Crashes
- Fixed DirectX incompatibility that caused the game to crash at 89% loading.
- If there are further technical probs, please, have a look at our troubleshooting discussion and info here.
Video
- Added Video options to the Settings menu
- Added resolution option
- Added full screen option
User Interface
- Game-play menu now opens when pressing "ESC" instead of "TAB".
- holding down TAB now shows all online players in multiplayer mode.
- Recreated fish selection.
- Added "Resume" button to game play menu.
- Fixed few bugs with buttons.
- A ">" icon will now popup whenever you click on some category button.
- Added a quick tutorial-like controls to game-play menu.
- Recreated a bit more fancy map selection for Single-player
- Changed "Leave game" button to "Back to Main Menu"
- In-game state such as "Press [Space] ... " now has a black outline.
- Added background screenshot to Main Menu.
- Added thankful early access message to Main Menu.
- Added "Quit" button to Main Menu
Game play
- All fish now change velocity direction 2.0x faster than before. You might notice it while swimming at high speed and quickly turning to side. It's more responsive now.
- Overall NPC fish population in Single-player has been increased by 50%. ( from 66% to 100% total )
- When the great shark kills something, food will no longer appear. ( scavenging was too op, sry )
- The teeth effect is now properly located in center of your hit box.
- The teeth effect while biting now indicates when ever you are close enough to bite or you already bitten something. ( orange = close enough, red = bitten )
- Reduced on hit slow from 90% to 30%. ( this should make escaping much easier )
Camera & Controls
- Camera now changes FOV (field of view) based on your fish velocity.
Artificial Intelligence
- Fixed that awkward fish staring at food. :D
- Fish should be now less likely to swim in circles when trying to bite each other.
- The forever alone fish that have no friends now seek friends in larger distance if forever alone too much.
- Max fish in one Group reduced to 7 from 14.
- Bibos will not chase prey too far from it's group.
- Raptors now will always try to hunt the same prey as other Raptors in their group.
- The Great Shark will now only actively hunt fish bigger than 1.5m. (was 1.1m)
- Tiger sharks roam more.
- The turn speed for big fish has been slightly reduced.
Multi-player
- Fixed few invisibility bugs and discovered new ones. ( we plan to fire all our resources on multiplayer during this week )
- Fixed few exceptions that were causing inability to spawn.
- Fixed few exceptions that were causing inability to move.
- At this moment we are setting up first testing dedicated servers.