Release Notes - September 30, 2010
 

New Features:

* Raven's Cove Story Quest now available! If you are a Pirate with Notoriety Level 30 or above, visit Jack Sparrow on Tortuga in the Faithful Bride to embark on this new journey
* New quests include mini-games, defending innocent souls, disguising yourself to fool the enemy, Undead Poker & more!
* New quest dialog will allow you to pick your responses
* 30 New Cursed Blade loot drops, including 5 new Legendary Cursed Blades (can only be found after completing Raven's Cove Story Quest)
* New Enemy Types (Ghosts and Firebats!)
* Island names are no longer visible on land
* Other players can now see when attacks are blocked or reflected in Pirate vs. Pirate
* Bosses now show their name in their health meter and attuned list
* The Escape button no longer cancels interaction during dialog with an NPC
* The Gypsy icon has been changed to show a Potions bottle instead of a Voodoo Doll
* The quest page GUI has been updated and optimized for faster loading and better readability

Fixes:

* Fixed various issues to prevent Potions and Fishing mini-game crashes
* You are now able to drink Tonics while having a Bayonet equipped
* You can see the item cards for the Ammo in your inventory when you roll over them
* Fixed crashes when doing various emotes
* Retraining a weapon now updates your skill page correctly no matter which weapon you have equipped
* New idle animations for female bodies no longer distort the avatar
* Various NPCs that should not be walking around are now in a fixed location
* Flipped Jolly Roger's image on the moon during invasions
* NPCs will no longer attack players when they are talking with townspeople or attempting to launch a ship
* Fixed a bug where you couldn't attack if stunned while reloading grenades or pistols
* Fixed gold shown in stowaway and bribe quests when you have 0 gold
* Fixed crash when competing in an invasion on Port Royal while downloading the game
* The Compass now works correctly after exiting Jail
* Bosses that were not dropping loot pouches or chests (Devil Root, Croquettes De Crabe, Scatter Snap, Malicioso, and Hive Queen) now can drop loot pouches and chests

Known Issues:

* Jack Sparrow voiceover is out of sync
* There is occasionally a download issue with the game; logging has been added to troubleshoot this issue

Oooo, I'm surprised it came out this early! Whats going on with Disney?!?

I'm surprised too!
And I'm not sure but they are working on it, on the website this is posted at the top:
Avast! Pirates of the Caribbean Online will remain open while we perform maintenance tonight. You may experience interruptions in gameplay during this time. Thank you for your patience!

well to me all of this has to wait until I get all of my Weapons Back ! hope that they made a good choice by bringing the update early !!

Wow........wow...........wow.That was only 2 or 3 weeks. It took like 4 weeks for potions to come out. Great job Disney!

A question to the testers:

Was this Tested thoroughly?

Now a question to all Live players:

Did they tested enough?

They might aswell just close down the game for maintenance. I have no weapons or clothes. My ships and totems are gone so all you can do is walk around the island you are on and do nothing...

At least I'm still wearing my now-somewhat-non-existent clothing.

I really hope they fix this soon. In the meantime, you can update your gold count for the session by completing a game of Ship Repair.

Wow, that was quick - guess the dev team is nearly finished with rewriting almost the entire game and now can more focus on developing new content. Many pirates have had luck with logging in multiple times, until the items appear. Things should be ok later today.

lol I was trying to do that on Ravens after I teleported to a friend as I had no other option and I kept getting one hit KO'd by the ghosts lol (was that on test-I didn't see it there but wasn't able to get on much)

I will wait till it gets fixed to log back in

Even with your weapons and stuff back, you'll still get 1HKOed by them.

I tried this and when I was done I was give 34466 gold(the amount of gold I own)!!

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I was on and item-less then got the boot. When I logged back on everything was restored PLUS the ship I bought and item I looted were in inventory, too. So no worries.

Tested thoroughly? I would like to say yes but the real answer is "probably not". Some bugs still might be triggered by those weird series of events that can only happen with tons of players all swarming in on one place. Something bad is bound to happen but it will get fixed.

Now...as a live player also. It was tested as much as it could be. The rest will require a larger number of players...

That being said? Many will jump all over this and be finished before bedtime tonight. It is short, fun and just different enough to give us a glimpse of the future of POTCO. And it is good. Very, very good I think...

:th_smellie_pirate:

Final Note: You cannot kill the red ghosts. Period. That 's the challenge. Have fun.

well sounds like they fixed some probs with ur captain sureshot but does anyone else got there stuff back yet??

I Just logged back on and I have everything back

What happened is I first signed in and everything was normal. Then I signed in for a second time and everything is gone.
I did potions and got my skill back as well as my gold but so far that's it.

well that sounds good to hear maybe ill try soon haha

EDIT: um maybe that isnt so good i think ill wait till later today haha

VERY good questions. I was under the impression that as late as Monday it was monsterously buggy.


Ok now I'm just furious. They removed almost or OVER half the servers, and EVERY singly server I played on is gone!!!!

Actually this took 12 to 15 weeks for it to come out on test so..... oh and the potions took maybe about..... 7 to 9 weeks. yea when your on test you'll be bored until new things come on. :piratetongueor4: :psmiley35:

wow news to me it doesnt say on the webpage or on my launcher that raven cove is out so it is out on live right

The question still remains.... does Jack ever gets his rum?

You might as well be asking the meaning of life!:laughks2:

Well, the servers are back. And to compare this to the previous update, fishing took 5 weeks. This took literally 2 weeks.

I think they got more devs working.

Me too....

Two words.

FLIPPIN' SWEET!

Now, aside from the general excitement of every release, NO, this was not on Test as long as it should have. I know that the bugs may be brief and only affecting a few, but they're bugs.

NO There was a lot of bugs still there but they didn't listen to the testers.....

Another bug I found... Even though clothes are picked out my pirate still dosen't have them on.

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...0_17-38-46.jpg

Happened after I logged out. Tried logging in and out but still nothing.

How you get clubheart disguise?

This happened to me on test. IDK what I did to fix it, but it resolved.

Olgarlenn - you must go and buy the clothes. The pants are on Padres. That is all I will tell ye.

OMG! This early?! On to my hunt for Cursed Blades!

Woah, Im really shocked that this came out so early.... however, it seems like these bugs came with releasing it onto live, so therefore could not be tested. Either way, they should shut down the game for some maintenance. Wait, so are the servers back... or are they gone? DONT TELL ME MOSONA IS GONE!

They are back. Mosona is still here. No worries. Now I know where to find you... Muahaha!

Oh bugger....... xD

[QUOTE=Nate Swordwalker;259268]This happened to me on test. IDK what I did to fix it, but it resolved.


Even my profile card had me in my boxers though I was fully clothed, lol - seems to be fixed now though (thank goodness)

:dancetl6:

I think so - perhaps it was the volume of folks logging in that created new issues.
Just a guess.

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