Genre: Shooter, Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Indie
Unearned Bounty
Patch Notes Alpha v5f
Avast Scallywags!
Here are the changes for today's build.
Mac graphical bugs fixed
Fixed upside down reflections and other NaN shader errors resulting in black squares.
Island camera clipping
We've been playing around with changes to make it easier to sail your ship while terrain is in the way. Ships now XOR transparency when they're being blocked.
Best,
Robert Dunlap
Extrokold Games
Patch Notes Alpha v5e
Ahoy maties!
Here are the changes for today's build.
Smoother trade ship paths
Trade ship route is smoothed out to reduce jerkiness.
Unity 5.6 upgrade
With the release of 5.6 today, we've upgraded our project to the latest version and with it now have MSAA x4 enabled.
Suicide penalty increase
Infamy loss on death by a tradeship or land is now doubled.
Players now lose 2 upgrades on death from tradeships or land.
Bots fixed!
Fixed bug where Bots were sometimes ignoring their aim radius
Best,
Robert Dunlap
Extrokold Games
Patch Notes Alpha v5d
Ahoy maties!
Here are the changes for today's build.
New Sound Effects
Opening animation squence
Ship selection
Upgrade animation
Placeholder ability
Graphical Tweaks
New flame/smoke visual effect on ships hit by Spitting Dragon; to show that they're taking dot.
Screen space effect when taking various forms of damage; Green for posion, Orange/Red-ish pulse for fire, and Red for other damage.
Trade ship hull & sails turn black as they're damaged.
Misc
HUD health bar is now larger
Loading now shows when joining a custom game lobby
Best,
Robert Dunlap
Extrokold Games
Patch Notes Alpha v5c
Ahoy!
Here are a roll up of changes that were made this week.
Graphical Tweaks
LOD group bias is now set
Soft particles are on
Increased chunk view distance
Made the water darker blue/green
Made the skybox ligher blue
Changed fog color closer to white
Added in height based fog calculation
World has increased curvature
New upgrade VFX
New cannon ball land hit VFX
Fixes
Addressed stability issues with the main flag server.
Fixes to help with player/bot disconnections not appearing correctly on clients and resulting in "ghost" ships
Fixed issue with ship selection not saving.
Added in unique placeholder descriptions for chests & ships.
Best,
Robert Dunlap
Extrokold Games
Patch Notes Alpha v5b
Avast!
Here are a couple minor fixes and tweaks following this week's earlier update.
Voice Over effects now play significantly less frequently.
Added several hover, selected, and disabled visual effects on the main menu.
Top tier chests are now purchasable.
Updated Store prices; now 500/2000/8000 for chests and 50,000 gold for ships.
Ship sail emblems now properly work in game.
Fixed the start timer for the volcano effect.
Bots now have a lower arc of fire behind them.
Bots deal less damage: 25->20 per cannon ball.
Best,
Robert Dunlap
Patch Notes Alpha v5
Ahoy! We got a lot of out of match experience stuff together in this build!
We've finished up our new main menu flow to allow navigation between the lobby, customization, and store to be more seemless. The goal is while you're waiting on a match to start you can still get the full customization experience from within the collection menu. We'll still be adding in some breadcrumbs and polish but this build brings us a step closer to where we want to be.
Earning Gold & Unlocking Chests
Note that we will be doing several player data wipes before launch.
Everyone starts with 5000 gold, which will provide a head start of flags to play with.
You can earn gold and XP from 10 custom games every day.
Wood chests contain 3 common flags with a 10% chance of 1 being rare.
Gold chest contain 5 flags, with 2 being rare and a 10% chance of 1 being epic.
Epic chests contain 7 flags; 5 rare, 2 epic and a 10% chance of 1 being legendary.
New Results Screen
Displays how much gold and xp you earn, and a new standings page.
Best,
Robert Dunlap
Extrokold Games
Patch Notes for February 10th
Ahoy! We got a bunch of stuff in this recent build geared towards improving pixel fillrate issues that were causing slow framerates on low-end PCs.
Performance Improvements
Optimized LOD1 and LOD2 islands.
Redid trees to remove cutout shader.
Smaller texture sizes more texture atlases.
Islands have fewer draw calls to the GPU.
Simpler terrain shader for LOD1 and 2 islands.
We're still working on the proper distances for the LOD islands to show, so there is some LOD popping on some of them. With these changes completed we'll be able to push the view distance for higher end PCs further and do some more cool visual improvements in the near future!
Logo Animation and Out of Match experience
We now have our opening logo animated and in the works of integrating more of our new menus! We've been making headway on our servers and will have the progression system live in about 2 weeks!
New Content
4 new islands; Colossus head, feet, and arm is now near the temple ruins.
More sharks!
Added in 8 new flags designed by Lacey Drake.
Tweaks
Improvements to colors and lighting on playerships and islands.
Best,
Robert Dunlap
Extrokold Games
Patch Notes for January 18th
Ahoy! Just a couple smaller bug fixes, performance improvements, and tweaks in this week's update.
Bot improvements
Gold! Will now prioritize picking up shipwrecks.
Bots are no longer fully upgraded at the start of a match, and will spend gold to upgrade.
Shotgun blast: Cannon ball damage lowered to 25, fire 5/6/7 shots that have a much wider spread.
Ramming Speed: at low health bots will now try to ram into nearby opponents.
Tweaks
Easier to pass through rocky island area north of the volcano.
Moved a spawn point a little further away from port to prevent bots from running ashore.
All flags are unlocked again
Minor performance improvements.
Game Icon & Logo updated.
Pirate ports have their own colors.
Best,
Robert Dunlap
Extrokold Games
Patch Notes for January 11th
Ahoy! Hope everyone has had a great holiday season! Here's a rollup of the recent changes!
Placeholder Matchmaking & Server integration
Our first pass at matchmaking and account management is in this build. We're currently transitioning our server so it'll be down for the next few days as we get setup.
Caribbean map updates
Lighthouse map section
Temple Ruins
Sharks have been seen roaming the depths
Bayonette and Bot updates
New ship for practice bots
Can fire in a 270 degree arc, including the front! Beware!
Their first mate has been drinking; added inaccuracy to their aiming
Bug Fixes
Q/E/T upside down ships
Skybox killing aiming line on the horizon and lighthouse fire
Better collision detection
Best,
Extrokold Games
Patch Notes for December 22nd
Ahoy! Hope everyone has a happy holidays! We've brought you scalawag some cool updates.
Remade Caribbean map is now default
First pass of collisions are in; very quick and dirty will be improving it
Some duplicated terrain will be in for a while as we swap them out for set pieces
Trade ships no longer despawn at reaching ports, they will continue along their path
Increased viewing distance
New terrain
Revamped Particle Effects and Visuals
New explosion effect
Seagulls
New ship wakes
New Shipwreck glow effect
New Ghastly Crow Poison
Ghastly Crow color changes
New flags, some removed
Iron Horns flag texture fixed
Improved bots
Reduced AI captain booze levels, they collide into land less.
