ShipSim.com now offers a new patch for Ship Simulator Extremes, updating this game of extreme boating to version 1.3.0. The patch is also available from AtomicGamer and The Patches Scrolls. The new version has a lengthy list of new features and improvements, all outlined in the patch notes, and handily reproduced below.

[ General ]

• New Feature: Mission Editor is now available from the main menu. Manual available from the Windows Start menu.
• New Feature: Antialiasing functionality is now accessible from options -> graphics -> quality settings menu
• New Feature: Shortcut in Windows Start menu to access game photo folder
• New Feature: Added navigation lights on bouys
• New Feature: Cinematic in-game camera added. Select from camera GUI. LMB click to set camera location, LMB click again to set camera height.
• Performance Improvement: Allow the game to allocate more memory, upto 3GB, on 64-bit systems
• Performance Improvement: Duplicate mission behaviour; just the duplicate mission will be omitted and the user will get notified in the main menu
• Performance Improvement: Allow more parts of the game to run in a separate thread, optimizing performance
• Visual Improvements: Lightened up the night, Brighter ambient colours, More prominent reflections, Buoy navlights
• Fixed an issue where a duplicate file could interfere with several menu's in-game
• Fixed an issue where mission savegames could corrupt ship controls
• Various smaller bugfixes

[ Mission editor ]

• Mission Editor added
• Updated Feature: added multiselecttool
• Updated Feature: double-click anywhere in the environment to center the camera's focus point there.

[ Chart ]

• Added depth display ranges
• More realistic buoy positioning

[ Missions ]

• New Feature: Added bollards to freeroaming in all environments
• Improved freeroam traffic pathfinding
• Fixed an issue where autopilot would incorrectly warn about other ships
• Fixed and added better descriptions for several mission objectives

[ Ships ]

• New Feature: Added anchor chains and dropping anchors
• New Feature: multiple helmsman cameras on appropriate ships, cycle through them with the GUI or the shortcut key (2)
• New Feature: helmsman camera panning, use default camera panning actions to pan the camera left or right
• New Feature: Added functionality for SS08-style controlling, using dual throttles by moving the center of the levers
• New Feature: Added working Bridge-wing controls
• New Feature: Moving indicators on ship bridges (rpms, rudder angles)
• New Feature: Moving radar on bridge monitors
• New Feature: Rowboat deployables on Red Eagle
• New Feature: Navigation light state 'fishing'
• New Feature: Option to switch a Ferry's general direction
• Improved tighter mooring ropes (tighter)
• Improved performance of ship update
• Improved smoke particles on most ships
• Improved ship dynamics
• Improved navigation lights
• Improved mouse-response for controls
• Improved ship bridge layouts
• Improved ship bridge control types
• Fixed and added several missing hull ship names
• Fixed an issue where controls on several ships could interfere with eachother (mouse/keyboard)
• Fixed an issue and made walkthrough run mode functional again
• Fixed an issue with collision of the Red Eagle
• Fixed an issue where the GUI indicator would display negative (port) values while they should be positive (starboard)

[ Multiplayer ]

• Improved network ship dynamics
• Improved stability
• Fixed an issue where the ocean state was not syncronized among peers
• Fixed an issue where the in-game time was reset upon rejoining a session