Month: November 2012

We are implementing a new bounty hunting system.  Every Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m. and 11 p.m. (EST) in game we will post bounties for you to hunt down and earn points. There will also be scattered bounties randomly throughout the week.  At the end of the week the person with the highest score will get a free item.

Whoever has the most points by December 7th at 11:59pm (EST) will earn the gunner outfit “The Way.”

You can collect the bounties by taking a screenshot of you defeating an issued bounty and sending it to Bounty@musegames.com.  Everyone on your side will get credit for the hunt, but whoever sends the email in first will get 5 extra points.

If the bounty can go three games without losing he is considered to have escaped and will earn the points himself.

 

You can find a current bounty board along with full details here.
If you’re like to sign up to be hunted and have a chance at extra points sign up here.

 

Registered players and subscribers to our newsletter saw this special 1.1 update edition dropping into their inboxes yesterday, just in time for Thanksgiving. Along with info on the latest update, it also included a code for a free set of goggles from the in-game store, our way of saying thanks for playing the game and supporting us.

To our US fans, hope you had a very happy Thanksgiving, and to our friends around the world, hope you had a really fun Thursday!

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We released a patch last night to fix a bunch of little things; just open Steam and the game will auto-update. Release notes!

Features
-New users now have one week to verify their email address. During that period, they can skip the screen prompting for verification code each time they log in.
-UI: more colors, highlighting yourself and blackening blocked players.
-UI: game list displays captain counts / slots
-“Death cam”: Camera orbits the site of last ship death while respawning
– Added display and filtering of server location to match list
– Added ability to select preferred location at match creation time
– Added pregame match chat
– Global lobby chat moved to Steam group chat

Balance
-Field Gun has a decreased turn speed, rate of fire, turn radius, as well as an increased reload time and slight drop. No changes to damage have been made.
-Rocket Launcher has an increased rate of fire.
-Squid has a major boost in top speed, from 37m/s to approximately 47m/s. This should bring back kiting back and make the Squid a viable support ship.
-Discrepancy between intended balance and database numbers found. Should mitigate carronade issues
–Squid should have had 850 armor instead of 700
–Flechette modifier against armor should be 0.2 instead of 0.4
–Small Carronade should have slightly slower rate of fire and slightly longer reload time

Bug Fixes
-Stats and achievements are no longer tracked in Sandbox.
-Achievements requiring you to do something to targets that are inside a cloud now can be progressed.
-Store purchase errors caused by Steam declining transactions are now displayed to users.
-UI: player information popup refreshes automatically on rank info update.
-UI: running matches now correctly display ship names / classes.
-AI: disconnected players will now be replaced by AI crew on ship death / respawn.
-Fire Extinguisher no longer rebuilds destroyed components.
-Fixed some performance problems (sudden framerate drops) with ship deaths
-Fixed an issue with Steam integration that could cause voice bugs and possibly crash very high-end machines.

Known Bugs
-Certain routers are known to corrupt the game’s traffic, in particular the Linksys WRT54G line. We are working on a more permanent fix, but bypassing your router should work around the problem.

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Hurricane Sandy hurt a lot of people and we tried our hardest to find a way to help those affected. We made two items over the weekend where all the proceeds will go help those suffering.  While we are still trying to regroup after Sandy, we ended up very lucky. Our office may still not have internet, but we still have our homes and our lives and we want to do everything we can to help those who weren’t so lucky. Howard volunteered at The Rockaways in New York which was hit very hard and we’re hoping the proceeds from the new item will help alleviate some of the suffering people are going through.

As we regroup from launch our main focus is lots of planning, organizing, prioritizing feature lists and optimizing to get ready for new content.

More after the break…
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