0.50.0.42: Laggy Connections, a Join Desync, and Your Bug Reports

0.50.0.4227 September 2026

Laggy Connections, a Join Desync, and Your Bug Reports

On a laggy connection your ship keeps moving through a late update instead of freezing on every lost packet
Players who joined after you now have name tags over their ships
A join that times out says the host didn't answer in time, not "The operation was canceled"
Saving as a client tells you only the host can save a multiplayer game
Cheats that only change your own world (spawnStar, spawnPlanet and friends) are refused in multiplayer
Background comets fly well below the asteroid layer instead of through it
Desync reports carry much more detail

Joining a game with buildings marked for deconstruction or swap could desync the joiner straight away
Comet tails, beams and impacts were cut off at the fog of war line
Plasma Bolt fired when you clicked in a panel like the research tree
The mouse wheel zoomed the game while the pointer was on another monitor
Zooming panned the minimap
After clicking a bottom-left HUD button, Enter clicked it again and chat wouldn't open
Typing the console key in chat opened the console and ate your message
The "Space" label on the hotbar was cut off
The Afterburner button ignored the Oracle upgrade's extra charge
Crafting right after your materials changed could throw an error. It now queues what you can afford
Renaming an Ancient Portal with no map label threw an error
The cut/deconstruct/swap cursor stayed on at the main menu
Closing the Multiplayer window mid-join left the join buttons dead
After the host quit or kicked you before the game started, the next join failed with a Steam lobby error
Fixed two ways Escape could get stuck. If it still happens, the log now says what's holding it