The Performance Patch
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Just a heads up: this update is mostly about bug fixes and performance improvements, with little new content. However, Cat Goes Fishing DOES run at 60 FPS now, so we're calling this a Major Update. I tried to make the changelog as complete as possible, but I'm sure I missed something. We've made these improvements in preparation for future updates, so stay tuned
Performance Enhancements:
- Target framerate increased to 60 FPS (from 30 FPS).
- The game is now compiled! (We'll release a more mod friendly branch soon.)
- Reworked fish thinning system, GREATLY increasing performance for most users.
- Optimized texture sheets to reduce typical VRAM consumption.
- Stopped drawing a bunch of stuff behind sonar and then immediately filling over it; greatly increasing performance for users with integrated graphics.
- Optimized fish drawing, improving performance when many fish are active but far off screen.
- Optimized fish targeting scripts, and many others!
New Stuff and Balance Changes:
- Added a new upgrade: Bulbguard. It protects your lightbulb from Bulbeaters!
- Fish on rod/boat no longer always load with full health; their value and orientation is saved.
- Fish now sink in place when bombed, stunned on the sea floor. (Stunned state is now saved.)
- Fish that are floating to the surface now get stuck on rocks. (Floating state is now saved.)
- Having the "Attract Worm" rod upgrade on your rod now gives you the effect of Dig hat.
- Legacy saves disabled: no save protection for very old saves, and you can no longer gain a legacy.
- Phase and Snoutfish no longer go to the chasm to sleep at night.
- Increased the value of: Glacier, Tik Tik, Lemonback
- Decreased the value of: Snoutfish, Nightfish Sire, Koin, Thistle, Old Cusper, Maw
- Plateau fish are no longer revealed in catalog until level 65 (up from 50).
Minor Tweaks:
- Discovered hats no longer appear on the map once they are in the hatalog.
- Chompy no longer bites Crayfin when Crayfin is held by swimming cat.
- Stalker now picks a new early huge target every day of the week.
- Worm sprite updated and it no longer makes blood when bitten.
- Boom Puff now explodes when bitten, even if not on the hook.
- Bombs now detach on line snap (and can later be recovered).
- Torby catalog entry now reflects its extinction state.
- Bombat can no longer be flicked off the hook.
- Fish that are netted are no longer bombable.
- Bombat can now escape the caves.
- Glow removed from crystalfish.
- Cowfish blink.
Bugfixes:
- Cavin actually swims in the caves.
- Stormy should swim around during storms as intended.
- Schools of blinking tetras no longer threaten to crash the game.
- There are generally fewer flying coral larges (Tik Tik, etc...)
- Ghost will no longer appear if a medium fish is on the line.
- Rising lure no longer has any effect if the line is snapped.
- Worm can no longer be added to the line when a bomb is attached.
- Background music now gets quieter when swimming deep, not just when the lure sinks deep.
- Cuddlefish and Skrimp sprites should no longer appear in the other's place in the catalog.
- Fish lights stay more closely aligned with their fish, and they shine through other fish less.
- Fixed a bug that caused fish to get stuck returning, bouncing up and down in place.
- Fixed a bug that caused the rocket to make noise while off after casting backwards.
- Fixed a bug that would make Witchy, Dig, and Fennec sometimes spawn inside rocks.
- Fixed a bug that caused Puff to count as 133% of a fish towards catalog completion.
- Fixed a bug that caused fish to lunge for an empty hook if you detonated a Bombat early.
- Fixed a bug that caused a fish to stay full value if it was bit after giving experience.
- You can no longer put fish on the lure while swimming if there is a bomb on the lure.
- Puff is no longer always inflated; now becomes deflated when held in Cat's paws.
- Fish can no longer be placed off the back of Tech Boat and Collier.
- Mamo egg now actually detaches on line snap.
- There are fewer braindead, misshapen, skeletonized or otherwise malformed fish.
- Numerous other bugfixes that there were not well documented.