Blazing Sails News

Ahoy Mateys, or should we say... Ahoy you cool cats and kittens? The Lunar New Year is here and for the special occasion we've got some sweet event-exclusive item drops including a few newcomers! T'is the year of the tiger, and that means you need some matching striped swag! Those of you who have the eye of the tiger can get some awesome new cosmetics to make your pirate look more Exotic.


Meet the brand new Tiger ship cosmetics:







The exclusives from last year are back as well!




And that's not all! We've also got a little QoL update for ye' scurvy seadogs. Check out the patch notes below:

[h3]Version 1.7.3.2[/h3]

Last week's silent update patch notes:

New sounds:

• Added a spinning chain sound effect to cannonballs that have chains (anti-sail, anti-cannon, trap-shot)
  

New cannonball trails:

• Cannonball trails visually improved (fixed gaps and now tail dissipates)
  

Animation tweaks:

• Amulet teleporting animation tweaked to be more centered
  

This update's patch notes:

New cosmetic items:

• Tiger bow figure added
  

In-game chat:

• Chat messages no longer split with "-" instead now pushed to new line
  
• Commands and server messages no longer cut off
  

Spectator tweaks:

• Conquest now also uses spectator cam and can now be spectated
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused weapon to go to wrong player after being picked up
  
• Fixed inconsistency between join button and actual join process (mid-game joining team menu)
  

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Ahoy mateys, been a while! Since we've added many new DLC costumes over the last few weeks we felt like it was high time to add some more free cosmetics to the base game.

[h3]Progression Additions:[/h3]
Therefore we've beefed up the progression timeline quite a bit. Check out these sweet new costumes you can unlock starting from level 129!

Ghastly & Infernal Skull Slayer Sets:



[h3]Pirate Curse Additions:[/h3]
We've also improved the pirate curse a lot and added a special timeline with it's separate ghastly unlocks.





[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

version 1.7.3.1

New translations:

• Polish translations have been added to the game
  

Level progression:

• New Cursed set added
  
• Crimson cursed set variant added to higher levels
  
• 7 new titles added
  
• Added detail tool tip when hovering over progression items
  

Curse progression:

• Curse progression timeline added
  
• 9 new unlockable curse burdens added
  
• 9 new unlockable curse titles added
  

Conquest:

• Late joining players should now spawn with a fuse lighter in conquest instead of a bottle
  

Visual tweaks:

• Bloom amount normalized over all time of day settings for a more consistent look
  

Winter event end:

• Main menu reverted to normal
  
• Winter themed cosmetic drops disabled
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that allowed players to teleport onto high building by jumping and turning
  
• Party ready state should now always be in sync between clients
  
• Default FOV now 80 instead of 60
  
• Fixed a bug that caused walking animations to play when falling from crows nest on ships
  
• Fixed a typo in loot chest menu
  
• Tweaked overlapping BR spawn selection circles and knife animation
  
• Fixed a bug that caused HUD to remain on screen when team is defeated
  

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Happy New Year pirates!

We hope you all enjoyed the holidays and found some love, hugs, kisses, rum, treasure and whatnot.
To start off the new year we've prepared a small update bringing some much needed love to some of the aspects that had been forgotten. Namely, the quality of the first person experience, the movement system and the sounds.

In today's update we're introducing an important change which may require some getting used to if you've been playing the game for a while. We've introduced reduced air control. What does this mean, you wonder? Well, before today pirates were also birds as they were able to literally glide around in the air, often making it very difficult for other players to hit them or even see them at times. With reduced air control gliding in mid air is much more limited. You can still change your direction a little bit while in the air, but you will mostly jump towards your initial jump direction. Currently air control is set to 40% which still gives enough control to adjust your jump trajectory slightly. This change should make close combat a lot more fun and engaging.

As for the first person tweaks, there's a couple of new things.

Your weapons will now always remain visible, even when sprinting, but instead of disappearing they are now held down. And landing after a jump now has a bounce animation.

We've also changed the game's field of view system which now uses a vertical lock instead of a horizontal lock meaning widescreen monitors will now be able to fully enjoy the game as it's intended without awkward cropping. Note, that this change may require you to readjust your mouse sensitivity and FOV setting.

And we've also tweaked quite a few weapon sounds to make them more distinctive, more punchy and just generally of higher quality.


Patch notes:

[h3]Movement:[/h3]

• Air control reduction added (40% down from 100%) reducing the amount of control you have while jumping
  

[h3]Field of view (FOV):[/h3]

• Field of view is now locked vertically instead of horizontally
  

[h3]First person animations:[/h3]

• New sprinting weapon animations (weapons are now held down instead of disappearing)
  
• Jump land bounce animation added
  

[h3]New / tweaked sounds:[/h3]

• New water splash sound
  
• Flintlock sound tweaked
  
• Quad-barrel flintlock sound tweaked
  
• Heavy / fast sniper sounds tweaked
  
• New musket sound
  
• Half-barrel sound tweaked
  
• New double barrel sound
  
• Repeater sound tweaked
  

[h3]Bug fixes:[/h3]

• Falling or jumping on ship no longer uses walking animations while in air
  

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Ahoy lads,

Small update time! This time we're introducing a few tweaks for conquest and some other small tweaks.

Patch notes:

[h3]Conquest:[/h3]

• You can now kick another player off the steering wheel (1 minute cooldown for kick and 1 minute cooldown until kicked player can use steering wheel again)
• conquest only*
  
• You can now respawn at your sunken ship or your new ship
  

[h3]Curse changes:[/h3]

• Curse health debuff decreased from 25% to 15% so cursed HP is now 85 (up from 75)
  

[h3]Streamer request:[/h3]

• Game sound now keeps playing when game is out of focus (alt-tab)
  

[h3]Cannon addition:[/h3]

• Added a slight zoom function to cannons (hold right mouse button)
  

[h3]Visual tweaks:[/h3]

• Improved texturing of galleon interior gunports
  

[h3]Bug fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed invisible bridge on Bone Barge conquest map
  
• Fixed distorted voice commands when using world map
  
• Revenge kill achievement should work now
  

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Yohoyarr!!

It's the most wondarrful time of the year! That time of candy-canes, santa hats, and big bushy white beards. And we're part of the holiday cheer with exclusive wintery cosmetics, allowing you to destroy your enemies with a holly jolly style. Don't like snow? We've also just released the intimidating Crab Lord cosmetics DLC pack!

[h2]Winter Cosmetics[/h2]

During the entire winter event you'll be able to gather all the exclusive-winter themed cosmetics. We expect to end the event 2 weeks after the new year. So get those sweet pirate chests while ye still can!





To give you a head-start you get these holly-jolly ship icons for free just by starting the game during this event! ːfishheartː




[h2]Main Menu[/h2]
We've even put a little extra icing (hehe) on the cake! The overhauled the main menu with snowy effects and holiday-theme will get you in the right mood for this special time of year.




[h2]Crab Lord Pack[/h2]
We've also made a sweet new DLC for the special occasion! The perfect holiday gift for your online pirate friends!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1822630/Blazing_Sails__Crab_Lord_Pack/






As mentioned in our previous announcement, this will be a more cosmetic focused update but rest assured, in the meantime we are working hard on even more BIG gameplay additions! So stay tuned...



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