09.08.2026 Gates & Open Harbors

Patch Notes

City & Harbor Improvements

• Improved Bremen, Cologne and Thorn city layouts.
• Refined workplace placement and city initialization.
• Improved harbor access, ship spawn points and water-level handling.
• Fixed several placement and navigation problems around city gates and ports.
• Fixed Rostock's terrain disappearing in the Windows/Steam build and making the city appear flooded.
• Fixed Danzig's roads flickering against the terrain and applied the same stable road-surface fix to Hamburg and Lübeck.

Graphics & Resolution

• Reworked UI scaling around a 1280x720 baseline.
• Improved support for 1920x1080 and other 16:9 resolutions.
• Fixed Main Menu elements shifting outside their intended positions.
• Improved Low graphics settings for lower-end PCs.
• Added safer resolution selection and viewport fitting.

Gameplay & Fixes

• Improved AI merchant routing and automatic trade behavior.
• Improved ship cargo, captain and trade-route handling.
• Expanded save-game compatibility checks.
• Fixed various UI, localization, stability and performance issues.