This new ability can be unlocked after providing some assistance to a new character – The Photographer! You’ll find her at a new camp on an island to the south of The Marrows.
Photos will be captured to your system’s in-built gallery on most platforms.
GOG players will find their photos in “Pictures/DREDGE/Screenshots”
Added Passive Mode
This mode can be activated at any stage by selecting the option from the Settings menu. In this mode, you’ve nothing to fear from the creatures of the deep.
Added 8 new types of wildlife for you to encounter, including one that isn’t afraid of the shallows…
Added new settings
V-sync (PC only)
Pause In Background – the default behaviour of this has changed so that the game does not pause when it loses focus. (PC only)
Camera Follow Mode – you can now detach the camera from the boat’s turning orientation. This means that when the boat turns, the camera won’t automatically turn to look in the boat’s new direction.
Spyglass Sensitivity – sliders for horizontal and vertical movement.
Haste VFX – disables the visual effects (FOV pull & screen shake) that occur when the Haste ability is activated.
Adjustments
Added a new “General” tab to Settings and moved some options around.
Added a couple of new names to the credits.
Updated Dolphin SFX.
Dolphins and some other events are discouraged from swimming over the abyss of Stellar Basin.
Fixes
Fixed an issue where the Crab Pot / Trawl Net information panel didn’t show correctly the first time if the game was loaded with either of these abilities pre-selected.
Fixed an issue where the game could freeze when downgrading a trawl net to another net with a smaller internal capacity.
Fixed an issue where discarding the package from The Mayor never removed the associated map marker.
Fixed an issue where an island in Devil's Spine was culling incorrectly.
Fixed some localization issues.
The Haste activation SFX does not play if Haste was deactivated recently.
The game now reports a few values to an Autosplitter. (PC only)
After you’ve acquired your dredge crane as part of the main story, a new character will set up shop at Little Marrow – The Painter! He’ll be able to make adjustments to your boat’s appearance.
The Painter starts with some basic options available, but you’ll be able to discover additional paint ingredients and flag designs.
All crab pots provide some aberration catch bonus, with higher tier / special pots offering a larger bonus.
Mouth of the Deep catch rate and duration reduced to make progressing the crab pot tech tree more meaningful.
Fixes
Fixed an issue where in very rare cases, the game would take longer than expected to save. Losing power during this time would cause save files (and in some cases, backup save files) to become corrupt.
Added a new font which should handle Japanese characters better and prevent them from falling back to use Chinese characters in some scenarios.
Fixed an issue where clicking on the boatupgrade purchase button too quickly could cause the screen to get stuck.
Fixed an issue where some areas of the sea floor reported that they were 100m+ deep when they clearly were not.
Fixed an issue where some achievements would not trigger immediately if the last thing they required was for you to catch a crab.
Fixed an issue where players could get stuck on the map screen if it was switched to another screen while a marker was being placed.
Owners of The Pale Reach DLC will find a new area – and all the features and content it contains.
Players can check their map to see how to get to this new area.
Added a “Control Icon Style” setting to the Display tab. This can be used to force the game to use Xbox/PlayStation/Nintendo Switch button icons, instead of attempting to detect what’s plugged in. (PC Only)
Added a “Heartbeat SFX” setting to the Accessibility tab. This can be disabled to silence in-game SFX that feature a heartbeat. (These SFX are mostly in The Pale Reach)
Added Razer Chroma integration for a number of in-game effects.
Adjustments
The “Quests” and “Messages” screens now have multiple tabs.
Increased the size of the Message Detail window, and the text size.
Added an “Additional Content” button to the main menu.
Slightly rearranged the Encyclopedia layout to show an icon representing the area that a species is found in.
Equipment that provides an aberration bonus will now provide it all the time (previously, damaged equipment would not add its bonus to the total).
V-sync is now enabled by default for new players.
Added and updated some names in the Credits.
Fixes
The game should no longer silently overwrite a corrupt save when loading from the main menu. It will now show an error message directing players to customer support for recovery assistance.
Fixed an issue introduced in 1.3.0 that caused crashes when reading some messages in some languages.
Fixed an issue where save files could grow too large, causing crashes on Nintendo Switch.
Fixed an issue where the dock at Ingfell would disappear if you looked at it from the wrong angle.
Fixed an issue where the previous line of dialogue would show for a frame as the new line was loading in, making it look and feel as though you’d accidentally skipped over a line. This issue was more prevalent in Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.
Fixed an issue where restoring settings back to default would cause the game to forget which save to use for the ‘Continue’ button.
Fixed an issue where the in-game time would slow or sometimes stop progressing completely for some players. This usually occurred on long-running saves of over 150 days of in-game progress.
Fixed an issue where a couple of the wildlife encounters could very occasionally breach through islands.
Fixed an issue with a collision box on one of the islands in Stellar Basin.
1.5.0 The Iron Rig
Features
For owners of “The Iron Rig” DLC
A new constructable destination visitable at any time in your playthrough, with new:
Fish
Pursuits
Equipment
Achievements
Enhanced Abilities
Consumable Items
…and more!
Added new themes for the title screen. These are unlocked by owning their respective DLC, and can be selected via a new setting in the “General” section.
The “Complete Edition” theme requires The Pale Reach, The Iron Rig, and Blackstone Key DLCs.
Added some new apparitions that can rarely be seen through the fog.
Added the ability to select which Crab Pot & Bait type is being deployed.
Added a custom background when using a late-game ability to harvest fish.
Added a custom background to most shore caches.
Added a new shipwreck to Stellar Basin
Added Polish language.
Adjustments
Increased the size of Storage from 72 to 99 cells.
Increased the maximum number of map markers from 50 to 100.
Reduced maximum panic-reducing effect of lights by 10%
Made the Game Over screen look nicer.
Moved a small number of fishing and dredging spots around.
Added a paint bucket icon to The Painter in Little Marrow.
Infection can now spread even if your inventory is open.
Infection can now [REDACTED]
When new abilities are unlocked, they’re now highlighted on the radial ability wheel until selected.
Your Net tab can now be viewed at some additional locations to facilitate [REDACTED].
Added new names to the credits.
The UI now completely disappears during cutscenes in The Iron Rig and The Pale Reach.
Changing the language now changes which primary font is used.
Added a new Russian font
Numerous performance tweaks and optimizations.
Fixes
Fixed a longstanding issue/exploit where saving and reloading caused all fishing and dredging spots to repopulate. Sorry!
Fixed a longstanding issue where research parts never appeared in crab pots. You’re welcome!
Fixed an issue where, in extremely rare cases, if a save file failed to load, the game would overwrite it with a new save.
When a [REDACTED] causes a fish to land on your deck, it now counts towards your catch count in the encyclopedia, and will show the “new species” banner if it’s a new discovery.
Adjusted the position of the panic tutorial slightly to not overlap the panic eye animation so much.
Trawl nets no longer function during the final cutscene, which prevents “new species discovered!” banners from popping up over the climax of the game.
Ravens will no longer spawn if the player is currently right next to a dock.
Random events will no longer spawn while the player is locked in dialogue with the photographer in The Pale Reach.
The light on the Fort in Stellar Basin is now visible from further away.
The “Perfect Packing” achievement wasn’t unlocking in some scenarios.
The “debt repayment” bar at Greater Marrow wasn’t respecting custom colour choices.
Placing map markers should always play a SFX now.
The creaking traps in Twisted Strand are no longer audible from halfway across the map.
Fixed an issue where text could get stuck on screen if it was very short, and Text Speed was set to Fast. Mostly affected Korean and Chinese languages.
When playing with a cursor, you can no longer click on the Cargo tab while using the Spyglass.
Quest grids that require players to make a decision about whether to pick up or leave an item no longer show a (non-functional) “Return to town” prompt.
Players can no longer pick up an item from some quest grids and then interact with dialogs with the item still on their cursor.
Removed a couple of bushes that were floating in the sky above Twisted Strand. Apologies to the folks who thought this was us hinting at a secret zone in the clouds!
Adjusted a few pieces of terrain to prevent the hull of your boat from clipping through.
The Travelling Merchant’s bunting has been re-added.
Rain no longer looks weird when climbing the steps to the Ancient Lighthouse.
The Photographer’s camera case is no longer able to be discarded via the temporary storage tray beneath the fishing minigame.
