This Release Notes page will list major updates in the world of The Legend of Pirates Online during the year of 2023. But, for the latest information - also check The Legend of Pirates Online.
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December[]
2023-12-25 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.5[]
Happy Holidays![]
- Today is Day 12 of the Twelve Days of Celebration!
- Today's update brings a special gift to every Pirate in the Caribbean: Pierre Noel's Christmas Tree!
Features[]
- Added a new Christmas Tree to the Tortuga beach.
- Pirates can walk up to Pierre Noel and start a quest to claim their holiday gifts.
- By popular demand, the gifts for this year are the infamous Red Ostrich Hat and the colorful Mood Pebble.
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a bug with Take Aim.
- Fixed multiple issues with collision barriers in Funesto's Forge.
Known Issues[]
- The Winter Festival Chest will sometimes unexpectedly close before every item has been claimed.
- Pirates using a Muertos Mojito can kill Pierre Noel's beloved pet alligator, Tinsel Teeth. You monsters!
2023-12-24 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.4[]
Happy Holidays![]
- Today is Day 11 of the Twelve Days of Celebration!
- Today's update brings a mysterious new cave: Funesto's Forge!
Features[]
- Added a new cave to Raven's Cove: Funesto's Forge.
- This mysterious new location is accessible through a new opening in El Patron's Mine.
- This location is intended to serve as an alternate looting spot as a result of the server consolidations earlier this fall.
- You can read more about this location in our dedicated blog post here: https://tlopo.com/news/post/481/
- Added two new ghost types: Vengeful and Scornful ghosts.
- These angry ghosts are much more powerful and far more numerous than the mutinous ghosts of El Patron's Mine.
- The loot pools for these two new ghost types are identical to the normal pools of the other ghosts of El Patron's Mine, minus Cajun Staff.
2023-12-23 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.3[]
Happy Holidays![]
- Today is Day 10 of Twelve Days of Celebration!
- This update brings with it some tasty new treats! All-new Licorice-themed Candy Weapons!
Features[]
- Added a new legendary, Jack Sparrow's Revenge (JSR), to the Black Pearl Boss Battle!
- This was released in a prior server reboot, but is being documented in today's release notes.
- JSR and Jack Sparrow's Spyglass are in their own separate loot pools. Receiving one of these in loot does not mean you missed out on getting the other.
- Added 2 new famed Black Licorice swords!
- The Black Licorice Sabre drops from land French Undead Enemies.
- The Black Licorice Broadsword drops from land Spanish Undead Enemies.
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a bug where the Black Pearl's sails would sometimes not be visible during the final Goliath cutscene.
- Fixed lighting in the Tortuga Secret Shop.
- Fixed various bugs with the new Daily Quests.
- There's still a few more bugs we have to get to! We're extremely busy this week, please don't hurt us. :(
Maintenance[]
- Clarified Skeletal Scourge flavor text.
- Bane family of weapons now have their proper black blades.
- Black Pearl will now end immediately after everyone collects their loot.
- Various misc optimizations.
2023-12-17 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.2[]
Happy Holidays![]
- Today is Day 2 of Twelve Days of Celebration!
- This update brings with it a colorful twist! All-new Pastel Hair Colors are now available for purchase in the Tortuga Secret Shop!
Features[]
- Added a variety of stylish new Pastel Hair Colors to the Tortuga Secret Shop!
Maintenance[]
- Various misc optimizations.
2023-12-16 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.1[]
Happy Holidays![]
- Today is Day 2 of Twelve Days of Celebration!
- This update brings with it a nostalgic journey back to 2008, as we reintroduce the classic caves and interiors! Experience the original adventure that captivated us all once again!
Features[]
- Added Devil's Anvil to Original Island Lobbies featuring the original Barbossa's Grotto!
- Added Isla Tormenta to Original Island Lobbies featuring the original Cursed Caverns, back then it was known only as the "Tormenta Cave"!
- Did ye know that Isla Tormenta was originally going to be named Outcast Island, and Outcast Island was going to be named Isla Tormenta?
- Added all Caves & Interiors to Port Royal, Tortuga, and Padres del Fuego!
- Added the bosses that appear on the original islands to the main game loot pool (and yes, that includes the corresponding legendary drops for General Hex and Neban the Silent!)
- Added back the original 2008 lighting system. All original islands, caves, swamps, and jungles should have a slightly darker tint to them that fits with how things were in the game back then.
- Added proper loading screens for all the original island game areas (jungles, caves, swamps).
- Added 17 new trivia signposts to the original islands.
- Added new mini-maps for several original caves.
- Unlocked some unreleased building interiors on the original islands that Disney never opened.
Maintenance[]
- Original Island Lobbies have been re-added. Thank ye for yer patience while we worked through some bugs we were having with them!
- Optimized performance in the original cave using some new techniques we employed in our newer TLOPO cave areas.
- Upscaled the lava in Original Beckett's Quarry, as it was quite pixel-y before (it's still pixel-y, but it's better, we swear!)
- Vegetation and rocks on the original islands are now dynamically loaded to fix some visual issues.
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a bug where the sand footstep sound was used in Barbossa's Grotto instead of the correct cave footstep sound.
Known Issues[]
- Silver Striker currently has incorrect stats. We will be fixing this in a future update.
2023-12-14 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.0[]
Happy Holidays![]
- Today is Day 1 of Twelve Days of Celebration!
- We're starting out this year's holiday celebrations with The Winter Update!
Update Note[]
- We have adjusted some attack values (AR) on guns to compensate for a buff that has been made to the gun weapon type.
Features[]
- Bilgewater now has winter holiday music.
- Changing clothes will now play a sound effect!
- New Disk Cache setting!
- Game Options > Display > Custom > Advanced > Disk Cache)
- This setting will disable island/area caching when toggled.
- New exit button while piloting ships.
Maintenance[]
- Absorption:
- Increased voodoo cost.
- Beckett's Pistol:
- Increased Steel Shot boost to +5
- Beckett's Spyglass:
- Add Barrage.
- Remove Take Cover.
- Bottle Rocket:
- Round Shot boost +3
- Rapid Reload +3
- Shrapnel boost +1
- Buffed gun damage significantly.
- Cabal Blunderbuss:
- Reduced AR to 75.
- Cabal Repeater Pistol:
- Reduced AR to 38.
- Calypso's Radiance:
- Increased AR back to 70.
- Desolation:
- Increase cast time.
- Increase voodoo cost.
- Devil's Claw:
- Added Blade Storm boost +4
- Buff Sure Footed to Rank 4.
- Removed Parry boost +4.
- Divine Repeater:
- AR lowered.
- Exhaust:
- Enemies now deal 10% less instead of 20%.
- Frostedge Blunderbuss:
- Reduced AR to 69.
- Formatted gold commas in collections page.
- Fullmoon Special Blunderbuss:
- Reduced AR to 82.
- Grand Blunderbuss:
- Reduced AR to 70.
- Jack Sparrow's Blade:
- Added Skeletal Scourge.
- Increase AR to 93.
- Replaced Cleave boost with Endurance boost.
- Jack Sparrow's Spyglass:
- Added Navigation.
- Removed Treasure Sense boost.
- Magma Blunderbuss:
- Reduced AR to 68.
- Norrington's Spyglass:
- Buffed Take Cover boost to +3.
- Buffed Open Fire boost to +3.
- Removed an unused node on every avatar (NPCs + players), slightly improving crowd performance.
- Removed F7 hotkey for opening Options menu.
- Sacred Repeater:
- AR Lowered.
- Safeguard:
- Now does 40% of max HP instead of 50% of current HP.
- Silver Striker:
- Now a Sabre.
- Added Thrust/Cyclone Cut boost +3
- Removed Cleave/Rapid Cut boost.
- No longer drops on land. Only at sea + the Frost Family shop.
- Silver Freeze:
- Increased AR to 70.
- Soul's Shadow:
- Increased Jumping Slash to +3.
- Staff of Rebirth:
- Increased Nature Aura to Rank 5.
- Staff of the Hollowed Gem:
- Decreased Spirit Lore boost.
- Decreased Spirit Mastery boost.
- Storm Sphere:
- Increase self damage.
- The Soulweaver:
- Changed recharge of Watcher's Visage to 25s and the buff lasts 20s once applied.
- Increased AR to 63.
- Updated peddler catalog dates for 2024.
- You will now have a temporary spawn invincibility when teleporting.
Bugfixes[]
- Decline options will now work properly and not give you the quest.
- Fixed a bug where increasing skill points on ammo in guns did not have an impact on its actual damage output.
- Fixed a bug with Safeguard.
- Fixed a dig spot in Original Wildwoods that was sunken underground.
- Fixed a memory leak with ship repair spots when boarding flagships.
- Fixed blade lock in PvP.
- Fixed daily quests so that they are available to repeat after 24 hours.
- Fixed gold reward from quests not being applied to player inventory.
- Fixed memory leak with quest GUI.
- Fixed Take Aim's damage calculation.
- Now, a barely charged Take Aim will perform the same as a hip shot.
- Fixed PvP interaction disk disappearing after player interaction.
- Fixed some floating props.
- Possibly fixed a bug which caused skills to sometimes be played out of sync.
- Quest Accept/Decline GUI will now appear as expected when available after a dialog.
- The Renew skill now provides more healing.
October[]
2023-10-30 tlopo-pyp-v1.11.12[]
Maintenance[]
- Code cleanup.
- Update holiday event calendar.
2023-10-10 tlopo-pyp-v1.11.11[]
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a bug where NPCs on flagships would disengage.
- Fixed a bug where random boss NPCs used the wrong idle animation.
- Fixed a crash with Tattoos.
- Fixed crashes with Cannon Defense.
- Fixed many occurrences of floating enemies.
- Fixed network spam on fish catch.
- Fixed NPC notice animations.
- Fixed rare ship crash.
- Fixed some NPC and player network events duplicating.
- Fixed various NPC prop animations.
Maintenance[]
- Added occluder planes to Original Thieves Den to improve performance.
- Improved behavior of NPC enemy collisions when walking.
- They should now stay on the ground! This is most noticeable in the Black Pearl Boss Battle.
- Optimized client collisions.
- Converted infinite "ray" collision for NPCs / local player to be a finite static segment, improving collision calculation performance.
- Optimized NPC ship health/armor updates.
- Optimized server townsfolk.
- Basically, every single ocean server was updating the position of every NPC every 0.2 seconds even though they never moved at all! Howdy dandy, that's a lot of network spam! Begone!
- Removed an unused database field on pirates.
- Removed unused code + config clean up.
- Significantly reduced the network overhead when loading the guild members list on player login.
- We no longer rebroadcast reputation events for max level pirates.
2023-10-4 tlopo-pyp-v1.11.10[]
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed crash with Tattoos.
- Fixed crashes with Cannon Defense.
- Fixed rare ship crash.
Maintenance[]
- Fixed network spam on fish catch.
- Fixed some NPC and player network events duplicating.
- Optimized NPC ship health/armor updates.
- Remove an unused database field on pirates.
- We no longer rebroadcast reputation events for max level pirates.
2023-10-1 tlopo-pyp-v1.11.9[]
Maintenance[]
- Added an option button for the post processing menu.
- Maybe this is the cause of AMD visual issues? Try toggling it if you have the bug.
- Improved performance with how database fields are handled.
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed many occurrences of floating enemies.
- Fixed tattoo GUI.
September[]
2023-9-26 tlopo-pyp-v1.11.8[]
Features[]
- Added a quick mouse tutorial when you exit the jail on Rambleshack.
- Added original enemy spawns on all old island locations.
- You will now be prompted with a warning message if you try to trash a loot drop that contains a legendary item.
Maintenance[]
- Adjusted Will Turner's weapon tutorial, it is no longer optional.
- Hollowed Woods Find-a-Crew lobbies now have proper titles instead of abbreviated acronyms.
- Individual looting locations and bosses for Hollowed Woods now have proper flavor text in the lobby menu.
- Major optimizations to how character DNA data is processed.
- Major optimizations to how skill effects are processed and stored.
- Reworded several tutorial pop-up messages for clarity.
- We now will now only broadcast health and voodoo events if they are actually different from their current value.
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a memory leak with the skip tutorial prompt.
- Fixed various leaks with skill effects.
- Optimized various skill effects.
2023-9-19 tlopo-pyp-v1.11.7[]
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed client crash with lobbies.
- Fixed crash with instance doors.
- Fixed crash with weapon draw animation.
- Fixed leak with potions.
- Fixed more search container quest tasks.
- Fixed potion black screen.
- Fixed weird lobby layout when joining a crew.
Maintenance[]
- Add "ESC" button for potions minigame exit.
- Optimized how health is calculated within the game.
- Optimized how skill effects are stored.
2023-9-18 tlopo-pyp-v1.11.6[]
Features[]
- When closing the game, players will now be notified if they're sure they want to close the game via an in-game yes/no dialog popup.
- This should help reduce occurrences of players accidentally closing out of the game.
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a bug where session statistic events were not properly asynchronous, causing degraded server performance.
- Fixed a bug where the 2XP boost given by quests did not count in fishing.
- Fixed a bug where crew bonuses did not count in fishing.
- Fixed a bug where the sand footstep sound was used in Barbossa's Grotto instead of the correct cave footstep sound.
- Fixed a bug where typing "/event" would show the incorrect remaining time of an event.
- Fixed a bug which caused steel shot to be calculated incorrectly.
- Fixed a bug with lobbies disappearing.
- Fixed a bug with searchable containers.
- Fixed a crash with whispering.
- Fixed a memory leak with the loot sparkle effect.
- Fixed battle draw animation happening before object generation.
- Fixed crashes with debug items if they are missing models.
- Fixed grenade (and other AOE effects) in crowds.
- Fixed memory leak with voodoo aura effects.
- Fixed several district resets.
- Fixed some small memory leaks with effects.
- Fixed a bug which caused all pirate jewelry to be rendered on their character even while not equipped.
- The jewelry was being rendered in a hidden state, so it was not visible to the eye; but this was causing large amounts of lag in crowds.
- Fixed a bug where every time a pirate whispered another pirate, the recipient's entire pirate avatar object was being re-queried from the database.
- We now perform pre-caching of all pirate names in the game and make this dictionary available in a performant way to each ocean, removing the database overhead from this system entirely.
Maintenance[]
- We have modified our Astron database state server configurations to bucket pirate, guild, and account objects into a more performant distribution.
- This will more evenly utilize all of our sharded game server resources, hopefully reducing the lag when querying one of these objects.
- NPC boss names are now all red.
- Optimized how Healing Aura works on the backend.
- Optimized how stack quantities (like ship materials, for example) are set/stored in a pirate.
- This significantly reduces login overhead.
- Significant code cleanup, which should result is better game performance.
- Temporarily turned off Original Island lobbies. We noticed an issue with them and should have it resolved in our next update.
Known Issues[]
- Shortly after deploying, we became aware of a visual bug with lobbies. As soon as we have a fix prepared for this, we are going to do a very brief update to patch it.
2023-9-15 tlopo-pyp-v1.11.5[]
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a bug where any searchable object would count for credit when the quest task intended players to find a specific searchable object.
- Highlight: The "search for clues" and "find Myrna's body" tasks in Hollowed Woods now work properly.
- Fixed a bug where bonus rewards in the Hollowed Woods quests would be awarded without completing the bonus tasks.
- Fixed a bug where Captain Windshadow and his henchmen would sometimes be invisible upon entry into the Hollowed Woods Town Hall.
- Fixed a bug where completing Hollowed Woods Undead Poker quests would trigger Raven's Cove-related dialogue from the undead poker players.
- Fixed a bug where Lump Fish would not count towards the bonus Lump Fish task in a Hollowed Woods quest.
- Fixed a bug where players would be unable to speak to Loopy Lawrence.
- Fixed a bug where the radii of searchable haystacks in Hollowed Woods were an incorrect size.
Maintenance[]
- Adjusted the holiday calendar.
- Code cleanup.
- Made additional haystacks in Hollowed Woods searchable.
2023-9-1 tlopo-pyp-v1.11.4[]
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a bug with the TLOPO anniversary event.
Maintenance[]
- Code cleanup.
August[]
2023-8-17 tlopo-pyp-v1.11.3[]
Maintenance[]
- Red fury now applies to ranged attacks as suggested by the effect description.
- Oceans now track the ids of all player ships online.
- Update more config usage to new non-deprecated convention.
- Various network optimizations.
Bugfixes[]
- Added some delay to ensure knockout works correctly.
- Fixed a couple client crashes that can occur when the server crashes.
- Fixed a crash when logging out crash.
- Fixed AI crash with broadsides.
- Fixed break attacks always failing.
- Fixed broadside projectile visual effects (for good this time!).
- Fixed cannonball graphical effect.
- Fixed chat events in PvP.
- Fixed rare crash with fishing.
- Fixed rare crash with potion game exit.
- Fixed rare crash with quest journals.
- Fixed rare crash with quest skips.
- Fixed rare crash with stowaways.
- Fixed rare minimap clean up crash.
- Keep crew HUD hidden when toggled off from crew menu.
- Toggle off other crew member icons when toggled from crew menu.
2023-8-6 tlopo-pyp-v1.11.2[]
Maintenance[]
- Code cleanup.
- Fishing on Bilgewater now has a custom loading screen that highlights the golden fish you can catch there.
- Fixed memory leak with cannonball effect.
- Statically cache cannonball visuals so that we don't have to load a new one every time the cannon gets fired.
- Updated the lobby description for Fishing on Bilgewater in the Find-a-Crew mode.
- We have enhanced our internal feedback system. Cook us up some feedback and send it in, we can now review your suggestions better than ever before!
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a bug where a black box would remain on-screen after login.
- Fixed a bug where officers could not leave their guilds.
- Fixed a bug where the Charred Staff and Spirit Burner Staff would only drop during the Hollowed Woods event.
- Fixed a crash related to doors.
- Fixed a crash related to the minimap compass.
- Fixed a crash when loading static world objects.
- Fixed a crash when using the random button on the hair tab in Make-A-Pirate.
- Fixed a few memory leaks with client NPC ships.
- Fixed a server crash when a player had logged out but subsequently received gold from a prior in-game activity.
- Fixed multiple client and server crashes related to quests.
June[]
2023-6-10 tlopo-pyp-v1.11.1[]
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a bug that affected skill durations.
- Fixed a bug where players could fall below deck on the high seas.
- Fixed a bug where ship threat levels were bugged after returning from a flagship.
- Fixed a bug which caused loot to drop incorrectly.
- Fixed a bug which caused voodoo explosions to not cleanup.
- Fixed a crash related to the minimap.
- Fixed a crash with cleaning up light rays.
- Fixed a server crash with catching legendary fish.
- Fixed wave spawner boss level.
Maintenance[]
- Simplified the rules in Liar's Dice help menu.
2023-6-5 tlopo-pyp-v1.11.0[]
Features[]
- Arrrrgh, Bilgewater be the land of gold. Golden skeletons, the shopkeepers be greedy rotten bilge rats, and now the fish have started changing colors too! Fish in the fishing minigame on Bilgewater have been retextured to be gold, matching the golden theme of the island.
- Golden fish have higher gold rewards compared to regular fish!
- Weapon Upgrade quests have been reworked thanks to YOUR feedback!
- All Weapon Upgrade quests no longer appear in your journal by default. Instead, you must pick them up like a side quest.
- You are no longer required to have completed the level 15 Weapon Upgrade quests to begin the level 20 Weapon Upgrade quests, but you must still have reached level 20 in the appropriate reputation track.
- You can now drop Weapon Upgrade quests from your journal.
- Weapon Upgrade Quests can now be picked up from the following NPCs:
- Alexander Thayer (Tri-Barrel Pistol)
- Erasmus Grimsditch (Grand Pistol)
- Ferrera (Bloodletter Dagger)
- John Wallace (Coltello Dagger)
- Roland Raggart (Vile Staff)
- Romany Bev (Taboo Doll)
- Tia Dalma (Pirate Doll & Harrow Staff)
- Will Turner (Both Sword Quests)
Bugfixes[]
- Added some background functionality to prevent quest mismatches between the journal and the external quest database.
- Fixed a bug causing repair mini game to ignore progress updates.
- Fixed a bug that allowed players to pick up a quest that was already in their journal.
- Fixed a bug that allowed the Secret of Raven's Cove Teleportation quest to be droppable from the quest journal.
- Fixed a bug that prevented certain quests like El Patron's Lost Weapons from being droppable from the quest journal.
- Fixed a bug where 3D glasses setting did not work.
- Fixed a bug where character bodies were discolored in Make a Pirate and store item previews.
- Fixed a bug where environment background colors were not properly syncing in caves, affecting visual immersion.
- Fixed a bug where exhaust would last longer than it should in PvP.
- Extra details: It only happens with the Warlord family of dolls, since they're the only ones where exhaust lasts longer than its cooldown. When you use exhaust on someone for a second time before the first casting has timed out, their timer above their health bar does not reset from their perspective. From the caster's point of view, the timer starts fresh and everything works as it should. But for the person being exhausted, the timer above their own health bar continues to run out as if it were only the first casting and then disappears. It does not reset. As long as the caster continues putting exhaust up before it runs out, the icon never comes back for them.
- Fixed a bug where Fort Charles on Original Port Royal would be invisible on low settings.
- Fixed a bug causing players to keep turning infinitely after using a skill while turning.
- Fixed a bug where jewelry would sometimes show on the wrong eyebrow.
- Fixed a bug where lens flares would not properly clean up.
- Fixed a bug where players could infinitely rotate while walking and in combat.
- Fixed a bug where players could not see other players casting while fishing.
- You can now see what fish they caught too!
- Fixed a bug where quest tasks that were already completed were stuck in the journal.
- Fixed a bug where the female shoes in the Spanish Adventurer Peddler set were not sold at some Peddlers.
- Fixed a bug where the legendary loot drop sound effect would not play during the Hollowed Woods event.
- Fixed a bug where the sky would not transition properly between cloudy and normal sky settings.
- Fixed a bug where the sun and moon would render in front of clouds in the sky. They are now properly hidden when the sky is cloudy.
- Fixed a bug where you could willfully drop Chapter 4 from your quest journal.
- Fixed a bug with collisions that was caused by our model flattening system.
- Fixed a crash from the original island grid being too large for the current grid system, causing out of range errors on player position broadcast updates.
- Fixed a crash related to minimap glow effects.
- Fixed a crash with flagship wave spawning.
- Fixed a crash with the Golden Goblin Shark icon.
- Fixed a crash with the Exhaust Mojo Doll skill.
- Fixed a crash with the post process manager.
- Fixed a district reset with ship wave spawning.
- Fixed a long time issue where a guild member list GUI would sometimes reflect a character's status incorrectly.
- Fixed a memory leak related to combat effects.
- Fixed a memory leak related to loot containers.
- Fixed a memory leak related to text effects on NPCs.
- Fixed a memory leak with land battles.
- Fixed a memory leak with rage ghosts.
- Fixed a sfx cache miss for every dig sound effect when interacting with a buried treasure object.
- Fixed an effects-related crash when logging out.
- Fixed an issue when another player's recently-caught fish is rendered on their fishing pole.
- Fixed an issue where animals were performing redundant grid updates.
- Fixed an issue where Blackheart Strait ocean would never be entered when sailing.
- Fixed an issue where legendary fish caught on docks did not count.
- Fixed an issue where the potion experience bonus was incorrectly calculated while using reputation potions.
- Fixed an issue with teleporting to a friend who recently accepted your friend request.
- Fixed several memory leaks related to particle effects.
- Fixed some issues with the Peddler calendar.
- Fixed some memory leaks related to both player and enemy ships.
- Fixed the LOD (level of detail) nodes on over 300 models. This means that these models will now seamlessly fade in and fade out instead of there being a sudden jarring switch.
- Fixed Valentina occasionally not showing when she should have been based on your current quest.
- Fixed various memory leaks with almost every particle effect. Ye ever notice a random floating flame, some random smoke, or some other effect hanging out somewhere it shouldn't? That's this bug. Begone!
- Fixed various instances of cached variables not being referenced correctly.
- Fixed various memory leaks with the crew HUD.
- Fixed various memory leaks with the player profile card.
- Hardware skinning is now working as intended! This was broken because we were applying the skinning too early and we were applying it to too many model nodes.
- The result was that animation skinning was happening on the CPU, gross!
- Now the most expensive animation skinning is happening on the GPU.
- Updated the engine to a newer version of Panda3D, bringing many bugfixes and improvements.
Maintenance[]
- Added various back-end functionalities for fleet mechanics.
- All fishing spot props on Bilgewater and in Bilgewater taverns now have Golden Tuna.
- Cache weapon & treasure GUI icons instead of loading and leaking the new node each instance, oops!
- Code cleanup.
- Disabled some automatically generated shader code related to shader features we aren't using while performing hardware skinning, improving GPU performance.
- Improved coverage of static model caching for various high-frequency models, reducing overall memory overhead and reducing how frequency models are reloaded.
- Improved performance of a hot loop within the animation mixer.
- Improved performance of a hot loop within the minimap compass.
- Legendary and normal fish now have their spawn chances determined by the ocean you are currently in.
- Legendary fish stamina stats made unique across the fish.
- Many dropdown options menus are now scrollable.
- Such as the game options resolution menu and lobby map options.
- NPC ships no longer will attack players while they are boarding a flagship.
- Optimized calculation that determines the angle the sun/moon is pointing.
- Optimized calculation that determines whether a player has gone underwater and needs to swap to swim movement instead of land movement.
- Optimized the flattening of static objects on islands.
- Optimized weapon motion trails.
- Reduced shader input updates for water reflections, improving graphical performance.
- Reduced the directional light lens of the sky, resulting in approx. 20% improved draw time.
- Reduced the graphical overhead of the Crew HUD.
- Removed thousands of unused imports.
- Removed unnecessary excessive tuple packing within the battle system, improving its performance.
- Reworked the behind-the-scenes area attack system to allow custom shapes! This will be useful for future content updates.
- Rewrote & tweaked some quest dialog and journal descriptions for the Weapon Upgrade quests.
- Stamina is now displayed to be less confusing. There is a "stamina" label and the colors have been flipped; red is max stamina green is low (since low fish stamina is good for the player).
- Stamina now has a few special boosts in some situations:
- The fish loses stamina at a constant rate, as before.
- If you win the "Struggle" phase the fish loses some extra stamina.
- If you lose the "Struggle" phase the fish gains some extra stamina.
- If you are within the green of the Struggle bar the fish loses stamina at an increased rate over time.
- If you are within the red of the Struggle bar the fish gains stamina over time.
- Fish gains stamina in the "Catch It" phase, catch the handle quick to avoid stamina gain over time.
- Swapped brow jewelry’s positions to match rings while equipping from the inventory GUI.
- The first loading screen on login will now randomly alternate between the Bilgewater expansion art and the classic loading screen from POTCO.
- The fishing mini-game's fish pool will now reset after 5 minutes of no players using the fishing spot.
- The stamina stat for the legendary fish stat decreased based on FPS. Now multiplied by the delta time since last task run to stay consistent.
- Tweaked ocean zone boundaries to make more sense and fill up all available space
- Use data directly from the current world's world data rather than hardcoded checks to determine ocean zones.
- Various changes to the development lighting/time-of-day panel.
- Various quest typos.
- Water objects are now lazy-loaded when you are closer to islands.
- Whitelist and blacklist updates.
Known Issues[]
- If you have a Weapon Upgrade quest in your journal, you may need to turn in your current tasks for that quest before it can become droppable. Once you are assigned a new task from an NPC, those new tasks will allow your quest to be dropped.
- We fixed some instances where tattoo icons would not show up in inventories, but the bug may still occasionally happen.
January[]
2023-1-16 tlopo-pyp-v1.10.13[]
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a bug where the Bilgewater launch holiday was reactivated.