Captian Fur Butt told us we would meet again yet we never did. It has been many months since then... I have heard rumors of a bar keeper who was small, furry, and yet could speak the common tongue. Could it be?
New content & features
Captain Fur Butt can be found again in the tavern on Cramton
Added v1.0 Spanish community translation (not an official translation)
Minor changes
Fur Butt quest improved, now shows portrait for Captain Furbutt
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Fixed issue where storage cache upgrade could not be built
As always... stay salty sea dogs!
Team Lead / Lead programmer Sebastian Nigro (Seabass) Twitter
Artist / Visual design Daniel Marques (Thirteen) Twitter
Audio / Web / Programmer Chris Anselmo (Topher) Twitter
We just launched the release of the Don't Sink OST! You will get access to both OGG and WAV formats of the tracks. Who can resist playing the various town music tracks on repeat for 24 hours straight?
Hey pirates! We are still working hard to respond to everyone's feedback and make improvements. We appreciate every review, post, and video. Of course we aren't perfect but we assure you we are doing our very best! If you have any probeks or suggestions feel free to comment below!
Minor changes
Video settings now have tooltips to explain what each setting does
Difficulty adjusted to be more challenging
Enemy crews now fire more quickly but not as fast as famous captains
Shipyard will now show green/red text to indicate whether a ship has better or worse stats
Enemy crews are more likely to use bombs/grapeshot now
Made balance changes to every ship
Improved ship encounter algorithm, players should encounter ships of their own type more often as well as famous captains
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Fixed issue with storage cache not being available to upgrade
Fixed ship stats not updating when loading old save files
As always... stay salty sea dogs!
Team Lead / Lead programmer Sebastian Nigro (Seabass) Twitter
Artist / Visual design Daniel Marques (Thirteen) Twitter
Audio / Web / Programmer Chris Anselmo (Topher) Twitter
Storage caches and audio improvements! (Update 1.0.1.0)
Responding to your feedback!
A major issue with the late-game play of Don't Sink was the lack of storage (since we did the storage rebalance).To properly compensate for this (and to improve island building) we've added a new feature to the general store called a Storage Cache. This allows you to deposit/withdraw items from the store. Each store will have a unique cache meaning it isn't globally accessible. You can store 1000 bombs in Cramton and wood/cloth in Tsujima for example.
Audio improvements
One user pointed out to me that the boarding combat was lacking any sound effects. Turns out I completely forgot to program the sound effects for the combat. Topher had gone through all the effort of creating these sounds so I would like to personally apologize for overlooking this. Anyhow it's implemented now and makes poking pirates a lot more satisfying.
New content & features
General stores storage cache
Storage upgrade for storage cache
Minor changes
Sword clashing sound effects for boarding
Ship creaking sound effects for travelling
When purchasing items the shop quantity limit now considers the ships max weight
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Fixed an issue with selling items that would return the player to the sell menu if the menu was scrolled up/down when there was only one item available to sell
As always... stay salty sea dogs!
Team Lead / Lead programmer Sebastian Nigro (Seabass) Twitter
Artist / Visual design Daniel Marques (Thirteen) Twitter
Audio / Web / Programmer Chris Anselmo (Topher) Twitter
After 4 months of extremely active development we've reached the big 1.0! It has been a fun and rewarding journey so far. Sometimes it felt as though the game would never be out of early access but here we are. Here's what we've done for the full release.
A new trailer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8cyph4E_7s
Gameplay/General Improvements
The enemy AI can use different ammo types now! You might face a schooner with grapeshot. Once they finish off your crew they'll switch to cannonballs/bombs and sink you. There are also a number of minor improvements such as the defeat tune not playing twice anymore. Little things like that.
The future of Don't Sink
We are working hard to get Don't Sink onto consoles as well as bring you (the Steam community) more features/content. This means more quests, possibly more indepth mechanics, and much more. We have a mod system in the works with a full tool to simplify the process and we would love to make that available in the near future alongside Steam workshop support.
A number of users have experienced various performance issues and so we will likely be introducing a high-performance build (C++ based) in a separate branch to give those users a possibly better experience although previous tests have shown those C++ builds to be pretty unstable which is why we're not certain we want to make it available just yet.
As always... stay salty sea dogs!
Team Lead / Lead programmer Sebastian Nigro (Seabass) Twitter
Artist / Visual design Daniel Marques (Thirteen) Twitter
Audio / Web / Programmer Chris Anselmo (Topher) Twitter
As we approach the big day (our transition out of early access) we have put more and more energy into game content. Three new quests means that the leaderboard percentages have been shifted and that there are new goals to reach for. There are about twenty new pirate crews and two new famous captains you may encounter. Who can forget good ole' Captain Babyhands?
New quest locations
You can find one on Gazpacho, one in Nikra, and the other in Mairyporan. However one of the quests is somewhat of a secret. We challenge you to find and complete it!
New content & features
Quest, Hide Away
Quest, Something Odd
Quest, Dangerous Cargo
Little old lady in house on Black Shore
Gold thief on Tsujima
New houses in towns
Sound effects for all menus
New pirate crews
New famous captains
Minor changes
Added eye patch back into character creation
Sound effects for all menus
Balanced town music volume
Dolphins no longer appear during battle
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Default colors for various character parts would be black
Fixed misspelling of the word piece
As always... stay salty sea dogs!
Team Lead / Lead programmer Sebastian Nigro (Seabass) Twitter
Artist / Visual design Daniel Marques (Thirteen) Twitter
Audio / Web / Programmer Chris Anselmo (Topher) Twitter
We are taking the final steps to reach full release and one of the biggest issues was the ugly main menu left over from the original release of the game. We've recreated pretty much everything at this point. We still have a number of improvements planned for the next update but this one is meant to be stable, and full of beautiful new artwork.
Some of the most notable changes include the new loading screen and main menu. We've got a new leaderboard, quest menu, quick menu, build menu, govern menu... Yeah there's a lot of new stuff in this update. Hop aboard your ship and find out for yourself!
New content & features
New pause menu UI
New main menu UI and artwork
New leaderboard UI
New quick menu UI
New quest menu UI
New loading screen and intro
Minor changes
Rigby's Treasure, "Shut up Heater" changed to "Shut up Heather"
When selecting a name from the credits, the link now opens in your browser if the Steam overlay is disabled
General store now shows current owned stock of an item
While traveling crew stats start flashing when they get low
Implemented mouse input for random events and boarding when traveling
Made changes to the DRM
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Slightly improved screen flashing when unpausing with escape/start button
Tavern recruitment crash has been fixed
Captain Fluffy Butt occasionally hidden behind ship/sails off screen
Steam achievements involving stats fixed
Attacking an island with too few crew would result in every island visited afterwards being an attack
Resolved crash when recruiting citizens (shop index would go outside of ds_list range)
Item deduction from ship purchase optimized and crashing resolved
Ship item reduction crash on load up of old saves has been fixed
As always... stay salty sea dogs!
Team Lead / Lead programmer Sebastian Nigro (Seabass) Twitter
Artist / Visual design Daniel Marques (Thirteen) Twitter
Audio / Web / Programmer Chris Anselmo (Topher) Twitter
