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.