Weigh Anchor and Hoist the Mizzen!
Today, were super excited to share Patch 2.1, the Portraits Update, with all you scurvy sea dogs setting sail on the Paper Pirates oceans! This update includes a fancy new feature for makin portraits of your pirates, perfect for sharin with your mateys. Weve also got a round of bug fixes and balance changes, to ensure your games play to the pirate code. Check out the patch notes in full just below deck!
The Photo Booth
A new addition to the Captains Log, the Photo Booth, lets you pick from your pirate templates, and prepare a custom snap all ready for sharin! You can prepare your pirate in a whole range of poses, put them on different backdrops, pick a foil, and even add an adornment - such as a nameplate, a rosette, or some words of wisdom, to make the perfect picture. Hit the save button, and your pirates picture will be exported, ready for sharing with all your friends! Wed love to see your best #PiratePortraits, so why not share them with us on Twitter at @IterationGames.
Expand your Booth
Looking to add more poses, backgrounds and foils to your photo booth to make the ultimate portrait? Its now not only hats that you can unlock with achievements, but your photo booth will grow over time as you unlock achievements! Make sure you visit the photo booth when youve had a particularly exciting game to see if you have any fancy new decorations for your pirates - you might find a new favourite.
In-Game Patch Notes
Look out for the Patch Notes button from the title screen, to view a quick summary of the latest changes to Paper Pirates in-game. Handy if you need to find out about the latest bug fixes and balance updates before setting sail!
Steam Cloud
A few updates ago, we added pirate templates, so that you can save your pirate appearances for names you use often. Now those appearances will be saved to the Steam Cloud, so theyre all safely backed up, along with some of your preferences, configurations, and stats data - as a bonus, theyll also travel with you from computer to computer if you play Paper Pirates on multiple PCs!
Menu Improvements
Weve revisited some of our menu screens to improve the general user experience of Paper Pirates. Our options screens in particular have been revisited, and for the first time you can access some options directly from the lobby - so you no longer have to back out of a game to tweak your settings!
Balance Updates
Weve been reviewing the way that secret objectives play out in scored games and were making a few small adjustments to some secret objectives to ensure that theyre fun and to make sure everyone feels like they have a chance at earning some coins in each game.
Scored Games
- The Pacifistic secret objective has been removed.
- The Diplomatic secret objective has been added! A Diplomatic pirate scores coins based on how many pirates havent been thrown overboard at the end of the game - were sure that a diplomatic pirate is bound to make an enemy of a ruthless pirate where both objectives appear!
- The Ambitious secret objective has been reworked. Instead of only awarding coins if you end the game as the captain, you now earn a number of coins based on how high your rank is amongst the crew.
- The Zealous and Spiteful secret objectives have been reworked. Instead of only awarding coins if your target pirate ends the game as captain/stowaway, you now earn a number of coins based on how high/low their rank is amongst the crew respectively.
- The number of coins available for completing the Dependent secret objective has been decreased.
- The number of coins available for completing the Ruthless secret objective has been decreased.
Bug Fixes
- Occasionally, pirates with no hat were assigned Blackbeards Beard upon starting a game. Pirates with no hat will now remain hatless once the game commences.
- Pirates created in the lobby for a game that is aborted before its started will now still be saved as templates.
- Rarely, when a bot foresaw an event through the Magic Lamp event, the event chosen wouldnt actually take place. It should now always happen - watch out for those Shipwrecks!
As always, dont forget that you can join us every Saturday at 8pm BST on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/iterationgames) for our weekly dev stream, or pop by our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqi1SJHkkB4a5h9Q-YJjLWQ) to see Lets Plays of Paper Pirates, How To videos and more!
[ 2020-07-05 14:54:07 CET ] [ Original post ]