Catan Universe News

Dear Catanians,
Server will go into maintenance mode at 11 am [CET]. The maintenance will take a few hours. During this time you won´t be able to play the game or log in.

We will try to keep the maintenance as short as possible.

Hi Catanians,

Tomorrow July 22nd at 2pm servers will go in maintenance mode. We will use the maintenance to roll out update 2.0.1.

Since we have been able to address quite some issues you have been reporting to us in the past weeks, we decided to release 2.0.1. See below the list of issues we addressed:

• (C&K) Warlord-Progress Card could been played without any effect

• (C&K) Fixed an issue, where the Crane could be used, without having any city on play

• (Special Scenarios – EnchantedLand) fixed Dragons strength value

• Improved Gamelog for Monopol-Card actions, when no player has the requested resource

• Fixed various issues, where players could/couldn’t see resource/commodity transactions between other players or discards to bank (Gamelog, flying cards, etc)

• City improvements could not be played, even though the player had the required commodity

• Fixed display of incorrect Elo values in the tool tip in the statistics end screen

• Fixed an issue where the players could not end the turn since the button wasn’t working

• Fixed an issue where a placed metropole was misplaced at the center of the tile

• Auto-zoom now disabled per default and can be activated in the in game menus

• Fixed issues with achievement progress

• (STEAM/Browser only) Added Developer/Progress Card overlay, when cards have been played

• (Mobile) Fixed an issue with layering cards and the resource bar

• (Mobile) Fixed various mobile UI issues (scaling/intersections...)

• (Mobile) Fixed an issue within leaderboards screen, where the expansion rankings could not be changed

• (Mobile) Fixed an issue, where the Prestige ranks haven´t been displayed correctly in the statistics screen

Catan Universe 2.0.0 Release

Unity 2019.3.x update

New Features

• new main menu UI (full reskin)
  

new flow → select single/multiplayer → expansion → game mode

• new “level progress screen”: shows rewards for players’ level progress
Raised experience level with new rewards from 20 to 25

• lvl 21: Asia-Pieces
• lvl 22: Orient-Tiles
• lvl 23: Set-Tinting 2
• lvl 24: Asia-Tiles
• lvl 25: Orient-Pieces

• New pet: Al Pacacino
  

• new sun system: suns can be used to play a singleplayer game of your choice
  

• emoji system
• matchmaking panel (in the top center, when matchmaking is started): show ‘player dots’
indicating how many players are found, e.g. 3 of 4 players → 3 filled, 1 empty dot
• Custom Match / Singleplayer Options: toggle for “Random start player” (incl. tooltips); crown indicates 1st player is the start player (incl. tooltip)


New account system

• registered users can play Catan First Island Custommatch for free in locked options, only 3 players
• Android and iOS users can purchase IAP (gold) without registration
• once they register with their all IAP and progress is transferred to their new “registered user account”

• Steam users have to register before buying in the shop. But they can play and level up before registering and all their progress will get transferred
  

• unregistered users can’t use the in game chat anymore

New in-game UI


Desktop:

• button click for normal build menu behavior → new in both
• desktop/mobile
• players can also drag&drop → already existing feature in the mobile
• version
• if candidates are shown: headline indicates “Select position for x”
• in-game options screen
• panels get translucent when trade board is opened → panels are sent to
• foreground on hover
• panels can be opened via keyboard keys ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, … (plus ‘enter’ for
• chat)
• panels can be pinned → in default ‘unpinned’ state, if the user clicks outside of the panel, it will be closed
• drag&drop cards, like in mobile version
• show cards on hover
• resource bar
• tooltips, like on mobile version
• new designed screens like ‘select player’, ‘select dice’, etc.
• new hide/show buttons, like in mobile version
• quick trade, like in mobile version
• game action ticker (on left bottom of the screen)
• shows actions of all players, like building, buying or playing cards, etc
• holding ‘alt’ key shows tooltips immediately (even if deactivated)
• almanac quick links: ‘shift’ + left mouse click on UI / board items shows almanac entry


Mobile and Desktop Version:

• better UI animation / badge / game overall flow
• dice animation before badges
• better “+/-x” animations & card animations
• opponents’ gamepieces are animated from their buildmenus to the board
• gamelog/chat: automatic scrolling to newest entry is deactivated as soon as scroll rect is
• not scrolled to bottom
• hints to UI → highlight on elements like playerframe, victory points, trade block,
• etc.
• show ingame menu → options, dice statistics
• new emjoii chat system
• board pieces animation on start / exit in-game: pieces fall onto table / fly away from it
• expansion screen → after a sun was used for a SP game, a hint to the shop is
shown in the loading screen (back to the main menu)
• hexagon animation when loading in-game
• new “it’s your turn” ticker
• drag&drop / build buttons show amount of game pieces left
• game log: added ‘players turn’ separator
• players own game pieces support physics


In-game camera Mobile and Desktop:

• automatic camera movement
• camera zooms/moves to new/destroyed buildings, and when ships,
knights, or the barbarians are moving
• enable/disable 2d camera
• enable/disable automatic camera movement
• move camera per screen edge - slider
• tooltip delay – slider



Desktop:

• movement per keyboard (arrow keys + WASD)
• movement when touching screen edge
• zoom towards mouse cursor position (before: centered zoom)

New in game shop system

• new purchase flow when not enough gold
→ ‘buy via gold’
→ shop opens, shows ‘gold’ category with overlay indicating how much gold is
needed
→ then, when purchased, opens ‘expansion’ category and selects the initial
expansion for purchase

New Tutorial steps

• new tutorial steps for camera movement, zoom & tilt

Dear Catanians,

today we are happy to announce that CATAN Universe 2.0 will release Monday June 29th!




As this is a bigger update we will put our servers into maintenance mode at 11 AM [CEST] on Monday for a couple of hours.

Additionally we'd like to share with you the new account and matchmaking structure in CATAN Universe 2.0.
It will now be possible to play single player games in CATAN Universe without registering an account as well as playing free-matches without chat functionality against other players.

Since the Scrolls will be replaced by Suns in the future the Auto Match will be reserved for players that registered an account and unlocked their desired game mode with Gold.
We hope that this will improve the quality of the ranked Auto Match play while still allowing our free users to play the game online as well as offline.

Thanks so much for your feedback in advance and we'll see you on the island.

Dear Catanians,

as promised today we are going to show you a first deeper look into the reworked UI in CATAN Universe 2.0. Those with keen eyes might also spot a future feature in this overview.

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We are eager for your feedback and we'll see you on the island!