Joust: ships travel “on rails” on a predetermined line. Accuracy and orientation are key. This is the original game mode.
Tactics: enables setting waypoints for ship movements, similar to real-time strategy (RTS) style controls. More control at the expense of increased responsibility.
New Features
Prepare Broadsides ability: instantly align all turrets on a warship to port, starboard, or the start position
Click to select: clicking any eligible friendly warship on the screen will now possess that ship
Hits counter: the number of successful hits now displays for the selected warship in the HUD
Note: a direct hit = 2, glancing blow = 1
Misc Additions & Improvements
Improved graphics: the material textures on ships have been revised to a higher quality/level of detail
Fix some minor visual issues in the Change Allegiance menu (Campaign)
Fix an error with the camera during level selection (Campaign)
Fix a defect that would occasionally cause the camera to teleport to the water surface level during binocular mode
Multiplayer
Implement tactics mode option for multiplayer battles
Fix an issue where teammates could inadvertently change their ally’s camera view when changing turrets on a possessed ship
Fix an issue where selection circles would fail to clear when possessing a new unit (Tactics)
Known Issues
(Multiplayer) Statistics (i.e. score, hits, accuracy) count fails to properly display for non-hosting players (doesn’t affect victory conditions)
The dreadnought broadside ability can cause side turrets to aim at an angle that is not normally possible