Unique (3/21): A brand new replace has been introduced for Sail Forth. Titled “The Fleet Replace”, this goals to handle group suggestions on gaming development and administration, and consists of a wide range of modifications and fixes to the gameplay mechanics and methods to permit for smoother and extra versatile development. Further modifications have additionally been put in place to help future content-focused updates. No launch date for the up to date has been introduced, however the full patch notes might be discovered beneath:
Fleet Administration – The Dock
The aim right here is to allow extra playstyles and help you accumulate new ships in a satisfying method. Don’t wish to cope with a fleet? Retailer all further boats in your dock and use them like further lives. Obtained a neat boat for a specialised goal? Deliver it out of the dock whenever you wish to use it.
Boats might be saved at a dock, accessible from the fleet administration menu every time not in fight
Limitless boats might be saved on the dock together with their crew and loadout
In case your complete fleet sinks however you’ve got docked boats, you’ll be able to undock them to proceed the combat
Beforehand in locations the place you would purchase a ship (encounters, boarding), you might need needed to scrap it as a result of no remaining room within the fleet, now it may be saved on the dock instantly
Fleet Administration – Orders and AI
A few of the most typical suggestions in regards to the recreation to this point has been that the fleet AI doesn’t do a fantastic job of avoiding collisions. I spent a bunch of time overhauling the best way the AI sees the world round it and increasing your potential to regulate them.
Vastly improved navigation AI: Your fleet (and different AI boats) must be far more adept at avoiding collisions
The ‘set order’ performance of earlier demos has been restored and up to date
Fleet boats might be advised to Escort, Maintain Place, or Maintain Fireplace
Also can concern considered one of these instructions to your complete fleet without delay
Your fleet will try to flee fight and return to your flagship if you’re not shut by
Development Balancing
One other frequent little bit of suggestions from the group was that the development felt a bit unusual. Having massive ships accessible from the primary store you encounter meant that some gamers would grind it out instantly and never really feel any have to improve for the remainder of the sport. With this in thoughts, the set of accessible ships has been modified to unfold out the development extra sensibly all through the sport’s chapters. Particular because of Neizod from the group for a fantastic writeup on the Steam discussion board about this drawback!
Based mostly on suggestions lots of the boats within the recreation have had their stability tweaked, along with a revised unlock development
Every new Shipshape Store encountered will unlock a brand new boat of that chapter’s tier
Bigger ships are actually unlocked later within the recreation and have had their costs up to date to mirror this
Eliminated boat choice from tutorial sequence to curate a extra constant intro expertise
Content material Updates
This isn’t a content-focused replace however I did discover a while so as to add a little bit of stuff. The brand new Tekk Speedboat ought to make the Tekk Clan fleets a bit extra fascinating to combat, and the Croaker bounties have been overhauled to current a much bigger problem. Many individuals have requested for extra potential to customise their crew-members, and this replace brings a small first step in direction of this, providing you with the flexibility to set their colours individually from the boat/sail colours.
The way in which enemies are positioned on the earth has been overhauled, which is able to permit for brand new varieties of content material sooner or later
For now the principle distinction is that hostile areas resembling forts have an opportunity to spawn new enemies every day
Up to date Croaker Bounty encounters which now scale in measurement and issue
Introducing the Tekk Clan Speedboat: a quick and flippantly armed engine-powered vessel
Tekk Subs are actually applied as correct ‘boats’ in recreation phrases, giving them higher physics and AI
Tekk Destroyer weapon slots elevated to 4
Up to date visuals for Lightkeeper Flagship: Based mostly on suggestions the design of the ship has been revised with a extra real looking and higher trying sail rig
Crew coloration customization: Your crew’s coloration scheme is now chosen individually from the sail colours
Different fixes and modifications
Up to date tutorial system: The outdated tutorial system felt a bit heavy handed as it will often pause the sport and drive you to do one thing that you simply probably already know easy methods to do
Tutorials now use a ‘guidelines’ system that by no means pauses the sport, and are a lot much less intrusive
New tutorial added for digital camera zoom controls
‘Suggestions’ possibility now accessible from the pause menu to report bugs instantly from the sport
Improved capsizing logic: In case your boat capsizes, your crew is briefly thrown within the water and should spend some essential time flipping the boat proper facet up once more, which might be devastating in a battle. Watch these sails!
Many smaller bug fixes and tweaks, too many to enumerate right here
Sail Forth is offered now digitally on Swap through the eShop.
Replace (4/9): “The Fleet” replace for Sail Forth is now reside on Swap.