Happy New Year Anglers,
We hope you had a great festive break, we’re officially in 2022 and we have a busy year ahead!
Working with our platform partners and you, the community to identify where players have been experiencing crashes, we are starting 2022 with a stability update focused on addressing and improving the experience for players, and adding Chickamauga Lake to the Online Public Servers and Bassmaster Royale.
Headlines
- Menu – We have implemented a change that we are hopeful has resolved an issues causing crashes when selecting “Manage” from the main menu. If you are still experiencing this issue please do let us know.
- Venues – Catch rates have been balanced and we will continue to monitor catch rates across all our venues
- Audio – Crankbait, Jointed, Spinner, Buzz and Popper baits now make sounds as intended
- Multiplayer – Players will no longer incorrectly be eliminated from Bassmaster Royale games.
- Multiplayer [PS5] – Resolved an issue causing some players to not see any online multiplayer servers
- Multiplayer [XSX] – An issue casing the game to get stuck on the loading screen while joining a multiplayer session has been resolved
- Customisation – Santa’s beard is now removable!
General
- Tutorial - Improved tutorial to provide more explanation around “Striking”
- Tutorial – When paused the voice over will pause
- Multiplayer – When a player leaves an online public server, they will be presented with catch summary
- Multiplayer – When a player catches the biggest bass during a Bassmaster Royale game a pop up will appear to all players in the session to notify all players
- Angler Hub – Improvements and fixes made to the Progression screen within Player Profile.
- Gameplay – Improvements made to catch shots
- Gameplay – While in the catch shot screen, pressing B to expand the information will no longer cycle the map/fish finder in the background.
There are also various other fixes and changes behind the scenes not listed above.
We are proactively working on continuing to update and improve Bassmaster Fishing 2022 for everyone and we are currently investigating issues including, but not limited to:
- Career Mode - Players experiencing crashes during multi-day events
- Multiplayer - When a player tries to join a multiplayer game the player is kicked back to the main menu
- Mastery - Mastery challenges failing to complete
If you are experiencing an issue please feel free to report it directly to us HERE
We want to thank you to everyone who is playing and enjoying the game, as well as providing us with continued feedback, we are listening.
Tight Lines!