Hello everyone,
We are doing final testing on our new Patch which will very probably be released on Tuesday, December 1st.
Here are full release notes so you can see what you can look forward to!
James
New content and features:
- Added 8 new Roach Boss Fish.
- Added a new feature that allows species-specific Live Tournaments.
- Game is now available in Czech.
- Game is now available in Polish.
- Game is now available in Russian.
Improvements:
- Animation:
- Smoothed the transfer between states such as entering reeling after casting and netting.
- Added a gentle idle motion to the static poses used for netting.
- Audio:
- Added an audio countdown for several game modes.
- Environment Art:
- Added missing normal map textures.
- Gameplay:
- Adjusted the ability to rotate the character with the mouse when performing a cast. You can still rotate using the movement keys on the keyboard.
- Main Menu:
- Deleted unused video assets and files to decrease total file size.
- Updated the splash screen to showcase new features and updates.
- User Interface
- Added a button prompt to the Tournament teleport map.
Balancing
- Equipment:
- All rigs that we previously tagged as All have been changed to Gravel type rigs.
- Hook sizes have been adjusted so each hook can potentially catch a wider range of fish. This now means a larger hook will not exclusively catch large fish.
- Baits have been adjusted so a smaller range of fish will target certain baits.
- Freedom Fishing:
- We've decreased how often Boss Fish will go for your bait.
- We've decreased the amount of TP awarded by fish weight.
- We've decreased how often fish will go for your bait.
Resolved Issues
The following issues have been addressed.
- Animation:
- Fixed Sleeve collision with arm when presenting carp Fixed Sleeve collision with arm when presenting Tench
- Audio:
- Added water skimming back to the lead and spod.
- Fixed missed footstep audio when you first switch to first person.
- Reposition audio components on net to address inconsistent volume issue.
- Added sound to a missing ground texture.
- Fixed audio issues with the main menu.
- Fixed an audio issue when returning to the main menu from a session.
- Environment Art:
- Repositioned a tent that was floating at Peg 30 on St Johns Lake.
- Change the collision on Digger Lakes to make the bank more accessible.
- Fixed an issue where grass was floating in Saint Johns Lake.
- Fixed an issue with black layers appearing in Digger Lakes.
- Repositioned a floating rock in The Observatory.
- Fixed an issue where players using AMD GPUs would get flickering shadows.
- Fixed a collision issue that stop players interacting with peg 5 in The Observatory.
- Fixed an issue with the grass in The Observatory.
- Equipment:
- Fixed an issue where 15 lb lines were using the wrong breaking strain value.
- Fixed an issue where certain fish went for your bait regardless of its size or type.
- Localisation:
- Fixed an issue where certain text was not being translated.
- Fixed a number of errors in the French translation.
- Miscellaneous:
- Fixed an issue where a boss fish could be caught several times in a row.
- Fixed a rare issue where some users would crash when starting the game.
- Multiplayer:
- Fixed an issue where players would encounter a crash in Multiplayer when a fish goes for the bait of a disconnecting player.
- Fixed an issue where players would encounter a crash when putting down their rod in multiplayer
- Fixed several instances where the game would crash in multiplayer due to animation issues
- Fixed an issue where only the host could catch fish by using 3 rods.
- User Interface
- Updated the controller schemes to use one text element per line.
- Fixed text being cut off on tutorial select screen in German.
- Fixed text being cut off on the freedom fishing settings screen in German.
- Fixed text being cut off on the freedom fishing settings screen tackle box in all.
- Fixed an issue where the profile text is cut off.
- The Fish Species page has been updated to now say Common for Roach and Tench instead of an empty field.
Known Issues
- Fish can be randomly lost due to collision with the terrain.
- Fish can be seen moving above the water surface on Digger Lakes.
- Live Tournament in-game scoreboard does not always display the correct score in-game.
- The tension meter and pause menu is not available for the Host after playing the game for long sessions.
- The bed type icon doesn’t always display correctly.
- After catching a fish the character model will still be visible when playing in first person.