Sorry for the spam but I actually found a video of a crazy bug that really illustrates what I mean by "brain-melting bugs".
The bug.
The thing happening there is actually both amazing and trippy. Each ship that is more than a single-seater has its own physics grid inside which positions are computed in a local way, relative to that ship's physics grid. What happened here is that the player is inside a tram, moving on a spline relative to the planet, and a player has found a way to put a ship, with its own physics-grid, in the way.
The result is that tram's own physics grid and position is suddenly relocated, relative to that ship instead of the planet's center. Therefore, hello, and welcome to orbit. Didn't pack a helmet? Too bad. Why was he fine inside the tram? Because it did have an atmosphere and for the time being, while they do have depressurization in - even of the catastrophic, slam-into-wall type - they don't have life support properly working for ships yet, thus every atmosphere container is marked as immutable, meaning they can't ever get empty and have infinite supply of gasses.
So yeah.
It's both amazing, a testament to the dynamic nature of the game, and a terrifying illustration of the complexity at hand in building a game of that scope. Stuff like that is why I don't recommend anyone buys SC if they don't really get what they are going to be experiencing for years.
Edit : Oh, yeah I had forgotten about the other part too haha. That one I'm not sure what happened, but basically the bed exit animation was the wrong one, meaning clipping through the wall and once outside of it, nothing to hold him back until he fell through the planet's kill plane. That one's a little more normal. I'm not sure with what's going with the rain of NPCs though.
If that comment didn't sound disturbing enough to illustrate why playing an Alpha is a test of sanity and will, I don't know what else to say
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The thing happening there is actually both amazing and trippy. Each ship that is more than a single-seater has its own physics grid inside which positions are computed in a local way, relative to that ship's physics grid. What happened here is that the player is inside a tram, moving on a spline relative to the planet, and a player has found a way to put a ship, with its own physics-grid, in the way.
The result is that tram's own physics grid and position is suddenly relocated, relative to that ship instead of the planet's center. Therefore, hello, and welcome to orbit. Didn't pack a helmet? Too bad. Why was he fine inside the tram? Because it did have an atmosphere and for the time being, while they do have depressurization in - even of the catastrophic, slam-into-wall type - they don't have life support properly working for ships yet, thus every atmosphere container is marked as immutable, meaning they can't ever get empty and have infinite supply of gasses.
So yeah.
It's both amazing, a testament to the dynamic nature of the game, and a terrifying illustration of the complexity at hand in building a game of that scope. Stuff like that is why I don't recommend anyone buys SC if they don't really get what they are going to be experiencing for years.
Edit : Oh, yeah I had forgotten about the other part too haha. That one I'm not sure what happened, but basically the bed exit animation was the wrong one, meaning clipping through the wall and once outside of it, nothing to hold him back until he fell through the planet's kill plane. That one's a little more normal. I'm not sure with what's going with the rain of NPCs though.
If that comment didn't sound disturbing enough to illustrate why playing an Alpha is a test of sanity and will, I don't know what else to say
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