Blazing Sails News

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:

[h3]Party and votekicking improvements:[/h3]

• "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
  

[h3]Score changes:[/h3]

• 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
  

[h3]Bonus reward for smaller crews:[/h3]

• 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
  

[h3]Ship ladder tweaks:[/h3]

• Climbing sound volume decreased from 1 to 0.4
  

[h3]Bug fixes:[/h3]

• 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:

[h3]Ship ladders:[/h3]

• 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
  

[h3]In-game crew locking:[/h3]

• 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.

[h3]Gameplay:[/h3]

• 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
  
  

[h3]Sounds and effects:[/h3]

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

[h3]Key binds:[/h3]

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

[h3]Bug fixes:[/h3]

• 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:


[h3]Main menu:[/h3]

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

[h3]Pirate cosmetics:[/h3]

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

[h3]Ship cosmetics:[/h3]

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

[h3]Gameplay:[/h3]

• 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
  

[h3]Video options:[/h3]

• 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
  

[h3]Ship collision improvements:[/h3]

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

[h3]Bug fixes:[/h3]

• 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
  

[h3]New cosmetics:[/h3]

• 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:

[h3]Repeater tweaks:[/h3]

• 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
  

[h3]Bug fixes:[/h3]

• Backpack upgrades are now carried over when respawning after death
  

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