Fishing Hotspot "hit-message" gone since 20 Oct update

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  • What is your character name in New World:
    Warsteyn
  • What server/world did you experience your issue on:
    Lesath
  • Describe the issue you are experiencing:
    An active hotspot with jumping fish used to produce a green success message when a cast lands in the hotspot.
    Inactive hotspots and normal water would produce only white text about the water depth.
    Since the recent patch, the hotspot does not produce the green message text any more when I land my cast inside an active hotspot.
    This has also been observed by other players.
    Bite-speed and catch-quality are in line with what I’d expect from an active hotspot, the catch as such is OK and I must conclude that the hotspot is active and it’s not just an erratic jumping fish animation but indeed the missing info-text.
  • Is this a bug or an exploit:
    bug
  • (if a bug) How did the issue effect your gameplay:
    It became rather difficult to ascertain that I’m indeed fishing inside a hotspot or if I missed it
  • (if a bug) Were you able to recover from the issue:
    no resolution or workaround available that I’m aware of
  • (if a bug) Please include a screenshot or video of the issue that you have experienced:
    don’t think we need that, the explanation and steps to repro should suffice
  • What are the steps to reproduce the issue as you experienced:
    Find active fishing hotspot (jumping fish animation)
    cast fishing rod
    Land inside the hotspot
    Note that the previously existing “green” message text that informs me that I’m fishing inside the active hotspot is gone and I only get the generic, “white” water-depth information

Update :
Fished my hotspot empty, jumping fish animation gone, the usual “white water circle” and catch rate back down to normal ratio.
Conclusion :
The hotspot works as it should be, it’s just the notification that has gone AWOL.

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Yes I noticed this also if on purpose I am okay with it actually gives a little bit more challenge to it.

I can confirm this is indeed happening. No “landed on hotspot” text however pulling a higher yield of uncommon to rare fish and then depleting the hotspot after a number of fish were pulled from it.

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Can Confirm, needs a fix.

I just got on, and came here specifically looking for just this. Is it possible they will give fishing some love since some of the changes have resulted in seeing less humans, and more bots fishing?

I confirm the bug, the message “Landed on hotspot” not appears

+1 Got this one yesterday too on three different Hotspots.

Hoping for a hotfix for this bug before the weekend kicks off.

I have also encountered this. The hotspot works, but the notification is missing.

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