New Trait: The Shapeshifter!

Its great to see so many people having fun with Trait games, and the popularity of The Wishful hasnt gone unnoticed. Were super excited to introduce some additional new traits in 3.2, which share The Wishfuls playful sense of having a power they can activate on days when they dont play in. Our first new trait in 3.2 is: The Shapeshifter!
On days when The Shapeshifter does not play in, they may shift their shape, swapping their team (from human team to ghost team, or from ghost team to human team). Like The Wishful, their power is limited and The Shapeshifter can only change their shape three times each voyage. The big limiting factor on The Shapeshifter is only being able to use their power when they dont play in. Will you take the opportunity to shift your team early in the game, hoping things play out as you expect, or risk a later game switch and risk playing in every day and ending up trapped on the losing team?

New Trait: The Interrogator!

Our second new trait in 3.2 is: The Interrogator! On days when The Interrogator does not play in, they may prepare an interrogation by choosing a pirate and a specific trait. They will then be told whether their interrogation was correct or incorrect through their trait information in the black spot. Like The Wishful and The Shapeshifter, their power is limited and The Interrogator can only prepare three interrogations each voyage.
As with most traits, The Interrogator can begin the game on either the Human team or the Ghost team, so you never know whether your Interrogator is working for good or for evil. Even if theyve managed to uncover some juicy information, can you always trust what they want to share with the crew?

Reworked Trait: The Disguised!

We love The Disguised, and we know that you do too, but one of the things weve heard from a lot of players is that they want it to have more interaction throughout the game than with just The Psychic. The Disguised rework makes their trait apply to all team reveals through traits or events. Spy on a pirate whos Disguised? Their team will be flipped! Census with a pirate whos Disguised? It will report one higher, or lower, than the actual number of ghosts.
The Disguised now adds a lot of uncertainty to your games, and its a very safe claim for any initial ghost players - but as with all traits, it can only appear once, so watch out for those counter-claims (and maybe use the power of your Interrogator, if you have one, to find the real one). As part of the rework, weve also made it so The Disguised can appear independently of The Psychic - so for those of you whose strategies relied on the presence of The Disguised to confirm or de-confirm the presence of The Psychic, you might need to think of new ways to force your Psychic out of hiding!

Watch a Pirate - On-screen team reveal

Following the introduction of Spectator Mode in the Traitorous Update, weve added a new feature for players who would like to make their pirates team (and secret objective in Scored Games, or trait in Trait Games) public. Weve seen streamers using Spectator Mode to run fantastic multi-perspective streams, and by using Watch a Pirate they can choose to share their team publicly on their stream with their viewers, while keeping it secret from other spectators.
To initiate the Watch a Pirate feature, you can click on any pirate in the lobby or in-game and choose Watch Pirate from the pop-up menu. This player will then receive a prompt on their device to approve or deny the request. At any time, you can stop watching a pirate using the close button next to the pirates information.

New Player Tutorial

For players new to Paper Pirates, weve added a Tutorial Island to the Plot a Course options. The Tutorial offers a more guided, gentler introduction to Paper Pirates, with some in-depth explanations of the various mechanics as you play through the game. The Captain will appear on-screen, with animations, to explain to you what the rules are regarding playing in, voting, events, and more.
Additionally, if you are new to Paper Pirates, The Captain will introduce you to all the key features of the game, including The Captains Log and The Bounty Board. If youre a Paper Pirates veteran, The Captain might pop up from time to time to tell you about a feature you already know about - but rest assured, hes only trying to be helpful!

New Choose a Pirate Screens

Whenever you have to choose a pirate - either in voting or in an event - weve added a little bit of extra personality to the screen by including little avatars of each players pirate, plus their pirate colour in big chunky (harder to misclick!) buttons.

Improved In-Game Update Notes

The Update Notes button from the title screen has had a facelift! The in-game update notes now cover the headline features of each update, with a short description, right in the client. Its a little more fun and friendly than the notes that were there before! The full patch notes are always available on Steam for anyone who wants to dive into the full details.

A Few Other Things

• Weve made some general improvements to the Photo Booth, which now saves your snaps with correct transparency. That means if you want to take a pic of your pirate against the green screen background, you now get a nice crisp copy of your pirate on their own ready for you to use as you wish!
• If you have Remote Start enabled in the options, the pirate who has the option to start the game is now labelled in the lobby with the addition of a crown icon.
• Weve added Steam Rich Presence, which shows whats going on in your Steam Friends List while youre playing Paper Pirates!
• A few additional tracks of music have been added to the game so listen out when planning a voyage or journeying to the Shop Ship!

Bug Fixes

• We lost our special Paper Pirates cursor icon temporarily, but it has now returned!

[ 2021-06-01 02:21:30 CET ] [ Original post ]