Patch 0.9

oh you wanted bots in single player

DELIVERED

oh you wanted better pings?

WE GOT THE MOST PERFECT PINGS

and not just that

WE GOT EMOTES!!!!

you wanted balance?

WE PROBABLY MADE THE GAME MORE BALANCED

maybe

MERRY BOATMAS EVERYONE!!!!!!

It's Early Access

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New Features

New Ping System

Pings are now dynamic based on what you ping and come in 3 types:

• Default (Towards/Engaging) - Using this on an enemy will indicate your intention of targeting that enemy player, structure, or harvester, or simply that you are moving to a location

• Move Away - A call to retreat or back off enemies. This can also be used to indicate your inability to help with the harvester

• Group Up - A call to group up to then perform an action, group up to defend the tower, group up to take the enemy tower, etc.

You can now ping your abilities with the default ping to alert your teammates of the remaining time left on the ability, or if it is ready. Note: Default is ALT currently and can be configured in the settings menu

Chat Wheel

You can bring up a simple menu of options to interact with your team. Note: Default is T currently and can be configured in the settings menu

Experience System

After every match, you will get 200-220 experience for your account. A win gives a 30% bonus. Every time you level up, you will receive rewards - both resources and Terns to spend on captains, craft skins, and purchase shipments. Every 5 levels gives extra rare drops. Note: Leavers will not get experience

Store

We now offer a store to help support us in development. The store has two offerings currently Captains and Shipments. Captains - You can purchase individual captains for either:

• Terns (currency earned from playing the game)

• Rho (premium currency acquired from purchasing it from us)

There is an additional option called the Captain Pack which is only sold for Rho, but gives you all current captains and all future captains we release. Note: Upon purchasing the Captain Pass, all captains previously purchased will be refunded, giving you back what you used to purchase them before. So if you purchased a captain with Terns, you will get back the amount of Terns; if you purchased with Rho, you will get back that amount of Rho.

Shipments - Each shipment contains resources from different regions of our world and can be further broken down into Type of Resource. Rarity and Tier grow with higher tier shipments. So if you want additional resources for crafting beyond the rewards from playing, you can purchase additional Shipments with either Rho or Terns.

Bots

In practice mode, you will now have 9 other Sampan players (bots) besides you that you can use to practice with, test, or just play. Currently, they only have the brain power to move, use weapons and sometimes use an ability, but in the future, purchase upgrades, and maybe even switch ships.

Rank Badge Updated

Everyone now starts has an Urchin, progressing with every game they play. After 5 games you evolve into either a Scrubber Shrimp or a Baitfish. Once you have played a total of 10 games you will Earn your official Badge. Once in the official badge area you can progression left and right across the field as you win and lose games.

GENERAL CHANGES

• Winning a payout now spawns a Siege Minion for each lane, vs just one lane

Economy

• Reduced passive gold from 90 gold per minute to 60 for players

• Reduced passive gold for the empire from 210 to 60 per minute

• Occo comeback value growth from 3% to 2.5% (less occo for a kill when behind later in the game)

• Comeback experience growth from 1% per minute to 0.7% (less experience for a kill when behind later in the game)

Structures

• Salt Core flat damage reduced from 100 to 50

• Salt Core percentage of max health as bonus damage from 10% to 6%

• Shipyard flat damage reduced from 50 to 20

• Salt Core percentage of max health as bonus damage from 5% to 3%

• Max health of Salt Core reduced from 15,000 to 11,000

• Health Regeneration of Salt Core increased from 5 to 20

Minions

• Large Minion base damage reduced from 70 to 60

• Medium Minion base damage reduced from 35 to 25

• Small Minion base damage from 8 to 10

• Siege Minion base damage from 220 to 200

• Large Minion base health from 780 to 810

• Medium Minion base health from 390 to 410

• Large minion base speed increased from 33 to 35 knots

• Medium minion base speed increased from 33.5 to 35.5 knots

• Small minion base speed increased from 34 to 36

• Siege minions now take 50% reduced damage from other minions, 40% reduced damage from structures. They take 10% more damage from pierce damage, 4 0% from ballistic.

• Siege minions weapons now have 1 max ammo vs 2, and fires every 2 seconds vs 1.5

SHIPS

Overall Ship Changes

• Increased starting max health from 800 to 900

• Player base bounty increased from 250 occo to 300 occo

• Player bounty increase per minute from 1.5% to 0.3%

• Max health increase per level increased

  • Small: 170 to 190

  • Medium: 180 to 200

  • Large: 190 to 210

Utilities Changes

• Reinforcement

  • Flat max health bonus reduced from

    • OLD: 200, 500, 900, 1400, 2000, 2700, 3500, 4400, 5400

    • NEW: 100, 300, 600, 1000, 1500, 2100, 2800, 3600, 4500

Small Class Ships

Sampan (starting ship)

• Sludge Bomb (Ability 2)

  • Slow rescaled from [18-40] to [15-55] knots

Zephyr (Tier 1)

• Deafening Gale (Ability 3)

  • Reduced knockback strength by roughly 30%

Dragonfly (Tier 2)

• Surge Drive (Ability 1)

  • Reduced cast time from 0.05 to 0

• Deathgaze (Ability 3)

  • Collision projectile size reduced from 11 to 8

Paradox (Tier 4)

• Inversion Ritual (Ability 1)

  • Reduced back in time from 4 to 3 seconds

  • Base projectile speed reduced from 100 to 85

  • Warden Augment

    • Bonus projectile speed and range from 33% to 50%

• Dilation Field (Ability 2)

  • Slow from [5-15] x2 knots after 5 seconds to [4-10] x2 knots after 5 seconds

  • Augments

    • Striker [Changed]: Amplify damage to enemies in the area starting at 1% and growing to 10% after 5 seconds

    • Warden [Changed]: Increase ability cooldown recovery for allies by 2% growing up to 20% after 5 seconds

    • Dominator [Changed]: Now reduces cooldown by 15%

    • Guardian [Changed]: Increases duration by 40%

• Doppel (Ability 3)

  • Damage per second reduced from [40-160] x4 after 5 seconds in the area to [30-100] x3 after 5 applications

  • Damage type is now properly Area (so does reduced damage to Minions)

  • Cast range increased from 70 to 85

  • Augments

    • Striker [Changed]: Now is Gain an extra Charge

    • Warden [Changed]: Now is Form a Wall

    • Slayer: Increase Area and damage from 27% to 35%

    • Guardian [Changed]: Now increases duration by 132%

Medium Class Ships

Lurker (Tier 1)

• Crash Dive (Ability 1)

  • Striker Augment [Changed]: No longer gives vision but now provides 1% of max health as health regeneration while the effect is active

Lockjaw (Tier 2)

• Blaze (Ability 2)

  • AdjustedWarden AugmentKnockback strength reduced by ~ 30%

Aurora (Tier 2)

• Glacial Wall (Ability 1)

  • Recoil increased slightly to allow jumping over islands more consistently

  • Guardian Augment: Now increases duration of Ice wall by 1.2 seconds, for all Ice walls spawned, even from other augments on the Aurora

Revenant (Tier 2)

• Blood Bombardment (Ability 2)

  • Now a medium projectile in addition to it being an Arc projectile

Large Class Ships

Oasis (Tier 2)

Retrofit Repair (Ability 3)

• Heal rescaled from [200-3000] to [150-4000]

• Guardian Augment: No longer destroys weapon projectiles, no longer deflects Arc projectiles

Seabloom (Tier 3)

Green Lotus (Ability 1)

• Health regeneration base from [10-40] to [10-100]

Sacred Lotus (Ability 2)

• Cooldown from 30 to 26

Black Lotus (Ability 3)

• Cooldown from [60-40] to [55-35]

Horizon (Tier 3)

Gravity Jump (Ability 1)

• Cast time reduced from 0.25 to 0 seconds

• Protector Augment [Changed]: From reduce cast time to Deflect enemy projectiles upon arrival at destination

Dimensional Collapse (Ability 2)

• Delay increased from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds

• Damage increased from [50-500] to [90-900]

• cast range from 90 to 70

• Augments

  • Warden [Changed]: Now gain an Additional Charge

  • Strike: Additional collapse damage do not stack (only one deals damage) the slow does stack though.

  • Protector [Changed]: Now is reduce delay by 60%

  • Guardian [Changed]: Now increases Slow amount by 50%

  • Striker: Entities can now be damaged by multiple collapses

  • Slayer: Max health as percentage from 15% down to 9**%**

  • AdjustedDominatorreduced cooldown from 25% to 15%

Warp Anchor (Ability 3)

• Delay before pull in from 5.3 seconds to 4.2 seconds

• No longer slows for the base ability

• Damage per second increased from [100-300] to [120-360]

• Cooldown from 54 to 60 seconds

• Augments

  • Striker [Changed]: Increase pull strength to slow [15-40] x3 after 5 applications to nearby enemies on charge up for 3 seconds

  • Warden: Damage reduction from [50-90%] prior to teleporting to [70-90%]

  • Slayer: Bonus damage from 70% to 90%

  • AdjustedDominator [Changed]Reduced cooldown now increases pull strength by 150%

  • Guardian [Changed]

    From increase warp anchor duration by 1.5 seconds to reduce enemy projectile speed by 90% when charging up and during the warp anchor.

    Note

    This allows the Horizon to dodge projectiles more easily that otherwise would stop you from getting onto the targets you want

Crucible (Tier 3)

• Afterburner (Ability 1)

  • Percentage bonus speed increase reduced from [25%-60%] to [25%-35%]

  • Damage per second re-scaled from [40-350] to [20-400]

  • AdjustedStriker AugmentSlow amount reduced from [20-70] knots to [15-40]

Wither (Tier 4)

• Bladewall (Ability 1)

  • Augments

    • AdjustedStriker [Changed]From reduced cooldown to Launch 3 bladewalls

    • Dominator [Changed]: From Launch 3 bladewalls to reduce cooldown by 25%

    • Warden [Changed]: Now Applies Miasma to enemies near Bladewall

    • Guardian [Changed]: Now increases duration by 40% of bladewall

• Miasma (Ability 2)

  • Augments

    • Striker [Changed]: Now Pull enemies towards you when the effect is active

    • Warden [Changed]: Now removes self slow and instead gives a 10% speed increase

    • Protector [Changed]: Now gives allies damage reduction

    • Dominator [Changed]: Now increases Daze amount by 30%

    • Guardian [Changed]: Now increases damage reduction by 20% (also applies to the damage reduction given to allies)

• Congregate (Ability 3)

  • Augments

    • Striker [Changed]: Projectiles Pass through terrain and can bring enemies through terrain as well

    • Warden: While also [100-500] healing to allies now also gives [10-40] health regeneration per enemy hit

    • Slayer [Changed]: Slows enemies by 50% after being Pulled to you for 2 seconds

    • Dominator [Changed]: Increases projectile speed and range by 45%

    • Guardian: Now also cleanses self, as well as allies

Nori (Tier 4)

• Entangling Weeds (Ability 2)

  • Break duration reduced from 3 to 2.5 seconds

  • AdjustedProtector AugmentIncreased duration from 1.1 to 0.8 seconds

Prism (Tier 4)

Prismatic Shield (Ability 1)

• Increased Radius of base shield from 12 to 14

• duration reduced from [2.5-4] to [2-3]

• damage per second increased from 10% of converted shield to 15%

• cooldown from [30-22] to [31-25]

• Augment

  • Dominator: reduce cooldown from 6 seconds to 5 seconds

  • Warden: no longer duplicates reflected projectiles, instead keep 50% of the converted shield

Polarity Bond (Ability 3)

• Reduce shield per distance moved from [15-200] to [15-150]

WEAPONS

General Changes

• Weapon Special Upgrade now provides more special Amp

  • OLD: 44% to 36% per upgrade (for 460% total special amp)

  • NEW: 49.5% to 45.5% per upgrade (for 527.5% total special amp)

Close Range (red weapons)

• Reinforcer: Reduce scaling of healing from [22-246] to [19-205]

Medium Range (purple weapons)

• No changes

Longer Range (blue weapons)

• Trench Maker: Increase pull strength scaling by 20%

• Tigerfish Battery: Increase special base distance from 65 to 70, can now home to enemy structures. Homing track now scales with special and weapon damage (base is the same as before)

LOOM COILS

Loom Coils Changes

• Overloaded Weapons: (orange loom coil) Doubles max ammo and reload amount for weapons. Reload speed penalty from 30% to 90%

• Hollowed Frame: (orange loom coil) now also provides 40 hp/s health regeneration

• Repair Dispel: Now dispels before applying healing so removes corruption before healing

• Repair Area: Now does not reduce the healing to self, but instead heals for 30% to nearby allies. Additional repair effects are also given at 30% effectiveness (so speed is only 30% knots bonus, etc.). Can no longer affect the harvester

• Repair Cooldown reduction: From 5 seconds to 8 seconds per upgrade

• Crisis Repair [NEW]: Blue loom coil that grants 1 second of 90% damage reduction, afterwards Cleanses all debuffs from yourself

• Ability Area of Effect [NEW]: Blue loom coil increases area of effect by 4% for all abilities

• Regenerative Hull [NEW]: Orange loom coil that gives 120 hp/s health regeneration but reduces max health by 10%

Captain Changes

• Proteus: Now has the Crisis Repair loom coil, instead of Cleanse Repair

• AdjustedRusanagrey loom coil changed from speed to weapon damage