Corsairs Legacy News

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Hi all!

We posted a gameplay video of nature in Corsairs Legacy on the game's official YouTube channel, in which you can see the release graphics of the Caribbean tropical islands. The islands are handcrafted and available with almost all locations without additional loading. The total size of Barbados is 1.5 km by 1 km, and at the time of the game’s release in Early Access, players will have access to 60% of the island area. Birds, 6 types of land animals, and 3 types of sea animals have already been added to all islands. All animals react to the main character and will run away from him when approached.

We performed optimization and achieved a result of 60 FPS with FullHD resolution on the declared GeForce GTX 1060 6GB without using DLSS and FSR, which are optionally available in the settings. After the Early Access release, we plan to continue to improve the graphical elements in Corsairs Legacy.

We published various nature videos: on the game's English YouTube channel, you could see the lighthouse, on the Ukrainian channel - smugglers' settlement, on Save the Pirate channel - the plantation.

Corsairs Legacy has already been approved for publication by Steam. But we still haven't received confirmation of compatibility with Steam Deck, which will take about two more weeks. Regardless of the Steam Deck compatibility test results, we plan to release Corsairs Legacy by the end of January 2024.

You can see some new screenshots below :)







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Hi all!

We want to share some news with you. We published a release trailer for Corsairs Legacy, which announced that the game will be released on Steam in January 2024. The specific release date will depend on how quickly the game will be approved by Steam. We plan to release Corsairs Legacy with full Steam Deck compatibility, which is being tested separately. We've already started the approval process and are awaiting the review results. The release date will also be affected by the results of polishing the game and fixing bugs in the current version.

You can watch the Corsairs Legacy release trailer below. It contains footage from actual gameplay and only the content that will be available in January.

The game will be released in Early Access, which can already be seen on the Corsairs Legacy page on Steam. We plan to release half of the storyline in January. Then, over the next 3-6 months, we will make updates: add new gameplay mechanics, and content, and fix bugs based on player feedback. The game will support all gamepads and will have an adapted tutorial in Early Access.

We have published an updated demo compatible with Steam Deck (need to enable the game through the gamepad manually) and other gamepads. Therefore, if you want to test Corsairs Legacy to improve the adaptation of the game to controllers - we will be grateful and waiting for your feedback.

Also, we will stream the game on the English-language YouTube channel this year. On the stream, the developer will play the current build and answer your questions from the chat. You can subscribe to the upcoming broadcast via the link (by turning on notifications) so you don't miss its beginning.

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Hello everyone! We've released an extended version of the Corsairs Legacy demo we showed you at the end of August on Steam. In this version, we took into account comments from the streams posted on YouTube and game statistics. We invite everyone to record their walkthroughs of the updated demo and post your videos on YouTube. This will help us see how much our changes have affected the gameplay and what else we need to do. We've added one new mission, as well as additional story scenes and the ability to visit the hold during boarding. We’ve also added additional difficulty levels, integrated support for Nvidia DLSS, AMD FSR, and much more, which we'll talk about in this devlog.

But before we get to the list of changes, we'd like to inform you that we've opened pre-orders on the official Corsairs Legacy website. In addition to the opportunity to purchase the game's activation key, you can also support our team. We've added an extended edition that includes a Supporter Pack with nice digital bonuses. Since we don't have a publisher or investors, the development of the Corsairs Legacy series directly depends on the number of copies sold. If you have friends who could enjoy Corsairs Legacy, we would be grateful if you could buy keys for them as well.

The project is currently in the final stages of development, and we will show the final gameplay trailer very soon. Many of you wanted to see the ground gameplay. Although it appears a few missions later in the story than the demo, we recorded actual footage to show it in the new devlog.

The development of the first game took our team much more time and financial resources than we expected. But we are satisfied with the technical and visual result, which will be the foundation for further games, and we hope that the number of copies sold and the support in the form of purchasing the Supporter Pack will allow us to further deepen the mechanics and expand the map of the Caribbean.

Currently, we have added the fourth island to the naval mode, Grenada, and it will play an important role in the story. As a reminder, Corsairs Legacy is a linear pirate adventure that will have three different endings depending on the decisions you make during the game. The time to complete the story campaign on the easy difficulty level will range from five to nine hours, depending on the player's experience in similar games. Players will have more than 60 story cutscenes with full voice acting as part of the story. We have also prepared several elements for you that, although not striking at the first playthrough, will increase your interest in exploring Corsairs Legacy again.

And now we will briefly describe some of the changes that have been added to the extended demo:

1. All difficulty levels are open: you can now play on the Seawolf and Hardcore levels at once.
2. Subtitles have been added.
3. We’ve added tips that explain the game mechanics.
4. Added an information window that displays the player's current task.
5. Added access to the characteristics of your ship and hold, as well as the ability to throw things overboard and increase morale for money.
6. Information on how wind speed is calculated has been added.
7. An additional mission to capture an enemy ship is available, featuring a new boarding scene and cabin.
8. Added the ability to see the type of ship using a spyglass.
9. Added the mechanics of exchanging goods with an allied ship.
10. From now on, when reloading is still in progress, but the player is trying to shoot, the game notifies them of the reload. If the player runs out of shells, they will hear information about the need to change the shell type.
11. Added graphics settings and support for Nvidia DLSS, and AMD FSR.
12. Improved camera performance in ground movement mode.
13. New attack combinations have been added.
14. Musketeers have been added to the boardings.
15. The hold is now accessible during boarding.
16. Added the lockpicking.
17. The logic of chests has been improved.

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Today's devlog will give you a lot of new information about Corsairs Legacy. You'll see the first ground mode gameplay footage, learn about the latest story demo, and the festivals we're participating in this week. You will also be able to watch a new stream that is already live on the Corsairs Legacy Steam page, where we show many recent locations and tell you more about the game. You can help us distribute the game by keeping the link to the game's Steam page with the stream open until the evening of August 24.

So, we will announce the release date of the first game and share the release trailer very soon. Now you have the opportunity to play a fresh story demo.

Corsairs Legacy has been selected to participate in the Future Games Show at Gamescom in the category of games that are already playable.

We were very excited about this news and decided to show the first chapter of the main game with full localization into 12 languages. As part of the demo, you will be able to see two new islands in the naval mode - Trinidad and Tobago - and complete initial missions.

According to the good old tradition, you can write to us via the feedback form in the game by pressing F11 or via the form on the official website. And everyone who joins the active testing and provides feedback will receive a nice digital bonus from us during the release of Corsairs Legacy.

We will be very grateful if you can help us spread the word about the upcoming game release and tell your friends about the demo.

Besides Gamescom, we are also taking part in the Ukrainian Games Festival, which has already started and will last until the evening of August 24. As part of this festival and the Future Games Show Gamescom, we've launched a stream where we'll be playing the new demo, sharing development insights, features of the first release, and some of our plans. If you want to support us, please keep the Corsairs Legacy Steam page running in the background for the next few days. We will be very grateful for your support.

Let's move on to the ground mode gameplay. In the new devlog you'll see Bridgetown Prison, which will be included in the release of the first game. In the story, you will need to free a convict from a British prison. In general, we continue to work on the open world and improve the technical implementation so that owners of GeForce GTX 1060 video cards can have a stable 60 fps. As part of the first part of Corsairs Legacy, the player will visit 5-6 different small ground mode locations.

Next up, Corsairs Legacy: Naval Mission will include semi-open islands, and in the next game, we will be able to implement full-fledged freeplay.

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Let's start this devlog with a new short promo video you can see above, and then discuss the news of the Corsairs Legacy development.

We'd love to hear your thoughts, so leave your comments below this YouTube video.
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We are getting closer to the first release. The next development diary will be released on the channel as soon as the last parts are assembled into a complete game. At that time, we will finalize the release date and share details about what will be included in the first game. After the game is assembled, we will clarify our further plans. But we want to tell our future players about some of them right now.
 
After the demo version was presented at the Steam Festival in February, we planned to release the game's prologue. However, taking into account the wishes of potential players and to speed up the release of the first part, we decided to conduct internal testing and not release the prologue to public access. The first part of Corsairs Legacy will be a story-driven adventure; in a sense, it will be a prologue for the future open world in the Caribbean. 
 
In this regard, instead of Corsairs Legacy: Prologue, in the future, we will release a separate part of the game, which will be the second brick in creating a full-fledged open world. The game will be called Corsairs Legacy: Naval Mission. We've updated our Steam page with a new promo video and fresh screenshots from the current build.


 
Add the Corsairs Legacy: Naval Mission to your wishlist so you don't miss the game's news and release on Steam. If you go from this page to the Corsairs Legacy game page, you will find additional new screenshots there.
 
At the beginning of the development, we were going to make a separate game about land, then a different game about the sea, and then combine everything into a single open-world game. But during communication with our subscribers, we realized that a full-fledged pirate romance cannot be only on land or only at sea. To recreate an authentic atmosphere, you need to have everything at once. So now we already have all the essential parts, and each subsequent release will add depth to the mechanics and gameplay to achieve the ultimate goal: a full-fledged pirate sandbox with a rich set of gaming features.
 
For those who would like to watch the latest teaser of Corsairs Legacy: Naval Mission, we have released it as a separate video on our channel. Remember to add the game to your wishlist, and see you in the new devlogs!

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