Ultimate Fishing Simulator News

Hello Everyone,
as we were writing a few times - 2024 will be a year of changes for the Ultimate Fishing Simulator game. There will be many small changes and many BIG ones. And today it's time to reveal the big thing officially.

[h2]Ultimate Fishing Simulator will be remastered! The new version will be available as a FREE UPDATE for everyone![/h2]

You probably wonder - what does that mean? So here is the short answer! We will update the game for one of the newest Unity with HDRP support. All in-game maps will be REDONE from scratches, all in-game graphics will be updated, and here is the "general" list for remaster:

Game Rework | Basic (FREE)

• Upgrade to the Unity HDRP 2022 LTS
  
• New water system
  
• New weather system
  
• All base game maps redesign
  
• New water physics
  
• Full VR rework
• UI improvements
  
• Controller improvements
  
• LWR 3.0 + randomizer for all fish in the game
  
• Gameplay mechanics improvements

Game Rework | DLC (FREE)

• All DLC maps redesign

And this is just the beginning. We are already working on the map re-design and we can share today with you the first pictures of Betty Lake:



And yes, VR rework - means we are doing IT from scratch. The whole VR will be redone to make this a true "fishing" experience in VR.

Do you think that is big news? So here is the true bomb.

[h2]FULL MULTIPLAYER SUPPORT will be added in 2025 as a FREE UPDATE. [/h2]

Yes, that is right. There are many things in our schedule so it will be better to show you the ROADMAP for 2024-2025. Some things we can't reveal yet (TBA) but you can expect MORE MAPS, MORE FISH, and bigger challenges.



[h2]WELCOME ULTIMATE FISHING SIMULATOR VR (app) owners![/h2]
As some of you may noticed (or did not) since January 19th, 2024 - Ultimate Fishing Simulator VR & VR DLCs are NO LONGER available in the Steam store.

Everyone - who owned a UFS VR (app) or VR DLCs - received the same content in Ultimate Fishing Simulator (app) and all owned DLCs.

The VR app will be no longer updated (besides the last patch) and is officially EOL & EOS (end-of-life, end-of-support). The reason for that as we said in the previous announcement is in general to UNITE everyone, so finally NON-VR players can play with VR players - faster updates, easier support, and so on.

So here is a short sum-up of how it worked. IF YOU HAD THIS > YOU GET THIS:

Ultimate Fishing Simulator VR > Ultimate Fishing Simulator + VR DLC
Ultimate Fishing Simulator VR: Moraine Lake DLC > Ultimate Fishing Simulator: Moraine Lake DLC
Ultimate Fishing Simulator VR: Kariba Dam DLC > Ultimate Fishing Simulator: Kariba Dam DLC

...and so on! :)


[h3]But what with your saves and progress in Ultimate Fishing Simulator VR? It's lost?[/h3]
We just released an update to the game which detects if you played the Ultimate Fishing Simulator VR. If you did and you have saves you can MIGRATE them to the Ultimate Fishing Simulator game.

Important: Migrating will OVERRIDE your existing saves from the UFS NON-VR game, so choose wisely! If you don't want to decide now and do that later, you can do this by using our external windows (.bat) script file available > HERE <

Here you can check that the file is completely SAFE for use:

• https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/f0fecdb405dd82780ac644cd2c9fc3e401a29e45814ccf168e3e8f97808821bf
• https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/356af7f2de6826e500f6442584b14d37794125555855f91f9a3d270719e0066f/detection

I think we didn't say that in the separate post and it is still not a dedicated post for this but... we are inviting everyone to join our ultimate fishing Discord server where you can do..... just the regular stuff you do on Discord + additionally Chat with us (XD).

https://discord.gg/5AnMchrWYZ

So that's all for today! We hope to read your feedback, thoughts, and suggestions!

Tight Lines Anglers!

Changelog:

• Fixed hook size being #4 instead of #12 for "new accounts"
  
• Fixed problems with fish on Betty Lake for new players

Changes to be considered in the future update:

• Increase fishing net size min. weight to 15kg

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Changelog:

• Implementation of the new LWR 3.0 for all Florida fish*:
  
  • Atlantic goliath grouper
    
  • Atlantic tarpon
    
  • Black drum
    
  • Black sea bass
    
  • Blackfin tuna
    
  • Blacktip shark
    
  • Gray snapper
    
  • Little tunny
    
  • Red drum
    
  • Spinner shark
    
  • Tiger shark
    
  • Blue Marlin
    
  • Mahi-Mahi
    
  • Yellowfin Tuna
• Fixed Blue Marlin not biting (circling the lure/bait)
  
• Fixed Atlantic Tarpon not biting (circling the lure/bait)
  
• Fixed Aquarium UI missed text
  
• Fixed Boat colliders
  
• Big Tiger sharks show on the water's surface instead of in the hands
  

[h3]Length-Weight Relationship 3.0 (LWR)[/h3]
Hello everyone,
as you can read above we just implemented a new LWR for Florida fish species that is as true to real life as possible. We received a lot of information regarding fish not having proper weight or length, or their look (scale) not being properly related to other weights.

So we took a little investigation into the system, tested a few different things, how the scale works, and created a few kaiju-sized monsters...



In the end, we discovered that some additional factors influenced the fish scale and weight. After a short discussion, we decided to make huge modifications to this system, and right now each fish in Florida has an individual correlation to length and weight. That means each fish from Florida right now has a different mass gain in kilograms [lb] per centimeter [ft]. Moving further, we all know that if in real life you catch 10 fish and hypothetically each of them is 60 cm in length, each one of them would have a different weight.

So, we also implemented this in LWR 3.0. That means every fish in specific weight can vary in weight in range from 0.9 to 1.05. To show that more in numbers, let's give you an example.

Blacksea Bass | Length 30 cm | Randomizer: Off

The LWR 3.0 will tell us that the weight for 30cm Blacksea Bass should be 0.52 kg.

And here comes the randomizer. Who likes to catch 30cm fish, with 0.52kg weight whole the time? Randomizer allows to generation of fish that are wary in weight.

Blacksea Bass | Length 30 cm | Randomizer: ON

Fish weight range: 0,468 - 0.546 kg

The bigger the fish, the wider "range" will be. But you get the point I hope!

Is this available for all fish? If NO. why?
This is now only available for fish listed in the changelog. It's due to a lot of data that we need to prepare and count. For Florida, we simply created the LWR charts but the game didn't calculate it properly which caused so many issues with Tiger Shark. But - don't worry.

We will implement this system to all 136 fish species in the Ultimate Fishing Simulator.

Once again, we would like to thank you for your feedback, support, and time to tell us what is in your opinion not working properly. Sometimes fixes are easy and sometimes we need to dig deep and do proper research but in the end - we hope you are happy with the final results.

Ah, also - in terms of "scale". While researching it we found that there are a few other things in the game "out of scale" that we will fix one by one in the future. We will let you know what & when will be changed shortly! :)

Regards,
UFS1 Team

[h2]Changelog[/h2]

• Updated LWR for Florida fish species to reflect fish weight properly
  
• Changes in fish spawns (to cover more areas)
  
• Fort optimization
  
• Ports optimization
  
• Performance optimization
  
• Fixed Blacktip shark missing in lodge
  
• Fixed lionfish in the lodge
  
• Fixed aquarium fish statistics
  
• Fixed gray snapper in the encyclopedia