Port Royale 4 – Changelog – Update 1.6
Hi everyone!
Update 1.6 for Port Royale 4 has set sail on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. This update fixes several bugs and errors, including a few crashes that were popping up during manual naval battles.
Thank you for your continued feedback and support.
Your Port Royale 4 team
Improvements
- Added option to highlight convoys with multiple command points in red.
- Added tooltips for captain’s dialogue.
- Added name of convoy to naval battle dialogue.
- Added a detailed tooltip on goods for automatic trade convoys.
- Added pause option to tavern dialogue.
- Added legend entry for help button in character dialogue.
Bug fixes and optimizations
General bugs:
- Fixed crash during naval battles caused by faulty sound effects.
- Fixed crash when armed trader is plundered.
- Fixed text overlap of long convoy names in naval battle, convoy, and lighthouse menu.
- Fixed character name overlap (at certain length) in character selection screen.
- Fixed misaligned convoy name, flag, and captain during naval battles.
- Fixed bug preventing player progress due to a missing Pirate.
- Fixed incorrect production effects in towns.
- Fixed bug displaying quantity of goods as negative.
- Fixed town mission “Sell Goods” (now works in all towns).
- Fixed display of turns / rounds in naval battles.
- Fixed bug that had ‘game speed’ and ‘end turn’ buttons appear in legend during naval battles intro.
- Fixed bug that allowed players to revoke captain’s tactics while animation was still running.
- Fixed visual flickering on coral in ocean
- Overhauled naval battle AI (now more agile)
- Fixed naval battle AI so enemy ships now make use of fire darts on immobilized ships.
- Fixed bug allowing players to leave a blank name for a nation when declaring independence.
- Fixed bug that made town names invisible when buying building permissions.
- Fixed bug which caused the game to un-pause after a naval battle.
- Fixed bug during naval battles which allowed the player to use more movement points than they had available.
- Fixed faulty captain’s tactic ‘outmanoeuvre’.
- Overhauled captain experience points, skills, and initial start level.
- Fixed bug which caused Shipyards to not offer ships on hard mode.
- Fixed bug that did not register unarmed ships during “sink ship” missions.
- Fixed bug that prevented sinking armed ships in trade convoys.
- Fixed graphical glitch in harbour fortress (hovering barrels)
- Reworked letters of marque after declaring independence.
- Adjusted estimated repair time for vessels.
- Reworked spawn logic for pirates so that there aren’t too many active at the same time.
- Fix bug causing warehouses to be overloaded.
- Fixed exploit during town sieges with large convoys.
- Fixed current production display in town dialogue.
- Fixed bug causing farm crops not to spawn.
- Adjusted position and size of flag in town dialogue.
Tutorial fixes
- Fixed bug preventing players to proceed after specific steps (e.g., setting up trade routes in the tutorial).
- Fixed bug during the tutorial “Basics of production”.
- Fixed bug that caused town satisfaction to not be high enough.
Gamepad fixes
- Added display of additional functions in gamepad legend.
- Adjusted size of ‘trader route selection’ label to prevent longer names from clipping into buttons.
- Fixed bug that prevented tavern dialogue from opening
- Fixed auto scroll when gamepad is active.
Console-only fixes
- Fixed random crashes on Xbox.
- Fixed description of ‘Buy/Sell functions’ in large shipyards repair dock menu
- Fixed bug during tutorial where unrelated businesses could be purchased and, because of insufficient funds, player couldn’t proceed further.
- Fixed icons for left and right controller sticks.
- Fixed incorrect game tips upon player clicking left stick during trade route and viceroy screens.
- Fixed graphical glitches for water texture.
- Adjusted touchpad sensitivity when swiping (now less sensitive).
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