Forts High Seas

Forts High Seas is the second DLC for Forts. It adds a campaign, a new water system, weapons and ammunition, a United Navies HUD, 20 skirmish and multiplayer maps, and a new soundtrack. You build and battle with the game’s physics-based systems on the high seas, fighting the pirate forces with battleships, carriers and dreadnoughts.

Campaign

Five years after the disappearance of Professor Fred Capacitor, his son Max hears rumors about his father’s fate while hunting for a terrifying mega-weapon. Max is a captain in the United Navies, fighting the battleships, carriers and dreadnoughts of the pirate horde.

The campaign has 18 missions with unique backgrounds, hostile and dynamic environments, and interactive graphic novel-style cutscenes. Mission types include enforcement, ship-to-ship combat, interdiction missions to destroy enemy ships fleeing the area, boarding actions to take control of enemy structures, land-versus-sea battles between forts and ships, and carrier strikes using ship-launched jets to bomb enemies. A learning curve introduces new features and unlocked weapons mission by mission.

New armaments

• Energy Dome: creates a protective shield against destructible projectiles. It can be built low to protect against munitions dropped by aircraft.
• Harpoon: fires Decoy and Control ammunition.
• Runway: launches Thunderbolt and Nighthawk jets.
• Hardpoint: can be upgraded to a Deckgun or Orbital Laser.
• Deckgun: fires high-explosive shells and can be upgraded to two- or three-barrel versions. It can switch between spread and focus modes and requires a Hardpoint.
• Orbital Laser: fires Sweep or Focus ammunition, can be upgraded with aim assist and requires a Hardpoint.

Ammunition

• Decoy: the Squirrel lures and redirects enemy Swarm and Warheads. It is fired by the Harpoon.
• Control: takes control of structures and is fired by the Harpoon.
• Thunderbolt: drops multiple explosive munitions and launches from the Runway.
• Nighthawk: drops a high-penetration, incendiary Paveway bomb and launches from the Runway.
• Orbital Laser: Sweep: moves a laser beam across the target area and is fired by the Orbital Laser.
• Orbital Laser: Focus: focuses a laser beam on the target area and is fired by the Orbital Laser.

Water physics

The new water system adds true buoyancy: ships float and list to one side when off-balance. Structures not connected to a reactor sink to the ocean floor unless they are reconnected swiftly. The ocean also has splash effects, water and bubble particles, underwater explosions and sound effects. The system supports new gameplay and modding possibilities.

HUD and soundtrack

The DLC adds a United Navies in-game HUD and a new dynamic soundtrack composed by Ella van Dyck.