4.01
Features & Improvements (10)
- Sustain notes have been added to the note block system.
- It is now more obvious when ship resources are running low or have been fully depleted.
- Other players' characters now move more smoothly when using ship ladders, ropes, or stairs rather than snapping/teleporting.
- Replaced existing voice lines with new VA lines features the glorious Sir. Henry for ship capturing and sinking events.
- Musicians will no longer sink while holding an instrument (only a cannonball will cause sinking, as intended).
- Controller players can now properly access and use Midshipman abilities.
- Reduced the map history count so players are always presented with more than one map option to vote for on Frontlines.
- Improved interaction ranges for ammo boxes on the 17:» Gun to make loading and resupplying significantly easier.
- Introduced creator program rewards and cosmetics.
- Captains now count as 2 instead of 3 crew members when defending their ship from boarders.
Bug Fixes (28)
- Fixed ships being pushed to the side of the map on spawn in Veste Ossttruz.
- Fixed proxy characters visibly swaying with ships when a ship is sinking.
- Fixed ragdolls falling through ship decks when a player dies on a ship.
- Fixed a bug where the ship boarding capture sound would trigger every time a player was hit during boarding, instead of just once.
- Fixed the yellow hull plank tint mask on ships having incorrect tiling, causing discolouration in the wrong position.
- Fixed cannon highlight rendering incorrectly on the rotating cannon.
- Fixed players being able to go out of bounds on Copper Valley using cavalry or artillery.
- Fixed floating ammo boxes on Balamor Bay when a tower is destroyed.
- Fixed incorrect fort materials on Nile.
- Fixed Port Le Merc (Point B) having no valid spawn positions for attacking pirates due to incorrect class assignments on the objective.
- Fixed an XP farming exploit on Port Le Merc.
- Fixed spawn class counts in the spawn menu sometimes showing 0/1 for all slots even when players were present (reported on Naval and Frontlines Invasion modes).
- Fixed Coastal Siege attacking spawn sections sometimes including non:» naval land classes.
- Fixed the ship boarding mechanic incorrectly being active in Frontlines mode.
- Fixed Naval Conquest missing its objectives.
- Fixed a bug in Coastal Siege where a single contesting player would prevent all defenders from spawning without actually capturing the point.
- Fixed an issue where players would sometimes re-spawn at the exact location where they died.
- Fixed an exception that would occur when changing graphics settings (affected the Objectives Panel).
- Fixed an exception occurring when playing the "Over The Top" map on Frontlines WW1.
- Fixed a crash/black screen when disconnecting from a Frontlines server.
- Fixed the water surface turning pink on certain maps due to missing water system references.
- Fixed exaggerated/oversized waves in the water system, particularly on consoles and low FPS settings.
- Fixed the Privateer Musician uniform having an incorrectly labelled Scottish name.
- Fixed the in-game Steam store bundle for the Age of Sail Edition not linking to the correct Age of Sail store page.
- Fixed misconfigured or missing items on console in:» game store pages.
- Fixed an exception caused by modded uniforms that was breaking the game for players using mods.
- Fixed the Orders panel still referring to "Adept Sailor" instead of the correct rank name "Midshipman".
- Fixed a spelling mistake in the intro screen — "Occasionally" was misspelled.
Crashes & Stability (3)
- Investigated and addressed crashes affecting PS5 and Xbox.
- Investigated and applied an experimental fix for crashes on Intel ARC GPUs.
- Resolved multiple client exceptions present in game client version v4.0.9559.30848.
Known Issues
Players will visibliy stutter when moving artillery pieces while playing on Xbox or PlayStation.