Patch Notes: April 1–15, 2025 — Windward Horizon Steam update #1178034

Ahoy captains! I've got a hefty set of updates from the first half of April, bringing sweeping improvements to controller support, meaningful AI behaviors, better NPC scaling, and some nice quality-of-life changes across the board. Whether you're diving for treasure or defending your faction's provinces, these changes aim to enhance your experience and push the game toward even more polish and replayability. Here’s everything that’s changed over the past two weeks: ⚔️ Gameplay Changes: Lower deck items now get a 10% bonus to their stats for being placed in the correct slots. Completing quests for the same faction in a province now yields a stacking buff to reputation and influence for that faction. Doing a quest for any other faction resets this stacking bonus. AI will now establish new provinces on their own if the player doesn't establish anything new for 40 in-game days (equals to 4 h...