August 15th Patch Notes — Windward Horizon Steam update #1178022

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

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Windward Horizon (2665460)
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patch note
Published
15 August 2025 - 15:05:45 UTC
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steam_community_announcements
- 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 trans...

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