BETA 54A: A TECHNICAL DEBT REPAID

Solid so far.

 

Only had a chance to play about ten days, but no crashes or food issues so far.

 

I'm finding that 'Hunt Animal' orders aren't picked up by anybody, not my Military, and not my civilian crews who have hunting enabled.

 

Only naturalists can hunt now.

 

Another minor, but long-standing bug: the kitchen is not observing the upper limit on Cooked Meat, i.e. even though I only wanted a standing amount of 5 meat, my kitchen has made in excess of 50.

 

I suspect that this happens after repeated changes between "make x times" and "make until you have y in stock" in the production screen

 

(It's speculated to be a consequence of a product not matching the recipe name, eg basic drink ≠ beer, so the standing order always sees 0 have been made.)

 

It's basically this, the recipe is looking for "basic_drink", but at the output, the game is instructed not to produce a basic_drink, but instead XY, where XY is called from the list, ie: that wheat -> beer.

Similarly for basic_food, and a couple other things... (refined_food, which currently is farmers stew)



Making it super easy to have a stack of 2000 farmers stew apparently is bad for game performance though...

 

I have had countless crashes in 54a since reaching day 54 (I have played prob 30 game days and haven't made it past day 59 lol, just trying to progress and it fails)

I have posted the dmp and save file and emailed a couple more dmp and save files. This has been the most crashes I have had to deal with. A bulk of them being "this application has requested the runtime to terminate in an unusual way" so maybe my computer is partially to blame, though I bought this laptop very recently (under 6 months ago) so idk.

 

Make sure you have steam set to use the experimental version, so you get the hotfix.

 

Oh, I didn't know that. My bad!

 

I'm in the same boat as Jim, both 54 and 54a are causing loads of crashes that give the "this application has requested the runtime to terminate in an unusual way" message and generate no DMP file... this is a problem that started with 54 and like Jim I'm on a newish i5 laptop

 

I did post console and saves etc in the 54 thread... I'll have another go later and try to catch some more crashes

 

Weird crash; everything was running smoothly, I was clicking through overseers' info windows from the Work Crew panel and after a couple the game froze, got the windows busy cursor and had to task manager out of the game (attempting to do anything else after sent it into the "wait for program to respond prompt").
(NOTE: Could be a software conflict on my end though, I noticed some MSIControlService process taking up way more memory than it should after the game crashed)

I did notice a graphical glitch of sleeping people occasionally showing up as standing in front of the bed (still playing idle animations). Eventually they'll appear on the bed like they're supposed to (I think it's when they wake up).
Also modules that have been placed in a building that is being built will sometimes disappear visually while it is being built, then appear once again once the building is complete.

 

Also this weird item thing that I finally have on a save (I think it might already be logged but posting it just in case)

In that save, there are 2 Boxed Practical Beds in the stockpile. There are also two boxed beds in an overseer house below; they appear to be the same item: if you forbid/trade designate the ones in the stock pile, the ones in the house get the designation as well. However, if you forbid the ones in the house, the ones in the stockpile remain unaffected.
Colonists will never use them, but they can be traded away no problem.
Not entirely sure what caused it, but the two unbuilt beds in that house were doing the disappearing thing I mentioned earlier (other beds did it too though and they got built just fine)

Also a script error (can't recall if it already happened in that save, but it happened in the same game once I built a barbershop):