Fixed many related issues with grappling and pirates not walking on destroyed blocks
Intro sound volume was not affected by settings SFX volume value
Animal cage tool tip was showing incorrect capture percent (now is 15%)
Pirate salary payment was not calculated correctly
Pirate salary was not refunded when kicking a pirate from your crew
Food inside barrels was not recovered when changing ships or removing barrels
Ship builder could be activated on islands with hostiles around
Unable to use interact button on Linux and Arena mode.
Improvements
Revised pirate grappling code, should be a bit faster and more reliable now
Added indicator icon for Bleed status effect in crew overview
Intro is now skippable
Change sail cost to 50 (+1 sail speed) and Wood Wheel cost to 100 (+2 sail speed)
Can now browse pirate cards by mouse wheel
Shop screens are now scrollableby dragging, mousewheel and scroll bars
Pirate voices now have a separate sound channel that can be set via options
50% of Pirate's kill XP is now shared among the rest of the crew
Mantis voting system is totally operative
Also important, we've fixed the voting plugin on our Mantis system, so it is now 100% operative (links are now working on the most voted issues page). Remember you can vote and assign the priority you find more appropriate to each issue, for this enter the issue details and go below in the description to the field labeled as "Issue Community Support", and vote for it. We are also taking a close look at the most voted issues to decide what we fix/improve first in the game.
Mikko is hard worker :P
Our Pixel Piracy status update - 18-24th August
Hi all,
hope you had a good week folks, Jesús Fabre here, to inform you of our most recent news and progresses on the game:
Since last update, Mikko continued working very hard on the new extensible XML savegame format. I will go a bit into detailing this improvement:
The new savegame format will allow us to easily fix many things that aren't working properly in the game, especially the AI system that manages how pirates tasks are being prioritised. In the future we want not only to improve the way pirates behave by their own autonomy, also we want you to be able to set which tasks are the most important for each pirate at each moment in the game. That's why we need this standard and extensible savegame format (that will allow us to store these parameters and MANY others related to other stuff we can add in the game in the future). Also, don't worry, we will convert all your current savegame files to the new format, so you won't lose any of your saved progress in the game.
As you can imagine by how complex it sounds, this is really taking tons of time from Mikko, exactly 12 full days of work at the moment since he started more than a month ago. But things are progressing quite well, and hopefully next week we'll be testing it!
I started introducing the biggest change being made to the game code, so you will understand why today is Friday and we don't have any PP update to offer you. Well, the thing is Mikko was working on the new savegame format until Tuesday, and as you saw it's quite complex, so due to not being sure of being able to finish this before the weekend, he stopped his work on the savegames temporarily and jumped on these small fixes:
-Add Bleed effect to crew cards.
-Intro video sound volume from sfx volume.
-Animal cage tooltip shows incorrect %.
-Change sail cost to 50 (+1 sail speed) and Wood Wheel cost to 100 (+2 sail speed).
That was what we had fixed on Wednesday, and here's when the big fix on the upcoming update comes up. We needed to solve the issues with grappling from and to ship:
http://piracysim.com/mantis/view.php?id=730
As this is a game breaking bug, it instantly became our nº1 priority since Wednesday. Mikko has been focusing in solving this particular issue in every possible scenario, going as deep as it was necessary into the code. For good, that took him to fix many small issues not only in the grappling movements, but in the general crew movement layer of the game.
As many of you may have experienced, there are some serious problems when you walk on damaged blocks or try to climb on damaged stairs. As of now, Mikko has fixed the issues with grappling, but climbing damaged stairs is still not working properly, so he needs a bit more time on Monday to have a build ready to test.
You can be sure we tried to have a build ready for today until the last moment, but wasn't possible. At the end of the day, what we really want is to deliver updates that really represent an improvement and show how much care we put into fixing everything is currently not working properly in PP. So expect to get this upcoming patch by around next Wednesday or Thursday. We want to make sure your pirates movement is the best it can possibly be!
In general, after all the reports we saw after launch, we want to put a lot of care into making the experience of Pixel Piracy the best we can, so please know we really appreciate your patience, as we also appreaciate your feedback!
Thanks for staying there, trusting us.
Jesús Fabre and all the Pixel Piracy Team.
Quadro Delta's current direction and Pixel Piracy's future look bright!
Hello there everyone, Alexander Poysky here.
I've been quite silent since launch, that's due to the fact that it's been 12 months since I've actually had a single day off and I NEEDED (more than wanted, mind you!) to take a whole week and simply disconnect.
The amount of stress and pressure launch placed upon Vitali (who is now in Russia for a week) and I was immense, and the trials and tribulations that launch presented afterwards were as well, but we are obviously well on our way to getting Pixel Piracy where it deserves to be thanks to the fantastic work of Mikko, and Jesus's dedication to the community.
I've been asked where Quadro Delta is heading from here, and while I cannot give away any surprises, let me say that we DO have a few in store for the upcoming future.
Support for Pixel Piracy, as you can see, is going to continue for a long time, and Vitali and I are now doing "other things" that we cannot disclose for now!
Stay tuned for updates ;)
-Alex
PATCH 1.0.8
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug where difficulty settings were not being saved properly
Healing item tooltips did not display correct info about how the items work
Player was able to grapple onto sinking boats and boat pieces after plundering
Pirates can now walk on destroyed ship blocks
Improvements
Added a window displaying latest changes, fixes and improvements when starting up the game
Added a confirmation message when trying to sail away from an enemy ship without plundering it
Mikko is hard worker! I think next week there won't be any patch but day after that week we will have a bigger one!
