The Performance Patch

Just a heads up: this update is mostly about bug fixes and performance improvements, with little new content. However, Cat Goes Fishing DOES run at 60 FPS now, so we're calling this a Major Update. I tried to make the changelog as complete as possible, but I'm sure I missed something. We've made these improvements in preparation for future updates, so stay tuned

Performance Enhancements:

• Target framerate increased to 60 FPS (from 30 FPS).

• The game is now compiled! (We'll release a more mod friendly branch soon.)

• Reworked fish thinning system, GREATLY increasing performance for most users.

• Optimized texture sheets to reduce typical VRAM consumption.

• Stopped drawing a bunch of stuff behind sonar and then immediately filling over it; greatly increasing performance for users with integrated graphics.

• Optimized fish drawing, improving performance when many fish are active but far off screen.

• Optimized fish targeting scripts, and many others!

New Stuff and Balance Changes:

• Added a new upgrade: Bulbguard. It protects your lightbulb from Bulbeaters!

• Fish on rod/boat no longer always load with full health; their value and orientation is saved.

• Fish now sink in place when bombed, stunned on the sea floor. (Stunned state is now saved.)

• Fish that are floating to the surface now get stuck on rocks. (Floating state is now saved.)

• Having the "Attract Worm" rod upgrade on your rod now gives you the effect of Dig hat.

• Legacy saves disabled: no save protection for very old saves, and you can no longer gain a legacy.

• Phase and Snoutfish no longer go to the chasm to sleep at night.

• Increased the value of: Glacier, Tik Tik, Lemonback

• Decreased the value of: Snoutfish, Nightfish Sire, Koin, Thistle, Old Cusper, Maw

• Plateau fish are no longer revealed in catalog until level 65 (up from 50).

Minor Tweaks:

• Discovered hats no longer appear on the map once they are in the hatalog.

• Chompy no longer bites Crayfin when Crayfin is held by swimming cat.

• Stalker now picks a new early huge target every day of the week.

• Worm sprite updated and it no longer makes blood when bitten.

• Boom Puff now explodes when bitten, even if not on the hook.

• Bombs now detach on line snap (and can later be recovered).

• Torby catalog entry now reflects its extinction state.

• Bombat can no longer be flicked off the hook.

• Fish that are netted are no longer bombable.

• Bombat can now escape the caves.

• Glow removed from crystalfish.

• Cowfish blink.

Bugfixes:

• Cavin actually swims in the caves.

• Stormy should swim around during storms as intended.

• Schools of blinking tetras no longer threaten to crash the game.

• There are generally fewer flying coral larges (Tik Tik, etc...)

• Ghost will no longer appear if a medium fish is on the line.

• Rising lure no longer has any effect if the line is snapped.

• Worm can no longer be added to the line when a bomb is attached.

• Background music now gets quieter when swimming deep, not just when the lure sinks deep.

• Cuddlefish and Skrimp sprites should no longer appear in the other's place in the catalog.

• Fish lights stay more closely aligned with their fish, and they shine through other fish less.

• Fixed a bug that caused fish to get stuck returning, bouncing up and down in place.

• Fixed a bug that caused the rocket to make noise while off after casting backwards.

• Fixed a bug that would make Witchy, Dig, and Fennec sometimes spawn inside rocks.

• Fixed a bug that caused Puff to count as 133% of a fish towards catalog completion.

• Fixed a bug that caused fish to lunge for an empty hook if you detonated a Bombat early.

• Fixed a bug that caused a fish to stay full value if it was bit after giving experience.

• You can no longer put fish on the lure while swimming if there is a bomb on the lure.

• Puff is no longer always inflated; now becomes deflated when held in Cat's paws.

• Fish can no longer be placed off the back of Tech Boat and Collier.

• Mamo egg now actually detaches on line snap.

• There are fewer braindead, misshapen, skeletonized or otherwise malformed fish.

• Numerous other bugfixes that there were not well documented.