Version 1.0.4Steam Community Announcements
Developer announcement:
Summary updated:
What changed for players
Our summary is based on the linked Dazed Games announcement. Read the original for the developer's complete wording.
Co-op and progression
Eight-player support supersedes the four-player limit described in the release announcement. The approach to the final island also becomes easier to spot.
Fixes and attempted fixes
- Changes target black screens while joining and gray screens at startup; the developers describe these as tentative fixes.
- Persistent boss timers, underwater menu effects and revive prompts receive corrections.
- Server names reject problematic special characters, and the bare-hands final-boss achievement receives a fix.
Source & freshness
Questions about this update
What is included in How to Fish Patch 1.0.4?+
The first listed post-launch patch expands lobbies to eight players and reduces the strength of Pufferfish and Whale.
Where does this update information come from?+
The source is a Dazed Games announcement on Steam. This page is an independent summary by How-to-Fish.org; the original developer post is linked below.
Is this the current game version?+
The latest versioned announcement in our Steam snapshot is Patch 1.1.3. This page keeps the date and scope of the earlier announcement.