Developer posts and news about this game.
- Added a work-around for "ghost players" where the server list would show the number of players to be higher than the actual number of connected clients. - Changed the server address to remove old servers and force server admins to update their executable. - Fixed a bug preventi
Just some small changes based on feedback. Fixed an issue with NPCs and players being unable to take damage properly when there was an odd interaction with Death Ward. Cloth animation distance is now based on the distance to the ship, not the sail itself, and setting it to '1' me
- Added /getServer and /setServer commands for admins. - Made flares drop outside of Kraken raids (but only at night). - Made text more crisp at scaled-up resolutions (above 1440p). - World population needed to spawn a trader is now a server-configurable value in addition to bein
- Rampage projectiles are no longer counter-able if the player has Giant Net, matching targeted mortar projectiles. - It's now possible to specify a flag on buffs that indicates that they can't be refreshed with Revitalize. Certain buffs, like the dock and respawn buff have it by
Ahoy, Captains! As promised, the (admittedly long overdue) raid update is now here and to celebrate the game will be 30% off for a limited time! Jump back in to continue the game's story, unlock a new faction, gather your friends and test your skills with the new high-challenge r
Ahoy, captains! The raid update is now in its final testing phases, and I wanted to give everyone the opportunity to try it out early (as in, now ) and offer their feedback prior to the update's full launch which is currently scheduled for January 2026. To start a raid test, a ha
I've been posting some tidbits on discord about the coming raid update, including what kinds of items to expect from the coming top tier challenges, but I know a lot of you aren't in there so I figured I'd share some here as well! In short, raids are being designed for groups: wi
- You can now place basic decorations in your own provinces (various rocks for now). It's a new skill on your bar visible in your own regions. Right-click it/hold (X) on the controller for more options, such as the drop-down list of possible rocks. You can fine-tune your rock pla
- Created an optimized way of the water shader rendering up to 64 lights with one draw call, so explosions will no longer drastically affect performance. - Day/night transition performance optimizations. - Lighthouses will now have a slightly lower performance cost during the day
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- Player ship will no longer save until after it successfully spawns. So if some odd issue occurs where player fails to spawn, game will no longer save at all. - Province names will now generate with 2 syllables first before falling back to 3. - Made the screen shake much more su
- You can now encounter signs of the upcoming raid boss out in the world. I recommend caution. - Added an optional camera screen shake effect when firing volleys, mortars, colliding with ships or receiving a lot of damage. - Night-time performance optimizations. - You can now edi
July brought a quieter patch cycle as I focused on improving core systems and prepping for major upcoming content, but it wasn’t without some big updates. The biggest addition this month was the introduction of optional nighttime , along with new world visual settings , better pe
2025-07-14.0 - Added optional night time to the game. It can be turned on via world options. - Added new options to world options: day length. This is only visual, and is separate from the in-game day duration (which is always 6 minutes). - Unified game's day length and visible d
2025-07-04.0 - Campaigns and all associated data are now saved on the Steam Cloud. - Changed the hierarchy of where all of the data associated with campaigns is stored. It's now together, rather than being split between My Documents and AppData. - Deleting the campaign will now d
June’s been a huge month for Windward Horizon. Since launch, we’ve been updating the game almost daily, introduced modding tools, patched major bugs, added Steam Workshop support, and are laying the groundwork for the upcoming raid content. Here’s everything we rolled out this mo
2025-06-27.0 - Added Steam Workshop / modding support. - Made the /extract command extract actual game's files rather than the current data (which may include modded values). - Added a new /newmod command that creates a blank mod without any data. - The game now makes a backup of
🌴 Summer Sale Ahoy! Windward Horizon 10% Off Until July 10 Windward Horizon is part of the Steam Summer Sale! From now through July 10, the game is available at 10% off . If you’ve been waiting to jump in or want to bring a friend aboard, now’s the time to set sail. ⛵ Get it her
This week will be dry on patch notes as I'm going to be working on Steam Workshop/modding support. This means a good chunk of my time will be spent creating a modding guide, and there is a lot to cover... But in the meantime, here are the patch notes from the past few days: 2025-
2025-06-10.1 - Fixed a long-standing bug that was messing up world map pathfinding and many other things (which was just the most obvious symptom of the bug). - Greatly improved performance of the world map. - Stratospheric clouds will now properly fade out in foggy conditions. -