Boat Crew News

Early Access v1.8.0.10 Experimental

- Fixed player crews not being synced properly from client to client players, broken in EA v1.8.0.9 Experimental.
- Clients should now be notified when host is paused.
- Networked engagement preview clipboard show up and engagement start sound cues.
- Fixed desyncs in engagement friendlies/enemies progress bar.
- Fixed clients being able to cancel engagement clipboard.
- Fixed clients being able to access save/load.
- UI sorting adjustments for Steam profile overlays.
- Clients now get warning when trying to access electronics.
- Fixed missing call-in contents of call-in award messages forwarded to clients.
- Fixed duplicate observation news messages for clients.
- Localization support backend expansion tests.

Certain known issues may still persist.

This update is bringing significant improvements to game frame rate in large battles and co-op. Crew should also be smarter when it comes to loading guns. Longlasting audio cutoff issues present in large battles have finally been solved.

Early Access v1.8.0.9 Experimental

- Ships with destroyer-sized guns larger will now fire at longer ranges and fire with tighter salvo patterns. Innate gun accuracy is reduced to compensate and make for a more natural spread.
- Loader tasks are now evaluated based on how much ammo exists in a gun rather than how much the gun needs to be fully supplied.
- Removed water deflection from player 5-inch shell.
- Significant optimizations to simulation, audio, and networking.
- Alternate VFX rendering setup to render things like flak puffs efficiently.
- Improved networked crew synchronization rate.
- Including outside of combat, crew now run when there is a gun that needs more than a box of ammo to be filled up in reserve ammo.
- Changes to gun aiming threshold calculation to stop them from firing at targets prematurely.
- Subtle turn rate nerfs to Oerlikon guns.
- Fixes to player being visible upon starting engagements with crafts that can launch planes.
- Fixed audio cutoff issues in heated battles.
- Fixed crew not turning to the source of item pickup.
- Fixed an issue preventing gunners from moving on to other enemy weapons on a target when one is destroyed while the target is still locked.
- Fixed Elco 80' front meatchopper stand shape.

Certain known issues may still persist.

* Client to client on deck crew visual sync is known to fail in this build.

Early Access v1.8.0.8 Experimental

★ Added 5-inch 25 caliber deck gun as a main gun option to the sub chaser.
- Campaign engagement start spawn handling rewrite.
- Heavier cruisers are now able to fire up to 5000m with their main guns.
- Bofors 40 mm direct damage increased from 50 to 250.
- 3" gun AP shell base damage increased from 600 to 800.
- 3" gun AP shell splash damage increased from 200 to 400.
- Gun fire will now illuminate their surroundings.
- Muzzle flash particle emission handling and material changes.
- The upper dialog box is now networked.
- Networked ground positions randomized internal objects better synchronized.
- Networked spectator camera now transitions immediately between players.
- Clients no longer see the engage prompt in campaign map.
- Added UI hint for shift to magnify, moved binoculars hint to the left.
- Crew is no longer scanned for selection when magnified.
- Fixed a glitch that occasionally prevented certain ships from firing their weapons.
- Fixed Atlanta cruiser unable to fire side main guns.
- Fixed Nisshin unable to fire AA guns.
- Fixed ones of the bofors broken hand crank.
- Fixed dual bofors alternate barrel not recoiling.
- Fixed Jingei having a glitched draft rendering in LODs
- Fixed changing boats causing torpedo UI to have outdated information from last boat.
- Fixed minimap position synchronization when spectating.

Certain known issues may still persist.

Early Access v1.8.0.7 Experimental

- Fixed host being stuck on map unable to move when all of hosts crew had been downed with permadeath status upon sinking.
- Minor networking code optimizations.
- Reduced networking tick rate from 60 to 30 to reduce host load and fps drops, this may be increased again later after further networking code optimizations.
- Boat acceleration and engine cooling ratings are displayed again as the interrupting feature is being delayed.

Certain known issues may still persist.

You may now easily sort characters based on veterancy or attributes.



The smart-fill and auto-empty boat buttons should also prove to be useful.



Early Access v1.8.0.6 Experimental

- Added character management quality of life features. Sort by levels and attributes, smart fill and quick empty characters from crafts.
- Engagement preview clipboard now shows target group distance and orientation at the bottom.
- Crew is now invulnerable to overboard by impact/explosions when they are within PC-461 sub chaser helm.
- Combat heat gain is now distributed between co-op players. If a kill is credits all players, heat gain from that kill is the same as would be in singleplayer.
- Clients now see a feedback message when they request call-ins.

- Networked crew held items desync fix.
- Fixed crew sometimes clipping into slopped surfaces (often seen in Elco 77')
- Fixed squadron hold position markers no longer visible in singleplayer.
- Fixed singleplayer squadron boats not syncing camos on spawn consistently anymore.
- Fixed occasional networked camo color pattern sync issues through alternate way of syncing player camos.
- Fix attempt for co-op players unable to see named ships variations after a few engagements.
- Fixed potential cause of dialog box enter to continue key becoming broken.
- Fixed holding enter not fast forwarding text.
- Removed redundant color option for one of the Higgins 78' camo patterns.
- VFX no longer has a spawn cap.
- Certain VFX related memory optimizations.
- Certain telemetry errors handling.


Certain known issues may still persist.



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