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Steam News15 August 202510mo ago

August 15th Patch Notes

- Created an optimized way of the water shader rendering up to 64 lights with one draw call, so explosions will no longer drastically affect performance. - Day/night transition performance optimizations.

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changedCreated an optimized way of the water shader rendering up to 64 lights with one draw call, so explosions will no longer drastically affect performance. - Day/night transition performance optimizations. - Lighthouses will now have a slightly lower performance cost during the day. - Fixed provincial town inventory size not being based on the size of the town. - Added 12 more sail patterns. - Various changes related to raid support, such as the ability to set the respawn timer and the new cultist faction. - Fog now affects sight range by default, matching the night time sight range. - It's now dangerous to use grog on tentacles. - If faction rep ranks aren't specified explicitly, they will now have reduced rep requirements for solo challenge campaigns (1000 rep for rank 3 instead of 2500, for example). - Ship (Ship Names.txt) and town names (Town Names.txt), as well as pirate phrase translator files (Pirate Phrases.txt) can now be included in mods. - Fixed the missing resolution choices on macbook devices above M1 by adding them manually. - The resolution size selection will now persist properly on macbooks.

- Created an optimized way of the water shader rendering up to 64 lights with one draw call, so explosions will no longer drastically affect performance. - Day/night transition performance optimizations. - Lighthouses will now have a slightly lower performance cost during the day. - Fixed provincial town inventory size not being based on the size of the town. - Added 12 more sail patterns. - Various changes related to raid support, such as the ability to set the respawn timer and the new cultist faction. - Fog now affects sight range by default, matching the night time sight range. - It's now dangerous to use grog on tentacles. - If faction rep ranks aren't specified explicitly, they will now have reduced rep requirements for solo challenge campaigns (1000 rep for rank 3 instead of 2500, for example). - Ship (Ship Names.txt) and town names (Town Names.txt), as well as pirate phrase translator files (Pirate Phrases.txt) can now be included in mods. - Fixed the missing resolution choices on macbook devices above M1 by adding them manually. - The resolution size selection will now persist properly on macbooks.

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