Campaign

One of the temporary additions coming in Cursed Sails will be the time limited campaign, which runs for three weeks, and each week there will be a new thing to achieve with new goals and rewards. AI Skeleton ships are calling us out and waging war on the outposts, at which you’ll be able to find their banners detailing their call to arms. These staged confrontations will be limited exclusively to the Cursed Sails campaign, and after the campaign is over the AI Ships will remain in the world as emergent threats albeit without the event-focused staged challenges.

Additionally, a plot thread exists for us to unravel, discovering the origin of the AI ships by investigating a “certain rogue trader” (undoubtedly Wanda the Blacksmith), which will net you some unique rewards.

New Gameplay Additions

Alongside AI Ships, we’re also getting cursed cannonballs and the ability to form reward-sharing alliances. We know very little about how either of these details will work, but I wrote a think-piece on Alliances last week.

The three-player-optimized Brigantine ship is coming to all players, giving us more options as we crew up to defend the outposts. Very interestingly, Joe mentions that, although previous screenshot releases have pictured the crow’s nest on the fore-mast, the team has decided to switch the crow’s nest back to the aft-mast to improve the 360 degree visuals of that position.

He also touched on an image I discussed last week which pictured a Brigantine with some new types of customized ship utilities, stating that these features are planned for a future update beyond Cursed Sails and were revealed early accidentally.

Finally, a Brigantine focused detail video is set to hit sometime today. I’ll update this post to include it, so watch this space. EDIT: And here it is!

New Cosmetics

Bone Crusher Set

The Bone Crusher set is complete! Bone Crusher was the set we earned pieces of during the Skeleton Thrones and Gun Powder Skeletons events, and the full set is coming to our shops soon- and it’s not Cursed Sails exclusive/time-limited.

Hunter Set

A new “Hunter” set is also coming, which will also not be time limited, and will include a new clothing and tattoo set.

Some new ship liveries make their way as well. The Bone Crusher livery set will be a time limited reward for the campaign (in addition to a skeleton scar), as will a set of three region-themed sails. Additionally, a Pirate Legend exclusive Ghost Ship set of liveries will be a permanent addition.

Finally, new hair styles and hair dyes will be added, a particularly useful addition for those that were tricked by the lighting in the Pirate Selection tavern.