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Besiege — 64Bit Support Is Here! - Update V1.10

64Bit Support Is Here! - Update V1.10

Hey Everyone!

Hope you all had a good time over the holidays, today we’ve got a big quality of life update!

The most important part of the update is that Besiege is switching to 64bit! This will mean players with powerful computers will see a huge performance boost when playing with larger machines, during testing we’ve seen up to a 3x FPS boost on certain workshop items!

We feel like now is a good time to make the shift to 64bit as it will put Besiege in a good position going forward, allowing us greater freedom to pursue more exciting features in the future.

If you’re still running a 32bit operating system then don’t worry! You’ll still be able to play Besiege as we’ve created a “legacy32bit” branch of the game on Steam, click here for a guide on how to change to the 32bit branch! However, you will need a 64bit operating system in order to play newer updates for Besiege.

In addition to shifting to 64bit we’ve got a host of new features, improvements and bug fixes for you. There’s a full changelog at the bottom of this post but here are some of the highlights:

  • Added more features for the logic system, including new gate options and support for variables in place of keyboard inputs, making complex logic systems easier to manage & track

  • Reworked Ipsilon campaign island that includes the advanced brick system, present in the later campaign islands, as well as fixing a bunch of issues with levels

  • Increased the number of maximum cloud saves from 1,000 to 10,000

  • Added more level editor objects

  • Added language support for Italian, Polish, Turkish, Chinese Traditional (Taiwan), Chinese Traditional (Hong Kong)

  • Made UI improvements, New Tutorial system & a bunch more stuff!

That’s all for today but watch this space, we’ve been working on a whole bunch of stuff since our last post and we have lots more to talk about in the next few weeks! :)

Cheers, Von

Changelog:

FEATURES

  • Updated to windows 64 bit (for windows, linux and macOS already support it)

  • Skins bottom bar fold out UI now shows you the most recently used skins in the first column if you use Advanced Building

  • In advanced building you can now switch keyboard inputs to variables to make complex logic systems easier to keep track of

  • Increased max number of cloud saves from 1000 to 10000

  • Added new connection type: Playfab

  • New level editor objects

    • Floating Crystal
    • Sandbox Mountain
    • Monk Idol statue
    • Crystal
    • Gold Nugget
    • Mine Cart
    • Dragon Ribs
    • Rotating Crank

  • New languages

    • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
    • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
    • Italian
    • Polish
    • Turkish

  • New Settings

    • Added setting to make the camera look at the center of all the blocks instead of the average
    • Camera Sensitivity
    • Soft / Hard shadows toggle

  • Updated ipsilon brick levels for modern breaking systems

  • Save + Load menu workshop tabs to more easily keep track of your subscriptions and uploads

  • Glass surfaces now cast semitransparent shadows

  • Glass surfaces now have slightly less intense reflection

  • Improved thumbnail generation code with better centering and colours

  • Scroll wheel now can interact with time slider for precision increments

  • Boulder pieces now don't overlap and they inherit the velocity from before breaking

  • Explosion updated to be more performant and minor visual improvements for slowmotion

  • Logic Gate options added:

    • Binary Counter
    • SR Latch
    • D Latch
    • Random

  • New tutorial system, that shows you more clearly how to do steps, with an example base machine for level 1

  • Made it possible to select thumbnails from your pc for when uploading to the workshop

  • Made it possible to update thumbnails from in game for previously uploaded items (if not selected, it won't change the thumbnail)

  • When updating a workshop item it'll auto assign the tags that was used last

CHANGES

  • The machine bounding box now doesn't render in front of your machine

  • Local snapping for level editor translate tool now snaps to local grid instead of global

  • Transform gizmos for level editor now hide while holding shift

  • Single broken blocks now are ignored by the camera when following the machine

  • Surface block hidden if not Advanced building mode

  • Skins are now off per default

  • Improved colour correction for the Krolmar island

  • Improved colour correction for Ipsilon

  • Slight improvement to fire spread

  • Changed one multiplayer achievement from requiring 25 servers to 10 instead

  • Making propellers automatically align themselves around blocks that spin around their base axis

  • Steering hinges auto return per default now

  • Updated some achievement names

  • Changed connection type selection to tabs in multiverse

FIXES

  • stopped deflecting steering hinges on simulation start

  • fixed some slight memory leak issues when loading skins and block mods

  • when detaching surface blocks in a selection containing other block types, it now doesn't duplicate the others.

  • when using modding tools to scale surfaces or blocks surfaces connect to, broken pieces now match the original surface scale.

  • Surface corners don't show in automatic thumbnails

  • foliage doesn't render on top of fog anymore

  • fixed Ambient Occlusions sometimes missing in level selects

  • fixed an issue where grass and blood decals would make a slight dark square around the bounds of the decal

  • fixed when duplicating or detaching selections with surface blocks the reference pivot sometimes changing

  • Fixed who needs a mechanic achievement using the right category when you have mods

  • Made AI blood decal not spawn on the ground when dying in the sky

  • Fixing Krolmar Artifact level so keys are more easily accepted

  • various dx9 issues fixed

  • fixing sometimes loading machines would say they intersected the floor even if they aren't

  • fixed an issue where moving a surface corner on top of another surface corner, resulting in the surface being incomplete and removed, would throw errors

  • fixed an issue where certain brick objects weren't updating right for clients

  • Drill now properly receives emulation

  • unpowered wheels now are allowed to spin as fast as other wheels

MODDING

  • Added hidden toggle to turn off collision for surface blocks

  • Added social media mode to the cam tools

  • Added min and max grid static surface grid size variables

  • hidden logic gate option to make emulation loops burn out to avoid spamming behaiour

Hotfix 16991

  • Fixed missing sensor area cylinder

  • Fixed sorting files by date and throwing correct logs if invalid file loaded

  • Fixed negatively scaled fire areas

  • Fixed logicgate counter reset not resetting always or fully always

  • Fixed automation update rate, to be like previous update consistently at a single time instead of staggered

  • Made surface block zero volume check between corners and edges so zero volume is more accurately determined

  • Launching certain languages breaking until switching languages

  • Making emulation messages work even if the key is set to None

  • Added tutorial toggle option

  • Fixed drills not emulating again

  • Fixed spark particles over emitting on drills and saws

  • Added hidden mass slider to surface

  • The gerenuks in multiplayer now face the right way

  • Bomb explosion sizes stay consistent again as it did in 1.05

  • Blocks with shadow casters now cast the correct shadows using skins

  • Fixed occasional error when switching blockmapper from a secondary emulation input to another block

Hotfix 17044

  • MP bounding box now hides its front like in SP

  • Surface Block changes:

    • Corner points would sometimes obscure other selections
    • fixed missing colliders for folded surface blocks
    • removed overlapping double collider generation with some surface block configurations (in those cases the mass will be halfed aswell)
    • Mass slider changes is now loaded in vanilla no matter if the toggle for it is enabled
    • hidden collision toggle now properly updates mass

  • fixed broken key inputs for logic systems in level editor

  • fixed broken discord link in the Title Screen

  • fixed an accidentially changed event/action for mod stability (FragmentVisualController.onVisualBreak)

  • fixing shadows on instantiating a block with non default skin

  • slight optimisation to moving a lot of surface nodes at the same time

  • Japanese Translation tweaks

  • Fixed nre from loading a machine while having a surface block on the current machine.

  • fixed bug after defeating the last level of Krolmar causing the player to be unable to build on the machine.

  • Fixed baloons at length 0 breaking skins toggle and shadow mode.

  • Fixed some issues with machine thumbnail generation when the build zone was moved away from the default position

  • Machine tutorial now properly hide when using the level editor tools

  • now doesn't change the thumbnail when updating a machine without touching the thumbnail.

  • removed error logs from opening workshop update tab in save.

  • fixing overwriting thumbnails when changing content of a workshop upload but not having selected a new thumbnail

  • fixed not using completion state correctly to gauge what tutorials players have finished

  • fixed an issue with surface blocks having an empty list of corners for other players

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