Ahoy!

Horde Mode

Avast!

Rotation Change

Added CoOp vs Bots Mode

Ahoy!

Rotation Change

Custom Game Lobby Tweaks

Avast!

Rotation Change

10 Minute Custom Mode

Avast!

Rotation Change

Minor Changes

Ahoy!

Rotation Change

Renamed Turtle Ship

Controller Support

Ahoy!

Rotation Change

Renamed Turtle Ship

Controller Support

Avast!

Rotation Change

Bot difficulty

Additional Turtle Ship Buff

Bug Fixes

Avast!

Rotation Change

Bot difficulty

Additional Turtle Ship Buff

Bug Fixes

Ahoy!

Rotation Change

Private Matches

Ahoy!

Rotation Change

Private Matches

Turtle Ship buff

Avast ye scurvy sea-dogs! We are working to address various crashes and errors during Match Making both during load and while in a match.

Rotation Change

Avast ye scurvy sea-dogs! We are working to address various crashes and errors during Match Making both during load and while in a match.

Rotation Change

Ahoy!

Host Leaving Early During Custom Matches

Bot Icons in Lobby

SFX Tweaks

Ahoy!

Host Leaving Early During Custom Matches

Bot Icons in Lobby

SFX Tweaks

Avast ye scurvy sea-dogs!

Rotation Change

Match Making Changes

• Reduced queue time down to 60 seconds.
• Increased bot fill count to 8.

Hull Upgrade Repair Nerf

Bug Fixes

• Iron Horns now properly warns users when not enough gold to use ability.
• Fixed an issue where international currencies weren't charged the right amounts.
• Fixed an issue with Ghastly Crow smoke on Match Making.
• Fixed various server side issues on queueing.

Avast ye scurvy sea-dogs!

Rotation Change

Match Making Changes

• Reduced queue time down to 60 seconds.
• Increased bot fill count to 8.

Hull Upgrade Repair Nerf

Bug Fixes

• Iron Horns now properly warns users when not enough gold to use ability.
• Fixed an issue where international currencies weren't charged the right amounts.
• Fixed an issue with Ghastly Crow smoke on Match Making.
• Fixed various server side issues on queueing.

Ahoy! Yesterday marked our launch into Early Access!

Matchmaking Live!

Turtle ship Added

• Added our fith boat to the game; designed for mid-range combat
• Passive reduces incoming cannonball damage: 3/5/7
• Active ability Hwacha: Fires 6/9/12 rockets that deal up to 30 damage, increasing as it gets further away.

Ships on rotation

• 2/22 to 3/1 The Brigand, Iron Horns, and Turtle ship
• 3/1 to 3/8 Ghastly Crow, Spitting Dragon, and Turtle ship

Map Updated

• Slight adjustments to several islands that were too close together
• Fixed several hitbox issues.
• Fixed several LOD issues that were causing poping.

Tutorial Minimap Added

• Added a minimap to the tutorial map.

Main Menu Refresh

• Moved various UI elements around
• New Tutorial, Match Making, Custom Match selection screen

Ahoy! Yesterday marked our launch into Early Access!

Matchmaking Live!

Turtle ship Added

• Added our fith boat to the game; designed for mid-range combat
• Passive reduces incoming cannonball damage: 3/5/7
• Active ability Hwacha: Fires 6/9/12 rockets that deal up to 30 damage, increasing as it gets further away.

Ships on rotation

• 2/22 to 3/1 The Brigand, Iron Horns, and Turtle ship
• 3/1 to 3/8 Ghastly Crow, Spitting Dragon, and Turtle ship

Map Updated

• Slight adjustments to several islands that were too close together
• Fixed several hitbox issues.
• Fixed several LOD issues that were causing poping.

Tutorial Minimap Added

• Added a minimap to the tutorial map.

Main Menu Refresh

• Moved various UI elements around
• New Tutorial, Match Making, Custom Match selection screen

Avast ye scurvy sea-dogs!

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Minimap Updated

• New minimap artwork
• Trade routes are now visible, trade ships have been removed from minimap
• Improved performance

Bug Fixes

• Fixed zombie trade ships on clients
• Improved server stability and various server errors

Avast ye scurvy sea-dogs!

Minimap Updated

• New minimap artwork
• Trade routes are now visible, trade ships have been removed from minimap
• Improved performance

Bug Fixes

• Fixed zombie trade ships on clients
• Improved server stability and various server errors

Avast! This latest patch has various changes that include: Hitbox fix for the rock archway. New translations on the main menu; not all text has been changed yet. Better key rebinding on the options menu. Controller support on the main menu. Smarter anti-cheat for ship movement that is more flexible on unstable network connections. Over this past month we've been working more on our server code as well as refactoring how we manage game information and ship stats; this will make adding the new boats that we have planned for our next phase of development go smoother. Best, Robert Dunlap Extrokold Games

Ahoy!

HUD Improvements

• Kill icons are now in.
• Highlight changes on killfeed.
• Upgrade available text added / flashes.
• Added one minute remaining text.
• Changed clock font color to white.
• Clock color changes to yellow and motion during last 30 seconds.
• Added 10 second countdown.
• Quest text movement.

Balance Changes

• Ghastly Crow death gas time increased: [strike]4.5 seconds[/strike] -> 6 seconds
• Ghastly Crow poison damage changed: 7/14/18 -> 9/13/18
• Ghastly Crow bonus speed removed: 0/6/12% -> 0/0/0
• Trade ships now pick up ship wrecks.

SFX

• Added new dopler effect on cannon balls.
• New card entry and exit audio.
• Water splashes when getting hit.
• Audio levels and adjustments.

Other fixes

• Controller joysticks now use exponential rather than linear mapping.
• Various fixes to cached particle & trade ship from object pooling.
• Fixed ship explosion particle timing being off.
• Fixed issue with KOTH timing resetting while clients were capturing.
• Fixed issue with KOTH icon and hill not going away on clients.

Ahoy!

Graphics Improvements

• Reflections now softly fade out as they get further away.
• Sails on the Brigand, Spitting Dragon, Ghastly Crow, and Iron Horns now ripple from wind.
• Increased the number of volcanos visible in the distance.
• Added VFX sparkles on the player ship when upgrade is available.
• Minimap shows 1st place player as gold.
• Zoomed out Minimap for further view distance.
• Added wakes for Bayonet ship.

Perf improvements

• Improved batching on water rendering.
• Added particle batching on Ghastly Crow gas.

Balance Changes

• Decreased Iron Horns dash time & range across all levels.
• Spitting Dragon's Flamethrower lvl 0 and lvl 2 have increased/decreased respectively by a bit to move it closer to lvl 1.
• Increased max ship speed by 7% across all sail levels
• Decreased ship acceleration by 7% across all sail levels
• Increased Brigand gold earned per cannon ball: 5 / 5 / 5 -> 5 / 7 / 9

Tutorial Fixes

Avast! This build has our first pass at the new particle effects for Unearned Bounty! Let us know your thoughts or if you have any degregation of performance.

New VFXs

• Cannon firing effect
• Cannon Ball trail effect
• Ship death explosion effect
• Ship hit effect
• Ship upgrade effect

King of the Hill bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where KOTH color wasn't changing for clients
• Properly set KOTH count down to 1 minute

Ahoy! We've been doing a lot of behind the scenes improvements to the game and planning and prototyping over the past to find the next steps on where we're taking the game. We have some cool VFX improvements coming in the next week, so be on the lookout!

Performance Improvements

• Multithreading for collisions and AI systems are now implemented
• Reduced memory leaks and better object pooling reducing garbage collection spikes

Graphical Improvements

• Improved rope rendering when Anti-aliasing is turned on
• Added wind to Spitting Dragon sails, other ships will have wind on soon.

Misc Changes

• Improved bot AI
• Improvements & bug fixes to objective system
• SFX improvements on cannon shots, death, and new waterfall SFX
• Improved our database backend to make feature development easier

Ahoy! Here is a rollup of changes since the last set of notes.

Head Up Display changes

Objectives

Improved terrain shader

Map changes

Ahoy! This patch went live on the 10th: Fixed Metal rendering issues on newer Mac devices making them all pink. Fixed white blobs due to graphical errors on the wakes. Minor performance improvement when firing cannon balls. Best, Robert Dunlap Extrokold Games

Avast Scallywags! Here are the changes for today's build.

Mac graphical bugs fixed

Island camera clipping

Ahoy maties! Here are the changes for today's build.

Smoother trade ship paths

Unity 5.6 upgrade

Ahoy maties! Here are the changes for today's build.

New Sound Effects

• Opening animation squence
• Ship selection
• Upgrade animation
• Placeholder ability

Graphical Tweaks

• New flame/smoke visual effect on ships hit by Spitting Dragon; to show that they're taking dot.
• Screen space effect when taking various forms of damage; Green for posion, Orange/Red-ish pulse for fire, and Red for other damage.
• Trade ship hull & sails turn black as they're damaged.

Misc

• HUD health bar is now larger
• Loading now shows when joining a custom game lobby

Ahoy! Here are a roll up of changes that were made this week.

Graphical Tweaks

Avast! Here are a couple minor fixes and tweaks following this week's earlier update. Voice Over effects now play significantly less frequently. Added several hover, selected, and disabled visual effects on the main menu. Top tier chests are now purchasable. Updated Store prices; now 500/2000/8000 for chests and 50,000 gold for ships. Ship sail emblems now properly work in game. Fixed the start timer for the volcano effect. Bots now have a lower arc of fire behind them. Bots deal less damage: 25->20 per cannon ball. Best, Robert Dunlap

Ahoy! We got a lot of out of match experience stuff together in this build! We've finished up our new main menu flow to allow navigation between the lobby, customization, and store to be more seemless. The goal is while you're waiting on a match to start you can still get the full customization experience from within the collection menu. We'll still be adding in some breadcrumbs and polish but this build brings us a step closer to where we want to be.

Earning Gold & Unlocking Chests

New Results Screen

Ahoy! We got a bunch of stuff in this recent build geared towards improving pixel fillrate issues that were causing slow framerates on low-end PCs.

Performance Improvements

• Optimized LOD1 and LOD2 islands.
• Redid trees to remove cutout shader.
• Smaller texture sizes more texture atlases.
• Islands have fewer draw calls to the GPU.
• Simpler terrain shader for LOD1 and 2 islands.

Logo Animation and Out of Match experience

New Content

• 4 new islands; Colossus head, feet, and arm is now near the temple ruins.
• More sharks!
• Added in 8 new flags designed by Lacey Drake.

Tweaks

Ahoy! Unearned Bounty was recently selected to showcase at the Xbox Lobby at GDC! We've been porting this past week, so just a couple smaller bug fixes, performance improvements, and tweaks in this week's update.

Bot improvements

• Gold! Will now prioritize picking up shipwrecks.
• Bots are no longer fully upgraded at the start of a match, and will spend gold to upgrade.
• Shotgun blast: Cannon ball damage lowered to 25, fire 5/6/7 shots that have a much wider spread.
• Ramming Speed: at low health bots will now try to ram into nearby opponents.

Tweaks

• Easier to pass through rocky island area north of the volcano.
• Moved a spawn point a little further away from port to prevent bots from running ashore.
• All flags are unlocked again
• Minor performance improvements.
• Game Icon & Logo updated.
• Pirate ports have their own colors.

Ahoy! Hope everyone has had a great holiday season! Here's a rollup of the recent changes!

Placeholder Matchmaking & Server integration

Caribbean map updates

• Lighthouse map section
• Temple Ruins
• Sharks have been seen roaming the depths

Bayonette and Bot updates

• New ship for practice bots
• Can fire in a 270 degree arc, including the front! Beware!
• Their first mate has been drinking; added inaccuracy to their aiming

Bug Fixes

• Q/E/T upside down ships
• Skybox killing aiming line on the horizon and lighthouse fire
• Better collision detection

Ahoy! Hope everyone has a happy holidays! We've brought you scalawag some cool updates.

Remade Caribbean map is now default

• First pass of collisions are in; very quick and dirty will be improving it
• Some duplicated terrain will be in for a while as we swap them out for set pieces
• Trade ships no longer despawn at reaching ports, they will continue along their path
• Increased viewing distance
• New terrain

Revamped Particle Effects and Visuals

• New explosion effect
• Seagulls
• New ship wakes
• New Shipwreck glow effect
• New Ghastly Crow Poison
• Ghastly Crow color changes
• New flags, some removed
• Iron Horns flag texture fixed

Improved bots

SFX and Music updates

Bots

Visual improvements

• New shipwreck model
• Color corrections and improvements on player ships

Ahoy Maties!

New Emotes with Animation

Updated Tradeship model

Ahoy Mateys! We've been listening to feedback that you've been providing during the playtesting, one of the biggest changes in this update is a rework on ship to ship collisions with Hull Upgrades & Iron Horn's ability no longer mitigating damage; this should make collisions when at low health more predictable in your ability to take the other ship with you.

Balance Changes

• Hulls no longer give ramming mitigation
• Iron Horn's ram ability no longer mitigates damage; deals 100/200/300 additional impact damage
• Iron Horn's passive is now the only ramming mitigation; still at 5/10/15
• NPC ship base ramming [strike]100[/strike] -> 150; bonus impact [strike]200[/strike] -> 100
• Flamethrower damage reduced by ~10%
• Shipwreck heal amount increased to 75
• Passive healing increased 1.5/2/2.5->2/3/4 improving on hull level

Voice Over

Other changes

• Water color adjustment
• Fixed issues with recent collision detection changes

ARR!

Low Setting Peformance Improvements

• Massive improvement in reducing overdraw, most computers are now able to run 45 fps+ on low graphics settings!

Flamethrower balance

• Nerf on Flamethrower damage: 44/66/88 -> 35/52.5/70 dps

Better Controller Support

• Aiming with controllers now properly works!
• Fixed firing cannons/flamethrower on both side of the ship
• Gamepad bindings now show up on HUD when in use
• Improvements to the aiming line renderer

Ahoy!

Peformance Improvements

• Upgraded to Unity 5.5: better C# compiler & GPU instancing
• Better GPU multithreading
• Improved minimap performance
• Minor text rendering performance

New Trade Ship Model

• The first part of the royal navy fleet is now live!

Bug fixes

• New custom line render fixes issues of the aimer at some angles
• Rewrote barrel bomb explosion to fix client issues
• Barrel bomb damage is now more consistant for clients

Flamethrower Buff

• Spitting Dragon's flamethrower damage increased significantly: 44/66/88 damage per second + 4/6/8 damage per additional flamethrower hit

YARR! Hope you scallywags had a great Thanksgiving and looting during Black Friday!

Spitting Dragon

• New passive: "Flaming" Cannonballs & Flamethrower add a damage over time fire onto the afflicted ship dealing 5/15/25 damage over 2.5 seconds that scales off Ability level. At lvl 1 Ability and lvl 0 cannons will kill an NPC ship in 2 volleys.
• Fixed a bug where Flamethrower damage was inconsistent; will be buffing damage in upcoming build.

General Tweaks

• Unity 5.5 Ready : Added GPU Instancing on the Water, should improve performance sigificantly on Unity release.
• Added Bloom & HDR effect for Ghastly Crow & Spitting Dragon lights & emissions. (Bug affecting particle effects will be removed shortly)

New Level

• 5 of 17 islands are now completed and integrated in!

Hey all! Just a reminder the the playtesting session for today will be running from 11am PDT to 2pm PDT! Come join in on the fun and have a chance to win a $20 steam giftcard!

• Added a Welcome page for new players talking about the game being in alpha.
• Added a News page that pulls from our Steam changelog RSS.
• Added a gold effect for Brigand gold gain.
• Added floating numbers for damage, gold, and heal values.

Hey all! Just a reminder about the playtesting session starting up today at 11am - 2pm PDT! Join in for a chance to win a $20 steam giftcard!

New mouse ship overlay

• New Infamy gain, Gold drop, and Health HUD overlay on other ships

Ship Passives

• The Brigand now has a 5 gold gain on cannon ball hit
• After using the Flamethrower on the spitting dragon (10 gold use) the next time you fire a cannon they deal an additional 20% damage (+7 per shot).

A couple small changes in today's build:

• Tweaks to Flamethrower switch cooldown
• Flamethrower minor visual improvements
• Performance improvement on saturation effect while dead
• New Community Flags Icon
• New "Folders" backdrop

Hey all! Thanks again everyone who came out to Playcraft LA and to those that played along with us online! Was a lot of fun and looking forward to helping spreading the word about Unearned Bounty as we get closer to Early Access!

• Updated Loading Screen
• First take on Spitting Dragon Flamethrower aiming system & switch cooldown.
• Passive healing timer reset occurs when using Flamethrower or ramming ships.
• Fixed an exploit where clients weren't having Infamy lowered from running into land.

New Gamelist is now live! Its still a work in progress, but enjoy! Best, Robert Dunlap

Hey there! Thanks again everyone for reporting bugs and coming on the playtesting session last Saturday! We'll be in LA this coming weekend for Playcrafting LA! Let us know if you plan on attending.

• Fixed bug that was lowering Spitting Dragon flamethrower range.
• Fixed a bug where Dragon ship was causing ships to be invisible. ='/
• Added in partial controller support.

Hey all! Thanks again everyone for helping playtest earlier today! Was able to find and shortly address a good amount of bugs from that!

Iron Horns tweaks

• Iron Horns ram speed increased 65/75/85 -> 80/93/105
• Iron Horns sails now break apart during damage properly

Iron Horns tweaks & fixes

• Spitting Dragon no longer fires when dead
• Spitting Dragon hull paint properly applies on Cannons lvl 1 and 2.
• Fire now blows up barrels

General Stability

• Other ships are no longer transparent when using Aim down sights or T; only your own.
• Fixed bad lobby interaction that was causing host issues.
• Ghastly Crow ability icon disappearing has been fixed
• Health HUD now rounds up rather then down.

Hey all! Took a bit longer then expected to get the flamethrower and ship up to par in game. But its now LIVE! Come playtest with us Saturday 11am - 2pm PDT to get your burning fix in!

The Spitting Dragon

New Lobby UI

Other Fixes / Changes

• Increased resolution selection scrolling speed
• Can now rebind the zoom-in and zoom out keys
• Ships are now easier to see in customization screen
• Updated Customization screen ship selection / flag selection title graphics
• Ship names in Custimization screen

Hey all! We're back and recovered from our Seattle trip for Steam Dev Days. We'll have a bunch of smaller changes coming out soon as well as the Spitting Dragon for this weekend! Come playtest with us Saturday 11am - 2pm PDT! Hope to see you there!

Gold Drop Changes

• Players no longer drop gold based on the worth of their ship : 25% -> 0%
• Player gold from infamy is now doubled : 2 * Infamy / Rank + 100
• NPC gold drop: 120 + 10/min -> 150 + 7/min

Updated Flags & Flag Folder Icons

• 8 of our newer flags have been improved.
• Creative and Achievement Folder Icons are in

Hey all! We'll be traveling to Seattle for Steam Dev Days this week so there won't be as many changes coming in. Here are some balance tweaks for us to test out during the playtesting session Saturday 11am - 2pm PDT! Hope to see you there!

• Barrel Bomb Cooldown: 18.75 -> 22.25 / 18.75 / 15 seconds
• Iron Horns Passive: 5/10/15% Ram Damage Mitigation.
• Ram Ability Damage Mitigation: 35/40/45 -> 10/35/60% Ram Damage Mitigation. (for a total of 15/45/75% with passive)
• Ram Ability Speed now scales off Ability level instead of Sail level.
• Ram Ability Cooldown: 160/120/80 -> 180/120/80 seconds
• Ram Ability SFX now in.
• Fixed Changing graphics settings while in match.
• All ships hitting with the front of the ship damage: 200 -> 250
• "T" Key now toggles transparency on the ship, similar to Q&E aim down sights

Hope to see you folks at the next Playtesting Session tomorrow 11am-2pm PDT (2pm - 5pm EDT)! Reminder that we'll be raffling away a $20 steam giftcard, so come on the discord and play some matches!

• Ghastly Crow Primary and Secondary Color usage has been properly flipped.
• Placeholder Menu Selection SFX are now in.
• Shadows turned back on Main Menu

Hey everyone! We've been working on an overhaul of the Menu UI as well as the addition of the Spitting Dragon, which should make its appearance next week! We have a bunch of changes that are in today's build as we work on getting everything integrated in, enjoy! Barrel Bomb Buffs The other week we made some drastic nerfs to the Barrel Bomb, we're bringing it closer to what it origionally was at.

• Barrel Bomb Cooldown: 22.5 -> 18.75 seconds
• Barrel Bomb % Max HP Damage: 5/10/15 -> 7.5/12.5/17.5%

• Ram now has a cool particle animation effect
• Iron Horns eyes now glow with the ships tertiary color, making it pop more.
• Ram impact damage mitigation: 35/45/55% -> 35/40/45%
• Ram cooldown: 120 seconds -> 160/120/80 seconds.
• Death reduces an active cooldown by 60 seconds.
• Upgrading Ability reduces an active cooldown by 40 seconds.

• Flags with varients now are collapsed
• Achievement flags now have their own folder
• Folders now use custom icons
• New Country Flag folder icon (Achievement and Custom coming soon)

11 new flags have been added.

• Fixed a bug where sometimes Iron Horns wasn't getting its damage reduction
• Iron Horns dash speed increased: x4 -> x5
• Iron Horns impact damage reduction buffed: 25/35/45 -> 35/45/55% damage reduction