Hello again everyone, Here is another patch for Experimental, today we have a much bigger change that improves our Foliage, Lightweight, Recipe and Schematics systems to overcome multiple networking bottlenecks that we’ve had in the past
While playing in Multiplayer and Dedicated Servers, you could end up in situations where after removing large amounts of foliage, foliage might stop replicating completely, resulting in foliage being non-interactable or not properly disappearing, the same could happen to buildables like Foundations and Walls among others after building many of them.
We’ve made improvements that should result in less strain on Unreal Engine’s replication system leading to an improved multiplayer experience, they should also alleviate the “Reliable Buffer Overflow” issues on joining a session, as well as addressing additional side issues like interacting with the Advanced Game Settings menu during multiplayer kicking you out of a session
With this, there should be a significant improvement in how fast foliage and buildables are loaded, compared to joining a save and seeing buildables and foliage pop in and out of existence or have them be uninteractable
Since changes in Experimental might have some unexpected side effects, please BACKUP YOUR SAVES before trying it out
You can find your saves in:
%LocalAppData%/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames/
There should be a folder with a lot of numbers, that is your Steam/Epic ID and that folder will contain your saves, you can copy this folder somewhere else
If you would like to know more about this change and the previous changes added to experimental you should watch our video on them by our community manager Mikael
https://youtu.be/Z3UtGdftZbc
If you would like to quickly access the Experimental version, first BACKUP YOUR SAVES and then:
For Steam:
Then right click the Game on Steam > Properties > Betas > Beta Participation > Select Experimental
For Epic:
Look in your game library for “Satisfactory Experimental” from there you can install it
And don’t forget to BACKUP YOUR SAVES before you start playing
We’re very curious to hear about your experience with this latest patch so please let us know over at our QA Site if you encounter any new issues https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ We appreciate all of your feedback
And remember, If the Experimental release turns out to be too unstable for you, you can always switch back to the default version of the game and restore your save game and continue enjoying Satisfactory as usual
See you all again soon <3
OPTIMIZATION
- Bulk data replication[list]
- Improves the Foliage, Lightweight, Recipe and Schematic systems in Multiplayer and Dedicated Servers
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DEDICATED SERVER
- Bulk data replication[list]
- This change requires you to open your current TCP Port (7777 by default) on top of the already open UDP port, as now both are used for networking
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