Smoother Frames, Every Plasma Bolt, and a Construction Bot Desync
MP beta: smoother frames in multiplayer, held Plasma Bolt fires every shot, construction bot desync fix, black hole matches its look, 10 other changes
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Smoother Frames, Every Plasma Bolt, and a Construction Bot Desync
Improvements
The world moves more smoothly in multiplayer. Each frame now moves by the time it's actually on screen, which cuts much of the stutter at the multiplayer update rate
Player name tags sit above the vehicle or station a player is riding or piloting
Hiding cargo drones now shows an on-screen warning with the key to bring them back, like hidden inserters and construction bots
Uploading bug reports and diagnostics to the developers is now on by default, unless you turned it off yourself. Sending a bug report turns it on. You can switch it off in the Privacy settings
Desync reports carry more detail for the developers
Fixes
Holding fire with Plasma Bolt lost every other shot: the sound played but no bolt came out
Plasma bolts leave from the ship you see instead of appearing behind it, most noticeably as a client in multiplayer
Opening the in-game menu in multiplayer dropped the game to 20 fps
Construction bots could desync a player who loaded into the game after the host
A player leaving to the main menu could make the host report a desync that didn't happen
Black holes pulled you in from outside their drawn edge and destroyed ships well before the black disc. They now pull from the edge you see and destroy at the disc
Upgrading or pasting onto a cargo hold scrambled its disabled slots. It now keeps the number of usable slots
The red giant changed size and colour when you zoomed out to the world map
Achievements unlock only for the player who earned them. A teammate's comet death no longer counts for you, and skipped objectives don't grant achievements