This is a guide on how to play the game. This guide is a work in progess as the game is a work in progress. Information is subject to change at any time. That said we will do our best to keep it as up to date as possible. If you have any suggestions feel free to comment with them.

Here are the basic keyboard controls for the game in their default setting.

Movement
W - Accelerate
A - Turn Left
D - Turn Right
S - Decelerate

Fire Controls

While looking either left or right hit the left mouse button to fire.

Hold Space bar and look around to aim the special barrel attack. Let go of Spacebar to fire.

At present there is only one game mode. It is a free for all mode with the end goal being to have the most infamy at the end of the match.

How to gain (and lose) infamy:

You gain 10 infamy for every trade vessel you destroy. They are the ships with the pure white sails that never shoot back. They are the easiest way to farm money early on. (more on this later)

Infamy gained from killing other players uses the following formula:
(Their infamy +250) / (Your infamy + 250) x 100 (min 25 / max 250) + 15% of their total infamy + %10 of their infamy difference.

Infamy lost is 15% if the person who killed you has higher infamy
and inbetween if you're higher then them, depending on by how much.

25% if you run into land or NPC ship.


Gold and Upgrades:

You gain gold by picking up the barrels dropped when you kill an ememy/trade vessel. Doing so will give you an amount of gold that varies by how much time has progressed in the match. Picking up the loot will also give you a small heal.

This gold can be spent either on upgrades as seen in the bottom left of your screen or is consumed when using your special ability.

The upgades from left to right are: Hull - Cannon - Sails - Special

Hull Upgrade Stats
Health: 500 / 625 / 750
Regen when out of combat: 1.5 / 2 / 2.5
Ramming Damage Mitigation: 0 / 10% / 20%

Each cannon upgrade increases raw dps by 25%, even though the volley damage increases from the base damage by 33%, this is offset by a slightly increased cooldown resulting in an increased time to fire.

Cannon Upgrade stats
Cannons per side: 3/4/5
Damage per shot: 30/30/30
Cooldown: 5.2/5.55/5.77 (Note that time to fire increases slightly)

While speed in and of itself might not look like much, it provides a lot of utility to players. Allowing them to enter into combat faster, avoid dangerous situations and dodge attacks, as well as changing the ship side faster to allow continuous fire off both Broadsides.

Sail Upgrade Stats
Max Speed Bonus: 0 / 17.5% / 35%
Acceleration Bonus: 0 / 17.5% / 35%
Declaration Bonus: 0 / 17.5% / 35%
Rotation Speed Bonus: 0 / 17.5% / 35%


The barrel is designed to help counter Hull builds and to be used in PVP, not for farming

Explosive Barrel
Radius: 8/12.5/15
Flat Damage: 50/100/150
% Max Health Damage: 5/10/20
Cost to fire: 50/50/50
Cooldown: 15/15/15 seconds