Closed Other Enraged Koala Issues

We all know chest and lockers have disappeared and unless you have backed up your saves they are gone forever, such is life in Beta land, but I have noticed a couple of other things since the new patch.

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Every now and then when I place a light the game freezes for a second.
Every now and then when I shoot a mob the game freezes for a second, if the mob is in the air it hangs for a moment and then is on top of me biting my face off!
Neither of these things happened before in the 130+ hours I have played SB.
Anyone else have the same issue and is there a simple fix?

 

yes, these are similar issues. May want to put this in the official bug thread, too. Not saying don't make a thread of this, but won't hurt tossing it there if it isn't already in there.

 

You know what, I looked for a bug thread and didn't see one, doh! right at the bloody top, going blind in old age.

 

Best to start at the end.. and work your way backwards on megathreads like that. Especially when concerning recent issues.

 

yeah, the mobs freeze for me, too. makes it real difficult to fight them and especially the mini-bosses. been getting my ass wooped since I started playing after the update.

 

This has been happening to me, so I'm not going crazy.

 

I'm getting this too. Its really weird, the game itself doesn't freeze and lets me move around but monsters freeze up then suddenly teleport to where they are supposed to be. Its a LOT like server lag in a mmo actually.

 

I'm also getting another odd thing where I shoot a mob with an arrow, the arrow seems not to hit, the mob carries on moving and then a moment later realizes its dead... I can't really play this game anymore coz combat is all sorts of broken. Can I have the Furious Koala back please? I liked that Koala.

 

I'm getting the same thing since Enraged Koala. In singleplayer it resembles multiplayer lag. At it's worst, the game momentarily freezes and my computer seems like it is loading lots of data and then the game catches up, running smoothly for a bit. The tesla labs have become almost unplayable since the patch.

 

I think this version needs to be renamed Terminally Ill Koala rather than Enraged Koala, it has so many bugs its not funny. Missing containers. Missing Alpha Sector. Broken Fuel system. Crashes galore. Multi player lag in single player offline mode. Dare I say the word rollback?

 

I to, have been having these issues, my friend couldn't even play with me earlier because of all the lag. It's super irritating and Enraged Koala added more problems than solving any. As previously stated it makes combat a serious pain in the ass to handle, ESPECIALLY with somewhat low projectile speeds like rockets. I also have the bug where the monsters phase out of the current plane of the universe to dodge a rocket/bullet/etc and then pop back in to give me a face full of ass. This needs to be fixed ASAP.

 

I pretty much starting having the same issues as you are when Enraged was released.

I also have that bug you mentioned. I was using a Shotgun and when I would be at close range and fire it would hit the target, but the target would not receive damage. I am also having NPC/Enemy lag myself as you described. I updated my video drivers (not in response to this but in general) and it didn't help. I also started the game in OpenGL, but this did not help the issue (as a matter of fact it made the framerate worse).

I'd image the problem will get fixed soon as the update schedule is daily. On top of this, collaboration between the staff now will become easier given they have an office now.

 

I'm having another issue on my end, My game starts up and crashes thanks to a lack of something called a 'HeckChest' Has anyone else had this issue?

 

The second issue from the OP there seems to be getting more and more widespread as people come forward with it:

http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/lagging-enemies-and-blocks.73031/

http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/strange-lag-in-single-player.70015/

http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/strange-engine-lag.72457

Bartwe has said he has no obvious fixes for it yet. The problem persists between OSes as well as clean reformats. If we could get someone with an SSD to come forward with the same bug, we'd definitely know that it's StarBound having trouble, and not HDDs. SSDs are pretty expensive though, so I doubt that will happen.

 

Seems like the problem is something to do with the way the game is accessing the HDD/SSD. Crazy that this has existed before this version of the Beta. At any rate, maybe it will get resolved with future updates are introduced. Seems kinda early now to expect tit to be fixed.

I also notice that whenever a character is selected on my end, the game window will briefly go into "Not Responding" which never happened until the recent update.

Using a 750GB SATA WD Black Caviar Drive (albeit a bit loud runs rock-solid).

 

Maybe just some severe optimization is required. Hope it gets sorted soon cos its getting right up my nose and that's not a good place to be.

 

On the subject of optimization ive noticed a slow down on my pc while also running a server, was perfect before the patch.