The Anniversary Update is finally out! This time we wanted to do something crazy. It is a birthday update after all ;)
Let's check out what the latest update has to offer.
Two New Maps
Tropical Freeze is the first new map. In this map players are thrown into sunny paradise islands where, because of drastic climate change phenomenon, a sudden cold atmosphere has frozen all waters. The fishermen around the world are gathering to experience ice fishing in the tropical paradise. This might be a once in a lifetime opportunity to go ice fishing in the middle of calmly waving palm trees.
Polar Storm, on the other hand, is from the other end of the spectrum. This map is located to polar region, where the bravest fishermen are exercising their passion on small ice rafts. There might be occasional nuclear submarine you might encounter as well.
New Fish
Barracuda is the new beast that can be caught in the waters of Ice Lakes. More precisely this is a special species that can be only found in the waters of the two new maps. Barracudas are fierce predators and they can be found almost from all depths. This will also take the position of the biggest fish that can be caught in the game.
Night-Time Fishing
Welcome to the dark side! Night has come to Ice Lakes. This is a completely new mode you can select from the map selection menu. Night mode is a "hard" difficulty setting. This means that in general it is harder to catch fish at nighttime. However, some species are more active during night, like burbot for example.
Other
In addition to new content there are also a ton of improvements to the base game. We added the ability to toggle the fishing rod by pressing 'g' key on your keyboard. This way it is no more necessary to hold the mouse button pressed when moving the rod.
Couple of bugs we received feedback are also fixed. The possibility to sell your fish in endless loop in multiplayer is now fixed, as well as the bug when detecting Rift system while starting the VR version on Oculus.
Thanks to the power of our community, we also added Korean to localized languages.
Finally we have started updating all of the sound effects in the game. The first new sounds are already in this update and more will follow in the upcoming updates.