The latest Astroneer update version 1.0.13.0 has arrived, offering changes to how tethers work as well as a slew of performance improvements and bug fixes.Part of keeping Astroneer alive and well, to say nothing of the titular spacefarers themselves, involves a bit of maintenance. Just like clockwork, the folks at System Era have put together a new update for Astroneer with a few specific changes and tweaks.
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Astroneer update 1.0.13.0 primarily addresses performance and the behavior of tethers, and should hopefully make for a more fluid and pleasant experience overall. Read on to learn more about the latest Astroneer update version 1.0.13.0.Astroneer 1.0.13.0 update patch notesAccording to the developers at System Era, the main focal point of the latest Astroneer patch was addressing performance issues. However, outside of tweaks and other bug fixes, the team has also reworked the algorithm that dictates the behavior of tethers.
According to the official patch notes, the “new algorithm should greatly reduce the hitches players see when placing tethers in a big network across all platforms, leading to improved performance in single player and multiplayer games.” The team also notes that this is the first of a two-step fix intended to keep the connections and behaviors of tethers more stable.Here’s the full set of Astroneer update version 1.0.13.0 patch notes as provided over on the:Astroneer 1.0.13.0 update summary. Vehicles, base platforms and characters should behave the same as before. You should not see any difference in how they make tether connections. Connections between tether posts that have changed. When placing a new tether post, it will now connect to the closest tether post of each distinct tether network in range. A tether network in this case being a set of connected tether posts.
Tether networks are no longer self-healing! When you pick up a tether post it will trigger a network split of all the other tethers it was attached to.