This Release Notes page will list major updates in the world of The Legend of Pirates Online during the year of 2024. But, for the latest information - also check The Legend of Pirates Online.
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December[]
2024-12-25 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.27[]
Features[]
- Pierre Noel returns to the Caribbean with two new special gifts this year! Talk to Pierre and claim your gifts under the tree!
- Pierre Noel now has a special holiday, separate from the Winter Festival holiday.
2024-12-24 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.26[]
Features[]
- Added a new legendary voodoo doll to Devil Root’s loot pool.
- Added a new famed cutlass to the general Winter Festival loot pool.
- Added a new famed pistol to the Yuletide Manor weapons shop.
2024-12-23 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.25[]
Features[]
- Added 10 new vests and 10 new corsets to the game as Day 10 of the Twelve Days of Celebration.
- 4 new male vests and 4 new female corsets available in Herald Frost's shop inside Yuletide Manor for the rest of the holiday season.
- 5 new male vests and 5 new female corsets available in loot.
- 1 new dyeable male vest and 1 new dyeable female corset, available in loot and... somewhere. (Let's be real, you know where at this point.)
2024-12-21 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.24[]
Features[]
- Added brand-new dyeable boots for both genders to loot as Day 8 of the Twelve Days of Celebration. And yes, this means you can find bright versions of them too!
- 6 new male boots and 5 new female boots, one for each pre-existing model type (two for tall boots of each gender).
Bugfixes[]
- The Frosty Party Hat redeem code item should now properly display in player inventories.
- Fixed a bug introduced in the last patch where certain male boot textures would not load properly.
Maintenance[]
- Added a back-end holiday feature to help smoothen the deployment of future Twelve Days content.
- Fixed internal Pirates Online file typos that incorrectly categorized male boots in Peddler outfits created in 2011.
- Triple Loot has been extended an additional day, until 11:59 PM ET on December 22nd.
2024-12-18 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.23[]
Features[]
- Added a new, time-limited, party hat.
Maintenance[]
- Configured Triple Loot for December 20th-22nd.
Known Issues[]
- The new party hat's inventory icon is currently displaying as a plain bandana. This will be fixed in the next update.
- Triple Loot is currently ending a day earlier than it should. This will also be fixed in the next update.
2024-12-17 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.22[]
Features[]
- Added a new clothing shop vendor in the Yuletide Manor as Day 4 of the Twelve Days of Celebration.
- Keep an eye on the horizon for more items coming to his store throughout the season...
- Added 14 new gauchos to loot. Can you find them all?
- Added new holiday-themed combat music on all the main islands.
2024-12-16 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.21[]
Features[]
- Increased friend limit from 150 to 200 as Day 3 of the Twelve Days of Celebration.
2024-12-14 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.20[]
Features[]
- Added three new dark color clothing variants to the loot pool of Raven's Cove. Can you figure out what they are?
Maintenance[]
- Scheduled Double Loot for December 14th through the 19th.
- Significantly optimized texture storage. All textures in-game are 33% smaller while maintaining the same quality as before. This should make load times and general gameplay much smoother.
- Loot drops now take a player's inventory into account when determining loot. If a player has items in their inventory which are in the loot pool, those will have a lower weight than randomly picking from them. This is intended to prevent the prevalence of duplicates, (though they are still possible)
- Reduced the DOT damage of firebrand by 60% in SvS.
- Potentially fixed some bam cache issues. Turned off texture caching, and implemented a method to delete the cache if it's outdated. Cache will no longer write if it's disabled in options. Changed some caching keys to not use the version, as Panda3D already does this.
Bugfixes[]
- Holiday ending messages would not show because of a feature to reduce message stack spam. Now ending messages will always show and will remove the session entry for the holiday.
- Fixed an issue where Everlasting Falls had a collision hole.
November[]
2024-11-30 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.19[]
Features[]
- Changed Captain Windshadow's Ostrich Hat feather orientation to correctly match Windshadow's actual appearance.
- This change only applies to male pirates, who have two different ostrich hat styles. Previously, the player version of Windshadow's hat used the Spanish style, with the feather on the side of the brim.
- This update changes the feather to be French styled, correctly positioned on top of the hat, to match Windshadow's actual appearance.
Maintenance[]
- Pierre Noel will no longer appear with the start of the Winter Festival event, instead making an appearance during the Twelve Days of Celebration with new gifts to give!
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a regression where initial PvP spawns did not match lobby join order.
- Implemented more checks for Muertos Moon.
- Damage checks to ensure all damage being done by cursed players is being done in proper locations and game states.
- Additional checks before cursing players to ensure they are in proper expected game states.
- Fixed an issue where using the "Taunt" sword skill could stun-lock enemies.
- This also fixes the Taunt skill in general. Before, its duration did not matter, as enemies would only take aggro to the taunter the first time the aggro task would run. Now the task properly keeps aggro on the taunter for the entire duration of the Taunt skill.
- While we know this may be disappointing to some, if you have any suggestions about how enemy aggro could be tweaked, feel free to submit them via in-game feedback or through the Test Server Discord if you are a Tester.
October[]
2024-10-21 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.18[]
Maintenance[]
- Stopped Triple Loot Holiday unintentionally starting.
- Sorry folks, it looks like we forgot to clear last year's auto-holiday schedule. The Triple Loot event was not supposed to be active. We offer our humblest apologies for the confusion.
- Not to worry though! The Double Materials & Double Gold event will still take place during the weekend of 26 October through 28 October & a Double Loot event will still occur on 31 October for Halloween & POTCO's official launch date anniversary!
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed some enemies showing up in daily quests.
- Fixed an issue where Mayhem PvP spawns could sometimes spawn players at the same spawn point multiple times because the score may not update between player deaths. It should now always iterate through all spawn points in order.
- Potentially fixed an issue where players could get sent to jail after a PvP match.
- Correctly applied grenade potion boosts to grenades only.
- The grenade potion was incorrectly marked as affecting staves in one instance.
- Upon this discovery, it was also discovered that every weapon boost potion other than grenade boost potions were applying their boost 2x. This has been corrected to match the potion descriptions % boost.
- Swapped out the bad characters that cannot be displayed in the shift + f6 sync hotkey.
- Fixed an issue where Powder Keg and Mine cannon defense ammos were not damaging.
- Potentially fixed more rare(r) issues related to Muertos Moon Curse and Muertos Mojito Potions.
- These issues likely only were only present with the Friday The 13th event as it is handled differently than the Muertos event.
- Fixed issue where Undead Raiders would utilize the cache key for New Darkhart, since New Darkhart did not have a cache key defined.
- Added additional sanity checks so this will not happen in the future.
- Confirmed that this only affected new Darkhart. Some other cache keys were missing and have been added to pass the sanity checks, but none of these had special unique loot.
September[]
2024-9-25 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.17[]
Maintenance[]
- Code cleanup
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a crash with location spheres on Kingshead.
2024-9-23 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.16[]
Maintenance[]
- Extended Double Loot and Reputation events for another day to compensate for the game's extended down time on Thursday.
Bugfixes[]
- FOV (Field of View) no longer loads in the incorrect default value on first load.
- FOV can no longer be set to invalid values from settings file.
- Nerfed a skill boost for grenade (that was previously buffed for gun's Take Aim) so that grenade skills would not out-damage Storm Sphere's Maelstrom Charge.
- Reduced Maelstrom Charge's self-damage from 1100 to 750.
- Fixed grenade skill ammo change not actually only applying to grenade due to order of precedence rules.
- Fixed a crash on Padres where the Location Sphere was being accessed before it was loaded.
- Fixed an issue with location name popups on padres where "Padres del Fuego" would overwrite the "Los Padres" name popup.
- Fixed an issue where valid FOV range was not correct.
- Fixed FOV's slider not showing up and locking the player's Field of View.
2024-9-19 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.15[]
Features[]
- Added a 4th page to the storage bank.
- Added a Field of View slider to the options menu.
- Added an option to disable the confirm to exit game dialogue.
- Enabled a Disney hotkey to hide your pirate (useful for screenshots) shift + F12.
- Added colored text for item rarity when trashing an item from your inventory.
Maintenance[]
- Scheduled Double Loot and Double Reputation events for September 19th through the 22nd.
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a crash with Cannon Defense.
- Potentially fixed (or mitigated) a rare case of inventories not loading on loading a pirate. (the 30% loading bug).
- Fixed an issue where pressing F12 to hide the UI would show nametags on creation.
- Fixed an issue where teleporting cross-district when using Muertos Mojito potions during the Muertos Moon curse could put you in a state where you could be undead and attack non-undead in building interiors, as well as be able to respawn via Mojito spawn points.
- Fixed various issues with Field of View resetting, made the Field of View setting more consistent across different systems.
- Fixed various issues with FOV resetting, made the FOV setting more consistent across different systems.
- Fixed issue where ship nametags would not load hidden if GUI was hidden.
2024-9-12 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.14[]
Maintenance[]
- Scheduled Muertos Moon Event for Friday the 13th.
2024-9-1 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.13[]
Maintenance[]
- Reset all quests for the Hollowed Woods holiday event.
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a bug that caused grenades to be duplicated on multiple surfaces, dealing massive damage.
- Potentially fixed a bug that caused enemies to not respawn.
August[]
2024-8-25 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.12[]
Maintenance[]
- Server maintenance.
July[]
2024-7-24 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.11[]
Maintenance[]
- Code cleanup.
2024-7-13 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.10[]
Maintenance[]
- Removed an unreleased feature still in development.
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed an issue causing cross-shard (oceans) teleporting to not work.
- Fixed an issue causing PvP lobbies to instantly crash.
- Removed Lieutenant Funesto from Production.
- Sorry folks, it seems Lieutenant Funesto accidentally escaped our QA server! Lt. Fuensto is a part of our phase 2 update for Funesto's Forge, which we have been working on since the cave's initial release. Funesto was not in a finished state, evident by how his legendary drop rate was far too common. We apologize to the lucky pirates who were able to encounter & loot him, but as to make it fair to the rest of the playerbase, anyone who looted a legendary from Lieutenant Funesto will have those legendaries removed from their inventories.
2024-7-8 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.9[]
Features[]
- Added the ability for players to type out a description of what's happening when reporting another player.
Changes[]
- NOTE: This change was missed to be included in these release notes. Updated 10/29/2024
- Silver Freeze now only drops from EITC enemies, bosses, ships, and Foulberto Smasho. Previously it dropped from all ships and all enemies.
- Reasoning: Silver Freeze would often drop when looting for legendary cursed weapons or other uniques which was frustrating. Further, these knives' lore lends them better to be dropped by EITC, and Foulberto.
Maintenance[]
- Modified the list of report reasons so they're less vaguely defined.
- Reduced ship player kick cool-down from 5 minutes to 30 seconds.
- When kicked from a ship, you will now automatically be given your loot.
- PvP lobbies will now be instanced on their own separate server.
- This should smooth out PvP gameplay and reduce the lag in seeing your opponent's actions
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed several issues with loot rewarded when kicked from a ship.
- Loot for the kicked player is now entirely removed from the ship when they are kicked. This should prevent a player from duplicating loot if they managed to get back on the ship.
- Fixed an issue where some players weren't being rewarded loot at all.
- Added a check to prevent kicked players from rejoining a ship via lobbies.
May[]
2024-5-29 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.8[]
Maintenance[]
- Scheduled Double Loot weekend for May 31st - June 2nd, 2024.
Bugfixes[]
- Fixed a bug where Pierre Noel's Christmas Tree remained present on the Tortuga beach after the winter holiday ended.
2024-5-16 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.7[]
Features[]
- Added a variety of unreleased party hats to the Rage Ghost loot pool.
Please Note[]
- Lowered overall damage of guns in PvP instances.
- This was intended to reach our Test Server first but was incidentally shipped straight to Production instead. This was accidental and we apologize for any inconvenience caused by this change. Our Testers are currently testing this change and offering their feedback. The damage of guns on Production may not be final.
March[]
2024-3-18 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.6[]
Maintenance[]
- Code cleanup.