Sailing by COMPASS

[Edward Edgemenace]

AFAIK, the bug they fixed was the compass ZOOM (i.e. after boarding a flagship and defeating the enemies there.)

EDIT: Actually, now that you mention it, one annoying thing when on a flagship, is that the zoom is wrong; it is all the way out instead of all the way in. When the officers on the colossus glitch under the back deck, the only easy way to find them is to zoom the compass all the way in (as it should be, when on the flagship.)

I use compass zoom a great deal in the boss battle; not to aim at targets (since broadsides have very little effect on most bridges) but to check crew readiness/positioning. When it is time for Goliath, compass has to be zoomed all the way out, to see if I went far enough out before turning left.

In SvS, when first boarding any ship, immediately zoom compass in all the way, then out all the way, or else nearby enemies will appear blue instead of red. (I type "===---" first thing, every time, to work-around that glitch.)

Note that in SvS as a gunner, when being lag-bombed, you often have to aim your cannon by compass only (a tricky feat, that!)

Again, panning the camera view when driving, means that your compass is not oriented towards the front of the boat, so you cannot benefit from the "bolts" as reference points (but you can guess-timate with practice.) Guessing, seems like the much harder way to do it, to me.

[Arioch]

(===---) ??? what is that?

what I always to when boarding ship is to click on the compass +++--- in order to reset it.

but disney at one time fixed it so wherever you had it before it would stay there.

That isn't the case any more and is just as annoying as when you had to immediately set your boarding rights when launching a ship to not include public...

plain and simple it should stay wherever you left it and is really annoying to have to reset it in svs.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Arioch

(===---) ??? what is that?

what I always to when boarding ship is to click on the compass +++--- in order to reset it.

The key to the left of BACKSPACE on my keyboard is "=" but pressing shift at the same time produces "+" instead. I don't hunt for the shift key, because I don't have to. If I use the "+" on the numeric keypad, that works, too. (But I very rarely do that.)

Originally Posted by Arioch

but disney at one time fixed it so wherever you had it before it would stay there.

That isn't the case any more and is just as annoying as when you had to immediately set your boarding rights when launching a ship to not include public...

plain and simple it should stay wherever you left it and is really annoying to have to reset it in svs.

When they had auto-compass adjustment off, it was awful. Every time I was on land, it was set to sea-view; every time I launched, it was still stuck on close-up/land view. Absolutely horrible - if they bring that back, they need to do so with something in F7/Options that says NO WAY, or "save sea zoom only." Frankly, I'd be happy if they just fixed the minor problem it currently has, with flagships not zooming in when you board, (then zooming back out when the enemies are defeated.)

With the minor exception of the Black Pearl, there is no need to ever use the medium compass setting (debatable even in the BB.) I'd like the zoom to be reset all the way out, whenever I'm on a ship, zoomed in all the way whenever on land or on a flagship.


So anyway,

Anybody on test, does the compass still needs to be reset in SvS whenever you launch? (I.e. an enemy ship next to you, appearing on compass as BLUE until you reset it with ===---.)

[Arioch]

oh.. i prefer mine zoomed all the way in regardless of on land or on sea or wherever.

and yes permanent settings for lots of things should be in the F7 menu as well as
more detailed graphics options.

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by Edward Edgemenace

So anyway,

Anybody on test, does the compass still needs to be reset in SvS whenever you launch? (I.e. an enemy ship next to you, appearing on compass as BLUE until you reset it with ===---.)

Just went on to check this out.
Yes, the compass still resets when you sink in SvS.

[WeirdBeard]

I rely on compass. today in SvS my compass broke and i could not use it, put it was on screen, and i was failing.