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Kartuga Reloaded – Update includes first and only server reset

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Ahoy Pirates,

We were so excited when we officially started Kartuga’s Closed Beta at the end of February, and the first players started exploring the oceans. Since then, our development team has continued to work diligently on the game and incorporated new features, improved existing ones and applied lots of minor bug fixes. All this would not have been possible without your active support! Whether in blog comments, on Facebook or on the official forum, you have always given us useful feedback, brought forth new ideas and reported bugs in the game. For this, we want to thank the entire community of Kartuga!

Let’s talk about the update we just published – In short: It resets all server data. For you, this means that all of your characters start at level 1 again, With an emptied inventory and your current rank being deleted. Crucial to this decision was mainly the idea of fairness: Many of you have already played one or more characters extensively, reached a high level and obtained powerful items. Furthermore, from now on, you’ll be able to purchase gems, which was also not possible before. Therefore, it would be unfair to all new players who were not yet lucky and couldn’t participate in the closed beta. In addition, some of the changes that we now made, were much easier to implement for the programmers, because of the reset.

Your login information, social contacts and friends lists remain, of course, so that you can get back to normal immediately after the reset. In addition, I can promise you that this will be the only time we reset the server and your characters. Everything that you earn from now will remain! Therefore – Anchors Away! From now on, it counts!

Get ready for tight battles! Kartuga Community Event has started!

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Before some time we have already published a video about the quest system of our pirate game Kartuga and exposed some information about the story:

Now it’s time to focus again on the PvP part of the game:

Cheers of victory or crushing defeat – a round of Kartuga’s domination mode can evoke a wide spectrum of emotions. Matches are often decided within the last few seconds. You’re not paying attention for one second, and the enemy team takes over a control point, shifting the odds in their favor. Sometimes I felt like biting my keyboard, because my team lost a seemingly secure victory. Exactly those situations we’d like to capture in our first Kartuga community event: We want Screenshots of your closest game results. It doesn’t matter if you were the ones that managed to snatch the victory or if you had to admit a close defeat against your opponent – what counts is the difference between the teams’ scores, which should be as low as possible. If you have a screenshot of such a result, please visit our Kartuga forum. Here you have to post your screenshot in this thread. The closest three games posted will be rewarded with diamonds: 1500 for the first place, 1000 and 750 for the respective second and third. Only conditions are: Only one screenshot per player and the game took place after april 16. Our event ends at April 26th – so go out, play domination and take screenshots, there are diamonds waiting!

Kartuga Dev Letter, no. 1

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In the recent weeks, I told you a lot of my experiences with our new pirate game Kartuga. Now it’s time to hand over the word to the people who developed this great game. Please find below a letter from the Kartuga Dev team, informing you about the current status of the game and their plans for the future.

Kartuga Dev Letter, no. 1

Fellow pirates!

We as the developers of Kartuga would like to address you, our loyal players, with this first Kartuga Dev Letter. The purpose of this letter is threefold: we’d like to give you an insight into some current numbers, and we’d like to let you know what we are currently working on regarding future updates of the game. Finally, we would like to thank you for your interest in Kartuga, and for your absolutely awesome support so far – keep on looting, plundering, and roaming the seas!

The reception of Kartuga was absolutely great, we are really overwhelmed by the enthusiastic player base that has been building up since the start of the closed beta, and even before that. Let us substantiate the great acceptance by some key numbers we’ve been tracking so far:

During the course of the closed beta, you have been playing for an accumulated 1.76 million minutes (that’s an astonishing 3.3 years!), you have been playing 3000 PvP matches, and have bought over 30 million cannon balls!

Current Development

We’re of course not going to rest on our laurels – here’s what we are currently working on to improve Kartuga (some of these improvements have already been implemented with Wednesday’s patch):

  • Matchmaking has been improved, favoring slightly longer waiting time over large gaps in levels between opponents
  • The stability of both client and server has been increased – this should already have become effective
  • Filling up matches if someone left the match has been made better and more fair

An Outlook on the Future

In the future, we will tackle the following features – and of course we’ll continue to fix occurring bugs. A big thanks goes out to all of you who have helped us with their reports – keep up the good work!

  • A ranking will be implemented
  • The options menu will be improved drastically
  • A feature many of you eagerly await will come: customizable controls will be introduced!

Listening to our Players

Finally, we have been summarizing your valuable feedback over the last weeks, and we will focus on the following areas to make Kartuga an even better game:

Many players have expressed their wish for a better chat, and we will work on making the chat more convenient to use

  • Some of you have been wondering whether the progression is not too fast, and we will look into it to guarantee long-time motivation and somewhat slower progression in terms of levelling
  • Of course we would like fair and square PvP battles, and would like to limit the loopholes for abuse as much as possible – nobody likes to have a team mate just being afk for the experience, and we will try to find ways to limit such abuse

We hope to have provided you with an update regarding our work and future plans for Kartuga – stay tuned, keep on playing, and please continue to provide us with your feedback – it is very important to us, and we’ll keep on listening to your suggestions, criticism, and improvements.

Sincerely,

The Kartuga Developers

Kartuga: new update improves match-making system

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The canons are hot, your opponents despair and your ship keeps getting more powerful – The closed beta of Kartuga is running very well and thousands of players are fighting for supremacy on its vast oceans. Now there is another reason to be enthusiastic. Our developers just released a new update fixing some issues and improving the whole gameplay.

I’m looking forward to the new match-making system. You may have recognized that the difference between the players’ levels rose. So there is a risk that the battles become uneven. The new update is designed precisely to fix this. In the future, we want only very similarly leveled players to compete against each other. To achieve this, the time was extended in which the system can take to match up players. This will increase the chances of the system finding more appropriate opponents, and the frustration factor will drop considerably. The update will also ensure that you never have to play alone against two opponents.

Those who want to learn more about this patch, and upcoming ones can visit the official forum.

Oh, and if you are still getting this message in the game, “We are currently undergoing maintenance – please check back later” then clear your cache. Once you do that, everything should work!

Attention Pirates: New beta keys available!

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For some time now pirate captains all over the world roar “Fire away”! Thousands of pirates fight exciting sea battles and try out various character builds. No easy task considering the three totally different classes Protector, Engineer and Destroyer and a total of over 80 Skills to choose from. Whoever did not have the chance so far and wants to try out our brand new pirate game should register on www.kartuga.com and use this key:

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After you have logged in, you can pick your own class. If you are not sure which class to choose, check out our new skill video in which we present the skill trees of the classes:


After you have solved the tutorial, you start in a lovely harbor. Now you can start to take on quests and fight NPC’s. If you prefer to fight against human players, you should select the domination or destruction modes. As soon as enough players have queued for a pvp match the battle starts.

The domination mode is about area control. Each team tries to control as many control points as possible. For each captured position your team gains a constant stream of points. The team that first reaches 2500 points wins.

The destruction mode is about planting a bomb. The bomb spawns in the middle of the map. If you collect it you have to bring the bomb to your enemies’ bomb spots. Once you have arrived, you goal is to arm the bomb and wait for the explosion. But attention: While the countdown is running, you opponents still have a chance to disarm the bomb.

You see there are a lot of things to discover in the world of Kartuga, so be fast and join the game!

 

Use Kartugas skill trees to build your own battleship!

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When you currently walk down the corridors of our offices, you hear the sound of fighting ships everywhere. The reason for this is our new pirate action MMOG Kartuga. Two weeks ago the closed beta started and since then all hell has been breaking loose.

Reason enough to present you the games skill trees. Beforehand the facts: You can choose from more than 80 different active and passive skills divided by the three classes Protector, Destroyer and Engineer.

Let’s start with the engineer: You have the choice between the skill trees Tinker, Atlanticus and Buoy Master. If you invest your skillpoints into the Atlanticus-build you are able to heal your mates – extremely practical in tight battles. As a Tinker you can specialize on debuffing enemy skills to take most of their attack power. The Buoy Master relies on powerful Buoys which attacks individual enemies, or accelerates allied units.

The Protector is the strongest class in terms of defense, with his skill tree divided into Bulwark, Wrangler and Suppressor. If you have chosen to put skill points into the Bulwark, you can look forward to a massive armor which makes you nearly unsinkable. The Suppressor-build is slightly less armored but features the precise and deadly “Watery Grave” skill. If you choose the Wranger, you counts on melee skills like “Feel My Pain” and can always be found on the front line.

The Destroyer possesses Raider, Ravager, and Brawler. As a Raider you are nimble and highly maneuverable. The Brawler is the melee of the Destroyer builds. With its “Fiery Shield” and “Rapid Fire”, you have the ability to cause some real chaos. Anyone who ever wanted to use the “Aimed Shot” should choose the Ravager. This skill focuses mainly on shooting from a distance and a lot of kills are guaranteed.

So you see there are a lot of different skills and variation options, each with strengths and weaknesses. There is no PERFECT way to skill your character.

SO: Try out different options and see which fits to your play style. The good thing is, that you are able to reset the entire skill tree and put the earned points into other abilities.

 

 

Attention: New Unity-Version causes bugs – We are working on it!

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To all Beta-Players: We are currently experiencing problems with the newest Unity-Plugin. This leads to detailed information about your items not being displayed at the moment. Our developers are currently working to fix the problem.

We are really sorry for that, we hope we can fix the problem as soon as possible!

There is a fix for this:

  1. Go to http://webplayer.unity3d.com/setup/
  2. Right-click on ‘Shared’
  3. Move the cursor over ‘Release Channel’ at the bottom
  4. Set this to ‘Release’ instead of ‘Stable’

Anchors aweigh! The closed beta of Kartuga starts!

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Now the time has come! From the 27th on, the impatiently awaited closed beta of Kartuga starts! In only a few days, the first pirates are allowed to raise anchor and set sail! And the best part is, the playable version already includes all three classes with complete skilltrees. Hence, you will finally be able to decide if you prefer the Destroyer, Engineer or Protector. Moreover, 20 of the 40 plannedship types are already done and selectable. I’m sure there is something for every taste.

We can also look forward to the varying game modes: In the closed beta, we can choose between domination and destruction. Domination is a variation of classic king-of-the-hill. Destruction is a mode where a bomb has to be detonated in the enemy’s base.

Anyone who is not interested in battles against other players has the opportunity to sail over the oceans of the five large accessible game worlds. NPCs with various quests are already waiting for you there.
Interested? The closed beta can be accessed by pre-registering on www.kartuga.com or visiting the InnoGames-Facebook page, where keys will be given out daily. Taking a look is well worthwhile!
I wish you good luck during the beta key giveaway! I’ll see you in the game!

All hands on deck: New information on interface, equipment, and inventory of Kartuga

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Today, new information about the highly anticipated pirate game Kartuga was published: For the first time, we can have a look at the entire interface of the game. And there’s some very interesting stuff to see: The Inventory of equippable items and crew members as well as the skill and experience bar at the bottom of the screen. Next to it are the slots for consumables you can use during battle, such as Repair kits that refill your energy, or short-term buffs.

You can also see some more of the inventory: There you equip crew members – these have different effects on the properties of your ship. Officers, carpenters, gunners: a whole range of professions is to be filled there. There are quite a few different slots where you can assign equipment and items. As usual in role-playing games, you can check out the stats of the item in the item description with a quick mouse-over. There you also see whether it is worthwhile to equip the item. In the screenshot you see a certain type of ammunition that can cause additional damage.

Particularly interesting is the small slot directly below the 3D view of your ship. There you can use different layouts of ships – The ship types that are available to you can be found in the “dock” tab again.
I hope you are as excited as I for Kartuga to start – only a few weeks to go!
If you also want get be one of the first ones to test the game, register here: http://www.kartuga.com