Release Notes - October 16, 2009
 

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Release Notes - October 16, 2009

• Beware of Jolly Roger's Invasion! Keep your eyes peeled, for Jolly Roger's ship has been sighted near Port Royal. When he attacks the town, defend the Barricades and the Governor's Mansion from Jolly Roger's skeleton army!
• Townsfolk will now notice nearby players and greet them. Enemies will either taunt or cower from nearby players.
• When waiting for a Revive, Knocked Out players no longer stand-up when hit by a grenade.
• Added different types of footstep sounds.
• Updated some of the loading screen images.

Known Issues - October 16, 2009

• Minor graphical issues in some cutscenes

Somethings Going On In The Caribbean...
 

Looks Like Jolly Roger Is Up To No Good Today On Live...

It hit live already? But did they fixed all those bugs and whatnots?

They might be getting ready to release the invasions, but im not sure they're on live yet because i've been on from 7AM and there hasn't been any invasions yet. Could be wrong though:piratetongueor4:

Then I Guess THIS Doesn't Mean Anything Then LOL :D



Invasion in 30 minutes! Starting at 1:30pm Pacific (4:30pm Eastern) - and I think it may be across all servers?!?

They took unscheduled to a whole new level.

Good I'm logging in!

10 minutes!

Not a good time for the eternal load screen! AAAHHHH!! :laughks2:

Wow, it's tough out there!
Has anyone noticed that none of the bad guys have level marks like most enemies do...?
CS~

This update would be awesome if I didn't freeze for 5 minutes then unfreeze then freeze for another 5 minutes then unfreeze again.... then freeze. I was in an invasion and at the START and MIDDLE I was freezing so badly that I really couldn't hit even one enemy.... I am not kidding. Well, I did kill an enemy that had low health when I got to a spot that had 000.10% of 100.00% of lag gone... then it froze again and I got so sick of it I just clicked the X button at the top right corner -_-. I hate this ( Meaning the invasions ) update.......................

The Exuma Ocean was victorious!

Yeah, it was awfully laggy...
I wonder why? :-/
Oh well, where I was, we lost anyway. :(
CS~

That was fun!
http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/v...stinvasion.jpg

ugh i keep missing them they really need a schedule every time i minimize the game or log off an invasion happens geez they really need to tell us when the invasions are gonna occur alot of people are yelling where is the invasion and it would help a great deal if they did tell us

I survived 6 rounds by myself, then went to jail and while in jail they sent me there yet again and thats were I got stuck. I saw none of that crazy good rep. 3 barricades made it until I got in that position.

Well, just went on battaire. It was CRAZY

That was fun ;) Pretty laggy at the end, but fun.

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/a...nShot024-3.jpg

It was really fun.

Host GM Phillipe Gaston was fighting alongside us normal pirates during the invasion. While we were not successful, it appeared that all pirates involved had a good time. I am sure that after a few invasions most pirates will have a better game plan. For the pirates that may be experiencing lag issues, all I can suggest is closing ALL other programs and lowering the graphic settings. I am presently running POTCO on an older laptop and did not have much of a lag issue. Was this (1:30pm PDT) the first invasion on Live?

Quick question:

How are you carrying 250 pistol balls? I am the same level as ye and can hold only 150 even with all pouches.

Yes we were! :D then the other Ex server I arrived just in time for the 6th wave and beat him again! LOL :D

Hmm, I donno... I've always just had them (its been a long time since I bought the pouches... like over a year and some ago :) )

The best one we discovered on my 2nd attack was to have a high healer stand back 15 paces from 2 attuned attackers (one was using Fire Staff - the other Pistol) - and we took him down... as long as he is under attack he can't get the house - so we did it in two groups of this - and when my group would finally fall I would tonic them while #2 group then hit him with their healer... he never had time to attack the house - he was too busy shooting us with his spells... thats my 2 cents worth :)

He only attacks the ones attacking him with lighting - and the 15 paces back from the shooters means your healer doesnt take damage :) With only 7 of us we took him down (one guy just kept running in like crazy hehe)

Finally! I can't wait for my first invason! :D I'll be on Antik if anybody wants to come and give a hand, we've got a few people here, but not a whole lot.

I liked the quiet servers.

EDIT: Never mind Max, I saw the other post. Wow, though, 250!

I'm on right now hoping an invasion happens before the football game...

Next invasion in 30 minutes! 4:30pm Pacific (7:30 Eastern :D ) - just an FYI ;)

30 min. if anyone wants to meet me on fragilles.

Might I suggest using the "Invasion" plan or whatever it is. The other thread to set meet ups an post times of start.

Just finished up an invasion. We lost... but I got 900 rep so I'm happy!

Well, I've gotta say. The Inavsion was an absolute BLAST! Challenging enemies, the thrill of pirates running around fighting the undead masses, huge amounts of pirates yet barely any lag, Jolly Roger himself, getting to fight with a GM..... more than what I expected. I'll break it down for ya.

The best part of my experience was of that I actually got to fight along with the GM. My server's GM was Sandra Tew, by the way. She first showed up at about 20 minutes to the invasion, and told us to be prepared and round up what we needed. She had to go somewhere for a sec, so she appointed PNC's own, Andrew, as head of the defense (woot Andy!) So, we all got in our squads, and spread evenly throughout the island to defend the barricades. I went over the Kings Run Barricade with a few pirates, and thats when Sandra showed up. I being the highest level over there, she not only appointed me in charge of that barricade, but she crewed me too! (:D)

And so, the battle began! The undead masses flooded Port Royal. The longer the event went on, minute by minute, the undead grew larger and stronger. One by one, barricades fell, pirates died, and the undead grew stronger. But we managed to stick it out, right up to Roger himself! All pirates, including Sandra, flooded to the Mansion, and just before the barricade to the Mansion's door fell.... we got him!

In the end, I got the oppurtunity to be a part of a GM's crew, lead my own barricade (which, by the way, was one of the only two barricades left standing, the other being the one leading to the Governor's Mansion door :D) get to fight Jolly Roger and his army, plus I got a special "Great job, Delmaria" from Sandra herself! All in all, it was one of the best POTCO experiences I've ever had, and I can't wait til' tomorrow!

oh man you are lucky Captain Del when i was on Cortilles no GM Showed up i hate it when they go tollive and don't tell us on schedules although it helps so then alot of people dont show up with questions any idea what letter servers they appear at?

I heard that the GM's were mainly on the Ideal servers closest to the top of the server list. This doesn't mean they won't jump around from time to time, though.

GM's? Oh so THAT'S why I saw someone chasing one yesterday!
Anywho, I fought JR myself!
We were just about to kill him, when he destroyed the Mansion's barricade and vanished.
I even took a pic, but I can't access it on my iPod.
It's not that great of a pic anyway.
Also, I actually didn't die even when he attacked me with all his attacks...
Something else that is weird, it somehow let me revive someone even though I was knocked out. XD
CS~

So todays 2 Invasions sound like a "stress test" of server / player distribution and performance overall in the open world... and things went pretty good overall (and grats Del on your sucess on that server btw :) ). Once a few notes are compared then a more dependable schedule may come into effect (?) as they still got to work some bugs (the Shooting Sails Glitch and the Bandanas!!! for a few :) )

Can the number of players per server be reduced to better distribute all players through all the server to reduce lag and reduce those blue masses in the ideal servers?

Just great, thought the update was coming later, I want to get my account back now more than ever! But strangely I feel awkward, for the Korsairs were originally raiding, but now are being raided, Vice versa.

I got the pic:

As you can see, nearly everyone around was knocked out, but surprisingly I was one of the few who weren't (at least, at the end, after this pic was taken, I was. XD)
I'm really surprised we lost too, we had SO many people there, especially around the mansion. I guess we should have had some people around the barricades...
JR's attacks just plain creep me out too. I don't know why, but I never got hit by one. I was always getting attacked by the other enemies. Or maybe I did get a stray shot from him without noticing...
CS~

The best way to make sure you don't get killed by Roger, is to NOT be near him. He uses alot of heavy duty attacks that hit everybody within a few yards of him. What I did was stand about half the length of the Governor's Mansion away from him, and just blast him with Flaming Skull. You could also do that with pistol and grenade, so try to stay spread out the best you can. If you end up aggroing him, then just run around until somebody else manages to pick him up. Keep this up, and you'll be good to go :)

FYI busy or even Ideal servers are the worst way to defend against the invasions. On them D turns the damage down to ridiculous levels where even the strongest attacks do 50-100 damage at the most. It is best to do it on a quiet server where your attacks actually count for something!

EDIT: False alarm, looks like the person who told me didn't have their facts straight >.>

I would like to know is, When an invasion starts on one server, Does it effect all of the servers?

Yes it does. I switched server before and after.

Just a note, since everyone is excited about the invasions and are wondering when they are, we now have a sticky in General Discussion titled "Invasions! Crew up here!" to post when invasions will be beginning. This way everyone has one place to look for notices as to when invasions will start and do not have to hunt all over the forums to find info on them. Feel free to continue discussing the invasions here, as the other thread is only meant to discuss when invasions are beginning and where groups are meeting up.

Now... Grab yer 'nades, dolls, and other possessions, and protect the island!

Has anyone experienced the jail glitch besides Lizzy. Who posted her experience at The Helm. Twice today I have gone to jail and once I stand up in jail I get knocked out in my cell. Then the eternal loading screen takes over.

Another fun invasion today!
http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/v...vasion3168.jpg

Is it me or is this happen to someone else. I've got all my weapons locked during an invasion. I couldn't switch weapons or attack with the weapon in my hand. I had to go and swim or heal a fallen comrade to get them working.

That happens sometimes, not just in invasions. Try hitting the ESC key.

Nothing worked... I tried.

Oh, well try swimming again.. :D

Got the jail glitch in tonight's invasion. In my case, Just as I started to kick the door, a little pirate stood in fron tof it, and my pirate just kept kicking and kicking. I tried everything, and had to hit ctrl/alt/dlt to free up. Then, I couldn't get out of the cell, even though the door was open. I had to TP to a crew mate to get out.

I imagine this was the reason D came out with the revive update because they knew the jail couldnt handle massive numbers of pirates landing there at once, the problem is its easier and faster to just go to jail than wait for someone to revive you which continues the problem!