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Put on your pirate pantaloons for this update's addition of skull bounties. Skull bounties are a new expansion to expedition PvP. You can take on a skull bounty by adding the black flag to your ship. If a skull bounty ship destroys another skull bounty ship, it will receive the full build cost of the destroyed ship as a reward in addition to whatever bounty the ship collected. Ships using the black flag receive no free resources. The approximate location of all skull bounty ships are visible on the minimap.
The goal of the new skull bounty system is incentivize PvP without directing it towards players uninterested in PvP.
This update also adds two small features to help new players overcome early hurdles. First, when a ship fails verification in the hangar, the offending parts are made obvious so a new builder wouldn't need to start over to fix any issues. Second, all expedition objectives can now be clicked on to open a tool tip with information describing how to complete them.
1.11.4
Major Features
- Added skull bounties. You can take on a skull bounty by adding the black flag to your ship.
Minor Features
- Doubled siege rewards.
- Activating an in-progress siege antennae will register your team to receive shares of the reward when the wave is complete.
- Added a 30 second damage lockout on fort extraction.
- Ships without at least one engine or pressure well cannot extract. You will receive a message in chat if you attempt to extract such a ship.
- Replaced the solo siege button with a solo expedition button. You can now launch and play expedition locally.
- Added objective description popups when you click on objective panels in the TAB menu.
- When verification fails in the hangar, overlapping parts will be highlighted in red and valid parts will be made transparent.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed AI turrets firing while not looking at their target.
- Fixed deep stripe colors not appearing on ships for players that connect after the ship is built.
- Fixed the client's turret body not matching their cosmetics.