Professional Fishing News

So, here we are! It took us a while but we finally did it. Today we bring a totally new interface for our game and a few other things.

Hope you will like the changes that we made. Please, welcome the 1.1 update!


Version: 1.1
Added / New:

• New interface
  • fish species are visible on the map selection screen,
    
  • the selection of lures and equipment takes place by pressing the icon. You no longer have to drag & drop items.
    
  • the name of the map and room number is displayed in the game interface,
    
  • player profile is now also available from the fishery,
    
  • new music in-game menu,
• New catch camera - 3rd person view for fish weighing over 5 kg,
  
• Fish weighing over 5 kg can be sold without leaving the map,
  
• Tips of some floats now glow at night,

Changes:

• VIP account
  • level requirements:
    From today's update, the VIP account will no longer unlock all maps and items. The new VIP system lowers the required level for equipment and maps by 6 levels.
    The rest of the VIP account functionality remained unchanged.
  
  
  
• Items durability
  Lures, lines, and other consumable items wear out only if you caught or lost the fish.
  
  
• Russian map:
  • new lake in the middle of the forest,
    
  • terrain modification near the start location,
  
  
  
• Increased number of fish on some maps,
  

What can I say - just turn on the game and tell us what you think about it! The team did a really great job.






Since today's update, the VIP account has been slightly changed. Many people complained that playing the game with VIP was becoming pointless for them - because everything in the store, as well as all maps, are already unlocked. So we decided to make a small change - from today the VIP account reduces the required level by 6 levels.

How does it look in practice?
Normal account: Sakura Mitsio (required level 24)
VIP account: Sakura Mitsio (required level 18)

This is quite a significant change, so we will want to conduct a survey and get to know your opinion on the changes introduced in update 1.1.




Many players complained about the rapid wear of consumables. Therefore, we decided to change it and from now, all consumables items will wear out only after a successful catch or fish lose (line broke, etc.).




A small change, but important as any other! Some floats glow now at night! Night fishing should be much easier now!


So it's finally here! Thanks to everyone for participating in the open beta tests! Thanks to you, we have improved a few things and we hope that big fish will look really big now!



Kind Regards,
Rafał - Project Manager in Ultimate Games S.A.

Good evening,
servers are up and running. If you will experience any issues with connection - please let us know.

Tomorrow we will add 2 VIP days for everyone (even for users without premium).

Thank you for your patience.

Kind Regards,
Rafał

Update | 01/03/2019 21:20 (CET)
Servers are up and running. If you will experience any issues with connection - please let us know.

Update | 01/03/2019 21:00 (CET)
Problems occur in the server room of our supplier. The company tries to locate the fault.

ETA: none

First post | 01/03/2019 14:34 (CET)
Dear Players,
we are experiencing some server-side issues, therefore, there may be problems with running the game and infinity loading screen.


We ask for your understanding.

Regards,
Rafał

Hello everyone,
Today we are officially releasing a public beta for everyone who wants to try new features earlier and help us find bugs before live version.

We hope that thanks to the beta tests of new features - we will be able to eliminate minor bugs or implement proper changes and/or adjustment.

• New trophy view for fish with weight over 5 kg,
  
• Ability to sell/release fish in catch summary screen,
  
• Changed wels model (2k textures, more bones, additional animations),
  

1. Right-click on Professional Fishing,
   
2. Choose properties,
   
3. Enter "BETAS" tab,
   
4. Choose from drop-down list "beta-public",
   
5. Press "Ok", download the build.
   

As always we want to ask for your feedback. You can send bug reports through an in-game reporter or post them at steam subforum:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/798420/discussions/6/


Today we are releasing a beta version of 3rd person trophy view. It is a long awaited feature and will allow us to reflect the correct appearance (scale) of the fish.




As we mentioned in the last "What's Next" diary, our team is working on a new user interface. So let's take a look in the store:


Remember! Everything that what you will see here is work-in-progress footage. This will/may change with a final release.

Kind Regards,
Rafał - Project Manager in Ultimate Games S.A.

Good morning everyone,
I hope you have a bad mood because I've some good news for you :)

Our small team works in the sweat of their foreheads to introduce profound patches and new features to Professional Fishing. What? I will talk about some of them below :)

Remember! Everything that what you will see here is work-in-progress footage.



Since the game launch, many people have complained about the quality and readability of the GUI in the game. We have never denied that it is good, on the contrary - we said you were right. Our small team has found some time and is working on a completely new UI.

What are its assumptions?

Simple - Readable - Functional

I wonder what it will look like? Here's a small preview :)


Tell us how do you like it!


We have already mentioned this recently and would like to inform you that the changes are going very smoothly. We try to adjust the size of the fish in relation to the player's form based on real pictures of fish and fishermen in reality.





We hope you will enjoy the final result.

With the new scaling of fish, many of them will be 'huge' which will require a new view of the trophy (from a different perspective). More about it below :)


Many people - including us, wanted to introduce large (really huge!) fish that will delight players with their size. Due to having only one trophy view (fish) - from the first person perspective, it was hard for players to enjoy the view of huge honkers!

We finally decided to implement this idea and we started working on the view of the trophy from a different perspective. Below you will find a screenshot.

Reminder: that what you see is work-in-progress footage.






This is probably the most difficult question. As I mentioned before, the whole team works in the sweat of their brows. Both UI and Trophy View require a lot of work, which translates into huge amounts of time.

• UI ETA - end of February / March
  
• Trophy View ETA - end of February
  
• Fish scale - end of February
  

*ETA - estimated/expected time of arrival

What do you think about upcoming features and changes? Write in the comments!

Kind Regards,
Rafał - Project Manager in Ultimate Games S.A.