Current News: January 14, 2009 - Updates on the Horizon

[lostmymarbles]

1) The Town of Port Royal
OMG!!! What they did to Port Royal was unreal!!! It's a labyrinth!!!

Winding streetways that curve back on each other, little dead ends, alcoves, several bridges within the city, archways, a small separate cemetary, and yes a massive maze of a fort takes the place of the original Fort Charles. You no longer have to run up the hill forever to get to it, but you do have to make your way around the multi-level thing. Sort of looks like the inside of the fort in the last movie.. with the people lined up waiting to be hanged.

Hey Edward Edgemenace... this is one time even YOU will have to use your tracking beam and that's just to find Lucinda!

Calling All Dueces Wild.. we will have a blast relocating AFK's!! There is an awesome bridge!

It was actually kind of fun. But to all of you old timers in the game... you know how frustrating it can be yet very easy to answer when a new pirate asks the simplest question such as ... "where can I find sand crabs?

Well.. it's not gonna be so easy to explain to them..lol..not on Port Royal anyways.

2) The Beginning Scenes for Noobs

I took lots of screenies.. even started a new toon to test out the streamlined beginning. The new beginning is great!

They got rid of that awful and time consuming speech about how to operate your treasure chest. You go right to a warehouse to get a sword from Will Turner. Undead even show up for you to start battling.

They tell you what to do with your treasure chest and what to kill as you go. You get started quicker.

Oh and I got a picture of the Dog in the jail. Actually left the jail.. then went back inside to check for him.

3) Clothing

The clothing store has been greatly simplified!!! You no longer have to sift through 35 pages of clothing. The show one of each style, but then have a box with a "C" for you to click on that pulls out a color pallet... just like the color selections you had at the beginning. So you can try on a piece of clothing and just switch colors til you find what you like.

There is also a box you click to enter a code... I'm not sure if we will be getting codes for clothing drops or if we need the codes to get useless, free, ugly items in the future.

4) The Chat.......grrrrrrr
I'm not sure.. but I really think they purposely messed this up. There are no more tabs. They say it will show appropriately. I couldn't really test it out cause there was no one I knew who was on to test the whisper or crew functions. I know for a fact there was no "+" when I clicked on it to check. And it absolutely wouldn't let me type a number. So went can't tell each other "Hey Capt, I need 5 Barracuda's." So we will see how that flies after we get a chance to test it and hope that the dev's listen.

Great features about the chat are:
-- The emotes pop up when you click on the skull.. no more scrolling to pull out the emotes.
-- The phrases pop up when you click on what used to be the "+" box.

5) New features when you click on a pirates name. (You know ..like someone in the crowd)

When you click on a pirates name, a box just like a mini dxd profile pops up. I did not get to check it much... lol..that was one time I crashed (while trying to get screenshots and check out the profile box).

Well my friends..I will try to post some screenshots tomorrow. Just thought I'd give people a hint at what the Devs have done.

I did not see anything with new content... but my highest pirate on test is a lvl 12.. so she is too busy just trying to survive fighting Veterans!

***As much as everyone would like to get new stuff... I too hope that they let us get a good chance to test it BEFORE they release it on open. And even more importantly, I hope they listen to us when we submit our feedback. ***