Naval Action News

[h2]Captains.

Two hotfixes will be deployed this week. [/h2]

[h3]Tomorrow 25 October[/h3]

Repairs

• Structure repair is reduced to 15% (from 30%). Broadside repairs will remain at 40%.
  
• This will allow the same enjoyable PVE even when outnumbered as NPCs are not really good at raking, but will reduce the length of PVP battles which became too long due to increased repairs, which were doubled from 20% to 40% for hull and from 15 to 30% for structure before F2P launch
  If you are fighting the Player enemy who is actively repairing - focus on the stern rakes.
  

Sinking

• Ships will gain water slightly faster at low structure (below 15% structure).
  

Low level enemy NPC ships around capitals.

• Number of low level (7th rate and 6th) rate ships around capitals will be increased to provide new players with more hunting opportunities.
  

[h3]Wednesday 26th of October[/h3]

IMPORTANT: Player experience gains improvements

• Rank experience tiers will be reduced for rank 5 and above (ships above heavy frigates). All experience gained will be calculated and your rank adjusted retroactively. This means that the new system will be used for your old experience gains.
  
• Crafting tiers and crafting levelling will be made faster especially at rank 7, 6 and 5.
  

Other changes

• More Search and Destroy missions variability in county capitals and regional cities.
  
• NPC Raiders are disabled for Caribbean Main for 2 weeks
  
• Сaptain of the White/Red stats have been slightly tweaked.

Captains,

At the moment trader ships aren't able to dock in an enemy port - this is a known issue and will be fixed in the beginning of the next week.

Apologies for the inconvenience caused.


The fix is deployed.

Captains,

Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on October 21st until daily maintenance on October 24th.

[h3]St. Kitts Event[/h3]

• St. Kitts 5 modules are available in the Admiralty, they can be exchanged for Broad Pennants that occasionally drop from 5th rates and higher
  
• Broad pennant will drop from military NPC ships

[h3]Diana Event[/h3]
Captains have to find rare ships like Diana, Santa Cecilia and Admiraal de Ruyter in the search areas provided below. These ships may carry a very rare ship notes and special loot coins, rare wood and rare guns:

• Gold Ducat
  
• Gold Rouble
  
• Gold Sultani
  
• Gold Thaler
  
• Strange Gold Bar
  
• Rare wood
  
• Rare guns

Coins might be exchanged in the Academy building to receive:

• Additional outpost permit
  
• Additional dock permit
  
• Diana permit
  
• Admiraal de Ruyter permit

If you already have the Navy Connection using the item will add even more outposts or docks (up to a total limit).

Search locations

• South Antilles
  
• East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado
  
• South of Hispaniola

In case of capture of certain ports in the area, the nation of ships will change.

*Spotlight image from Captain The Eagle from the January screenshot competition.

[h3]Important information on availability of War and Peace servers during launch.[/h3]

• Access to F2P server (Caribbean) will be open to all paid version users during maintenance on the 19th of October.
  
• Free to play version of Naval Action will be launched on Steam 19th of October at approximately 4-6 PM UTC time/ 9-11 am Seattle (PST) when Valve would manually launch the Free version of the game in the Steam Store.
  
• Unfortunately due some technical specifics of the Steam side and our server tech, War and Peace server will TEMPORARILY be closed for several days. Valve will have to manually support access to old servers for paid users and this will require from several hours to several working days. We apologize for the inconvenience caused. If the temporary shut down will last for more than several hours - compensation will be provided once servers reopen.

[h3]New server launch - Caribbean[/h3]

• Caribbean is a seasonal server which will accept all incoming players starting today.
  
• Caribbean server will have 4 seasons:
  • Jan-March
    
  • April-June
    
  • July-September
    
  • October-December.
• First season will start on launch of Caribbean server and will end at the end of December 2022.
  
• Caribbean server will have 4 nations:
  • Britain
    
  • Spain
    
  • France
    
  • Pirates
    
  • Dutch might be added in the next seasons.

[h3]Important: Caribbean Server - Seasonal Resets[/h3]

• Seasons bring renewal. New players will never again face insurmountable walls of skill, overpowered ships and upgrades. Every new player wave will have the chance for a fresh start every season.
  
• Each new season, you and your clan will be able to choose a new tactic and approach to conquer cities. New clans, new alliances, new wars, a new approach to conquering strategic and profitable places.
  
• First season will start on launch of Caribbean server and will end at the end of December 2022.
  
• The following content will reset on season end:
  • XP and Crafting XP and Skill Books - will be reset in the first season
    
  • All assets - will be reset in the first season
    
  • All player investments in crafting - will be reset in the first season but compensated at the beginning of the new season
    
  • Naval Service Medals - all accumulated naval service medals will be sent to the player money wallet account in Season 2.
• At season 2 start all players on the Caribbean will start at lvl 0 and will have earned NSM in store

[h3]New patch has also been deployed[/h3]
Patch changes

• Caribbean Server Port ownership leaderboard points will only come from 2 regions
  • Hispaniola
    
  • Bahamas
    
  • Combat for these regions will create a more defined compact active war. At the same time, small clans or groups of players who do not want to take part in a fierce war for prestige and service medals will be able to capture regions and cities all over the map for crafting and taxation.
• Ship crafting changes
  
• All ships will require permits to craft.
  • Permits can be gained from open world and mission NPCs and rarely from ship disassembly.
    
  • Permits will have an increased chance of drop from special events when they happen.
• Upgrades can no longer be placed into the upgrade chest at Sea.
  
• Leaks and structural leaks have been rebalanced.
  
• Crew on pumps and crew during leaks numbers have been changed. Crew on survival will not grow so drastically when the ship has taken a lot of water.
  
• NPC stats and rank changes.
  
  
  • Experimental ranks added.
    
  • Captain/Admiral of the Red - uses damage and reload mods, weak hull strength
    
  • Captain/Admiral of the White - uses hull and structure strength mods, weak damage output
• Cost of the port battle flag has been reduced to 100 combat medals
  
• Port battle flags are removed from loot. Flags can only be purchased from now on.
  
• Ship hull repairs have been increased to 40%
  
• St Kitts pump bonus lowered to 80%
  
• Grape damage increased by 25%
  
• Ship structure hitpoints have been slightly increased
  
• Costs of warehousing, outposts, additional docks, warehouse space and tow permits have been changed.
  
• Port defense no longer grants points for the Port Battle Leaderboards - to fix arranged defense exploit
  
• PVP Leaderboard (accessible from map) bugs fixed.
  

*Spotlight image from Captain Looxie from the screenshot competition in June 2021.

Captains!

F2P Version of Naval Action will be launched next week.
Date of launch - between 18th and 20th October (exact date is not known yet because Valve has to launch the free version for us).

More information on the launch and changes to the game will follow soon.

Best regards!
Game Labs Team