Planetaries v1.8 – Major Loading / Optimization

Hello explorers,

Thank you all once again for the amazing support, feedback, suggestions, and bug reports. To everyone in the Planetaries community — on Steam, Discord, and beyond — we truly appreciate your kindness, patience, and continued support for the project.

This update is another big step forward. A major focus of v1.8 is optimization, including huge improvements to loading systems, streaming performance, foliage, lighting, and texture management.

Patch Notes:

• Fixed loading issues
• Fixed minor animation bugs
• Fixed additional loading-related issues
• Fixed minor inventory bugs
• Fixed lighting and rendering issues
• Tweaked certain sound effects
• Improved loading screen
• Improved overall texture streaming (significant improvement)
• Improved foliage optimization
• Improved overall performance (major optimization pass)
• Improved and tweaked shadow optimization
• Improved streaming loading times
• Improved and tweaked player roll mechanic
• Improved the player’s ability to dodge melee attacks using better maneuvering
• Improved & tweaked Boss AI movement
• Added Virtual Streaming Texture support
• Added new loading system
• Added New Boss: Destroyer Bot
• Added Mini Boss: Destroyer Bot Variant
• Added New Pirate Boss: Duelist
• Added Destroyer Bots to world enemy spawns
• Added Boss Beacon POIs across the world

Thank you again for your support.

We wish everyone a great, chill, and happy weekend — and happy gaming!