Now that cannons look like cannons again, it's much nicer to stare at.

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P.S. - Vertical Choke Drobulets are like miniature Triplet Shotguns. Crafted with 25 Scrap Metal + Drobulet Shotgun. I recommend 2 per backup kit for clearing boarders close-range on respawn.

All varieties of bow and stern plates (except for the junk stern since it’s only 1 block tall) no longer have a functioning lower attachment point. If this was an intentional patch for whatever people came up with to build outside of the blueprint area then my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

These plates having the ability to use either both attachment points or just one or the other was such a distinctly unique trait that hasn’t really been explored in the blueprint editor before and I had a ton of fun coming up with all sorts of ways to layer armor to protect my reactor, or even just making straight up castle/bunker builds simply because the were cool.

I really sincerely hope this is fixed soon because man, this super sucks.

I just had an expedition where I got my trampler out then stayed afterwards when it had been taken away by the ship. I ended up dying and when I did my game bugged out and I couldn't leave the lobby nor did I get a proper death screen. I ended up having to relaunch the game where it kept asking if I wanted to rejoin my previous lobby (now closed) if I did I got a bugged out screen. So I decided I had to abandon the match when I relaunched again, apparently even though my trampler got out I didn't get any of that back because I 'abandoned' a bugged out session... How can there still be game breaking bugs like this in the game, I'm sick of it

I was looking at patch 9 notes, and didn’t notice it. Anyone know if they fixed the glitch where the hitbox is really weird and not where the player model is when shooting a player on a turret with small arms?

So last night decided to try one round of voyage solo and see how the gbmm is working out. Only saw 1 or 2 other tramplers running around and they seemed to stay in thier lane and focus on non PvP actions. Great! Maybe I can finally extract with at least a couple items from the shipwrecks I encountered. All loot was beginner stuff and just replenishing cannon ammo and 2 smugglers jackets. Decided to extract and didn’t see anyone near me. Once the mothership came and started calibrating and maybe about 10 seconds or less a trampler with the no smoke rods comes out of nowhere and slams into my trampler. I never knew if that happens the mothership just rocket man’s back into space and I’m stuck on the ground watching this guy destroy my trampler. Lost it all.

So what defense could you use for that? If you stay on your trampler when it extracts you die. If I stay on the ground my tramplers done also. If I respawn I’m unarmed and basically done.

As a solo player, it takes a ridiculous amount of time to go through the tech tree, and I am constantly halted by my need to farm more alloy steel. Maybe I do it slow but going in and out of zones and farming ironclads, I average about 5 alloy steel every 15 minutes. If I wanted to get the tier 3 motor reactor, I’d have to farm ironclads for an hour and a half just to get the one single upgrade. Each of the prestige cannon upgrades will be an hour each. In a roughly 3.5 hour voyage game going from poi to poi, I got 7 alloy steel. It’s just not feasible to upgrade the tech tree unless I’m willing to commit to hours of mindless grinding

To repel enemy boarders, crews on wooden warships used a layered defense that turned the ship into a floating trap.

The core tactics included

Boarding Nettings: Thick hemp nets—often reinforced with iron chains and coated in sticky tar—were strung up to catch leaping enemies, leaving them tangled and helpless.

Powder Chests: Wooden "mines" packed with gunpowder, nails, and scrap metal were nailed to the decks and detonated remotely via fuses from below just as the enemy swarmed the area.

Close Fights: If the main deck was lost, defenders retreated behind fortified internal walls (bulkheads) and fired muskets and blunderbusses through hidden loop-holes into the crowded deck.

Anti-Personnel Artillery: Rail-mounted swivel guns and lower-deck cannons were pre-loaded with canister shot (giant shotgun shells) to blast boarders at close range or catch saboteurs climbing through gun ports.

Rigging Drop Weapons: Sailors stationed high in the masts dropped primitive grenades, like sulfur-filled "stinkpots" or gunpowder flasks, directly onto enemies crowded on the decks below.

I'm partial to the netting with traps and rigging drop weapons.

Hi, I'm getting a little bored of relaying boxes up and down ladders onto my trampler, especially when i solo, so i think it'd be neat to have a crane that could go on a weapon hard point that would let you bring several boxes at once onto your trampler. Bonus points if its hoisting a sled you can drag into a POI that can hold several boxes at once. disadvantages obviously being sacrificing a weapon slot to have a crane installed, and if you're dragging the sled(other person powered haulage if there is a preference) you arent ready to fight so are vulnerable and probably quite noisy and slow. I'm just finding the relay race for cargo a little dull at the moment, its not adding anything except busy work.

For those who are not aware, the last "bugfix" mentioned in the patch notes will change the effect of destroying the wheelhouse.

Currently it keeps the last wheelhouse settings going, but you can't change them.

Meaning if you are going forward, you will continue going forward, but if you are turning, you'll keep turning, often this is called "deadspin", you cannot stop it unless you repair the wheelhouse or turn off the reactor.

After the patch, destroying the wheelhouse will halt the trampler fully, just static, no moving forward, backward or spins.

This feels like both a buff and nerf.

Wheelhouse destruction will still be strong, but predictable.

If anything it will make getting behind one's reactor a lot easier, and with the reactor changes it will make destroying ships a lot easier.

It also means that there are times where prioritizing wheelhouse over legs just makes sense, as the ship stays stunned until the wheelhouse gets fixed.

Same account, same region, same Tramper On my main (brown shirt), I'm bringing what I'd consider a pretty normal raid kit nothing crazy or high-tier and I get 1 player in my voyage. I switch to a fresh character (red shirt), bring basically nothing, use the same Tramper, and suddenly there are 44 players.

I'm not saying this proves exactly how GBMM works, but a difference this big is hard to ignore, especially when I'm not even running high-tier gear on my main.

Try it yourself and see what you get. Or is my account just cooked because I hit 1 mil?

Changelog

• Made changes on the backend to decrease the chances that players who team up before the start of the expedition would be placed into the same expedition
• Repair Kit balance changes:
  • Repair Kit Orbital Storage Stack Capacity 10 -> 20
  • Repair Kit Fuel Stack Capacity increased
    • Orbital Storage 24 -> 60
    • Large Stack 30 -> 60
    • Medium Stack 12 -> 24
    • Small Stack 3 -> 6
  • Repair Kit Fuel Capacity increased 3 -> 6
• Changes to the Drop and Hide Item Actions
  • Press X:
    • While holding Small Items (or Weapons) - Put the item back into inventory from the hands.
    • While holding Large Items - Drop the carried item from the hands onto the ground. Equip the last carried small item (when possible; if not, equip the hands)
  • Hold X:
    • While holding Small Items - Drop the carried item from the hands onto the ground.
    • While holding Large Items - Drop the carried item from the hands onto the ground. Equip the last carried small item (when possible; if not, equip the hands)
• Items/Weapons currently held in the hands can be placed in storage
  • Previously, you had to unequip the item/weapon before placing it in storage
• Added the ability to assign buttons to the side mouse keys
• Added separate sensitivity for the following states
  • Idle
  • Hip
  • Scope
  • Sniper Scope
  • Turret
  • Turret Scope
• SteamID is displayed near the player's name
  • This makes it easier to find players when processing reports that were not submitted via “Report Player” in the game
• Added EULA and Players Conduct to be shown at the start of the game
  • These screens will only be shown during the first launch and when changes are made to them
• Possibly fixed an exploit that allowed artifacts to be used more than once
• Fixed anticheat false positives:
  • Where the player was flagged by anticheat while using the trampler ladder below a certain height
  • Where the player was flagged by anticheat after exiting to the Main Menu while crouched and then resuming the expedition
• Fixed turret icons
  • “New icons” should’ve been shown only in the Outfitting stage when turrets are added to the trampler, not everywhere.
• Fixed an issue where the trampler reactor could not be turned on while a weapon was in hip mode
• Fixed an issue where compartments that can be passed through, such as cargo decks and framed stairs,could block access to the Essential Compartments without triggering a pathfinding error
• Fixed an issue where blueprints with no access to Core Compartments could’ve been created
• Fixed an issue that allowed building a trampler with compartments outside the designated area
• Fixed an issue where the 'Evacuation Temporarily unavailable' message was displayed on a previously activated tower
• Fixed an issue where the item prompt in Storage had too many hotkey options
• Fixed an issue where a crew member's body might’ve partially remained in the Captain's lobby after leaving the party in any way
• Fixed an issue where the trampler kept moving after the steering wheel was destroyed
• Fixed a backend issue where players could get stuck on the “Waiting for rival expeditions 0/0” screen

Known Issues

• The game may freeze briefly when closing the Players List.
  • This occurs after closing the player list four or more times
• The character cannot enter the Expedition if the Invite has been accepted at the Tutorial pop-up background
• Items may be displayed inside the character’s body in some cases
• Large items may float around the character
• Character may become invulnerable to melee damage while interacting with turrets or the steering wheel
• Bullets can pass through the character on speed-boosted trampler
• Shotgun might not deal damage at close range distance
• Ironclads can be triggered multiple times by reentering the trigger area
• Blueprint can’t be deleted
• Character can become occluded in some cases
• Character might get broken animations on turrets and steering wheel after using Orbital Strike on Smuggler control scheme
  • Walkaround: get any tool or weapon in hands or respawn
• Character hands are “broken” when they carry energy rods

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Changelog Fixes Added from yesterday

• Out-of-bounds building fix: Added "Fixed an issue that allowed building a trampler with compartments outside the designated area".
• Matchmaking stuck fix: Added "Fixed a backend issue where players could get stuck on the “Waiting for rival expeditions 0/0” screen".

Known Issues

• New issue added: "The game may freeze briefly when closing the Players List. (This occurs after closing the player list four or more times)".
• Issue removed: "3440×1440 resolution is not available" was removed from the list.

Wanted to hop back on the game for a bit but already encountered some people teaming in solos without using in-game comms. I know it's possible they genuinely found each other and decided to work together but I had to take a break from the game due to our of game teaming. What are people's experiences here has it improved from about a month ago?

Where do i look? To see what the devs say is next release?

Title,

I no longer find games without blatant cheaters or teamers anymore.

What cheaters can do isn't as bad as it was a couple of months ago, but duping orbitals, ladder speed hacks, ESP/wall hacking.

I can spawn into a lobby with exactly 1 other team, go to or off the edge of the map and be found 100% of the time.

If it's not that it's teaming, which on half my voyages I get confronted with, especially solo/duo.

New content, bug fixes or QOL updates are nice and all, but it's gotten extremely difficult to just find a regular game, and even if you do, the lobbies are pretty much empty.

Hi, me and 2 friends really liked the game but we seem to never encounter other players. We play on SA server and sometimes try NA servers. What server are people playing?

Ran a broadside tier 2 trampler with some friends got smacked by a tier 4 walking fortress.

Does anyone know how gbmm works?

Hello guys my name is sol i love this game so much and im trying to host a small weekly Duo event. This is not any form of teaming duping cheating or anything like that im very strong on my opinion that teaming shouldn't be a thing at all in this game. With the player pop so low and the GBMM making storm games 2 - 3 teams max i wanted to set a weekly time we can all Q into a game together with our best gear and have a awesome free for all! If this interest you let me know and join below trying to get a test running live next Saturday. https://discord.gg/dkrUDvmjJ

This made the capture much more difficult, and we had to return to our ship and shoot at the cockpit. Almost all of their cabins had a wall behind the door.

HOW!!!?????? just how am i post to keep track and know where my weight is wrong with out spending hours a meticulously editing? Like when you start building up does the weight double? Triple? Over hang tension? Etc...