A new update was just made available for Catan: Console Edition.
Support for 5 to 6 players in the same game is one of the main highlights, along with a few new playable characters. Elsewhere there are a few changes and a bunch of fixes.
Here’s the full rundown:
Catan: Console Edition update patch notes
Added
- It is now possible for 5 to 6 players to join the same game.
- 5 new playable characters have been added, namely The Shepherd, Farmer, Ore Miner, Brick Maker, and Woodsman!
Changed
- The credits list has been updated.
- The ‘Defender of Catan’ reward images have been updated.
- The images for base game characters on Nintedo Switch will now be less blurry.
- The ‘AddUser’ option in online games on Xbox consoles has been disabled.
- The handling of network loss whilst in the main menu has been improved.
Fixed
- The game board will now be randomised between sessions, as intended.
- All valid settlement locations will now be selectable after previously playing a game with Cities & Knights enabled in the same session.
- The Barbarians will now no longer be active at the start of a game, when starting a new game after quitting the previous session during the Barbarian attack phase.
- The ‘Waiting For Player’ action prompt scroll will now no longer appear and disappear whilst rejoining an online game.
- Players will now no longer get stuck after being invited to another game, while being in a game lobby.
- The game config window will now close as expected after accepting an invite to a game.
- Players will now be able to choose which knights to defend with during Cities & Knights ‘Nasty Mode’ as intended.
- AI players are no longer able to place settlements on knights.
- Various spelling and grammatical errors in the localisation text have been fixed.
- Various issues while joining a public game from the menu have been fixed.
- Loading into a saved game shortly after starting a game now works as intended.
- Helper cards will now be displayed correctly, after quitting and reloading while being asked to flip or exchange the Helper card.
- The Ryan Helper card will now be displayed as intended.
- Trade logs will now no longer be incorrectly displayed and stuck on the screen after leaving and re-joining a game while the trade dialogue is visible.
- Users on local multiplayer games will now be remapped as intended when loading a game on Nintendo Switch consoles.
The Catan: Console Edition update is now available on Switch.
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