Update Five Patch Notes

This list includes major fixes/changes only, some very minor fixes/changes are not included.

Gameplay

Added:

• Spyglass can now pick up player voices

Balance:

• Doctor’s perk no longer increases revive speed

• Doctor’s perk now increases medicine effectiveness

• Score rebalance

• Removed many negative score items for explorers

• Added score for escaping with friends

• Added score for being a stowaway

• The stove on the ship can now cook 2 items at once

• Seals have more health

• Increased the damage of thrown crafted weapons

Fixes:

• Potential fix for rare case of nitro blowing up when dropped

• Dozens of cases where totems could be placed inside walls

• Sometimes having to use consumables twice

• Rare crash fixes

• Fixed AI getting stuck under ice

Art

• New Cook model added

• New Seal model added

UI

Added:

• Added new health, stew, and lantern icons

• Removed kicked reasons, player just sees that they are kicked

• Notification of when transferring to a new host in the lobby

• Added role icons to the scoreboard / replay

• Added fancy title screen progress bar

Fixes:

• Fixed player names missing when viewing a replay in the lobby

• Days before blizzard now shows up after the poker game rather than before

• Fixed the mouse moving camera when in poker emote menu

• Optimization for large numbers of friends in the crew Invite board

• Can no longer invite friends from the crew Invite board who are already in the lobby

Animation

• Seal NPC: New animation set

• Human head item: New animation set

• Stew/Tea item: Added missing animations (equip and blending)

• Cleaver item: Added missing animations (equip and blending)

• New poker emote animations

• Fixed feet sliding while idle and looking at feet in FP

Level Design

Added:

• Tutorial chapter : The Arctic

Balance:

• Changed how far AI wander from starting location

Fixes:

• Addressed Collision issues that allowed players to get out of bounds

• Addressed several exploits with spirit walk allowing players access to out of bounds areas

• Fixed navigation issues for AI in both Approach and The Summit

• Fixed barrel exploit in boiler room of the ship

• Fixed some art clipping issues on the ship

Sound

• VoIP goes through in-game reverb now

• Thrown items now ring the ship bell

• Much shorter radii on Thrall hand stab sound

• Custom container searching sounds for different types

• New boiler door open/close sound

• Various mix and sound performance adjustments, bug fixes and polish

Other

• Translations added: Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French

• Using Epic Online Services in addition to Steam (EOS VOIP instead of Vivox VOIP)

• Can use Join Game and Accept Invite from the Steam Overlay

• Join Game and Invite To Lobby will hide when the game is not longer joinable (heading into match)

• Cancelling joining to a lobby will put the player back into their lobby instead of going to title screen