Aquatico — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| Steam Winter sale launched - Aquatico with 70% off | 2024-12-19 | Hello everyone, It's the start of craziest time of Year, and we want everyone to be happy and in the good mood. If you're browsing Steam and all these awesome games, it might be hard to decide what to play this Christmas. But hey, choice is good, right? Aquatico offers a chance to get beneath the waves, not too frequent setting for a game, so maybe you're up for some underwater city creation? Would you be able to build a thriving undersea colony and save humanity? This is your chance to try! And try you can, 70% easier during this sale! If you decide to dive deep this December, we still wish you happy Holidays and best of luck in new Year! Ov |
| New Kaiserpunk Playtest is around the corner | 2024-11-27 | Hello, This week, from Friday Nov 29th until Dec 3rd, a public Playtest, second one, will be held for Kaiserpunk. This game features a full production chain city builder mechanics combined with many grand strategy elements, all set in an alternative history of the first half of the 20th century. Rebuild your own city and territory, set up production and logistics, then take your success to the global stage and spread order to over 100 world regions. Tools of getting there can be pure military conquest, diplomacy or economic domination, whichever suits you best. This is the second Playtest for Kaiserpunk and playable version will be much more |
| Games from Croatia steam event started - choose your discounts | 2024-09-02 | Hello Sea Mayors! Today, for the first time ever, Steam is hosting „Games from Croatia“ event! Our country may be a small one, but some awesome games originated from here in recent years. For some of them you might already heard, but we're positive many of them are, as of yet, unknown to many of you or at least you might not be aware they are from Croatia. Whatever the case, this croatian games event features a lot of games, covering multiple genres and styles. There is something for everyone, and majority of games are available with fantastically appealing high discounts. We invite you to browse around, get familiar with the work all studios |
| Update 1.601.0 – in search for more performance | 2024-05-02 | Hello Sea Mayors! Today we’re releasing next in line of updates for Aquatico. Backbone of this update is new pack of optimizations. Since last one was added, we’ve identified few new avenues that can help in further increasing the performance of the game. Mainly, switch between ocean floor level and upper dome level wasn’t properly managed, plus upper dome level now has majority of the same optimizatons present with models on the ocean floor level. Improvements include some level of distance tweaks, corrections to shadow drawing, and a lot of optimizations to raw 3D models of buildings, corals and fish. All combined it will help with frame ra |
| Update on the way | 2024-04-22 | Hello there Sea Mayors! April 22nd is known as International Mother Earth Day, and to mark the occasion, we’ll be rounding up an update for Aquatico. World might be devastated in our game, but in reality, we still have time to protect the crib of humanity. For all of you that will still try to undo some of the damage in your Aquatico playthrough, here are some of the things to expect in upcoming update that will release by Saturday this week: - A collection of bug fixes for issues reported since last update - Another round of very targeted optimizations aimed at improving performance on lower-end GPU’s - Ingame events and expeditions will rec |
| Early Fall update, v1.600 - additional maps to play with | 2023-10-16 | Greetings Undersea people! After last couple of updates we've been wrapping the smaller elements like additional optimization details, some bugfixes and also finished two new underwater maps. With today's update these two maps will be available for selection when setting up a new game. New maps are called "Oceanic" and "Leviathan". Besides that this update also contains several small fixes for various glitches and ironing out few optimization details mainly introduced in recent updates. Have a pleasant descent to the ocean floor! |
| Late summer update for some refreshment is here! – v1.550.0 | 2023-08-28 | Greetings Sea Mayors! It’s the peak of summer (at least where we are), and during these intense heat waves, some underwater cooling might come in handy. And for all of you preparing to dive into the world of Aquatico, it’s perfect time for next round of improvements. For this update, we’ve been working mostly on further optimizations and reducing loads on your hardware, and then adding several specific features that many of you frequently asked for. All these elements are part of QoL upgrades that were talked about on community discussions and that will continue further. To name a few highlighted improvements: Added another faster ingame spee |
| Optimization Update v1.510.0 | 2023-08-05 | Greetings Sea Mayors! This is the first of several incoming updates focused on performance. The improvement will be most visible on GPUs 1070 and below. Changelog v1.510.0 Heavy optimization of 3D models, which explains why this update is somewhat bigger than usual. Model rendering improvements Fixed an exploit where you could refund too much resources on demolishing buildings Polished a couple of late-game balance issues, when the colony gets bigger Fixed a potential startup crash on some older GPUs After this, we're preparing a couple of more fixes and optimizations, but also new content as well! Have fun and see you soon with the next upda |
| Aquatico on Daily Deal - 40% off ! | 2023-06-02 | Welcome everyone! Aquatico, our latest underwater colony sim, is now available with hefty 40% discount - only for the duration of current Daily deal. If you're interested in giving this interesting experience a try, this is a great opportunity to dive in! Game has been heavily updated and expanded in the past several months, so that will make the gameplay experience even better. If you're new to the game, we invite you to test your building and management skills in this unusual environment, and if you're already a veteran player and you liked the experience, we invite you to use the current discount and challenge your friends to be as success |
| Revealing Update v.1.500.0 – community requested QoL box of goodies | 2023-06-01 | Hello to all of you, Sea Mayors! As promised a little while ago, today we’re releasing a second part of community frequently requested improvements for Aquatico. Some of these things have been mentioned soon after the game released, so we apologize for the delay. Combining all updates that came after release, there were a LOT of changes so we had to make priorities for each individual update. Hope everyone seeking the specific elements found in this update won’t hold it against us for having to wait a little bit. The center point of the upgrade to v.1500.0 are numerous QoL game elements. They range from introducing new gameplay features to fu |
| Getting started video for new players + status report on next update | 2023-05-25 | Hi good people of the undersea! Few weeks ago we've made and released a video called „Tips & Tricks“ with some suggestions and best practices to tackle mid to later game challenges in Aquatico. Since there are a number of fresh players coming into game, we've decided to make another video more focused on first couple of ingame years. In this video we're covering the initial tasks you should be mindful in the early game. There are only a few possible „hardships“ that can hamper your advance in first couple of years, and in this video you can see several ways to help yourself get a good headstart. It's always tricky in early game because you ta |
| Update 1.200.1 – Batch of frequently requested improvements | 2023-05-19 | Hello Sea Mayors, As many of you already came to expect, another weekend is approaching, and we have yet another update ready for you. For this occasion we’ve dived into list of improvements and suggestions that originated from our discussions with players. Next two updates will mostly contain your own suggestions, but few things are little bit more work so they will wait another week or so. Anyways, back to today’s content – one of the biggest changes is relocating of your citizens. As your underwater colony expands and you create new workplaces, there is a need for people to change places of residence and have them live closer to their jobs |
| Assistance for later game content - some tips & tricks | 2023-05-10 | Greetings Sea Mayors! Today we don't have an update, but while next batch of improvements is being worked at, there is something we wanted to cover a little bit. From a large amount of data we received by players in recent months, we realized our players out there are employing s lot of very different tactics to complete goals in Aquatico. That is perfectly ok, we left the game open intentionally so players can use all sorts of tactics to advance through the game. Looking at your playthroughs we also learned a lot about various possibilities, about what you prefer, like or dislike. And we also learned about several mechanics that some of you |
| Update 1.102.0 – Fine tuning, next volume | 2023-05-05 | Good day, Sea Mayors In the past week we’ve been focusing on feedback received since last major update, and decided to make numerous improvements, fixes and another run at additional optimizations. Goal is to further smooth out experience our players are having and to improve how game runs and feels. Since Atlantis update was released, we closely monitored everything being said and done. Specific areas in need of enhancements were identified and today’s update is a piece of our answer to that need. As all of our players are already aware, there are quite a few more updates in the pipeline, but we’ll keep trying to adhere to our schedule of fr |
| Another small update v 1.101.6 | 2023-04-19 | Hello all, Another small update with some useful things: one QoL related fix, and an entire additional language – korean! Many thanks to awesome people from Discord that helped us prepare this language. Hope korean players will enjoy it! CHANGELOG FIXED: Ressuply Expedition panel now contains the info on exact price of desired resupply ADDED: Full Korean localization |
| Unscheduled intervention – patch to version 1.101.5 | 2023-04-17 | Hello everyone, Today we have a patch ready for all of you. With help of several players we’ve identified a few possible issues that could hamper your proper advancement in the game. List below contains what was corrected with this update. And another thanks to your continuous feedback and data provided to assist us resolving it! CHANGELOG FIXED: Resolved a bug with stuck Atlantis campaign in case of restarting a new game after Atlantis campaign was already previously played (couldn’t move beyond sending drones segment) ADDED: Notification above building if entrance is obstructed FIXED: A number of typos in English language FIXED: Numerous te |
| Ironing out the last big content update – v1.101.0 | 2023-04-06 | Hello everyone, A lot of things was added in recent content update, and you've reported a few things that needed extra attention. So, we've trid to be quick about it, and here is a small update that will help! CHANGELOG IMPROVED: You can now select and manage different expeditions on the expedition map directly IMPROVED: Optimizations in several specific maps FIXED: Steam achievements are now turned off in Creative mode, because special game rules in that mode automatically unlocked most of them FIXED: Expedition submarine hint now works properly FIXED: Atlantis campaign objectives don’t remain hanging when game is restarted FIXED: At the end |
| Introducing multiple game modes + Atlantis storyline | 2023-04-03 | Greetings Sea Mayors! Today is a great day to finally release a second part of our major update for Aquatico. We’ve already announced s few major elements of this expansion, but complete package is now here! Since we’re mostly talking about pure additional game content here, it took us a little bit longer to prepare and test everything, but we are excited to finally share everything we did in recent weeks and months. Crucial goal with today’s update was to expand the gameplay, add more value and replayability to your experience and also allow broader insight into overall backstory and goals you’re attempting to achieve in your underwater adve |
| Next major update coming on Monday, April 3rd! | 2023-03-31 | Hello Sea Mayors! We've already been revealing bits and pieces on this upcoming update, but now we can confirm that this content update is coming on Monday, April 3rd. It took a little bit longer to prepare, test and integrate everything necessary, but we are nearly ready now. Depending on your gaming preferences, after this update you'll have access to all game modes (Sandbox, Creative and Storyline), and all the tech needed for each of them to work properly. Note that certain game features will be locked to specific game mode and it won't be possible to change modes while already playing. Modes preset the conditions of a playsession so chec |
| Sneak peek into next major update | 2023-03-24 | Greetings again, Sea Mayors! This week we don't have an actual update, mainly because a very large update is in preparation, so we don't want to interrupt our work on that beauty before everything is ready. But we did want to share some details on the first important part of that update - so called "Creative" mode. Many of you will recognize this from dozens of your suggestions we received in weeks following the game's release. So, since you wanted it so much, we've decided it really can be a very good addition to the game. What exactly is the creative mode? Well, the creative mode is one of three main game modes that will be unlocked with th |
| Aquatico joins Spring sale with 25% off, while next big update is closing fast | 2023-03-16 | Greetings Sea Mayors, Today we are joining the awaited Steam Spring sale with a 25% discount offer on Aquatico! Anyone still on the fence about giving the game a try, this might be a good opportunity! Or if you've already dived in, maybe your friends might give it a run too :) Another thing we wanted to share is a few small details on the previously announced major content update. Work on that is progressing good, testing phase is about to start soon... And everything new from that update will of course be included in all game versions! We still won't be revealing too much, but just a few details so you know what to expect... The Atlantis Pro |
| Expand the playground – ice cold update v1.020.0 | 2023-03-10 | Hello again Sea Mayors It’s Friday, the weekend is coming, and we’re ready with a new update for Aquatico! This time, if you’re planning some nice weekend virtual chill , we’ve got just the thing for you! An entirely new biome has been completed, with an appropriate map to showcase it. It’s relatively shallow, far to the north, and cold as Arctic should be. Low temperatures will require more heating resources, and this biome is generally somewhat more challenging. But we’re certain it’s nothing you can’t handle! Besides that, this update brings several QoL details you asked for, some improvements to expeditions, derelicts and information hint |
| Quick update v1.011.3 | 2023-03-01 | Hello everyone, Today we have just a small batch of fixes you reported in recent days. Next major content update is progressing nicely, but will need a bit more time to be completed and tested. Meanwhile, a few corrections you asked for: - Several text corrections (drone MKI when it should say drone MKIII) - Few additional corrections in several languages - Removed opening icon for Atlantis Project. To avoid confusion, this is temporarily removed because it is part of a bigger content expansion that will be ready entirely for next major update - Few additional optimization and balancing tweaks (bigger package for this is also coming with next |
| An unplanned surprise update - v1.011.2 | 2023-02-24 | Greetings Sea Mayors, Well, there’s always a first for everything – we’ve been working relentlessly on more improvements, more fixes and more tweaks, and since the second part of the big content expansion is still a few weeks away, we’ve decided to not sit idly on these improvements. Hence – the first unscheduled update is here today. We’re confident you won’t hold it against us! Main improvements are linked to the Megalodon beast – chance for it to appear is changed and you will see it more often now, and it will aim for your buildings. Torpedo platform is now launching a proper torpedo instead of a pulse projectile. Another batch of optimiz |
| Weeklong discount starting + Creative mode en route | 2023-02-20 | Ahoy Sea Mayors, Today we're starting a weeklong offer for Aquatico, so there is a good opportunity for players to dive in and save some bucks at the same time. The game has received numerous updates since release, including the first bigger content update a few days ago. Anyone joining right now will naturally get access to the current updated game version. And at the same time, we'd like to announce another nice surprise - the arrival of three different game modes, including "Creative" mode that was frequently requested. The second major content update is still coming according to the already revealed plan, but it just got even bigger with |
| First of two major content expansions arrived! - version 1.010.1 | 2023-02-17 | Hello Sea Mayors, some great news today! Today we're starting to roll out the first of the bigger content updates for Aquatico. Elements of this update will start expanding the gameplay itself, and most building blocks grew from thousands of your forum messages, emails and Discord suggestions. The main goal is to enhance the overall play experience, establish closer links to the backstory and the apocalyptic setting, and to set the stage for future in-game objectives. Since we can't immediately change or add everything, we've decided to first improve and expand areas of the game that you had the most suggestions about. And in these two update |
| Quick heads up for upcoming content updates | 2023-02-10 | Good day Sea Mayors! We've had a very busy several weeks, but you could have noticed that based on the number of updates landing on Steam recently. Today however, we'd like to share a few more details on what is just around the corner. Your extensive feedback was noted, and right from release day we've started organizing a number of improvements for Aquatico - all based on your most frequent remarks, and the roadmap we promised at the time. Next week, first of these content updates will arrive. And that will be just the start! Regular bug fixes and tweaks will still be part of these updates, but we'll now start shifting focus on expanding fea |
| Quick update v1.009.0 | 2023-02-08 | Hello sea-mayors, Time for another quick update. The changelist is below :) - when a cage is not connected to a pipeline, the production bar will no longer glitch and display the wrong hint - the transporter carrying resources from fields and greenhouses is now positioned more accurately - transport from orchards now happens regularly - a destroyed Defence platform no longer shoots until it is repaired - fixed a number of hint displays Have fun and until next time! |
| Keeping up the pace - Rebalancing package + variety of other goodies | 2023-02-03 | Good day fellow Sea Mayors A week without an update wouldn’t feel right, so we’re back with yet another nice batch of improvements! This time, it revolves around many QoL improvements that players requested, plus a significant rebalancing package of almost all resources/demand, and of course a mandatory bunch of bug fixes. One of the most mentioned things regarding the difficulty side of the game mechanics is the requests for higher tiers of food and luxuries. In this rebalancing package, we’ve also made improvements to how tier mechanics work, and made it more logical and smooth. Alongside that, the accessibility of methods to alleviate the |
| Cargo submarine full of improvements coming through! | 2023-01-27 | Good day fellow Sea Mayors! Today, just in time for your weekend building spree, we’re ready to push the next update for Aquatico. It took a little bit longer to test this one, but it contains several deeper optimizations so we had to make sure we verify it properly. This update elevates the game to v1.005.5 , and contains sizeable grid layout optimizations, drones/workers pathfinding improvements, further optimizations to hardware loads, a lot of fixes and improvements for various in-game challenges regarding Food tiers and such… Additionally, many of you will recognize some tweaks and upgrades to the systems you reported yourself in past da |