The Isle of Cats news & patch notes

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45517731/d7726f8384b29ad49c4bf9321d392c2ecbfa9742.png Today’s patch addresses a number of issues reported by the community, along with a variety of general improvements.

Community Reported

• Corrected several instances of mistranslation in Spanish.
• Updated several prompts for clarity, including Catnip and Catcall (and all similar effects) as well as prompting around discarding Lesson cards.
• Resolved a number of issues with the add friend flow.

Gameplay

• Fixed several bugs where challenge and Rescue rules modifiers were not functioning as intended.
• Re-worded portions of the Rescue scoring screen for greater clarity.
• Corrected several softlocks and game crashes, including several which occurred in Rescues with certain modifiers.

UX/UI

• Adjusted highlight positioning, shape and size throughout the game, including an issue where rare treasure highlights could become obtrusive.
• Resolved overlapping textures, objects and text.
• Corrected some visual issues with the auto-camera.
• Corrected numbering of tiles on the beach.
• Moved opponents’ boats closer to player’s, enabling better visibility when zoomed fully out. Opponent boats are still off-screen when zoomed far enough in.

Gamepad

• Fixed an issue where certain Anytime cards couldn’t be played during Jump In windows while using a gamepad.
• Improved gamepad functionality on certain prompts, including the friends list and chat.
• You can now correctly use the bug report modal with gamepad (though we hope you don’t need to!).
• Hotkeys to open certain prompts now work correctly while you have the chat window open.
• Mobile
• Added UI for precise tile adjustments to account for difficulty with manually dragging.
• Adjusted mobile cat tile tray for ease of use with certain cards.
• Fixed an issue where the front end menu could fail to load.
• Resolved several minor UI issues such as incorrect fonts and overlapping icons.
• Fixed an issue where a blown-up card could reappear after dismissing it.
• The leaderboards should now properly display usernames.
• Treasure tiles should no longer overlap no matter what order they’re drawn in.
• Screen size now properly adjusts when folding a foldable device.

AI

• Fixed a case where the AI would play slowly.
• Resolved an AI crash which could occur when the Extended Family and Whale modifiers were enabled in Rescue.
• Solo games will now properly show your sister’s score when skipping the scoring count-up animation.
• Your sister has been caught cheating and no longer gains points from Public Lessons in Solo mode.
• The easy AI will now go a little lighter on drafting Lesson cards.
• The AI now overall makes more natural decisions about drafting Lesson and Rescue cards.

Front-End

• Added confirmation and clarification of text for reporting other players.
• Corrected issue of miscounted Lessons in Player History.
• Rescue page now reloads when Rescue timer hits zero.
• Updated Treasure Trove Challenge text for clarity.
• Corrected spots where non-English text could overflow its borders at certain resolutions.
• You should now be able to change your avatar and color when joining a match even if you’re the last player to join and the game auto-starts.

If you run into trouble while playing, please let us know via in-game feedback, or by dropping a line to [email protected] so we can help, and be sure to join our player community on Discord! Thanks for playing The Isle of Cats!