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About Cursed Winds:

After the release of Cutlass Reef, Freeonlinegames.com asked us to make them a modified release of the game. Among other improvements, there are new special weapons at your disposal, making the game a totally different experience to play.
Have a good playing time!

Tips and Tricks:

(including many from Cutlass Reef)

Press "1", "2", "3" keys to activate your special shots! (only after purchasing and charging them)

If you are under fire and don't have the speed and time to move away, turn your ship up/downwards to give a smaller hit area.

The game was slightly rebalanced, so now it's not always the best idea to engage all ships in your way. Use your crew wisely.

(No matter how many of your crew you loose, if anyone survives the battle, you will start the next level with a fresh full crew.)

There are ships with enormous firepower and crew, but not much gold. These are pirate hunters and privateers looking to hunt you down! Don't let them engage you!

If a ship comes too close to you and you want to avoid close combat, move upwards as far as you can, the enemy ships will follow you up. Then move back down. This way you can gain some distance and time.

On higher difficulty levels you have more upgrade levels for your ship!

You can spend all your money throughout the game, your final score equals the total gold you earn during the game, the money spent on upgrades won't be subtracted.

On later levels enemy cannonballs fly faster, so upgrading your ship speed is esssential to avoid them.

You can pause the game during battle with the P key.

You can switch to shoot downwards or upwards with the V key.

If the game runs slowly with many ships on the scene, go into the options screen, and decrease the quality and particles number. It can drastically improve the performance.

If you spend more gold on crew on the first levels, you can engage more ships, which means more gold.

Shoot smartly, you get bonus gold for a high hit/shot ratio after each level.

You can (re)charge your special shots by hitting enemy ships. If you use a special shot, it will recharge slower next time, but you start every level with fresh, fast-charging specials.

Enemy ships look out not to shoot at each other, but with some nasty maneuvers you can draw their fire on each other! Special shots recharge even if one enemy hits another!

Support fire shells are not aimed too well, so they miss the enemy more than they hit them, but if a shell hits a ship, it hits hard. When asking for suport fire, stay away from the enemy, as the shells are rougly aimed at them, and they can also hit you!

Firework rockets behave on their own, they spread with distance. But if you shoot at a close enemy, hitting it will all or most of the rockets, it can be devastating, even at the last levels!

Calypso is a powerful ancient nereid, a daughter of the sea, her screaming voice of wrath simply destroys everything and everyone in the way. Summon her voice when surrounded by the enemy and don't forget to plug in your ears!

If your ship is damaged, avoid getting caught by the cursed winds (appearing on the last levels), but otherwise you can use them to your advantage, quickly get loose from the enemy.