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Steam News26 January 20251y ago

Fort Assault and Arcade Update

If you've sunken all the foes in Hunt and breached the line in Blockade Runner, get ready for the next addition to Helm or High Water; Fort Assault!

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What changed

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  • UI and audio
  • Events
  • Performance
  • Gameplay
  • Balance
changedIn Fort Assault, the only objective is to destroy the Fort, but it may not be as easy as it sounds!
changedFirst, you'll have to sink the ships protecting it, making sure to stay out of the Fort's range. Then, the main challenge begins! Forts are formidable enemies with more cannons and more durability than you, but they cannot repair their stone walls.
addedBalance adjustments have been made to Blockade Runner as well as many optimizations to the home island, crew npcs, and ships. I also began work on adding VR-to-VR, cooperative, multiplayer, but you'll have to wait for a future update to give that a try.
changedAdditionally, this update includes some launch commands that will be useful to arcades and streamers that auto-play the tutorial and spawn some hand held camera objects, respectively.
addedNew Game Mode: Fort Assault. Destroy the enemy fort and the ships protecting it! Forts have increased durability and firepower, but cannot repair
addedBegan the backend work to add VR-to-VR, cooperative, multiplayer

Helm or High Water changes

changedIn Fort Assault, the only objective is to destroy the Fort, but it may not be as easy as it sounds!
changedFirst, you'll have to sink the ships protecting it, making sure to stay out of the Fort's range. Then, the main challenge begins! Forts are formidable enemies with more cannons and more durability than you, but they cannot repair their stone walls.
addedBalance adjustments have been made to Blockade Runner as well as many optimizations to the home island, crew npcs, and ships. I also began work on adding VR-to-VR, cooperative, multiplayer, but you'll have to wait for a future update to give that a try.
changedAdditionally, this update includes some launch commands that will be useful to arcades and streamers that auto-play the tutorial and spawn some hand held camera objects, respectively.
addedNew Game Mode: Fort Assault. Destroy the enemy fort and the ships protecting it! Forts have increased durability and firepower, but cannot repair

If you've sunken all the foes in Hunt and breached the line in Blockade Runner, get ready for the next addition to Helm or High Water; Fort Assault!

In Fort Assault, the only objective is to destroy the Fort, but it may not be as easy as it sounds!

First, you'll have to sink the ships protecting it, making sure to stay out of the Fort's range. Then, the main challenge begins! Forts are formidable enemies with more cannons and more durability than you, but they cannot repair their stone walls.

Can you and your crew out-maneuver the giant and live to sail another day?

Balance adjustments have been made to Blockade Runner as well as many optimizations to the home island, crew npcs, and ships. I also began work on adding VR-to-VR, cooperative, multiplayer, but you'll have to wait for a future update to give that a try.

Additionally, this update includes some launch commands that will be useful to arcades and streamers that auto-play the tutorial and spawn some hand held camera objects, respectively.

See below for the full update notes.

Full Update Notes

  • New Game ModeFort Assault. Destroy the enemy fort and the ships protecting it! Forts have increased durability and firepower, but cannot repair

  • Began the backend work to add VR-to-VR, cooperative, multiplayer

  • MANY optimizations to both the home island, npcs, and ships should increase frame rates for most users

  • Balance adjustments have been made to the new Blockade Runner game mode

  • Added several launch option commands including...

    • -arcade offers the tutorial every time the game is launched

    • -streamer enables the hand held camera tools for capturing game footage and hides join UI

    • -nolocalcoop disallows local co-op player from joining and hides join UI

  • More small bug fixes and changes

Source

Steam News / 26 January 2025

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