Update 0.1.9.0 - Refining the Rough

We're upping our tempo, Strayers!

From winning battles against cheats, to squashing game-breaking bugs - this is more than just your regular update!🔥

Strayed Update 0.1.9.0 brings in more than just a few changes and fixes. We're introducing deep improvements to our anti-cheat system and dramatic quality-of-life improvements à la server migrations and bug-squishing!

Let's delve more into what we've done for this update!

The War Against Cheaters - A Continuous Battle

Since time immemorial, the islands have had its fair share of cheaters trying to take unfair advantage over our real players. Since then, we've been working hard to be more than a step ahead of these so-ridiculously-called "hackers".

We're glad to inform you that our efforts aren't in vain - as we have gone a long way since starting the battle. Within the last two weeks, our team were all-hands-on-deck on improving our anti-cheat system. In short - we're very happy with the amount of progress we've made against Strayed cheats.

But the battle continues. For as long as we're working on the game, we won't stop fighting against cheaters as we continue to bring the best experience for each Strayer out there.

Server Migrations - Improved Backup Stability!

Lately, we have had issues in-game that we were addressing by restarting our servers - however - problems came up with unstable backups leading to more issues and unfavorable experiences for our players.

We're happy to let you know that we've dramatically improved our backup stability by migrating our servers from SQLite to MySQL. This should mitigate (if not, completely eliminate) data loss whenever our servers restart.

What's Next for Strayed?

You may have noticed that we haven't had major additions to the game lately.

We'd love for you to know that we're focused on developing our Water Content, which is a particularly large update coming very soon. This is majorly our reason for not adding a lot of features and changes recently.

Another major reason are the updates mentioned above. While we're eager to commit to our roadmap of features, we felt that laying the groundwork would do well for everyone involved - especially our players. We wanted to make sure that everything's running smoothly before we add more stuff to the game.

Fret not, Strayer - we're working hard to bring not just the Water Content but more as soon as possible. We assure you that you'll be first to know once they're coming!

Other Additions, Fixes, Changes and Known Issues

Besides the additions and news above, here's what's on the 0.1.9.0 changelog:

Additions:

• Scrap barrels now spawn along roadsides

• Servers can now display messages on the loading screen

Changes:

• Server backups are more stable (We moved from Sqlite to MySQL)

Fixes:

• Tons of cheat exploits

• "Server is full" bug

• Bug preventing some quest players from loading into servers

• Increased speed of “baking terrain” loading stage

Known Issues:

• Biweekly and other large servers sometimes timeout on Meta Quest 2 & 3

• Voice server may suddenly stop working

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