Dear captains,
There is a new patch ready for 2024.1 beta.
Localization:
- Korean localization update.
- Russian localization update by Hard.
- Italian localization update by BeeTLe BeTHLeHeM.
- Ukrainian localization update by vovanvoks.
- Japanese localization update by かねのもうじゃ.
- Czech localization update by Spid3rCZ.
- German localization update by Ruby.
Missions:
- Fix: If an U-boat was changed to a different type during a mission, some things could work incorrectly for its duration. Especially, if it was a flotilla change assignment, it wasn't possible to complete the assignment by talking with the officer at the target port.
- Fix: From now on, tutorial no. 7 appears for selection only when it's possible to perform HQ tasks (always in Default HQ mode, after increasing HQ influences in Mixed mode or never, while playing with Automatic HQ).
- Fix: After completing tutorial no. 7 and still having other unfinished tutorials, a popup asking to start the next tutorial mission was appearing too fast, before leaving HQ screen.
Technical:
- Fix: Major optimizations to CPU usage by background threads aimed at decreasing temperatures on CPU cores.
- Fix: A relatively rare, but major problem in a save system, that could silently break data in a loaded game state in a specific way. It could have various symptoms, one of the reported and confirmed ones, was that after entering Kiel, Brunsbuttel was loaded in its place.
UI:
- Fix: AOB displayed in the tooltip of AOB dial could be beyond -180 do 180 degrees range, while the pointer was dragged with a mouse.
- Fix: After releasing all survivors in a port, a wrong label would appear at the center of the list, saying that there are no officers delegated to HQ.
- Fix: Resolved various issues with Cyrillic characters in assignment selection screen.
- Fix: A sea depth was displayed after hovering a cursor above some land areas on the map.
- Fix: It's no longer possible to switch tabs in the storage UI with a right mouse button. It could also cause some issues, while dragging items.
Launcher:
- Updated news feed to download data from a new hosting.
Ports:
- Fix: The U-boat was slightly clipping with a wharf after docking in Dunkirk.
- Fix: Misplaced gun in Halifax.
- Fix: Missing colliders at some port wharfs in Helgoland.
Audio:
- Fix: Improved the looping of a sound effect emitted by the bow of an U-boat, when its moving forward.
Graphics:
- Fix: Steam powered torpedoes were continuing to leave a trail on the surface, even if they were a dud and started to sink with a disabled propeller.
- Fix: Additional lighting that is used during dialogues with port officers could remain enabled after a dialogue, for example if a new assignment was selected.
Crew:
- Fix: Crew members could receive injuries requiring hospitalization on land in not fitting situations, for example after chocking due to a lack of air or overworking.
General:
- If a Type IIA U-boat is still used after 10th of June 1940, the command now orders the player to upgrade it to a Type IID or later, since all Allied shipping routes are beyond its range at this point and it's not possible to send it on any patrol assignment.
- Fix: After entering into FPP mode of an officer that was doing a long lasting work, for example was looking for targets on the conning tower, and then FPP mode was left, for example by opening map, the officer would resume his previous work immediately without any timout, even if he had no assigned role.
- Fix: If more than one torpedo was ordered at the warehouse directly to the launchers on the boat, some of these torpedoes would be displayed as not loaded in the torpedo launchers tooltip and if a tutorial #3 was started while having such torpedoes, the tutorial wouldn't progress past the point where it asks for flooding the tubes.
- Fix: Aircraft crew could fall out of the aircraft cabin when it was taking damage.
- Fix: Fixes to several errors spotted in the logs sent to us using the in-game bug reporting tool.
Yours,
DWS