Naval Action News

Captains,

In today's hotfix, 21st December, we have deployed following changes:

• NPC Privateer fleet size operating in patrol zones have been lowered from +3 to +2
  
• Cartagena refit - from 9% to 7cm absolute
  
• Navy planking from 10cm to 5cm
  
• Navy structure from 7% to 5cm absolute
  
• Port bonuses (from lvl 1 to lvl 4)
  • Penetration: 2,00%, 3,00%, 4,00%, 6,00%
    
  • Speed: 1,00%, 1,00%, 1,50%, 2.5%
    
  • HP: 4,00%, 4,00%, 4,00%, 6,00%
    
  • Thickness: 0, 1cm, 2cm, 3cm

[h2]Important: Holiday Port Battle Truce.
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Nations have decided to sign temporary limited peace agreements. New port battles cannot be arranged by players until further notice. Truce will last until early January.

Additional truce conditions: Nations will allow all port battles previously set up to be finished.

New content

• Bravery perk: Bravery perk has been added to the game. The perk represents improvement of crew performance in dangerous conditions if you are outnumbered in battle. Outnumbered means your side has lower total BR (2x) than total BR than the enemy.
  
• Search: PVP perk that increases drop of upgrades from sinking enemy player ships by +1.
  
• New upgrade: John Hancock Clock – increasing open world speed. The upgrade will drop from events or will be gifted to all players on special occasions.
  
• Universal upgrades: Some upgrades have been reclassified as universal. This means that you now can install several upgrades from the same group if the upgrade is classified as universal. Some upgrades (mainly muskets for boarding) stats had to be lowered as a result. This is a major change and might require additional balancing. The change was needed to provide more options for new forthcoming events loot. Please report your findings on unbalanced combinations in Discord or on Steam forums.
  

Changes and improvements

• Open world speed has been increased by 5% more.
  
• Wood tweaks with slight increase of parameters (mainly speed) of rare woods based on player’s feedback. Please report your findings and feedback in discord or on steam forums
  
• NPCs in Patrol zones: NPC ships that operate in patrols will now have fleets that will help PVE players to get more targets in the patrol zones. Number of NPCs operating in patrol zones has also been increased.
  
• Wind changes – Long term wind changes in battles now happen after 18 mins (instead of 15 minutes) and happen slightly faster (over 5 mins – instead of old 8 mins). We understand this could be a controversial change – please report your feedback asap in Discord or on Steam forums.
  
• Leopard max gun calibers have been increased by +1 level.
  
• Admiralty store now supports multiple item exchange which will allow more options for PVE events loot.
  
• Wind shadow indicator has been added – which will show if you are currently in the wind shadow from another ship.
  
• Ship notes from events now weigh 3x less to allow you to loot more of them or get more loot in general
  
• Deadman chest event indicator will now disappear from the map when the event has finished. Last chest looted message was added to the game.
  
• Fixed bug where NPC ships chose wrong direction to follow you if you were going backwards.
  
• Important: This patch might reset your saved keyboard bindings, please check your control set up in game options before venturing out of port.
  

Important changes in boarding.

• Bugs with NPC parameters for boarding fixed.
  
• Slight tweaks to boarding parameters for players and mods - link to changes and expected results from combat can be found in discord announcements
  
• Marines knowledge book changed. Removed all additional bonuses (as marines had bonuses themselves) and added preparation per round bonus to all books instead.
  

Screenshots by
Reward
Volkov

[h3]Hotfix 21st December[/h3]

Captains,

In today's hotfix, 21st December, we have deployed following changes:

• NPC Privateer fleet size operating in patrol zones have been lowered from +3 to +2
  
• Cartagena refit - from 9% to 7cm absolute
  
• Navy planking from 10cm to 5cm
  
• Navy structure from 7% to 5cm absolute
  
• Port bonuses (from lvl 1 to lvl 4)
  • Penetration: 2,00%, 3,00%, 4,00%, 6,00%
    
  • Speed: 1,00%, 1,00%, 1,50%, 2.5%
    
  • HP: 4,00%, 4,00%, 4,00%, 6,00%
    
  • Thickness: 0, 1cm, 2cm, 3cm

Captains,

Diana and Martinique events are live from daily maintenance on Friday, December 17th until daily maintenance on Monday, December 20th

[h3]Martinique Event[/h3]
Martinique 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

WAR SERVER (PVP)

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

PEACE SERVER (PVE)

• 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.

Captains,

Today, December 10th, we started two loot events:

[h3]Where is my shipment?[/h3]

• The weekend event will run from daily maintenance on December 10th until daily maintenance on December 13th
  
• All traders carry increased numbers of crafting resources and rare woods.

[h3]St. Kitts Event[/h3]
A weekend loot event will run from daily maintenance on December 10th until daily maintenance on December 13th

• St. Kitts 5 modules added to admiralty, they can be exchanged for Broad Pennants that occasionally drop from 5th rates and higher
  
• Broad pennant will drop from military NPC ships

*Spotlight image from Captain Hatan Xayk from the November screenshot competition.

Captains,

Today, December 3rd, we started two loot events:

[h3]Where is my shipment?[/h3]

• All traders carry increased numbers of crafting resources and rare woods.
  
• The weekend event will run from daily maintenance on December 3rd until daily maintenance on December 6th

[h3]Diana Event[/h3]
The weekend event will run from daily maintenance on December 3rd until daily maintenance on December 6th. 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

WAR SERVER (PVP)

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

PEACE SERVER (PVE)

• 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.

[h3]Other tunes[/h3]
Grapeshot damage is increased on raking fire


*Spotlight image from Captain Dutch Schaefer from the November screenshot competition.