https://youtu.be/yjTUf9VT4q8At Bossa Studios we love taking risks and making stuff that no one dares to do in order to create great original experiences for players. Worlds Adrift was an ambitious undertaking for us: a community crafted MMO built on freedom and player agency with multiplayer physics, set in a huge world. We are proud of what we achieved with the game since development began five years ago out of a humble game jam.We are immensely grateful for every Traveller that’s come to experience this community crafted world. However, Worlds Adrift just hasn’t reached the level of popularity it needs to continue. The challenges that came with our ambitious project meant that all our work went into making the game work rather than making it the experience we wanted it to be. As a result we failed at making a game that could capture the imaginations of millions. Creating an MMO like Worlds Adrift is a huge financial commitment and unfortunately the game is just no longer commercial... Read more

BLIGHT 2.0

• Improvements to telegraphing:
  • Made the Blight screen overlay transparent when looking away from the centre of the storm to make it clearer which direction to travel in to get out.
  • If you can see particles you're at risk of destruction (you're near the destruction radius)
  • Destruction VFX will last longer. Now it will fade to black over 7.5s and 'dissolve' over 2.5s. Colliders should also be disabled halfway through the dissolving process.
  • New lightning VFX to make the Blight look more dangerous
  • Blight will now turn on if the server hits 75% time dilation for 30 seconds and disable when it gets to 85% time dilation for 30 seconds
  • Blight is now visible from 6km away
  • The Blight will now smoothly fade out when it disappears. Also, it's now more visibly windy in weather walls and inside the Blight!
• Improvements to Blight logic:

• Initial Blight position is no longer based on weather cell positions but on a K-Means cluster analysis of the priorities and positions of all of the entities on the ...

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PTS - Update 30 Patch NotesBLIGHT 2.0

• Improvements to telegraphing:
  • Made the Blight screen overlay transparent when looking away from the centre of the storm to make it clearer which direction to travel in to get out.
  • If you can see particles you're at risk of destruction (you're near the destruction radius)
  • Destruction VFX will last longer. Now it will fade to black over 7.5s and 'dissolve' over 2.5s. Colliders should also be disabled halfway through the dissolving process.
  • New lightning VFX to make the Blight look more dangerous
  • Blight will now turn on if the server hits 75% time dilation for 30 seconds and disable when it gets to 85% time dilation for 30 seconds
  • Blight is now visible from 6km away
  • Initial Blight position is no longer based on weather cell positions but on a K-Means cluster analysis of the priorities and positions of all of the entities on the FSIM
  • Blight will now cancel if it hasn't fully activated but the server has recovered
  • While active, Blight will now continual...

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Greetings Travellers,For my last Tech Tuesday, I described how we are going to save all of the offline ships in the world and then delete them all in a subsequent update.Well, it turns out that as of late the PvE deployment, in particular, has been really struggling with the sheer amount of ships in the world so strange bugs such as ships not appearing have started to happen much more frequently.Due to this, we've decided to bring forward the work of deleting all of the offline ships and respawning them when registered players login. I completed the work to delete offline ships today and the results are even better than we expected, so here are some graphs!First, here's the graph showing the number of entities in the world: It peaks at 3 million entities as it takes a while for SpatialOS to load the massive snapshot. Over the course of an hour, we save all of the ships and then delete them hence the linear drop in the number of entities. We end up at just 43 thousand entities, an absol... Read more

Knowledge And Scanning RevampUpdate 30 will bring the first big changes to scanning and progression in Worlds Adrift. First things first; scanning has been heavily reworked. We have removed the need to scan every individual object in the game. They no longer give any knowledge but their description text remains. From now on knowledge is primarily gained from databanks, lore pages and salvaging schematics.Another quality of life change we’ve made is a new cursor icon when holding your scanner and it will change colour to highlight when something is in range to scan.These features have also been added to the other tools such as salvage and shipbuilding tool.We’ve also added the ability to “complete” islands. This will become more substantial in the future but the initial feature will let you know how many databanks are on an island and how many you have found.As you may have noticed the scanning UI has also been revamped. It will now be far more prominent on the right hand side of the sc... Read more

Greetings Travellers,Worlds Adrift hasn't been wiped for quite some time. On the PVP that's not really a big deal because people blow each other up, but on the PVE server it means this:Yup, that's a lot of ships, specifically offline ships…Recently we put in place optimisations to reduce the impact of offline ships on the servers, but it's impossible to completely remove all impact, in particular from the system that periodically saves the state of the entire world to disk every 10 minutes in case the servers die.Here's what the server load looks like:Every 10 minutes there is an enormous spike as the entire world gets saved. This is probably manifesting as lag in gameIn order to improve this situation we're taking steps to completely remove offline ships from the world. The first step is to start saving ships to a separate server. While we've had the ability to save sand spawn ships for debug purpose for a long time, a lot of important information wasn't saved such as inventory, reviv... Read more

Hi, Sylvain here, CTO at Bossa Studios, dropping in to give you quick summary of what we are tackling right now.As some of you may have noticed if you read the forums, the Worlds Adrift team is currently undertaking some big technical upgrades to quite a few of the core systems. Whilst these upgrades will bring significant quality of improvements for players; they aren’t without their challenges. The issue with these systems is that they are usually touching a lot of the game code which was initially implemented years ago and more often than not for older versions of SpatialOS too. Code that is as fragile as it is essential. As a result, any changes made need to be scrutinised and implemented with a prudent mindset. We have planned to tackle these systems for a while, however, other features/fixes in Worlds Adrift’s release schedule took priority.. So, what we have at the moment is a few of the key systems of the game mostly working but not being as stable or as transparent as you, or ... Read more