Sunkenland v0.8.53 Patch Notes Cover Quest Bugs and a Weaker Final Turret

Sunkenland v0.8.53 is a focused patch that addresses several quest progression problems, interaction prompt errors, and traversal issues. The latest Steam announcement also details a major health reduction for the final boss turret.

The Pirate Cargo Ship quest could sometimes fail to show Objectives 2 and 3, blocking progress. The Tunnel quest also had a treasure chest that could return after reloading a save, even if it had already been collected. Elsewhere, the patch corrects incorrectly displayed interaction prompts and fixes ladder and collision problems in the central area of the Nuclear Power Plant.

For the final boss encounter, the turret’s base health has been reduced from 28,000 to 14,000. The difficulty multipliers remain unchanged, so the turret still uses different health values based on the selected difficulty.

v0.8.53 follows the Aug. 16 v0.8.52 hotfix, which addressed an error that could prevent a world from loading correctly.

Sunkenland v0.8.53 Patch Notes

The update’s fixes cover quest progression, interface prompts, treasure chest persistence, ladder access, and object collisions. Its balance change is limited to the final boss turret’s base health.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Objective 2 and Objective 3 could sometimes fail to appear during the Pirate Cargo Ship quest, preventing quest progression.
• Fixed an issue where interaction button prompts could display incorrectly.
• Fixed an issue in The Tunnel quest where the treasure chest could respawn after reloading a save after it had already been collected.
• Fixed an issue where players could not climb past the top of certain ladders in the central area of the Nuclear Power Plant, and corrected collision issues with several objects.

Balance Adjustments

Adjusted the health of the final boss turret. Base health has been reduced from 28,000 to 14,000.

Difficulty multipliers remain unchanged:

• Easy: 0.4
• Normal: 0.6
• Hard: 0.8
• Insane: 1.0

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Sunkenland

Developed by Vector3 Studio

A Waterworld themed survival game. Explore sunken cities, build your base, craft items, trade and fight pirates as you struggle to survive on an aquatic post-apocalypse world plagued by hunger and violence.

• Genre Indie
• Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows)
• Perspective First person
• Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
• Release August 26, 2023
• Publisher Vector3 Studio

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