Ahoy Mateys!

It's time for another Early Access Roadmap Update!

Later this month we'll be releasing a brand new ship type called "The Bomb Vessel". It will be equipped with a powerful brand spanking new mortar-type cannon. The mortar is designed to be especially effective in eliminating pirates standing on the enemy deck because of the highly parabolic trajectory. In terms of ship health and speed we expect the Bomb Vessel to be in between the Junk and Brigantine. So get ready pirates! Death from above will soon be upon us.

Apart from this we'll also be adding some long-requested extra ship upgrades to the game. Namely for the corks and pumps.

Hope you're excited pirates! We certainly are.


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Ahoy lads!

We've got a small hotfix today addressing some bugs and we did some improvements on the votekick system and score amounts.

We also identified a major bug in the ship culling (performance) system which caused the entire system to malfunction and thus not be active. We fixed the problem and now ship culling should work as intended. This should give a noticeable FPS increase and might drastically increase FPS on weak or mid-range CPU based systems. Especially during matches with a lot of ships (5+), there should be less frame drops and average FPS should be higher.


Patch notes:

• "Enable Team Fill" checkbox renamed to "Lock Party" and thus inverted
  
• Party members can now bypass a locked party and always re-enter
  
• Scoreboard now shows how many players a crew has kicked
  
• Players that were kicked out of a team can no longer rejoin said team

• Normal cannonball hits now grant 20 points instead of 5
  
• Heavy cannonball hits now grant 30 points instead of 10
  
• Trap shot hits now grant 40 points instead of 15
  
• Anti-sail hits now grant 25 points instead of 10
  
• Explosive barrel hits now grant 80 points instead of 20
  
• Anti cannon hits now grant 40 points instead of 15

• If a crew has not kicked anyone during the entire match and wins with less players than the 2nd placed crew, each winning crew player gets an extra bonus reward

• Climbing sound volume decreased from 1 to 0.4

• Fixed a major bug with the ship culling that caused it to not work at all. There should be less framedrops and higher average FPS
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused previous weapon to not be re-equiped when leaving swimming state or climbing on deck from a ship ladder. Now your previous weapon will always be re-equiped properly
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the player to enter a vehicle when trying to pick up loot close to a vehicle when keybind of looting and interacting is the same
  
• Ladder climbing no longer jitters when climbing ladders on sinking ships
  
• Right click being stuck sometimes should be fixed
  
• Sprint not working sometimes should be fixed
  
• Fixed a small visual text issue with votekick and other kick or ban chat messages being cutoff and thus unreadable

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Ahoy landlubbers!

Today we've got an exciting new update for you all! Any pirate worth their salt loves a good boarding, swashbuckling with your enemies on their deck while the wind whips around you. However, boarding was difficult to stop with how easy it was to get on another team's ship.

Too many pirates were teleporting around, dipping on and off the deck. These wormhole jumpers will have to a find another hobby as of today because we are proud to introduce ACTUAL ladders (or well, ropes)!




Here are the full patch notes:

• Ship ladders have been completely overhauled and now include a climbing animation
  
• Ship ladders now require you to hold interact (E) to climb all the way up to the deck

• You can now lock your crew during the match (press escape and navigate to crew management)
  Note: please refrain from kicking players to create free spaces. If there is a chance a friend of yours will join later, simply keep your crew locked until (s)he joins the game. Then you can unlock and (s)he can join the team.

• Improved visual smoothness of getting onto ships from the air
  
• Improved visual smoothness of getting onto elevators
  
• Anti-Sail cannonball sail damage increased from 15 to 20
  
• TNT damage radius decreased from 1700 to 1200
  
• Normal cannonball, anti-sail, anti-cannon and trap shot player damage decreased from 100 to 60
  
• Swivel cannonball player damage decreased from 100 to 40
  
• Cannonballs (of any type) no longer cause extra damage when hitting the head (headshot multiplier disabled on cannonballs)
  Note: cannonballs still do AOE (Area Of Effect) damage in a radius. A normal cannonball will now deal 60 damage + 30 AOE damage on a direct hit, for a total of 90 damage.
  All the damage values can be found here: https://blazingsails.fandom.com/wiki/Cannon_Projectiles

• Added sounds to ladder climbing and vaulting onto the deck
  
• New hammer repair sound
  
• Added smoke puff to mast repairing

• Added an extra / separate key bind for picking up loot

• Incorrectly loaded characters no longer have an outfit (brown jacket, black bicorn, one sandal) but are now in default clothing (only pants)
  
• Sprinting headbob no longer plays while using the world map
  
• Fixed a bug that caused pirates to be wearing white wrist wraps when not having any hand slot items selected for the first time
  
• Fixed a bug with ship saving and selecting in the main menu

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Hello there scallywags!

THE TIME HAS COME. You can now rock the most iconic pirate swag around. That's right! Eye patches and hooks are now also available cosmetics for your pirate. And there's more! We've also added a bunch of iconic striped sailor pants, wrist wraps, makeup, face tattoos, new jackets and much more! We've even included a few epic and legendary ones. Good luck finding the legendary double eye patches mateys! (full list of new cosmetics can be found at the bottom of this post)



Of course, we've also listened to your feedback. This update also includes a bunch of fixes and improvements.

Here are the full patch notes:

• The game now remembers which ship type you have selected between matches and even when restarting the game

• Face items category has been added
  
• Left hand items category has been added
  
• Right hand items catgeory has been added

• Added an option to ship settings to choose flag setup (double crew flag, double special flag, crew/special and special/crew)

• Repairing hull damage now produces a smoke and impact particle effect
  
• Repeater knockback increased again from 3 to 5
  
• Smallshot pickup amount increased from 2-10 to 8-20
  
• Smallshot amounts slightly increased on most weapons
  
• All cannonballs now cause 100 player damage when directly hitting players as intended (only normal cannonballs caused 100, all other types caused only 70)
  
• Spawn select countdown timer reduced from 20 to 12 seconds

• Closing the video options without hitting apply now prompts a confirmation or ignore changes popup
  
• Added a recommended button
  
• Game should now start in true fullscreen by default instead of windowed fullscreen
  
• Default video option settings improved
  
• Render scale slider should now work properly

• Staircase ship collisions on brigantine and junk ship improved which should make it easier to jump down the stairs

• Clicking a player's name text in the scoreboard should now also open the player info popup box
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the teleport effect to stay on screen when entering vehicles while teleporting
  
• Teleport screen effect no longer instantly disappears when no longer teleporting (now fades out as intended)
  
• Weapons should no longer be invisible after getting kicked out of a vehicle when two players try to control a single vehicle at the same time

• Left Black and Gold Royal Boot
  
• Right Black and Gold Royal Boot
  
• Left Dark Black Boot
  
• Right Dark Black Boot
  
• White, Gold and Black Royal Pants
  
• Black and Gold Royal Pants
  
• Red and Gold Royal Pants
  
• Blue and Gold Royal Pants
  
• White and Red Striped Pants
  
• White and Grey Striped Pants
  
• White and Blue Striped Pants
  
• Yellow and Purple Striped Pants
  
• Cyan and Brown Striped Pants
  
• Green and Brown Striped Pants
  
• Brown and Bordeaux Striped Pants
  
• Yellow and Blue Stiped Pants
  
• Cyan and Green Striped Pants
  
• Pink and Blue Striped Pants
  
• White, Gold and Black Royal Jacket
  
• Red and Gold Royal Jacket
  
• Blue and Gold Royal Jacket
  
• Black and Gold Royal Jacket
  
• Raccoon Eyeshade
  
• Eye Fade with Lipstick
  
• Eye Liner with Lipstick
  
• Curly Eye Liner with Lipstick
  
• Native Stripes v1 Tattoo
  
• Native Stripes v2 Tattoo
  
• Native Stripes v3 Tattoo
  
• Nordic Tattoo
  
• Claw Stripes Tattoo
  
• Lipstick
  
• Left Black, White and Grey Eyepatch
  
• Right Black, White and Grey Eyepatch
  
• Double Black, White and Grey Eyepatch
  
• Left Brown Eyepatch
  
• Right Brown Eyepatch
  
• Left Black Eyepatch
  
• Right Black Eyepatch
  
• Right Iron Hook
  
• Left Iron Hook
  
• Right Brown Leather Wrist Strap
  
• Left Brown Leather Wrist Strap
  
• Right Gold and Iron Hook
  
• Left Gold and Iron Hook
  
• Right Black Leather Wrist Strap
  
• Left Black Leather Wrist Strap
  
• Right White Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Left White Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Right Black Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Left Black Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Right Beige Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Left Beige Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Right Red Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Left Red Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Right Blue Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Left Blue Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Right Green Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Left Green Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Right Purple Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Left Purple Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Right Cyan Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Left Cyan Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Right Dark Grey Cloth Wrist Wrap
  
• Left Dark Grey Cloth Wrist Wrap

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Ahoy lads!

Tonight we're dropping a small hotfix making some adjustments to the new repeater, a backpack bug fix and.. a preview of something new and terrifying. Keep an eye out for some really skinny pirates!

Patch notes:

• Reapeater knockback (recoil) reduced from 10 to 3
  
• Repeater aim down sight weapon position lowered so firing no longer overlaps the crosshair
  
• Repeater fire sound optimized which should cause less audio cutoff issues

• Backpack upgrades are now carried over when respawning after death

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Yarr!!

It's time for another update! Do you hate the feeling of having to shoot one measly bullet before having to reload? No more! We've added a new weapon called "The Repeater". This crazy automatic rifle is sure to bring even more chaos during boarding and land combat.

We've also added backpack upgrades so that your pirate can hoard even more loot without the need to return to your ship.

Lastly, we've added a rarity glow to the weapons so that you can see at first glance how good the weapon is you want to pick up. This should also prevent you mistaking a Blunderbuss for a Bomb Launcher! ;)

Here are the full patch-notes:

• Repeater has been added (A twelve shot automatic pirate machine gun)

• Backpack upgrades added (Each upgrade adds +250 carry capacity, you can install 2 upgrades max)

• Weapon loot is now colored by it's rarity (white, green, blue, purple and orange)

• Mounting a barrel to the front of your ship now initiates the same cooldown as dropping a barrel from your inventory

• Fixed missing pants mask on female body type that caused naked pirate booty
  
• Nearly full crew banners (3/4) now appear orange instead of red
  
• Fixed a problem that caused sail colliders to absorb projectiles
  
• Fixed a bug that caused client server hosts to not be able to transfer items from containers
  
• Fixed some LOD issues with the masts and sail pulleys

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Ahoy mateys! The time is finally upon us. The female pirate has arrived and is ready to kick some pirate bum! Like mentioned before you'll be able to use all unlocked customization on both bodytypes. Along with this we've also added 2 extra female voicetypes!

Because it's easter this weekend we also took the opportunity to add some special easter-themed event items, just to get your started you'll get a free unique easter sail emblem on game startup!

We've also added a few new LEGENDARY and EPIC items to Blazing Sails (some event and some normal ones). These will be quite a bit more challenging to unlock so have fun trying to collect 'em all pirates!

Here are some of the new items we've added:






Without further ado, here are the full patch-notes scallywags:

• Female body type added
  
• "Body type" renamed to "Physique"
  
• 3 physiques added for female (scrawny, average and strong)
  
• 2 new female voices added

• Gold and silver materials improved to be much more shiny
  
• Flintlock firing pistol animation improved (used to go sideways when shooting)
  
• Right to left melee swing 3rd person animation improved

• Compass now shows team members direction
  
• Compass now shows own ship direction
  
• Compass now shows marker direction
  
• Compass visuals adjusted to fit new indicators
  
• Scoreboard no longer flickers
  
• Pop up when clicking on player in scoreboard giving the following options: go to steam profile, open chat through steam and add as friend on steam

• Pumping water now also grants score points

• Compass needle now points to closest teleport pad

• The profanity filter now also works on ship names

• Red damage overlay now shows from which direction you got hit

• Dragon pistol moved from tier 4 to tier 5

• Fixed a bug that caused the teleport screen effect to get stuck when being killed while teleporting

• Easter Pattern Sail Emblem
  
• Flower Pattern Sail Emblem
  
• Easter Chick Sail Emblem
  
• Easter Egg Sail Emblem
  
• Angry Bunny Sail Emblem
  
• BattleDrank Sail Emblem
  
• Fire Phoenix Sail Emblem
  
• Cut Throat Sail Emblem
  
• Solar Phoenix Sail Emblem
  
• Black Bunny Ears
  
• Pink Bunny Ears
  
• Yellow Bunny Ears
  
• White Bunny Ears
  
• Purple Bunny Ears
  
• Red Bunny Ears
  
• Green Bunny Ears
  
• Blue Bunny Ears
  
• Silver Bunny Ears
  
• Gold Bunny Ears
  
• Grey, Gold and Red Commander's Bicorn
  
• Green, Silver and Black Commander's Bicorn
  
• Brown, Blue and White Commander's Bicorn
  
• Red, Gold and Black Commander's Bicorn
  
• Blue, Gold and White Commander's Bicorn
  
• Dark Blue and Black Commander's Bicorn
  
• White and Gold Commander's Bicorn
  
• Green and Dark Grey Commander's Bicorn
  
• Red, Black And Yellow Commander's Bicorn
  
• Purple, Dark Grey and Yellow Commander's Bicorn
  
• Black and Gold Commander's Bicorn
  
• Brown, Dark Grey and Cyan Commander's Bicorn
  
• Yellow Bird Nest
  
• Orange Bird Nest
  
• Green Bird Nest
  
• White Bird Nest
  
• Loose Bun Hair
  
• Messy Bob Hair

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Yarrr!

Hope you enjoyed the Iceberg Ahead show mateys! For the folks that didn't get the opportunity to watch live or would just like to re-watch the Blazing Sails stuff, here are the goods:





As you can see we've been working hard on implementing the female pirate, which will be introduced to the game soon!

Like with the already-implemented male bodytype, you'll be able too choose between 3 types of physique as well.

Along with this we've also been busy implementing female voicetypes so you can blast out those voice commands like a true lady-pirate. Or would you just like to have a feminine voice with a buff male body? That will also work! Blazing Sail is all about customization and we're excited too see what you pirates come up with for your characters!

Hope you're excited scallywags! We're looking forward to releasing this update!
More news about this will be shared very soon!



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Ahoy mateys,

Our publisher, Iceberg Interactive will host a live event tomorrow that will include some very exciting Blazing Sails news! The show begins tomorrow (March 30th) at 19:00 CEST! Make sure you're watching scallywags, you won't regret it! You can find your regional time on the Steam sidebar to the right.



You can catch it live tomorrow, but make sure you set a reminder by smashing that bell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BIOdIVKaL8



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Hi there pirates!

It's update time again. We've got a few things for you all this week. The long awaited player reporting feature has been added. Pirates aren't the kindest souls, let's admit. But even pirates agree on certain lines that shouldn't be crossed. Spoiling the fun for others or spouting extreme profanity should not go unpunished. And thus, we will from now on review your reports and take actions accordingly to keep the seas as adventurous and fun as possible for everyone sailing on them. Actions may range from warnings all the way to server bans depending on the gravity of the offense.

Next to that we've got some new teleport effects, some more status icons and a brigantine buff!

Full patch notes:

• You can now report players with one of 7 reasons
  
• You can also enter some extra information text

• Added status icons for swivels, water pump, cork, teleporting and on ship
  
• New ship icon (ship count top right) and on ship status indication icon
  
• New player icon (in crew member UI top left and player count top right)
  
• Status icons now turn red when on an enemy ship or when using enemy cannons, steering wheel, masts, capstan, swivels, ...
  
• Flag banner UI is now screenspace making it easier to read
  
• Added two crossing swords and a short animation to the prepare for battle screen

• Added screen effect when teleporting
  
• Added a white transition flash when the actual teleport happens

• Brigantine water levels now rise 30% slower making it a bit stronger
  
• Entering enemy crows nests now takes 4 seconds instead of 1 second

• Blackbeard flag added (we'll do a big country flag pass soon)

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the anchor to automatically drop each time you use the steering wheel
  
• Fixed a bug that caused projectiles to not deactivate when hitting a player making it possible to hit two or more players with one projectile
  
• Disconnects due to a server being in spawn selection will now show the correct disconnect popup message
  
• Flag banners no longer show any text when the match has started
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the compass sound to play when loading into a game
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes cut off some of the compass teleporting sounds

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