Second ENHANCED patch launches today (we recommend you to start a new game, especially if you want to see the new content, as factions, etc)
1.0.15

• Second round of game balance updates and additions, still more to come! :)
• New world order! Each legendary pirate has been given their own domain at the four corners of the map. (Start a new game if you want to see the brave new world!)
• Faction zones with new areas! Each map corner has new types of islands as well as faction ships and faction NPCs!
• North and South have snowy islands with Penguins!
• Revised ALL Pirate loot tables
• Revised ALL item prices for shops
• Humanoid pirates now drop their equipped items and equip ranged weapons
• New resource file Tiles.xml for modifying all the ship items
• New resource file ShopProgression.xml: all shop contents are now determined here
• Shops now have a limited stock of certain items that can become permanently sold out
• New Stat Modifier system: items and buffs can now apply bonuses or penalties to stats. Modified stats will show in green or red in the pirate card
• Fixed some of the Achievements not working correctly
• Fixed lots of annoying bugs, such as pirates falling to the ocean after grappling or pirates being saved mid-air while on the grapple
• Cannon combat lenght now varies by danger level
• Sea Shanty now applies new buff: +2 to all stats for 2 minutes
• Weapons no longer sell for 1 gold
• Nerfed Ancestor Mask (+1 TP on level-up -> 30% more exp)
• Bounty rewards now give more gold
• … and many more small fixes and tweaks!

I want to take a moment to thank our kind testers, if it weren't for your help we wouldn't be able to bring such large changes to the game! A huge round of applause for :

Brian "Snickers"
Cathal Bracken
Chris "deadcantdance"
Jesse "Caosong"
Nader "abutttuba"
Vinxkur
Jenny
Zack Kramer (@zcgamer83 twitter, Calico steam)
Aaron Drehmann

as well as Mikko and Jesus obviously!

A quick update on Pixel Privateers. The team working on it is making some huge advances and it looks like we are looking at an "Early Summer" launch. As always, we are going for a FULL release and avoiding Early Access, so don't hold us to a set date until we lock it in with Valve.

There's LOTS more on the horizon, with the next patch looking to bring boatloads (see what I did there?) of content. My back has gotten moderately better and I'm not in pain anymore, and nobody at the office has their stomaches turned inside out anymore, so I'm banking on an April 7th release for the next patch.

AFTER that one, we're looking at some pretty huge things, but more on that after it deploys ;).

Have fun everyone, thank you for trusting us and sticking with us!


-Alex