Windrose is a smash hit — it’s bought over 1.5 million copies in simply over two weeks.
The pirate survival journey recreation 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 Specific has introduced the spectacular 1.5 million gross sales milestone.
“The workforce at Kraken Specific is extremely grateful to all the captains which have set sail on their pirate adventures up to now and excited to proceed rising the recreation throughout the journey by way of Early Entry,” the developer stated in an announcement.
In an replace launched at the moment (patch notes under!), Kraken Specific 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 recreation tackle connectivity points, decreased load on SSDs, stability, and efficiency.
Kraken Specific stated it is going to launch a content material roadmap in the coming months, however at the moment confirmed the first large content material drop will embrace 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:
In 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 ideas and tips, which is able to take you from the Coastal Jungle biome all the means by way of the Foothills and Cursed Swamps. Preserve observe of discoveries you’ve got made in every biome with our Windrose Development Information and seek out important sources for crafting recipes, together with gunpowder. Plus, you will discover info on clearing each focal point so yow will discover the Greatest Weapons and Armor.
Windrose replace 0.10.0.4.268-9d2ca277 patch notes:
Necessary bits
- Added a brand new setting: Drive Relay Connection. Would not work with Direct IP connections. Generally gamers are unable to attach on to their pals’ video games as a result of P2P site visitors is blocked alongside the route. This will occur for a lot of causes, reminiscent of router settings, ISP restrictions, firewall restrictions, and extra. This selection forces the use of our relay servers as an alternative of a direct P2P connection, which may enhance stability at the price of upper latency (ping)
- Fastened a bug that precipitated connection points for gamers with non-English Home windows usernames
- Fastened pointless CPU utilization on idle servers and purchasers
- Disk utilization throughout gameplay has been decreased
- A number of enhancements to ship efficiency when internet hosting a server
- Fastened a uncommon crash attributable to invalid stock slot IDs
- Fastened a crash that occurred when killing Drowned with ship cannon hearth
- Diminished the crafting price 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 flooring 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 vegetation 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 vegetation 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 not shows geared up objects in the listing
- Quick journey markers will now seem on the high layer of the map when quick journey is offered
- Fastened remapping points for the O and L keys
- Arrow key inputs not rotate the character digicam
- Mouse inversion now appropriately impacts ship and ship battery controls
- Sensitivity settings now appropriately have an effect on aiming with ranged weapons
- The “[Shared Quest Progress]” tag will not seem in the journal if the shared progress setting is disabled
- Added remapping help for extra actions: secondary interactions, stock administration, HUD toggle, and so on
- Two-handed firearm controls can now be remapped as nicely
- The “Conceal UI” toggle now solely hides the HUD and not impacts the stock, journal, or different menus
- Added a devoted setting to regulate protected zones for widescreen screens
- Fastened a bug the place settings may change worth even when indirectly hovered over by the gamepad cursor
- Fastened a mapping situation 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 instances the place digging beneath a tree may trigger it to “dangle in the air”
- Fastened a bug that allowed gamers to dig beneath Divi stumps or sure bushes in swamps
- Fastened the shovel flatten device, it now appropriately makes use of the floor beneath the character’s ft as a baseline
- Constructing integrity now appropriately recalculates if a destructible object used as a help is destroyed
- Fastened a bug that precipitated Crocodile sculptures (Jolly Crocodile Sculpture, Smart Crocodile Sculpture) to levitate barely
- Fastened clipping points with 26-degree Mahogany stairs
- Fastened snapping points for 26-degree roof corners in the Jungle Survivor set
- Fastened collision points for 26-degree and 45-degree railings, they’ll now be appropriately positioned on foundations and flooring
- Fastened sq. pillar collisions (current player-built constructions shouldn’t be affected)
- Fastened the visible offset for pier pillars (current player-built constructions shouldn’t be affected)
- Sign Fireplace now has the right collision preset (now you can stroll over it)
- Saplings can now be planted with increased density (decreased spacing necessities)
- Sign Fireplace now shares the Consolation buff with different fire-related entities. Pier decorations now appropriately present their very own Consolation bonus
- Fastened a bug that often 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 house (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 appropriately applies solely at the finish of the grapple
- Bleed injury will not have an effect on gamers whereas they’re being grappled
- Fastened a visible bug with the Outnumbered impact whereas it’s lively
- Fastened a bug the place the “Particular Assault” injury bonus on jewellery didn’t work, it now appropriately applies to all [F] assaults
- Fastened Rosalinda Mercer’s perk: the 30% likelihood to proc on a purple elixir now appropriately grants a purple elixir as an alternative 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 appropriately
- Biking by way of shanties will now at all times lead to a unique music
- 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 appropriately unequipped if the participant removes a backpack containing them
- Fastened a number of ship interplay animations that precipitated 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 problem that precipitated Jim Godart to spawn additional copies of himself
- Fastened a uncommon error in sea quest battles that occurred if a participant left the recreation mid-fight
- Fastened a bug in the “Forgotten Relics” quest attributable to 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 not show XP
Visible enhancements
- Fastened distorted visuals for a number of weapons on low graphics settings
- Grass will not be eliminated when planting bushes or shrubs
- Grass will not be eliminated beneath piers and wharves
- Up to date the Wolf Head Trophy mannequin and textures
- Fastened hearth visuals
- Fastened clay wall textures
- Barely up to date smelter visuals
- Fastened bean sapling visuals, vines ought to now appropriately connect to the wood helps
- Improved the visibility of ornamental beams for the Previous World and Misplaced Tribe units
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