Windy Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 For those that don't read the Dev BLOGs... Hello Captains. Here are our development plans for this winter and spring: Jan-May 2015. 1. New ship models The following list of vessels will be delivered for testing by the end of Spring. Some ships might get delayed by storms. Mercury brig La belle poule Ingermanland La Renomme Privateer Schooner (based on Lynx - with more guns) Brig Navy Edition (based on Brig - with more guns) HMS Pickle 28 gun light frigate Gunboat 2. Open world distance and speeds testing 3. Ship customization Ship parameters randomization Simple ship upgrades Simple loot Simple crafting 4. Gameplay Updated damage model 4.0 Improved sailing of for-and-aft rigs Better turning and rudder mechanics Commander tablet New game types: Operations gameplay – 24 hours large battle map with respawns, and shore defences 5. Other improvements Improved chat Manual Soft launch of early access on steam With your pre-orders we are moving significantly faster. Thank you for the continued support and feedback you are providing us with. Special thanks to all community correspondents, streamers and youtube content makers, who are making awesome videos about our game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Madoc Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Hooray... A timescale of when the new content will be added. Faith in NA is restored... Now how did no one spot this earlier? Seems it was posted on the 20th. Oh well at least I now know to keep an eye on the Dev Blog! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mass Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Lets just hope they get it sooner ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Looking good guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austrum Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Soft launch of early access on steam. can't wait. Yeah I am in the same boat so to speak hehe. I tend to impulse buy games like these and steam makes the easy. Unfortunately, the wait till Friday to get a key thing kind of turns me off. Right now for example, I have a strong desire to buy and play this weekend but since it is already late in the day on Friday, I would have to wait for 7 days for my key Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlade lArkl Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Super excited cannot wait thank you for the post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mass Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 How long to belle poulle or ingermanland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirones Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 focus is on open world but 3d models of both exist since some time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormtrooperCaptain Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 What can we expect with the open world testing? Like sailing between Europe & the Caribbean? Or just short distances, like from island to island? Also, is combat found in open world sailing? Or is combat instanced? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brigand Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Combat will be instanced, not a lot of details are yet available. The sailing in the open world will, for now, be confined to the Caribbean. The currently available area to sail in for the alpha stage is 16,000,000 km² (all of the Caribbean and then some). Yet, this should not be interpreted as 'just short distances', because it is a lot of sea and it will take some time before you have crossed the whole area.We are not sure where the actual borders are, or even of the width nor height ratio of the map; this example is 5000 × 3200 km (3,107 × 1,988 miles or 2,700 × 1,728 nautical miles). ~Brigand 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirones Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 only caribbean in prototype, testing in sailing time, battles are instanced because of diffrent timecompression settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormtrooperCaptain Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Can we expect the same level of detail put into the sailing part of the game? Instead of having a system that POTBS had, where the open world sailing was more of a board game and had no sense of beauty in it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpe Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 fun thing to try and do once released; see in how far the map matches the Sid Meiers Pirates game..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brigand Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 The open world is procedurally generated. Sailing around in the open world happens in 3D, not on a overhead map. There are images in another thread. ~Brigand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prater Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Combat will be instanced, not a lot of details are yet available. The sailing in the open world will, for now, be confined to the Caribbean. The currently available area to sail in for the alpha stage is 16,000,000 km² (all of the Caribbean and then some). Yet, this should not be interpreted as 'just short distances', because it takes is a lot of sea and it will take some time before you crossed the whole area. We are not sure where the actual borders are, or even of the width nor height ratio of the map; this example is 5000 × 3200 km (3,107 × 1,988 miles or 2,700 × 1,728 nautical miles). ~Brigand If it is a 4,000km x 4000km box it will take 14 hours to sail across the map edge in one of the faster ships if you have good wind and take the 150kn speed shown in the dev pictures. To sail across diagonally, it would take about 20 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I doubt the map they're making is to scale. That would mean about 14 billion individual trees on the coastlines. Maybe that's achievable if everything is procedurally generated local to the player and not saved, but even Daggerfall's map was only the size of England. https://daggerxl.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/ryuranx_sod_1.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brigand Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 The thing you can do with procedurally generated content is near infinite. There is a tech demo from 2010, which shows of the a star galaxy, where everything from stars to individual pebbles in dust rings around planets 'exist'. ~Brigand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormtrooperCaptain Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 So excited for the next few patches. Hopefully seeing the new ship customization brought in soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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