Dev Diary 150: The Bug-Hunting Season is Open (Patreon)

Hello mutants,

Another week is behind us, this one focusing on fixing some annoying bugs that have been found recently.

The first annoying bug that had to be fixed is one you might be familiar with from Fallout 2. If by any chance your vehicle runs out of fuel exactly while it’s driving over a town circle, it will be gone for good because it will be impossible to click on its location after that. So, we sorted that one out. It won’t be missed.

The second annoying bug was a bit harder to fix. I found out that once you enter a random encounter and decide to run away on foot, the engine will still think you drove away. This only happens in a random encounter, not when you would stop somewhere on your own on the world map. The bug is present in the original Fallout 2 engine so my fixing options were limited. However, after some tinkering, I found the best fix: once you abandon your vehicle on a world map, you will recover all of its remaining fuel. Which isn’t bad when you think about it. Perhaps it will be useful to reload that energy weapon and shoot your way out of a sticky situation. Or you might want to refuel some other vehicle? Anyway, no fuel will then make the engine think you can’t drive the vehicle anymore and then we can properly continue the journey on foot or come back and reclaim it. I informed the sfall team about this bug, and hopefully, they’ll fix it in the future.

So, nothing too exciting when it comes to v0.6 news but I’d hate to have you guys deal with those bugs on your own. The new driving system is solid now, and hopefully we’ll see it in other games too, perhaps even in Fallout 2 one day :-)

And now that the annoying bugs have been squashed, it’s time to get back to the regular v0.6 work which is coming along nicely. I’ll talk to you again about it next week.

P.S. Have you seen Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga? No spoilers, but I have to say that the action and craziness have once again been taken to a new level ;-)

See you in the wasteland, muties!

-PJ