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- Sail Forth (1031460)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 24 December 2024 - 18:54:02 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
Hello, here's a quick Christmas patch with some fixes and tweaks! This includes a couple changes that should hopefully address some issues people have encountered with the open world. The first one is the introduction of a timed auto save feature. An unintended side-effect of the new Deep Blue open ocean was that saving occurred far less frequently as it was only triggered upon entering a location. This meant it was possible to spend a bunch of time in the open ocean without saving, and if you were sunk you could lose a lot of progress. To address this I'm adding a 5 minute auto save timer which will save when out of combat. The second thing is more subtle and if it works right shouldn't even be noticeable. During a recent play session in a new game I noticed that it was possible to not encounter any NPC boats for quite a while if you just happened to not cross paths with them as they wa...