Patch 0.4.044 is Live - Rolling in perf updates from Experimental

Experimental has been pretty stable, so the updates to help performance are being rolled into the live game. There are more coming, but it's a good break point to migrate what's working well into the main build.

There's also a fix for old saves having rare odd research tree states, and some polish to post-portal tutorial beats.

Updates

• Presentation updates to post-portal Tutorial corner.

• Fix for a rare bug when loading old save files creating bad research tree states.

• Structures now run on a fixed simulation tick rate.

• VFX and Sprites have improved culling logic.

• Improved batching on Structure rendering.

• Player shadow should render smoother now.

• First music track on the Fire plane is now appropriately a Fire track instead of Life.

v0.4.041 update A handful of behavior bugs caused by performance improvements should now be resolved:

• Streamway Deltas should no longer seize or throttle

• Player Inventory should be back to 9x9 instead of 6x12

• Charged Lodestone should now work as expected

v0.4.042 update Additional edge-case bugs caused by performance improvements should now be resolved:

• A delta connected directly to a slab could stop processing if the slab trickled slowly but never fully fell asleep.

• Anytime a belt is placed and it modifies one of its neighbor chains, the neighbor chain may need to split itself.

• Sometimes if a belt entity became culled, its position would stop updating and it would appear invisible on the belt.

• Unlocking a recipe will wake up all production structures to see if they can now create things.

v0.4.044 update

• Fixed a bug that caused Czech default language (and possibly other languages) to not be able to load saved games.

Thank you for your patience and bug reports!