Issues surrounding hotfix 2 for Enraged Koala

One thing I seem thankful is the hundreds of objects scanned in my 3D printer are still there. Now THAT was a timesink!

 

Well, this killed this game for me. See you guys in several months when stuff like this doesn't happen.

 

http://community.playstarbound.com/...et-back-your-item-tuto-old-file-needed.72298/

 

*devs waste a dozen hours on a 'fail-safe'*
*more posts from people complaining that they lose their saves when their power goes out / HDD dies / etc*
*more wasted hours making more adjustments*
*actual release date appears*
"WHY ISN'T THE GAME READY? WHY DID YOU WASTE SO MUCH TIME?!"

 

Oh ok.. so.. time to make a new character

 

QAQ,all my musical instruments are gone...I put them in the shiplocker....so sad...

 

I sympathize. I had mine in a cabinet in my base and the whole cabinet disappeared. :/

 

Question though, if we cheat all the items back in, then what would we be doing to find bugs? I went around collecting things just to explore, because I had something to explore, and as I explore, bugs appeared. But with everything there...I'm not sure what the devs need in terms for beta progress?

 

Based on my understanding of "why" this happened, I'm not going to forgive this mistake simply because "it's a beta" or "it's early-access". This kind of mistake could've happened...at any point in development. However...with that same reasoning, it's hard to fault the devs for this. What're they supposed to do now that it's happened? The items are gone. They can't be recovered, not even by them. They've already done all they could. They gave us a detailed explanation of why this happened, which is more than any other company would do. They expressed their apologies properly. That's all that can really be done in a situation like this.

I guess the reason why I feel so bad right now is mostly because I don't really know what to do next. Do I continue playing and risk something like this happening again? How can I trust the devs after something like this? My faith has been shaken.

 

Oh well.... download finishedf, first start (and no ships locker, no chests in the ship... I had hoped, it will help not to start the game after the patch until all the hotfixes are downloaded too - well, it did not help.

I might still try some things but wait now with collecting stuff.

That is my thought also. The problem is, that many people put their precious things in chests on their ship because these were supposed to stay safe - and exactly these got hit. Just not sure if collecting is an option right now. Play yes, test things yes, but collecting?

 

Report less bugs. That way the server bugs can get some attention beyond a line item in patch notes that apparently doesn't actually correlate to postive changes made in the described patch.

 

My ship locker and chests are there but every time I try to access them my game crashes. Help?

 

I just mined and replaced the bed. Same thing worked for my friend so I'm not exactly sure if the hotfix was necessary.

 

Nipped in-game for a moment to see if pushing 'E' where the Ship Storage Locker is supposed to be did anything this time... it didn't. The Ship Storage Locker's definitely perma-gone. I think i'm gonna have to wipe my Character & start over. How do I wipe my Character & stuff related to him without causing any damage to my game? Better safe then sorry when it comes to File Stuffs. I'm on W7 Home Premium 64-bit.

Oh & Devs, no sweat on this happening. This kinda thing is EXACTLY what Beta is for in the first place, to find & kill such Bugs before they manage to crawl their way to Full Release. I'm playing Beta knowing & accepting the risks that come with it.

 

I've backed up and left my main character alone for the time being, and I've resigned myself to just waiting until everything settles down.
Best wishes to Chucklefish and a big thank you for being transparent about the issue!

 

I deleted the shipworld file for my floran, as that's the only one that was missing (that I know of; I haven't been on my other chars out of fear theirs might be gone when i get on), but it doesn't seem to be regenerating the shipworld file...is there something i'm missing?

I'm not mad at Chucklefish, as it IS open beta. BETA being the key word here; they're still testing for bugs...and what is this? -gasp- a bug. Are you really that surprised? Furthermore, the game is what, 14, 15 bucks on Steam? If it cost a larger increment for the actual game, and was the final game, I would be upset. But it's not. People really need to stop thinking they're so entitled just because they shelled out 14 measly bucks for an open beta game. :/

 

yeah i'm just gonna stick with my new dude. put all my stuff on the characters with donked up ships in crates on the planet's surface and wrote down the coords so imma go on a zany road trip with a cast of colorful characters to get my stuff

ill probably learn something profound about myself on the way

thanks, cf

 

Current version still removes ~20 lockers/chests from my ship, when testing with a copy of my backup player/shipworld files. Luckily I took the precaution of making a duplicate of the whole installation before updating, so I I'll just stick with playing Furious Koala until there's a non-destructive version out... on that note, thanks to Chucklefish for not forcing players to run Starbound through Steam (which a LOT of other games do) - that would've made playing any older versions much more difficult!

 

Agreed. And if you don't want to loose everything, there is a strategy if further hotfixes can't solve this. (I'm going to wait first and see.)

-#Log into your character and snap/save a screenshot so you know your ship layout.
-#Strip it clean, saving everything you can planetside.
-#Delete only your ship save data (Not character or Meta) and it'll re-generate to a fresh ship when you log in.
-#Retrieve your stuff and rebuild your ship.

Not as good as having the containers back, but it's better then starting entirely from scratch.


You can also go one better and save everything using Furious Koala this strategy.

 

Ahhhh.....fuck..Oh well, no biggy