X Marks The Spot!

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X Marks The Spot!

Be a Treasure Hunter and collect Timeless Relics!

• New Repeatable Treasure Hunting objectives that pay Gold and Stamps.
• Discover New Relics and complete your collection.
• Combine new Treasure Clues to craft Treasure Maps.

Collect Treasure Clues hidden across the Bermuda Triangle to put together Treasure maps.
Check your crafting recipes in Player Crafting and Workbenches to combine treasure clues.

Click and Use the Treasure Map to place an 'X' on the map in a random location. Press [M] to see the location on the map.

Mysterious Relics

Mysterious Relics maybe found when digging up the Treasure in the X Marks the Spot objective.
Sail to the marked location with a shovel and dig up the treasure to find Mysterious Relics or more treasure clues! Click and Use the Mysterious Relic to reveal a Random Rare Collectible Relic.

Treasure Clues drop from Common and Rare Treasure Caches, Trade Blockade Ships, Flotsams, Enemy Ports, Coffer drops from the sky, Smugglers, and Scavengers etc. Lost Chest on starter island gives a guaranteed Treasure Clue and a Shovel to get you started!

New Treasure Display Shelf

Craft a New Treasure Display Shelf to display all your collected Relics and trigger achievements. Exchange any surplus Relics for gold at a Trader. Collect a set of several Relics hidden across the map and place them inside the Treasure Display Shelf.

The Relics that are displayed in the Treasure Display Shelf do have a main story quest significance that is yet to be revealed. You may want to discover and hold on to at least 1 set of Relics and sell or exchange the surplus Relics at a Trader or give to a friend.

New Salvager Ship (The Sloop)

A new ship in a bottle to behold! The Salvager, a sloop class ship designed to fit perfectly with your treasure hunting desires. Increased loot pickup range, agility, cargo and speed. While not a ship fitted for heavy combat, it can hold its own in small skirmishes. Fast and agile enough to catch up with Smugglers, and takes significantly reduced damage when on the run! Its purpose is to treasure hunt, and run away before too many enemies overwhelm you.

• This ship can be obtained in Sir Jim’s shop for stamps.
• It can also obtained by finishing a new Quest: Sir Jim’s Ship In A Bottle.
• This ship has bonus to Fire Damage and has Bonus Resistance to Physical Damage

Inertia is now enabled on Boats

We know that boats don’t start and stop on a whim. We had this disabled in our early development phase to keep things simple for performance and networking reasons. Our goal is to keep boat navigation and controls overall simple and intuitive, but a little immersion is also good for gameplay. We have enabled a small amount of non-intrusive inertia on all boats. Boat movement control will overall feel a bit more natural and smoother, but not cumbersome. Be advised, this feature is enabled on Single Player mode only.

Improved Handing, Storage and Pickup Range on All Ships

• Better Pickup Range on all boats, and Better Handling and Turning
• You can Pick up nearby items in the ocean from an increased ranged by pressing the F key while mounted.
• More Storage slots in Ships, Players and Chests

Shrink the Ship Back Into The Bottle!

Apollo (The Shady Trader) now sells an item, the “Ship Shrinker”. You can now shrink your ship back in the bottle should you desire. To shrink your ship, simply put the item in the ship’s cargo hold (aka inventory).

Ship Shrinker will only work if your ship has no missing health. As in you may not be able to shrink it in combat or when taking damage in battle. However, if you can run away from enemies and heal your ship to full. You can shrink it back. Any cargo in the hold will be sent to your vault at Fort Pangea. To access your vault, visit Sir Jim at Fort Pangea.

New Steam Achievements

New Steam Achievements have been added to go along with your Treasure Hunting!
A New Steam Achievement is added to throw a ship in a bottle in the ocean. This can be completed by throwing any ship in the bottle in the ocean. To make it easier, you can obtain a free Salvager Sloop by finishing the new quest Sir Jim’s Sloop which will be given to all players who have finished a certain set of quests.

New Falling Coffer Caches

New Item “Coffers” can be collected in the ocean in remote areas of the ocean. Coffers are dropped in the ocean from the Pangea Air ship in the sky (story). While you may not always see the Air Ship since it hovers high above the clouds, you may see coffers fall from the sky. Coffers may contain treasure clues and some common resources for players.

Keep an eye out for falling caches from the sky! These caches do disappear, so if you see one fall, go to it. Remember, they are only dropped in the outskirt sections of the map around the smaller islands and far edges of the map. You will only see them as long as your ship isn't idle in the ocean and is moving.

New First Person Camera Option

Toggle between First and Third Person camera mode to make your gameplay more interesting and immersive! Press the F7 key when in game to switch views.

Currently this feature is experimental, and your camera setting will not be saved in preferences. While we intend for both settings to co-exist for all players, let us know which mode you prefer playing in!

New Framerate Limit Setting

To follow up with our last update, we have added an FPS limit setting to the game’s Home Screen. This can be chosen before getting into the game. While we will do everything possible to make sure the game runs at optimum levels, it is a good idea to regularly take care of your PC components. Dust and clean your components regularly to avoid overheating issues. If needed, choose proper settings in your NVIDIA or AMD control panels or similar. You can set FPS limits and fine tune other graphic settings via your GPU specific control panels.

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