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Visual improvements

• New shipwreck model
  
• Color corrections and improvements on player ships
  

New Emotes with Animation

Updated Tradeship model

Balance Changes

• Hulls no longer give ramming mitigation
  
• Iron Horn's ram ability no longer mitigates damage; deals 100/200/300 additional impact damage
  
• Iron Horn's passive is now the only ramming mitigation; still at 5/10/15
  
• NPC ship base ramming 100 -> 150; bonus impact 200 -> 100
  
• Flamethrower damage reduced by ~10%
  
• Shipwreck heal amount increased to 75
  
• Passive healing increased 1.5/2/2.5->2/3/4 improving on hull level
  

Voice Over

Other changes

• Water color adjustment
  
• Fixed issues with recent collision detection changes
  

Low Setting Peformance Improvements

• Massive improvement in reducing overdraw, most computers are now able to run 45 fps+ on low graphics settings!
  

Flamethrower balance

• Nerf on Flamethrower damage: 44/66/88 -> 35/52.5/70 dps
  

Better Controller Support

• Aiming with controllers now properly works!
  
• Fixed firing cannons/flamethrower on both side of the ship
  
• Gamepad bindings now show up on HUD when in use
  
• Improvements to the aiming line renderer
  

Peformance Improvements

• Upgraded to Unity 5.5: better C# compiler & GPU instancing
  
• Better GPU multithreading
  
• Improved minimap performance
  
• Minor text rendering performance
  

New Trade Ship Model

• The first part of the royal navy fleet is now live!
  

Bug fixes

• New custom line render fixes issues of the aimer at some angles
  
• Rewrote barrel bomb explosion to fix client issues
  
• Barrel bomb damage is now more consistant for clients
  

Flamethrower Buff

• Spitting Dragon's flamethrower damage increased significantly: 44/66/88 damage per second + 4/6/8 damage per additional flamethrower hit
  

Spitting Dragon

• New passive: "Flaming"
  Cannonballs & Flamethrower add a damage over time fire onto the afflicted ship dealing 5/15/25 damage over 2.5 seconds that scales off Ability level.
  At lvl 1 Ability and lvl 0 cannons will kill an NPC ship in 2 volleys.
  
• Fixed a bug where Flamethrower damage was inconsistent; will be buffing damage in upcoming build.
  

General Tweaks

• Unity 5.5 Ready : Added GPU Instancing on the Water, should improve performance sigificantly on Unity release.
  
• Added Bloom & HDR effect for Ghastly Crow & Spitting Dragon lights & emissions. (Bug affecting particle effects will be removed shortly)
  

New Level

• 5 of 17 islands are now completed and integrated in!
  

• Added a Welcome page for new players talking about the game being in alpha.
  
• Added a News page that pulls from our Steam changelog RSS.
  
• Added a gold effect for Brigand gold gain.
  
• Added floating numbers for damage, gold, and heal values.
  

New mouse ship overlay

• New Infamy gain, Gold drop, and Health HUD overlay on other ships
  

Ship Passives

• The Brigand now has a 5 gold gain on cannon ball hit
  
• After using the Flamethrower on the spitting dragon (10 gold use) the next time you fire a cannon they deal an additional 20% damage (+7 per shot).
  

• Tweaks to Flamethrower switch cooldown
  
• Flamethrower minor visual improvements
  
• Performance improvement on saturation effect while dead
  
• New Community Flags Icon
  
• New "Folders" backdrop
  

• Updated Loading Screen
  
• First take on Spitting Dragon Flamethrower aiming system & switch cooldown.
  
• Passive healing timer reset occurs when using Flamethrower or ramming ships.
  
• Fixed an exploit where clients weren't having Infamy lowered from running into land.