Patch Notes: Boarding without ramming
Ramming is gone
- Ships can no longer ram. Driving your bow into another ship, or a galley driving its bow into yours, does no damage and no longer locks the two ships together.
Boarding
- When an enemy ship strikes its colours, E: board now appears as soon as you are within boarding range, at any speed. You no longer have to slow down or heave to first.
- When you board, the grapples pull the other ship alongside yours. Your sails come in and your ship slows to a stop during the pull. The other ship is pulled around your hull, never through it, and ends up right beside yours wherever you stop, the two hulls side by side.
- Pirates who board you are pulled alongside the same way.
Captain's stars
- The two ramming stars now extend your grapple reach. Iron Beak is renamed Long Lines (+15% grapple reach), and Grappling Irons gives +25% grapple reach and one extra boarder. Stars you already took stay taken.
What's Changed
- BOARD-MAGNET: retire ship ramming; board a struck ship in reach at any speed, pulled alongside by @Lattymoy in #1316
- The clock flake that failed deploy 1703: AUDIT SEA VENTURES B7, E3 by @Lattymoy in #1320
Full Changelog: app-v0.1.11779...app-v0.1.11785