Early Access Build 5

Versus Battle

• Fleet Battle is renamed to Versus Battle

New Game Mode Selection

• Joust: ships travel “on rails” on a predetermined line. Accuracy and orientation are key. This is the original game mode.

• AdjustedTacticsenables setting waypoints for ship movements, similar to real-time strategy (RTS) style controls. More control at the expense of increased responsibility.

New Features

• Prepare Broadsides ability: instantly align all turrets on a warship to port, starboard, or the start position

• Click to select: clicking any eligible friendly warship on the screen will now possess that ship

• Hits counter: the number of successful hits now displays for the selected warship in the HUD

• Note: a direct hit = 2, glancing blow = 1

Misc Additions & Improvements

• Improved graphics: the material textures on ships have been revised to a higher quality/level of detail

• Fix some minor visual issues in the Change Allegiance menu (Campaign)

• Fix an error with the camera during level selection (Campaign)

• Fix a defect that would occasionally cause the camera to teleport to the water surface level during binocular mode

Multiplayer

• Implement tactics mode option for multiplayer battles

• Fix an issue where teammates could inadvertently change their ally’s camera view when changing turrets on a possessed ship

• Fix an issue where selection circles would fail to clear when possessing a new unit (Tactics)

Known Issues

• (Multiplayer) Statistics (i.e. score, hits, accuracy) count fails to properly display for non-hosting players (doesn’t affect victory conditions)

• The dreadnought broadside ability can cause side turrets to aim at an angle that is not normally possible