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Hey Anglers,
This year we have an unprecedented combination of Christmas festivities.
This year we bring you complete freedom to choose the adventures you like. You will be able to play Christmas Holiday Event and Krampus Hunt Event, or dare your luck to complete them all. You can choose missions you prefer or do all of them, and enjoy the Holidays as much as you want in a way you want.
The Christmas event starts on December 14th and will be available through January 5th.
Have yourself a great Christmas and join us on the Christmas adventures on Fishing Planet!

[h2]Christmas Holiday missions [/h2]
Welcome to Christmas Holiday adventures!
With Christmas back in town, there’s plenty of magic and festive excitement waiting for you!



This year, Christmas festivities are under threat! Santa’s sled was wrecked in a terrible snowstorm somewhere in Canada. Luckily, Santa is doing fine...but his reindeer went missing and all of the

Christmas presents are now scattered around the world!
Help Santa save Christmas by finding all of the lost Christmas presents and tree ornaments, Catch the mythical Crystal Burbot, complete challenges and, obviously, look for Present boxes on all waterways and get Fireworks for Christmas and New Year!

Travel to White Moose lake and find Santa's sleigh. Take Santa's gift bag. Hurry up, Santa really needs your help! Christmas is coming and there's not much time left!



Catch a required amount of Antlered Salmons to harness them in Santa’s sleigh instead of his runaway reindeer.
Keep in mind that Antlered Salmon bite best when someone launches fireworks.


Fill Santa's Bag as you explore the waterways by boat in search of lost gifts. You can find Green boxes on Emerald Lake, Blue boxes on Falcon Lake, White boxes on Tiber River, and Red boxes on White Moose Lake. Once you arrive at waterways, find Santa's bag on the pier to get started with the task of collecting boxes with presents!.


What a Holiday without a Christmas Tree, so do not waste time, find lost decorations and decorate the Tree.

*Fireworks increase the chance to catch decorated fish.


Winter is all about snow, so spend some time on snow fighting with other players!

*Hit certain number of players with Snowballs

Complete Christmas Achievements and Missions and get festive rewards!
Get an exclusive Christmas rod stand in the form of a jolly snowman and delightful Santa-themed lure box!


Check Gift Boxes that you can find at every event location.

Summon Crystal Burbot!
Complete all missions and get your chance to find out what is waiting for you in the water of White Moose. Make sure to join our fairytale fishing adventure with the good old Crystal Burbot, fantastic Antlered Salmon, and Furry Trout, fireworks and festive excitement!


Have fun catching these magical Christmas fish, while the fireworks are blasting, and complete the Myth Buster and Deer Hunter challenges to get unique holiday rewards.


You can also try to complete the Fishy Racing challenge and get Elven Kayak as a prize!

[h2]Embrace the spirit of Christmas fishing adventures with this fun and magical Holiday Pack![/h2]


[h2]Are you ready to join the Krampus Hunt adventure?[/h2]

The holiday is lost without your help, since the Krampus troublemakers have stolen Santa’s glasses, Beard and Hat. Find the villains and return the stolen things!

Look for special treats, Christmas Tokens and Fireworks in Stockings.

[h3]Christmas festivities are under threat! only YOU can save Christmas:[/h3]

You need to locate the old troublemakers, capture them and return the things they've stolen.


You can find them by questioning their accomplices, who have decided to follow them and make mischief around. Because of their innate ability to lie, you'll have to catch a score of them.
Get your rods ready!

[h3]Amazing Christmas baits will help you to attract the fairy villains and their minions.[/h3]

Mega Cookie Bait
If you take a couple of Ginger Cookies and fill them with magic, the special power of Christmas pastry will create an ideal bait.


Use Christmas baits for better catch:

And, of course, enjoy traditional Christmas treats - Ginger Cookies

These amazing Christmas baits will help you to catch Krampus Fish: Unlucky Krampus Tarpon, Clumsy Krampus Eel, Crumbling Krampus Payara.


You can locate the thieves by following their minions, who can be lured out with bait treats, sweet pastry groundbait and magical jukeboxes.


Magical Jukeboxes also are a useful way to attract the minions.
Activate Jukeboxes by using Christmas tokens**.

*Settled on some event locations.
** Get Christmas tokens by completing the event missions.

Do not forget about Christmas gifts that you can find at event locations. Just check Christmas Stockings.

Your efforts will be generously rewarded with Christmas gifts!

[h2]Enjoy this year's Christmas with an excellent Krampus Catcher Pack![/h2]
The Krampus Сatcher Pack contains a special set of treats and tackle which includes an excellent assortment of festive season feeders, delicious baits for sweet-toothed fish, a keepnet and, naturally, a celebratory firework and everything that the whole team of the best elf engineers has worked with their magic tools and homemade goods



Also, don't miss our Christmas special packs full of great angling treats!



Hush! Collect Christmas presents, hidden around all waterways!
Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year!

Hello guys! This time we’d like to invite you to join the most sizable Tournament of the year - the Christmas Giant’s Tour! This event isn’t about any particular kind of fish, the key rule here - the bigger the better… and not just big… but GIGANTIC!

Yep, we’re talking super-huge Trophy-sized monsters: Trout, Pike, Salmon, Burbot, Catfish, Muskies, Bass, Gar, Snook, Dolly Varden… The list can go on and on! It’s not the name, it's the size that matters.

Christmas Giant’s Tour will be held December 12th through December 17th. The registration is now open, don’t miss your chance to participate!

Tournament’s timetable is as follows:
11th of December - Registration for the Tournament begins.
12th of December - Qualifier 1 on the snowy White Moose Lake way out in Canada.
13th of December - Qualifier 2 on Michigan’s Saint-Croix Lake.
14th of December - Qualifier 3 on Florida’s Everglades.
16th of December - Semifinal Round on the mesmerizingly beautiful Kaniq Creek in Alaska.
17th of December - the Grand Finale on California’s San Joaquin Delta.

Enjoy your chance to get a Christmas Giant's Pack with all the terminal tackle, equipment and licenses you need!


This is the top tier, folks, and we’re getting ready for some heavyweight fishing.
Tight lines!

Hey Anglers,
In today's update, we addressed several important issues connected to Leagues:

Fixed the timing of Club Points calculation for the competitive activity started before the beginning of the Season. There were a few cases of incorrect reward for the competitive activity on the first day of the Season that are solved with this update. The rewards correction will be performed today.

Added Club Points Penalty for using too strong tackle for fishing small fish. Like with an XP modifier, when debiting Club Points for a caught fish, the difference between the maximum tackle load and a fish weight will be taken into account.

Other bug fix:

• Fixed an issue with an incorrect hint in the Tutorial
  
• Fixed an issue with an incorrect replacement of a lure on a spinning setup template from the Wild Africa pack
  

Thank you for your reports and suggestions. We hope these improvements will enhance your in-game experience. Don't forget that our Support and Feedback channels on Discord are available for your input.

Tight lines and happy fishing!

Hello, fellow anglers!

This patch includes:

• Leagues and Clubs: minor bug fixes and improvements
  
• Fixed a System Channel in Chat for system messages
  

Other bug fix:

• Fixed a bug with the fish display on the casting rod in the third-person view
  
• Fixed an issue with finish point in custom competitions
  
• Fixed an issue with incorrect fish behavior and physics bugs while fishing with several rods from the rod stand in case when fish is taken out of the water and the rod is put back on the stand
  
• Fixed an issue with saving the boat position when player leaves the boat
  
• Fixed an issue with photo mode performance after switching rooms
  
• Fixed an issue with spawn point when logging out of the game occurring when player is in kayak
  
• Fixed an issue with the boat keep being anchored when player gets into the boat (now as soon as the player is in the boat - the anchor disengages)
  
• Fixed an issue with the terminal tackle behavior in third-person view when avatar is holding fish
  
• Fixed an issue with an incorrect fish position, which was encountered in the third-person view
  

Hello, fellow Anglers!

First day of winter brings a long anticipated start of our first ever League Season on Fishing Planet!

The first Season of leagues will take place this winter and starts today. We cannot wait to welcome everyone to become a part of this historical event. Symbolically we decided to name the first League season Icebreaking Angler Rivals.

As we had a chance to introduce you to Leagues in one of our DevDiaries, you may already know what to anticipate and today you will learn all the details about the upcoming adventure.




Club Leagues is a brand new game mode and your opportunity to start from scratch in a race to bring your Club into the spotlight. Clubs will compete with each other in weekly Championships that are held during the Season by earning Club Points for their activity.

A Season is a long term competition between Clubs that typically lasts between 60 and 90 days. In the beginning and by the end of each Season all the Clubs will receive an applicable notification.

The results will be presented in the Season Leaderboard. The most successful Clubs in each League will be working their way up, from the Beginner League to the highest Legendary League. The ranking system will bring bonuses, new opportunities and unique limited-edition trophies to the top listed Clubs and all their members.

The activity of each member throughout the Season adds Club Points to the Club count. You’ll have to use all your skill, knowledge, and determination to build a workable strategy along with your clubmates – before someone else snatches the victory from you.

The Club participation in Leagues Season will bring lots of benefits to each member. Such as:

• You’ll get a platform to benefit not only from using your skills but also from your overall time and every in-game activity with your clubmates
  
• Moving up the leaderboard will bring you more and more XP and credits for catching fish
  
• Weekly rewards for winning the Championships to step up your fishing game
  
• Get acknowledged by your clubmates for your contribution and activity
  
• And last but not least, this is your chance to bring your Club to the victory and become a part of the Club known by the whole community of Fishing Planet
  

We anticipate Leagues to create an engaging and competitive experience for Clubs by giving them goals to strive for and a sense of progression as the clubmates improve their skills.



First League Season: Icebreaking Angler Rivals starts today, on December 1st at 12:00 UTC and will be active until February 21st, 2024 10:00 UTC.

The first season will hold 10 Championships. The first Championship will begin in a week after the start of the season, on December 8. The First season duration is 3 months.

Each club that has accumulated 300 or more Club points by the start of the first Championship (Dec 8) will automatically participate in the Season.

The participating Clubs will be divided into Divisions and start competing inside of their Division. Each division will have the winners who will move further and those with lower performance will move down to the lower League. The only exception is the Beginner League, where all remaining clubs will compete again and again for further evaluation.

At the start of the Season, all participating clubs will be assigned to the Beginner League.

If your club hasn't accumulated 300 or more Club Points by the start of the first Championship, you still have the opportunity to earn this required amount before the beginning of one of the following weekly Championships, enter the race in the Beginner League and compete for the main rewards.



There will be seven Leagues, categorized by the Clubs’ levels:

• The Beginner League
  
• The Rookie League
  
• The Professional League
  
• The Expert League
  
• The Master League
  
• The Elite League
  
• The Legendary League
  

The higher the League, the more bonuses and rewards the Clubs and all their members will receive.

Your Club’s journey will depend on your skills and activity. The positioning between the Leagues will depend on the total amount of Club Points earned during the weekly Championships.

All participating Clubs in each League will be divided into Divisions and start competing inside of their Division.

Each Division will consist of approximately 7 to 10 Clubs. Clubs in the same division will compete against each other for the top-4 positions in the Beginner League and top 3 in the next levels Leagues. Securing one of the top positions in the League allows a club to move to the next level League.

Some clubs that do not qualify for promotion to the next League will either remain in the current League or be dropped down to the previous League. The fate of these Clubs will depend on the club points earned and the ranking of clubs that jumped Up from the previous league.

Exceptions:

• For the first Beginner League, the category "To Drop Down" is absent; there is no possibility of moving below the first League.
  
• For the last Legendary League, the category "To Jump Up" is absent; there is no opportunity to move higher than the seventh league.
  

If there is no possibility to form at least one Division in one particular League for the weekly Championship, the League will not be established. All clubs will be transferred to a lower League and continue competition there.

Best Clubs of each Championship get unique rewards. While moving up from the Beginner League, your club and each member will get more valuable bonuses and benefits, including additional XP and in-game money.



Club Points of a Club is a total count of Club Points gained by all the Club members.

Club members earn Club Points by catching fish in the club room, and points will be awarded based on the type of fish and the number of players in the Club Room.

You will see the amount of Club Points with the start of the Season. Club Points are not being transferred to the next Season, it means every new Season starts from scratch. If a member leaves their Club in the middle of the Season, the Club Points earned by this member will be removed from the Club Points count of the Club.




Legendary League will be different from the others. First of all this is the plaсe where the strongest Clubs of the Season compete with each other and an absolute goal for all the Clubs to get to but there is more.

All lucky ones who get to the Legendary League will need to compete against each other. Unlike the previous Leagues, in the Legendary League the Clubs will not be divided into divisions. All clubs that advanced to it will compete for their place on the Leaderboard.

Only a half of Clubs will be able to remain in the Legendary League after the weak Championship results, the other half will move to the Elite League.



After the Season concludes, the process of season review will take approximately two days. You can see the Season rewards in the game in the Season Reward window.

Top-10 Clubs with the highest number of Club Points will receive the Season rewards and of course the Season Trophy. All the Club members of the winning Club will receive the reward, meaning it doesn’t depend on their individual contribution, but if a member leaves the Club before the season review is done, the reward will not be sent to this member.



With the start of the Leagues we introduce a new currency - Club Tokens. This special currency can be earned and spent in Club activities.

Club Tokens can be earned by winning weekly Championships and in the League Seasons.

The Club currency also could be obtained from the new Club Enthusiasts Pack with a huge amount of Club tokens.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1804849/Fishing_Planet_Club_Enthusiast_Pack/

Additionally, all club members are able to donate their Club Tokens for common Club goals and needs. For example, as a club you can spend your Club Tokens on new logo elements. In the future with the next iteration of Leagues you will be able to buy new Club Series items in the Global Store.



And last but not least, we will be paying all our attention to the fairness of the competitions. Every weekly Championship will be reviewed in order to detect and penalize abuse.

If a player is disqualified, their points will be revoked and deducted from the total Club Points. However, the Club continues to participate in the Championship and the Season.

If a club is disqualified, all its members lose the opportunity to compete for prizes in championships and the main season prize. They could join another club or create a new one. But please note, that the Club Points will be revoked and you will need to start from scratch.


In the end, let’s do a little summary of all the important points related to Leagues.

[h3]Season:[/h3]

• A period of time when competitions are held.
  
• Clubs compete for the main rewards and the top place during this time.
  

[h3]Championships:[/h3]

• The main component of a season that divides the season time into smaller segments.
  
• Clubs gain club points and receive evaluations during the championship.
  

[h3]Division:[/h3]

• An organizational element during a championship.
  
• As there could be around 300 clubs during the championship, dividing by divisions helps rank clubs and provides more chances for evaluation and potential advancement to the next league.
  
• Similar to dividing by groups.
  

[h3]League:[/h3]

• A ranking element based on the competitive activities of a club and the amount of club points it earned. Represents evaluation levels, ranging from The Beginner to the most advanced Legendary League.
  

[h3]Club Points:[/h3]

• An evaluation element influencing the club's position in the leaderboard and the final evaluation for determining the winner of the season. Can only be gained through club activities (Fishing in the same club room, winning competitions and tournaments) during an active Season.
  

[h3]Club Tokens:[/h3]

• A new in-game currency specific to the club. Obtainable during the season or through the in-game store. Can be spent on Club-Series Items (coming soon) or club-related items. It cannot be exchanged for other in-game currencies.
  

If you made it this far, we hope we've covered everything in a way that makes sense. But if you have still got any questions or uncertainties, we're right here for you. Don't hesitate to drop your questions in the comments below.

Good luck, Anglers, and let the Icebreaking Angler Rivals begin!