Update B122 coming to speakers in submarines near you!

Hello Sailors!

It's our pleasure to announce that update B122, the one we posted at the unstable branch couple of weeks ago, is finally going live for everyone! This is very exciting because we understand that there are only a handful of things more important on long voyages than atmospheric music. You now have the possibility to use your very own tracks while playing the game whether you wanted to listen to Das Boot soundtrack or you decided that Billie Eilish somehow fits the cold, steely insides of your underwater vehicle (we're not judging).

There are also plenty of other fixes and changes, all of which are listed below:

Improvements:

• It's now possible to add custom music to the game. Please read README file in "(GAME_FOLDER)\UBOAT_Data\StreamingAssets\Packages\custom-music" to learn where to place your music files.
• Various modding improvements for summer's modding SDK introduction. Added support for raw audio and texture files and support for datasheet overrides in mods.
• U-boat fuel capacity is now set to a historical value and usage is expressed in UI as liters per km and per minute. Diesel compressor and engines have historical consumption rates.
• Item's mass and stack limit are now displayed in the storage UI.

Fixes:

• Pausing or disabling time compression on the map was causing random camera movement.
• Sink ship objectives were sometimes duplicated.
• Increased fuel usage to achieve historical range only with some bonuses from an engineer working at the engines and/or leader at the navigator's station. It was very hard to run out of fuel on B121.
• A vacation could be bought without sufficient funds and cause the budget to dive below zero.
• Faster completion bonus of HQ tasks from a vacation (like Eagle's Nest) wasn't applied to tasks that were started before a vacation.
• Vacation notification had missing localizations.
• Reputation points count label in reputation purchases screen was often displaying a wrong value.
• Added sound effect for reputation purchases.
• Fixes for the most common errors automatically reported to us. They could have an impact on performance and cause random issues in the gameplay.
• Amount of water inside the compartment was always displayed as infinity during the transport.
• If any problem occurs during time skipping, associated UI would remain indefinitely on the screen.
• There was a random bug due to which saving of game states was failing.
• It was possible to do two research tasks with the same officer. It was also possible to work on the same task two times.
• Fixed bug that could prevent from loading certain game states.
• Officers were sometimes not returning from a vacation.
• NPC groups were moving faster than it would result from their actual velocity.
• Batteries weren't recharging inside areas and fuel wasn't consumed.
• Batteries are now recharging considerably longer for better balance and historical accuracy.
• Canceling torpedo loading was often moving torpedo that was being loaded into a completely wrong place.
• Time compression was intensifying hull creaking above the normal level.
• Resource depletion estimations are now always estimated in real-time instead of in-game time as it's usually closer to what user wants to know.
• Resource tooltips are now refreshed each second to make countdowns look more natural.
• Getting out of upper bed in FPP was causing that all caps and other objects that shouldn't appear in FPP were visible.
• It was possible to duplicate items by moving them onto a slot that was during transport.
• Characters were taking more items into a backpack than ordered if certain steps were followed.
• Fixed changelog margins in the main menu.
• Fixed a few minor game state issues and one looping error that could affect performance.
• It's now possible to skip dialogues by clicking.
• Improved hitbox for some map markers.
• Officer alone couldn't provide reliable operation for the engines.
• Changed font style on activators to a sharper one.
• Various fixes to vacations. Undocking before the whole crew returns from vacation no longer places all remaining characters at one spot on the deck.
• Officers no longer think that long between automatic actions when time compression is enabled.
• Torpedo being warmed up by an engineer was occasionally invisible.
• Mission list was occasionally not appearing in Kiel.
• If the player ordered carrying items to opened storage instead from it, it would lead to erroneous behavior of characters carrying out this order.
• Carry progress label in the storage UI was often off.
• Cancellation of torpedo loading or warming order wasn't properly handled if the compartment became flooded. That was causing some aesthetic problems later.
• Fixed minor issues, if a player left to the menu during time skipping animation.
• Leaving to the menu by clicking the exit button on the defeat screen was causing various serious issues later in the game.
• German and polish localization fixes.
• Leaving to the menu after launching torpedoes could cause performance problems for some time.
• N-A1 freighters are now flammable.
• Balanced a bit of damage applied to NPC ships. N-A1 freighters are much easier to sink.
• Saving a game state immediately after vacation ended, would produce a game state in which some officers would be permanently gone.
• Improved loading times from the main menu by a few seconds.
• Fixed a few issues with certain actions staying on the order list despite that they were overridden by another order.
• Pressing SHIFT key while moving the camera in the section, orbit or map view speeds up the camera movement.
• Access to the items placed on the deck was hard in the section view.
• Actions whose target was despawned were causing occasional issues.
• Activator hover effect is now animated instantly.
• Vacation discipline gain modifiers were far greater than declared in the description.
• Russian localization fixes.
• Probably all cases of the crew moving out of the moveable area are now fixed.
• Fixed problem with torpedo mechanic instantly appearing on the upper deck during warming up of the torpedo, if the most intense time compression was used.
• Character smoking on the conning tower could get stuck and stay there after submerging.
• Aircraft are now usually spotted from a greater distance (up to 8 km for the default observators and up to 16 km for the officer with maxed out crew). Radar detectors are still considerably more reliable and less labor-intensive though.
• The officer assigned to the targeting sight is able to spot groups from a bit greater distance than before.
• Increased "Naxos" radar detector detection range.
• The crew could occasionally get stuck behind the stern and bow torpedo room bulkheads.
• Research progress bars weren't reliably updated in all cases.
• Sink ship missions should now have their targets chosen more wisely.
• It's no longer possible to order drinking a coffee without having any officer selected.
• Torpedo warm up order now works correctly when ordered without having any officer selected.
• Starting a vacation could instantly complete current HQ tasks.
• Arrows that represent resource changes over time could be pointed in the wrong direction in case of electricity when the ship was on the open sea.
• Various fixes to transport orders.
• Line of sight for periscope was sometimes blocked without reason and units weren't detected by it.

We've also wanted to thank you all for an astonishing amount of support in translating the game! We're still looking for those who are willing to help us in this endeavor!

Sailors! Dismissed!

Yours,
Deep Water Studio