Windrose is a smash hit — it’s offered over 1.5 million copies in simply over two weeks.
The pirate survival journey sport hit Steam in early entry kind on April 14 and instantly shot up the most-played video games chart on Valve’s platform. Now, developer Kraken Categorical has introduced the spectacular 1.5 million gross sales milestone.
“The crew at Kraken Categorical is extremely grateful to all of the captains which have set sail on their pirate adventures to this point and excited to proceed rising the sport through the journey via Early Entry,” the developer stated in an announcement.
In an replace launched at present (patch notes under!), Kraken Categorical added over 40 new constructing items to fill some gaps and permit gamers extra constant builds together with over 50 fixes and quality-of-life adjustments. Different enhancements made to the sport tackle connectivity points, diminished load on SSDs, stability, and efficiency.
Kraken Categorical stated it is going to launch a content material roadmap within the coming months, however at present confirmed the primary huge content material drop will embody the Ashlands, which it described as “a harmful new biome taken over by undead and lined in volcanic ash.”
Right here’s the official blurb:
Within the present Early Entry model of Windrose, you and your co-op mates can discover three various biomes stuffed with quests to finish, enemies to battle in souls-lite-inspired fight, and handcrafted factors of curiosity to find in a procedurally generated world. Take down epic bosses with an armory of distinctive weapons, together with sabers, maces, muskets and extra. Enhance your status with numerous factions, commerce, farm, fish and construct a pirate haven of your personal – and command your personal vessel in thrilling naval battles with boarding actions. The excessive seas are yours for the taking!
Setting sail in Windrose? Keep away from Davy Jones’ locker with these important Windrose suggestions and tips, which can take you from the Coastal Jungle biome all over the Foothills and Cursed Swamps. Preserve observe of discoveries you’ve got made in every biome with our Windrose Development Information and search out important sources for crafting recipes, together with gunpowder. Plus, you may discover info on clearing each focal point so yow will discover the Finest Weapons and Armor.
Windrose replace 0.10.0.4.268-9d2ca277 patch notes:
Essential bits
- Added a brand new setting: Drive Relay Connection. Does not work with Direct IP connections. Generally gamers are unable to attach on to their buddies’ video games as a result of P2P visitors is blocked alongside the route. This may occur for a lot of causes, resembling router settings, ISP restrictions, firewall restrictions, and extra. This selection forces using our relay servers as a substitute of a direct P2P connection, which might enhance stability at the price of larger latency (ping)
- Fastened a bug that brought about connection points for gamers with non-English Home windows usernames
- Fastened pointless CPU utilization on idle servers and shoppers
- Disk utilization throughout gameplay has been diminished
- A number of enhancements to ship efficiency when internet hosting a server
- Fastened a uncommon crash brought on by invalid stock slot IDs
- Fastened a crash that occurred when killing Drowned with ship cannon fireplace
- Decreased the crafting value of a variety of constructing items throughout all constructing units (this is applicable to development prices, not vendor costs)
New stuff
- Added round 40 lacking wall triangle items for numerous roof angles
- Added 3 lacking ground triangle items to completely different constructing units
- Added 4 new Seedbed variations
- Added new sound results for when crops transition between development levels
- Added new sounds for harvesting grown crops at your farm
- Added audio cues for Drowned ranged assaults; they now yell earlier than hurling a projectile
- Added new visible results for when crops transition between development levels
- Added new visible results for harvesting grown crops at your farm
- Bonfire ambient music observe has been prolonged by 3 minutes
- Ship journey ambient observe has been prolonged by 40 seconds
Interface
- Fastened FrameGen stuttering that occurred when closing the stock or map
- Fastened a video reminiscence (VRAM) spike when opening sure UI home windows
- The Disassembly station now not shows outfitted gadgets within the record
- Quick journey markers will now seem on the highest layer of the map when quick journey is obtainable
- Fastened remapping points for the O and L keys
- Arrow key inputs now not rotate the character digital camera
- Mouse inversion now accurately impacts ship and ship battery controls
- Sensitivity settings now accurately have an effect on aiming with ranged weapons
- The “[Shared Quest Progress]” tag will now not seem within the journal if the shared progress setting is disabled
- Added remapping help for extra actions: secondary interactions, stock administration, HUD toggle, and so forth
- Two-handed firearm controls can now be remapped as effectively
- The “Disguise UI” toggle now solely hides the HUD and now not impacts the stock, journal, or different menus
- Added a devoted setting to regulate secure zones for widescreen screens
- Fastened a bug the place settings might change worth even when in a roundabout way hovered over by the gamepad cursor
- Fastened a mapping challenge for accented letters
- Improved help for accented letters in participant and ship names. We’re engaged on increasing our customized font to natively help extra languages quickly
Constructing & Terraforming fixes and enhancements
- Ornamental Canopies now depend as roofs for crafting station necessities
- Fastened circumstances the place digging beneath a tree might trigger it to “grasp within the air”
- Fastened a bug that allowed gamers to dig beneath Divi stumps or sure timber in swamps
- Fastened the shovel flatten instrument, it now accurately makes use of the bottom beneath the character’s toes as a baseline
- Constructing integrity now accurately recalculates if a destructible object used as a help is destroyed
- Fastened a bug that brought about Crocodile sculptures (Jolly Crocodile Sculpture, Clever Crocodile Sculpture) to levitate barely
- Fastened clipping points with 26-degree Mahogany stairs
- Fastened snapping points for 26-degree roof corners within the Jungle Survivor set
- Fastened collision points for 26-degree and 45-degree railings, they’ll now be accurately positioned on foundations and flooring
- Fastened sq. pillar collisions (present player-built constructions shouldn’t be affected)
- Fastened the visible offset for pier pillars (present player-built constructions shouldn’t be affected)
- Sign Fireplace now has the proper collision preset (now you can stroll over it)
- Saplings can now be planted with larger density (diminished spacing necessities)
- Sign Fireplace now shares the Consolation buff with different fire-related entities. Pier decorations now accurately present their very own Consolation bonus
- Fastened a bug that sometimes made sure constructing blocks indestructible
Different bug fixes and enhancements
- Improved the drop charge for Tainted Bile
- Hardwood drop charge elevated by roughly 20%
- Ship disassembly now requires the participant to have sufficient stock area (or a close-by chest) to retailer all returned sources, stopping merchandise loss
- Fastened the Boar’s second strike combo animation: it now has a clearer telegraph however an extended attain. Watch out!
- Fastened the Alpha Wolf’s bleed impact, it now accurately applies solely on the finish of the grapple
- Bleed injury will now not have an effect on gamers whereas they’re being grappled
- Fastened a visible bug with the Outnumbered impact whereas it’s energetic
- Fastened a bug the place the “Particular Assault” injury bonus on jewellery didn’t work, it now accurately applies to all [F] assaults
- Fastened Rosalinda Mercer’s perk: the 30% likelihood to proc on a purple elixir now accurately grants a purple elixir as a substitute of a blue one
- Fastened a bug that might trigger a teleport when leaping over a rising tree
- Fastened a number of ore respawn bugs, ores ought to now at all times respawn accurately
- Biking via shanties will now at all times end in a distinct track
- Fastened a number of audio points that occurred whereas utilizing the F-camera on a ship
- Ship crew barks (voice strains) can now be heard even when utilizing the F-camera
- Weapons are actually accurately unequipped if the participant removes a backpack containing them
- Fastened a number of ship interplay animations that brought about sailors to clip into objects
- Fastened clothes clipping bugs when interacting with shrouds on a ship
- The hunt to board the “Unsinkable” can now be accomplished even when the participant stays on their very own ship’s deck throughout boarding
- Fastened a difficulty that brought about Jim Godart to spawn additional copies of himself
- Fastened a uncommon error in sea quest battles that occurred if a participant left the sport mid-fight
- Fastened a bug within the “Forgotten Relics” quest brought on by receiving all three mural messages from a single wreck (extra markers will now disappear)
- Fastened an incorrect tooltip for the Iron Caverns in Foothills; it is going to now not show XP
Visible enhancements
- Fastened distorted visuals for a number of weapons on low graphics settings
- Grass will now not be eliminated when planting timber or shrubs
- Grass will now not be eliminated beneath piers and wharves
- Up to date the Wolf Head Trophy mannequin and textures
- Fastened fire visuals
- Fastened clay wall textures
- Barely up to date smelter visuals
- Fastened bean sapling visuals, vines ought to now accurately connect to the picket helps
- Improved the visibility of ornamental beams for the Previous World and Misplaced Tribe units
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