Test Release Notes - August 20th, 2010
 

Release Notes - August 20, 2010

* Updates:
o Players who are fishing when a fishing boat docks no longer crash.
o The shoreline at Padres Del Fuego has been lowered to no interfere with Fishing.
o Delaying loot shown when catching fish by 2 seconds.
o Players on Welcome Worlds can no longer launch Fishing boats.
o Players who try to use disables ship skills on Fishing boats now get a warning message.
o Players can now switch between Windowed and Webpage mode while Fishing without problems.
o Players who are fishing or on Flagships play the correct animation.
o Fixed text in the Red Dragon Legendary Fish story.
o Player lures update properly in the Lure panel.
o fixed various Fishing crashes.
o Fixed various texture line and pixelation issues.

more bugs....... how many more bugs are there >.> im getting impatient....

I thought Fishing was working pretty good except for the PDF ground thing.

What is "Welcome Worlds"?

The server you are on once you exit the tutorial, after making a pirate. I could be wrong though.

That makes sense. I think.

Yes, when you first make your pirate and enter the tutorial, you enter Welcome World7 or Welcome World2 or any welcome world.

Seriously, fishing has been on test for 2 weeks, more than anything else ive ever seen in the game... more than even the inventory expantion... HOW MANY BUGS CAN SOME FISH AND A FEW KNIVES HAVE?!

Ok now im hoping for them to come out next week....

Maybe it might come out this month cant wait to go fishing!

If we get lucky, fishing will be released by tonight, but that seems very unlikely for tonight. Odds are, it will be released next week; ironically when most people should be getting back to school.

Fishing is a pretty big update, to me. It was in Toontown, and remains one of the most time consuming things to do in toontown. It's not as time consuming as in pirates, but it's still big.

And this is irrelevant, but with the way things seem to be going, the new shrouded island and a quest with it doesn't seem like it's coming as soon as most would like it to. We might not see it on open until October 31, the 3rd year of POTCO.

I'm starting to get irratated with this... You can always fix minor bugs later D, just hurry up and release it!

No, they need to be fixed BEFORE they go Live. There are people that play the game just to find exploits in bugs and take advantage of them. All of these need to be fixed on Test.

Looking good so far, most everything has been fixed, I'm not noticing any problems anymore. Very rarely is Live updated on the weekends but you never know...

I still think they will update it next week after the strongest guild competition is over

I bet you it will not come out tonight you never know when its released could be next week could be tomorrow or right now ;) .

I don't remember a time when POTCO ever had an update on Saturday or Sunday, so unfortunately we probably won't see the update until Monday or Tuesday.

I dont remember anything coming out on a Monday.. maybe Tuesday... but most big updates such as these are things they would release on Thursday of Friday...

This is the longest Ive ever seen anything on test... pretty much everything is released during its first or second week after being released on test... this is going on its third.... even the inventory expansion with all its bugs and things to be removed and added didnt take this long. How many bugs can a few fish have?

cool this shold realease soon :dancetl6::ziwz14::zn3lso:

if im correct hopfully yes it should come out the 25 the day after the strongest guild compititon

glad there fixing all the bugs soon it will be on live thats great :D

It takes time to get almost 98% of the bugs out before it is released to Public servers.
Remember the Lost Weapons update? After the weapons came, there were many bugs left, like miscolored clothing on NPC enemies, missing Swamp and Forest textures, Lost clothing, and even locked pirates. So if you want Fishing to come out now, you will have to deal with Bugs that weren't taken out, which could crash the game, so we must wait. I actually went through the News section of the Website and saw Cannon Defense was put on Live 8 days after it was added to Test. This Fishing udate is 19 days in, meaning this is going to be a BIG update.

This is the longest I've ever seen anything be on test for... as I said.... really surprises me... I just hope it will be worth it.

They're releasing all the Daggers with it too, proabably like they did with CD and the Voodoo Dolls, and all the new stuff with the Throwing Knives.

Thats why I said MINOR bugs...

Minor or not, if they're aware of the bugs now, they may as well deal with them before they're on Live. That's why they have Test, to deal with things like this, so that those on Live may enjoy the update even more.

Anyways, they've done a good job, and have fixed a lot. There are only a few things that need to be fixed before this is released, so I think it's safe to assume it will be ready in a week or so.

The new inventory system, and new weapons were released in March 25-2010, and the last test update for the inventory system was April 22-2010. Almost a month after the inventory system was released, all the bugs for it on test were fixed.

Fishing is a big update, but not as big as the inventory system. And just because one update is bigger than another, doesn't mean the smaller update won't have more bugs. You'd usually think that bigger updates mean more bugs, but that isn't always the case.

For all we know, once this new island can be landed on, and we can do a quest for it, it will have just a few bugs. We could get lucky, who knows. I'm just glad they're taking their time with this update, because if they don't, then the next update is only going to be worse, because according to Speedway Masters thread, this Ravens Cove quest will involve potions and fishing. You can't exactly do a quest which involves fishing if all the bugs for it aren't worked out.

I think they canceled Ship Of The Line not sure but i was on test when it came out was on a friends Ship of the line i was steering it http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...pictureid=3641

Ya i still play toontown Fishing is has been there for a while ( still more of a POTCO fan ) But fishing til October 31st? I dont think so. And btw ive been playing Toontown and POTCO about a month after they both came out So ik alot of what has happend over the years. Good luck and Amuse your self with a pic of me steering a Ship Of The Line!http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...pictureid=3641

All I know is that it better be a very good update with almost no bugs, if not no bugs after being on test for three whole weeks... I'm really steaming at this, I wanted to be fishing last week.

Yeah, I was hoping for them to release fishing before school started. Oh well...

well i had sent an email about some things to disney and some how fishing came into the discussion and they said that they were taking so long in test because from now on there going to try and get almost all the bugs out before they come out on live thank god i have test even though i mastered fishing it still is really fun but i think it will be out on thursday or friday of this week hope fully. Tobad i go back to school.

Hopefully it will come today or friday??

I just don't know about this update anymore. :'( :( :/ :bookishfj7::piratewheelgo2:

Oh relax. It's a bunch of things that live in water and some butter knives. Disney is just trying to get all of the bugs out first before it hits Live, which is very good. You may think that that is dumb now, but you won't went you get booted every time you cast a line, or you happen to throw your line backwars every time, hitting some poor level 1 that just got out of Rambleshack.

Patience, my children. The more your willing to wait, the faster it will seem like it comes :cool:

It's Thursday night, when they usually update test with fixes and I guess it's not gonna get updated this week... :'( :( :/ Why can't they just update the test game with the new island so we can explore it like it said in that code/promo code thing along time ago fishing and explore an all new mysterious island? I'm just wondering that. :bookishfj7::piratewheelgo2::sadmh9:

maybe the update will be here tomorrow or saturday?

Yeah maybe, mate. :/ :) :bookishfj7::piratewheelgo2:

Tomorrow, or another week.

They're gonna release the new island when they're ready too, obviously they are not, so we have to wait.

Test got the update.... not live.......

Yeah but the undead french quarter masters still are spiky looking.