Monsters 'popping' when you get too close

Hi,

I'm trying to play Starbound with my brother - he bought his version of SB on GOG, I got mine from Steam.

When we try to play together, monsters 'pop' before we can get close to them, and NPCs tend to beam up before we can interact.

Could this be caused by the Steam/GOG mismatch?

Has anyone had this problem, and is there a workaround?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

Bumping this one - does anyone have any clue why the above may happen?

Thanks again.

 

http://pastebin.com/H4RPgcZf

Pastebin work for you? Thanks!

 

Ah OK. It's my brother's server - will ask and come back to you soon.

Thanks!

 

Hi. The server is on a remote computer running Ubuntu Server 16.04, and I'm connecting from a client running on 16.04 (gog.com version). mbrady_777 is connecting from a Windows Steam copy of the game client.

The monster deaths often happen off-screen, or whilst trying to fight a player- even if the player never tries to hit them. For what it's worth, these deaths seem to cause/coincide with errors thrown from monster.lua e.g. at line 3412 in this log.

Log file: http://pastebin.com/Uq2wH43Q

This doesn't happen in single player. It also doesn't seem to happen if I run the server on the same machine as my client (the Ubuntu 16.04 desktop).

Thanks.

 

Hi Iris, thanks but currently I'm running the most recent version available to me- for GOG/Linux this still seems to be 1.2.2 (GOG-12).

I re-downloaded the files a couple of days ago in case they were just mislabeled, but they do still seem to be 1.2.2 e.g. in-game menu still shows that

 

Bumping for any more ideas? Thanks for your help so far Iris.

 

It's just the vanilla game, files downloaded fresh from GOG. The server uses about 20% of the CPU runtime and 20-40% of the memory with just me logged on, so not looking crazy excessive. There's not much else happening on the server, the overall load is only a couple of percentage points higher.