Calling all ye landlubbers!
We've been working hard the past two weeks, in quarantine nevertheless, to bring you an awesome new update - Chat and Hats!
Hats! That's right! We saw that your pirate outfits were looking a bit... lackluster, so this update brings 30 new unlockable hats! Each achievement will unlock a new hat for you to customise your pirate with in the lobby.
We've also listened to your feedback and added an audience mode feature so that people who watch you play can have some agency in the game. Don't worry, if you don't want people to spectate on your game, you can disable spectators completely - but where’s the fun in that?
The full list of awesome new content includes:
- Missed out on a game? Don’t panic! Now you can join as a spectator! Jump into a game in progress, using the Room Code, and you’ll be able to observe that game - plus you’ll be able to play along, using our new spectator mode features!
- And we would have got away with it too, if it wasn’t for those meddling spectators! Between rounds, the spectators can vote on a choice of events. The more popular the event, the more likely it is to happen. It could be bad news for the Captain if things don’t go their way...
- Spooky sensations! If the audience has a feeling for who might be a ghost, they can get in on the voting action! Make a vote, and the players will find out who the audience suspects after their voting has completed...
- How many people are in your audience? Check the top right of the screen - we’ve added an audience tracker, to show how many people are spectating your current game!
- Ability to turn off the in-game chat features, for when you’re playing with less sea-worthy crew members!
- Earning an achievement is its own reward, but we thought we could do one better. Each achievement now unlocks an extra-special, never-before-seen, cosmetic hat to add more variety to pirate customisation!
- As if that wasn’t exciting enough, some of the most extra-special hats come with an added bonus: animations. That’s right, these hats really move! Time to get working on completing that achievement list!
- And better yet, hats that follow the motion of the ocean! We’ve got some physics going on to make some of the new hats extra special!
- Unlocked all of the new hats? But where do I put them on? Hats are just where you’d expect them - on a pirate’s head! When customising your pirate in the lobby, keep tapping the ‘head’ button on your device until you get a hat you love!
- But how do I know when I’ve unlocked a new hat? Don’t worry, keep an eye out for any Steam achievements, because they’ll also come with the new “Hat Unlock” popup!
- Did we mention hats? We’re very excited about the hats!
- We also added Paper Pirates as a recognised game on Twitch, so if you’re livestreaming you’ll now be able to select it as your current game!
We’ll be moving this week's livestream over to the Iteration Games YouTube channel, so make sure to go check that out for some fun playing with us!