Captains
Patch is being deployed today
Epic events reworked.
- Epic events now allow only 6 ships to enter (spawning 9 enemies)
- Epic events now spawn epic (strong) enemies. If you sink or board a ship in an epic event you can pick up a chest from a destroyed ship.†
- Players will have to show strong coordination to be able to destroy those stronger enemies.
- For first stage of testing we will run the Lineship event (that spawn in unprotected waters around the caribbean). After this initial test we will add a frigate event as well.
Port battle changes
- Port battles now allow limited battle rating based on the city size. We used historical city sizes initially. Please comment on the port battles sizes in the comments and propose changes if any changes needed
Open world loot
- Open world bots and hostility missions now drop better loot depending on ship size.
- Mission bots drop less rare loot on average.
- If you are searching for a particular rare book - you have a better chance to get it by hunting†NPCs in the open world.
Other changes
- PvP marks have returned. PvP rewards added to the admiralty store.†
- pvp kills now grant both pvp marks and combat marks
- 2lb gun has been added to game for use on the ships with swivels. First ship with swivels will be added to game in one of the next hotfixes
- Timers have been tuned slightly. Invisibility timer is now 30 seconds, cannot attack and be attacked is now 45 seconds
- Reinforcement bot stats slightly changed
- Speed cap has been increased to 15.5 knots
- All % caps have been increased by 5% to provide more variability in fitouts
- Turn rates have been improved for Endymion, Constitution, Agamemnon, Trincomalee, Indefatigable
- Damage from fire slightly increased (for testing)
- Explosions now affect ship structure
- Shot logger has been switched off
- Fixed the bug that some contested ports are not shown in the list of the contested ports
- Fixed the bug that did not auto-repair the rudder on the Indefatigable and several other ships
In the next hotfixes
- Ship stats†and BR rebalance†(more on this later)
- Le Gros Ventre Refit
- Epic event tuning and frigate epic pve event
- Port battle BR limits tuning based on feedback
Next large patch
- Tutorial
Le Gros Ventre Refit pictures