Open Release Notes - Febuary 4th, 2009

[Chris]

Release Notes - February 4, 2009

• Fixed a crash with NVidia and ATI graphics cards that prevented some Pirates from entering the game
• Fixed the missing Dagger animations
• Crew Members will remain pink on the mini-map
• Plugged several client memory leaks which will improve performance during long game play
• Fixed several crashes on exit
• Optimized Teleportation effects to improve your frame rate when you teleport or when witnessing another avatar teleport.

[Salty McSeas]

Woo - hoo! - I mean ARRGH! My dagger is back!

Waitaminute... Crew members still appear pink on the map (like they used to when crew chat was pink) - but now crew chat is green?!?!? That doesn't make sense... Plus, whats is that icon in the top left hand corner - to find a crew??? It's got a slash through it so it's like I shouldn't click it, but that's how I look for a crew??? Anybody know what that is?

New chat and other interfaces take a lot of getting used to, some good changes, but some stuff (like chat colors and otherwise) not too thought through...

On the plus side the game is running MUCH better now - how about the rest of ye?

[Chris]

Yes to start looking for a crew you click that.

[Salty McSeas]

So what is it? A torch? A match? I can't tell, and why would they have a slash through it?

[jason davy]

Originally Posted by Salty McSeas

Woo - hoo! - I mean ARRGH! My dagger is back!

Waitaminute... Crew members still appear pink on the map (like they used to when crew chat was pink) - but now crew chat is green?!?!? That doesn't make sense... Plus, whats is that icon in the top left hand corner - to find a crew??? It's got a slash through it so it's like I shouldn't click it, but that's how I look for a crew??? Anybody know what that is?

New chat and other interfaces take a lot of getting used to, some good changes, but some stuff (like chat colors and otherwise) not too thought through...

On the plus side the game is running MUCH better now - how about the rest of ye?

The little icon is crew matching, clicking it will turn it on.

Also, Disney seems to have made some major improvements... but forgot all about players with Macs. My game isn't running any better than it was before. In fact, it's running quite a bit worse. Disney really needs to make the same game improvements for Mac- for example, the new Mac launcher doesn't even have the graphics option, and the updates made my graphics AWFUL. I even tried re-installing the game- still no graphic options. Also, when I filed a bug report, Disney sent me back a list of useful instructions... FOR A PC.

These updates have potential, but like you said, I'm not so sure about some of it. And Disney- consider the Macs!

[Edward Edgemenace]

It is heartening to see steady progress. The smaller the batch of changes at a single time, the better. This is a good patch; one highly visible item fixed, no new bugs apparent.

[Poison elf]

Overall there just seemed to be some tweaks here and there. The crew members remaining pink, just has to do with looking at the map. When you look in the mini map people now show as pink dots, rather than indistinguishable from others.

[swashbuckler II]

No new glitches so far, good job disney

[Maximvs]

And really - this is what they shoud do... once a week focus on one or two key issues and release. The fix for the next week would be on test. People would see continous progress and by only trying to fix one or two issues at a time leaves less chance on messing up other options

[Chris]

I agree one or 2 fixes a week is great. If they focus on those 2 and really take the time to work them out.

[Raikel]

Originally Posted by jason davy

The little icon is crew matching, clicking it will turn it on.

Also, Disney seems to have made some major improvements... but forgot all about players with Macs. My game isn't running any better than it was before. In fact, it's running quite a bit worse. Disney really needs to make the same game improvements for Mac- for example, the new Mac launcher doesn't even have the graphics option, and the updates made my graphics AWFUL. I even tried re-installing the game- still no graphic options. Also, when I filed a bug report, Disney sent me back a list of useful instructions... FOR A PC.

These updates have potential, but like you said, I'm not so sure about some of it. And Disney- consider the Macs!

Preset templates that staff sends out to their members, AKA, Who gives a *beep*, we just want money Letters.

(Sorry, the truth hurts, but it's the truth...)

[Will Badbreaker]

I can understand leaving it pink in the compass because you already have green for NPC's but then why change the color in chat for crew away from pink? its inconsistant.
I've noticed also sometimes in a long sentence the color turns to white on everything but the first line.
I do welcome the little updates though over big ones.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Will Badbreaker

I've noticed also sometimes in a long sentence the color turns to white on everything but the first line.

...only if there is a word in italics on the first line of text.

[albbie]

Originally Posted by jason davy

Disney really needs to make the same game improvements for Mac- for example, the new Mac launcher doesn't even have the graphics option, and the updates made my graphics AWFUL. I even tried re-installing the game- still no graphic options. !

Hey Jason - FYI - Mac doesn't use DirectX so there wouldn't be anything for you to select. This is a PC thing only. Hope that helps.