Dear captains,
There is a new patch available for version 2025.1.
Localization:
- German localization update by Ruby.
Damage model:
- Starting with this version, once a ship’s crew is evacuating, the ship is credited and counted towards GRT statistics and objectives. In addition, the player can report having severely damaged the ship for 75% of the reward. If the ship is sunk afterwards, the reward increases to its full amount. Note: this change will work only for newly encountered ships in old game states.
- Some of the cargo carried on ships may break loose, once they rotate vertically and damage the compartments from the inside. Added sound effects indicating such events. This happens most often in cargo holds of merchant ships, but is not exclusive to them. It's a small damage buff that helps to sink ships in a vertical position.
- It's now easier to sink ships that were already evacuated.
Crew:
- Added a verbal report that the crew of a ship is evacuating.
Missions:
- Added new objectives in the overview in tutorial #4 to remind the current goal.
- Panic attack after a crash dive in tutorial #4 now starts much faster.
- Target patrol area in tutorial #4 is now ensured to be deep enough for the tutorial to work well.
- Fix (regression of 2025.1): Camera could intensively shake in tutorial #4, after getting close to the second U-Boat that was attacked by an aircraft.
- Fix: Once radioman detects transmission in tutorial #4, it's no longer possible to order him to stop working in the radio room in any way.
- Fix: It's no longer possible to sink the second merchant ship in tutorial #3 in any other way than using explosives as asked by the tutorial.
General:
- Time compression is automatically toggled off when a ship that is observed visually by the crew is breaking in half, to make it possible to see it.
Yours,
DWS