Early Access Release Candidate 2.1737

🚢 Early Access Release – E1.2.1737

Welcome to the first Early Access release of Professional Ship Simulator! This update includes major improvements to Career Mode, tutorials, vessel interactions, navigation, UI and overall stability.

🧑‍✈️ Career & Tutorials

• 🎓 Fixed completed trainings not being added correctly to Career progression.
• 📊 Fixed Career stats being doubled after restarting Career Mode.
• 🎓 Fixed repeated License Checks incorrectly increasing the Career Level again.
• 🚢 Updated the Level 2 Career vessel lineup with the River Ferry and Tug Boat and adapted the related tutorials.
• 🚢 Tug Boat, Ferry and Pilot tutorials now include Career-specific introductions.
• 📍 Improved guidance during License Check 2 with an additional mission marker.
• 🐟 Added a Sonar reference image to the Fishing Tutorial.

🚢 Ships & Gameplay

• 🆕 Added the new LNG Carrier Docking at Dunkirk scenario.
• 👤 Character control now starts in First Person View by default. C can still be used to change the view.
• 👤 Fixed camera clipping incorrectly forcing the character into Third Person.
• 🔧 Bilge Pump, Hatch Panel and Fuel Vent controls now visually react when operated.
• 💡 Light switches now visually represent their current state.
• ⚓ Improved mooring behavior and corrected force units to kN.
• 🕹️ Corrected the LNG Tanker’s throttle setup.
• 👥 Fixed passengers remaining after their vessel was removed.

📡 Navigation & World

• 📡 Improved AIS/Radar scrolling so interacting with AIS information no longer accidentally zooms the Radar.
• 🗺️ Improved Dover travel splines for Pilot Missions.
• 🏗️ Fixed Container Crane highlighting affecting objects above the intended area.
• 🚐 Adjusted the Harbor Shuttle at Ralswiek Marina.

🌊 Audio, UI & Presentation

• 🌊 Improved ambient ocean audio with more realistic distance attenuation and air absorption.
• ✈️ Reduced aircraft noise by 50%.
• 👤 Removed the unwanted character “conehead” shadow.
• 🖥️ Several UI, localization and text-alignment improvements.
• 💾 Empty save slots are now clearly identified.
• 🔐 Encrypted debug logging is active again.

⚙️ Performance & Release Preparation

• 🚀 The default Resolution Scale is now set to 85% on first startup, providing a performance boost especially on lower-end systems.
• 🔄 Existing stats and progression data are reset for the Early Access release, providing a clean starting point for the EA version.

🎮 Steam & Epic

• ⚙️ Steam is the default platform configuration.
• Epic remains available as the secondary platform.
• Additional improvements were made to Epic login, Stats and Social Overlay support.

❤️ Thank you to everyone who supported Professional Ship Simulator throughout development and testing. Welcome to Early Access — and see you at sea! ⚓