either so these are oddball bugs to me at the moment.

 

It's odd that it's related to smart weld but good to know the details of your experience.

Thanks again for the constructive report.

 

In that case this is likely because the prop has been detected to be outside of the map and attempted to teleport back to spawn.

I'll look into the problem, but I can't promise I'll discover any solutions.

 

The prop lag is an issue that has always existed and is one reason that we switched from Windows OS to Linux in an attempt to lighten the load on our dedi. I also believe the tickrate is still 33 in server 1 and the tickrate in server 2 is 66 because we are attempting to evaluate which has the less lag in-game.

If you could try doing some extensive tests on whether server 1 or server 2 is lagging more or if they seem to be exactly the same that would be much appreciated. I have tried observing it myself but found it hard to notice a difference.

It lags when the water rises because all the physics in the game are happening at once. The best way to explain why sometimes this can cause you to fall 'through your boat' is by comparing it to elastic. Imagine you have a rubber band in your right hand and you grab it with your left hand to stretch it. If you let go with your right hand the rubber band will rightfully snap toward your left hand. It's this type of behavior in the Flood when the water is rising combined with the prop physic lag that brings the issue of falling through your boat.

The issues you mentioned are obviously something we're aware of, but it can take time and effort for us to find a solution, and only time can tell if we ever will. Regardless, thanks for your constructive report/concern, and thanks for support Devinity!

 

In order to have a boat 'made out of 48 boxes' you'd have to either exceed the max prop limit of 15 or find a way to weld your props with players who aren't on your team. Considering both of those are not possible I'm only going to assume you exaggerated.

Regardless feel free to test the lag on server 2 as well, but please try to be sure not to disrupt the other players experience in the process.

Thanks for the information.

 

The only problem with having a closed testing of the lag is that we'd effectively be reducing the load on the server by a lot unless we were able to invite enough people to nearly fill both servers.

It's not necessary to halt the server to try solving this anyway because it can be tested while the server is live whether it's completely accurate/convenient or not. Having a closed environment wouldn't really help us find any answers that we don't already have, although granted it may help us see which tickrate is more appropriate if made the effort to organize such an event.

As stated previously the prop lag is an issue that has always existed and if we found some sort of solution for it then it would be implemented immediately. Until then the only thing to do is try drawing a comparison between server 1 and 2 when they have similar rates of activity so that we can squash the matter of which tickrate to use for both of them. If there is no noticeable difference then that is only more a reason not to strain ourselves investigating the comparison of the servers. Sorry for any inconvenience the lag causes you or other players.

Thanks for the constructive report and information!

 

Original limit was 15 but thanks for correcting me because an even number made more sense and we changed it to 16. Otherwise you definitely exaggerated because that limit is shared with your teammates. If your teammate spawns 16 props then you can't spawn anymore otherwise it would be unfair for the lone wolfs, but alright.

The only way you could have done it is during a Team Event, so you should have used that excuse instead.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the max limit of 16 still exists for each player, but the individual prop limits are lifted.

If that's not the case then let me know because I agree that we should include a limit.