Ahoy lads!
We've got a small hotfix today addressing some bugs and we did some improvements on the votekick system and score amounts.
We also identified a major bug in the ship culling (performance) system which caused the entire system to malfunction and thus not be active. We fixed the problem and now ship culling should work as intended. This should give a noticeable FPS increase and might drastically increase FPS on weak or mid-range CPU based systems. Especially during matches with a lot of ships (5+), there should be less frame drops and average FPS should be higher.
Patch notes:
Party and votekicking improvements:
- "Enable Team Fill" checkbox renamed to "Lock Party" and thus inverted
- Party members can now bypass a locked party and always re-enter
- Scoreboard now shows how many players a crew has kicked
- Players that were kicked out of a team can no longer rejoin said team
Score changes:
- Normal cannonball hits now grant 20 points instead of 5
- Heavy cannonball hits now grant 30 points instead of 10
- Trap shot hits now grant 40 points instead of 15
- Anti-sail hits now grant 25 points instead of 10
- Explosive barrel hits now grant 80 points instead of 20
- Anti cannon hits now grant 40 points instead of 15
Bonus reward for smaller crews:
- If a crew has not kicked anyone during the entire match and wins with less players than the 2nd placed crew, each winning crew player gets an extra bonus reward
Ship ladder tweaks:
- Climbing sound volume decreased from 1 to 0.4
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a major bug with the ship culling that caused it to not work at all. There should be less framedrops and higher average FPS
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused previous weapon to not be re-equiped when leaving swimming state or climbing on deck from a ship ladder. Now your previous weapon will always be re-equiped properly
- Fixed a bug that caused the player to enter a vehicle when trying to pick up loot close to a vehicle when keybind of looting and interacting is the same
- Ladder climbing no longer jitters when climbing ladders on sinking ships
- Right click being stuck sometimes should be fixed
- Sprint not working sometimes should be fixed
- Fixed a small visual text issue with votekick and other kick or ban chat messages being cutoff and thus unreadable
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