Thursday Patch: Canvas, guns, woods and wind

This is an experimental patch and has multiple changes at the same time. Please provide feedback in comments or discord



Raking is now devastating

Raking fire modifiers added. Shoot six bow guns into the stern and you will inflict similar damage as before. Deliver the whole broadside into stern and the damage will be devastating. Don't show your stern to lineships.


Wind mechanics

• Wind Oscillation added to instance. In addition to wind oscillations long term wind shifts changed.
  

Canvas and yards

• Yard power influence on turning (previously 3x – 1x) was reduced significantly after real life testing. The amount of canvas has more importance on how fast you turn as before. This is important as you will no longer be able to have a fast turn across the wind using just one fore top sail.
  
• Also fixed several bugs that allowed ships to turn excessively with some masts destroyed.
  

Guns rebalanced

• Damage and DPS gaps between short barrel and guns reduced based on length of barrels and energy of the cannonball.
  
• Carronade/Obusier penetration increased, damage reduced, reload changed. They are now closer to normal guns in their performance under 400m, with one major difference - they deliver a lot more crew damage due to splinters (if crew is hit behind the planking).
  
• All guns: Damage and reload times changed for all guns
  
• Long guns major buffs in damage and reload
  

Overall on guns

• Medium guns are now the worst basic guns
  
• Long guns are better in accuracy damage and ballistics
  
• Short guns are good in crew damage and close range DPS
  
• Congrive/Edinorog are universal guns - average at everything.
  
• Accuracy has been changed on all guns.
  
• Overall DPM is slightly lower on heavy calibers and slightly higher on light calibers
  

Woods

• Weak woods rebalanced.
  
• Top woods remained mostly the same or slightly better in some parameters.
  
• Structure bonuses removed from planking woods
  
• Repair time and amount removed from frame woods
  
• Choice of unseasoned woods removed from notes and DLC ships choice
  

The only major change is the buff of softwoods (firs/pines/cedars). The woods changes are not final and we think we should move more wood qualities to frame from planking,

Other tuning

• Removed extra accuracy from stern guns
  
• Improved minor bugs crew related damage on grape and cannonballs
  
• Brace changed – cooldown is now 1 minute. Damage resistance increased by 5%
  
• You can use Brace when you want now (almost)
  
• HP and Thickness of bow and stern reduced
  
• Penalties to HP and thickness of masts from full sails removed.