14 Nov 2023 - FallingNinja
Early Access Build 5
Release Notes
Versus Battle
- Fleet Battle is renamed to Versus Battle
- New Game Mode Selection
- Joust: ships travel “on rails” on a predetermined line. Accuracy and orientation are key. This is the original game mode.
- Tactics: enables setting waypoints for ship movements, similar to real-time strategy (RTS) style controls. More control at the expense of increased responsibility.
New Features
- Prepare Broadsides ability: instantly align all turrets on a warship to port, starboard, or the start position
- Click to select: clicking any eligible friendly warship on the screen will now possess that ship
- Hits counter: the number of successful hits now displays for the selected warship in the HUD
- Note: a direct hit = 2, glancing blow = 1
Misc Additions & Improvements
- Improved graphics: the material textures on ships have been revised to a higher quality/level of detail
- Fix some minor visual issues in the Change Allegiance menu (Campaign)
- Fix an error with the camera during level selection (Campaign)
- Fix a defect that would occasionally cause the camera to teleport to the water surface level during binocular mode
Multiplayer
- Implement tactics mode option for multiplayer battles
- Fix an issue where teammates could inadvertently change their ally’s camera view when changing turrets on a possessed ship
- Fix an issue where selection circles would fail to clear when possessing a new unit (Tactics)
Known Issues
- (Multiplayer) Statistics (i.e. score, hits, accuracy) count fails to properly display for non-hosting players (doesn’t affect victory conditions)
- The dreadnought broadside ability can cause side turrets to aim at an angle that is not normally possible