Hearing phantom voices
 

Three times this has happened to me now - I wonder if anyone else has experienced it. I've been on a friend's ship out in the middle of the ocean, just the two of us sinking ships, and we hear someone else speaking. There are no other pirate ships around. He seems to be talking to someone else so we only get his side of the conversation, but I finally tried talking to him last night. I asked where he was, he said "a jail cell", but he might not have been talking to me, it could have been a coincedence.

I took a screenshot that shows we're the only ship in the area, there's 2 people on the ship, and yet there are three people talking. Anybody know what's going on?

I hear voices in my head all the time.

Here's part of the screenshot:

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...davyvoice1.jpg

I believe you, I just couldn't resist the straight line. That'll get me in trouble some day...

This happened to us last night. We were sailing around, and we kept seeing someone else saying the "Hey! Over here!" taunt phrase. The person wasn't on the ship with us, and there were no other ships in sight.

Possible that this Davy sunk with the 'sinking glitch' under the ocean so you would not see him? The half-dozen times I've sank with the glitch I could still fully talk to guild - other locals but was considered to be 'in Jail' (and after logging I actually end up in jail)...

I've had this happen to me before...I was wondering what was going on...I kept hearing something like "ahoy there! what is wrong with your ship?" or something like that...:laughks2:

Only 2 things I can think of to make that happen...

1 - Invisible/Invincible glitch (justified by his "Jail Cell" comment)
2 - Man overboard glitch (I've swam/run after many a ship and done the same thing).

Either way, we will never know, unless the person discloses the truth to you. I think he may have just been pulling your leg.

Loot Hard!

I had one that seemed like a friendly phantom. Some guy said "Ahoy!" "Nice war galleon you got there!"

Haunted!

The game is haunted!

It's the only reasonable explanation.

Hmm...gosts in a videogame? LOL


Anyway, I have had this happen on an island, and a ship. Not just on a ship.... So I wonder if there is some sort of "repeat" in the chat system?:bookishfj7:

How close to land were you. I get that alot when Im near outcast. I chat with my friends killin the stumps as I take down the big ships there.

Now this DOES happen. I've had this happen several times when switching pirates. Chat logs from up to an hour ago - between 2 and 40 lines - will appear in the logged pirate shortly after logging in.

Another Guilder had a chat appear from WAY back when another Guilder had been talking hours earlier... and actually thought the person had logged back on and was talking to them :) Then when they noticed they were not on the Guild list *panic* - there was a whole issue around if someone had used the account / hacked / bunch of stuff...

Angel also has a good point - if really close to islands I have a few times picked up local chat - from the island... its rare, but does happen :)

LOL yes this happened to me before however our guild master said ahoy and he was not even on @_@

Usually when you access your guild list, and click show members or the guild options log, I get the guild chat of past popping up. Thats my findings on it. It also only shows on your end if its a glitch.

Well, if you've actually studied the game grphical matrix, and have experienced when the loading screen doesn't show up after being sunk and you see the sky on your way to the bottom, you may not be able to see that this may be connected with not completely sinking, but at least a voice staying beind, I'll look into this, other than now I've never heard of it.

"ahoy there! what is wrong with your ship?"
"ahoy there! what is wrong with your ship?"
"ahoy there! what is wrong with your ship?"
"ahoy there! what is wrong with your ship?"
It'd be pretty funny to see I bet!

I had this happen to me as well..I was out with my friends sailing when we kept seeing someone talking in local when there were no ships near us and we weren't close to any islands. We finally started looking for said person but they never responded to us lol.

I havent had this particular glitch happen to me that I am aware of, but I have been having a similar glitch lately with sounds. You know the random fall down sound when you kill something and the like. I've been hearing it everywhere even when I am on a ship and there is no one around at all not even enemy ships. It makes no sense. But then most glitches don't

I have had this glitch happen to me before, actually had a conversation with one person until they mysteriously vanished. Nice player too...

Also had the one where you can hear ships shooting at your ship and the timbers breaking under the cannonball impacts AFTER you dock on an island, lol. That particular one went on for 10 minutes before I logged out and back in (I wasn't in the room but I could hear it. I had thought my friend had gotten on the PC and taken my ship out for a run, lol. I got a little surprised when I realized that she hadn't.)

Oh and the sailing music not changing to the island music, that is common for me, but nothing that bothers me too much

We were out in mid ocean, midway between any islands. The same thing - the disembodied voice - happened on another friend's ship but we were close to shore that time. Still, it's an odd glitch. It was just one voice, not ppl having a conversation, so why would I hear only one?

At least it keeps the game interesting!

May not be what your experiencing, but i've gone swimming off my War Galleon and done this. Often you end up under the surface and not visible even if they are looking where you would be at.

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That happened to me earlier, I was at the boundries ( the end of the ocean) looking around when there were 2 guys saying "can you see me? I can see you! haha!" and I got freaked out. its odd.

Hmmm...
 

That's been happening to me, mostly at the PDF waters, people that I saw at land, I can hear at sea, and when I try to talk to them, they either don't answer, or they say some random thing. :laughks2:

one time i was sailing, and saw local chat.... the name was from a guild mate who wasnt online...
that kinda made me wonder... am i loosin it?

This had happened to me by Tormenta. I was a bit too far from shore so I stopped sailing and looked around. There was a girl in the water just floating. I almost ran her over. I sailed back by a few hrs later and she was still there babbeling away....

creeeeeeeeeeeepy

lol intresting... i found a glitc, where u can swim freely off of padres into open sea. i wen afk to talk to someone while headed to the beach. I ended up halfway to outcast.

Your guys are gonna give me nightmares!

Wonder if those "voices" are from whatever Game Moderator is currently working messing with the gamers. Hmmmmmmmm. Kinda like that earlier thread where the Skelly smiled at the pirate.

I think we might have a "Conspiracy Theory" going here.

they cant hear u when u do that cause thats not the real island

and besides they get on your ship with a glitch

Yes. I was on here once and like.. I haven't spoke to ANY of my friends all day and they were offline ALL day. I then saw something in the chat. "ENRIQUE......" I saw. The sender was called Kelpbrain.

now thats creepy lol

i had the same thing happen to me! only the other way around. i was talking but i could not hear other players talking back. then i got on an island and i hear them all responding to my chat at the same time and saying slow down. o and some times if the connection to the server is lost while you are typeing something your chat is still open and you can talk but not hear them it is fun when you log back in and you hear people talking about a ghost pirate talking on the oean but not responding to them but just speaking random stuff!

that was me and my freind we flew off my ship out of the boundries and were chating there i was flying higher than my freind!

I Am The Phantom Voice....
 

I kept chatting to my guildies even after logging out.....


Weird

(thanks for the pic Sven, I really thought you were messin with me on this one LOL)



http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/m...1_19-58-53.jpg

hes using a ship glitch

thats a different bug its happened to me b4

yea i got that yesterday while out sailing.

there were ships in sight but only just a little to far to talk to :piratear:

sigh they got on your ship wth a glitch the galleon one