Kill The Sea Demo patch notes v0.1.260801

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• ✨Added French and Italian support.

Player

We're working hard to ensure a smooth experience based on your feedbacks.

• Increased level up thresholds

• Increased base Steering 140 → 150

• Increased base Speed 2.75 → 2.85

• Decreased base Fixing 0.5 hp/s → 0.33 hp/s

• Increased Pickup speed.

• Slightly reduced player boat hitbox size

Crew

We're looking to continually balance the crew memebers to provide a more coherent experience.

• Admiral

  • ✨ Sea Marshal: Maritime weapons now pull enemies in.

  • Commander: Clarified ability description.

• Mechanic/Technician: DoT is no longer limited in time.

• AdjustedChef/Scavengerchance for magnets and health drops increased 25% → 50%
• AdjustedGunner/Specialistdamage per maxed weapon decreased 10% → 7.5%.

Weapons

We've made some balancing efforts to make the game feel a bit more balanced.

• AdjustedShotgunBase damage decreased 30 → 20
• AdjustedPulsatorBase radius increased 1.6 → 1.9. Base damage increased 20 → 25
• AdjustedHarpoonBase damage increased 20 → 25
• AdjustedTorpedoBase explosion radius increased 1.6 → 1.8

• Mines and torpedoes are now easier to see.

Items

We've made some stats tweaking to make the game feel a bit more balanced.

• AdjustedSailBase Speed bonus increased 20% → 30%.

• Rope: now also grants +20°/s steering and +4% dodge.

• AdjustedFishing Netpickup range bonus increased 0.35 → 0.7.
• AdjustedBlowfish FossilExplosion Size increased 15% → 25%.

• Fire Jar: DoT is no longer limited in time.

Boss Fight

Jaw still needs some polish to become a much cooler boss fight, so we've made some changes to the fight to make it more interesting.

• ✨Added new musical track for the boss fight.

• Jaw's third phase speed increased 3.5 → 4

• Increased and introduced randomization to boss sneak time

• Jaw now immediately skips to the next phase at the 90 and 180 seconds marks.

• Jaw and its health bar now flashes upon taking damage.

• More sharks now start spawning at the 90 and 180 seconds marks.

Enemies

As part of the efforts to increase the readability of the game, some enemies got needed visual updates.

• Added death particles for enemies.

• AdjustedGoldfishUpdated trail and halo effects.
• AdjustedSharksSlightly lowered predictive chasing behavior.

Outposts

• AdjustedMarketCoral sell value increased 4 → 6 coins. The Sell Corals button is now on the right.

UI

• ✨Updated the wave clock art and introduced clearer phase icons.

• Game over text changed from "You Died" to "You Sunk".

• Player health bar now shakes and flashes white upon taking damage.

• Tutorial art updated.

• Improved settings menu readability.

Effects

• ✨Crew members now sing with dedicated icons and musical-note particles during shanties.

• Night fog vision now shrinks when a night wave starts and not earlier.

• Updated Magnet and Health Drops art.

• Updated enemy attack indicator design.

• Updated coin particles effect.

• Critical and Dodge damage text colors retuned.

SFX

• Added a unique sound for each selected stat upgrade.

• Added outpost entry and ambient sounds.

• Added Dawn and Night wave ambient sounds.

• Added multiple UI interaction sounds.

• Updated the sound effects for the Zapper and Pulsator.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the game would darken when using a non-native monitor resolution.

• Fixed and issue where fog clouds would be patched when changing game resolution mid-run.

• Fixed pickups moving around a sunk player.

• Fixed Level Up upgrade hover feedback.

• Fixed and issue where sharks would jitter bouncing into each other.

• Fixed an issue where Level-up stat description layout would shift while browsing upgrades in certain languages.

• Fixed an issue where your boat could be destroyed after a victory is declared.