Dave the Diver Patch Notes: Hotfix 7/18

A massive 1.4 GB update just dropped for Dave the Diver, one of the biggest indie summer hits of 2023, and there are a lot of changes, improvements, and updates. Developers call this a “Hotfix,” but I’m calling it “patch notes” as this update is quite significant. Find out what Hotfix 7/18 brings to the (sushi) table below.

Dave the Diver Hotfix 7/18 – Full Patch Notes Listed

Spoilers are marked with “[REDACTED].”

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Improvements

1) Sushi Restaurant

• Added batch dispatch function.
  * Now you can select multiple employees per ingredient and send them all at once.

2) Sea People Village

• A notification will be displayed when there’s a crop ready to be harvested.
• Crops will be listed by the name of the crop, not by the seed name.

3) Cutscenes

• Special cutscenes have been added for the final upgrade of each weapon.

Balance

1) Boss Fight

• [Revenge Time!] Adjusted the behavior patterns of the [REDACTED].

2) Underwater Exploration

• [Chapter 3] The Seaweed map will appear more frequently in the Blue Hole.
• Increased the chance of seaweed and sea urchin spawns.
• There will be more seaweed and sea urchins appearing at night than during the day.

3) Sushi Restaurant

• Whole-Roasted Shark Head’s taste value and price has increased.

Bug Fixes

1) Sushi Restaurant

• Fixed an issue where recruitment wasn’t possible in certain situations, even if there were available employees to hire, after achieving Diamond rank on Cooksta.
• [After Chapter 3] Fixed an issue where the game would sometimes close during a [REDACTED] and the mission would not progress.
  * If the game is already saved in the middle of the mission, you will be able to replay the [REDACTED].
• [After Chapter 3] Fixed an issue where the [REDACTED] would not progress normally after you upgraded your Cooksta Rank.
• [After Chapter 3] Fixed an issue where [REDACTED] mini-games would not work at certain screen resolutions.

2) Underwater Exploration

• [Chapter 4] Fixed an issue where weapons and items were reset after moving to the [REDACTED] when progressing through the story.
• [Chapter 5] Fixed an issue where players sometimes couldn’t continue after dying while fleeing from [REDACTED] in the [REDACTED].
• Fixed a bug where the visual effects of weapon crates were displaying incorrectly.
• [After Chapter 3] Fixed an issue where the dialogue would display incorrectly when retrying certain [REDACTED] encounters after a failed attempt.

3) Sea People Village

• Fixed an issue where Dave couldn’t talk to certain Sea People Villagers after finishing the game.

4) Other Fixes

• Fixed an issue where sounds from certain fish were missing.
• Fixed an issue where the sound would continue playing repeatedly after defeating certain bosses.
• Fixed various typos in the text reported to us by the community.
• Fixed various mistranslations and text that were cut off in certain languages.
• Improved overall quality of the European language translations (French, Spanish, Portuguese, German)
  *Still a work in progress, but will continue to improve the quality of the translations.

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Additional Information: Please note that if you’re still experiencing issues after the patch, please compress the files from the path below and send them to our help center.

Windows:

• %LocalAppData%\..\LocalLow\nexon\DAVE THE DIVER

Mac:

• ~/Library/Logs/nexon/DAVE THE DIVER/Player.log
~/Library/Application Support/nexon/DAVE THE DIVER/SData
  or
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.nexon.dave/DAVE THE DIVER/SData

Steam Deck:

• ./.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1868140/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/LocalLow/nexon/DAVE THE DIVER

Additional notes:

* If there are any changes to the details, we will update you through this notice.
* Please update Dave the Diver on Steam to the latest version for the changes to be applied.

As for Prima’s Dave the Diver coverage, I recommend reading Dave the Diver: How to Tranquilize Sharks and All Dave the Diver Achievements Listed next.