Hello! This week we have another patch with more than 50 fixes. Among other things, we've resolved various UI issues and controller annoyances, and also reduced the number of accidental spiders, which we're told is a good thing. The full change list is included below.
We're currently working on a major update that will be out in the next month or two, as we announced earlier in the week; and we'll also be releasing further patches with fixes and other improvements in the interim.
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Bug fixes
- The close button on the bazaar interface is now aligned correctly.
- The denominator is now visible in the bazaar and shop interfaces on 4k monitors.
- Direction tokens now display correctly in tooltips and quality results.
- The hinterlands of Lustrum hold many hazards, but invisible rocks near Salomé's Fall are no longer among them.
- The bazaar interface will now correctly display cargo capacity after the player fulfils a prospect.
- The tutorial hint for reaching maximum hold capacity now fires when it should.
- A level up indicator is once again displayed on the captain's portrait when they are ready to select a new facet.
- Closing the centre panel will no longer cause the game to freeze temporarily after loading a save.
- Having a stat above 100 no longer prevents captains from using locomotive equipment.
- Dodging will no longer cause the player to take damage when attempted at the exact moment the locomotive overheats.
- The engineyard interface now updates when cargo is jettisoned.
- Qualities you no longer possess are now not displayed on the possessions and profile panels, instead of being displayed with a level of zero.
- Scrolling now works properly on the chart interface when using a 4k monitor and at the outskirts of a region.
- The opening animation will no longer repeat if you die before character creation.
- The Horror icon has been removed from the Well of Wonders.
- Titania's special prospects now provide more suitable rewards.
- Area names no longer overflow the area list on centre panels.
- Movement instructions at the beginning of the game now mention cruise control.
- The escape key once again closes the options menu while on the title screen.
Controller fixes
- Controller prompts no longer appear on interfaces when no gamepad is connected.
- There is now an appropriately located controller prompt for re-opening the centre panel while docked.
- Focus is now maintained on the tutorial interface.
- Tooltips are now displayed on the character progression interface.
- A feedback message is now given when attempting to equip officers and items while not docked.
- Trying to equip an item without meeting its stat requirements now results in appropriate feedback.
- Locomotive slot highlighting for equipped items is now clearer.
- It is now possible to cancel out of equipping an item.
- Interacting with interfaces after closing the chart will no longer sometimes cause your scout to set forth.
- Closing side panels will no longer remove focus from a centre panel.
- It is now possible to jettison items more than once while outside of ports.
- Pressing B within story branches to view branch requirements no longer closes the centre panel.
Content fixes
- The Clay Conductor's storyline may now always be completed, even if it requires him to be forthright about his feelings.
- The Heart-Catchers will now charge for their services.
- A Spider-Sweeper may now always sweep the well, as is proper.
- Skilled captains may no longer rinse the occupants of Langley Hall for their money via repeated games of cards.
- Captains will no longer accidentally stumble upon spiders at Langley Hall. Let it be known that Langley Hall is almost certainly not inhabited by spiders.
- The Unseen Queen will now reliably acknowledge your victory over a foe in a clocktower.
- Delivering the Sequencer's care package to Worlebury-juxta-Mare will no longer trigger an incongruous opportunity to deliver it to London.
- If you didn't share a moment with the Eccentric before completing her storyline, you may now do so.
- Sabotaging the activities of the Parsimonious Chairman will now conclude properly and result in a suitable reward.
- Temporarily backing out of a certain act when pursuing the Truth ambition will no longer make it impossible to complete.
- If Lord Rochester invites you to race to Titania, he will now actually turn up.
- The New Street Line story now provides more accurate directions as to the location of someone you need to meet.
- Captains who come down with a High Wilderness ailment will now always receive the one they should receive, and no other.
- It is no longer possible to impose statis on Hybras by dying at a certain point in the port's storyline. (If this has affected your game, performing any action at Hybras will resolve the problem.)
- Backing out of your own funeral will no longer forever bar you from receiving funerary rites.
- Rubbery Passengers will now only board your locomotive if you meet the requirements to convey them to their destination.
- A certain canine mascot will now wreak havoc a little less often, but also select the target of its affection with more determination.
- Defeating the final champion in a certain hidden ambition will now cause your journal to be updated correctly.
- Viewing the contents of a supply cache without actually taking any will no longer make you a debtor in the eyes of the Burrower Below and your crew.
- Returning to the Wreck of the Boatman will now never result in incongruous messages.
- The correct number of Experimental Modifications will now be deducted when acquiring a bathysphere.
- Successful mushroom foraging at Hybras will no longer give your captain food poisoning.
- Cricket matches are now a little less soothing.
- As usual, many typos have been laid to rest.