Crafted ships have received bonuses to side armor and structure hit points. · Heavier crafted ships have received slight bonuses to stern armor. · The quality of ships captured from NPCs has been adjusted to increase the value of crafted ships. · Stack sizes, maximum quantities per contract, and quantities available per purchase in shops have been significantly increased for resources and mater…
Today's hotfix fixed an issue where doubloons were missing from the Santisima Trinidad crafting recipe. Clarification regarding negative combat experience The update included a small rebalance of the combat experience thresholds for ranks. Player ranks themselves were not changed, but the difference between the new and previous experience thresholds may, in some cases, result in a negative comb…
Rules of Engagement Update · When initiating a PvP attack, only the battle ratings of the attacking ship and its target are compared. The attack cannot be initiated if the target ship’s battle rating is more than six times the battle rating of the attacking ship. · This restriction does not prevent a higher-rated ship from attacking a lower-rated ship. The total battle rating and size of the at…
Captains, The Caribbean Server is currently offline due to technical issues. It will be back online after the daily maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Test Server is open. Preliminary Patch Notes for the Test Server are available on the official forum: Preliminary Patch Notes The main goal of this test is to evaluate rewards from PvP activity, combat changes related to penetration and repairs, and the updated clan interface. Test Server Rewards · Players who participate in testbed testing will receive a percentage of the combat medals earned…
Rules of Engagement Changes · Players joining an ongoing battle will now spawn farther away from the enemy the later they join. · Example: if the initial spawn distance from the enemy is 750 m, then by the 45-minute mark it will increase to 2250 m (750 + 1500). Other Changes · Slightly increased the repair and turning bonuses granted by the Bravery perk.
Potential fix for NPC ships going off course in Raider Port Battles. Please keep an eye on NPC behaviour in these battles after today’s update and let us know if the issue still occurs.
The cooldown reduction provided by the Combat Repairs perk has been increased. When you sink an enemy, the cooldown of hull and sail repairs is now immediately reduced by 8 minutes instead of 3 minutes · The Bravery perk now also adds armor and sail repair amount bonuses, and its ship turning bonus has been increased from 1.5% to 5%
Early delivery mission improvements (more accessible and can be done in parallel to combat) · Improvements of heavy ships turning at speeds between 0-5 knots · Indiaman hold has been increased slightly
Adjusted the ratio of NPC fleets to solo NPCs based on player feedback. · Fixed a bug that could cause fishing to stop in some cases. · Fixed a bug that could prevent players from capturing a DLC ship even if they owned the required DLC.
Captains, We are aware of the technical issues on the Caribbean Server. The problem is under investigation. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.
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