Greetings Travellers,

If you were on the stream, awesome! If not, you should join us next time!

This is what you missed (which had everyone crying on stream): https://clips.twitch.tv/ZealousRelatedOctopusTBTacoRight ...Skull Gang, yo.
Unfortunately next week's patch is delayed to the 3rd of July. :'(

BUT it will have more fixes and some more items than originally planned! Do watch the stream recap for details on how many awesome things are in the works and timelines.

The summer sale is now full STEAM ahead, so you should have received your summer item codes in your inbox (or somewhere around it)! This is a perfect opportunity to try rope your buddies into Worlds Adrift, and maybe even try out some other Bossa titles! Obviously Worlds is BEST.
Creative Writing: Submissions will go HERE, the theme is Calypso!

Ship Design: The theme is obviously SUMMER – go wild!

But remember, your prize is your ship immortalised in Dan Lish’s art. Build something you are proud of and submit it in THIS THREAD.

Scavenger Hunt: Have you solved Ryan's Riddles?

Riddle 1: A bright white light in the dead of night,
Think quickly now, or invite the blight.[/u]
No need to wait for dusk to dawn,
First come, first serve - no respawn.

Riddle 2: Where finger and thumb doth meet together,
Is where I've buried my cherished treasure.
Knowledge you'll need, and knowledge you'll find.
Find my loot to lower the grind.

Riddle 3: A public house that's closed it doors,
The wings are clipped, the barrel's poured.
One last drink is now at stake,
A thirst for knowledge, it will slake.

If these places have already been looted, I left 3 more stashes in different locations!

Try your luck: you will find that taking screenshots of yourself at all 6 of the these islands may also bring you to a particular ....well of goodness...? Type of Paradise, perhaps! If nobody finds our loot I I will be left to walk a very blue path.

Hints are all here. Enjoy.

For a more... Community experience try checking out these posts HERE and HERE.

• Concept art for new raider-y headgear as well as working on the raider-y outfits in general
• Kioki and Saborian engine turbine propellers
• Alliances fixes
• Debugging
• Breaking the newly renamed character sheet screen into tiny bits
• Fixing bug: shipyard dome VFX not always playing on collision with player
• Fixing bug: on crafting complete VFX not playing for the helm of the claw
• Getting the new build system up and running for 0.2.3
• Investigating the grey screen issue - but not making headway
• Added extra confirmation when deleting your character (you need to type "DELETE" to confirm deletion of your character)
• Fixed maintenance time item issue
• Fixing item exploit bug
• Adding new resource types to the game, cloth, leather etc
• Beetle genocide (0.2.4)... 
• Spawning loads of loot and headgear

As always, be sure you’re on the Community Discord: https://discord.gg/WjkHvGr older players can help you find your bearings. For reference, Community Map: https://jerodar.github.io/WAMap/ as usual, a big thank you from the community to the Cardinal Guild and check out the previous blog posts to see what's happening in game.

On that note, enjoy the weekend of racing, meeting people and capturing flags <3

 

As always, see you in the skies,

Julia <3

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lnoFRHd4co

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Greetings beautiful Travellers,

Awesome news ahead! Summer is raging and guess what? We are planning a Worlds Adrift Summer Bash!


Grab your friends and wack those BBQs out for manta steaks and Thuntomite burgers! Next week the summer sales kick off, and it will be featuring some swanky new getup, best part is - existing players will be getting some awesome new outfits for free, so why not hang out and soak in some sun in game, have a PARTEEEY?! They look absolutely rad!

We will be kicking the party off with a 5 hour long Stream of Bounty On A Dev, where we will be popping into all of your servers, answering questions and inviting you to find us and board us! First player to succeed gets a prize!

During the stream we will announce the themes for a weekend long series of competitions in Creative Writing, Ship Design, A Scavenger Hunt and "RYAN'S RIDDLES!"

Scavenger Hunt Prize: Lootbag of Worlds Adrift goodies
Capture the Flag Prize: Rare In-game Outfit
Last Ship Sailing Prize: Lootbag of Worlds Adrift goodies
Creative Writing Competition: A Live Dramatic Reading by RYAN (he will love this, I swear) & more
Ship Design Competition Prize: Your ship immortalised in Dan Lish art
Ship Races: Engine Schematics and Fuel!
Solving Ryan's Riddle: Variety of in-game goodies!
The Soul Ship: Meet people, party hard!

Let me know if you have any questions in the blog post comments on the website linked above, I will be posting rules and details to each event separately as the time draws closer! Until then, if you will be streaming the event - let me know in the comments below. If you want to help with the event on various servers contact me on Discord next week (https://discord.gg/WjkHvGr). <3

A lot of people are out of the office, so this will be brief, but without further ADO... 

• VFX bug fixes
• Small bug fixes and trying to refactor code that is difficult to reason with
• Prevented ship parts from the same ship damaging each other
• Fixed the bug where atlas shard stopped spawning on client
• Continued work on the big server-side refactor
• Small bug fixes and trying to refactor code that is difficult to reason with
• New balancing on weather walls due to new ship stability fixes (0.2.3)
• Design on filling up unlooted chests over time (0.2.X)
• Knowledge tree re-design UI and functionality
• Alliance UI!
• Talking to other people in an allianc
• JUICY: working on Biome 0 and trying to figure out the best way to integrate the tutorial character with it!
• huntomite visual polish (nothing to see yet) 0.2.4.0
• Helping people. (As opposed to the usual banning people)
• Creating a tool for QA so they can more easily process the errors found in their output logs - analysing and summary visualiser is completed and ready to test next week

As always, have lovely weekend, take part in our competitions across our social channels and...

See you in the skies,

Julia

 

PS. Before you ask, YES - instruments are planned in the game :p

Greetings Travellers,

Guess what?! This update is all about fixes and small awesome features. I'm in awe of the size of this lad. An absolute unit.

• Characters can crouch, roll, and sneak now! Holding the Ctrl key will crouch your character if not moving; pressing it while moving will roll your character, and moving while crouched will sneak your character around.
• The Easter egg dances have now been integrated into a proper emote system! Press C to open up an emote wheel and perform all kinds of animations. In the future, vocalizations will expand on this system.
• Characters will automatically reach out to touch walls and objects they’re close to again.
• The “Kraken” bug (a total animation freakout of the player body) has finally been tamed! It might still occur in extreme circumstances, but should be very rare now.
• Previously, impacting the ground in a specific way could send your character body flying into the stratosphere. This has been fixed.
• A buggy animation loop, where a falling character would alternate between falling and skydiving, has been fixed.
• While climbing, aiming your grapple will now stop your movement.
• It is now easier to start climbing. The speed threshold has been raised, so it’s no longer necessary to be nearly still to initiate climbing.
• When reeled almost all the way in to the hook attachment point, the player will no longer turn inside out to resolve the animation. As a concession, the arm will now sometimes clip geometry.
• Fixed various issues with the character trying to aim with torches and other objects.

• The game camera has been improved when swinging, particularly at speed. Your character can go really fast, and we want the player to feel that speed!
• Added a feature to toggle the shoulder the game camera looks over. By default this is MMB.
• After being stationary in the world for a while, the game camera will slowly pan to a cinematic angle.
• All camera modes have been standardised and tweaked. Say goodbye to uncomfortably close up swinging when equipping the scanner!

 

• The cinematic introduction to the world has been properly integrated into the game now! Starting a new character will play a sequence that explains the background of the world, setting the stage for your adventures to come.
• Some head pieces would float above players and turn them invisible upon relogging. This has been fixed.
• A strange bug resulting in ship parts in the death clouds not getting deleted from the world has been fixed.
• The shipyard information panel will now always display the correct information for all parts attached to the docked ship.
• Timed explosives will no longer be invisible sometimes.
• Inventory items can no longer overlap the belt space.
• Occasionally players would not be able to save a ship frame design after editing it. This has been fixed.
• Fixed the circular crafting timer being incorrect when opening a container.
• The game no longer crashes upon exit.
• Various client-side performance optimizations have been performed.
• Various UI fixes.

 

• A bug that allowed a player to force nearby other players to go into the animation for swapping their hotbar item has been fixed.
• Dragging inventory items to an invalid part of the UI no longer prompts the player to delete the item. Only dragging outside all UI will trigger the deletion prompt.
• Stormwalls and sandstorms have received rendering improvements, displaying more detail and more movement, with better colours.
• The flying debris inside stormwalls now appear again.
• Stormwalls’ lightning flashes should now be visible from outside the wall again.
• Adjusted colours on the Blight.
• Fixed pixelated cloud cover over certain environment assets.
• The first item loaded into the hotbar after launching the game will now function properly.
• Foliage was disappearing at long distances instead of swapping to the lowest detail level. This has been fixed.
• Atlas shards and power generators will now correctly display the control prompt to press E to interact.
• A ship docked to a shipyard that gets eaten by the Blight will now undock automatically.
• Added screen shake to firing a swivel gun.
• Various new VFX, including wind trails over wings and while on helm, and VFX fixes.
• Lots of SFX and music levels tweaks.

Enjoy, and see you in the skies!

Greetings Travellers,

Hope you've had a great work/study week and a ready to kick back and enjoy the weekend. We are releasing a new update on Tuesday, so brace yoselves: crouch, roll, and sneak are coming!!

In case you missed it, the boys streamed an AMA with Luke the Lead Designer this week, you can catch up with it here:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/270444892?t=00h56m57s

And we have a beautiful compilation of the best bits from Worlds Adrift Bossa Streams! Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V07wvQA1t_g&t=

We have another competition for you - you can win a goody bag that I will personally send you across the world(s) wherever you are <3 https://www.worldsadrift.com/forums/topic/ship-building-competition-with-prizes/ So submit me your birbs, and if you win - you shall be swaggishly rewarded.

This week's Captain's Log comes with some Spicy Annotations Additions!

• Implementing CS tools (making banning more fun)
• Chasing a non-live bug where trees weren't salvageable
• Fixing the ‘respawn at the spot you last died’ bug since it didn't fully fix in 0.2.1 (0.2.2)
• Chasing a mysterious unity shader import issue which will be noticed by no-one (hopefully??? :D) 0.2.2
• Integrating new figureheads and lamps made a little while back 0.2.2

• Changes to the way hats cover hair. If you have a two-piece beard mustache combo, where a hat would cover the beard, the tash shall remain! 0.2.2 <-- most important fix
• Bugfix procedural icons on 0.2.3 - making them perform as well as I promised in the blog post
• Banning people
• Designing something to help new players not get murdered
• Doing load tests and fixing lots of things
• Texturing / Mapping the last 4 Saborian engines

• Changed Open Air sfx, now the further the player is from an island, the louder the sound of being in open air will be... just like in RL
• Changed the ship sail flapping sfx to be react based on how much the sail pushes your ship
• Implemented the player damaged sfx to be heard by both local and remote players
• Added icon and craft information to scannable tooltip when mousing over schematics on inventory UI
• Optimize procedurally-generated ship part icon
• Fixed ghost engines only being seen occasionally by players, but not other players (more spoopy buggos)
• Integrating Alliances

That's all folks!

As always, see you in the skies,

Julia <3

Greetings Travellers,

Ready for the week? YEAH YOU ARE! <3

Alliances are being worked on and tested THOROUGHLY. We are currently expecting them for 0.2.3, but that may likely change (we will update you next Captain's Log with far more certainty). It's a big feature and we would like it to work properly. We are also going full throttle on optimisations and fixes of other bugs that have been plaguing the game.

 
The Slick Update came out and about and introduced some sexy new uniforms! We also introduced some tweaks to the material stats meaning it's a tiny bit easier to build your first wooden ship! For full Patch Notes of the update click HERE!

The Mowgli and Baloo have also released a new video where they torture Luke with strange questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYPZIPLtYkM
In other news, we are always curious about your opinions, we are looking to learn more about your games events preferences and we would appreciate to hear your thoughts. https://bossastudios.typeform.com/to/WDPRod

 
This week's Captain's Log comes with some Spicy Annotations Additions!

• Fixed all the character related bugs. ALL OF THEM*

*Except the ones not fixed

• Produce actual testable builds with alliances and crew for QA to test
• Banning people (Whaaaat?! But everyone is lovely!)
• More performance optimisations and garbage collection*

* garbage collection - performing a type of performance optimisation where you prevent the application from allocating and de-allocating memory repeatedly. The later operation has to happen if you do the former, but it can trigger a process called garbage collection which is where the app needs to tidy up the existing allocations of memory in order to satisfy future allocation requests.

• Working on the tutorial codex 
• Fixed issues with deteriorate behaviour (Ship not sinking)
• Fixed bug where bombs can't be picked up
• Fixed the loading screen from fading out multiple times
• Fixed the loading screen from showing when player enter/leave cannon and helm
• Fixed the docked ship being locked when shipyard gets destroyed 
• Fixed the chest open and close SFX from heard far away 
• Tweak/implemented/fixed ship turning SFX 
• Refactor the resource collection SFX
• Implemented the island lightning rumble SFX
• Reviewing player submitted islands
• Upgrading Easy Anti-Cheat
• Bug fixing an infinite loading screen bug (Hallelujah Choirs played)
• UI revisions
• Working on some sinister looking customizations (spoopy scary)

• Fixed all of the jerky ship bugs. I don't care what QA say, THEY'RE FIXED! (QA Jury is still out on this one.)
• Also, messing about over the weekend with something to make sand walls harder now that the ships don't jerk around anymore... (Smooth sailing is not what Walls should ever be about)
   

 

That's all folks!

As always, see you in the skies,

Julia <3

• A load of Saborian military uniforms are now lootable in game! They look pretty slick.

 

• Fixed the cloth physics bug that caused despawning cloth to sometimes crash other clients. Players would see a dialog box with the phrase “Pure virtual function call” on it, or would see “Runtime error.” This bug also necessitated 0.2.0.1’s disabling of all cloth physics on hairstyles, so accompanying the fix, the two disabled hairstyles have been reenabled.
• Fixed a situation that could fail to login a ship upon its owner logging in.
• Fixed an infinite loading bug when trying to log in. More work continues on this category of bugs.
• Wood weight reduced across the board by 15%. Objects crafted from wood should also receive a higher HP bonus across the board. Finally, wood in the inventory now stacks to 2000.
• Small, medium, and window panels now have the same resilience as large panels, and have had their weights adjusted.
• Railing parts have had their resilience buffed as well.
• Increased glider drop rate and reduced timed explosive drop rate.
• Ship frames have had their beam costs halved. The resulting weight is unchanged.

• Some missing icons have been added.
• Fixed Drissian Pistol to have the correct name.
• Ship part schematics no longer have a “Basics” category - helms and sails and other parts now have their own categories.

 

Explore. Build. Unite. These are the pillars on which Worlds Adrift is built, but if there was ever a fourth pillar, it would be Survival. You see, as beautiful as the lands of Foundation are, its skies are truly perilous; a hunting ground of mantas and pirates, alike. Worlds Adrift is a PvP game, after all, but at what point does conflict-by-design become ‘griefing’, and what do we propose to do in order to ensure the former doesn’t ultimately result in the latter?
 

Hands up. And I don’t mean in the at-gunpoint sense (despite this being a piece on PvP!). Rather, ‘hands up’ in that we know and very much acknowledge there’s work to be done. We have only just entered Early Access in what is the very first step of an ongoing journey, and so the game is by no means a fully-finished product. Huge changes will be made to Worlds Adrift, as we continue to listen and react to your feedback in the continued development of this Community-Crafted MMO. And in that vein, it’s come to our attention - whether that’s from Steam reviews, social comments or just general feedback - that the onboarding process requires some attention as far as PvP is concerned.
 

While mid-level PvP (i.e once you’ve managed to progress past the initial Biome) is working well, it’s apparent that some players are struggling to reach this point, due to a minority of more advanced players returning to the beginner’s zone for, let’s say, some “easy pickings”. This pretty much exemplifies the difference between PvP and griefing; one is a fair fight between two similarly levelled players. The other, a completely unbalanced slaughter, whereby one player has little to no chance of defending themselves.
 

And so, we’re looking to improve this onboarding experience in a number of ways to ensure players have the best introduction to the world possible, and a better chance of progressing past the first zone. The team are working hard to implement these changes as soon as possible, but in the meantime, we’d strongly suggest visiting the official Worlds Adrift forums, where you can you recruit crews, learn tips and tricks, and chat with the community!
 

Bossa Co-Founder and Chief-in-Game, Henrique Olifiers, explained what Early Access means to Worlds Adrift in his recent blog post, confirming that we will ‘constantly update and tweak the game following your experience with it,’ and that ‘the next few weeks will be fundamental to set this into motion’. Well, experience you have, and now we’re ready to react. In fact, here’s Henrique again (in person, this time!), reiterating how important we treat your feedback, and how determined we are to get this right.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XYkjHeVmDE
 

So as always, we want to hear from you. If you’ve got any ideas on how we can improve Worlds Adrift, jot them down in the comments below, or if you’d like to join the PvP discussion then get on over to the dedicated forum post here. As we said, this is an ongoing journey, and one on which we hope you’ll join us, to ensure we reach the right destination.

 

See you in the skies!