Delicious friends! Another week and MORE NEW CONTENT:
"The traveller is always returning. One who does not is no traveller."
Another advanced Ambition is now available. It cannot be selected at game start, only found in-game.
It touches on certain long-shrouded mysteries - the TRAVELLER RETURNING, a palace in the winter woods, a fierce old pale thing in the dark.
It will cost your captains' lineage dearly, so complete it only when you've savoured all the zee has to offer.
WHAT ARE WE WORKING ON?
We have a robust solution to the framerate bug. It's such a central part of the game and there are a lot of edge cases, so we really want to make sure it's safe and well tested before releasing the fix.
But we didn’t want to leave you hanging, so here’s BLEMMIGAN!
This toothsome little patch goes some way to addressing the performance issues, alongside a heap of smaller things:
- We know many of you will be overjoyed to hear that the horn should now work just as much as you care to press H (be prepared for it to attract attention).
- A hidden Steam achievement has just become available!
- Sunlight-smuggling now has a story function, and a corresponding limit.
- People playing on monitors that Unity does not natively support should no longer experience issues when going to the video options page.
- Zee-beasts now have improved AI, preventing you from remaining in their blind spot behind them without them being able to spot you.
- Ramming behavior has been improved to make it harder to avoid attacks.
- Quality and story images now have additional caching added to them in order to address performance issues.
- HUD updates have been re-worked in order to address performance issues.
- Civilian ships should no longer pop in and out of nowhere, but rather should behave in the same manner as hostile vessels. Except they won't attack you.
- Using an item in combat, then switching to your hold, will no longer reset the item's cooldown.
Read the full patch notes here.
Most of our team will be at GDC next week, so you can expect to see MAGELLAN soon after we return.
As ever, we feast greedily upon your bug reports! Please send them to [email protected].
Enjoy the new ambition!
FBG