Welcome New Fishing Mechanic and Animations

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We are constantly improving our in-game fishing techniques and creating new fishing opportunities for our players.

We want to introduce you to Pulling-up! It is a new fishing mechanic we are very excited to implement.

Read more about the New fishing mechanic in Developer Diaries.

Pulling-up consists of constant repeatable actions of sharply pulling the line, losing the line, reeling in the loose line and pulling it sharply again. 

When fishing for a heavyweight fish, it is very important to safely take it out of water. In such cases we commonly use a landing net.

Landing Net 

For fish over 5 kg there is a landing net system as it is necessary to make sure big fish is caught safely. 

The fish under 5kg is caught without a landing net, for the fish from 5 kg the landing net is not used only if the max load of the weakest element of the tackle is much stronger than the weight of the fish.

Landing Net will be disabled by default. You can turn it on/off in the in-game settings!

However in some cases the landing net can’t be used even if the fish is big enough, such as:

• Not enough time passed since the strike;
• Fish is too high above the surface or too deep below the water;
• Fish is not tired enough;
• Player is not looking towards the fish or there are obstacles between the player and the fish;
• While fishing from the boat, fish are not positioned in the area suitable for landing net usage.

We also would like to introduce the following improvements and changes:

• New reel rotation indicator;
• Reel breakage system adjustments. Increased time for the breakage and durability level of the reel during overload. So be careful!

Please note that broken reels, obtained from the fishing packs, can be repaired!

• Updated wear system for lines and leaders;
• New pulling up system for the large fish (fishing rod behavior optimization while pulling up, much more efficient);
• Fixed issue with alarms on the rod stands. In certain situations, the rod stand might not provide an audible signal, and the fish gets away due to the lack of hookset;
• The system of big fish coming off the hook has been updated. If your tackle is not ready for a big catch the fish will come off without damaging it.

Animation Optimization:

• Fixed incorrect line behavior when catching underwater items;
• New Twitching animations.  Including polishing the avatar of the player and adding more flexibility to it;
• New Pulling animations;
• Twitching animation improvements: polishing the forearm and wrist animation and making rod behavior more flexible. Increasing the range of rod movements when reeling in objects or fish of varying weights. (spinning rod animations. Stay tuned for casting rod animations).
• Improved sleeve and arm animation for widescreens;
• Improved spinning animation after the fish comes off the leash;
• Added visual effects for horizontal tackle load indicator;
• Landing net animation added;
• Increased Landing net movement speed.
• Rod stand improvements: fixed incorrect alarm behavior.