Hello everyone! Update 0.5.1.04 for The Chaser’s Voyage is now live! We’ve added some nice Quality of Life changes focused on gamepad use and fixed a LOT of bugs!
In this update we decided we wanted to make the gamepad controls clearer and found a few things that accidentally required using the mouse. The gamepad control labels now are more specific to different controllers, for example, pressing the right thumbstick would be shown as R3 on PlayStation controllers and RS on others. We also replaced the D-Pad control labels with animating D-Pad icons instead of their plain text used previously. After these changes we wanted to make it a little clearer how to interact with the Info Screen on gamepad, and so we added those labels to the Info Screen buttons. (They change to match your custom controls as well!) Next, in the mid-jump scene, the player could not actually interact with the Save & Quit and Crew Journal buttons via the gamepad. So we decided to change them to instead be labels that show the inputs used for Saving & Quitting and Opening the Crew Journal (not yet available). On the flip side, while docked, the player could interact with the Repair and Depart buttons via gamepad, but they could not toggle between Main and Info on the Info Screen via the gamepad. So we added the functionality to toggle them by pressing up on the D-pad (regardless of custom controls) and changed the buttons to be labels, like how we did in the mid-jump scene.
After those changes came a lot of testing to make sure they worked in a ton of different cases, which also revealed quite a few bugs! Some were bugs that occurred when Bounty Hunters chased the player off docks, others were bugs with setting custom gamepad controls, and finally, we fixed for some bugs in Merchant Fleets. Now that this update is done, we’re planning to get back to working on the various client updates, so we hope you look forward to them!
You can read the full patch notes here and can follow The Chaser’s Voyage and Bright at Midnight on Twitter and join our Discord for more news and to give feedback! If you wish to play The Chaser’s Voyage, you can buy it while we’re in Early Access on Steam: