v1.6.0.0 Experimental

v1.6.0.0 Experimental

Additions

★ 78' Huckins boat added; high performance player boat with an emphasis on turn rate and engine surge performance. ★ John C. Butler-Class Destroyer added, joining US assault forces, supply convoys and Strategic Target group on occasion. ★ Mutsuki-Class Destroyer added, joining IJN assault forces, supply convoys and Strategic Target group on occasion. ★ Added rangefinder and reworked targeting reticle for M3 Anti-tank Gun and M4 Autocannon. ★ Added rangefinder and exact angle error visual for torpedo mode. ★ IJN hunter groups now added to attack US Strategic Targets.

• Beach Barrage Rockets added as an Artillery call-in variant, firing a salvo of rockets instead of shells.
• P-38 metallic variant added, equipped with an improved cannon and lots of rockets instead of bombs.

Changes

• Ocean horizons will blend better with sky.
• Reworked cloud rendering.
• Ryuujou-Class Carrier given an additional explosion node in the front, making it more likely to suffer magazine detonations.
• Squadron boat camo will now synchronize with player regardless of selected class.
• Radar model color will now synchronize with camo.
• Increased ocean rendering resolution, added graphics option to switch to lower resolution.
• Camo color option "Waterline" renamed to "Draft"
• Smaller vessels will now try to evade incoming shells with trajectories, including the player mortar.
• Larger vessels will try to evade detected torpedoes.
• XP gain tickers for crew added.
• RP crates respond visually to being picked up.
• Restored sub hunting function for acoustic torpedoes.
• Minor buffs to Nagara physics.
• "Awaiting Fuel Arrival" message now appears under player unit on map rather than corner of UI.
• Map groups push away player according to their size, this should prevent engagements spawns that are too close to enemy carrier groups.
• New rocket firing sound.
• New bazooka firing sound.
• New mortal shell falling sound.
• Rockets now start slow and accelerate.
• EQ pass on ocean sounds.
• Reimplemented subtle boat wave crash sounds.
• Reworked assault system to manage multiple assaults at the same time with scaling.
• Proper strategic target spawning system.
• Unused charges in call-in cards now contribute to a reroll discount.
• Added new physics to make boats feel more responsive to waves.
• Camera changes to help sense of speed.
• Cargo net and antenna are now physically animated.
• Reworked starter boat selection screen.
• Added physics to torpedo deployment to make them nose heavy.
• AT gun model and animation upgrades.

Optimizations

• Shadow baking for trees saving a million triangles for campaign foliage.

Bug Fixes

• Path queuing for the map and new click animations.
• Added check to prevent reported issue of squadrons disappearing, squadron boats are now registered to be killed if their position is still within above water
• Fixed muzzle flashes appearing way above jingei and submarines.
• Fixed projectiles being able to ricochet on water repeatedly.
• Fixed torpedo aiming issues for certain slots.
• Fixed vessels that are capsized with little damage not taking in water fast enough to sink.
• Fixed bug preventing bazooka aim animation.
• Fixed dauntlesses showing up with only machine guns in starter call-ins reserve.
• Fix attempt to prevent spawns in challenges teleporting when spawned during pauses.
• Fixed exploding ship turrets being delayed too late.
• Ship Fire control system volley fire validity fixes.
• Added fix for detecting missing boat types in boat swap menu (usually caused by old saves missing new boat type additions).
• Fixed hidden campaign log events reappearing on return to map.