Ahoy mateys, time for another modest update before the BIG one! ;) This one includes a few long requested additions (mainly about the ship ammo box), the long awaited 1ceprime KotP statue and an experimental mode for clënt hosted servers. Enjoy!
Cosmetics:
Australian flag added
Added high boots
Kraken Keep King of the Pirates statue:
Statue added on Kraken Keep for this year's King of the Pirates, 1ceprime
Gameplay improvements:
Seagull crates now always include one random upgrade
Dedicated servers now have random numbers in their name
Server browser selected settings are now remembered
Added some more loot around the KotP statue on Kraken Keep
Added a max amount of kicks per crew (2)
Added a popup that appears when you have used up your kicks
Ammobox now shows how much ammo of each type is inside the ship inventory
Experimental features:
Fleetmode command added for cliënt hosted servers (You can use the command /fleetmode to divide crews into bigger fleets via the manage server menu)
Bug fixes:
Fixed a kicking exploit which made it possible to vote multiple times to kick a player
Flags should now load properly in-game
Fixed a bug that made characters in self inspect mode to bend up and down
Fixed an issue which caused the junk ship's front cannon not to produce a impact particle effect
Ahoy! We've got another modest update for y'all. This update includes lots and lots of new country flags, a little handy change to the swivel cannons and a few other tweaks here and there.
Customization:
Added 180+ of new country flags
Tweaked the special flag material to be a bit less bloomy, especially the color white
Privateer set hull gold made a lot brighter
Removed two special flags setup option because it made ships to hard to identify
Score Changes
The player steering now receives 3 score every 5 seconds
The player steering now receives 75% score of cannonball hits (up from 50%)
Gameplay:
Anti sail cannonballs can now also be fired from swivel cannons
Fixes
Fixed closed pre-made teams causing teaming issues during pre-game
Fixed several issues with the special flags
Fixed out of view torso in first person view becoming visible due to unclamped mouse sway
Ahoy Scallywags, it’s been a while since the last competition. And because we’re in need of a few new fancy screens on the Store Page we felt like this was the perfect opportunity to let you pirates help us out!
This competition is quite straightforward: provide us with the best action-packed screenshots you can capture and you’ll (maybe) win a Blazing Sails copy + the privateer pack DLC!
Of course, some simple rules are mandatory. These can be found below.
Your screenshots can be posted on the official Blazing Sails Discord only. In the #screenshot-competition channel: https://discord.gg/eevauxnXnh
Submission deadline is on the 14th of May, 5pm CEST. Any screenshots posted after that won’t be allowed into the competition.
By participating in this event, you consent that Get Up Games™: is allowed to use your entries to display on their Steam Store page.
Max 5 entries (screenshots) per person
Only one reward per person (you can’t win twice)
Disable your fps counter
Profanity in the chat = Disqualification
Resolution should be 1920x1080
No editing allowed
Have fun!
Show off the newest additions (female pirate, Lunar Lands, junk ship, ladder climbing, new weapons, etc…)
Visible HUD is preferred
105-115 FOV to avoid the “fish eye” effect
Show gameplay & action packed screenshots (EXPLOSIONS!)
5 Winners will be chosen. Winners will get 1 free game key + the privateer DLC
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.
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:
Party and votekicking improvements:
"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
Score changes:
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
Bonus reward for smaller crews:
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
Ship ladder tweaks:
Climbing sound volume decreased from 1 to 0.4
Bug fixes:
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
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:
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
In-game crew locking:
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.
Gameplay:
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
Sounds and effects:
Added sounds to ladder climbing and vaulting onto the deck
New hammer repair sound
Added smoke puff to mast repairing
Key binds:
Added an extra / separate key bind for picking up loot
Bug fixes:
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
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:
Main menu:
The game now remembers which ship type you have selected between matches and even when restarting the game
Pirate cosmetics:
Face items category has been added
Left hand items category has been added
Right hand items catgeory has been added
Ship cosmetics:
Added an option to ship settings to choose flag setup (double crew flag, double special flag, crew/special and special/crew)
Gameplay:
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
Video options:
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
Ship collision improvements:
Staircase ship collisions on brigantine and junk ship improved which should make it easier to jump down the stairs
Bug fixes:
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
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:
Repeater tweaks:
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
Bug fixes:
Backpack upgrades are now carried over when respawning after death
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:
New weapon:
Repeater has been added (A twelve shot automatic pirate machine gun)
Backpack additions:
Backpack upgrades added (Each upgrade adds +250 carry capacity, you can install 2 upgrades max)
Loot additions
Weapon loot is now colored by it's rarity (white, green, blue, purple and orange)
TNT bow mount changes:
Mounting a barrel to the front of your ship now initiates the same cooldown as dropping a barrel from your inventory
Bug fixes:
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
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:
New pirate body settings:
Female body type added
"Body type" renamed to "Physique"
3 physiques added for female (scrawny, average and strong)
2 new female voices added
Visual improvements:
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
In-game UI improvements:
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
Score system additions:
Pumping water now also grants score points
Teleport compass improvements:
Compass needle now points to closest teleport pad
Profanity:
The profanity filter now also works on ship names
Damage effect rework:
Red damage overlay now shows from which direction you got hit
Balancing:
Dragon pistol moved from tier 4 to tier 5
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug that caused the teleport screen effect to get stuck when being killed while teleporting