Sky Oceans gets big update

The Bloodhounds watching you play the old version.

Listen up, crew! We’ve got news for you!

We are happy to announce that the latest patch is already available for the Steam and Switch versions of Sky Oceans.

Playstation 5 and Xbox Series patches will be ready soon, including the same fixes and improvements described below (yes, everything below is part of the changes introduced with this update.)

Thanks for your patience and support, dear pilots. We truly hope you enjoy this update :)

And, by the way, if you are happy with this update, please leave a review. It will really make a difference and help us keep improving the game over time.

PATCH NOTES
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Changelog delivery 24/03/2025

All these changes are available as:

NSW Build 1.0.4

Steam Build 1.0.6

For all platforms:

Others:

• Error when overwriting an existing saveslot and cancelling the action. Game still overwrites the save file

Changelog delivery 24/01/2025

All these changes are available in the patch 1.0.6 for Steam and NSW patch 1.0.3

For all platforms:

Gameplay:

• Fix: Glenn clips into his bed when getting up during the attack on Blossom

• Fix: Unable to find all 18 trash pirates in the Kiezel Fracture

• Fix: Gulliven's opening line gets cut off too quickly when approaching Stalkista

• Fix: Side quest marker can be seen on screen during scene approaching Stalkista

• Fix: No side quest waymarker back to Dead Rock at the end of "The Brother and the Dreamer"

• Fix: Lots of flickering when flying around Zabutyy Outpost in the overworld

• Fix: Game judders when flying through the wind wall tunnels

• Fix: Bucket's profile picture keeps disappearing in conversation after he joins the crew

• Fix: Unable to leave Zabutyy after completing the Ancient Ruins, leading to a progression blocker

• Fix: Scene with Garrote leaving the Furnauts replays if you return to Zabutyy, and can lead to a blocker

• Fix: Blocker if you click through the dialogue quickly during the scene when Glenn confronts Julian

• Fix: Issues with unlocking arts early in the game

• Fix: Have to unpause the game twice when returning to the game from the pause menu

Combat:

• Fix: Enemy image incorrectly appeared as Vanessa during combat with an Alliance Airship

• Fix: Enemy airship invisible when attacked by the Aerius Purge art

• Fix: Camera struggles to stay focused on characters and enemies during multiple unique arts

• Fix: Issue with enemies healing each other during combat

• Fix: Entered combat just as was destroying an extractor in Yaatana led to a blocker

• Fix: Early game the hit percentages for machine gun attacks are far too low

• Fix: Allies and enemies often target incorrect characters during Yaatana

• Fix: Multiple issues when using Zenith's Death From Above art

• Fix: Enemies often get stuck in a loop of constant evading when on low health

Others:

• Fix: No translation error in the in the combat section on the key bindings page

• Fix: Mouse wheel too sensitive on the Key Bindings page

PC Only

Steam Deck:

• Fix: Intro animation and story intro do not play

• Fix: In game videos sometimes don't play properly on Steam Deck

NSW-specific

• Fix: PC Keyboard UI always appears upon loading into a saved game (NSW)

• Fix: Tapping A whilst loading into a cut scene will advance the dialogue and can lead to a blocker (NSW)

Changelog delivery 14/01/2025

All these changes are available in the patch 1.0.6 for Steam and NSW patch 1.0.3

For all platforms:

Combat:

• Fix: Camera struggles to stay focused on characters and enemies during multiple unique arts

• Fix: Fio always gets given multiple buffs at the start of the second turn of combat

Others:

• Fix: Audio alarm starts earlier in the cutscene of Esmeralda being triggered

PC Only

Quests:

• Fix: Bucket achievement

Others:

• Add: Cloud Save activated

Changelog delivery 13/12/2024

All these changes are available in the patch 1.0.4 for Steam and NSW patch 1.0.3

Combat:

• add: Implementing arsenal in Airship combat

• fix: SFX basic attack Airships does not exist

• fix: Errors using Cruel Wind (Any Level) on Alibatross and Lizardwaks

• fix: If we use Purify (Any level) on an Alibatross or Lizardhawk, the enemy will freeze while receiving the attack.

• fix: Errors with the unlocking and cost of arts

• fix: Restriction success of Art Unique 3 from Tomoko (S. E. Down)

• fix: Portrait of our character goes up if we cancel the selection of a target of an arsenal item.

• fix: Errors with ‘Angel of Fire LVL 2’ and ‘Inferno LVL 3’.

• fix: Errors with ‘Tempest’ and ‘Flood’.

• fix: Status effects icon stays on

• fix: Errors in Tomoko's Unique.

• fix: If we use the unique of Mica lvl2, the level icon will not be displayed because the name of the art is too long.

General:

• add: at the end of the end credits, go to the Splash screen instead of the Title Screen

• fix: Doc incognito has no portrait in build

Exploration:

• fix: Jittery Nimbus escape timeline

Changelog delivery 09/12/2024

All these changes are available in the patch 1.0.4 for Steam and NSW patch 1.0.3

General:

• fix: Speaking with Marco on our way to Nexus 3 creates a breaker

• fix: No SFX during intro cutscene

• Change: Added BGM: Shipyard Sneaking

• Change: Added BGM: Battle Anticipation

• Change: Traditional Chinese logo implemented

• fix: Visiting Edmund's airjet at Colmena on our way to Nexus 3 creates a breaker

• fix: Added localization for Resting and Overworld.

• Change: Added Traditional Chinese to Switch build (hidden)

• fix: Several character portraits not visible: Vernier, Julian (Blossom), Gulliven (Blossom), Nexus, Admiral Lehmann, Gigadrone

Combat:

• fix: Target for Fio's Unique is in the incorrect position

• fix: UI wrongly shows Angel of Fire 1 when using AoF 2 or 3

• fix: Dillon's Unique lvl 2 and 3 do not show their VFX

• fix: Uniques do low damage (balance)

• fix: Alibatross and its HP bar invisible during Cryobeam animation

• fix: Glenn's Unique lvl.2 with out of position VFX, Unique lvl.3 with no VFX.

• fix: Lightning Shot lvl.1 and 2 has the shot coming from behind the airjet. Lvl.3 doesn't show the shot nor the enemy. 

• fix: Coriander's airjet is invisible during exploration and combat.

• fix: Lizardhawks have no animation during combat

• fix: Mira's Unique shows her transport immobile and target airjet invisible

• fix: Icon for Status Effect stays on

• fix: It is possible to perform two actions for the same pilot in a round if the player selects normal attack/art and then changes it to evade

• fix: Garrote's Unique shows Freezing round animation at any level.

Exploration and overworld:

• fix: Audio and Music cuts off during Stalkista

• fix: No SFX in cutscene when door opens to Dirfeather's lair

Management:

• fix: Item Packs console errors

Changelog delivery 29/11/2024

All these changes are available in the patch 1.0.3 for Steam (and future NSW export)

For all platforms:

General:

• fix: "C" appears incorrectly when Bucket is talking to Glenn

• fix: Setting text in the top left is cut off after changing language to either French or German

• fix: Changing language doesn't update the Confirm or Close prompts

• fix: Close text appears twice on tutorials when using a controller

• fix: Tutorial for Garrote's smoke screen appears before combat where he isn't selectable

• fix: Skip's input not visible on credit screen

• fix: Returning to Glenn's room after leaving the house makes the camera stay still.

• fix: When pausing and then unpausing in a cinematic vignette, the text and dark filter remain active.

• fix: Two NPCs standing inside each other in Zabutyy Outpost

Settings:

• fix: The vertical speed sliders for both walkable and scan are set to 0.1 by default.

• fix: Selecting Reset on the Controls screen sets the Camera Speed to 0.1

• fix: Comma, full stop and hash key appear blanked when assigned on the Key Bindings page

• fix: Lower the default graphics settings, Full game and Demo

Combat:

• fix: Combat results screen briefly flashes up every time you load into the overworld in the Nimbus

• fix: Combat UI errors if we use the status button when we are selecting art, attack target or arsenal item

• fix: If we use a healing item and an ally just dies, the item will be spent and we will have a member KO'd but his HP is not 0.

• Change: Cinematic acceleration input now is a toggle

• Add: Battle speed up tutorial

• Add: asset FFWD/X2 in combat cinematic acceleration

• Fix: When using the acceleration of the combat cinematic, when we attack a normal attack, only the first hit will be shown (we still hit 3 but only 1 is shown).

• fix: Advantage does not work in Airships combat.

• fix: Text description cut off for the Thunder-Proof item

• fix: Issue seen with the Toxic Round art

• fix: The coriander undead ship is not visible in exploration or combat.

• Fix: Blank screen after spending a turn in Stone Forest

Exploration and overworld:

• Change: Mica's ability lasts for a given time activated.

• fix: Alibatros do not seem to detect the player in Grinding

• fix: If from the Nimbus we go out to the OW, the speedometer looks black.

• fix: Timeline errors in Blossom battle

• fix: Zombie Airjets fly rotated 90° in exploration (Gates of Oblivion)

• fix: Screenshot for the Hunting Grounds 2 is incorrect

Quests:

• fix: Lizardhawk Breast not dropped on grinding 3

• fix: Text gets cut off after completing a side quest

• fix: Failing any of the first Nexus trials will restart you back in the Nimbus outside the Nexus

Management:

• fix: No way to remove the custom map marker when viewing the map