Steam Pirate Game Windrose Sails Past 1.5 Million Copies Sold, Dev Confirms First Big Content Drop Details

Windrose is simply a smash deed — it’s sold implicit 1.5 cardinal copies successful conscionable implicit 2 weeks.

The pirate endurance escapade crippled deed Steam successful aboriginal entree signifier connected April 14 and instantly changeable up the most-played games illustration connected Valve’s platform. Now, developer Kraken Express has announced the awesome 1.5 cardinal income milestone.

“The squad astatine Kraken Express is incredibly grateful to each the captains that person acceptable sail connected their pirate adventures truthful acold and excited to proceed increasing the crippled during the travel done Early Access,” the developer said successful a statement.

In an update released contiguous (patch notes below!), Kraken Express added implicit 40 caller gathering pieces to capable immoderate gaps and let players much accordant builds on with implicit 50 fixes and quality-of-life changes. Other improvements made to the crippled code connectivity issues, reduced load connected SSDs, stability, and performance.

Kraken Express said it volition merchandise a contented roadmap successful the coming months, but contiguous confirmed the archetypal large contented driblet volition see the Ashlands, which it described arsenic "a unsafe caller biome taken implicit by undead and covered successful volcanic ash."

Here’s the authoritative blurb:

In the existent Early Access mentation of Windrose, you and your co-op mates tin research 3 divers biomes afloat of quests to complete, enemies to combat successful souls-lite-inspired combat, and handcrafted points of involvement to observe successful a procedurally generated world. Take down epic bosses with an armory of unsocial weapons, including sabers, maces, muskets and more. Improve your estimation with assorted factions, trade, farm, food and physique a pirate haven of your ain – and bid your ain vas successful thrilling naval battles with boarding actions. The precocious seas are yours for the taking!

Setting sail successful Windrose? Avoid Davy Jones' locker with these indispensable Windrose tips and tricks, which volition instrumentality you from the Coastal Jungle biome each the mode done the Foothills and Cursed Swamps. Keep way of discoveries you've made successful each biome with our Windrose Progression Guide and hunt down indispensable resources for crafting recipes, including gunpowder. Plus, you'll find accusation connected clearing each constituent of involvement truthful you tin find the Best Weapons and Armor.

Windrose update 0.10.0.4.268-9d2ca277 spot notes:

Important bits

• Added a caller setting: Force Relay Connection. Doesn't enactment with Direct IP connections. Sometimes players are incapable to link straight to their friends’ games due to the fact that P2P postulation is blocked on the route. This tin hap for galore reasons, specified arsenic router settings, ISP restrictions, firewall restrictions, and more. This enactment forces the usage of our relay servers alternatively of a nonstop P2P connection, which tin amended stableness astatine the outgo of higher latency (ping)
• Fixed a bug that caused transportation issues for players with non-English Windows usernames
• Fixed unnecessary CPU usage connected idle servers and clients
• Disk usage during gameplay has been reduced
• Several improvements to vessel show erstwhile hosting a server
• Fixed a uncommon clang caused by invalid inventory slot IDs
• Fixed a clang that occurred erstwhile sidesplitting Drowned with vessel cannon fire
• Reduced the crafting outgo of a wide scope of gathering pieces crossed each gathering sets (this applies to operation costs, not vendor prices)

New stuff

• Added astir 40 missing partition triangle pieces for assorted extortion angles
• Added 3 missing level triangle pieces to antithetic gathering sets
• Added 4 caller Seedbed variations
• Added caller dependable effects for erstwhile crops modulation betwixt maturation stages
• Added caller sounds for harvesting grown plants astatine your farm
• Added audio cues for Drowned ranged attacks; they present outcry earlier hurling a projectile
• Added caller ocular effects for erstwhile crops modulation betwixt maturation stages
• Added caller ocular effects for harvesting grown plants astatine your farm
• Bonfire ambient euphony way has been extended by 3 minutes
• Ship question ambient way has been extended by 40 seconds

Interface

• Fixed FrameGen stuttering that occurred erstwhile closing the inventory oregon map
• Fixed a video representation (VRAM) spike erstwhile opening definite UI windows
• The Disassembly presumption nary longer displays equipped items successful the list
• Fast question markers volition present look connected the apical furniture of the representation erstwhile accelerated question is available
• Fixed remapping issues for the O and L keys
• Arrow cardinal inputs nary longer rotate the quality camera
• Mouse inversion present correctly affects vessel and vessel artillery controls
• Sensitivity settings present correctly impact aiming with ranged weapons
• The "[Shared Quest Progress]" tag volition nary longer look successful the diary if the shared advancement mounting is disabled
• Added remapping enactment for much actions: secondary interactions, inventory management, HUD toggle, etc
• Two-handed firearm controls tin present beryllium remapped arsenic well
• The "Hide UI" toggle present lone hides the HUD and nary longer affects the inventory, journal, oregon different menus
• Added a dedicated mounting to set harmless zones for widescreen monitors
• Fixed a bug wherever settings could alteration worth adjacent if not straight hovered implicit by the gamepad cursor
• Fixed a mapping contented for accented letters
• Improved enactment for accented letters successful subordinate and vessel names. We are moving connected expanding our customized font to natively enactment much languages soon

Building & Terraforming fixes and improvements

• Decorative Canopies present number arsenic roofs for crafting presumption requirements
• Fixed cases wherever digging nether a histrion could origin it to "hang successful the air"
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to excavation nether Divi stumps oregon definite trees successful swamps
• Fixed the shovel flatten tool, it present correctly uses the crushed nether the character's feet arsenic a baseline
• Building integrity present correctly recalculates if a destructible entity utilized arsenic a enactment is destroyed
• Fixed a bug that caused Crocodile sculptures (Jolly Crocodile Sculpture, Wise Crocodile Sculpture) to levitate slightly
• Fixed clipping issues with 26-degree Mahogany stairs
• Fixed snapping issues for 26-degree extortion corners successful the Jungle Survivor set
• Fixed collision issues for 26-degree and 45-degree railings, they tin present beryllium correctly placed connected foundations and floors
• Fixed quadrate pillar collisions (existing player-built structures should not beryllium affected)
• Fixed the ocular offset for pier pillars (existing player-built structures should not beryllium affected)
• Signal Fire present has the close collision preset (you tin present locomotion implicit it)
• Saplings tin present beryllium planted with higher density (reduced spacing requirements)
• Signal Fire present shares the Comfort buff with different fire-related entities. Pier decorations present correctly supply their ain Comfort bonus
• Fixed a bug that occasionally made definite gathering blocks indestructible

Other bug fixes and improvements

• Improved the driblet complaint for Tainted Bile
• Hardwood driblet complaint accrued by astir 20%
• Ship disassembly present requires the subordinate to person capable inventory abstraction (or a adjacent chest) to store each returned resources, preventing point loss
• Fixed the Boar's 2nd onslaught combo animation: it present has a clearer telegraph but a longer reach. Be careful!
• Fixed the Alpha Wolf's bleed effect, it present correctly applies lone astatine the extremity of the grapple
• Bleed harm volition nary longer impact players portion they are being grappled
• Fixed a ocular bug with the Outnumbered effect portion it is active
• Fixed a bug wherever the "Special Attack" harm bonus connected jewelry did not work, it present correctly applies to each [F] attacks
• Fixed Rosalinda Mercer's perk: the 30% accidental to proc connected a purple elixir present correctly grants a purple elixir alternatively of a bluish one
• Fixed a bug that could origin a teleport erstwhile jumping implicit a increasing tree
• Fixed respective ore respawn bugs, ores should present ever respawn correctly
• Cycling done shanties volition present ever effect successful a antithetic song
• Fixed respective audio issues that occurred portion utilizing the F-camera connected a ship
• Ship unit barks (voice lines) tin present beryllium heard adjacent erstwhile utilizing the F-camera
• Weapons are present correctly unequipped if the subordinate removes a backpack containing them
• Fixed respective vessel enactment animations that caused sailors to clip into objects
• Fixed covering clipping bugs erstwhile interacting with shrouds connected a ship
• The quest to committee the "Unsinkable" tin present beryllium completed adjacent if the subordinate stays connected their ain ship's platform during boarding
• Fixed an contented that caused Jim Godart to spawn other copies of himself
• Fixed a uncommon mistake successful oversea quest battles that occurred if a subordinate near the crippled mid-fight
• Fixed a bug successful the "Forgotten Relics" quest caused by receiving each 3 mural messages from a azygous ruin (excess markers volition present disappear)
• Fixed an incorrect tooltip for the Iron Caverns successful Foothills; it volition nary longer show XP

Visual improvements

• Fixed distorted visuals for respective weapons connected debased graphics settings
• Grass volition nary longer beryllium removed erstwhile planting trees oregon shrubs
• Grass volition nary longer beryllium removed nether piers and wharves
• Updated the Wolf Head Trophy exemplary and textures
• Fixed fireplace visuals
• Fixed clay partition textures
• Slightly updated smelter visuals
• Fixed legume sapling visuals, vines should present correctly connect to the woody supports
• Improved the visibility of decorative beams for the Old World and Lost Tribe sets

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