Patch 2.0 Beta: Week Two

Ahoy!

Improvements

Enterprises

• Added separate product tabs for the main and additional workshops.
  
• Each workshop can now have its own shift length: quarter, half, full, or extended.
  
• You can now choose the source of raw materials for each workshop: warehouse and market, warehouse only, or market only.
  
• Added notifications when an enterprise's capital decreases.
  
• Each enterprise expansion now adds 5% to the price of goods produced by both workshops.
  
• Enterprise warehouse capacity now increases as enterprises develop.
  
• Reworked enterprise and workshop tooltips to better explain raw material consumption, wages, supplies, and the benefits of expansion.
  
• Added enterprise warehouses to the Storage Book, where you can check their stock and capacity.
  
• Enterprises can now be retooled through their managers: you can change the main production type or just the additional workshop while keeping stored goods and savings.
  

Banking

• Reduced the base interest rate on peso deposits to 1% per month. Bonuses from the Investor perk and items, along with seasonal bonuses, remain unchanged.
  
• Peso deposit limits are now 300,000, 900,000, or 1.5 million pesos, depending on the colony's prosperity.
  
• Tripled the available loan amounts and fixed the interest rate at 4% per month.
  

Economy and Trade

• The Basic Trading perk now shows up to three profitable trade destinations in stores, complete with town names and flags.
  
• Trade recommendations take into account the age of your price information and the potential profit.
  
• The price moneylenders charge for doubloons now depends on your Trading skill and trade-related perks.
  
• Reduced the base price of gunpowder.
  
• Reputation with smugglers now rises and falls more slowly.
  

Quests and Dialogue

• Rebalanced Valigny in training fights and quests.
  
• Reworked the journal for "Long Way to the Gallows": added more detailed stages, objectives, and completion entries for different quest branches.
  
• Reworked the journal for "Slave Trader" to provide more detail on tasks, encounters at sea, deadlines, and outcomes.
  
• Reworked the journal for "The Clock Tower": added quest stages, diary collection progress, and concluding entries.
  
• Expanded the "Manga Rosa" journal to cover inquiries, training, and obtaining recipes.
  
• Recruitment options for officers in taverns and for Durand are now marked in dialogue.
  
• Added character background tags to translated versions of Helen's dialogue.
  

Naval Interface

• Improved the display of firing arcs at sea.
  
• Aiming circles are no longer obscured by the crosshair.
  

Graphics

• Improved global illumination and changed how the saturation and warmth settings work. The final color grading pass will come later; for now, we're adding all the knobs and sliders.
  
• Added dedicated dawn and dusk lighting.
  
• Improved SSAO and expanded its settings. It can now be toggled separately for objects, plants, and grass.
  
• Added dynamic shadows for local light sources, including character shadows.
  
• Improved the sail material: sailcloth now responds to lighting and shadows.
  
• Improved sail physics: the jib and other sails now behave more realistically.
  
• Improved flag materials and physics.
  
• Improved coastal foam and the shoreline wave material.
  
• Optimized local light sources.
  
• Optimized the sky, clouds, and post-processing effects.
  

Locations

• Updated the residences in Saint-Pierre, Curacao, Panama, Portobello, and Saint-Martin.
  

Audio

• Added a streamer mode that replaces tracks unsuitable for streaming.
  

Bug Fixes

Economy and Enterprises

• Meeting smugglers without trading no longer increases your reputation with them.
  
• Fixed doubloon calculations for rewards, officer recruitment, and shipyard services.
  
• Changing the coat of arms on your sails now correctly deducts doubloons.
  
• Fixed the reward payout for the burned ship: the remaining amount is no longer lost when calculating the number of chests.
  
• Fixed the displayed percentage of raw materials saved by the Investor perk.
  

Quests and Journal

• Fixed an issue that made Valigny unkillable in the final fight of "The Final Lesson".
  
• Valigny is no longer weakened repeatedly during training duels.
  
• Fixed issues with Valigny's equipment and the armor handover.
  
• Fixed missing and duplicate entries, as well as objective updates, in the reworked quest journals.
  
• Fixed an issue with asking Romani women you've met before about Manga Rosa.
  
• Fixed how unsuccessful inquiries about Manga Rosa are counted.
  
• Corrected inaccurate search-related instructions in the quest journal.
  

Dialogue and Localization

• Fixed mixed-language text and stray fragments in localized quest dialogue.
  
• Fixed empty responses, broken text substitutions, and incorrect line breaks in dialogue.
  
• Restored missing lines in the localized quests involving the Portuguese and Julianne.
  
• Corrected wording and punctuation in Hugo Avendell's dialogue in "Long Way to the Gallows".
  
• Fixed incorrect smuggler responses caused by duplicate text keys.
  
• Corrected Jeanne's name in negotiations with the bandits about Manga Rosa.
  
• Fixed typos in the Russian dialogue for Helen and pirates in the "Flying the Jolly Roger" questline.
  
• Fixed line breaks in ship bonus descriptions.
  
• Added missing translations for graphics settings and interface tooltips.
  

Audio

• Restored music underwater, during the naval battle against Holy Mercy, and in the Batavia brothel scene.
  

Miscellaneous

• Fixed building exits in Martinique and Basse-Terre.
  
• Fixed the room in the Willemstad residence.
  
• Fixed the world map models for Lady Beth and Memento.
  
• You can no longer skip Valigny at the start of the prologue on Martinique. Added a cutscene.
  
• Fixed jittering of furled sails.
  
• Fixed jittering of ship parts and islands.
  
• Fixed the positioning of aiming circles when turning the ship.