Blazing Sails Halloween Update!

Ahoy there ye' spooky scallywags!

The time is finally here! Our first major update since our Early Access release includes a spooky new "Kraken Keep" island, foggy night-and-day settings, as well as creepy exclusive unlockables and more! The Kraken Keep Halloween Update is available now! (Patch notes can be found below)

And to get you all in the mood, you get these items right away upon game startup:




[h3]Check out our Halloween trailer here:[/h3]
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[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

Map:

• The Kraken Keep island has been added
  
• Foggy day setting added
  
• Foggy night setting added
  

Main menu:

• The main menu has been temporarily overhauled with a spooky night theme (Will be reverted back to the old main menu after Halloween event ends)
  
• New Halloween themed music added to the main menu
  
• The new items popup now reveals your newly unlocked items in succession with a small delay between each reveal
  
• Cosmetic items now include a new icon that indicates from which event the item is
  

Server browser:

• The server browser has been completely overhauled visually
  
• Server browser now allows filtering per continent
  
• Added an option to hide or show password protected servers
  
• Added an option to hide or show in progress servers
  
• Added an option to hide or show client hosted servers
  

Gameplay:

• You can now see how long it takes before a dead crewmember respawns
  
• Elevators have been added (When used, they carry you up, remain stationary for 10 seconds and then go down again)
  
• Bow mounted explosive barrel ship detection radius has been increased making them explode a bit easier when colliding with another ship
  

Player kill cards:

• Player kill cards have been added (They show the killer’s Steam avatar and the weapon you were killed with)
  
• We will expand upon this in the future with custom kill card unlockables like glow color, border style, additional killer information and more!
  

UI tweaks:

• Crewmembers UI tweaked a bit
  
• Player and ship amount UI tweaked
  

New cosmetics:

• 4 new spooky hull colors
  
• 6 new spooky flag emblems
  
• 4 new spooky flag colors
  
• 9 new spooky sail emblems
  
• 4 new spooky sail colors
  
• 6 new spooky colored hats
  
• 2 pumpkin hat styles
  
• 6 new spooky colored torso items
  
• 2 new spooky colored pants
  
• 2 new spooky colored boots
  

(only the purple clothing sets are not exclusive)




Animation improvements:

• Character heads are now always straight and no longer strangely rotated with some animations
  
• Rifle animations tweaked so character holds them cleaner
  
• New crossbow idle and fire animations
  
• Character necks no longer get stretched when using cannons
  
• Character cannon fire animation tweaked a bit
  
• Beards are no longer poking through some hats
  

Collisions improvements:

• Steep slopes should no longer be as easy to walk on and very steep slopes should no longer be walkable
  

Bug fixes:

• Crashes caused by voice chat should be fixed (If not, please post your crash logs in our discord so we can further investigate the issue) Reset your keybinds if VOIP doesn't seem to work
• Fixed a bug that made it so death chest disappeared after a few meters, they are now visible from afar
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused trap shot cannonballs not to drop a ship’s anchor
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused anti-cannon shots to sometimes not block a ship’s cannons
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused battle drink bottles not to appear in the Bottle rack
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused wood planks not to appear in the wood barrel
  
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause the VOIP icon (parrot) to stick after using VOIP
  

So what arrrr ye' waiting for? Jump in-game and check out our latest Halloween update!
And don't forget to visit us on the official Blazing Sails Discord before you do.