- Steam App
- ΔV: Rings of Saturn (846030)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 13 December 2023 - 16:19:57 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
The asteroid depletion map is now expanded to hold 800% more data. While the previous setup for asteroid depletion worked as intended, the map could overflow in as few as 1.5 hours in-game in some playstyles. This meant that some players could never feel the effect of their favorite mining spots being depleted. The new setting will ensure about 12 hours in-game before the asteroids drift back to a depleted area. As a direct consequence, save games can now take up to 8MB. Saves should still be completed in under a second, even on low-end machines. Automatic compaction of the save games. For some playstyles, saves contained depletion maps that were mostly zeroes, which were meaningless but inflated the save size artificially. You will now see these zeroes stripped automatically. This also further increases the retention period for the depletion map. New mining companion-related event you c...