Issues surrounding hotfix 2 for Enraged Koala

Use starcheat.

 

I didn't lose my locker because I had a "Bless Big Ape" poster on my ship's wall. In the future, I hope the devs introduce more funny religious and political content both for family dinners and for warding off Lua demons.

Srsly though it's a bummer for those who lost important things. Sure, we should expect this sort of thing to happen now and then in the beta, but it doesn't make it less disappointing, especially if such things seem to happen often. I'm confident even the devs were quite disappointed when they discovered the bug---and they of all people expect such madness in the debugging process.

If you have to start a new char, try transferring the important items you didn't lose to your new char. (Musical instruments, special clothing, maybe a weapon or two.) One way to do this on single player is to put your stuff on some Alpha planet and write down the coordinates. Then send your new char to that planet. If course, it would be very easy to swap items on multiplayer. Adam gives items to Beth, then Beth gives items to NewAdam.

 

the bugs eaten my ship.. or the most oft it the bug fix killers didn't work for me.

 

Thank you. This I like. Good, transparent, feedback. Was it necessary to explain what happened? Not really. An error occurred. This is still beta after all. But you did take the time and address us with why and how it happened. I, for one, appreciate that you do communicate with your fans/beta testers like that.

 

Thank you good ...sir?

made my life a lot easier.

 

Same. I had all of the quest and tier completion items and about 1M in pixels in it, not to mention all of my best weapons and rarest item drops. 4 full stacks of Solarium as backup fuel and others. I know I can just wipe and start overand that its beta but honestly I'm not really interested in playing a grind heavy game that wipes your stuff constantly. Someone message me in a few years when they figure out how to not corrupt the game every update. Trust = broken so why waste more time grinding.

 

There's multiple creative mods, use them. Also remember that beta is for testing larger elements luke flow, progression, and community interaction, not basic mechanics that necessitate dev mode tinkering on a constant basis.

 

I was just wondering, if i just continue playing with the materials that i have in my inventory, will my ship locker with its contents just pop up again in the next patch or is my character corrupted and shouldn't even bother playing that character anymore?

 

It's good to see most people are taking this wel. Personally, there is nothing to apologize for. This is beta and we all know it. Thanks for keeping us in the loop! Many companies would not be so generous.

 

Thanks for owning up to your mistake. Mad respect for you folks! Keep doing your thing!

 

If that was possible, 99.99999% of the users would not report any problems, they'd simply reload.

 

Just want to say thank you for your post- I've started to type something, then backed away, a few times throughout this thread, but you managed to convey my feelings on the whole "bugs/beta/oops/but I'm entitled damnit" perfectly. Kudos, my friend!

Also- I'd say for those who do get frustrated when early access/beta games break (which is understandable to a point but some folks take it so seriously!), maybe just don't play right now? Take some time off, go outside, or do something else. I EXPECT shit to go wrong, and to report when it does. That's my job in this game at this moment, and if shit hits the fan, I just wipe it off. We're only as Stage 1, much MUCH more to come.

 

Tha players who really care would report anyway. And one's who wouldn't are probably those who are flaming in threads like this (because they cannot load and undo the bugs). And in my opinion, forums with more constructive critizism and less flamers are somewhat desirable.

 

As has been mentioned elsewhere, the primary point of the current phase of testing is... testing. If people don't care about testing and don't want to report or deal with any issues of any kind, they've preordered the game and don't really need to play it right now. They have the option to wait until the game is stable and the core mechanics are finalized.

 

I know you're working hard over there. But I have a suggestion... Since this game is not really heavy in terms of disk usage, how about program automatic backups before applying updates?

 

If you're using WinVista, Win7, or Win8, the OS already makes automatic backups of everything on the drive. ("Previous Versions").

 

AAAAAAAAND this is why we love the 3D Printer.

 

[...]hotfix 2 for Enraged Koala
We are all deeply sorry for the lost data, and will work hard in the future to prevent issues like this from occurring.
For those interested, here’s a -----> quick technical write up on why this happened <-----. [...]
A team that explains why and how, and who cares about the players / customers is what makes me want to buy your games eyes closed. Thank you guys, it's nice!

 

Thanks for the info, but I keep that feature turned off for my files partition.

 

There's quite literally no reason to turn it off. In a worst-case scenario where you're running out of space, you can reduce the size devoted to VSS, but it will do that automatically as free space drops.