Heave ho, mateys, to the Outfit Shop we go!
Put on your best pirate digs, and get ready for the Fashionable Update for Paper Pirates - bringing a hundred new outfit customisation options, which you can unlock by playing games of Paper Pirates, plus a whole new way to choose your events in custom games, and much more! Read on for the full details of everything included in this month’s update!
Earn Coins as you Play!
As you sail the seven seas, you’ll earn coins as a reward. Playing a Default game will grant you a small amount of coins, and playing a Scored game will grant you coins based on the amount of coins earned by each player pirate in the game. Your total coins can be viewed from the title screen - and if you’ve already been playing Scored Games, you might find that you already have some coins saved up from games you’ve played before 2.3!
Spend Coins to Unlock New Outfit Customisations!
But what can you do with those coins? You can spend them at the all-new Outfit Shop! Sam Sherbot, the Shopkeep, has opened their brand new Outfit Shop - and is selling 100 new outfit customisation options across all categories! The Outfit Shop lets you try on new pieces, and once purchased, you can access them from the outfit customiser in the lobby before starting your game.
Events? They’re the Crew’s Choice!
Custom Games have a new option under the ‘Events’ tab, which allows you to switch your event selection mode between Random (events selected randomly) and the new Crew’s Choice option. When Crew’s Choice is chosen, each day, every crew member will be offered a selection of possible events, and will vote on the event they’d like to happen. The more votes an event receives, the more likely it is to happen - but the actual event that’s picked is all down to the Compass of Fate! Crew’s Choice adds a whole new way to play, and another opportunity for pirates to get involved in voting and discussion - we love it, and we hope you will too!
If you’re playing with an audience, an audience event will be added to the Compass of Fate every day at least one person votes, and could be chosen to really mix things up in your game!
Bot Voting Improvements
Our bots have gotten a little smarter, and will now make more informed decisions when asked to vote in events. They’ll attempt to use any knowledge they have, such as whether they think someone is a confirmed human or ghost, to make decisions in events such as exorcism - so you should hopefully see some more sensible bot plays in games with less human pirates!
Audience Mode Improvements
Pirates who join the audience will experience a newly improved audience flow, which offers more guidance, instructions and explanation on how audience mode interacts with the game. The audience will be able to see which events other audience members voted for, and when you’re not currently voting, there’s a prompt to let you know what the next thing you can do is.
Audience members will also have access to the game log from the point they started observing a game, and there’s a new question mark button which offers a quick overview of the rules of Paper Pirates!
Additionally, audience members will now see in-game when an event is chosen by their votes. Look out for the “Audience’s Choice” badge on the event messages!
A Few Other Things
- Certain elements of the game (such as the lobby) have been given a revised look and feel, to ensure consistency
- Crew in the lobby now have a ‘Ready?’ button they can use to signal that they’ve finished customising their pirate and they’re ready for the game to begin
- Auto-Hide Room Code will now hide the room code in-game, but can be revealed by clicking on the room code cloud
- The maximum length of chat messages has been increased slightly
- Our new shopkeeper, Sam Sherbot, may rarely join you on a voyage as a bot. Look out for them on your trips!
Bug Fixes
- The Immunity event didn’t always present a countdown timer to prompt the Captain to choose quickly, but the timer should now always pop-up
- A few very rare server crashes have been fixed, so hopefully games are more robust!
- Fixed an issue which could cause games to start on days that weren’t numbered 1
- In the lobby, the room code no longer blocks the view of the pirates in the bottom right of the screen
As always, don’t forget that you can join us every Saturday at 8pm BST on Twitch for our weekly dev stream, or pop by our YouTube channel to see Let’s Plays of Paper Pirates, How To videos and more!