Welcome New Fishing Mechanic and Animations

We are constantly improving our in-game fishing techniques and creating new fishing opportunities for our players.
We want to introduce you to Pulling-up! It is a new fishing mechanic we are very excited to implement.

Read more about the New fishing mechanic in Developer Diaries.

Pulling-up consists of constant repeatable actions of sharply pulling the line, losing the line, reeling in the loose line and pulling it sharply again.

When fishing for a heavyweight fish, it is very important to safely take it out of water. In such cases we commonly use a landing net.

Landing Net For fish over 5 kg there is a landing net system as it is necessary to make sure big fish is caught safely.

The fish under 5kg is caught without a landing net, for the fish from 5 kg the landing net is not used only if the max load of the weakest element of the tackle is much stronger than the weight of the fish.
However in some cases the landing net can’t be used even if the fish is big enough, such as:

• Not enough time passed since the strike;
  
• Fish is too high above the surface or too deep below the water;
  
• Fish is not tired enough;
  
• Player is not looking towards the fish or there are obstacles between the player and the fish;
  
• While fishing from the boat, fish are not positioned in the area suitable for landing net usage.
  

We also would like to introduce the following improvements and changes:

• New reel rotation indicator;
  
• Updated line breaking system during “overloads” plus new fishing line or leash breaks Indicator;
  
• Updated wear system for lines and leaders;
  
• Updated reel breakage system: when the pressure is higher than the maximum the reel will start breaking. So be careful!
• New pulling up system for the large fish (fishing rod behavior optimization while pulling up, much more efficient);
  
• Fish behavior optimization;
  
• The system of big fish coming off the hook has been updated. If your tackle is not ready for a big catch the fish will come off without damaging it.
  

Animation Optimization:

• New Twitching animations;
  
• New Pulling animations;
  
• Landing net animation added;