Test Release Notes - June 16, 2010
 

Updates:

• Cannon Defense is now available on all main islands: Port Royal, Tortuga and Padres Del Fuego.
• Help man Navy Cannons and defend the island\'s riches from invading enemy bandits!
• New voodoo dolls are available to plunder from defeated enemies.
• Cutlass Tutorial modified to prevent trashing the Rusty Cutlass or placing it in a different slot.
• Guild name rejection notice now shows the rejected guild name.
• Enemies no longer attack you while you play the Potion Crafting mini-game.
• Selling multiple potions will now give you gold for each potion sold.
• Drinking potions is no longer allowed while swimming.
• Fixed various Inventory-related client crashes.
• When using the Profile Card to teleport to a pirate on a ship, it now respects the ship\'s boarding permission settings.
• The health of attuned Pirates is now displayed on the screen with a Voodoo Doll icon

Midday Test Update?
 

Yep, 26.0 showed up just now from nowhere....

Hooray for new dolls, but where are our islands and daggers?

Sweet! Cannon defense is here now! Thanks for the update Raikel!

YEEEEESSS!!!!
IVE been waiting SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long to get the cannon towers.

New Voodoo Dolls to plunder? Do I smell some new Lost Relics? :D

You mean you smell some new FAMED?? :laughks2:

Great update!!!

PLEASE Tell me these new dolls are going to include a Davy Jones and Jolly Roger dolls! :(

I want a Kraken Voodoo Doll, hey - I can dream can't I?

That does makes sense because the ship repair mini games have no levels as well just potion making (and in the near future, fishing)
However, its all the way to lvl 18?

Anyway I just saw you join the game LOL and we got disconnected
The game got harder as more people joined.

Found a great doll, with ranged attunement, a great idea that I asked pirates to induct as a doll effect about 400 years before Pirates was even thought of.

I doubt it.
 

First of all, lets have Davey Jones show up before we make a weapon of him, second he doesn't use a voodoo doll, and third Jolly Rogers "Omnitool" as some like to call it is honestly more like a staff than it is a doll, plus it has a gun, dagger, and that thing that wipes us out by the dozens, i really dont think disney will give us the strongest weapon in the carribean to go show off to the person next to us that has it too just yet.

Cannon Defense was a blast! My finger's twitching still...

What is the secret to hitting the light sloops? I could not seem to hit them to save me life :(

the ammo unlocked at level 2 Target Shot ammo. You can shoot off screen and it will still hit the light sloops lol.

I dont get what your saying.. Your saying we cant have a doll that looks like Jolly Roger? im talking about Voodoo Doll's like this one..

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...Newweapons.png

I am still waiting for test to load. Dang computer is so SLOOOOW....

FAther's Day quest is now active on Test.

Hooray for Targeting ammo that doesn't hit ships who have picked up your wealth already. Have to shoot at the before they get an exclamation point, or else it will land right behind them in the water.

yay http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...lies/8/119.gif
but now that its on test it totally contradicts what the representative replied to my email telling me it wont be on Test anywho Game On!

is on potco or on test server?

Has any of the testers take any screenies of the new dolls yet?

If I could even get online without crashing, Charles, I would love to find and take pics of these new dolls. HAHA XD

can anyone log on i can't

For everyone asking about the Davy jones doll, yes there is one, but so far there has been no spotting of it.(most likely because Disney wants to wait until Davy Jones comes to the game)

There are also a whole different class of cutlasses in the files that haven't come out yet either, and pictures of drops for davy jones weapons.

Back to the real topic, cannon defense. I'll try to post some screenshots, but it's really fun. While it's a bit different than regular cannons, it's still fun like it is out at sea, only these bandit ships really test your speed.

EDIT: Here are some screenshots.
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...7_15-40-52.jpg
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...7_15-44-01.jpg

Cannon defense is much harder than I expected it to be. Alone, I was only able to get to the forth wave, and then lost. With help, and a gazillion mine amos(yes, mines!), we were able to get to seventh wave, but then lost.

And I'm sad to say, your navy cannon level goes back down once you lose. It's not like you can go back and be level three or seven again. It's really upsetting, to say the least.

And the highest level I see is eighteen, and if we were only able to get to the seventh wave... well, this cannon defense is going to be really tough.

A notable but, too. The ships aren't smooth when they sail, ever. They'll be sailing, and then stop, and then sailing, and stop. They do stop when getting loot, but they also stop when it seems like they shouldn't, making it feel like a really weird battle.

But with al lthe bugs and all, it's still really fun.

I wonder if they'll let basic players use the firebrand

I like this game once I got the hang of it. The main thing i have noticed is that a new game will not start until all of the current players have all left. I think there really needs to be a message at the end of the game that states this. I have noticed a lot of people in the game who just sit there after it has finished. When they do this, and you try to start again, you will just see the end of the last game and cannot do a thing. I have sent them feedback about this.

My friend Angel managed to hit Level 11 and mentioned things like Scattershot or something similiar that fired multiple grapeshot style rounds.

I've not managed to get beyond 6 myself so far, but what a ride!

What is the reward? Rep? Gold? On the new mini game?

Can't wait to see the new dolls! Hope daggers and staves are next!

I have made it up to level 13. There is a scattershot ammo. After that is a powder keg ammo (you get 9 shots for 500 bucks, not really worth it). After the powder keg there is a super strong shot that if I am remembering correctly gives you 50 shots. (I can't remember the real name). This one is well worth buying. You can shoot three shots before reloading and they are about ten times stronger than round shot.

As for a reward, at the end you get gold. You also get some cannon based loot throughout the game.

If anyone has found any new dolls, would you care to post them? (whether its here or a new thread elsewhere)

Useable only in the mini game or shipboard?

They are not items for the minigame, as far as I know, they're for sailing - although you don't only get ship stuff. I've gotten a bayonet or two.

One quick question, though, where on earth is the Tortuga Cannon Defense person? I have yet to find him.

Tortuga Graveyard

The loots i keep getting are either CAnnon Drafts or Rusty Bayonet

Cannon drafts and cannon rams for me. I haven't gotten anything else so that is where my "cannon based loot" assumption came from. My apologies on that. As for dolls, I have gotten one common doll so far but haven't checked the shop to see if it is a new type or one you can buy anyway. I have not gotten any rare dolls.

Don't know if I should start a new thread or not. If anyone thinks a new thread is in order, tell me and I'll fix it.

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...ystic_doll.jpg http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...octor_Doll.jpg

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...Gypsy_Doll.jpg http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...rrion_doll.jpg

All of the dolls but the Witch Doctor Doll came from the Kelpbrain and Brinescum bridge in Tormenta. The Witch Doctor doll was dropped by a Level 1 Undead Gravedigger in the Port Royal Cemetery.

So the glitchers doing warp distance attuning can now pretend "oh hey, it's my doll." Great.

What's next? An overt statement from Disney saying that they encourage people to cheat?

Tell me mate, do you work for Big D. Lol, it seems like you're right on the money there.

Actually the distant attuning thing is nothing bad, or new. Enemy doll users have it when they attack. Why not us?