Developer Dan here to celebrate the official release of Ship of Fools’ brand new content update: Fish & Ships! Aaaaandd (drumroll) … the release of our brand new pack of Fools: the Water Garden Duo! Watch this trailer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxoao2beYRE
This new update brings a ton to the archipelago! Let’s go over some of the most notable new features.
Give the curious bell a jingle to meet your new gooey and tentacley best friend Otto, a shipwright with enough tools to repair your ships, but most importantly, mend the wounds of your broken heart.
You’ll first be introduced to Otto when you have beaten Tentacles twice or if you’ve completed a run at least once. Unlike his other fellow Krakens, Otto is more passionate about ship construction rather than their destruction.
The process is simple: after unlocking a new ship, interact with Otto using your character's secondary action to access the shipwright menu. From there, you have the freedom to switch between any unlocked ships at will. You can also monitor your progress towards unlocking new ships and achieving the brightness challenges for each one. I'm curious about the outcome when reaching brightness level 15 with a ship … I wonder what awaits?
Each ship grants access to 2 unique items, allowing you to craft run strategies with a refreshing sea breeze. To activate their abilities, every ship's unique artifact utilizes Tendrils.
Speaking of new ships, here is one of them! Meet the Siren’s Call, a vessel carved by the legendary Sirens from the same rocks that constitute their magical artifacts. With the Siren’s Call, you’ll have one less pedestal on deck, but have access to a miniature version of the recycling well to optimize your builds on the go!
The Well
Insert a tendril to activate, once active, insert any item to recycle it into another of the same type.
Siren Scale
While this ammunition inflicts minimal damage, it applies a random effect with each hit! To unleash its full potential, you’ll need to harness every possible elemental synergy.
May this latest content update bring many more adventuring hours for you and your shipmate across the archipelago's waters! A heartfelt thank you to each member of the Fool community for your unwavering support throughout this inaugural year of Ship of Fools. Our game dev journey has been nothing short of wonderful, and we hope to keep sailing with you all for a long time! If you're inclined to support the dev team in a meaningful way, please consider diving into the all-new Pack of Fools, a creation inspired by the captivating charm of your local water garden.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2512030/Ship_of_Fools__Water_Garden_Duo/
v1.2.0 patch notes
Fish & Ships content and features
- New NPC: Otto the Shipwright
- Shipwright challenges to unlock ships
- Brightness Shipwright challenges to unlock items
- 3 new ships to unlock
- 18 new items to unlock
- Secret ship adornments to unlock
- “A Whale of a Time” achievement
- “Reduce Reuse Recycle” achievement
- “Beast Tamer” achievement
- “Festive Fleet” achievement
The Garden Duo DLC content
- New Fool: Noh the cat fish
- New Fool: Mikoi the koi fish
- “Catrate Master” achievement (DLC)
- “Belting Overseas” achievement (DLC)
Balance changes:
- Gold bullet multiplier is now additive instead of multiplicative
- Holy trident paddle size multiplier 2 → 1.75
- The corkscrew trinket will now consider the Rancid Oil trinket as a bottle
- Cluck - Egg laying delay changed from 15 to 25 seconds → 10 to 15 seconds
- Chance of laying regular egg: 95%→ 50%
- Chance of laying special egg: 5% → 50%
- Add mamagull egg to special egg pool - Time delay between critical enemy projectiles in hard mode - Solo 3 → 6 seconds
- Co-op 2 → 4 seconds - The Beacon artifact now starts in its active state
Miscellaneous:
- Improve Darkness Cave Island visuals
- Add French translation credits video
- Add cancel defend and super charge action by pression roll button
- Remove encounters containing falling standalone spider bombs
- Prevent self-inflicted damage (damage from Mikoi’s ability and damage from payment at the carpentry) from breaking holy artifacts
- Add NPC skins for Gertrude and Woody for each sector
- Add ship visual variations for each sector
Optimizations:
- Memory usage reduction during gameplay
- Sector loading time reduction
- Lag spike occurrences reduction when enemies spawn
Bug Fixes:
- Fix All the Treasures of the Sea achievement not unlocking
- Fix music composer Philippe Grant name misspelled in the credits (sorry Phil)
- Fix Magic Hat ability not working for client player in an online game
- Fix darkness cave island invisible for client player in an online game
- Fix Max level grapeshot special bounce ability only applying to 1 projectile instead of all when fully charged
- Fix enemy projectile damaging boat when a client performs a reflect that should have blocked it in an online game
- Fix client only repairing one tile with a plank bundle in an online game
- Fix Eye of The Storm warping animation not showing for client in an online game
- Fix Lotte ability able to reload a cannon disabled by the Dark Cannon Curse (Thanks to discord user @ShadowKitsune for reporting)
- Fix players not dying when purchasing an item at the carpentry while the Double Edge Sword artifact is equipped (Thanks to discord user @Terofale for reporting)
- Fix Dark Cannon Curse not working correctly in an online game
- Fix harpoon sound not fading out when off-screen (Thanks to discord user @PremiumPumpkin and @xSkyDiver for reporting)
- and many more
Now that the Stormstrider is ready to sail into the Forgotten Waters make sure that you...
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