Patch 23: Updated Tutorial, Special ship and new UI teaser.

Captains

Patch 23 is being deployed today

Here is what you can expect

• Combat Tutorial
  
  • Updated combat tutorial has been deployed.
    
  • All tutorials have been improved and updated based on feedback
    
  • Final Exam added
    
  • Important. Final exam grants 2 rare items on completion: Hercules Frigate (ship note) and Naval Clock permanent upgrade. Use them wisely.
    

Hercules frigate. (also known as Fragata Hercules or Fragata Negra)

• Patrols
  
  
  
  • Frigate ONLY patrols added to the rotation
    
  
  
• Clan logs added
  
  
  
  • Money log – showing money and pvp/combat/victory mark deposits and withdrawals
    
  • Resource log – showing everything else
    
  
  
• Reinforcement update
  
  
  
  • Reinforcement zones support is updated. Local waters will now provide support appropriate to the strength of the attacker (instead of 2 1strates per attacker).
    
  
  
• Chain update.
  
  
  
  • Chain shot are now limited by 2 shots per gun. This will not require a perk or acquisition of ammo.
    
  • Chain damage greatly increased.
    
  • Chain damage drop from distance increased.
    
  
  
• OW enemy indications updated.
  
  
  
  • Ship rank indication removed, players will have to rely on the visual recognition.
    
    
    
    • Fleet composition now only shows size of the ship (S – small, M – medium, L – Large), as you can only see top sails from 20-30miles
      
  
  
• PvE missions cancellations are now limited by 3 per day
  
• Towns set Free for All by clans now provide teleport option for all nations
  
• Standard hull and sail repair time has increased to 2 minutes
  
• Resource production bonuses in clan owned cities slightly increased
  
• Sinking ship will have less cargo damaged by salt water intake.
  
• Minimal OW speed against the wind has slightly increased. It will still depend on ship but will be generally 1kn higher.
  
• Сrew on sails numbers updated and generally reduced (based on final sail area recalculations)
  
• Сrew per ranks updated on higher ranks (rear admiral rank can now support 1400 crew)
  
• PVE missions enemy composition improved (especially on lower level missions which sometimes sent too many strong opponents)
  
• Boarding upgrades informational panel slightly improved (it will be more obvious what bonuses do)
  
• Contract cancellation texts slightly improved.
  
• Max stack for bow figures has increased
  
• Ports can now buy more books without dropping the price
  
• Ship capsizing bug will now happen less.
  
• Fixed the bug that caused slower loading of port stores
  
• Improved the visualization of heavy packetloss causing loss of ship control.
  
  
  
  • Player will now see the special message on the client if this happens;
    
  • After showing this message for some time client will automatically drop the player to login screen if game cannot reconnect to the server to speed up the reconnect chance.
    
  
  
• Fix bug that did not show the repairs after reconnect to the battle
  
• Fixed bug that some resources did not show in contract interface
  
  
  
  • Contraband goods
    
  • Madagascar Jewels
    
  • Spanish gold coins
    
  • French Gold Livres
    
  • Stolen goods
    
  
  
• Fixed bug that Trading NPCs cannot exit the battle after battle over message
  
• Fixed bug caused incorrect item tooltips if antialiasing is on.
  
• Fixed bug causing incorrect name of the ship in boarding interface
  
• Fixed bug that still shown the instance entry button if the limit has already been reached
  
• Fixed the bug that did not show the Sail to outpost button in some cases
  
• Fixed the bug that sometimes gave you a message that «you can become a pirate» in rare cases
  

Teaser from the new UI.
This is work in progress and visuals might change during implementation