Colossus Glitch, or Where are the Kryptonite Cannonballs? - Pirates of the Caribbean Online Fansite & Forums

Bilgepump · #1 05-11-2008, 03:19 PM

Yesterday, I joined up with a random crew. Had a great time, we were all about the same level, and were sinking stuff all over the place.

Then we see the flag colossus over there by Cuba/Tormenta.

"Hey, let's board it!"

"You sure? OK!"

We disable it and latch on. I see an Officer at the wheel, and as we're all in the low 20s, I shoot him with the cannon. So far, so good, but this is where it gets weird.

The cannon only did 3 points of damage.

Ok, that was weird, maybe they changed things so you need grapeshot to get him now, but it was a sudden change.

We board, and lucked out. It was the low-level crew (sergeants and veterans), and we made quick work of them.

Except for that officer. He was level 37. He hit hard. Ok, whip out the dollies.

And it got weirder. Poke and Swarm were only doing 2 or 3 points of damage. He managed to kill everyone except me and one other person. We had him and each other targeted. We poked and swarmed for a LONG TIME, every now and then dropping heals on each other when he'd change targets. We got him down to yellow.

Then one of the slain crewmembers takes his ship and pulls alongside to try to shoot the guy with his cannon. Didn't work, and he got sunk by that warlord that's out there, but during this, the officer somehow glitched off the ship, and was standing way out over the water. He was out of dagger range. The only thing we could hit him with was grenades. So we start unloading on him.

3 points damage per grenade.

Then we ran out of grenades. It wouldn't let us teleport off the ship. We finally had to log off.

It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen in this game. I thought there was a timer on the ship combat, but it never went off. We must have spent 20 minutes trying to get that guy, way way past the point of diminishing returns.

Shadow Cat · #2 05-11-2008, 03:44 PM

That's happened to me before as well - glad I'm not the only one lol... We had to log off and we came back in jail and we weren't groggy. It was pretty weird and I have no clue what caused it.

AdmiralSavvy · #3 05-11-2008, 04:26 PM

Something like that happened to me once, I was teleporting to a friend who was about to board a Colo, and to my surprise, it was empty. No Navy officers and no players, even though the ship was just boarded. I tried to tele out of there but it wouldn't work, so I had to logout. Weird eh? lol

Hopi88 · #4 05-11-2008, 05:33 PM

Ive had experience with this to, I boarded a Colossus with a good crew but they all died somehow except me. Though I took only 1 or 2 out the last guy was in the back part of the hull. He was a low level officer so I tried using my sword on stairs and it worked only with the spinning thing attack. Though the time was like 5 sec. left I logged out. Later my friend told me to use grenades and I almost shot myself of being so stupid.

Angel · #5 05-11-2008, 07:03 PM

Admiral, if you board a ship that has already disabled and grappled the flag, you will get an empty ship upon boarding the flag. You did no work to disable it so you wont be able to help take them down. Best thing to do is wait out the ride and explore the ship.

I had a stint with the colossous on my baby pirate. Since the officer at the wheel was lvl 37 and I was lvl 16, my cannons werent powerful enough to take him down so I was gettin -3 hits each time. Had to have my friend who was higher lvl take him out instead.

Yesterday I decided I wanted to play with him again on my lvl 37. Cannons were doing mass damage to the officer and 3 cannons took him out. 3 out of 4 ships had lvl 37 officers on it. The other one only had lvl 9s. Takin them on solo I just had to doll em and run! Without lifedrain I'd say this would be a really challangin feat!

narutocooper · #6 05-18-2008, 11:22 PM

Hmmm... when i was i a lv 23 and i attacked lv 35 stumps each attack did 1 damage. But cannons that do 3 damage is weird. You should at least be able to do 50 damage to a lv 40.

super h · #7 05-20-2008, 04:27 AM

i was sailing one time and the same thing happened to me on a kingfisher but i killed it took out the driver and baorded but when i got on i was in space on a floating on air ship with no crew that i was flying over after a while i got tired and logged off and when i came back on i was on the ship and had to kill the crew really weird but after that every thing continued normaly got to keep my cargo too :}

Poison elf · #8 05-27-2008, 05:03 AM

I don't know if anyone noticed, but its been a little while back. If ya shoot the captain, but wait a little bit, you will see another officer appear and walk around. This was a new thing I hadn't seen until a moth ago or so, may have something to do with this.

I have had a few officers on the wheel that have taken alot more to take down with the cannon as well. Yesterday a guild crew got stuck on the colossuss as well, and eventually trying to talk them through it, they found one spot on the ship they could barely see the last crew member hidden. They were stuck there a long while trying to get off the ship.

Bilgepump · #9 05-27-2008, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Poison elf

I don't know if anyone noticed, but its been a little while back. If ya shoot the captain, but wait a little bit, you will see another officer appear and walk around. This was a new thing I hadn't seen until a moth ago or so, may have something to do with this.

It's been like that for awhile, but since most people hit "Board" pretty quickly, it's an easy thing to miss.

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Yesterday a guild crew got stuck on the colossuss as well, and eventually trying to talk them through it, they found one spot on the ship they could barely see the last crew member hidden. They were stuck there a long while trying to get off the ship.

We had something similar happen on that flag Barracuda a few days ago. There was one Mercenary that glitched off the ship, and ran WAY out onto the water. We had to zoom the radar out to see him. He was out of range of everything. Just when I was about to log in frustration (and about a minute after another crew member did log in frustration), he disengaged, and ran up close to the ship. This was a tactical error on his part, as he was now in grenade range. Blew him up, and that was it. We made it back to our ship and continued.