Test Release Notes - April 2, 2010

[William ORoberts]

Disney usually releases updates on Fridays, right? I thought it would be on open this weekend, but.... Now I'm guessing Friday the 19th. I have found no more bugs but the fleet skull chest thing.

By the way, the thing I don't like about test is all the crashes. We had just sunk a ship of the line, then went out and sunk a flagship many times in our war frigate. My little lvl seven on test was desperatly in need of gold. Our ship had 13 out of 16 cargo spots filled with ROYALS when I suddeny lost Internet connection!

Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

There went several thousand gold...

[Beorn]

Keep your patience up. In my opinion this is nowhere near ready for live. All of the crashes are bugs, I have been getting skull chests with practically nothing in them (Small amounts of ammo), every time an invasion happens I get booted twice during it. This is a small list but there are still a LOT of bugs to be worked out. I'd love to get my hands on this update with my level 50 on live instead of my level 34 (32 when reset) on Test but it's just not ready.

[Jamesvsthekraken]

It should come this week since it has been two weeks. Most of the big issues have been fixed and the only reason they changed the avatar model types so it would be easier i guess for everyone to look the same. This will not happen to our live avatar models like i so kindly asked Disney.

[Sven Niscadae]

Originally Posted by Sven Osymthe

Aliese and ex8404 had great images of what the updates have done to their pirates in another thread.

And not to go off topic.. but when these new bodies came to the game.. I remember someone on POF (Sven Niscadae - I think, sorry if i'm wrong) asked Disney if they could switch their pirates body with the newer model, and got a reply saying it can't be done. Looks like that's another lie..

Yup. That's what they told me at the end of July.

Originally Posted by Pirates of the Caribbean Online Member Services

Thank you for yer feedback mate!

Unfortunately, we cannot switch pirate bodies to the new bodies. This update applies to pirates that are newly created. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

We hope this helps and look forward to seeing you in the Caribbean again soon!

Allyson
Pirates of the Caribbean Online Member Services

I guess they figured out how to do this or just weren't comfortable at the time they released it. At least big Sven will get some meat on his scuvy bones!

[Aliese]

What bothers me is that they're not giving us any say in how our pirates look. I chose my original body type over two years ago (and while the profile is a little on the dramatic side, the back view, which is what I spend almost all the time seeing, was what I wanted), and to change so drastically now is insulting.

I could understand some minor changes to the proportions of certain areas, but to revert my pirates to before puberty is just gross.

[Bubba Bunny x]

I dont know which looks more ridiculous, the male pirate bodies or the female bodies. Guess I will have to tell my self everyday now that I might as well get over it cause me pirates will look ridiculous just like everyone else...

[The Skirata Clan]

So the new stuff is nowhere near ready for release? That means they are releasing very very soon.

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by The Skirata Clan

So the new stuff is nowhere near ready for release? That means they are releasing very very soon.

Most of the bugs are fixed. Some need to be fixed, or there will be complaints from open server players.

But what they've ended up doing by taking away the 100% loot drop rate from bosses is made the update boring. Simply because getting one loot drop after every five enemies is just boring. Sure it's perfectly fine, but when all you get from the drops is amo and tonics it gets boring. As if we'll ever get these lost weapons.

[Jamesvsthekraken]

Only thing missing from this update is letting us use The Cannon Defences and Raven/Raven's Cove Island. :/ Hopefully that will come next.

[ex8404]

Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

But what they've ended up doing by taking away the 100% loot drop rate from bosses is made the update boring. Simply because getting one loot drop after every five enemies is just boring. Sure it's perfectly fine, but when all you get from the drops is amo and tonics it gets boring. As if we'll ever get these lost weapons.

I have to agree. The new drop rate has really just changed the whole feel of the updates...

[Crazypirate]

I like the new drop rate otherwise some players will rush out and play 24/7 when the update hits live get every weapon possible in a week and then complain about having nothing to do! LOL

[The Skirata Clan]

Some players will rush regardless of the drop rate.

[CarribeanThunder]

Here's a little thing I found out - when using the Staff, there's no Charging Bar for any skill, so you could use two straight Desolations if you had enough Voodoo, or spam Soul Flay. The only problem is that without Charging, you'll run out of Voodoo much quicker.

[Jamesvsthekraken]

That just could be a new feature i really think this is ready for open. It has been two weeks, so it just has to come. It has to. :'( :/

[Sven Osymthe]

The update will be here when it gets here. Two weeks for something "major" added to the game isn't enough time, especially considering that the entire first week, test was down, more than it was open.

Not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but earlier when I logged on - no weapons, no gold. It was fixed after I logged, but it shows that something is still wrong. On top of that, all my weapons showed level 0, and my notoriety meter was empty (didn't even say "notoriety" or a level). I sent a report in, but there's still a few things that need to be dealt with before release.

It's better for them to take their time with something like this.. rather than rush to bring it to open. Last time a small bug happened, it resulted in a bigger one, which led to them resetting the game prior to the updates. Imagine if that happened to Live, not only would a lot of people complain, but new players that just came would also be lost - and possibly lose interest if they don't know what happened.