Hey everyone! Once again, thanks for everyone's feedback so far. It was a great first week of Early Access!
We're a small team making every mechanic, fish, and sound by hand, so it means the world to us for you to play our game! 🐟
We're incredibly excited to drop the first of many content updates! We wanted to pack as much as we could with this one though. A couple fun things ahead, so let's get right into it!
Show Off Your Fish!
We added the ability to show off the fish you've caught!
You can do this in the Fishopedia by clicking any of the fish you've discovered. It will showcase your record size (more on that below) and shiny variant if you have it.
More plans are in the works to show off your best catches! But we wanted to let you brag to your friends as soon as possible :)
New Fishing Mechanics
The fishing mechanic is now a little more involved than just mashing. Pay attention if the line is going left or right, or center with a quick time event!
With this, the line will also slowly pull you in... so no more standing around!
Gameplay Updates
We added a new leveling system and boon modifiers to the run progression.
Completing each day will reward you with a level skill point to put into either Health, Slower Hunger, Luck, or Strength. Because of this, we decided to remove the shop upgrades for these stats for a cleaner progression loop.
Completion of day 1 and day 2 will reward players with a level and a boon respectively. After day 2, players will be rewarded with a boon of their choosing every 3 level ups. There's a couple of fun ones in there we want to experiment with! These boons are something we will continue adding onto, so let us know if you have any crazy ideas!
Fish Sizes and Tracking
We wanted to add some variety to ALL the fish, so fish can now be caught at different sizes!
Fish sizes affect their quota value too. Try to find the biggest Small-Small Fish you can lol. We also added a fun little stat tracker to see how many of each type of fish you've caught.
Scoring
We added a little competitive edge with a scoring system!
It will now keep track of your personal best and the global best score. Scores are mainly determined by the fish quota and currency throughout the run.
New Fih, Hats, and Rods?... + Mythical Tier!
We added 5 new fish and 6 new hats to the game, as well as a new Mythical tier for fish that are higher than Legendary.
The current plan is adding new fish and unlockable cosmetics with every content update.
We also added 3 new rods!
These will have gameplay modifiers and hopefully change the way you can progress through the run. And this is the just the beginning! We're planning to add more rods that do even more things very soon.
But no spoilers for anything here. We'll let you guys discover these new things for yourselves!
Quality of Life and Balance Changes
The ship basket now confirms quota AND easier to throw into.
Migrated health points to a health meter.
Added a Gameplay setting to turn off Camera Tilt.
Adjusted bobber and line throw weight.
Better throwing and dropping fish/items.
Unified world scaling to held fish.
Added context instruction for the Word-Word Fish's prompt.
Increased pricing of the Spike Ball and Sushi shop items.
Fix Fish Magnet item to be more workable.
Delayed the "Keep Quiet or Explode" Event and added audio cues.
Adjusted fish transparency when player is too close.
Adjusted fish rarities and stat upgrades.
A few new UI elements/settings clarity.
Bug Fixes
Fixed save files not working.
Fixed Word-Word Fish bugs with push to talk enabled.
Fixed some spawning issues.
Fixed unlocked inventory slots visuals.
Fixed some fish physics.
Lastly... The One Fish Soundtrack!
The Original Soundtrack for The One Fish created by the talented Garrett Williamson is out now on all streaming services!
You can find it HERE.
More updates to come in the following weeks!
If you haven't already, it would help us so much if you left a review. It helps us know what direction to take the game! Thank you!
See you soon!