Sunless Skies 2.0.4 - Sovereign Edition

Tech bug fixes
Your headlight will no longer pass through solid terrain.
We’ve made some changes to address the crashes seen when starting a new game on MacOS builds.


Narrative bug fixes
It is no longer possible to finish developing Titania without completing two projects.
It should now be clearer how to expand Titania across different captains within the same lineage.
Speaking to the Caring Conductor when docked will no longer trigger a warning message that breaks docking.
You can once again collect a bee from a Chorister-Corpse or the Flower Fields for the Abstemious and Patchwork Devils.
The Abstemious Devil quest will now update in the journal once you've captured a bee.
The Studious Companion will no longer incorrectly be mentioned when parting ways with the Pugilistic or Poetic Companions.
The Pugilistic Companion is no longer incorrectly referred to as the Vigorous Companion.
If you rid yourself of the Clay Conductor, the quest journal will now update accordingly.
Once the Clay Conductor has been dismissed from your service, you can no longer continue to help him search for a companion.
It should now be clear when you lose crew at the Giggling Place.
The Repentant Devil will no longer incorrectly be referenced when speaking to The Defiant Devil.
As always, a few more typos have been banished.

Bug fixes
Gamepad users will no longer experience a crash when reloading after death.
The flashing lights on mines are once again contained within their blast radius.
Tier 2, 3 and 4 engines now apply their speed boosts correctly.
Full Steam Mode is once again 50% faster than the base speed of a tier 1 engine.


Urchin Update:
Updates
Some balance adjustments have been made to lateral thrust.
The highlighting and spacing on Storylet panels has been improved.
Changes to your qualities are now presented more clearly.
Storylet logging is now capped to the last few branches selected.
The left stick on gamepads now scrolls and highlights branches (you no longer have to use the left and right stick together together).


N.B. With regards to scrolling with gamepads, R3 is still used to move up to see logged branch choices and down to view long quality results. There are a few outstanding issues with R3 scrolling, in particular on non-hub bazaars. We will address these issues in a future update.


Bug fixes
Curators will no longer pursue you endlessly across the High Wilderness.
Focus can no longer be lost from the control menu when using a gamepad.
Activating Full Steam Mode will no longer cause the Dendrified Vagabond to play a jig on his harmonica.
You can no longer travel under terrain near Tiggelaar's Haunt.
Headlights will no longer pass through terrain near Prosper or New Winchester.
You will no longer collide with invisible obstacles near Braley Rock.

Bug fixes
Captains will once again begin to starve when they run out of supplies.
You now require five Jumbles of Undistinguished Souls to fulfill The Souls for the Titanian Poets prospect.
The Fortunes: Stovepipes quality once again displays the correct icon and description.

Bug fixes
The Peacock wind will no longer empty a crate of Supplies once it has been filled.
Quality tooltips will never now be prefaced with the word 'COMPLETE'.
It is no longer possible to recruit the Chiropterous Hoarder if they are already in your service.
The hold capacity of locomotives should now never be out of sync when loading a save file in the Hoarder release.
It is now possible to leave the Now-Triumphant Priest's cottage without eating pie.
Entering the Reach after completing the Lost Love's quest in a certain way will no longer entrap you in a storylet with no branches.
Numerous narrative tweaks and typo fixes.

Narrative fixes
The Heart-Catchers will now assist a captain whose death has been prophecied only once. After all, one foretelling of doom is happenstance; two seems like attention-seeking.
The Repentant Devil's quest will now be correctly marked as completed in the event that he remains aboard your engine.
Captains who drop off the Repentant Devil somewhere in Sky Barnet will now be able to reunite with him at the same location.
The Truth ambition no longer directs captains to _Low_ Barnet.
The Price of Charity now removes rather Visions of the Heavens instead of giving them.
Captains may no longer infinitely renew their acquaintance with the Blind Bruiser.
The Dismal Chamberlain will no longer attend funerals when his personal circumstances preclude it.
Your journal will no longer incite you to export Sapling-Knots or Verdant Encouragement from the Nature Reserve if they can no longer be procured there.
Hybras may now always be put to new purpose even if your captain died after finding it abandoned. (If this affected your game, selecting any branch on the Hybras Deserted storylet will put things right.)
Dying at a certain point in the Fatalistic Signalman's story will no longer prevent future captains from pursuing it.
It is no longer possible to get something for nothing when experimenting with alchemy in the Shapeling Vats.
Captains who stand for Parliament in Worlebury-juxta-Mare will no longer be thrown out of the port afterwards.
The Deathless will no longer set impossible deadlines when asking you to smuggle Starshine.
After completing the Amenable Host's quest, future captains will now still be able to interact with him at Magdalene's (unless he has in fact gone somewhere else).
Captains will now have permanent backstage access to Magdalene's so long as one captain in their lineage has discovered the Amenable Host's identity.
Getting caught with contraband at Albion will no longer result in instant transportation to a relay.
Captains who pay the Chrysanthemum Price will no longer receive a sudden windfall of Visions of the Heavens.
The Illusive Forged Companion's magic show will now leave an appropriate impression upon your crew.
A chorus of devils for the Well of the Wolf may now be gathered only once per legacy activity.
Only spider-sweepers may sweep the well.
There should be fewer printing errors in the Song of the Sky.
As usual, many typos have been corrected.
 
Other fixes
Segments should now always spawn correctly when entered.
Linux users will now see their own captain's avatar instead of the default one.
Randomly generating an avatar will now correctly select a random brow.
Must events will no longer delay other must events from firing.
Branch previews will no longer include rogue quotation marks.
Branch previews now display a single sentence rather than the entirety of the branch text.
Selecting branches with difficulty challenges will no longer cause the result text to draw downwards before snapping to the top of the storylet interface.
Speaking to officers or closing the storylet panel when outside of ports will no longer result in a The Sky area interface.
Players will no longer see a blank Leadbeater and Stainrod storylet before branches load.
The bank button is now greyed out at ports where it is unavailable.
The bazaar is no longer available at most platforms.
Bazaar item tooltips are now formatted correctly.
Equipped items for which you no longer meet the requirements are now clearly marked on the hold panel.
Blast damage is now displayed on mine and rocket tooltips.
The armour tooltip now displays your base hull instead of your current hull.
Tooltips will no longer run over the edge of the screen.
Tooltips on the character progression screen now show correct quality values.
It is no longer possible for equipment icons to become stuck on the screen.
Locomotive names will no longer overlap on the hold interface when inheriting a Spatchcock.
Hull and Crew will no longer overflow on the hold interface when the font size is set to large.
Quest icons are now aligned correctly in the quality result text.
The Something Dark chart icon in Eleutheria is now replaced with something more specific once the player draws close to them.
Investigating Curator's Eggs, Bully's Acres and Wrecks may now sometimes reveal enemies.
Discoveries that have been fully exploited will no longer be marked on the chart again if you voyage close to them.
Homesteads now display the appropriate animation after interaction.
Discoveries will now never spawn on top of each other.
Agents will now never spawn underneath discoveries.
Damage visuals are now removed from agents if their health recovers.
Scouts no longer discover platforms in the Blue Kingdom when traversing the Reach. (Unfortunately, a consequence of this fix is that players who have actually visited platforms in the Blue Kingdom will now need to rediscover them; until then, they won't show up on the chart.)
Discovery icons on the chart will now always be the correct size when zooming out.
Scouts now have additional messages.
Mining sky-rocks in Eleutheria will no longer result in messages implying that the player is in the Reach.
The Blue Kingdom chart is now correctly aligned in relation to the player.
Players will now see the loading screen when using transit relays, rather the region's skybox.
When loading a save, the title screen artwork no longer fades back in before transitioning to the loading screen.

Bug fixes
The close button on the bazaar interface is now aligned correctly.
The denominator is now visible in the bazaar and shop interfaces on 4k monitors.
Direction tokens now display correctly in tooltips and quality results.
The hinterlands of Lustrum hold many hazards, but invisible rocks near Salom?'s Fall are no longer among them.
The bazaar interface will now correctly display cargo capacity after the player fulfils a prospect.
The tutorial hint for reaching maximum hold capacity now fires when it should.
A level up indicator is once again displayed on the captain's portrait when they are ready to select a new facet.
Closing the centre panel will no longer cause the game to freeze temporarily after loading a save.
Having a stat above 100 no longer prevents captains from using locomotive equipment.
Dodging will no longer cause the player to take damage when attempted at the exact moment the locomotive overheats.
The engineyard interface now updates when cargo is jettisoned.
Qualities you no longer possess are now not displayed on the possessions and profile panels, instead of being displayed with a level of zero.
Scrolling now works properly on the chart interface when using a 4k monitor and at the outskirts of a region.
The opening animation will no longer repeat if you die before character creation.
The Horror icon has been removed from the Well of Wonders.
Titania's special prospects now provide more suitable rewards.
Area names no longer overflow the area list on centre panels.
Movement instructions at the beginning of the game now mention cruise control.
The escape key once again closes the options menu while on the title screen.
 
 
Controller fixes
Controller prompts no longer appear on interfaces when no gamepad is connected.
There is now an appropriately located controller prompt for re-opening the centre panel while docked.
Focus is now maintained on the tutorial interface.
Tooltips are now displayed on the character progression interface.
A feedback message is now given when attempting to equip officers and items while not docked.
Trying to equip an item without meeting its stat requirements now results in appropriate feedback.
Locomotive slot highlighting for equipped items is now clearer.
It is now possible to cancel out of equipping an item.
Interacting with interfaces after closing the chart will no longer sometimes cause your scout to set forth.
Closing side panels will no longer remove focus from a centre panel.
It is now possible to jettison items more than once while outside of ports.
Pressing B within story branches to view branch requirements no longer closes the centre panel.
 
 
Content fixes
The Clay Conductor's storyline may now always be completed, even if it requires him to be forthright about his feelings.
The Heart-Catchers will now charge for their services.
A Spider-Sweeper may now always sweep the well, as is proper.
Skilled captains may no longer rinse the occupants of Langley Hall for their money via repeated games of cards.
Captains will no longer accidentally stumble upon spiders at Langley Hall. Let it be known that Langley Hall is almost certainly not inhabited by spiders.
The Unseen Queen will now reliably acknowledge your victory over a foe in a clocktower.
Delivering the Sequencer's care package to Worlebury-juxta-Mare will no longer trigger an incongruous opportunity to deliver it to London.
If you didn't share a moment with the Eccentric before completing her storyline, you may now do so.
Sabotaging the activities of the Parsimonious Chairman will now conclude properly and result in a suitable reward.
Temporarily backing out of a certain act when pursuing the Truth ambition will no longer make it impossible to complete.
If Lord Rochester invites you to race to Titania, he will now actually turn up.
The New Street Line story now provides more accurate directions as to the location of someone you need to meet.
Captains who come down with a High Wilderness ailment will now always receive the one they should receive, and no other.
It is no longer possible to impose statis on Hybras by dying at a certain point in the port's storyline. (If this has affected your game, performing any action at Hybras will resolve the problem.)
Backing out of your own funeral will no longer forever bar you from receiving funerary rites.
Rubbery Passengers will now only board your locomotive if you meet the requirements to convey them to their destination.
A certain canine mascot will now wreak havoc a little less often, but also select the target of its affection with more determination.
Defeating the final champion in a certain hidden ambition will now cause your journal to be updated correctly.
Viewing the contents of a supply cache without actually taking any will no longer make you a debtor in the eyes of the Burrower Below and your crew.
Returning to the Wreck of the Boatman will now never result in incongruous messages.
The correct number of Experimental Modifications will now be deducted when acquiring a bathysphere.
Successful mushroom foraging at Hybras will no longer give your captain food poisoning.
Cricket matches are now a little less soothing.
As usual, many typos have been laid to rest.

Patch notes
Captains who run out of Fuel will now immediately notice and have an opportunity to take action, instead of remaining oblivious for several in-game days.
Must events at Brabazon and Polmear and Plenty's will no longer commingle surreally with shop inventories.
Terror cues are now attached to the SFX slider and can be muted.
The Ambient SFX volume no longer resets when launching the game.
Weapons will now fire while the cursor is over the heat bar.
Rockets and the Wrath of Heaven will no longer fire when clicking on HUD elements.
Gamepad controls are no longer present on screen when first loading a save file.
The bank interface will now update when equipping hold items.
The performance of the storylet panel has been greatly improved, particularly when a lot of text has been logged.
Quality requirement tooltips now display on the prospects.
Pending prospects for which you no longer meet the hand-in requirements now correctly display the image for the cargo they require.
Scroll arrows are now present on the character progression screen on 4K monitors.
Tooltips are no longer cut off on 4K monitors.
The number of Sovereigns displayed on the hold panel will now update immediately when items are bought or sold.
A captain who successfully escapes Eaters of the Dead will no longer be endlessly haunted by the sound of their jaws.
Agents that have just become hostile will no longer linger after death.
Port tooltips will no longer stop the locomotive from moving once the chart is closed.
Centre and side panel tooltips will no longer trigger when viewing the chart.
Locomotive movement will no longer become locked when opening the chart while in motion.
You can no longer interact with officers while the chart is open.
It is no longer possible to get stuck on the legacy screen when scrolling through the details of your inheritance.
Transferring items to the bank when you only have a single item in the hold now functions as intended.
Focus is now maintained on the Delete Save File confirmation window.
Focus is maintained on the character progression screen after passing on a legacy.
Focus is maintained on the hold after jettisoning items.
It is now always possible to navigate between all facets during character progression.
The option to sell Villainy Affiliation items to the Gentlemen will now appear correctly.
The Gentlemen will no longer offer you prospects with impossible deadlines.
The Tea for the Eagle's Empyrean prospect now grants a Moment of Inspiration, rather than setting Moments of Inspiration to one.
Dying while in possession of a Ravelling Jack will no longer prevent your next captain from buying one. However, the Royal Horological Office will only return half the deposit when you return a Jack to them.
When leaving the presence of the Pansekretis, if you were already in possession of your liver you will no longer have an additional liver inserted into you.
Completing the Truth ambition now unlocks a new facet: a Terrible Secret to plague your legacy.
The Corruption in the Court can now be completed: the Ombudsman will await captains at the Forge of Souls.
It is no longer possible to become trapped in the Trials of the Dead, however narratively appropriate that might be.
The Initiate of Carillon quest is now correctly tagged as complete when it is completed.
Captains may now commission the Orator's statue at Titania.
You may now return to the tour of Brabazon from the back streets – if you have enough time.
Hunting for the Verdance is now more challenging, and may require searching some additional locations.
Some minor inconsistencies in the Long Passage storyline have been resolved.
The Repentant Devil no longer lies about his qualifications when seeking employment.

Patch notes
Scrolling with the R-Stick now works correctly on all panels. For now, shops and engineyards still require use of the L-Stick; the view will scroll automatically to selected items.
Bargains can now be selected when there are pending prospects.
The Menu Focus hotkeys are now disabled if a UI element is already selected.
Shops now display LB/RB tips.
We've added XInput Support.
Locomotive navigation is now disabled when side panel icons are selected.
On the officer panel, equipping or unequipping an officer no longer causes the selection highlight to jump back to your First Officers.
There is no longer a delay when switching from a centre panel to the status side panel.
Jettisoning items will no longer trigger an exception that impairs the functionality of the X button.
Large weapons can now be equipped to large weapon slots.
Port tooltips on the chart now display correctly on screens with all aspect ratios,and not just 16:9.
Changing the resolution no longer causes the port tooltip trigger on the chart to become misaligned.

Updates
You can now reopen a port’s storylet without having to undock and redock.

Bug Fixes
Players no longer need a permit to travel from the Blue Kingdom back to the Reach – anyone dying and passing on a legacy in the Blue Kingdom will now be able to return.
All players will now be able to travel to the Reach.
We’ve fixed another Winchester War bug involving an invisible branch storylet. We think it was the last one, but if you do see one of these, please send your save file to skies@failbettergames.com. The issue is weird but harmless; if you do see it, just click that invisible branch and all will be well.
The oath of silence option for the Thief-Oath past now increases Mirrors by three, as intended, instead of setting it to three. (If your character has been affected by this, please send your save file to skies@failbettergames.com; we’ll repair it and get it back to you as soon as we can.)
Players stuck in the Song of the Sky after playing the backer build should now be free of it.
You can now move down officer interface and select officers using gamepads even when when you have no officers of a particular type.
The screen will no longer shake after closing a facet selected from the second screen while using a gamepad.
The highlight in the Hold now selects items correctly when there are more that two rows of items and the player is using a gamepad.
Using a controller to cycle quickly through interface panels will no longer cause the wrong footer buttons to be displayed on the officer and hold panels.
The area list will no longer remain open when selecting story areas using a gamepad.
Gamepad users can now select port tooltips on the chart in order to see details about exports and fuel/supplies.
Abandoned Structures in Albion now give out Condemned Experiments correctly.
Bazaar selling visibility now works correctly on 4k monitors.
The Undeparted now depart on death, instead of clinging tenuously to existence.
We’ve temporarily removed absurdly overpowered Guests wearing the shells of Dreadnoughts. (They slipped in by accident; we’ll restore them in a future update when they’re finished.)
Two branches of The Truth ambition no longer have mismatched requirements.
Fixed mismatched text and requirements at Sweet Jane's Counting House.
Removed duplication of branches on the Island of Unflowers.
Fixed a repeatable experience grind on the Reunited with an Old Friend Storylet.
We have fixed a text bug in the Mausoleum where you'd see plain Deathless due to level description values being incorrect.
We fixed an issue where if you played the final branches of one route through The Truth in a particular order, you'd be locked out of completing it.
You can no longer repeatedly drop off a Settler once they've died and you’ve decided to return them to Port Prosper – you have to just take them back to Port Prosper.
You now lose a Vision of the Heavens when using one to distract the caretaker during the Navigator's quest, as intended.
You can now pick up Crew at Sky Barnet every 15 in-game days.
The Sovereign requirement for funding Titania can no longer be negative.
When searching for a Magician for the Navigator, you can no longer search over and over until you achieve success.
When Facing Judgement, Captains with a very specific combination of soul flaws, terror and inspiration will no longer get stuck.
You can now receive Mr Menagerie's Seal after hearing his final story, without needing to have heard all the others .
You can now repair your hull after killing a Scorn Fluke.
If you are pursuing the Truth, you can no longer lock yourself out of becoming close to the Calendar Council.
The Amberley Murgatroyd story can now be continued even if he was banished before finding Clay Men for the Clay Conductor on Achlys.
Sundry typos have been fixed.

Seven new ports (Stations) and three Platforms.
Three new agents; Dousers, Grievers and Empyrean Outriders.
Two new Spectacles.
New transient Discoveries: Stacks, Blind Hermits, Extinguishments, Crossroads and Amber Chunks.
New persistent Discoveries: Well of Wonders and Wreck of the Berrenger (content for this wreck didn’t make the cut off for release so the model is in place and the content will follow in the next update).
A new locomotive; the Medea-Class Destroyer is available at the Pan engine yard.
The Altani-Class Outrider has returned and is available at Eagle’s Empyrean.
New locomotive equipment and weapons are available at Pan.
Eleutherian Prospects and Bargains.
Blemmigans!
A note about performance
Some of our players have been experiencing performance issues in the last few builds. We made a bunch of fixes in the Roleplay update which addressed various exceptions caused by weather and wrath that lead to an eventual game freeze. However, we found that some rare weather exceptions remained.
We believe we’ve fixed the last of the weather issues now, but like peeling an onion, once we fixed those bugs we found other performance issues lurking underneath which had been hard to detect until the weather errors were out of the way.
We've spent the last week continuing to peel that performance ‘onion’ and we've made significant improvements. However we can see there is more for us to do to improve performance across the game, so this is not the end of the optimisations.
Players will still see brief dips in FPS in certain circumstances (docking/undocking, deploying scouts, just before crossing segment borders as the next segment loads), but they should not experience continued stuttering. Anyone that does needs to report this to us so we can diagnose the problem. Details of what we need you to send us are below.
Any player who has experienced the stuttering in previous builds should take the following steps after today's update:
Go to C:\Users[YourUserName]\AppData\LocalLow\Failbetter Games\Sunless Skies\storage\
Delete the data folder
Launch the game to regenerate the data folder
Play as you normally would
If after taking these steps you experience further persistent performance issues, please dock at the port in the segment where you experience any stuttering and send an email to skies@failbettergames.com with your save files http://www.failbettergames.com/sunless-skies/reporting-bugs/#Save_Files and your output log http://www.failbettergames.com/sunless-skies/reporting-bugs/#Output_Logs so we can look into individual cases.
Updates
We’ve revamped the controls menu.
Controllers are now remembered between playthroughs once activated.
Hotkeys are now in place for the navigation bar interfaces (H = Hold, O = Officers, etc) - see their tooltips for details.
A whole bunch of new SFX are in place including Scout deployment jingles and Agent wrath sounds (we dare you to go antagonise an Enduring Dreadnought).
We’ve introduced an Ambient SFX slider on the audio menu but we've not finished. separating out all the SFX from the environmental sounds.
New Officer ambient messages for circumstances like opening the last barrel of fuel
Additional scout messages.
Replaced the loading percentage with a circular icon.
Bug Fixes
We fixed an issue on Wefts of Unraveled time which reset the in-game date, causing time related stories to become locked.
We've fixed more exceptions with the weather functionality which was causing errors to be spammed to the output log and an eventual game freeze.
The equipment and weapon stats at Portsmouth Arsenal, the Inscribed Tinkerer’s Workshop and Mr Menageries Stall for Delicious Scouts have now been updated.
We’ve fixed an issue with the Rochester Races which stopped players claiming victory.
The Amenable Host’s quests now reset correctly when you pass on a legacy to a new Captain.
You can now progress fully through the quest at Perdurance.
The directions token for the Bombazine prospect to the Mausoleum now works correctly.
Items are now removed from the Repentant Devil when asking him about his possible enemies.
We’ve removed references to Muses Marks and replaced them with Moments of Inspiration at Traitor’s Wood.
Players will no longer become trapped in a Must Event at Traitor’s Wood.
The Repentant Devil storyline can no longer be farmed for XP.
The Altani once again has three auxiliary slots.
The chart icons on the legend are no longer stretched.
The Officer's chat interface can no longer be opened over the top of Navigation interfaces.
The Fatalistic Signalman's ambient message for Magdalene's is no longer firing at Polmear & Plenty's.
You can now once again only accept a maximum of four prospects.
We've fixed all the typos in the Officer's ambient messages.
Headlights now toggle correctly when purchasing a new locomotive with the headlight off.
The chart now focuses on the player when it is opened in Albion for the first time.
The Guest’s projectiles now despawn correctly and their SFX can no longer be heard after death.
We fixed an inconsistency with a Leadbetter & Stainrod Nature Reserve storyline at Traitor’s Wood.
The election can no longer be held at Brabazon after winning.
You can now speed up the credits using controllers.
The headlight can now be turned on and off with a controller.
The Incognito Princess is no longer referred to as Signaller
Known Issues
The Spatchcock has lost its engine SFX.
A few assets in Eleutheria do not have collision damage applied to them.
Ambient messages and the player locomotive can appear underneath Amber Chucks assets.
Em dashes are not working in ambient messages - this will be seen as a large gap.
Headlight toggle SFX is not in place on non-Spatchcock locomotives.
No docking SFX on some Stations and Platforms in Eleutheria.
Large locomotives like the Bedivere can be shunted to the side when leaving Platforms in the Pan segment.
As always, if you find a bug that's not on the Known Issues page then send us a quick bug report http://www.failbettergames.com/sunless-skies/reporting-bugs/

In a nutshell, the Threat update is all about making the High wilderness feel like a more dangerous place. It is a more dangerous place. Be prepared to defend yourself. Be prepared to die, frequently. You are welcome.
What's NewHazardous Discoveries
Some discoveries (Vitrified Structures, Curators Eggs and Grim Inscriptions) now have a halo effect similar to Spectacles where Terror will be applied when you get too close. Others like Wefts of Unravelled Time force interaction when you approach. Sail carefully!
Weather
Weather is a special type of Hazardous Discovery that randomly spawns throughout the High Wilderness (there are many spawn points in the Reach but only a few in Albion at present. We will be implementing additional weather spawn zones in a future update). All weather exhibits a physical force on locomotives along with other effects, some negative others beneficial.
The Peacock Wind will increase your rate of Terror gain but also replenish your current barrel of supplies up to 100%.
The Candlewind will increase your rate of supply consumption. Ensure you have enough sustenance before daring to cross it.
The Storm-that-Speaks is an interactable discovery. If you can cope with the Terror gain and Hull damage on your journey to the eye of the storm, then perhaps you may speak to it.
Scouts
The Diffident Bat finally has some company. This update sees the release of an additional three scouts, the Star-Smitten Bat, the Intrepid Cavy and the Ratronaut. For Kickstarter backers there is also the Cyclopean Owl. These are not just pretty pets, but useful lookouts each with varying abilities. There are three attributes by which scouts can be ranked:
Bravery. Scouts are either Cautious and search for things nearby (Diffident Bat, Cyclopean Owl) or Bold and have a longer range.
Curiosity. Scouts can be Diffident and only report a single find (Diffident Bat, Star-Smitten Bat, Intrepid Cavy), or they can be Inquisitive and spot up to three things of interest.
The helpful critters can be acquired from a very special merchant who you'll encounter at New Winchester. This trader will appear after roughly a month of in-game time on a new account and will have already set up shop on existing saves, so it's worth a detour to take a look at his wares. Be warned though, the merchant is a traveller and once you've poked around his shop he will move on. Fortunately he will always leave a clue as to where he intends to visit next (after a number of stops he will move on to Eleutheria so ensure you do not squander your opportunities to purchase new scouts).
Wrath
There are now bunch of new ways for you to accrue wrath from various enemies. Some agents in the Reach will be friendly or hostile towards you depending on your allegiance in the Winchester War. Some will become angry when you are running errands for their enemies in the form of Prospects and Bargains. Other agents, like the territorial Chorsiter Bees, will take issue with you when you are carrying certain items. Approaching them may raise their hackles and while they'll check you out they will generally leave you alone. If you're carrying Nectar however, well, just remember our advice. Don't antagonise the bees!
Updates
We've revisited discovery and agent spawning in the Reach so the experience is more akin to that in Albion. Some discoveries that were released in the Albion update can now be found in the Reach.
We've added a whole host of new ambient text including segment entrance messages.
We've added four interactable Isambard line discoveries.
You'll now experience new Nightmares as your Terror rises and your Condition worsens
We've expanded the Winchester War content between the Tacketies and Stovepipes with added options to influence the course of the war.
The Winchester War now has a greater effect on the spawning of agents around the Reach.
New Prospects and Bargains.
Hints are now present on the loading screen.
Esc now closes interfaces.
Bullets and their particle effects have been updated.
The locomotive's smoke trail has been updated.
New chart icons for Spectacles, Transit Relays and Discoveries.
We've improved the UI highlighting for controller/keyboard support.
We've made changes to the Prospects and Bargains interface to make it more user friendly.
Current and example save files have been removed from the mode selection screen when starting a new game.
New Term of Address options on character creation.
Wonder and Horror music has been introduced to Spectacles.
New SFX are in place throughout the High Wilderness including: docking, agent attacks, weapons fire, looting, fuel/supply barrel change and level up.
Bug Fixes
You now have to turn controller support on manually in the control options menu. This is a temporary fix to stop gaming keyboards, mouse devices and non-standard controllers (e.g. foot pedals, arcade sticks, steering wheels) being auto-detected.
Controller instructions will no longer become stuck on screen after death.
The Interact prompt no longer appears over the top of the transit gates once activated and the animation runs.
You can now open more than one section at a time on Possessions interface with a controller.
The pause menu no longer opens behind the Chart.
Homesteads now appear in the Prosper segment.
Collision damage has been applied to Kisigar Gardens and Youngsfound assets in New Winchester.
The Worlebury-juxta-mare label is no longer obscured by fog.
Collision damage has been applied to all assets in Brabazon.
We've fixed the z-fighting near Tuxeed Point in the Brabazon segment.
Smoke is now correctly aligned with the pipes producing it in Brabazon.
The headlight no longer passes over the port assets at the Royal Society.
The new strafing and venting SFX are now present on all non-Spatchcock locomotives.
Port Avon bells can no longer be heard when starting a new save file.
Port Avon bells are now muted when storylets are open.
Port Avon bells no longer distort with player movement.
Various SFX are now muted when SFX volume is set to 0% (strafing, venting, docking, Magdalene's clock, Port Avon's bells and Scorn-flukes and Guest attack SFX).
Port specific SFX are now heard when travelling to Albion and when moving between segments.
We've fixed a bunch of typos and grammatical errors.
Known Issues
Below is a list of known issues. For a full list of game issues see our Known Issues page: http://www.failbettergames.com/sunless-skies/known-issues/
The new docking SFX is missing at several ports
The Wrath overlay can get stuck on screen after death or returning to the Title Screen
The chart icon does not update when players encounter Transit Relays after being scouted by oblivious scouts.
Transit Relay and Persistent Discovery icons do not persist on chart after reload

Albion is finally here. A whole new region for you to discover, exploit and (mostly likely) meet your untimely end in! Albion is beautiful but deadly, survival here is harder than in the Reach. Do you have what it takes to make it, or will you crawl back to the verdant green landscapes of the Reach with your smoke trail between your legs?
Nine new ports.
Five new agents (Scorn-Flukes, Curators, Star-Maddened Explorers, Glorious and Deranged Dreadnoughts).
Six new Spectacles (have fun finding out if they are Horrors or Wonders).
New transient Discoveries (Weft of Unravelled Time, Squirmings, Pardoner Eels, Grim Inscriptions and many others).
New persistent Discoveries: Wreck of the Boatman and Well of the Wolf (which like Old Tom’s Well has a Spectacle-like Terror effect).
The Altani-class Outrider available at the London engineyard.
New equipment to boost your Quarters, Hold and Hull.
Equipment which grants the Assaying quality (which you’ll need for all the eels and squirmings).
Albion Prospects and Bargains.
Updates
New Discoveries in the Reach: Fragments of the past, large Bronzewood pieces and fungal infested meteoroids.
New quality and focus icons throughout the Reach (be aware there are still a number of placeholder quality icons in game).
Bug Fixes
You can now interact with persistent discoveries more than once without having to leave and re-enter the segment.
Homesteads now spawn correctly in Magdalene’s and Polmear & Plenty’s segments.
Collision damage has now been applied to asteroids in the Magdalene's area.
Qualities are now removed from the Journal once they are reset (as opposed to when they are completed).
We made a change so that the in-game messages near Lustrum are easier to read.
The venting animation on the Parzifal-class locomotives is now aligned correctly.
We've fixed the scroll on the Hold section of the bank interface.
The auto-docking system no longer puts a player's locomotive at an angle.
You will no longer receive Hull damage when entering docks at angles.
The camera no longer shakes when entering docks at angles.
The level-up animation on locomotives is once again correctly aligned.
Lustrum: The Mountain Beckons now shows in the journal.
We’ve standardised the spelling of Dreadnought across the game.
The avatar tooltip no longer appears on the Character Progression screen if opened while it is displayed.
Crew can no longer be exceeded on the Homestead storylets.
We've cleared up the confusion with the Amenable Host when speaking to him after the death of your previous captain.
Hidden looting qualities now randomise correctly so you’ll see more looting opportunities for mechanical agents.
The Headstrong Strongwoman's dialogue is now accurate according to whether or not her flyers need posting.
The Phlegmatic Researcher's now continues to pay you for bringing him items for his private research.
Handing in Hybras Pus to the Phlegmatic Researchers for private research no longer moves you out of the storylet.
Damage to buildings at Titania from the Chorister Hive is now reported correctly.
We’ve corrected some typos at the Leadbeater and Stainrod Nature Reserve.
Albion Known Issues
Below is a list of known Albion issues. For a full list of game issue see our Known Issues[www.failbettergames.com] page.
The Interact prompt appears over the top of the transit gates once activated.
Prospects are available at the Avid Horizon rather than bargains.
Worlebury label can be partly obscured with fog (depending on the segment it spawns in).
There’s some z-fighting near Tuxeed Point.
Blocking is missing on a few assets in Brabazon.
The headlight passes over the port/dock asset at The Royal Society (Airy House) and two asteroids in the Mausoleum segment.
The transit gate activation audio repeats on arrival in a new region.
The transit gate arrival audio is not yet in place.
Scorn-flukes are not muted when SFX volume is 0%.
As always, if you find a bug that's not on the Known Issues page ( https://www.failbettergames.com/sunless-skies/known-issues/ ), then send us a quick bug report here: https://www.failbettergames.com/sunless-skies/reporting-bugs/

The time has come! Sunless Skies is now available for Early Access here on Steam and also Games in Development on GOG!

We are delighted to invite you from the depths of the Unterzee to join us in the gusty, undiscovered vaults of the High Wilderness. The stars are dying; they leave behind territories rich in secrets and opportunity.

Explore the Reach—the first, and most verdant, region of Sunless Skies. The Reach is designed to be a small but functional piece of the entire game. Fly a locomotive, engage in combat, experience Terror and Hunger, interact with stories, and die. A lot.