Developer posts and news about this game.
This update addresses the bug where stationary boats would often get swamped in rough seas a little too easily. It only really effected the smaller boats and you should find that they are now suitably buoyant! I've also tweaked some other physics settings such as rudder forces et
1. Updated all big fish to the same physics system as the boats so they now move a little more realistically than before. This includes the Bull Shark, Blue Shark, Sting Ray, Sunfish, Man o' War jelly fish and the new Clown Trigger fish. 2. You can now collide with big fish prope
2 new species added to the fish pool... 1. Sunfish 2. Man 'o War jellyfish. The sunfish has similar A.I. to sharks and can usually be found swimming near the surface although they will also swim underwater. The Man o' War always sits at the water surface and doesn't move that muc
1. Updated fish A.I. so that they won't spawn on top of rocks or below/in/on terrain. 2. Increased fish A.I. polling rate so that they can spot obstacles and water depth faster. This should prevent them from trying to swim on land! 3. Increased the turning rate of all sharks so t
This should fix any issues with ports not appearing when loading from a save game. This update also includes a slight change to the ocean rendering so that it is a bit more reflective and less clear in the distance. This stops sharks from looking like they are flying when seen at
This updates the island of Maupiti adding some new features... 1. Island textures redone so they are much greener. 2. New coral assets imported. You can find the small coral sample area to the North West of Maupiti harbour near the 2 large rocks in the bay. Check out the screen s
MAUPITI PORT I have now fully optimised Maupiti's port so performance impact is minimal when in that area. I'll be applying the same optimisations to all the other ports as quickly as I can. I would say the I've gained about 20fps in non-VR mode which should help smooth the VR ex
Hopefully fixes the strange white artefact that can be seen near your nose!
1. You can now walk on terrain when in VR mode 2. You can now walk under the water in VR mode so you can go swimming with the sharks! (this is not a fully supported feature and you're basically walking on the terrain under the water level but it looks kinda cool!). 3. Minor optim
Re-enables the ability to walk on the terrain of islands. This is for VR players only. This only effects the terrain so you can't currently walk on rocks or dock areas. I'll add them shortly.
This update re-enables the fish & shark spawners in game. Performance hit should be minimal but please let me know if you think it has reduced frame rates, It does take a little bit of time for the fish and sharks to spawn in but you should be able to find them fairly easily.
This should fix save games not loading correctly. This bug seemed to have been introduced a few updates ago - thanks to Raymanbs for finding and reporting it :) ***UPDATE*** I've traced the cause of the save games failing to load to the world resizing system so, for the moment, I
Another performance update mainly focused on the A.I. traffic system and trying to reduce the impact this has on frame rates. It's still not perfect but it is definitely better! 1. Optimised the A.I. ships so they use less CPU when further away from the player. 2. Traffic manager
Noticed a few challenges with the A.I. nav buoys not linking to other correctly which was causing the A.I. to act a little strange!
1. All rocks now have LOD levels 2. Fornells harbour has been semi optimised 3. Fixed UI camera which was causing a slow down in VR 4. Cloud level adjust for better performance 5. Terrain LODs enhanced for better performance 6. Various other minor tweaks and fixes. As a benchmark
This applies the current BETA performance update together with some more performance enhancing updates to the main build. 1. Procedurally generated trees are now all instanced on the GPU. This means that any where that had large numbers of trees/palms (e.g Ko Lan) will benefit fr
I have now added a new Opt-in BETA for the performance pass update called "performancebeta". No password is required, just leave the field blank. Please follow the instructions on the forum to opt-in. This update is purely focused on improving both the VR and Non-VR performance o
All ships now have their own horn sound so you can Peep! and Parp! at other ships ːsteamhappyː By default the horn is mapped to "H". VR Players will also find a new "Ship Horn" button in all ship cockpits. Other Fixes 1. Updated buoyancy of the Flounder and reduced its initial ba
This update brings together a number of important additions to Powerboat VR and sets them live in the public build. Voice Commands You can now control many different aspects of your ship using built in voice recognition. Obviously you will need a working microphone to make use of
Yes, you read that right - you can now pilot your ship using just the power of your voice! The voice commands are part of the "newship" beta so you will need to opt into it to try them out. To use the voice commands you will obviously need a working microphone. Ensure it is worki