PiratesAhoy!

With 2023 coming to an end, I wanted to seize the opportunity to recap what we have achieved this past year and what we are working towards in 2024. To make the message as short as possible, I will keep to bullet points:
In 2023 we managed the following:

• We tripled the member count for our lovely discord community (from around 350 members to more than 1100)
• @Hammie not only introduced us to Beyond New Horizons on the open source StormX engine but even managed to get it to a beta state
• @Mirsaneli significantly upgraded Maelstrom New Horizons in terms of features and quality of life improvements
• We managed to host 10 podcasts on our discord server with various creators in the pirate game community
• We managed to get the English translation for the Russian reconstruction OS mod rolling, allowing us to enjoy this awesome mod soon in English as well
• We reactivated our old community Youtube account, hit 1000+ subscribers...

Ahoy!

Today we are proud to launch our website for the New Horizons modifications at www.piratehorizons.com. The aim of this project is to allow new players to understand more easily what the differences between the New Horizons versions are and to pick the version that they believe to be the right one for them. Hope you check it out and feel free to leave any feedback

Price is more than fair in my opinion:

The release trailer for Corsairs Legacy is out!
The game is coming out in early access, January 2024!


For more info:

Tune in this Sunday to ask what you want to our "Captain" of many years: ME!

And also, watch back last week's podcast with ModernKnight on ERAS 2 here:

DATE: Sunday 10 December 2023
TIME: 20:00 CET
LOCATION: Join the PiratesAhoy! Discord Server!

A friendly reminder that in less than 24 hours, we will be hosting our next podcast with the one and only ModernKnight from the Buccaneer's Reef:

A true expert on the Age of Piracy if ever there was one!
He's responsible for the Historical ERAS 2 project, as well as the creation of the updated Maelstrom game engine.

Here is your chance to ask him anything.

And as added bonus, we'll be handing out 20 license keys for the Maelstrom engine, giving you access to a considerable selection of pirate and historical seafaring gameplay and simulations.

DATE: Saturday 2 December 2023
TIME: 20:00 CET
LOCATION: Join the PiratesAhoy! Discord Server!

Play through the classic stock version of the 2003 "Pirates of the Caribbean" tie-in game,
made by Akella and released in cooperation with Disney Interactive, Bethesda and UbiSoft together with the head of PiratesAhoy!
You may learn some history... or discover hidden secrets.
Who knows what the future will bring?

This channel uses our very own New Horizons mod as a framing device to share all sorts of pirate news and stories.
Check it out on our new playlist:

Ahoy Pirates!

@Mirsaneli posted an awesome gameplay video of Beyond New Horizons on Youtube today! Take a minute to check out what @Hammie has been up to in the last few months with porting our beloved New Horizons mod to the newest open source Storm engine.

Ahoy pirates!

We had a blast on the Caribbean Legend Discord podcast with @Joruba yesterday evening. If you are interested in the recording (more than one hour of questions asked and answered), feel free to listen to below video recording

In case you didn't know pre-orders for Corsairs Legacy are open. Furthermore there have been updates to the Demo that you can download on Steam.

Ahoy!
Today we have a very special announcement for you! We will host the lead developer of TEHO and Caribbean Legend, Joruba from Blackmark studios, next saturday, the 14th october on our discord server with a podcast about the upcoming Caribbean Legends. Since it's always difficult with the timezones, we decided to direct this first podcast to our American audience with the starting time being 3 pm in Austin, Texas. (American Central Time) However, this being 10 pm in Central Europe, we Europeans can also participate. So prepare your messages and ask what you have always wanted to know about the journey the Sea Dogs series has been through and what this latest installment will have to offer. As a bonus, we will be giving away 10 steam keys for Caribbean Legend to those of you, who participate the most during the event. By following the link Tritt dem PiratesAhoy!-Discord-Server bei! you can join our server and...

Ahoy pirates!

@Hammie has created an awesome standalone alpha version of New Horizons (no base game required!) paired with the open source storm engine from Sea Dogs To Each His Own. You can read all about it in this here link: WIP - Beyond New Horizons Alpha Release.

Give it a try and report any bugs you may encounter on our piratesahoy github: Issues · PiratesAhoy/new-horizons!

You can try out a demo of Corsairs Legacy on Steam right now!

Three new Corsairs Legacy gameplay trailers have been released. While in different languages, each trailer shows a different fight. So I would advice watching them all.

English (Fight with the British):

Russian (Fight with the Spanish):

Ukrainian (Fight with the French):

Good luck at sea ye scurvy dogs!

Work is underway on Build 15, and we are proud to share with you all that it will become a stand-alone release that no longer requires Pirates of the Caribbean to play. To emphasize this milestone in the development of New Horizons, we think it should be fitting to adopt a new title and drop the "Pirates of the Caribbean" title altogether.

Our modders have done some brainstorming to come up with suitable ideas, but now is your chance to help us choose the new title for our flagship mod!

Avast ye scoundrels, some shiny new pirate music has been spotted on the horizon!

The original soundtrack from Buccaneers!, Skyward Digital’s pirate action RPG, has now been released on all major music streaming platforms for your listening pleasure.

Composed and recorded by long-time PiratesAhoy! member Christian Tornholm-Lehn (AKA @Flannery), the soundtrack features 20 tracks for a whole hour of classic piratey tunes. If you’re a fan of jaunty folk songs, epic cinematic scores or good ol’ sea shanties, this album has something for you!

If you fancy a preview to whet your appetite, you can listen to a selection of tracks for free right here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLimWF7OKH-c8ylvjO2fZ8H8JsN-QC_kF9



You can stream or download the full album on many music platforms, including (but not limited to):

- Spotify...

Ahoy there mateys!
In addition to the AlexusB interview mentioned earlier to today, there are more articles on corsairslegacy.com.
Most are related to the Sea Dogs series, but there are also a few about Tempest; interesting stuff. So if you feel like reading be sure to check them out.

Naufragant have come out with a new pirate album, "A Short Life"!
In case you didn't know Franco @Tempesta, who had composed music for Hearts of Oak and the official PA! main theme, is part of the band.
Now go out to the seas me mateys, and congrats to Naufragant!

A few months ago Anzei_Kazumi dropped by our discord server while making a review video of Pirates of the Caribbean and New Horizons. And now I am delighted to say that the video has been released. (Stock game's main story spoilers.)

The video took me way back when I first played the game. It is a long one but it's humorous, and has interesting facts through out, so it flowed really well for me.
Thank you for making this video and helping keeping the game alive.