Test - Play Pirates Online Through The Website Discussion

[Big Bad Wolf]

Play Pirates Online Through The Website

• Calling all Testers! Soon you’ll be able to play Pirates Online just by visiting the Pirates Online website. Download the game, log in and start playing all through PiratesOnline.com. This new feature is now ready on our Test Server website. You must have Test Server Access to play Pirates Online through your web browser. The game will need to download again, so please be patient during this process.

Please report any issues you encounter using this feedback form.


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So Exited, Just saw this on the launcher screen today 17 Dec 2009 - Cant wait to test it out!!!!

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avatar not lost - still had same server as test and theres a new option to play in webpage mode besides full and windowed.

[swashbuckler II]

I cant get it to work... If I even try to start pirates... Firefox just crashes

[Sven Niscadae]

Hm... This certainly is interesting... or is it? Just tried it but alas the port is blocked from work. Not sure how viable this is going to be. Depending on how its performance is, you'd think it'd be better to just download the regular game client. Adding another layer of processes through the browser seems silly to me. Not really sure Disney needs to work on things that aren't necessary.

[Aliese]

I kept getting an error message about the download not being finished when I tried to log in on existing pirates, but when I created a new one it let me right in... Weird.

[jason davy]

Tried it out on a few different browsers.

On Google Chrome, couldn't get it past this page:



On Firefox, I got this:



Viewed the certificate and told it to run anyway. Managed to get it downloaded and it didn't take too long at all. Played the mini game during the wait. How nice of them.



Got stuck on the never-ending loading screen. Waited nearly an hour and still hasn't changed.



No luck on Safari either. It says the game is downloading but there is just empty space where the progress bar should be.



So, I'm 0 for 3. If any other Mac users have any luck, please post. If not, I won't waste any more time messing around with it when the normal application is working just fine.

[Aaron McEagle]

Downloaded it any so far it works

it works for me... Im not on a mac but windows

[Jeanne Stormcutter]

I tried Test through Google Chrome and it worked well (better than on Firefox or Internet Explorer).
I didn't see any significant difference in the quality of gameplay (i played on fullscreen and with
high graphics), loading screens are still slow because I use Vista. But that I already knew, hehe.

I think this option is very good for those who don't want to download the game to their computer.
And even if the game (not very likely) would change into just a web browser game, it wouldn't really
matter. Everything looks the same, you can play in the browser window, in the normal windowed
mode or on fullscreen. The only difference is that you don't have the launcher, and the sceenshots go
into the Panda3D folder

[Aaron McEagle]

Went to web page mode and crash

[Augie Doodle]

According to the notes I have from the new test site, they know Mac is not working...

December 16, 2009

New Improvement:

• Privateering ships now display the correct sail colors.
• Fixed a bug preventing Pirates from using cannons and the steering wheel after being sunk in Privateering
• Fixed the cannon damage sound effects on ships

Known Issues:

• Windows 7 and Vista users may download and launch the game very slowly
• Mac users - Launching the game from the web is not working

[ex8404]

Known Issues:

* Windows 7 and Vista users may download and launch the game very slowly
* Mac users - Launching the game from the web is not working

It is almost 2010, Windows Vista has been out so long that it is being replaced already and these guys are still making a game that is optimized for Windows XP??

I can't get this to run in ANY browser to save my life. And if this game goes the Fusion Fall route, I'm done.

[Aliese]

Originally Posted by ex8404

It is almost 2010, Windows Vista has been out so long that it is being replaced already and these guys are still making a game that is optimized for Windows XP??

I can't get this to run in ANY browser to save my life. And if this game goes the Fusion Fall route, I'm done.

I'm on XP (if it ain't broke...), and it won't work for me either.

[ex8404]

Originally Posted by Aliese

I'm on XP (if it ain't broke...), and it won't work for me either.

I know that shouldn't make me feel better but, oddly, it does.

[bartholomew bladeroberts]

this is my first time hearing of the test site may I get a linky to it

[jason davy]

Originally Posted by bartholomew bladeroberts

this is my first time hearing of the test site may I get a linky to it

Link is in the original post

[bartholomew bladeroberts]

thanks and it appears that I have to download the panda 3d game engine to play is this true