Hi everyone,

It's been a long road to retool our engine so we could leave the 32bit limitations behind, but we're finally here. Besides a long list of updates to make quality of life changes and push fixes and optimizations this has been our main focus for the past year.

You can read up on the details about why this is a big change in our first post here.

Servers and clients are now 64bit. During the experimental version we found some incompatibilities between the 32 and 64bit versions, but luckily we have been able to resolve them, which means that old saves should be able to load without issues.

Please note that if you run older versions of Interstellar Rift you won't be able to load save data from versions past the 64bit update.

Thanks for your patience, and as always, we’ll see you star-side!

- The Split Polygon team.

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You can read up on the details about why this is a big change in our previous post here.

What are we changing?

We're not changing much in this update compared the previous one. We had to make sure that all engine code would be compatible with 64bit. We never really intended the game to be limited to 32bit, which meant that it took less time than anticipated to get everything up and running again.

So the game is 64bit now?

Yes, servers and clients are now 64bit, although we won't be pushing this to our main branch for at least another week.

What changes am I going to notice?

At the moment it will hopefully resolve any issues people had with loading (very) large ships in the ship editor and busy systems on the servers, which were previously areas where the game could run out of memory.


We are releasing this version on the experimental branch first. Where players can test it out and we can track down any remaining bugs.

Some things to take into consideration when playing on the experimental branch:

• This version is not backwards compatible, making a backup of your Interstellar Rift Appdata folder is advised. Loading a galaxy will break compatibility with the current version, as will any ship that is loaded in this version. If you don't make a backup you will be forced to wait until this version goes live on the main branch.
  
• Unlike the previous update, this patch is for both client and server, and can only be played together with other experimental players.

Hopefully some of you can find the time to play on the experimental version. Any crashes will be sent to us automatically if you have the option enabled. For any other issues you encounter please list them on our bug tracker: Split Polygon Bug Tracker[www.bugtracker.split-polygon.com]

As always, we’ll see you star-side!

- The Split Polygon team.

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To enable the experimental branch, right click on Interstellar Rift in Steam, > properties > beta, and select the "experimental IR beta patches" option

This patch resolves all remaining known issues with the physics engine replacement build that is currently testable on the experimental branch. We will be releasing that build to the stable branch if no major issues pop up in the coming two weeks. Thanks goes out to everyone that has already tested the experimental branch.

• Fixed physics mesh orientation of the turbine doors on the nuclear reactor
  
  
• Stop bullets from colliding with the player that shot them
  
  
• Fixed an editor crash that could occur when rotating a prop with the mouse

• Implemented physics used by first person weapons

• Corrected physics meshes for picking up heatsinks on the thermal extractor
  
  
• Fixed radius of turbine physics meshes
  
  
• Fixed physics meshes of the local player being taller than the physics mesh of other players, causing other players to jitter or perpetually fall (Players that are still on the non-experimental build will still jitter and glitch when playing together with players that are on the experimental build)

• Servers don't need to be updated

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Sadly, a bug in the previous version caused all ships that were loaded in that version of the game to lose the paint on generated exterior tiles. This data can't be restored by the game automatically but it is possible to restore old ships from a backup. There are a few options:

If the old versions of the ships have not been uploaded to the workshop using 1.0.4.50 the old versions can be restored in two ways:

1. By first unsubscribing from the ships, relaunching the game, and then resubscribing to the ships. Or,
   
   
2. By removing the %APPDATA%\InterstellarRift\workshop folder

If you have backed up your ships as exported .shipz's, you should be able to reimport them.

By default the game periodically backs up all save data. You can either restore the entire backup, or just one file.

1. To restore an entire backup copy the contents of the desired backup folder in %APPDATA%\InterstellarRift\backups to %APPDATA%\InterstellarRift. CAUTION: This will roll back your entire save to the date and time of the backup in question.
   
   
2. To only restore access to the ships with correct exterior paint you can copy the userdb\ship+40metadata_collection+40 file from the desired backup folder in %APPDATA%\InterstellarRift\backups to %APPDATA%\InterstellarRift\userdb. CAUTION: This will cause you to lose access to any ships you've created in the meantime.

As the underlying bug has been resolved, manually repainting the ships will work.

• Fixed saving of exterior blocks
  
  
• Fixed logging failing due to new version numbers
  
  
• Fixed debufs not getting unregistered when teleporting away from a ship
  
  
• Fixed a server deadlock that could occur if a ghost client connected while the server was figuring out what systems need to update
  
  
• Fixed client crash when opening a just deleted mail

• Improve logging for actions related to player drones
  
  
• Entirely references to chat logging when running as a ghost client

• Servers need to be updated

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