Letters Of Marque Playtest · published · build 22912446

Here's the development log describing this update in more detail:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/letters-of-only-156014559
Highlights:
- Added a scoreboard
- Added unicode support (support for other non ascii languages in the text chat box)
- New players are now started off in dock
Minor Features
- the font can now be scaled up in the ui
- You can now hold w/s to increase and decrease sails, as a setting
- added freelook bound to lalt, with a swapping to set to mmb
- added timestamps to messages
- kills are now calculated from whoever applied the majority of damage to a boat when it sinks
- when you have a pending craft going, show how many items are in the warehouse already
- show how many items you already have of something in the crafting menu
- improve aim bar colouring
- added a welcome message
- convoy fight warmup is now reduced if every slot is filled
- coloured "can leave" green for more visibility
- factions are now displayed for players in right click menus
- trade convoys now display max attacking br, instead of max rate (which is not how the system works)
- you can now dm and friend people from the overworld
- improve the drag and drop experience for ship equipment
- tooltip text for ship crafting sizes
- the top right display now shows which ships are furthest or closest when displaying multiple ships
- added ship renaming
- added online count/status
- the convoy attack icon now flashes red to make it more obvious
- redid settings
- major rework of shadows
- battle stats in overworld (br, player counts)
- tagging an ai doesn't pull in other players
- convoy ship redistribution for a more realistic start
- Improved the constitutions hull texture
- The constitutions rear can now be coloured
Bugfixes:
- fix the wind shift icon pointing in the wrong direction
- fixed a minor issue with mouse capturing when hitting resume from the escape menu
- fixed some reconnection issues
- fix right click -> install in warehouse
- fix convoy fight warmups
- you can no longer attempt to dm hostile players. This never worked, but the client prevents the attempt now
- fix default window sizes
Balance Changes:
- Staysails are now less effective downwind
- Sail damage more severely impacts the sail efficacy
- The DPS of british crew has been buffed slightly