Professional Fishing News

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.

Hello everyone!
We are releasing a new game update which should bring some bug fixes and promised Sakura© casting reels.

Version: 1.0.19

Added / New:

• New reels:
  Casting:
  
  • Sakura© Kuanza 2.0 (black),
    
  • Sakura© Kuanza 2.0 (white),

Changes:

• Increased physical reels durability,
  
• Lowered required level for maps,

Fixes:

• Fixed critical gameplay bug that makes game unplayable,
  
• Fixed fish species duplication in "wiki fish",
  
• Fixed server auto-ban security, that was banning people at Bass Marshland map,
  
• Small correction in in-game texts (descriptions, etc.)
  

In recent days, several people have been banned in the game with displayed ban reason as: "catching fish".

It was caused by wrong server-side anti-cheat configuration at our new map - Bass Marshland.

We were trying to unban everyone as fast as we can. If you are still banned without a reason, please create a ticket here: https://professionalfishing.freshdesk.com

Of course, everyone is compensated in the form of VIP days and cash in the game.


After a few days of searching for errors and the reasons for their creation, we finally succeeded - we found the source of problems and eliminated them. We would like to apologize to everyone for this event. If with the update 1.0.18, your game ceased to be unplayable, I would very much ask you to create a support ticket. We'll compensate for your lost time.


Soon, we should release also a new patch, which will introduce major changes to the fish scaling system. Thanks to this, large fish will finally look big. This system involves many other things, such as a new system of pulling fish out of the water and fish presentation (you wouldn't be able to hold 60kg catfish in real-life). Unfortunately, we can't do this at the same time and we have to do things one by one.

Here is a sneak peek of 55kg wels catfish:


Therefore - first we will release a patch with a new fish scaling system and later the other ones.


Many times you mentioned on the forum that the reels are too weak, so we decided to make some change introducing more realism. The durability of the reel will be several times greater.

Why? Until now, the value of the drag in the reels corresponded to the weight of the fish he could pull out. However, as we know, in reality, it looks a bit different, because the "water buoyancy" works on fish, which makes them seem lighter when we pull them. We've introduced a similar rule to the game, so reels are now 'stronger'. We hope you will be satisfied with it.


Also in the next patch, we should release a new wels catfish model which will have higher quality textures and more bones. It will allow us to show in another way how the player holds fish, ex:


Also, our 3D designer is working on new catfish species, how you could see above :) First new catfish will be - "Flathead"


Hope you like it :)

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

Hello everyone,
today we are releasing our first big update containing a new map, few new fish species, new equipment, and a few bug fixes.



In this update, we focused on players feedback regarding fish species in USA map - more accurately - on the bass species (we should change species on old USA map soon). Together with them, we are also releasing casting rods and reels* (*we will add more of them next week).

Bass Marshland is a vast swamp, located in North America. A characteristic feature for them is that without a boat you can not move between islands, so if you can't swim - better don't go here. In Bass Marshland you'll find many bass species, including peacock bass, striped bass, crappie and much more. Rumors say that the largest Striped had 57 kg!

Version: 1.0.18

Added / New:

• New map - Bass Marshland,
  
• New fish species:
  • Pumpkinseed
    
  • Bluegill
    
  • Black crappie
    
  • White crappie
    
  • Peacock bass
    
  • Smallmouth bass
    
  • Striped bass
    
  • Brook trout
• New rods:
  Casting:
  
  • Sakura© ICONIC Casting 661 M
    
  • Sakura© Ryokan Casting 662 MH
    
  • Sakura© Ryokan Casting 632 SJ
    
  • Sakura© Ryokan Casting 742 HX
    
  
  Spinning:
  
  • Sakura© Tsubaki TSS 532 UL
    
  • Sakura© Tsubaki TSS 602 L
    
  • Sakura© Tsubaki TSS 732 ML+
• New reels:
  Casting:
  
  • PowerReel's© Multi Cast S
    
  • PowerReel's© Multi Cast M
    
  • PowerReel's© Multi Cast L
    
  • PowerReel's© Multi Cast XL

Changes:

• Changed rods prices,
  
• Changed rods levels,

Fixes:

• Fixed game stuttering,
  
• Fixed game tearing,
  
• Fixed natural baits:
  
  • Fly
    
  • Dragonfly
    
  • Grasshopper
    
  • Green pea

Other:

• Small performance improvements,
  

We tried to test this update as accurately as possible. We detected some serious problems prematurely which caused the update to be delayed. Unfortunately, models of casting reels from Sakura have not been introduced into the game, but we should add them next week.


Not everyone still knows that Professional Fishing has a special page where you can set up tickets for customer support. If you have a problem with the game, the problem with payments in the game - just create a ticket there.

https://professionalfishing.freshdesk.com

Important! Remember to provide a link to your steam account.

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

Hello everyone!
Today we wanted to share with you some news about the upcoming update. The whole team works in the sweat of the forehead to introduce new things to the game and fix existing bugs.

Are you wondering why there are fewer updates lately?

This is related to the fact that we decided to release updates less frequently - however, they will contain more bug fixes and / or new features, items, etc.


For a long time, we thought about what should we do in the first place. We read many of your ideas and opinions, thanks to which the choice was much simpler.

Many people mentioned that species of fish on the US map are simply wrong, therefore, you could see many pictures of new species of fish.

Contents of the new update:

• New map
  
• 7 new fish species
  
  • Bluegill
    
  • Pumpkinseed
    
  • Peacock bass
    
  • Smallmouth bass
    
  • Striped bass
    
  • White crappie
    
  • Black crappie
    
• Casting method
  

Casting
In the upcoming update, we were most interested in implementing the casting method to function properly in the game. We did not focus on creating a dozen models of rods and reels, which would also be difficult due to the size of our team.

On the day of the upgrade, the game should contain
about 4 rods and 4 casting reels.







Kind Regards,
Dev Team

Version: 1.0.17



Fixes:

• Fixed line in FATWood® Catzilla 320,
  
• Fixed water on "Forgotten bays" map,
  

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