Dredge is finally getting a fiend-free fishing mode and map markers
Directionally challenged anglers and frightened fishers rejoice, Dredge is getting some nifty new additions over the next few months. Black Salt Games has laid out a roadmap(opens in new tab) for what's to come in the eldritch fishing horror, with three free updates and one paid DLC in the works.
The first two updates should be arriving fairly soon, and will mercifully add two of my most-desired things: Map markers and a passive fishing mode. I semi-complained about the lack of map markings in my Dredge review(opens in new tab)—while it was nice having to try and get my bearings and remember locations, I struggled to keep track of smaller side quests and points of interest without any sort of automatic or manual way to mark them all.
The update will let you individually mark out things like shipwrecks, mysteries and other dangers to look out for. As someone who spent far too long circling around a cluster of islands looking for a single sidequest I'd picked up but couldn't locate later in my playthrough, it's a much-appreciated quality of life change that'll make piecing together Dredge's mysterious puzzle far easier. It's currently got a vague release date of «Q2 2023,» also promising «some fixes and balance changes.»
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