UBOAT

2025.1.1 Patch 4Fix: In some languages, AOB, distance, and velocity values were missing from the subtitles when an officer used the periscope and reported them to the TDC operator.Fix: Most languages incorrectly referenced torpedo loading instead of mine loading in the tooltip on an officer’s portrait during mine-loading operations.Fix: After minimizing campaign objectives on the map, their names were not correctly translated in the tooltip displayed on their icons.Fix: Lines plotted between two ports could not be removed using the eraser tool on the map.Fix: The TAB menu could remain visible after releasing the TAB key, if for example the UI was quickly disabled using a hotkey during the menu’s fade-in animation.AI:Fix: Resolved the most common (and possibly only) cause of ships in a convoy moving in circles, if their route passed close to land.Graphics:Fix: Sunlight could sometimes shine directly into submarine pens without casting shadows.Missions:Fix: The tutorial continuation prompt no longer appears if the skipper dies during the last assignment and no new assignments can begin until a new skipper is promoted.Simulation:Fix: NPC ships will no longer continue moving if their center of mass shifts forward and their propellers are lifted out of the water.Crew:The controlled officer no longer verbally confirms taking over a station in first-person view when using a manually operable device.General:Periscopes can now be rotated twice as fast in manual mode; binoculars rotate even faster, with additional tuning for smoother control.Damaging port structures is no longer considered a hostile act, while defending the port from an enemy attack, as it was easy to damage it by accident.Fix: Resolved an issue that could prevent the periscope from being usable in first-person view.Fix: Resolved a bug where 100 units of fuel without an icon could appear in the left-side storage window.Fix: If an officer was firing the AA gun at an aircraft while an engineer was repairing it, the engineer could incorrectly be credited for shooting down the plane.Fix: Additonal encounters realism setting wasn\'t correctly stored in save files and could change mid-campaign, if it was adjusted in a different playthrough.Fix: Resolved an issue that could sometimes make it harder to pass through a hatch in FPP, because the passage was being interrupted.Fix: Creating a new shift for sailors without giving it a name could cause various issues.Fix: Various other technical fixes and improvements based on log files from submitted bug reports.

UBOAT b120Improvements:Added bug reporting tool accessed by pressing F11.Fixes:Lowered memory usage when the game state is being saved.Decreased lag when ships are spawned in the scene.Starting a new game was partially keeping research from the previous session.Blood pools from the previous session could stay in the scene after loading a game state.Ships could stop after loading a game state if they were in the middle of certain AI behaviors.A few sound effects were stopping to be handled correctly after loading a game state.Carry item orders were often ended prematurely if more than one person was working on it.U-boats operate on Atlantic in smaller numbers.Save system fixes.Hydrophone was working on the sea surface and had doubled range since B119 (this problem may persist in saved game state files).Flames on a few types of NPC ship decks weren\'t properly restored after loading a game state.Flag masts are now functioning correctly on Turm II and Turm IV.Discipline level could become corrupted if the whole crew was moved off the board.Improved performance in Axis ports.Game could become permanently paused after loading some game states.Hydrophone upgrades were working incorrectly.Port characters could be moved to player\'s ship due to an error.Right clicking on UI while the camera is in TPP view no longer releases the character from the station.Periscope\'s lock target is automatically cleared when the target is no longer seen.It\'s no longer possible to lock periscope on a port, aircraft, torpedo, mine or anti-submarine net.Map shortcut (\"M\") no longer can be used in the headquarters screen.Notifications no longer can be clicked when their effects would cause issues in the current state of the game (dialogues, HQ screen, etc.).Button for accepting rewards at HQ could become not interactable after certain steps were taken.

Fixes b118:Research is now fully restored from the saved game states.Reputation purchases were impossible after the game state was loaded.Reverse engine gears work correctly again.Blowing ballast was sometimes impossible when control room was flooded.Character that was stopping to use UZO could rotate during the animation.Periscope\'s engine was making noise when the periscope was stationary instead of when it was rotated.Launched torpedoes were stopped after the game state was loaded.Torpedo icons on a map from now on have a direction arrow attached to them just like the ships and aircraft.Cursor is becoming visible when ALT is pressed during the use of a gun in manual mode.Certain sound effects could become muted after loading a game state.Gun was randomly becoming locked after firing in a manual mode.Fuel is now always correctly restocked at ports.Sailor could take place of an officer during execution of a task in certain cases.Reputation points label wasn\'t refreshed after loading a game state.Sandbox could launch in the middle of the Atlantic if certain steps were taken before starting the game.Characters playing certain animations could appear in a wrong place after loading a game state.Food was sometimes not consumed anymore after loading a game state.Becoming lost directly after loading a game state.AA gun ammunition storage now has specified capacity.

Heres a changelog b117:Worked around the engine\'s internal per-frame memory allocation. Probably fixes most crashes that were occurring during gameplay.Alarms now persist for longer. The crew doesn\'t forget about the enemy when they lost him from the sight for a second.Quite a big RAM and VRAM optimizations.Ships following convoy route were occasionally moving backwards or staying in one place after their allies got hit. This should no longer happen.Wreckages weren\'t spawning at the exact location of the sunk ship.F-class destroyers had erroneous rudder settings leading to very odd behavior.After loading game state, the budget was incorrectly being displayed as zero.Damaging own ship no longer makes player hostile to Germany.Discipline was rebalanced: it\'s being drained more slowly during alarms, food variety no longer provides discipline bonus during alarms, discipline is being reset to a higher value after depletion. Discipline is still being a big problem at very large depths by design.Calming down panicked sailors now works correctly.Corrupted island in the middle of the Celtic Sea.Food consumption rate was lowered by 33%.Newly recruited officers weren\'t appearing in the TAB menu.TAB menu wasn\'t working after loading a game state.It\'s no longer possible to damage own u-boat with a deck gun.Upgrade screen wasn\'t working with \"FPP Only\" gameplay mode.Sandbox progression was sometimes impossible because new assignments couldn\'t be selected.Saving game state fixes.Few minor errors.