Ahoy there Captains!
It's time for another update! As I had mentioned in the previous post, one of the main features of this update was boarding (crew against crew battles), which was a bit more complicated to add than I had initially thought.
One of the areas that saw a lot of work was controls, I went to a couple of showcase events and had the opportunity of seeing first hand people playing the game and some stuff that I though was easy to grasp turns out wasn't that obvious or at least user friendly. So camera mouse controls were redone, they're way better now and more coherent (at least I really hope so), and the fleet itself is also easier and less frustrating to control!
I wanted to add another skill "brawl" but it required loads more of playtesting and tweaking and I wanted you guys to have this update before xmas (which I ended up missing by a couple of days), so that got postponed to the next one.
Without further ado, here's a more or less complete list of the changes:
- cannons now have a larger range
- removed the need to acquire 3 pieces of blueprints, now as soon as it's unlocked you can equip it
- added crew morale (play's a big part in boarding)
- capturing fleets now awards gold (if the captured fleet is carrying any)
- added boarding and remade capture fleet menu flow (it's now possible to replace your ship with another one if you can only control one)
- added top bar (displays date, morale, captain's log button, time scale buttons)
- new cursors and other hud assets
- new camera controls, press and hold left mouse button to move the camera
- new camera controls, press and hold middle mouse button to rotate the camera
- it's now possible to right click anywhere on the map and the ship will move there
- you can now start drawing the ship's path anywhere on the map (no longer needs to be over the flagship)
- to draw the ship's path you now press and hold the right mouse button and drag the mouse around
- updated the tutorial to reflect all the changes
- fixed an occasional ui flicker glitch
- fixed adrift or sinking ships not being correctly saved
Some screens:
Your fellow captain
Ivo