Steady, and private.

If the graphics API you chose fails to start, the game starts on the other one and tells you. If neither starts, it explains how to update your graphics driver and where to get help.

If something does go wrong, a report is saved on your PC with your user name and personal folders removed, ready to send us if you want help. Settings › Advanced › Saved crash reports opens the folder. How to report a problem.

Online players shows how many people are playing right now. It is explained at setup and is a switch in Settings › About. While it is on, the launcher checks in every 5 minutes with four things: a random number that isn't linked to you, the port's version, Windows or Linux, and whether you are in the game. No name, account, IP address or anything from your PC is kept, and switching it off deletes the random number.

The same switch shares a little more to help the game run well on every PC: anonymous graphics data and a short performance summary when you quit (frame rate, graphics card, driver and main settings), and a crash report, if there was one, on the next start. Nothing is sent while it is off.

All of it goes to the project's own small server, used only to count players and to make the game run better.