Is multiplayer functional?

MY OWN EXPERIENCE 5 HOUR+ SESSION 4 PEOPLE

TL;DR: Still broken, probably more than before.

We started on an empty world, added some planets in and a crashed ship and then restarted the world in survival. First minutes were flawless, nobody experienced any issues. After half an hour we noticed drilling was harder than usual as we had to use our jetpack to orient ourselves closer to the rocks than usual.

Then we started actually building... Oh boy this update either made things alot worse or It's because I haven't played MP in 2 months. Randomly when placing blocks you'll run into issues with not being able to place anything, you hear the sound of it and it takes steel plates (Or whatever other item it requires to place) from your inventory but places nothing, you have to actually right click with your drill in the area until you see a piece of scrap metal appear and then you are free to place any block. Detailed building underground or on ground does NOT work because sometimes you have to remove alot of voxels and sometimes none in order to get the scrap metal that is blocking the area to appear, it's unpredictable and happens far too often.

Imagine having to interrupt your block building every 10 blocks so you can randomly fling around you drill hoping for one of the smallest items to appear out of thing air, pick it up and then continue building until it happens again.

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