Release Notes - July 23 2008

[Ironhawk]

• Privateering has been added:
  • Side with either the French or Spanish pirate "Lords" as a privateer and engage rival Pirates in epic sea battles
  • Launch your ship from the islands of Isla De La Avaricia (Spanish) or Ile D'Etable De Porc (French), and you will automatically be put into Privateering mode
  • New Privateering loading hint screens have been added
  • Added Privateering chat. Now you can communicate with other members of your team without an opposing team knowing about it. (This type of chat will appear in a gold color in your chat window.)
  • While in Privateering mode, flagships will sink immediately when you disable them
• Adjusted the armor on NPC ships so it is slightly weaker than player ships
• Cannon balls are no longer be able to be shot through islands
• Added a minimum system requirements check to the game launcher
• Added the Crew Heads Up Display (HUD) so you can see what other crew members are doing
• Updated the Basic Access player popup
• The radar now remembers your zoom level when boarding and leaving a ship
• Added NPCs with glowing question marks above their heads. These "helper NPCs" will give advice in the same manner as Quest dialog. You can find a couple of these NPCs on the Privateering islands
• The ship repair panel will update correctly when repairing your ship
• Undead Grenadiers now animate properly when attacking players
• Avatars that teleport to friends (but whose friends are still in jail) will be able to leave the jail, if the door was already kicked down
• Updated the ship damage interface
• Cannons do more damage the closer you are to your enemy
• Removed the teleport totem icon from the map for Kingshead island
• The Ray-Of-Light will guide you better to your Quest objectives
• Fixed several Quest dialog bugs
• Fixed a bug that caused the cannon reload status bar to occasionally hang at an intermediate point
• Fixed a bug that was preventing clothing/jewelry/tattoo rewards from being dropped by enemies if your inventory was already full of these items
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to appear undead outside of PVP
• Fixed a bug that allowed the French/Spanish NPCs to respawn on their ship if it was taking too long to defeat all NPCs
• Fixed a bug with the voodoo doll that would divide healing power among all attuned targets(including enemy NPCs) instead of only dividing it among attuned targets that are players
• Fixed a bug that would not allow you to run after you died while taking aim with the pistol

[sammyh]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woooo!!! this is great!!!!! yet i will be on vacation soon... darn.... but THIS is cool!!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah!!

[Jeena]

Niiiiiice =]

Vive la France!
Let the battle begin =P

X

[Mr.LoveLocket]

woot privateer!! ive been waiting for this so long!!

[davy redflint]

yes cool sunk 2 spanish already then booted f maintenace lol

[Lost At Sea Fee]

FINALLY!! privateering is out i cant wait to get on and play it!!

let the battle begin!

[Sarah]

Go POTCO...big release, then crash. LOL

[Jeena]

Originally Posted by Lost At Sea Fee

FINALLY!! privateering is out i cant wait to get on and play it!!

let the battle begin!

Ahh you might struggle there. Connection is bad, & at the minute, the game is down for updates.

X

[Lady Jade]

Sounds cool. Can't wait til the game is back up and running.

[Gabyta]

I tried to privateer yesterday and it was full...

[Edward Edgemenace]

Wow, so many things fixed, I may have to eat my words and renew my subscription. They fixed the evil PvP thing? Wow, that is worth a few gold doubloons!

My first experience with privateering (in the first 1/2 hour, after d/l & signing in, finding the PvP islands, finding a crew and boarding - then the servers dropped) was just simply fantastic. Sailing for the French makes it too easy to just kill everything Spanish. I kept seeing "...Defeated (Spanish) 10 in a row" and stuff.

It is still hard to find a crew (as hard as ever) and there is definitely something weird going on. One of the French ships I was crew on, was being driven by a Spaniard (Player name was "Kelly" level five) after the ship's owner had been disconnected - which was the one of the two times I was on a French ship that sunk. The other is a weird "out-of-bounds" glitch, where if you go as far as the opposition's island, your boat LOCKS UP and cannot move or fire at all. (I had been doing "Ramming speed" to blast through eight or nine Spanish ships that had spawned simultaneously in front of me; instead of going past and to the left of Avaricia where I was pointed, it just locked up.)

Vive La France!

Looks like history shall repeat itself - the Spanish Armada is being quickly destroyed. Why is sea treasure always "doubloons" instead of "Louis D'ors"? Perhaps only the Spanish war galleons ever sunk...

[Chris]

Yay! - goes SvS'ong - bye folks!

are they forgetting some updates like there are new quests to do for both the french and the spanish?

aww dont ya hate it when u get this message
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[Dr. Zeppers]

This is on open now?
POTCO doesnt show any new announcements to me, no new news.

No mention of it at all.

[AdmiralSavvy]

Whooohooo! TIME TO SINK SOME SPANISH!

[Chris]

OK this is tickin me off i am a cannon lvl 23, i have 5 star lightning why is it only doing 89 damage!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!