First off, hello everyone. I just started playing a few days ago and man I’m addicted. I played on the rough North Sea so long last Sunday that the next day at my office I felt land-sick: everything was swaying. I love this game! In a market saturated with flight simulators and first person shooters, this is a truly unique experience, and, for me, a lot more fun than cruising at high altitude.
That said, I was wondering if there is a common list of known bugs to be fixed. I’ve already read about the horn issue with the addon ships, but what about other stuff? I’m wondering because I don’t know if it is just me or if other players are experiencing the same problems. Here are some of them, including bugs and inconveniences:
Graphics Related:
No water splashes against hull in addon ships, even when hitting rough waves head-on.
The classic yacht and fishing boat steering wheels turn the wrong direction when controlled from keyboard keys. The boat still turns the direction I want, but the wheel is spinning the opposite direction. This only happens on these 2 addon ships, and only when controlled though the keyboard. It works fine on an analog joystick.
The P6 patrol boat hull coloring is very strange. In the light it appears to be dark blue, but in the shade it turns pitch-black. Not like a shadow, but completely black.
You fall through the aft deck during the walkthru in the addon ship Ocean Star, and can walk though the hull of the addon cargo ship and walk onto water.
There is a small yellow floating polygon in the addon Russian tug. I believe it is part of the rail, but it is floating in mid-air (relative to the boat). You can find it if you go out the cockpit, down the stairs, and to the front left side of the cockpit housing. (This broken polygon also exists on the addon ship in 2006)
Missing windows from various addon ships, allowing broken view of interior. For example, the fishing boat, you can see though the portholes and see the mess of polygons inside. This is also true of the Russian tug, and several windows are incorrectly placed on the Ocean Star.
Offset polygons in the multipurpose boat: look at the ceiling-windows at the front of the cockpit. The vertical bars are off-place.
GUI and Performance:
Doesn't save screen resolution. Every time I start the game, I have to set the screen resolution to what I want. It saves every preference but this one.
Save game does not save weather conditions in free roam mode. If you are in free roam mode and save on a stormy night, when you load it, it will be a calm daytime.
Some boats, such as the classic yacht, constantly slowly turn to the left: I originally thought it was water current drift or strong wind at first, but it happens regardless of the conditions.
Sound related:
Occasionally the Titanic's engines stop making noise.
With the addon ship Classic yacht, the engine continues to make noise even if you shut down the engine.
Controller:
When using game pad with analog sticks, you have to set game to "Percision steering = OFF" if you want the wheel to snap back to the neutral position when you let go of the stick. But if you do so, you can no longer keep the engine thrust at any set amount, because it also snaps back automatically. It should be made possible to set Percision steering ON or OFF for each of the main controls: Wheel, Engines, and Thrusters.
Is everyone experiencing these same issues? Or am I doing something wrong? Also, once again, is there a public list of known issues so I am not unnecessarily repeating issues that are already being fixed?
Thanks in advance.
