Ahoy there! The foundation for social gaming in Pirate Nation is expanding this week as we introduce the Shared World Map feature. Also, due to a whole slate of recent issues, we’ve decided to make Hard Gauntlet free to play for the next 7 days starting on Friday’s!

Game

• Exploration is now on a Shared World Map. All Pirates will now be seeing the same Islands while exploring. Share coordinates for the Mausoleum with other Pirates if you can find it!

• The Shared World map refreshes every 12 hours. Harvested resources and collected chests will persist in that state until the World Seed updates at 00:00 UTC.

• The map has been resized to a 128 screen radius from Parrots Perch, so you can hit the edge of the world now. We will be playing with this size and other world elements as we experiment with what delivers the best player world experience.

• Combat Card text has been updated for clarity and consistency.

• Fixed an issue in which buttons and other UI elements were not appearing in their correct positions upon loading into various screens for the first time.

BOOTY Points

• Wen live scoring? This is still not updating but we’re hoping to get this live soon for you.

Known issues

• The team is continuing to investigate reports of issues that have been plaguing Speed Pirates of late.

• BOOTY Points are still not updating live.

Future work

• The Shared World is the first of some big updates coming to Exploration gameplay. Future releases will update gameplay to include seeing other Players out in the Infinite Isles as well as combat encounters.