Below & Beyond: Hotfix coming this Monday

[Aiwyth]

Greetings Commanders,

We would like to let you know that our team is working hard to address some issues you have flagged with the Below & Beyond expansion and free content update.

You can expect the first hotfix to come out on Monday, September 13th, simultaneously on all platforms. It’s going to address the problem with disappearing pipes and cables, and change the Asteroid Lander increment from 5 to 1, among other fixes and tweaks.

We are also trying to help out players who are struggling with continuing their game on the pre-patch save files. While the hotfix should fix some of the more persistent issues on the old save files, for the best experience we recommend starting a new save file.

Finally, we would like to thank all the players for your patience, understanding, and the time you spent on sending the feedback and reporting the bugs to us.

This is not the last time you’ll hear from us on this topic. We are fully committed to improving your experience with the game and giving you the polished content you deserve. We will keep you informed on our progress.

 

[Aiwyth]

Also, don't forget the weirdness with drones and food pickups, they just hang out around the farm, spasm all over, glitching and do nothing while population starves.

I can confirm that the issue with colonists and drones getting stuck around farms (to be more precise, they get stuck in food stockpiles) will get fixed on Monday.

 

[Aiwyth]

What about the issues that are occuring on the Linux version?

Fix for the issue with error messages constantly popping out in the Linux version of the game will be included in Monday's patch.

 

[Aiwyth]

Great to know a patch is coming.

Any plans for a beta patch and/or the ability to roll back to a previous version (on Steam) before the weekend, by any chance?

Look forward to getting more updates about this hotfix in the near future, anyhow!

Hey @OxfordNik

I'm afraid we don't plan to enable rollback to previous versions of the game on Steam. We would like to fully focus our efforts on improving the quality and technical state of the DLC and free update on all platforms moving forward. Creating and managing an extra 'backup' Steam branch makes the process more difficult.

 

[Aiwyth]

When is the filter to stop colonists from being born going to be fixed? Is this also included on Monday?

Will you be coming out with a list of known issues and dates for resolution?

I feel that this will help everyone to understand the status of the glitches and provide insight into if a glitch was found that you aren't yet aware of.

The issue with the filter is being looked into, but unfortunately, I don't have confirmation that it will be included in the patch on Monday just yet. We're still finalizing the patch notes.

This list will get updated with the first hotfix, so hopefully, it will help players understand what issues we're already working on. I'm afraid we won't be able to go as far as adding exact dates when certain issues will get fixed, but we will try to communicate when you can expect more patches and what we're focusing on improving as much as possible.

 

[Aiwyth]

Good to hear, what time can we expect the patch, I am gasping for my next game

The hotfix is already out

 

[Aiwyth]

mac too ? what time did it occur?

Hi. Any idea when it will reach Epic Games?

We released and checked the availability on all PC/Mac platforms including EGS and everything looked fine on our side.

Please let me know if you don't see any updates on your end.

 

[Aiwyth]

No update on my end. Epic Games launcher still shows version at 1007874, in-game credits the same. Auto-update is on. I restarted Epic Games launcher a few times already.

Ah, that's actually the right version. I noticed a mistake in our patch notes thanks to your post and corrected it now, so you should be good to go!