Hi everyone! Hopefully you are having a great spring! I'm going straight to the point about what today's devlog is all about. We want to keep you updated on what is happening behind the scenes and what will be happening next.


We are very aware of and share your frustration with cheaters, and we want to solve this issue as well. We have decided to add an anti-cheat solution back into the game, but before we can do that, we need to upgrade our engine version. This is not a small task but a necessary one to bring Longvinter forward and make it last for another 4 years. This upgrade will also enable us to add DLSS and the newest FSR upscalers to our game so we can have better image quality for low-end systems. We will be implementing this shift in update 1.1.


We have now confirmed that the next update will feature pets you can have while traveling the Longvinter island. We will be sharing more about pets later, but here is a little sneak peek at what our artists have been working on!


We have also been planning to add a completely new feature to the game in the form of item levels! Levels would affect items' values, and the higher the level, the better the item would be. For example, a level 1 Assault Rifle does only 3 damage, a level 5 Assault Rifle does 4 damage, and a level 10 does 5 damage. We are still working out the details and specifics of this system, but we want to hear your thoughts about it!

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We also want to announce that tackle box drops will stop on May 23rd in preparation for the next one, so now is your last chance to earn tackle boxes.

Quick Update on State of the Game

We are currently working on implementing Easy Anti-Cheat back into the game and making it compatible with Steam Deck. The original reason for disabling EAC was to allow Steam Deck users to play the game during launch, but this has had the side effect of increasing the number of hackers, which is not ideal. We hope to have a working anti-cheat system with Steam Deck support again by next week!

This small update consists of;

• Fixed a bug that allowed players to build in the void with rugs
  
• Fixed a bug where placeables sometimes could not be placed on the ground
  
• Hat/face effects can no longer be applied to hairs by editing the save file
  
• Disabled physics collisions on throwable projectiles
  
• Fixed a bug where throwables would fall through boats
  
• Vintershop should now show correct amount of currency

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Hey, this small update consists of;

Some cheater prevention patches and other bug fixes. We are currently working hard towards the summer update. Hopefully we can do some sneak peeks about it soon.

Bug fixes

• Fixed exploit that allowed tent to be placed too close to houses
  
• Fixed exploit that allowed player to respawn anywhere
  
• Fixed exploit that allowed players to use travel boats from far away
  
• Fixed a bug where user could select boat travel target during the travel
  
• Adjusted strawberry hat slightly to fix clipping with some hairs
  
• Fixed struck locations around the map

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Hey all,

Great progress this week, check the lists below;

Changes

• Sell all hint is no longer shown when trading item to item
  
• Changed "Chill Headband" rose and blush colors to the correct ones
  
• Added global vault reset button to admin panel
  
• Adjusted ceiling collision to prevent players form building in the void
  
• Adjusted shop collisions to better match the model
  
• Added exit shop button when inside shops
  
• Decreased reach distance on greenhouse and sauna to prevent players for picking them up from far away
  
• Metal fences and gates can now be placed on water platforms

Bug fixes

• Fixed items not showing on the shop shelves or pallets sometimes
  
• Fixed mount data overriding when placing it in a vendor with a similar mount
  
• Fixed stacked items disappearing when removed from global vault when inventory is almost full
  
• Fixed teammate bubble appearing for yourself when moving fast
  
• Fixed stone breaking sound playing for already destroyed rocks when joining a server
  
• Fixed puddles instantly disappearing when raining ends
  
• Fixed fishing buff getting removed if it started to rain during the buff
  
• Fixed oilrig puzzle door and gas leak locations

Quests

• Fixed quests sometimes not completing acquire item tasks if the item is already in players inventory
  
• Fixed “Mastering Farming” quest showing wrong required amount for plants
  
• Fixed "Master Painter" quest not updating task progress from crafting and painting
  
• Fixed hunting not giving score or quest task progression

Achievements

• Fixed "Trader's Bargain" achievement not completing
  
• Fixed "Mom, I Made It!" achievement not completing
  
• Fixed "Keep feathering it" achievement not completing
  
• Fixed "Frosty Assassin" achievements not completing
  
• Fixed "Medieval Ways Still Work" achievement not completing
  
• Fixed "Prestige Ascendant" achievement not completing for players with existing prestige level

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This Small update consists of;

• Ore breaking animation is now faster
  
• Fixed collisions on falling trees
  
• Trees and ores now use the new replication system
  
• Improved new replication system performance and stability
  
• Fixed canola and fireweed using wrong models after growing fully
  
• Fixed animal attack range sometimes allowing animals to attack from far away
  
• Removed localization from healing text
  
• Fixed hunters amulet effect not applying correctly
  
• Fixed not being able to place the second electricity pole
  
• Fixed various client authoritative exploits
  
• Fixed flour grinder not saving inventory
  
• Fixed flour grinder sometimes only appearing as the generator
  
• Made some gaps between travel boats and piers smaller to prevent people from falling into the water
  
• Boathouse can now only be placed in house areas and are limited to 1 per house
  
• Fixed boats getting stuck under the water
  
• Fixed missing safe zone areas in the underground arena, lighthouse and padva
  
• Added admin print when returning an item from player vendor
  
• Fixed throw animations not playing for other players
  
• Changed item stats on melee weapons to show the correct firerate
  
• Fixed duplication bug in player vendors
  
• Shop shelves can now only be placed in shops in PVP
  
• Cant place Items in "world" chests or death backpacks

We applied a hotfix for the storage boxes shortly after this update.
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Hello,

We have now disabled the replication graph plugin and enabled the old system where we have build our own replication on top of. Currently only plants and dropped items use this new system so we can make sure it is working well before adding more items to the new system. Crashes should be now reduced down 90% but server performance will be worse until we can add more items to use new system.

Thank you for understanding and if you see any weird issues with dropped items or plants head to discord and send us a message!

We will extend the tackle box drops to last as long as the server issue persist.

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Hi everyone, it's time for our Friday devlog, although this is more like a Saturday devlog now, but let's keep the name the same! In this devlog, I'll explain in depth the current situation with crashes and what we're going to do about it.


During launch, we saw an enormous amount of players and broke our previous all-time high player count by twofold. We had experience running highly populated servers in Korea, which is why we thought our servers could handle it, but they were still slowing down too much, more than we had anticipated.

The main problem causing the servers to slow down was the way Unreal Engine handles replication (how the server decides what information to send to each player). The server CPU had to calculate the distance between every placeable and item that players had placed to all players, and figure out if they were close enough that the player needed to be sent that information. Our servers could have over 100,000 placed items, and when we had 80 players, for example, the calculations became so heavy that servers couldn't handle it effectively.

We found a couple of solutions and decided to try the "replication graph" method, which does the same thing as before but divides the map into a grid and performs calculations based on which grid the player is in. This solved the performance problem, and now all servers are running at least 10 ticks (calculations) per second. Unfortunately, the plugin that implements replicationgraph has some compatibility issues causing frequent random crashes. We managed to make it slightly better, but we're now in a situation where servers usually stay online for only about 3-4 hours.


I want to first apologize for the state the game is currently in. We acknowledge that a fully released game should not be in this condition. We will be doing a few things to resolve the issue:

1. We're trying to solve the crashes by fixing how Unreal Engine handles "bad" actors that are no longer in memory, which currently causes the crashes.

2. If we don't manage to fix it by next Wednesday, we'll revert to the old replication method and try alternative approaches until we have a stable 10-tick rate minimum and at least 12 hours of uptime on servers.

3. After this, we'll start focusing on all the bugs and issues which cause item and progression loss, as this is the most frustrating thing when playing in a persistent world where all items are hard to get.

On the bright side, our artists are working on new content updates currently planned for June and another in august with the next official server wipe. More information on these will come in next Friday's devlogs!

Thank you for your support, and again, apologies for the current state of the game.

- Sven

Hey everyone,

We're almost done with the roadmap for the 1.1 update, and it's exciting to see things coming together. At the same time, there are still bugs and issues in the game that need to be addressed. It's important that we plan ahead, as updates take time, and we need to ensure that the 3D modelers can get started as early as possible to stay on schedule.

Fixed within this update:

• Fixed 2 server crashes that caused most of the issues
  
• Fixed homes placed on water platforms sometimes having the smaller home area
  
• Fixed mining rigs sometimes having wrong materials
  
• Fixed rare weapon chest and special weapon chest loot tables
  
• Fixed explosives not dealing damage to containers
  
• Fixed electricity placeables not dropping to ground if player vendor was removed from under them
  
• Aggressive animals no longer attack players in safe zones
  
• Aggressive animals can now attack different species
  
• Hunting collars can now be traded for goat mounts at the hunting vendor
  
• Moved underground arena entrance slightly to prevent people form entering from the bottom of the cliff
  
• Applied a fix for server not showing in server browser while being playable
  
• Fixed tick rate sometimes being 0 in server status page
  
• Sawed off shotgun muzzle flash now shows correctly
  
• Lucky looter buff now only works on world loot chests
  
• Adjusted wall collisions in bunkers so that players can no longer climb over them
  
• Fixed combat buff not being applied in bunkers/mines when shooting
  
• Island Conqueror achievement can no longer be achieved by killing a heli crash npc
  
• Fixed underground arena chest respawn timer not working
  
• Fixed underground arena chests sometimes not spawning the arena token
  

Look forward to more bug fixes soon!


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Hey everyone,

We've heard your feedback about our communication and bug fixes not meeting expectations lately.
Our dev team has been dealing with some behind-the-scenes challenges that slowed our momentum recently. The good news? Those hurdles are now behind us, and we're back on track at full speed.

Thanks for all the bug reports and issues you've been sharing on Discord. We've compiled quite the list and are working through them systematically.

We've banned multiple cheaters this week. Please keep those reports coming - we're actively reviewing them and taking action.

We appreciate your patience and ongoing support. Looking forward to sharing more progress with you soon!

Fixed in this patch:

• Fixed dropped backpacks not using correct mesh/materials
  
• Fixed empty player backpacks sometimes showing up
  
• Dropped backpacks can now be opened in other players home areas
  
• Fixed oil rig materials sometimes flashing
  
• Fixed floating chests in tupruttaja
  
• Changed projectile lag compensation max delay from 250ms to 150ms
  
• Fixed boats not loading attachments like motors
  
• Improved server performance

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Hey again, here are bug fixes that came with today's patch

Nice to see plenty of people fishingSo far this week we've seen, quite lots of bug fixes and server perfomance issues. New Hardware has been delivered to EU, NA, ASIAN region servers.

We have seen promising results so far, and will continue to improve. Players who've exploiting bugs have been sanctioned and we will continue monitoring the servers, keep the reports coming.

Thank you all so much and have a nice weekend.

Here's a list of what came with this patch:

• Fixed loading screen getting stuck if entering a mine or bunker fails
  
• Fixed chests not saving the filter option
  
• Fixed water pump deleting bottles and decreased refill cooldown
  
• Fixed fishing spots blocking item and backpack interaction
  
• Fixed mount colour not saving correctly
  
• Fixed battery backup station not turning on when needed
  
• Fixed item set editor in admin panel having empty items
  
• Safe zone turrets will no longer shoot players in PVE
  
• Items and backpacks that are in water can now be interacted with
  
• Enemy AI should now be able to shoot players on bear/wolverine mounts
  
• Moved rocks in mines to prevent players being able to get stuck behind advanced ores
  
• Changed wall cabinet max size to same as other chests
  
• Adjusted text scaling in LRI Benefits station window to work better with translations
  
• Changed dark panel interior description
  
• Changed generator upgrade to show correct output (110 -> 140)

We will continue fixing the issues.

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