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Gamescom Preview – The Settlers
After the seventh part of the Settlers in 2009, not much was heard about the game series (there was The Settlers online though). In 2018 the 8th part was finally announced and will be released in 2020. It was important for the devs to keep the best game elements of the predecessors and extend it with new things. The settlers arrive on the island with a ship and will unload a few start materials before they start building their settlement. Food sources can be fish, berries and meat from the animals. The production sites will need tools as the older…
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[ANNO 1800] Patch 4.2 – August 6th, 2019
Patch Notes Source: Ubisoft Fixed an issue where some piers and trading posts were not correctly registered by trading ships. Ships will now check all available options to unload their cargo when stopping at an island. All participants of a multiplayer match with the Sunken Treasures content will now receive the discovery expedition when loading a savegame in which the unlock conditions are fulfilled. Previously, it could happen that only the host of a match received the discovery quests when loading a multiplayer match with an existing savegame. Fixed a minor issue where the Sunken Treasures discovery expedition would still…
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[ANNO 1800] Patch 4.1 – August 1st, 2019
Patch Notes Source: Ubisoft Fixed a situation where a blueprint of a building that costs influence would break the influence count of player’s save file upon reload. Fixed an unintended behaviour where an Enemy AI’s Trading Post could drop upon destruction a lot of scrap resource which could’ve been sold for huge amount of money. Fixed a graphical issue that occurs with the maximum zoom level which affected the visibility of buildings in the distance.
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[ANNO 1800] Patch 4.0 – July 30th 2019
Patch Notes Source: Ubisoft Highlights While “Sunken Treasures” is paid content, everything you will find in the Release Notes below will be free for all Anno 1800 players as part of Game Update 4. You can now zoom the camera significantly further out, giving you a better overview of your majestic islands (which you can activate in the Gameplay options menu). We have further improved and optimized game performance, leading to smoother gameplay across most graphics settings. As part of this, users will now also note an improved viewing range. A new, improved minimum stock system has been added to…
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[ANNO 1800] Patch 3.2 – July 8th 2019
Patch Size 546 MB Patch Notes Source: Ubisoft Fixed an issue that prevented the campaign quest “Prosperity for all” from being completed due to a timing issue with the quest. This fix applies retroactively to affected saves. Fixed a potential issue with hostile ship spawns during the campaign quest “One Hand washes the other”. Fixed a potential show stopping issue after completion of the campaign quest “Release and ease”. Fixed a potential stability issue that could appear when finishing a campaign-specific expedition and switching sessions immediately after. This could happen at the end of campaign chapter 2. Fixed an issue…
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[ORIGIN] How to change the Installation Path
Changing the Installation Path For EA games you can set the default installation path of a game through Origin Click on Origin – Application Settings and choose the tab Installation and Saves. In Game Library location you can set the default path for all EA games. Changing the path will not automatically move already installed games to a different location but all newly installed games will get their own folder within that path. The path given there will tell you where you’re game is probably installed, especially if you never changed it. C:\Program Files(x86)\Origin Games is the default path. There’s no…
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[ORIGIN] Choose the language
Introduction You will be prompted to choose your language on installing the game. Players that like to switch their language later, can do so fairly easily. You will need an active Internet Connection. Be aware that not all games have all languages and not all countries have all languages available. It depends on the game for which languages it’s being localized which is listed in the details of the game. Unfortunately this list isn’t filtered by country. Because of this, it may happen that some languages aren’t available to you. Unfortunately you only know after buying the game which ones…
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[ANNO 1800] Patch 3.1 – June 7th, 2019
Update 3 brought a few new bugs: Missing information on charter routes Can’t build in harbor areas Crashes for existing saves These issues have gotten fixed in a hotfix. Patch Size 430 MB Patch Notes Source: Ubisoft Fixed an issue blocking players from finishing the “Prosperity for All” campaign quest on savegames created prior to Game Update 3. When players now load an older save, the game will check if the prosperity quest is active but cannot be completed and will then automatically resolve the quest for the player. Fixed an issue that could cause a crash of the game…
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[ANNO 1800] Achievements window constantly opens
Problem Since Update 3 the window with the achievements constantly opens up without being triggered. Cause Since Update 3, the key A opens the achievement window. This leads to a double assignment for the A-key for players that don’t have direction keys on their keyboard as A also pans the camera to the left (WASD). Solution Open the options and choose the tab Controls. Just assign a different key to Toggle company menu. Further Reading [ANNO 1800] Patch 03 – June, 5th 2019 [ANNO 1800] Turning off right-click menu resets on the next game start
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[ANNO 1800] Patch 03 – June, 5th 2019
The upcoming patch is rather big and brings several improvements and bug fixes I recommend making a backup before patching. Patch Size ca. 2.2 GB Patch Notes Quelle: Ubisoft Highlights Game Update 3 adds support for The Anarchist character and associated content for all owners of the Digital Deluxe and Pioneers Editions. Owners of the Standard Edition can buy The Anarchist as part of the Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade. The first expedition event from our Anno Union contest and vote, “The Great Sickness”, is now in the game and awaits intrepid explorers. We have reworked interface elements for the World…
