Paper Pirates News

[h2]Complete Bounties to Earn Coins![/h2]
Bounties add a whole new way for you to earn coins for the Outfit Shop while playing Paper Pirates! Check the Bounty Board from the title screen, and you’ll see the bounties you currently have active. Complete bounties - such as Play 3 Scored Games - during your Paper Pirates adventures, and next time you check the bounty board, you’ll earn the listed coin reward! For every bounty you complete, you get another, so keep completing bounties, and you can really build your booty stores!



Got a bounty you don’t think you’ll complete? Once per day, you can remove a bounty from the board, and will immediately be offered a new one! There’s a huge range of different bounties, that will encourage you to play Paper Pirates in different ways. Happy coin hunting, pirates!

[h2]It’s the Captain’s Choice now![/h2]
When playing Custom Games, don’t forget that the Events tab lets you change how the events in your game are selected. We’re adding to the modes, by introducing “Captain’s Choice”, to complement Random events and Crew’s Choice events.



When playing with your event selection set to Captain’s Choice, each day an event would occur, the Captain is offered a choice of three events. Can you trust your Captain to share the event selection with the crew? Do you like the events they’re picking? With the Captain holding so much power over the ship, make sure you can trust them, and be ready to throw them overboard at the first sign of suspicion!



If you’re playing with an audience, the Captain can decline to choose for the day, trusting in fate, and choosing the event the audience picked instead. The Captain doesn’t know what event the audience has picked before choosing it, so it’s a surprise even to them! Will the audience wildcard help or hinder the crew?

[h2]A Few Other Things[/h2]

• Pirates connecting to the lobby of a game that requires players to login with Twitch will now be shown a pop-up encouraging them to login with Twitch to play.
  
• The Outfit Shop interface has been given a minor facelift to make it easier to see which categories are sold out, and which have limited-time items left to purchase.
  
• Sam Sherbot has a small number of new items in stock in the Outfit Shop!
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• The ‘Found Stowaway’ event is now called ‘Found Stowaway’ throughout all the text in game
  
• Fixed a typographical error in the Wasp Nest event text
  

[h2]Prepare for Merriment and Mischief on the Yule Tides![/h2]
Throughout all of December, we’re celebrating, sharing, and gift giving, with the fourth Paper Pirates Seasonal Celebration, Yule Tides! Running from 1st December - 31st December, celebrate Christmas with a festival of merriment and joy, and a whole host of seasonal goodies in Paper Pirates!



[h2]Limited Time Costumes[/h2]
During Yule Tides, Sam Sherbot has some new outfit options available to unlock in the Outfit Shop! If you buy an outfit option during Yule Tides, you can wear it all year round - but the items will be disappearing from sale when the event is over, so don’t delay and buy today!



The full list of outfit items available during Yule Tides is:

• Face - Elf Ears
  
• Face - Snowman (Head)
  
• Facial Hair - Santa’s Beard
  
• Bandana - Scarf (Long)
  
• Bandana - Scarf (Short)
  
• Shirt - Elf Tunic
  
• Shirt - Snowman (Upper)
  
• Shirt - Sweater (Reindeer)
  
• Shirt - Sweater (Robin)
  
• Coat - Santa’s Coat
  
• Legs - Elf Tights
  
• Legs - Snowman (Lower)
  
• Feet - Elf Shoes
  

Additionally, during Yule Tides, pirates will be able to wear a host of unique hats - there are four seasonal hats available to everyone in voyages started during the event. Once the event’s over, the hats will disappear from your collection until next year, so be sure to wear them while you can!

[h2]Snowball Fight![/h2]
Go on a sailing adventure during Yule Tides, and each day there is a chance it may begin to snow giving the crew the opportunity to partake in a little festive fun - a traditional snowball fight! When Snowball Fight is triggered, each member of the crew must choose who to pelt with a snowball. The pirate who receives the most snowballs will be thrown overboard! Who will you throw your snowball at? When they go overboard, if they’re a human, one of the people who threw the snowball will become a ghost… so choose wisely!



[h2]Naughty or Nice?[/h2]
During your Yule Tides sailing adventures, you may encounter the ‘Naughty or Nice’ event during the event phase of the game. In ‘Naughty or Nice’, one member of the crew must offer a gift to another. Question is - has the receiver been naughty, or nice? The present-giver must decide, with a host of fun positive outcomes for nice, and some meaner tricks for naughty. When the receiver is given the gift, they can choose whether to open it, or discard it. Do you think your crewmate has sent you something nice, or are they a ghost, hoping to catch you out? That’s all part of festive deception!



[h2]Advent Bounties[/h2]
In the countdown to Christmas, the bounty board is celebrating each and every day that passes! Each day from the 1st-24th December, you’ll receive a special Advent Bounty, with a challenge for you to complete worth a bumper crop of coins! The advent bounties are time-limited, so you have to complete them on the day you get them - but don’t worry if you don’t, there’ll be a new one waiting for you tomorrow!

[h2]Yule Tidings come to the Photo Booth[/h2]
To celebrate the season, there are a small number of limited-time Foils and Backgrounds available in the Photo Booth, in the Captain’s Log. Take the opportunity to snap your favourite pirate templates with a little festive frivolity, and don’t forget to share any pics you take!



[h2]Yule Tides Bots[/h2]
Invite some bots into your game during Yule Tides, and you may find some of the regular crew replaced with some particularly festive bots, out to celebrate Christmas! They’ll only join your games during Yule Tides, but each has their own personality and appearance for you to enjoy.

[h2]What are you thankful for during the Festive Feast Event?[/h2]



Through the second half of November, we’re taking some time to be thankful in our third seasonal event, The Festive Feast! Running from 16th November - 30th November, celebrate Thanksgiving with a festival of feasting and thankfulness and a whole host of seasonal goodies in Paper Pirates!

[h2]Limited Time Costumes[/h2]



During The Festive Feast, Sam Sherbot has some new outfit options available to unlock in the Outfit Shop! If you buy an outfit option during The Festive Feast, you can wear it all year round - but the items will be disappearing from sale when the event is over, so don’t delay and buy today! The full list of outfit items available during The Festive Feast is:

• Face - Turkey Beak
  
• Shirt - Pilgrim Shirt
  
• Coat - Turkey Top
  
• Belt - Apron
  
• Feet - Buckled
  
• Feet - Turkey Talons
  

Additionally, during The Festive Feast pirates will be able to wear a unique hat - The Gobbler is available to everyone in voyages started during the event. Once the event’s over, the hat will disappear from your collection until next year, so be sure to complete your turkey outfit while you can!

[h2]Wish on a Wishbone![/h2]



Go on a sailing adventure during The Festive Feast, and your crew will have the chance to partake in the time-honoured ritual of wishing on a wishbone. During the Event phase of the game, the Wish on a Wishbone event may activate for the duration of The Festive Feast, offering two randomly chosen pirates the opportunity to wish for an event to occur. Which of the pirates will pull the larger half of the wishbone and have their wishes granted…? That’s all part of the fun of Wish on a Wishbone!

[h2]Festive Feast Bots[/h2]
Invite some bots into your game during The Festive Feast, and you may find some of the regular crew replaced with some particularly festive bots, out to celebrate Thanksgiving! They’ll only join your games during The Festive Feast, but each has their own personality and appearance for you to enjoy.

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]

• 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.
  

In the first week of November, we’re honouring the spirits of the dead with our second seasonal event, Día de Muertos! Running from 1st November - 7th November, celebrating for a whole week to give everyone the chance to play!



[h2]Limited Time Costumes[/h2]
During Día de Muertos, Sam Sherbot has some new outfit options available to unlock in the Outfit Shop! If you buy an outfit option during Día de Muertos, you can wear it all year round - but the items will be disappearing from sale when the event is over, so don’t delay and buy today! The full list of outfit items available during Día de Muertos is:

• Face - Calaveras (Cobwebs)
  
• Face - Calaveras (Flowers)
  
• Face - Calaveras (Horns)
  
• Face - Calaveras (Toreador)
  

Additionally, during Día de Muertos pirates will be able to wear a unique hat - La Calavera Catrina is available to everyone in voyages started during the event. Once the event’s over, the hat will disappear from your collection until next year!

[h2]Honour the Spirits![/h2]
Go on a sailing adventure during Día de Muertos, and your crew will have the chance to honour the spirits of the departed. During the Event phase of the game, the Honour the Spirits event may activate for the duration of Día de Muertos, offering a randomly chosen pirate hidden information relating to how many ghosts have been successfully cleansed from your game so far…

[h2]A Special Spiritual Bot[/h2]
Invite bots into your game during the Día de Muertos, and you may find one of the regular crew replaced with a special La Catrina-themed bot! She’ll only join your games during the Día de Muertos event, but she has her very own personality and appearance for you to enjoy.