2.5.1 Bonus Update
We’ve got a few little extra updates, features, and bug fixes ready for release a little earlier than usual - so we’re bringing them to you in the 2.5.1 Paper Pirates Bonus Update!
[h2]Twitch Integration[/h2]
At the request of the lovely streamers who have been playing Paper Pirates, we’ve added Twitch Integration to Paper Pirates. If you’d like to ensure that your players are using their Twitch usernames to join your games, enable ‘Require Twitch Login’ from the main menu options before starting your game! Players who aren’t logged in to Twitch will automatically join your audience instead (unless you have Audience Mode turned off, which case they won’t be able to join at all!).
To play with a connected Twitch account, click the Twitch logo in the top-left when connected via your device. Once you’re connected via Twitch, you won’t be able to change your name - so press the Twitch icon again to disconnect your account, and you’ll be able to change your pirate name again.
[h2]Kick Pirates from the Lobby/In-Game[/h2]
Another requested streamer feature is the ability to remove pirates from the lobby and from the game. Where previously you could click on a pirate to mute them, doing so now opens a menu, where you can choose whether to mute a pirate (preventing them from sending messages to the chat) or kick them from your game!
If you kick a pirate after your game has started, that pirate will be replaced by a bot, and they won’t be able to reconnect. Please be very careful and be absolutely certain that you want to remove that pirate before kicking them!
[h2]Keyboard Menu Navigation, Accessibility Mode and Spoken Room Codes[/h2]
In our efforts to improve Paper Pirates accessibility, we’ve added a first pass at keyboard navigation to in-game menus, which you can try using the arrow keys.
Additionally, we’ve introduced an Accessibility Mode, which can be turned on either through the main menu options or by pressing left shift three times. When Accessibility Mode is turned on, spoken prompts will announce which menu option is currently selected. This functionality initially covers the main menus and options screen, and there are some additional spoken prompts during the game to indicate key gameplay elements (e.g. how much treasure is remaining).
Finally, we have added a button to the lobby screen which allows for the room code to be read aloud. This button can also be accessed and selected via the aforementioned keyboard navigation.
The accessibility features are currently very much in testing, and we would greatly appreciate feedback on these via the Paper Pirates Discord, or through the Steam forums.
[h2]A Few Other Things[/h2]
[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]
[h2]Twitch Integration[/h2]
At the request of the lovely streamers who have been playing Paper Pirates, we’ve added Twitch Integration to Paper Pirates. If you’d like to ensure that your players are using their Twitch usernames to join your games, enable ‘Require Twitch Login’ from the main menu options before starting your game! Players who aren’t logged in to Twitch will automatically join your audience instead (unless you have Audience Mode turned off, which case they won’t be able to join at all!).
To play with a connected Twitch account, click the Twitch logo in the top-left when connected via your device. Once you’re connected via Twitch, you won’t be able to change your name - so press the Twitch icon again to disconnect your account, and you’ll be able to change your pirate name again.
[h2]Kick Pirates from the Lobby/In-Game[/h2]
Another requested streamer feature is the ability to remove pirates from the lobby and from the game. Where previously you could click on a pirate to mute them, doing so now opens a menu, where you can choose whether to mute a pirate (preventing them from sending messages to the chat) or kick them from your game!
If you kick a pirate after your game has started, that pirate will be replaced by a bot, and they won’t be able to reconnect. Please be very careful and be absolutely certain that you want to remove that pirate before kicking them!
[h2]Keyboard Menu Navigation, Accessibility Mode and Spoken Room Codes[/h2]
In our efforts to improve Paper Pirates accessibility, we’ve added a first pass at keyboard navigation to in-game menus, which you can try using the arrow keys.
Additionally, we’ve introduced an Accessibility Mode, which can be turned on either through the main menu options or by pressing left shift three times. When Accessibility Mode is turned on, spoken prompts will announce which menu option is currently selected. This functionality initially covers the main menus and options screen, and there are some additional spoken prompts during the game to indicate key gameplay elements (e.g. how much treasure is remaining).
Finally, we have added a button to the lobby screen which allows for the room code to be read aloud. This button can also be accessed and selected via the aforementioned keyboard navigation.
The accessibility features are currently very much in testing, and we would greatly appreciate feedback on these via the Paper Pirates Discord, or through the Steam forums.
[h2]A Few Other Things[/h2]
- You can now hover over each pirate’s objective in the round history to see a full description of their secret objective at the end of the game.
- If a pirate ends a Scored Game on the ghost team, the ghost haunting them will now join them on the party podiums to share in the celebrations.
[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]
- Hats in the ‘new hat unlock' toast were appearing behind the model’s head! Now they aren’t.
- If someone voted for you during a Shroud of Fog event, the little black spots appearing all over your device gave the game away as to who voted for you - oops! They’re now properly obscured by the fog. Spooky!
- When playing a game with event selection set to “Crew’s Choice”, some events were appearing a little too often.
- The ‘Lost at Sea’ Daily Voyage wasn’t correctly activating the Shroud of Fog event when it should’ve been.
- When playing with Crew’s Choice, rarely on days with no audience vote, an audience vote from a previous day could have accidentally been chosen.