Last Oasis | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Wed, 08 Apr 2020 09:03:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Last Oasis | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Last Oasis server issues have been resolved, devs explain what went wrong https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/joao-silva/last-oasis-server-issues-have-been-resolved-devs-explain-what-went-wrong/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/joao-silva/last-oasis-server-issues-have-been-resolved-devs-explain-what-went-wrong/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2020 09:00:06 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=461039 After a rough launch, Donkey Crew decided to pull the plug on Last Oasis' servers for seven days and offered refunds to consumers regardless of the number of hours played. This past weekend, the game was relaunched and currently seems stable. The game had multiple bugs and stability problems at launch, forcing the Donkey Crew …

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After a rough launch, Donkey Crew decided to pull the plug on Last Oasis' servers for seven days and offered refunds to consumers regardless of the number of hours played. This past weekend, the game was relaunched and currently seems stable.

The game had multiple bugs and stability problems at launch, forcing the Donkey Crew team to shut down all servers so they could identify the issues affecting the backend. As stated by Donkey Crew, during last year, the team made multiple “large-scale load tests”, ran a beta for over a year and fixed all the issues they've found, but unfortunately, that wasn't enough to prepare for Last Oasis' launch.

Despite all the testing and fixing, the problems that turned the game's launch into chaos only became known recently. Basically, the game servers were “stuck in a loop”, shutting down and restarting continuously. As if that wasn't enough, the game's queue system wasn't optimised for the number of players that were trying to join the servers and the client kept spamming the servers with requests to join.

After identifying the problem and fixing it, the studio decided to relaunch the game during the weekend, by starting a public stress test. If no major new problems arise, there will be no more wipes or server shutdowns. According to TheGamer, the servers seem to be stable and playable for now. The game isn't perfect, as there are still some issues reported by some players, but let's hope that the worst of it is over now.

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Last Oasis pulled offline and refunds offered due to launch weekend issues https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/last-oasis-pulled-offline-and-refunds-offered-due-to-launch-weekend-issues/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/last-oasis-pulled-offline-and-refunds-offered-due-to-launch-weekend-issues/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2020 06:48:04 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=459411 Last Oasis initially looked like a very promising PvP focused survival MMO but its launch weekend has been riddled with issues. Widespread connection issues meant that early buyers couldn't even play the game and at the moment, this problem still persists. As a result, servers are being taken offline for a week, with players being …

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Last Oasis initially looked like a very promising PvP focused survival MMO but its launch weekend has been riddled with issues. Widespread connection issues meant that early buyers couldn't even play the game and at the moment, this problem still persists. As a result, servers are being taken offline for a week, with players being offered refunds regardless of their Steam playtime. 

In Last Oasis, players band together to build these walking landships and are constantly being forced on the move to remain within a habitable zone. Then of course, you also need to worry about other groups of players that may be looking to sabotage other survivors. Unfortunately, many were unable to explore these mechanics over launch weekend, leading to the following tweet from the developers:

In the video update, Donkey Crew confirms that “coders have been working day and night to solve this issue” but after being unable to fix the problem, the studio decided to take the game offline. “We need to properly investigate why our load testing didn't pick this up and what went wrong, and then figure it out properly and solve it”.

Last Oasis is an early access title, so some issues were expected, but for now, the game will remain offline in order to narrow things down. Hopefully by next weekend, the game will be back on track.

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KitGuru Says: I've been off of survival games for a while now but Last Oasis looked very interesting. Did many of you try playing it over the weekend? Are you going to refund it, or wait until next week while the developers work on a fix?

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