Ports Of Call Deluxe 3D 2024 news & patch notes

A nasty safe bug was introduced with 1.5x -- the path shown in the header of SAFE and LOAD was no longer created, so without manual creation a safe error occured . Now this should create the missing path and some additional checks are done. Users which started on 1.4x do have the path already, so creating is skipped. by the way, PLEASE REPORT BUGs and Problems into the DISCUSSION first before you write a negative review which is not helpful, also describe the problem and used PC, OS etc as good as possible - I will try to fix problems ASAP. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/26e858f0f86e5b315b14676bc897459e1714276d.png

SAFE PROBLEMS

A nasty safe bug was introduced with 1.5x -- the path shown in the header of SAFE and LOAD was no longer created, so without manual creation a safe error occured . Now this should create the missing path and some additional checks are done. Users which started on 1.4x do have the path already, so creating is skipped. by the way, PLEASE REPORT BUGs and Problems into the DISCUSSION first before you write a negative review which is not helpful, also describe the problem and used PC, OS etc as good as possible - I will try to fix problems ASAP.

Really agaian an update, this time one very nice user wish to add the small ship icon to the captain's wall, this will help identifing the ship. A important bug fix. Due to a name change (Colón to Colon) due to language setting problems, I forgot to change all, and therefore mostly the panama canal is not used instead the Cap Horn route. This should be fixed now. Start with a small ship in Los Angeles and Set Course to Caracas for example. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/51c1d155102a0af70135f0791fa4389a555f8b66.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/ddd949c497a0a1121e40682841549bc87dc71ae1.png

1. Update 1.53 Bugfixed the ETA was missing the captains wall, now added again. Also changed it now shows the time to travel plus the load and unload time. So this should get better estimation. Attention in the rest of the menues you will only see the travel time. 2. User Wish Music in Harbours. As in the classic POCXXL version now harbours can have music when arriving, I added all the POCXXL music parts plus some new music. Here some examples for the ETA also some images for teh Japanese version. and dont wonder for testing especially the harbour musics I use the very fast FUTURA ship. So ETA is small here, for this kind of ship there is no load and unload time. 3. currenty music is in a.wav format you can add them yourself but I will if intersted make a tutorial or workshop on this. also volunteered music or harbour images are welcome. You then get into the ABOUT list. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/1d5708b67b5493964ed2f44b270c7d7966790941.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/282920bb9e2ae0770d81e9549daf1a740755e265.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/932efd3338e4cc0fe81a2354d9c93689a57b7e54.png

Small update, for GERMAN and foreign users, as we had problems when the local numeric has "," set as numeric seperator, this new version overrides it. Important change otherwise berth positions and moving objects dont follow along the path - this might be a very old bug explaining some comments in the past !.

HINT for GERMANY USERS: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACHTUNG, ein alter Bug gefunden, für Deutsches Setting : Bitte unter Einstellungen für Zahlendarstellung wenn alles auf Deutsch steht Gruppentrennung auf "." bitte auf "," KOMMA aendern und Dezimalstelle mit PUNK "." statt deuscthes KOMMA, dann gehen auch die Anlegestellen. ATTENTION we found an old bug, LANGUAGE Setting for NUMBERS please set group to "," and dezimal point to "." -- ESPECIALLY FOR GERMAN will come an update as soon as I find a way to patch it.... its the SCANF function in C my PC use english most... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update 1.51, the 1.50 was only short only, because some reported problems on the speed control display, some PCs did have a problem, I found a easy solution and fixed this hopefully...so far tested. small change: UFO now has its own speed control (was part of the bug) Russian version had a problem with Manzilla Colon --- The o without graf now works. ------------------------------------------------------------ Update 1.50 Lots of enhancements, features and addons have been done since the release of 1.40. A lot of the user wishes in the discussion forum which was very helpful are also implemented. 1. Font sizes have be changed also to be able to the game on 4k monitors. 2. New cursor now prevents it from disapearing on some machines. 3. Languages can be selected after start, also enabled user addon languages. 4. Stereo slider postions optimized. 5. WASD navigation added for ship control (Use STRG and SHIFT for the optional side rudders 6. Horn Added H Key to play the horn 7. SHIFT-B accellerates by 10 and STRG-B by 5 , as long the gamepad is not touched, enables fast navigation in large habours 8. Warnign on missing output pin message and how to solve (can be ignored only for video in the game on a texture) 9. New color hints for different office colors using the multiplayer and display on world map etc. 10. New OPTION Arcade, starting here with alternative harbours, for this time only some as New Yokr replacing them with simple ones more will come later if you liek this option 11. New backrgound AI generated 12. SPeed control in the WORLD menu, to accellerate the game progress. 13. new features in the WORLD menue click on a user then on the ship and you see the current status of the ship and the current route as lines 14. additional infos when a storm event comes up as condition of the ship 15. new Ship infos in the office, dtae of purchase and year of built etc. 16. additional infos when selecting BALAST for choosing a route as length etc. 17. New optin in the Weather menu ALT-W waveheight and many more. Attention if ocean height is to heigh harbours may be little bit flooded. 18. New ship forms in world Menu to distinguish the ship types 19. Submarine and UFO have new attributes, for example event protection and floating on shallow areas as the hovercraft also does. 20. NEW Autosave options now in the SAVE Menu, help preserving the game state. 21. KARA has a new Kategory Special Ships now. 22. Panama Event attention not all ships fit through the canal, but it will be considered when usign the automatic routing, 23. Panam Event always it low on money. Also be careful to choos the right entrance !! Panamax or the new one. 24. NEw Harbours: Odessa, Port Klan Solalah, Tanger Med, Haifa Port, Beirut, Vladiwostok, Murmansk, Noworossijsk, Las Palmas and Nassau 25. Select the Routing, Avoid Suez, Panama, Panamax, NOK (North East Canal), Northeast and Nrthwestpassage (New options, be careful depends on the season if useable withotu icebreaker) 26. Events optimized, more seldom and depending on the level you play. You can always avoid events, atke care on the ship condition and avoid some harbours. 27. SOme bugfixes, as reset of visited harbours when choosing new game, and App updated for fully 64 bit, now preventing a nasty out of memory, also as scenes are much larger {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/b9b34e23fc6fe7409cf62714056949391ae1c345.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/a52720307b045afd179a6e55faaac46b19ec34ed.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/b680b0843a5986e481fa0190c852a21a372aeeb2.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/dcedbc17bb95308478ac880baf1ef0f012d5cd0c.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/8d10e1811b67fef322dc50c0d5fdc28619c74b8e.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/f147985cbc7a298b8eb3119c23976ed2782ea947.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/f8857dbe397ee35ff83cb9d9518fada55fe7acbf.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/1ab85180e29e7b5db57a05a022f25ec1665c1458.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/bcdd1aa99b507a0e58c4672d09cf854bee85b3b4.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/9238b5c91b3544d0268f9de8c0ae3d06bc4d3357.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/6554c57bd4d70974ffba2fff9e73d728a12dde44.png

Now we have design freeze. Hamburg is ready ,also the rest. I spend some time also trimming the gameplay, though I was sucessful with teh old settings it was rather time consuming, some tips, avoid dangerour places, avoid time critical freight. But I reduced the number of events and this is now spreaded over the difficult level, so a beginner will have less events and so be more safe. Also changed the start money so now three ships can be bought at the beginning and you can combine more at startup. Nearly all of the user wishes have been implemented now. New route planing makes it possible to select if Suez etc is used or not, new the NOK canal and the norwest and the northeast passage (carefully use this option and look at the time of year). some impressions: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/f5fe3a31ff612b41200c44e9bea7b4dfb8fa48ef.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/7a6ca36dd078561c745c29b996dc09f496c2a11b.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/b23c5b3ab336337d90904336014314126edd433d.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/637dc51e1b9e0c2616535002835bf72cad88b67a.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/bb460820a09b6d7c03535183a72eebc5fe4fde7f.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/bc9ca85678eda23fa12c3202f0651d41cc3d3233.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/3e517b02d0e3bb7b485bd728cacb9beb3f98a1fb.png again new weather options also wind direction etc can be selected, watch the realtime response of the ocean and also wind generators etc. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/b0d9d9c7d0cb13a05d7bc10d591d501fe535a6ba.png

The larges scene in the game is now Panama canal with almost 1 Million Polygons, New York had much less, its build as close to the real New Panama Canal as possible, especially around the canals. New and old canal can be traveled. A new event now is possible for manual and getting status points. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/b67ec66b28c4999f1e284ea73f17659408667993.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/1b4188285ac2c6db8593057f0aaef7f14e5798a4.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/dcedbc17bb95308478ac880baf1ef0f012d5cd0c.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/683774bbddef1de59e9a0eb976b8b1d39bb5ae84.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/903eccd7542cb7853510848cd4038000567b2182.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/db6cd06766eed80822652f5cc4ac144d63f4f46a.png Another feature is now the language setting at the beginning new languages also added as Russian, Norwegian and Japanese. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/f454bf3909d70f895172cf17f00bd4816f919a5a.png New feature also as user wishes , you can now select a user and the ship to show the position, direction and I also will show the route travelling. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/8d10e1811b67fef322dc50c0d5fdc28619c74b8e.png This adds also new features in the Captains Wall, now you can select new routes to avoid, Panama, New Panama, Suez, NOK (North Kiel Canal) and the new routes Nordwest and Northeast Passage. Careful on new events ! -- Ships which did not fit through the canals are automatically choosing a different path. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/c9ea6c9688911c9c48730d463ef19587375b5768.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/bb3fad871c2df4e173f06a43a9c333f2f7510c01.png{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/4d447e7c7d62b0927a38aebf08ff31b2850e1b01.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/239beed650c1bef61882cf195159b450ce9792a1.png New Harbours: Beirut, Haifa, Salah, Tangier, Port Klang, Odessa, Vladivostok, Murmansk and Noworossijsk Smaller Harbour: Las Palmas and Nassau Now also part of the gameplay for freight. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/1e1bb95ace18338236bee570a8dadb552e7ddb13.png Freight loading now is displayed in the captains wall, Navigation for ship steering changed, for prioriy on keyboard if both used. New featuture also implemented is autosave and speed of simulation in the main display.

The new update is still in progress, the panama canal is now huger than any other scene, lot of details and the new lock system, now it works very close to the real panama canal, with the new and the old lock system both operational. I had to implement multiple sea levels also adding a new panama canal event like tugs on strike, and if you are out of cash you have to get through the locks manually. You see some of the models made for the panama canal, here the visitor centor of the old locks. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/0493050b36a8342284624c63026ee6f33e3ea217.png

We are in the final stage of the 1.41 update. Done: font size dynamic for 4k screens, Language dialog at startup, new languages, Keyboard override the gamepad, WASD navi, Arcade option for fast scenes (new york, sydney for example), SPEED control in world menu for 1min to 15min..., {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/1ab85180e29e7b5db57a05a022f25ec1665c1458.png NEW Weather addon, wind direction strength etc, different ship types on worldmap, new listbox with ships to look where they are located, new KARA Menu Special ships, {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/bcdd1aa99b507a0e58c4672d09cf854bee85b3b4.png new harbour NASSAU, New scene PANAMA Lock (gets a new event, just working on this). AUTOSAVE options, infos on milage of ships and year of purchase, infos in captains wall enhanced, {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/9238b5c91b3544d0268f9de8c0ae3d06bc4d3357.png

Work of the next update is full in progress. 1. several bugfixes, e.g. small font, now scsales with the resolution also for proton 2. WASD keys added, also keyboard overrides gamepad if used, but switches back to gamepad automatically. 3. language select on startup when no parameter is given, allows to add new languages easier 4. new languages: Russian, Japanese, Norwegian (in progress) 5. new level in KARA for special ships, as ships like UFO, VIKINGER and NAUTILS (new for cargo now), are more for fun than for the real cargo business. 6. new ship infos as buillding year, amount of travel (in work) 7. many new backkdrops done by AI 8. info on tug cost on storm events 9. many other user options which I just do step by step. The most criticial are done already. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/6554c57bd4d70974ffba2fff9e73d728a12dde44.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44998019/49e6d53c2dc77f580884ef53f881fdb4414520dd.png

Hints

for multiplayer , the ships are colored already but you need to set the color when choosing the office -- I check for some more clear optiosn to this ... To Quit the game you can use ALT-A anytime, usually you should QUIT the game in the main screen with the world display. Estimated update around the 2nd or 3rd week on June. Please feel free to add more user wishes in the discussion part.