WEBFISHING Housecleaning Update (Patch 1.09)

Howdy Webfellas, West here! Got quite a large patch to send out containing loads of quality of life fixes, tweaks, and a minor amount of silly content.
If you have any issues, email either our support email (support@webfishing.info) or my email (indielamedev@gmail.com).
Patch Notes
- Gameplay
- Lots of bug fixes.
- General Performance Pass
- Added the Hand Labeler in the Opossum's shop, allowing you to rename any item or fish.
- Added Bounce Brew and Super Bounce Brew to the vending machine.
- Added Shower Lure, a lure which provides a small chance to spawn a tiny raincloud above you.
- Moved the Journal Completion rewards from the Quest Board to the Frog's shop.
- Added the Traveler's Rod and the Prosperous Rod.
- Added the Portable Bait Station consumable in the Frog's shop.
- Improved Meteor Event visual/audio effects to be easier to spot.
- Added the ???????? which is accessed through the ???? ?????? and ??? ????????. Yeah.
- 'Speed Slurpees' have been renamed to 'Speed Slurpos'
- New In-game tags for Developers and Contributors.
- Added Non-Binary Shirt.
- Added Non-Binary Title.
- Added Creature Title.
- Added Cryptid Title.
- Added "Straight" Title. It costs $9999.
- Added Mysterious Block Baseball Cap.
- Added another, greater tier of Drunk-ness.
- Added multiple new extra options in the options menu. These include: Toggle Sprint, Disable Chalk, Chat Filtering, Catch Jingle, Autoclick, Alternate Font, and Close Mailbox.
- Increased freecam range.
- 4 new music tracks by Floombo! Balance
- Ripples now have a slightly higher chance of being higher quality fish.
- Quick Jig now gives 25% more power instead of 15%
- Magnet Lure has an even higher chance of catching Junk/Garbage. (Treasure chances stay the same.) Inventory
- Reworked Inventory Menu.
- Reworked Sell/Bait Shop.
- Added Item Stacking. Certain items can be stacked up to 99.
- Added Item Favoriting. Right Clicking an item favorites it, preventing it from appearing in sell menus. Networking
- Major Internal Network Rework. Hopefully, the entire game should feel better and be safer.
- Reworked Lobby Browser visually, allowing for minor filtering in the results.
- Added Custom Lobby Titles.
- Added optional 18+ Tag to Lobbies, changing nothing gameplay-wise but requires players to accept a popup upon joining.
- Added customizable Player Count to Lobbies.
- Added 'Friends-Only" Lobby type.
- Lobby Codes are now 6 letters long. Saving
- Reworked Game Save system.
- Players now have up to 4 save slots they can swap between at the main menu.
- Game now auto-saves every 5 minutes.
- Added option to save game in the menu.
- Steam Cloud will stay disabled for a bit until patch proves to have not caused any issues.
A Brief Talk... Now that hopefully some of the chaos has settled, I just want to thank everyone for hanging in there and playing WEBFISHING. I could've never ever expected the response to this game, and frankly, I want to apologize for some of this nonsense. The launch product was rushed and a bit of a mess (Context: I setup the initial ground work for this project in 2023 for a few weeks, and then spent only 4 months finishing it this year! A 5~ month total development time!) and I ended up not really being proud of the product I had put out. Hopefully, this patch addresses most of the major issues with the game (and I can finally sleep a bit :) ). I'm beyond grateful that you all decided to spend your time on this silly $5 game, and put up with all the bugs and nonsense that have from with it. Happy fishin, folks!
This announcement was originally published by lamedeveloper on Steam on Nov 6, 2024.
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