Greetings Skyfareres!

We've delayed this update news from mid-month to today because guess what? There's going to be a sale from May 22nd to June 5th! Please help spread the word to friends who would love a special game like Kingdoms Adrift.

With the biggest announcement out of the way, we’d like to thank the community again for engaging in discussion and helping put together so many things that we’d never dreamed of having when we started a game studio. The first item on the list is that I have compiled a list of language mods in a thread here on our forum: Language Mods Compilation.

In recent times, I’d like to highlight the first two language mods specifically:

Russian Translation by Dgon617
French Translation by TheCatWorld

Delve into the childhood tale of one of our community-created characters, accessible in-game after Chapter 7 once you've reached the Aecerlian commission store in Everspring. This captivating story, titled 'Whispers of the Abyss,' was crafted by our esteemed community member, Aika. Click here to immerse yourself in the narrative[www.revolution-industry.com].

Now that we have a substantial number of players in the community, many of you have been part of our journey for quite some time. As a result, it's not always easy to find new opponents for sparring. However, the Discord community[discord.com] is planning an event to address this. We'll also keep you updated here on Steam, but mark your calendars for around June 16th.

A while back, we announced updates to the automation process along with detailed designs in a Previous Devlog. While we can't provide a specific release date for this update, we want to assure you that it's still in the works and will be implemented eventually.

As I've mentioned many times before, we'll be working on our new title. So far, we've focused on generating interest from future publishers and investors. However, we're not officially allowed to start working on the new title until September 23rd, 2024, which marks the full anniversary release of Airship: Kingdoms Adrift. During this period, we've created mockups, designs, and even a poster for the new game. I'm excited to share a teaser image to get everyone's imagination going.

In future announcements, we’ll be revealing how you could be a part of building up this interest towards the start of the new game’s production later this year. So, please stay tuned!

And that’d be it for today. Fair winds and clear skies,

Jay

Hi everyone - if you were thinking about getting the game, now is a great time to do so.


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Greetings Skyfareres!

Since the integration of the crash report and feedback system, we have received a very useful dataset that has helped us improve the game's stability to a great extent. It made me wonder why we didn’t have it integrated since the playtesting phase. Well, lesson learned, and thanks to everyone who has been playing and hitting those “submit” buttons!

Status:
LIVE NOW: 15th April 2024
Older Saves: Safe to continue as always

We recognize that many players have encountered difficulties stripping ships for parts. While we couldn't code the game to allow unfinished ships to leave the shipyard, we were somewhat stuck and couldn't find a solution for some time. However, thanks to our community member @DasIrrlicht, who proposed a solution, we were able to implement it as soon as possible!

We added a couple of items to help you fill up those pesky parts that you want to remove from a ship. You can find these items at every merchant available in all the shipyards.

While we've designed the freight automation feature, our engineers are still in the process of finding time to work on it. Currently, we're focusing on the beginning stages of a new project that we'll soon be announcing.

Once we reach the first milestone on that project, we'll share it with all of you and then return to work on the automation feature. So, once more, the feature's ETA remains "Soon." We've already taken note of all the feedback and concerns everyone has regarding the design.

We have also been working on these:

• Text display areas in the "How to Play" section will now be easier to accommodate localized strings.
  
• Fixed some Chinese localization

• Officers will no longer provide active tactic performance once their respective command slots are destroyed.
  
• Fixed some battle conclusion conditions related to surrendering that caused the game to crash.
  
• Fixed instances where advancing dialogs crashed the game.
  
• Fixed cases where location panel switching caused the game to crash.
  
• Fixed ships' cruising speed calculation for UI display, preventing crashes.
  
• Corrected ships' grid panels to update parts condition accurately.
  
• Addressed instances where inventory handling resulted in crashes.
  
• Fixed UI transition issues in the shipyard that caused crashes.
  
• Resolved various bugs reported via crash handler. Thank you to everyone for submitting them.
  
• Fixed issues with firing arcs not being displayed correctly sometimes.

Greetings Skyfarers!

In this developer update, we introduce you to the feature on our drawing board, the “Automated Freight” which will enhance the player gameplay experience by adding item transfer automation and restocking to the world of Airship: Kingdoms Adrift. The date of availability for this update is still not set in stone but we would like to invite you to have a look and discuss your thoughts on the design direction this feature is taking.

The overall goal of this feature set is to improve the gameplay experience focusing on one of the most important aspects of the game: item production, which in the current version, requires a lot of manual execution. At the same time, as the game progresses, most of the players will obtain airships that are underutilized. So we are giving them more purposes as well.

Let’s explore the current item production and transfer issues, and then we will look into the automated freight in detail.

Item production is one of the key features of Airship: Kingdoms Adrift. This feature allows the players to produce almost all items in the game including exclusive airships, ship parts, and valuable goods. But to produce such complex recipes, the factories also require a lot of resources, materials, and components that need to be collected and transferred from many regions of Suthseg.

Right now there are two ways to transfer items between ports, firstly, direct transportation using the player’s fleet, secondly, the players can fill an unassigned airship with items and then utilize the send airship feature.

In Airship: Kingdoms Adrift, the players can capture most enemy airships by winning a boarding battle against them. Once the players get a new airship, they can add it to their fleet, sell it by its base value (ship parts not included), or store it at any available port. And this is where the “send airship” system shines. Because the players can use all unassigned airships to transfer items within Suthseg, feeding items into the production chains or just selling the goods for profits. The only problem is, while fully functional, this method requires a fresh input for every single trip, afterward the players still need to transfer the items to the warehouse manually.

The automated freight system is our new addition to improve the player’s quality of life as an item transfer automation. Let’s look into this feature in detail.

Let’s start with the updated Hangar UI, we added a third button to the bottom part of the UI which is the “Freight Duty” button. The button will be available for any unassigned airship with an empty cargo hold. By clicking this button, the freight management panel will show up, allowing the players to create a freight route between ports. For the airship with an established freight route, the players can click on the same button (which will change to a “leave duty” button) to cancel the duty and return the airship to its former state.

Upon opening the freight management panel, these are the adjustable parameters:

• Freight destination - The players can select any port with an active warehouse as their destination. On the other hand, the home base will always be assigned to the airship’s current port (each freight route will occupy one hangar slot of its home base but can be sent to any port with a full hangar as they are only visiting instead of staying).
  
• Enable cruise - The players can pay a fee to hasten the voyage. (The Eagles will be deducted before starting each voyage.)
  
• Outbound and return items - The automated freight feature allows the players to assign any possible items to be transferred between ports. By default, the players will see all available local warehouse items in their grayed-out version. Clicking on them and giving them an amount to transfer will set them active. Instead of viewing only warehouse items, deselecting the “View warehouse items only” button will let the players select all possible items instead.
  
• Voyage capacity - For an airship to start its voyage, one of the two conditions must be met. Firstly, all assigned items are already in the cargo hold, secondly, the voyage capacity is reached, meaning the players can adjust the voyage frequency as they see fit.

By clicking on the new “Data tables button” on the top of the travel screen, the players can choose to view all freight routes with the following details:

• Airship’s name
  
• Home base and destination
  
• Outbound and return items (deduct transferred items)
  
• Freight statuses
  
• Cruise mode status which you can toggle on/off

When all assigned items are transferred, the freight route will be completed and be removed from the freight routes panel

To make the system full circle, we will add one of the most requested QoL features: the “restock”.
There are three types of input you can use with the restock feature:

• Full amount (keep buying until the amount is reached or the warehouse is full)
  
• Maintain the desired amount (keep buying until the desired amount is reached or the warehouse is full)
  
• Infinite amount (keep buying until the warehouse is full)

Within the same panel as the freight routes table, the player can select the “restock list” tab which displays the following details:

• Merchant name
  
• Restock item
  
• Amount to buy (with the amount already bought)
  
• Restock statuses

Yes, you can. You can assign any available airship to create the freight route anytime. The only thing to remember is all airships will use their current locations as their home bases.
Of course! You can set any outbound and return item amount to “infinite”. This way you can keep this freight route active as long as you see fit.
There are 2 possibilities for this question, depending on your ship’s freight state, if the ship is still traveling to the destination, remove the ship from freight duty and immediately return the ship to its home base with all items inside its cargo hold. If the ship is already at the destination or is returning, aborting the freight will result in your airship's immediate return but without any item inside its cargo hold (highly not recommended).

Join the conversation and comment on our Discord Server[discord.com]

Hi everyone!

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Greetings Skyfarers!

I hope you’re all having a fantastic time! As a part of our continuous progress to enable access to editing the game’s moddable content. We’re happy to announce that the Workshops uploader has arrived and is now available along with the raw localization file. Everyone can now translate Kingdoms Adrift and upload the translation mod at their behest! Visit this link to start: A:KA Modding[www.revolution-industry.com]

And, along with the uploader, the Airship: Kingdoms Adrift Workshop section is LIVE!

Suppose you have been waiting for the French translation. In that case, you’re encouraged to check out the current progress on French language translation, courtesy of Elena Harlow Ravenwood at our Discord Community[discord.com].

Following up with the promise to improve industry and freight automation in the game. We already have a new post thread coming that will highlight the feature design for the game. The article will be published soon by our resident game designer “Bay_Tharadol”. The design will be up for discussion over a certain period before we push it into implementation, which will then ship it into Beta for testing and improvement over a month before the release.

We are also going to publish a monthly community spotlight soon. The first one features “Whispers of the Abyss” a tale told by @Aika, a long-time member and one of the top contributors during the Playtest time.

As mentioned previously, we always push the recent build into Beta for testing before the release and we could always use extra hands. Check out this community post on How to Access Beta[discord.com].

Status:
LIVE NOW: 13th March 2024
Older Saves: Safe to continue

• Steam workshop support for language and translation mods
  
• You can now opt out of Unity’s telemetry and analytics from the settings menu
  
• Chinese localization and translation errors have been fixed

• Improved inventory sorting and caching so that players with large inventories should no longer experience reduced performance
  
• Reduced the volume of bulk transaction audio queue
  
• Removed graphic options that are not well-optimized

• Addressed 11 instances of crash and instability caught by crash reporters
  
• Fixed capturing escort ships ended up yielding the enemy’s flagships
  
• Fixed some stat modifier localization strings that were not localized
  
• Fixed DLC not activating when starting a new game
  
• Fixed ship parts store missing from the SilberblumHQ’s shipyard in the final arc
  
• Fixed issues with surrendering destabilize the game in various cases
  
• Fixed hotkey interference while naming a ship
  
• Fixed crashes caused by loading the game too early after just loading in
  
• Fixed cruising speed information display (by removing it temporarily)
  
• Fixed post-battle damage report inconsistencies
  
• Fixed boarding range and boarding calculation being inconsistent
  
• Fixed unknown modifier appearing on ships statistic page
  
• Fixed ships record statistics not counting up properly
  
• Fixed crashes caused by beam weapons
  
• Fixed the turn-back retreat message persisting after the battle
  
• Fixed game soft-locking when losing the boarding duel
  
• Fixed various crashes caused by search box filtering
  
• Fixed energy weapons not firing when ammo ran out
  
• Fixed the destroy ship button showing up in
  
• Fixed language consistency on ship destruction confirmation sequence

As mentioned previously, we always push the recent build into Beta for testing before the release and we could always use extra hands. Check out this community post on How to Access Beta[discord.com].

Status:
In Beta
Older Saves: Safe to continue

• Improved inventory sorting and caching so that players with large inventories should no longer experience reduced performance

• Fixed DLC not activating when starting a new game
  
• Fixed ship parts store missing from the SilberblumHQ’s shipyard in the final arc
  
• Fixed issues with surrendering destabilize the game in various cases

Update Note for 1.5.3.2
ETA to default: Less than a week
Status: IN BETA
Older Saves: Safe to continue

• You can now opt out of Unity’s telemetry and analytics from the settings menu
  
• Chinese localization and translation errors have been updated

• Reduce the volume of bulk transaction audio queue

• Addressed 11 instances of crash and instability caught by crash reporters
  
• Fixed hotkey interference while naming a ship
  
• Fixed crashes caused by loading the game too early after just loading in
  
• Fixed cruising speed information display (by removing it temporarily)
  
• Fixed post-battle damage report inconsistencies
  
• Fixed boarding range and boarding calculation being inconsistent
  
• Fixed unknown modifier appearing on ships statistic page
  
• Fixed ships record statistics not counting up properly
  
• Fixed crashes caused by beam weapons
  
• Fixed the turn-back retreat message persisting after the battle
  
• Fixed game soft-locking when losing the boarding duel
  
• Fixed various crashes caused by search box filtering
  
• Fixed energy weapons not firing when ammo ran out
  
• Fixed the destroy ship button showing up in Multiplayer Menu
  
• Fixed language consistency on ship destruction confirmation sequence

After the "Ending Update" release, we have been rolling out fixes and beta builds for Kingdoms Adrift. Many of you are wondering where we are going next with future updates and maintenance. This article is going to address these curiosities.


[www.revolution-industry.com]A group "photo" of the team. 3 years before the production started

With the game completed according to its launch scope, whether good or bad, it was what we set out to do. We learned a lot from this experience, as it was the first game of the studio. I'd like to continue the tradition as an old-school game developer by publicly releasing our project's retrospective (or postmortem if you would have it that way).

I hope you find this article enjoyable to read and that it helps everyone who wants to learn more about our plans. Additionally, it may provide valuable insight for industry professionals interested in understanding Steam's recent launch.

Read it now on our website. Airship: Kingdoms Adrift - A Director's Retrospective[www.revolution-industry.com]


What lies ahead for Airship: Kingdoms Adrift? We've consistently emphasized that Kingdoms Adrift is a complete game with post-sales services, and our commitment to supporting it has always been clear. If you just came here from the retrospective article above, you’d know that there are limitations to what we can improve further, given the state of the design and engineering. So, allow me to discuss those and address them before we delve into the roadmap to elaborate on what we can and will continue to do.

What we can't do? While we hold Kingdoms Adrift dearly as our first game, certain adjustments cannot be made without essentially creating an entirely new game. We believe it's more beneficial to learn from our mistakes and apply those lessons to future projects rather than continuously attempting to fix parts that are irreparably broken. These are:

• Rewrite and retell the story
  
• Enable engagement between NPCs
  
• Improve AI behavior
  
• Add more PvP features
  
• Introducing more quest variety

What we will do in the upcoming months? Despite the limitations, there are still opportunities to enhance the player experience and gain insights into various aspects of design and technology. By leveraging our existing resources, we can make meaningful improvements and lay the groundwork for future projects.

• Continuing the Beta Program: We're extending the beta session and opening up the Beta branch to the public. Confidentiality restrictions will be lifted, allowing everyone to switch to the Beta branch if they desire. We'll streamline our Discord server accordingly, and unless urgent, the new progress will remain Beta for at least a month before being promoted to default.
  
• Maintaining Regular Updates: We'll consistently address bugs, adjust balancing, and improve performance to ensure stability. We'll also incorporate the latest hardware/software compliance standards whenever possible.
  
• Implementing Automation to the Industry Feature: We'll focus on improving the well-structured Industry feature over time. Game designers will provide devlogs to discuss these enhancements and gather feedback periodically.
  
• Further Addressing Issues with Travel Time: We understand the complexities involved in travel time between places, as discussed in the retrospective. We'll closely engage with the community to explore additional improvements in this area.
  
• Expanding Modding Capabilities: Gradually, we'll introduce enhancements to facilitate modding. This effort aims to simplify base-level architecture for modders and provide players with options to customize their experience on aspects beyond our control.
  
• Initiating a Community Translation Project: Due to repeated requests, we've made our localization file publicly available. In the previous update, we released the project’s .csv file. Additionally, we'll establish a localization section on Discord and kick-start the translation project there.

I would like to extend my gratitude to everyone who has taken the time to read this article until the very end. I hope our experiences have provided valuable insights and learnings to you. Thank you for your attention and support. - Jay


Status:
LIVE NOW: 23rd February 2024
Older Saves: Safe to continue

Added an option to switch between metric and imperial units of measurement

You can now use Steam’s Launch option “-debug” to access the debug version of the game for test purposes. Find out more about debug commands in our Discord community: LINK[discord.gg]

You can now scrap ships from the hangar permanently if you want to do so.

• Allow adding captured ships to the fleet in place of destroyed escorts
  
• Improve the consistency of shield toggling behavior
  
• Nuala's questline is now tracked on the quest log
  
• Weapon range and reload calculation should now be more robust
  
• Compulsive Beam ramping damage should now be more robust
  
• The firing arc should flicker less when changing the firing chain and with fewer rendering issues
  
• Added damage-resistant negation to Compulsive Beam
  
• Added universally producible parts to the rest of the parts production workshop

• Fixed prompt to officer level-up notification not appearing
  
• Fixed memory leak caused by ship texture not unloading while switching between ships
  
• Fixed Steam’s overlay and leaving/entering app focus locked up the keyboard input
  
• Fixed font display errors on the main quest instruction panel
  
• Fixed reload speed calculation logic
  
• Fixed weapons range calculation logic
  
• Fixed error and feedback pop-up closed the game upon exiting
  
• Fixed another repair logic error which caused a miscalculation in the repair value
  
• Fixed a shield toggle button being rendered off the screen
  
• Fixed cruising not getting turned off on arrival at higher time dilation
  
• Fixed Firwood logs being offered in Arran Town instead of the intended Pinewood
  
• Fixed graphic glitches on Mana Grypon while in port
  
• Fixed some logistic quest sizes not being labeled correctly
  
• Fixed talents and functions that repair certain part types not repairing
  
• Fixed talents that add specific parts repair not repairing

1. Mana motor
1.1 Torque 600000 > 660000
1.2 ManeuverPropulsion 46000 > 47000

2. Medium mana motor
2.1 Propulsion 420000 > 450000
2.2 Torque 1920000 > 2160000
2.3 ManeuverPropulsion 144000 > 150000

3. Large mana motor
3.1 Propulsion 640000 > 660000
3.2 Torque 2720000 > 3000000
3.3 ManeuverPropulsion 200000 > 208000

1. Heavy Himmelrite Blitz Cannon
1.1 Potency 989 > 1116
1.2 Reload time 5.20 > 4.60

2. Heavy Viridite Blitz Cannon
2.1 Potency 952 > 1028
2.2 Reload time 5.40 > 5.00

3. Heavy Himmelrite Bustercannon
3.1 Power per shot 650 > 700

4. Heavy Viridite Bustercannon
4.1 Power per shot 650 > 700

1. Twin repeater
1.1 Potency 1448 > 1585
1.2 Reload time 5.65 > 5.15

2.Twin Viridite repeater
2.1 Potency 1500 > 1647
2.2 Reload time 5.45 > 4.95

1. Mechanized plating
1.1 Integrity 3200 > 4100
1.2 Repair/s 5 > 17
1.3 Power consumption 25 > 17

2. Medium mechanized plating
2.1 Integrity 6400 > 8200
2.2 Repair/s 10 > 35
2.3 Power consumption 50 > 35

3. Large mechanized plating
3.1 Integrity 12800 > 16400
3.2 Repair/s 25 > 70
3.3 Power consumption 100 > 70

4. Generative alloy plate
4.1 Integrity 6800 > 8800
4.2 Repair/s 25 > 70

5. Large generative alloy plate
5.1 Integrity 13600 > 17600
5.2 Repair/s 55 > 140