Dear fellow captains!

With greatest sorries we have to inform you that the game servers and the game website will be closed from 1 March 2016.
This is the very difficult and reluctant decision, but we had to face the fact that we can't further develop and improve the project becasue C4 game engine, that we are using, no longer supported by the developer. Many of the technical problems associated with it.
Currently we plan to migrate the game to Unreal Engine 4. This will require much more resources and we can't support the current project and work on the migration simultaneously. Now we are looking for new partners and investors to help us to make a new version by the end of this year.

We thank everyone who was with us and played Wind of Luck: Arena.

We apologize,
Trazzy Team

Merry Christmas!

Wishing a Happy Holiday season to all from the Trazzy Entertainment Team.
To all who been with us until today, 22/12/2015, please enjoy a free 10-day admiral account by entering the following promo code: NEWYEAR16

In order to enter the promo code, enter the game, press Esc key, next you can see PROMOCODE button, in the opened window, enter your promo code and click OK.

Cheers,
Trazzy Team

Starting from today, all new players will receive 3 free ships along with a special armament with full ammo: catapult, harpoon and mitrailleuse, they will be set on ships and you can use them during the battle.

Read how to use special armament guide here:
http://forums.windofluck.com/index.php?/topic/155-battle-gui-guide/

Cheers,
Trazzy Team

We are happy to announce that a new patch 0.8.6 has been released.

The balance of the ships underwent some serious changes, in this regard cannons and cannon ammo were removed from some of the ships, and everything was moved to your ARSENAL. Please, go to the Maintenance window and replenish your cannons and catapults before entering the battle.

All the achievements that you earned on Steam are now working correctly, you can see them on your Steam account now.

Now you can create a flotilla from 3 players of any ship tiers and get into the same battle.
More info here: http://forums.windofluck.com/index.php?/topic/851-patch-086/

New design of how the players’ list is shown has been added. The number of enemies sunk and which flotilla you’re a part of is also shown. Now you can sort out the list of players, hide some elements or hide the entire list of players.

Spare Sails - Sails toughness +25%
Spare Oars - Oars toughness +25%
Enlarged Ammo Hold - Ammo capacity +50%

Battles will be formed in a new way, there will be more variety of ship tiers. For instance, if you get into the battle on 3d tier ship there might be 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5th tier ships as well.

9vs9 battles and 1vs1 duels are available, the fleet battles are being developed at the moment and soon will be added into the game.

You can learn who is who in the game here:
http://www.windofluck.com/famous-players.php

If you want to learn more information about particular player, just click on his nickname, for example, http://www.windofluck.com/player-profile.php?id=9791

The current game version has 86 ships, 18 of them are with oars. 4 new ships will be added into the game soon.

Lamps on ships now can be lighted (default hotkey - L) It is just a decorative element but it might be useful in dark locations.

Unique custom players flags are available. Flags are constructed and purchased on game website:
https://shared.windofluck.com/flag.php

Player’s level: after each battle you will get level points according to the battle results, the levels are from 1 to 99. For each tenth level, a new avatar will be available. Your level’s number will be displayed in the battle right next to your name. The more victories you get and the more ships you sunk, the faster your level will grow. With each new level you will get some additional assets (it might be piastres, gold, fame, talent points or equipment). Make sure you check your Arsenal in case if there is something for you.

Plunder in the battle: if a ship sunk in the battle, some part of it emerges on the water surface and if you make it in time and swim against the ship’s left cargo, you will be able to loot it. When the battle ends, you will receive a report with a chest by clicking on which you will see the list of things you looted: it could be gold, piastres and many other things. The plunder’s value depends on ship’s tier which you looted. The more battles you won, the more ships you sunk – the more plunder you will get. No Prey, No Pay!

You can equip your ship with the following weapon:

Long cannons – they have long range, carronades (short large-calibre cannons) – they have short range butbring more damage; catapults – you can throw different types of barrels at your enemies’ ships; mitrailleuses – destroy enemy’s crew; harpoon cannons can slow down the enemy’s ship for a while.
A new type of weapon will be added soon: fireship - a ship similar to a modern torpedo, barrel injector - a special injector that would throw 2 different types of mine barrels behind the stern, mortar - a very powerful long range cannon that brings a lot of damage.

You can improve your ship by hiring certain Specialists:

Boatswain – improves your ship’s characteristics; Carpenter – repairs your ship’s hull; Doctor – makes it harder for the enemy to destroy your ship’s crew; Gunner – double-charges your cannons so the damage is doubled but your cannons might explode; Navigator – increases maneuverability and speed of your ship; Sailmaker – repairs your ship’s sails during the battle.

You can also improve your ship by opening armament, navigation and equipment abilities and by applying different improvements.

You can receive different achievement statuses according to the battle results and decorate your sails.

It is possible to choose 6 different colours for Regular, Light and Durable sails, as well as adorn your ship with flags.

Battles take place in different locations:

1. Lost Expedition (Arctic)
Trading company sent an expedition in search of new trade ways across the cold Arctic seas. Among those ships, there was a ship with valuable cargo. Trading company employed you along with your friends to find the lost expedition and to return valuable cargo. But as it turns out, you were not the only one who was employed by the company…

2. Imperial Pearls (Asia)
Pearl divers received an order to collect the best pearls for an imperial wedding. The pearl were shipped on board a ship and was ready to sail off, when all of a sudden it was attacked by an enemy fleet. There were no winners in this short battle, all ships were burned down. Round up some friends and find the ship loaded with imperial pearls!

3. Aztec Gold (Caribbean)
Tortuga turned into a hornet’s nest. Pirates, in a last-minute rush are equipping their ships. They got their hands on the map that shows the way to sunken Spanish ship loaded with Aztec gold. Pirates have already split up into enemy fractions whilst being in port and they were almost ready to get into a fight if it wasn’t for the gold that was waiting for them. You are welcome to join one of the fractions and get your own share of plunder!

4. Archipelago (Europe)
Having filled the holds of their Galleass with Chinese silk, Venetian merchants were on their way back from Egypt. Greedy pirates pursued them for a long time, but freak storm scattered their ships around the islands of the archipelago. The storm has remitted, and pirates decided to find the plunder among the islands, but met other gentlemen of fortune on their way.

5. Fiord (Europe)
Long storm and sea currents brought Spanish Grand Carrack into the North Sea and washed it ashore on one of Norwegian fiords. You, among the small pirate fleet went to the ship to see if there is something to make money with "fat Spaniard”.

6. Cape Horn (American)
There is a flagship in your fleet which needs to be protected from your enemies. Enemy’s fleet also has a flagship which your fleet has to sink. You will face storm, thunders and bad visibility in this location, remember the enemy’s fleet is dangerous and armed and you would need to show courage and bravery in order to become a winner of this battle.

New location and new game modes will be added soon.

“Sapphire Island” (Asia) – a small island in South East Asia with a sapphire mine. The island is well protected, towers with strong cannons won’t let you to land to piers and capture precious sapphires. The teams are supposed to fight against one another and destroy towers on the island. The team that wins is the one who captures sapphires.

“Tsar gifts” new game mode – North sea, snow, fog and ice. Russian tsar sent 3 of his ships loaded with gold and furs as a gift to his fellow European monarch. One team is supposed to protect the caravan and the other one seizes them.

“Barbarossa Stronghold” (Europe) night with limited visibility and new game mode, ambient: night, starry sky, etc. one team seizes the port of an infamous captain Barbarossa and the other one tries to protect it. Your task is to destroy particular buildings in the port.

Also, everything is ready to add Brotherhoods of players.

Cheers,
Trazzy Team

Hello all,

Patch notes:

- unique custom players flags are available (Flags are constrected and purchased on game website, and you need to relogin to have it shown on shipyard now.)
- lamps on ships now can be lighted (default hotkey - L)
- a bug with Settings menu that caused game crash is fixed
- fixed synchronization issue for better synchronisation under highly volatile bandwitch
- collision damage increased a bit on high speed.

Reminder: Promo code AMERICA is still available, you can use it for getting 500 gold and purchase your own unique flag!

Cheers,
Trazzy Team

Ahoy brave captains,

We're happy to announce that we've added 25 new ships.

Here is the list:
Viet Nam Junk
Howker
Proa Mayang
Pinnace
Bermuda Schooner
Cutter
Patrol Junk
Royal Sloop
Galiot
Hemmema
Pirate Galley
Ningpo Junk
Pink
Fourth Rate Ship
Atakebune
Takashima
Royal Frigate
Heavy Frigate
74 Gunner
Equine Ship
Shanghai Junk
Royal Galeass
First Rate Ship
Battleship

They are all of different tiers, hope you like them, mateys! ;)

Cheers,
Trazzy Team

Ahoy brave captains!

Promocode for 500 Gold coins in the game! Use this code in the game and receive your gold. How to use it: log into the game, click Esc and then click on PROMOCODE button in the window opened, enter the code WL1001109 and enjoy the game!

Cheers,
Trazzy Team

Patch 0.8.4. will be released in a hour or so.

Brief patch notes:

1. New balle mode: 5 vs 5 without AI (humans only).
Now you can choose and join battle without AI - with only human players. Waiting time for battle may be longer, especially in higher tiers, but you will always have all real player opponents. For changing battle mode - click on Battle mode selection panel on Shipyard just above "Battle" button.

2. Double battle reward for first win in a day for each ship! Receive double amount of piasters, fame and expertise for first win on a ship every day. This bonus stack with admiral account and famous ships bonuses.

3. Fame-to-Expertise and Expertise-to-Fame transfer. Now you can, for a small amount of gold, convert Fame to Expertise for unlocking ship abilities. For fully developed ships (ship with all abilities unlocked) - you can do the opposite - convert unusable for that ship experience points to fame.

4. Fixed a bug that caused lootable wreckage appear in wrong place (and thus making it not lootable actually)

5. Water splash and cannoballs hit effects were reworked and tuned.

6. Fixed rare chat window bug that caused game crash.

7. AI now properly use “stop fire” crew command.

8. Some battle tweaks and GUI typos were fixed.