A small additional hotfix to balance out some things:

• Random anti-cannon shot drop amount increased from 1 to 2-3
  
• Anti-cannon chains now have 70 hp instead of 50 hp
  
• Anti-Sail cannonballs have been moved back to tier 2 and their random amount increased from 5-15 to 10-20
  
• Regular cannonball random spawn amount reduced from 10-20 to 5-15
  
• Random wood amount increased from 5-20 to 15-30

• Light flares on lamps improved

• Fixed a bug with the default junk sail LODS

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Me hearties! We've got a small hotfix for you. Mainly some bug fixes and bomb vessel tweaks.

Below are the patch notes:

• Mortar now uses heavy cannonballs instead of regular cannonballs
  
• Mortar rotation angle reduced from 260 degrees to 240 degrees
  
• Bomb vessel top speed reduced so it is now only a bit faster than the brigantine
  
• Mortar hits now reward 40 score points instead of 30

• Junk ship health increased with about 5%

• Heavy cannonballs moved from tier 2 to tier 1
  
• Anti-Sail cannonballs moved from tier 2 to tier 1
  
• Heavy cannonball random spawn amount reduced from 7-20 to 3-10
  
• Regular cannonball random spawn amount reduced from 10-20 to 5-15

• Ship camera moved (lower and more angled up so you get a better overall view of your ships (including their flags, which were cut off on some resolutions)
  
• Ship stats now show a difficulty tip in each ship's description

• Weapon sounds now spawn attached instead of on a location which caused weird audio glitches on moving ships. Now the firing sounds are attached to the weapons and thus move along with the player and ship

• Fixed a bug that caused servers to appear with max player limit of 1 making it impossible for affected players to join any server
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the voice type to keep reverting to a certain voice
  
• Fixed a bug that caused default hand selection to be none/invalid, now bare hands
  
• Ship presets should now work again
  
• Fixed a bug with ship stats not showing the correct stats
  
• Fixed some collision issues on Kraken Keep
  
• Fixed another flag loading bug

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Ahoy my dear Scallywags!


In other news... Time for another BIG update. As mentioned in our roadmap, we've added a NEW SHIP TYPE: The Bomb Vessel.

This ship has a completely new cannon type: The mortar cannon. It shoots regular ol' cannonballs, is fully upgradable and especially powerful against those flthy deck-dwelling bilge rats.

When entering the mortar cannon you'll see your ship in seagull's view and you can see & adjust the trajectory of your cannonball when fired. It is quite tricky at first to hit moving ships but when you do... Oh boy... It sure does pack a punch!





In terms of speed and ship health the Bomb Vessel is between the Junk Ship and Brigantine. (Ship stats below)





The layout of the ship is quite different from the Junker or Brigantine, you got 1 regular cannon on both the left and right side but also two(!) swivel slots on each side. As with the other ships there's a swivel slot in the back but you got some extra cover when using this swivel cannon.







Below the deck we've also spiced it up a bit, It has a... you know what, I'll just show you:





Now, some of you might be asking: "Where are my pump and cork upgrades?" No worries, we're working hard on getting those in asap. So you can expect these soon™.


Without further ado, here are the full patch notes:

• Bomb Vessel added. A mortar ship with 2 cannons, 5 swivel positions and average speed and health.
  
• Mortar cannon which fires a fast firing highly arcing projectile that does does AOE player and ship damage. Mortar projectiles also explode when impacting the water surface.

• Added a maximum interaction angle to ship lamps so they no longer consume interaction
  
• TNT AOE explosion now checks for obstacles
  
• TNT damage radius increased from 1200 to 1400

• Fixed a bug that caused all map filters to be disabled by default instead of being enabled
  
• Fixed a bug with the flags. They should load as intended now.
  
• Fixed extra double ladder mesh on the left side of the brigantine

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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!

• Australian flag added
  
• Added high boots

• Statue added on Kraken Keep for this year's King of the Pirates, 1ceprime

• 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

• Fleetmode command added for cliënt hosted servers (You can use the command /fleetmode to divide crews into bigger fleets via the manage server menu)

• 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

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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.

• 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

• The player steering now receives 3 score every 5 seconds
  
• The player steering now receives 75% score of cannonball hits (up from 50%)

• Anti sail cannonballs can now also be fired from swivel cannons

• 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
  
• Fixed centering of top screen compass

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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

Good luck scallywags!

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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.


Check out the full resolution version here.



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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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