Rise of the Pirates — patch notes and updates
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| Updates and Tea | 2024-03-23 | Life has a way of throwing unexpected challenges our way, and for those of us deeply involved in creative projects, balancing life's demands with our passions can be a monumental task. Such was the case with our development journey at Ravanok. During a period of personal absence, we made the crucial decision to bring onboard an exceptional developer to keep the wheels turning. However, my absence meant there was a lack of consistent guidance and direction for our developer. Despite this, they rose to the occasion and delivered remarkable work, drawing from their own experiences and expertise. Our development process ROTP, is anything but conv |
| Rise of the Pirates Xmas Event: | 2022-12-19 | Pirates, get ready for a festive update for Rise of the Pirates! The Xmas event is now live, and as you fight enemies, you'll have a chance to collect presents that can contain either gifts or coal. Make sure to keep an eye out for them as you play. In addition to the presents, you can also visit the Xmas tree on Sochi Island to collect a present every day. And if you're looking for some exclusive Xmas cosmetics, you can find them in Heirloom Chests or the presents under the tree. We've also added a skip option for the Sky Island cutscene and made some tweaks to the gunslinger issue. The Holiday doubloon event is now live, so it's the perfect |
| To the Clouds! | 2022-10-31 | Cloud Walking Sky Island, the largest expansion for Rise of the Pirates is now live. The new islands bring pirates and marines closer to the end-game goals, with challenges and achievements that will unlock as players complete quests and defeat bosses. In this post we'll cover everything you need to know about Sky Island's arrival as well as how it impacts your character now that it has begun rolling out! Sky Island expansion includes a new islands full of wonders Sky Island is an area that players can explore and earn rewards for doing so. The island itself takes place in the sky above the seas surrounding Sky City where players will find ma |
| Sky Island Does exist! Pre-patch! | 2022-05-31 | Sky Island Pre Patch! Rumors say it does not exist. But the bold do not believe such unimaginative rumors. Taking inspiration from breath of the wild we have hidden world chest around the world that will repopulate every 24 hours. A new more piratety font for character name and titles. World Blessing system that allows players world wide benefits! Season 5 has begun! Cursed Weapons have returned as the top level reward! Inside the sorrow chest. Whats next? Sky island oficial launch! Side Quest: Working on fishing! |
| Development Blog Recap! | 2022-04-16 | We have been currently refactoring old code to increase efficiency and decrease lag (As much as is possible on byond) Zane has been hired to remake Cress, Mydd and Anchor and Skull islands. (Same artist who made dagon island and im sure you guys know him from byond.) S-Tier artist. Sky Island and Angel progress are taking flight. Be ready for more info to come. Who's ready for the next chapter of RotP? @NotArthur Thank you for the wings brother! Jolly Roger fixed, new icons and base have been commissioned Marines will now be able to make their own (NON skull based) Jolly's New pirate jollies are complete thank you @Amanuer for the amazing wor |
| Xmas Event and Season 3 Begins! | 2020-12-20 | Xmas Event December event is now active: All December: Npc’s drop presents containing Gold. (Or Coal) There is a grinch on an island, Slay him to claim a prize. The grinch now has a chance to drop new seasonal pets! A Christmas tree will appear in Sochi from the 9th to the 1st claim a present daily! (subscribers may claim twice) * New Xmas Event Clothes and Pets! December Valor Event: Valor from Events and Event Rewards Bags increased by 150% all through December (Does not include valor chest) Season 3 has begun! With amazing prizes! The exp gained for season three is based on the amount of health your enemy has! PVP Arenas! We have added two |
| Quarantine Status Update! | 2020-07-22 | Phoenix Server The Phoenix server has been changed to x10 EXP! However the wipe period is now every 3 months. (Next Wipe will happen in September!) Season 2 has come to an end! Season 2 Top 10 Players are free to level for the next tier prizes until 08/07/2020! Reward for first place is a legendary weapon. (Kyle has chosen gauntlets) If he has not changed his mind. All other runner ups receive the next tier reward! While quarantine has not been a great fun time for us at Ravanok we are happy to announce things should be back to normal mid to late August. Due to some contracts being put on hold we have had very little time for our passion proj |
| A Master Update | 2020-05-11 | A Master Update! Class Mastery System. The longer you stay with a class and the more you use it the better you become with it. We want to reflect this with a new feature. You can now gain levels for your class by simply using it. Fighting enemies near your level of power and of course PvP action. This feature is account based not character based so if you enjoy playing another class they or the same class across different characters no need to worry. Play any character and your progress will affect all your characters. Now leveling the class mastery will not give you any edge but we would like to reward you with some perks. So we also like to |
| Quarantine and Level! 2x Exp till outside is valid! | 2020-04-27 | Quarantine Event! Stay home and get those levels! Until things outside calm down enjoy! -Exp gain is x2 -Reputation gain x2 -Valor gains x2 -Ambition gain is x2 Tweaks Knifey now counts as an event past 20 seconds (For Daily Challenges) Leveling up heals hp/returns endurance. Daily Tasks related to kraken have been removed. Completing a daily task awards the crew 1000 treasury. Per task. When a player dies in PVM 8% of their max hp will be dealt as damage to their flag. All fear effects now work like Sandstorm's disabling your ability to attack rather than send you running away. Class Changes Air Increase Air funnel’s cd to 10 seconds, up fro |
| First Update Of the New Year! | 2020-01-12 | Hope everyone had a great holiday season! Lets start 2020 off with some updates! New Features Black Sea Island Conquering You can now fight over and conquer the islands in Black Sea providing amazing buffs. How to conquer: You will first need to find the islands flag and stake your claim. If there is anyone else attempting to claim the island you will need to dispatch them. Once you have claimed the island you and your crew or fleet receive the buffs from said island while you are on that island. Please let us know if you have any suggestions on the buffs. We read every suggestion. Boss Enemies in Black Sea have a chance to drop void and diam |
| Xmas Comes Early in ROTP | 2019-12-07 | Classes -Changes to poison class’s poison system. More efficient easier to work with. Poison damage tweaks. New New Marine Hero Coat, and Hats Can be purchased from the vendor in Anchor island Must be At least Captain Rank. Romy Commissioned some clothes from Amaneur. They have been added to the game. Sage backpack and Ninja Black Ops Headband cosmetics have been added to the Daily Challenge rewards list. (Possible to appear as a Daily Challenge reward.) as Daily Challenge exclusives. Amaneur has also made us some new shields. Behold! Blany has created some new Dagon Skin colors are now in the barber. Both Genders are supported. Monthly Event |
| Class Balances! PVP Season is around the corner! | 2019-11-24 | New Daily Challenge Completion Reward Options, Diamond Drill Bit and Box of Wisdom Stones. New Daily Challenges added to rotation Hit Kraken 50 times during event Break 5 crates in Sochi island Capture 1 point of interest during the battle grounds event. Use the Scrapper 1 to scrap equipment for materials. Capture a cow in CTC. Survive 10 seconds in the knife event Classes Dual Swordsman Sweep CD Reduced by 2 seconds, Reset Proc reduced to 25% from 30%. Damage reduced by 5% Blood Dance damage increased by 5% Blood Clan Living Hell CD reduced by 2 seconds. Skill changed to a max of 10 puddles, not all puddles. Reduced damage on non player enem |
| Looking at Clouds | 2019-11-09 | New Hair and Beard icons New Weapon Visuals for Slingshot, Swords and others. New hats! Weight training now has a safe zone penalty. Twice as slow when training in a safe zone, it also has a 60 second. Trident Weapon Skill Damage Increased Guantlet Weapon Skill Damage fixed (Unmastered was doing more damage than mastered.) Hammer Weapon Skill Damage Reduced. QOL Tweaks Selling Items Instead of dragging and dropping items into the store to sell, you can now alt+ click them. New Chat colors for pirate text making things easier to read. All Marine faction reputation increased by 100%. Ambition Levels now also have a score board. Check which play |
| New Player Experience and QOL Tweaks | 2019-10-26 | Many many player suggestions were added this Patch. If you would like to share an idea or have a suggestion please feel free to let us know! We are always active on discord. Sky island is still being worked on as well as more under water features. MEXP,MDR are back for now! New Skin Remover Item New UI for Help Button which will take players to the guide section and character equipment menu. Battle Grounds Max Win condition Reduced to 750 resources. (Suggested by Brogoku) Kraken Health Reduced by 30% Damage to tentacles increased by 2%. Reminder, the tentacles are the Krakens weakness, ignore its body whenever possible. (Suggested by Player b |
| Friday Update | 2019-10-11 | Event Daily Challenges have been calibrated Reqs are less strenuous. The PumpKing is now on Anchor Island. Character 4th character slot can now be unlocked. Weapons Weapon Skills damage tweaks (they will now do more damage.) Exp Exp from enemies lv 30-200 has been increased by 50% Exp from enemies lv 200-350 has been increased by 60% Exp from enemies lv 351-599 has been increased by 25% Launcher New Launcher More responsive. Classes Class Tweaks Rabbit: Hare Hammer now knocks back. All Status effects (Roots/Slows) duration has been slightly increased to compensate for the increased frame rate. (They were lasting less than a second.) New Run a |
| Spooky Update: Halloween Town | 2019-10-01 | Season Leader Boards Seasonal Leader Boards can now be found in the season window. Seasonal rewards are no longer locked to capped level players. All players can begin to work towards season rewards Season 1 Ends in December! The top 10 Players of that season will receive special rewards. Top Player will get a legendary item and every one else will get the next a smaller reward for participating (Season Level 100+) is the cut off Minor Changes Crew Leader Boards can now be found in crew window. Daily Challenges will no longer include faction based enemies. (Marine Npcs or Pirate Npcs) Halloween Town Portal can now be found in Sochi! Halloween |
| Daily Challenge Patch | 2019-09-18 | Opening boss chest from black sea now gives 2% season exp. Reduced Daily Challenge kill challenge to 250 kills. Down from 1000 Lv 600+ enemies will not appear in the daily kill challenge anymore. Bug Smashing Join us on https://discordapp.com/assets/fc0b01fe10a0b8c602fb0106d8189d9b.png |
| Daily Challenges | 2019-09-15 | Daily Challenges 5 Challenges are provided to the player. Completing each challenge will provide the player with a reward and world exp. If the player completes every challenge within 24 hours they will be able to claim the main reward at the top. New item: Blue Chest A chest that contains hidden knowledge providing 25% of max ambition exp. Few bug crushed. Refactored quest system, It was creating objectives with clones of the objective rather than required data, was terribly inefficient. Join us on https://discordapp.com/assets/fc0b01fe10a0b8c602fb0106d8189d9b.png |
| Seasons Rise | 2019-09-08 | Legendary Item Changes Tweaks to legendary equipment stats and drop rate. They should be slightly easier to find. Hidden Treasure Changes X Marks the spot event will now let you know when the treasure vanishes. Exp Changes Exp from monsters cut off point has been tweaked, Previously Enemies 30 levels below you would no longer provide you with any EXP. Now everything will always give you exp, however if you are too high a level they will give you reduced exp. New formula if your level is 15% + 30 higher than the enemy they will no longer give 100% exp. So an enemy level 100 will give you full exp until you are level 145. A level 300 enemy will |
| The Wonderer | 2019-08-12 | This update was filled mostly with refactoring of old code. However i did manage to make some headway with content. You will no longer have to be part of a crew with a ship you will not be able to experience the Black Sea islands. What's new You can now upgrade your single person vessel allowing you to enter the Black sea. This is how. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34343261/19fe937f332e5988b90554184a23e91385cc7983.png This item can only be crafted by a carpenter level 600. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34343261/f3137c353ddfe76cd0c53208dd18447cebeaf00f.png The carpenter |
| Recovered from burn out. Let's get back to the marathon, no more sprinting. | 2019-07-28 | If you’re going to burn, burn bright. Updates will resume on a bi-weekly basis. Changes NPC vanguard treasure hunting tweaks. Item Level cap raised to 600 (Steam server) 900 byond server. What this means? Boss mobs will be dropping better gear with better stats. Rare Items buffed Music and Sound Effects Music and sound effects are being added. To preview them under open sound settings under options. Basic sounds have been completed. Combat/Class specific sounds will be completed accordingly. Feed back is appreciated. So let us know if something does not sound right. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34343261/0 |
| Update: UI Overhaul | 2019-03-20 | We have Implemented a complete UI overhaul. Focusing on Improving user experience the menus are now more visually appealing and Intuitive. New https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34343261/f2e8ab76c654a82483ba0c03f7bd1a5249c35a2d.png Old https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34343261/c05ad248c44c1f214be93f75775a74c37eac38d8.png Improved player experience when starting on a new adventure. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34343261/959f54a5b2fec51ea48a97ab21348dcf9d74be0f.png |
| Update: WSAD and Key Binds | 2019-02-16 | WSAD & Key Binds WSAD Movement Many players have expressed the desire for WSAD movement. This is the industry standard. We should have done this sooner! Thank you for the feedback! This is now the default. New Key bind System. We did not stop there! You can now bind any key to any action. Change your movement controls and other commands at will. Under the controls in your top bar you will find "Open Controls Menu" This will open the menu. From here just click the action you would like to bind to a key and then when prompted press the key you will bind it to.https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34343261/c5e8444ad2 |