Perfect Tides News

Welcome to the public beta of Perfect Tides 2.0!

PERFECT TIDES v2.0
for PC (Mac coming soonish!)

Welcome to the public beta of Perfect Tides with controller/Deck support + Achievements! Your experience playing Perfect Tides with either a gamepad or Steam Deck will be of enormous value prior to this release.

TO PLAY THE BETA:
-Go to “Perfect Tides” in your Steam library
-Right-click and select “Properties”, and select the “Betas” tab
-Under “Beta Participation”, select “controller-public-beta - Controller Support Public Beta”
-From here, Steam should download the latest build of this branch. Please note you will not be able to use your saves from previous public builds (but you can always disable this beta branch to get them back!)

NEW IN THIS VERSION:
-Overhauled UI system with new display windows for narration and speech
-Steam Achievements
-Computer IM conversations are now skippable at any time using the standard “skip” button/key, rather than a separate UI
-Active inventory cursors now have an arrow for easier clicking

THINGS TO LOOK FOR:
Some areas have had a lot of work - or are all-new - and I am particularly on the hunt the following:
-Improperly sized sprites
-Improperly sized dialog or UI windows
-Any errors involving the IM chat system
-Any errors involving Steam achievements

HOW TO GIVE FEEDBACK:
At this time, I no longer need feedback on story, or anything related to non-controller-specific gameplay (the game’s out, it is what it is!). The good stuff I’m looking for are:

-feedback on the feel and functionality of the gamepad/Steam Deck
-new bugs created by this update (if you’re not sure, report it!)
-feedback on the functionality and quality of Achievements

Please report these issues in the public “Beta Testing” channel on the Perfect Tides Discord server. Spoiler tags are not necessary given the age of the game.

And of course, please let me know if you played the game on Steam Deck or on your desktop with a gamepad. Thank you for the enormous help your feedback provides, and happy testing!

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Today I am delighted to bring you a first peek at Perfect Tides: Station to Station, the upcoming sequel to Perfect Tides.

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Hoping to have more (good) news for you soon!

Quick PC + Mac update coming at you today! This Mac update consolidates the previous updates from PC build 1.0.1.

Changes in this version:

• Volume slider now working correctly
  
• UI now notifies player when they’ve reached max saves (50)
  
• Framed close-ups can now be exited by pressing any key
  
• small bugs fixed
  
• lots of typos fixed
  

Known Issues:

Game music stutters when the user tabs out under fullscreen mode. This is a known AGS issue, and a fix I was attempting (that wasn't working) has been removed. I am still trying to find a decent fix for this. However, hopefully removing the aforementioned feature will improve game functionality overall.

Mac users have been reporting odd screen alignment when they start up their game in windowed mode. I'm looking into this, but for now, here is a workaround:

Click the green fullscreen button in the Mac OS window - the window will go fullscreen but be stretched out. However, if you click the green button again to go back, the window will fill correctly.

Or you can go to the settings at launch, and select "Fullscreen". The window should fill correctly.


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A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has played Perfect Tides since the release! As always, feel free to report any bugs in the Perfect Tides Discord.

So far so good with our very first release! This is just a quick patch for the PC build. Since these changes are so minor, and Mac builds are far more time-consuming, these changes will be folded into the next regular-sized update for Mac.

Changes in this version:

• fixed a bug that caused a collectable object to reappear
  
• moved some NPCs that were blocking a walk path
  
• fixed a typo
  
• fixed a UI bug that prevented the game from pausing when menus are open
  

Known Issues:

Mac users have been reporting odd screen alignment when they start up their game in windowed mode. I'm looking into this, but for now, here is a workaround:

Launch the game. Select "Settings" from the intro screen menu. Select "Fullscreen", then reselect "Windowed". This should bring the window into correct alignment.

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A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has played Perfect Tides since the release! And a giant thanks and sigh of relief to the pre-release testers, who have seemingly warded off anything catastrophic in the release build. As always, feel free to report any bugs in the Perfect Tides Discord.

Come and watch me play my own game, scrutinize small details, read everything in a really cool not annoying voice, and answer your questions!