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Genre: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie

Rise of the Pirates

Xmas Comes Early in ROTP



Classes


-Changes to poison class’s poison system. More efficient easier to work with. Poison damage tweaks.

New


New Marine Hero Coat, and Hats Can be purchased from the vendor in Anchor island
Must be At least Captain Rank.


Romy Commissioned some clothes from Amaneur. They have been added to the game.
Sage backpack and Ninja Black Ops Headband cosmetics have been added to the Daily Challenge rewards list. (Possible to appear as a Daily Challenge reward.) as Daily Challenge exclusives.


Amaneur has also made us some new shields. Behold!


Blany has created some new Dagon Skin colors are now in the barber.
Both Genders are supported.




Monthly Event



December event is now active:

All December: Npc’s drop presents containing Gold. (Or Coal)

There is a grinch on an island, Slay him to claim a prize. A Christmas tree will appear in Sochi from the 9th to the 1st claim a present daily! (subscribers may claim twice) *

December Valor Event: Valor from Events and Event Rewards Bags increased by 150% all through December (Does not include valor chest)




Season 1 is over! Congratulations to Blany for winning Season 1 Legendary Knife!




Everyone who participated in this season can claim an end of season reward in the Season Menu! For everyone who participated you will get the next tier reward when you claim. Top 10 Will get an exclusive season 1 Cloak



Bug Fixes



Hitting Boat Issues Fixed.
Minor bugs smashed


While the next expansion is reaching for the sky! We have commissioned some work for the depths of the sea, which is part of the Sky Island update. Officially titled as above so below. We will first be soaring through the sky to reach the magical mysterious sky island. From there we will plunge to the deepest depths and learn more about the Dagon race and their special genetic awakenings.

For those who enjoy numbers

Sky Island Progress:

Art: 50% Complete. (Need more enemies and bosses for sky tower.)
Map: 100% Complete.
Sky Tower: 0% Complete (Puzzles and boss fights need to be completed.)
Story:50% complete. (Written down but not implemented in game.)
ETA Estimate: Dec 2019 - Jan 2020


Dagon Island Progress:
Map Currently being created by Artist (Zane444).

ETA Estimate: Mar-Apr 2020

Class Balances! PVP Season is around the corner!



New Daily Challenge Completion Reward Options, Diamond Drill Bit and Box of Wisdom Stones.
New Daily Challenges added to rotation
Hit Kraken 50 times during event
Break 5 crates in Sochi island
Capture 1 point of interest during the battle grounds event.
Use the Scrapper 1 to scrap equipment for materials.
Capture a cow in CTC.
Survive 10 seconds in the knife event


Classes



Dual Swordsman
Sweep CD Reduced by 2 seconds, Reset Proc reduced to 25% from 30%. Damage reduced by 5%
Blood Dance damage increased by 5%

Blood Clan
Living Hell CD reduced by 2 seconds.
Skill changed to a max of 10 puddles, not all puddles.
Reduced damage on non player enemies.

Aqua Summoner Heal reduced to one tic per heal.
Cien Damage reduced.

Lightning Spear of Trium damage reduced
QOL
Gaining reputation is now set to the system channel.

Bug Squashing




Bishop Buffs dealing more damage on ship.

Dagon Wheel Fixed

Bank get closer to NPC issue fixed

Tahiri’s crew spawn point issue, fixed


Panda Healing off flags fixed

Swordsman Ten katto chikyu was dealing 100% of damage hp missing not 50%. Fixed.

Amanuer Made us some very needed! shields (We only had two)
He is currently taking commissions if anyone is looking to buy some quality pixel art! Reach out to him on the discord!

PVE Season is about to come to an end!


Blany is still in the lead, Ghost is inching up behind him! Only one week left. Who will walk away with the legendary it seems like it'll be one of these two titans!



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Looking at Clouds




New Hair and Beard icons
New Weapon Visuals for Slingshot, Swords and others.
New hats!

Weight training now has a safe zone penalty. Twice as slow when training in a safe zone, it also has a 60 second.

Trident Weapon Skill Damage Increased
Guantlet Weapon Skill Damage fixed (Unmastered was doing more damage than mastered.)
Hammer Weapon Skill Damage Reduced.


QOL Tweaks

Selling Items Instead of dragging and dropping items into the store to sell, you can now alt+ click them.

New Chat colors for pirate text making things easier to read.

All Marine faction reputation increased by 100%.

Ambition Levels now also have a score board. Check which player has the most ‘Ambition’!

Bug Hunting



Panda: Fixed the issues reported with the panda class. Should be working perfectly. Please let us know if anything is not working properly.

Fixed Issue with charmed/damage reduction effects no working on NPC’s

This weeks update was interrupted by a very large bug caught very early thanks to Claytreon!

Sky Island
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Progress update: About done with the map layout for main city hub, just need the details and NPCs.

Whats Left to finish
Sky Island Storyline
The Sky Tower : The center of the Sky Island patch. A Tower like dungeon consisting of floors. The player will then have the option to climb the floors for rewards, and loot. Floors consist of PVP, PVE and puzzles to solve.

Seraphim race.


World Season is ending soon!
Here are the Pace Makers!

New Player Experience and QOL Tweaks


Many many player suggestions were added this Patch. If you would like to share an idea or have a suggestion please feel free to let us know! We are always active on discord.

Sky island is still being worked on as well as more under water features.

MEXP,MDR are back for now!

New Skin Remover Item

New UI for Help Button which will take players to the guide section and character equipment menu.


Battle Grounds Max Win condition Reduced to 750 resources. (Suggested by Brogoku)


Kraken Health Reduced by 30% Damage to tentacles increased by 2%. Reminder, the tentacles are the Krakens weakness, ignore its body whenever possible. (Suggested by Player base hatred of event)

Black Sea Enemies now provide more exp, Which in turn provides more season Exp. Opening a chest from a Black Sea boss will provide 4-6% max ambition exp depending on the boss. (Suggested by Cot)

Ambition Formula Gains from all enemies Tweaked

Time to get out of combat is now 60 seconds, up from 30 seconds. (Suggested by Sire Blu)

Valor Treasure Chest now provides 9000 valor, down from 15,000 (Suggested by BJisboss)
Blood Coin Treasure Chest now provides 10,000 Blood Coins Down from 15,000

Lycan Transformation now has a 60 second delay starting when they revert. (Suggested by Lemoni)

You can no longer run in Snowball fight (Suggested by Xao)

Few Bug Fixes. Thank you for reporting them!

Some performance tweaks.


There will be another raffle this upcoming Halloween, October 31st, for a prize of 120 doubloons to the lucky winner drawn. There is no participation fee, but those wanting to take part will have to register with their In Game Name, BYOND Key, and a link to their honest Steam review in the #raffle-sign-up channel on discord. Details on how to go about this will be explained in the sign up channel. The raffle is once again being hosted by Coors, so be sure to send him some thanks for supporting the community. Cut off for registration will be October 30th at 11:59 EST, good luck to all those participating.
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Friday Update

Event


Daily Challenges have been calibrated Reqs are less strenuous.


The PumpKing is now on Anchor Island.

Character



4th character slot can now be unlocked.

Weapons


Weapon Skills damage tweaks (they will now do more damage.)

Exp


Exp from enemies lv 30-200 has been increased by 50%

Exp from enemies lv 200-350 has been increased by 60%

Exp from enemies lv 351-599 has been increased by 25%

Launcher



New Launcher

More responsive.

Classes


Class Tweaks

Rabbit: Hare Hammer now knocks back.

All Status effects (Roots/Slows) duration has been slightly increased to compensate for the increased frame rate. (They were lasting less than a second.)



New Run and Dash effect.

Running now fatigues slightly less.

Lycan


Regen While in combat has been drastically reduced.

Fatigue when running while in combat has been increased.

Fatigue when running while out of combat reduced. Can run for a very long time.

Bugs


Stat Display fix
Exp was showing endurance information.
Halloween houses were being restocked twice a day.


Tweaks


Heirloom Chest was not giving food for the month because it the pie is part of the halloween event, it will now give the pie swell.

Role Play Server


Unicorns, Sire Blu and Kal are working on an a Strict Role Play version of the game to be hosted on its own server. If anyone else is interested in roleplaying or helping that project please contact them. The server may take some time to appear while we create the features required for a great RP experience.

Spooky Raffle!




There will be another raffle this upcoming Halloween, October 31st, for a prize of 120 doubloons to the lucky winner drawn. There is no participation fee, but those wanting to take part will have to register with their In Game Name, BYOND Key, and a link to their honest Steam review in the #raffle-sign-up channel on discord. Details on how to go about this will be explained in the sign up channel. The raffle is once again being hosted by Coors, so be sure to send him some thanks for supporting the community. Cut off for registration will be October 30th at 11:59 EST, good luck to all those participating.



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Spooky Update: Halloween Town



Season Leader Boards


Seasonal Leader Boards can now be found in the season window.

Seasonal rewards are no longer locked to capped level players. All players can begin to work towards season rewards


Season 1 Ends in December! The top 10 Players of that season will receive special rewards. Top Player will get a legendary item and every one else will get the next a smaller reward for participating (Season Level 100+) is the cut off



Minor Changes


Crew Leader Boards can now be found in crew window.

Daily Challenges will no longer include faction based enemies. (Marine Npcs or Pirate Npcs)



Halloween Town


Portal can now be found in Sochi!
Halloween event is now live: Every day you can enter halloween town and trick or treat the houses there. But be careful the residents of halloween town enjoy giving out more trick than treat




Halloween Goodie Bag also has a chance to award the player with the boar mask item
(Rare chance to get the Black Boar Mask which can be color changed. and a pumpkinmount!)


(Boar Mask)


(Pumpkin Mount)

Raffle Event!



The Player Coor’s is hosting a raffle for 50 doubloons!The Raffle is this upcoming Saturday, October 5th, for a prize of 50 doubloons to the lucky winner drawn. There is no participation fee and those wanting to take part will only have to register with their In Game Name and BYOND Key in the #raffle-sign-up channel on discord. The raffle is being hosted by Coors, so be sure to send him some thanks for supporting the community. Cut off for registration will be October 4th at 11:59 EST, good luck to all those participating.


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Daily Challenge Patch

Opening boss chest from black sea now gives 2% season exp.

Reduced Daily Challenge kill challenge to 250 kills. Down from 1000

Lv 600+ enemies will not appear in the daily kill challenge anymore.

Bug Smashing

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Daily Challenges

Daily Challenges

5 Challenges are provided to the player. Completing each challenge will provide the player with a reward and world exp. If the player completes every challenge within 24 hours they will be able to claim the main reward at the top.



New item: Blue Chest

A chest that contains hidden knowledge providing 25% of max ambition exp.


Few bug crushed.
Refactored quest system, It was creating objectives with clones of the objective rather than required data, was terribly inefficient.

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Seasons Rise

Legendary Item Changes


Tweaks to legendary equipment stats and drop rate. They should be slightly easier to find.

Hidden Treasure Changes


X Marks the spot event will now let you know when the treasure vanishes.


Exp Changes


Exp from monsters cut off point has been tweaked,
Previously Enemies 30 levels below you would no longer provide you with any EXP. Now everything will always give you exp, however if you are too high a level they will give you reduced exp.
New formula if your level is 15% + 30 higher than the enemy they will no longer give 100% exp.
So an enemy level 100 will give you full exp until you are level 145.
A level 300 enemy will give full exp until lv 375 etc.

Ambition Changes


Weight Training now increases ambition 2% per minute.
The EXP changes above also means you can train ambition by hunting lower level enemies.

Season System


World Season: Seasonal rewards will be rewarded depending on achievements and season level reached during the season.

Season Level: All enemies no matter what level will provide season exp. So if you wan’t to go on a rampage in a lower level area feel free to do so. However we do recommend going after daily bosses and finding hidden treasure for the best results.

Season Rewards: Players will automatically receive season rewards once they reach the goal. Rewards can be found in the Season Menu

End season rewards will be posted nearing the end of the season. ~3 months per season.


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The Wonderer

This update was filled mostly with refactoring of old code. However i did manage to make some headway with content. You will no longer have to be part of a crew with a ship you will not be able to experience the Black Sea islands.

What's new
You can now upgrade your single person vessel allowing you to enter the Black sea.
This is how.


This item can only be crafted by a carpenter level 600.

The carpenter trainer will sell you the blue print.

Don't forget the material Protonious can only be obtained from scrapping high level equipment.


Use the item on your vessel and you will be able to sail the emerald sea as well as the black sea.

Now, Here are some things we are working on for the next update.


You can actually find this boss online at the moment in Anchor island. He does not have his full move set yet. We are currently testing the Daily System to make sure things are in order. So when you get a moment throw him a L He can drop very good loot at this time.

The next step is to implement an event trackers that provide the player with rewards for slaying these daily nemesis as well as other events that can be procedurally generated.