A performance and bugfix update with a couple of extra options for people on lower end machines.
Combined 0.2.1 and 0.2.2:
- Setting a waypoint on a port will now have the first mate dock there on reaching it.
- Performance improvements in a variety of game systems.
- Target practice enabled in the Captain menu on the map screen.
- Boarding tutorial hulk captain made less difficult to kill.
- Inactive pirate ports no longer have port defences
- Adjusted navigation around Chantillon to prevent ships becoming stuck
- Fixed a bug which could make a destroyed port defence tower respawn
- Fixed a bug which caused orc ports to stick in the black leviathan’s mouth
- Fixed a bug with the game autosaving on death
- Fixed a bug with autosaves during the boarding looting phase
- Fixed a bug which prevented some movement types being disabled by damage
- Fixed a bug which caused disabled weapons to reactivate
- Fixed a bug preventing save game completing
- Fixed bugs with AI ships tacking
- Made Black Leviathan encounter a little more challenging.
- Added options to disable snow/rain particles as well as fog.
- Added options to disable Depth of Field and Vignette camera effects
- Ocean rendering now less GPU intensive at lower quality levels.
- Disabling fog particles removes AI aiming penalties from fog.
- Fixed a rare bug that left Erengrad in constant plague.
- Improvements to grounding whilst moving at high speed.
- Fixed some Bloodship navigation issues that caused crew to get stuck inside geometry.
- Fixed bug that caused spyglass blur to remain when not looking through spyglass
- Fixed bug with log book and port defences
- Particle effect recycling improved to reduce performance hitches.
- Fixed a bug that caused dialogue to skip
- Fixed an issue with saving on docking at the edge of a game node
- Performance improvements when showing/hiding minimap.
- Cleanup fix for old saves with multiple sea monsters
- Grounded sunk ships should now be removed sooner.
- Grounded sunk ships have a chance of leaving cargo behind.
- Engine update to allow new features in a future update.