Sea Power’s 0.8.1 patch shores up saves and task force bugs

Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age got patch 0.8.1 on July 8, 2026, and Triassic Games used it to fix save trouble, smooth out Task Force Mode, and tidy up the campaign systems that arrived in the 0.8.0 campaign update.

The most visible addition is a Sensor Tool in the EMCON menu. It gives players a closer look at sensor characteristics on each unit, which should make it easier to read the battlefield when contacts start stacking up.

Most of the rest of the patch is a cleanup pass. Pacific Strike and Task Force Mode got the heaviest attention, with fixes for mid-mission saves, mission flow, aircraft handling, and a few weapon and unit quirks.

Patch Notes 0.8.1

The changelist mixes a new utility with a long list of fixes for the campaign layer, ship management, and unit data. Below is the full note set from Triassic Games in source order.

Newly added features in this release:

• Added Sensor Tool accessible from the EMCON menu on bottom bar, with detailed sensor characteristics
• Units: Added Strike Cruiser (CSGN) as Alaska class CGN with 4 variants
• Units: Added F/A-18A Hornet with USN, USMC, RAAF squadrons
• Units: Added BRU-55 bomb rack and new Hornet loadouts
• Units: Added laser guided rounds to Alaska class CGN
• Some new loading screens from v0.8.0 courtesy SqnLdrMartin and ryu1940!

Updates from previous release:

• TMA: Improve velocity & acceleration characteristics based on contact kind & after contact loss. Added optional (default off) velocity display from sampling distribution.
• Task Force Mode: Added text below Task Force Manager (top bar) noting that right click is used for management options
• Task Force Mode: killing civilians now results in negative penalty and costs points
• Task Force Mode: Added ability to refund aircraft one at a time or as a group
• Campaign: Pacific Strike: added hint/clarifying message to mission 05 Strike on the Monster on best strategy to use
• Campaign: Pacific Strike: reduced Silkworm battery count and Strela MANPADs on mission 03 Running the Palawan Passage
• Campaign: Pacific Strike: added unit picker to mission 05 allowing the player to select the ships to deploy
• Campaign: Pacific Strike: added all helicopters to purchase list for all missions
• Campaign: Pacific Strike: updated campaign rules to clarify that right click is used for management options
• Scenario: Campaign Missions/01A Senkaku Run: changed S-3A loadout to ASW and pre-deployed towed array and towed decoy on USS Hawaii
• Units: Updated model, serials, and liveries for F-111C and F/A-18A
• Units: Added air-to-ground loadouts and chaff to Mirage III
• Units: Fixed torpedo loadout types for RAN Oberon and Israel Gal class submarines
• Units: Added new profile images for several new units
• Sensors: buff active performance of HF/MF sonars, nerf active performance of LF sonars
• Sensors: standardize SignalProcessing and allow narrowband analysis from certain hull arrays
• Translations

Fixes from previous release:

• Spy ships are properly ID’d again
• Wire guided torpedoes no longer attempt a top attack
• Fixed long range shots for Vodopod system
• Towed arrays no longer fly into the stratosphere searching for Santa’s reindeer
• Fixed an issue where Walleyes would not properly hold targets
• Killed submarines will now sink immediately vs floating to surface
• Aircraft: More fixes for unwanted aircraft oscillation
• Task Force Mode: Saving mid-mission now properly generates a companion campaign save – this should no longer prevent reloading of campaign from outside campaign menu, if temp campaign save is cleaned up
• Task Force Mode: Repairing units could sometimes only apply to a previous mission and not to the live Task Force
• Task Force Mode: CSAR points were sometimes not applied correctly
• Task Force Mode: Replaying missions and failing them could flip the mission to incomplete in campaign map view in certain cases
• Task Force Mode: Units in hangars will no longer join the Task Force incorrectly
• Task Force Mode: Destroyed aircraft lost inside ship hangars are now correctly removed from player Task Force
• Task Force Mode: Missions with restricted ship counts (03B, 05, 08) would not respect airgroups assigned to each ship in the campaign map UI
• Task Force Mode: Adding new ships occasionally was not properly reflected in launched mission until reloading a save due to stale data
• Task Force Mode: Air Tasking no longer clears Ready Up tasks for aircraft of the same squadron
• Task Force Mode: Restored points cost directly to campaign roster to avoid conflict with modded base game files producing 0 pt cost units
• Task Force Mode: Commander discount will now always drop at least 1 pt from unit cost regardless of unit base cost
• Campaign: Pacific Strike: RNZAF aircraft will no longer incorrectly check out on 04 if lost
• Campaign: Pacific Strike: restored proper airstrike counts to 08
• Campaign: Pacific Strike: altered positioning of S-300 site in 08A for easier VID task
• Campaign: Pacific Strike: relocated player CAP flight in 05
• Campaign: Pacific Strike: typo in mission 08 description
• Campaign: Pacific Strike: 03B and 04 now have the same ship allowlist reflecting their connected nature in timeline
• Campaign: Pacific Strike: fixed rearm variable set by rescuing cargo ship in mission 08
• Units: fixed torpedo tube arrangement on Alaska class CGN
• Units: Alaska CGN flight deck ammo erroneously having unusable weapons
• Units: fixed missing colliders for PLA AAA guns
• Units: F-15C Sparrow positioning updated to F-15A standard
• Units: Stenka is now “Patrol Boat” rather than “Torpedo Boat” to reflect its actual role
• Units: added slight reduction in narrowband screw tonals for single shaft SSKs (Agosta, Uzushio, Yushio, Kilo)
• Units: Los Angeles SSN max speed 33kt -> 35kt
• Weapons: corrected flight profile of Styx and Silkworm series of missiles
• Weapons: corrected range of TLAM series to block II standard, 675nmi ship launch, 450nmi sub launch
• Weapons: disallow TLAM firing on mobile units again
• Weapons: corrected hit probabilities of gun projectiles, reduced fuze radius
• Nullrefs

Patch 0.8.1 feels like the kind of follow-up a new campaign needs, with the new Sensor Tool doing a lot of the quiet work in the background. Share your thoughts in the comments, and follow us on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram.

Source: Steam

Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age

Developed by Triassic Games

From the lead designer of Cold Waters, Sea Power lets you control NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in modern naval conflict campaigns. Use your advanced naval weaponry and sensors to respect rules of engagement and defeat the enemy forces in a tense fight for initiative and air/naval supremacy.

• Genre: Simulator, Strategy
• Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
• Modes: Single player
• Release: 2024-11-12
• Publisher: MicroProse

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