Catan Universe News

Hi Catanians,

Patch 2.2.4 has been released on STEAM and the Browser. The iOS and Android will follow after they have been approved by the respective Stores. Version 2.2.3 and 2.2.4 are able to play with each other.

- Fixed sheep avatar in player profile
- Cards stolen by robbers are invisible again
- Moving the merchant to the same tile does not make him disappear anymore
- Fixed sounds when placing game pieces
- Added animations for treasure chest resource distribution
- Statistics screen now always has the correct own values
- Mobile only: "Hide Tradeboard" button no longer unresponsive

[h2]Fixed issues: [/h2]

• Resources now will get updated after the animation is over
  
• 4 player scenarios can now be played with only 3 players again
  
• ⅚ player Scenario Heading for new Shores won’t start with Fog on the main Island
  
• Rise of the Inka games won´t get stuck after Robber was moved from the board
  
• Rivals tutorials can now get started from chapter ⅘ again
  
• Fixed Gamelog entries for Great Canal scenario
  
• Canal building now gets triggered correctly every time
  
• Knights won´t disappear on “enchanted land” scenario
  
• Oceania 4 player now has the correct setup
  
• Friendly robber now works correctly for every scenario
  
• changed color of the robber to make it more distinguishable from player color grey
  
• Desktop only: Clicking on the city expansion panel does not trigger the board game physics anymore
  
• Mobile only: adapted click areas for filter settings in Automatches
  
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[h3]Fixes for tournament mode: [/h3]

• Clients won´t crash anymore if you search the list of participants
  
• Win Screen now shows correct values when only one human player is remaining
  
• Custom leaderboard now works as intended
  
• Lobby screens on iPads now scale properly
  
• Avatars in win screen now are always correct
  
• Played games are now added correctly to the leaderboard
  
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[h2]New features: [/h2]

• Reworked candidate (game pieces) placement system. This allows Catanians to perform other activities while the building animation takes place -> games feels smoother
  
• New color scheme for buttons on the trade board
  
• Singleplayer only: bandage display time is now connected to overall animation speed
  

[h3]New features tournament mode: [/h3]

• min/max games participants can play in a Tournament have been added
  
• Tournament Elo calculation has been changed coefficient has been set to 20 (normal Automatch is 8) -> One game has a much bigger impact on your Tournament Elo
  

• "only match player once" feature integrated. If activated by the tournament admin this won’t allow for reoccurring matchups of the participants.
  
• decreased level of participation for tournaments to level 2
  

Hi Catanians,

tomorrow June 23rd at 11 am [CEST] the server will go into maintenance mode. During maintenance, you won´t be able to log in or play. We will use maintenance to update the game to version 2.2.3. The full patch notes will be posted shortly.

Trade screen now is showing player trade correctly (when possible) as a default setting

IMPROVEMENTS:

Improved Matchmaking for Automatches
Knights can be moved via drag and drop again
Inka game pieces have the correct size in any circumstance
Color selection for game pieces considered correctly again