Dare to be a True Scoundrel of the Seas!

[Panos]

Despite all odds recently, Pirates are enjoying many victories – discovering Blackbeard’s Sword of Triton, rescuing the Marceline GMs out from under the Navy’s nose, even successfully challenging the deadly Queen Anne’s Revenge herself.

A golden time for Pirates indeed… but alas, our enemies have had enough and they mean to make a Pirate’s life on the high seas a most risky business.
Up for the challenge?

Set sail and your seafaring Pirate activities will now get you noticed by enemy ships. Aggravate the Navy, EITC or Ghost ships and find yourself surrounded by swift enemy reinforcements.

Prove yourself a real threat at sea and fearsome Pirate Bounty Hunters will next be dispatched to hunt you down!

For the most daring Pirates, keep your cannons firing and soon islands fearful of your reputation will even close their ports to your anchor.

The risk is great and the challenge steep, but a Pirate’s bounty at sea beckons as you battle and evade your way to legendary “Scoundrel of Seas” status!

Scoundrel Levels

Level 1 - Nautical Bane
Enemy ships take note of your seafaring activities.

Level 2 - Maritime Menace
Prove yourself a threat at sea and expect backup muscle from the enemy.

Level 3 – Pirate at Large
Bounty Hunter ships actively hunt and hound your notorious ship.

Level 4 – Rogue on the Run
Fearful islands close their ports to you and the chase is on!

[FightingExecutioner]

Experienced it partially, but in the process, a bug caused me to log and to find my War Frigate completely gone! I got it and at sea, nothing moved except my pirate. Had to exit the game and back only to find the Executioner still at sea, and in a moment, disappear from my inventory entirely. Happened again to my friend's Frigate.

[Captain Seaford]

There is more downtime, that's probably why. I'm sick of it.

[Mr. Awesome]

I don't care how long the maintenance takes, as long as this update FINALLY arrives on live today!

Time to finally become a true Scoundrel of the Seas!

[ruisen2000]

Originally Posted by Panos

Anyone notice the War Galleon Bountyhunter ship says War Frigate?

[Panos]

Originally Posted by ruisen2000

Anyone notice the War Galleon Bountyhunter ship says War Frigate?

Lots of Disney fails lately.

[Tiberius Fireskull]

I was on today doing this, and I must say that I am really impressed. Before, sailing was pretty easy. I didn't have to worry much about sinking unless I took a broadside of explosives (I'm still terrified of Corsairs. ). Now, sailing is intense. It takes some real sailing skill to get a full cargo of royals, and an even better crew (if you're going for full royals, you NEED fury gunners). I wasn't able to stay for long, so I didn't see any of the SOTL Hunters, but I can only imagine how tough they are based on the others. From my hour or so of sailing, here's what I was able to find:

1) First Scoundrel level appears as soon as you attack an enemy ship. Nothing really happens when you reach this rank. It just lets everyone know that you're a pirate.

2) Second Scoundrel level comes about when you fill up your cargo (if you've got a War Frigate or War Galleon.). Its probably after you kill a set amount of ships. At this rank, not much will happen, but the enemies you're attacking will supposedly call for reinforcements (haven't really seen anything special though).

3) Third Scoundrel level comes after killing, maybe about 5 more ships. At this point, Bounty Hunters will come after you. The bounty hunters I saw were the Cutter Shark (WS), the something Storm (WS), Killyaded (WG), Scorned Siren (WF), and Red Dirvish (WF). I didn't get the chance to see any SOTL's, but those guys were tough. Out of all of them, I'd say the Cutter Shark and Killyaded were the easiest. All of them use different ammos and look different. This really looks like Ship Customization is coming, as they have different hull colors, different sails and sail designs, and different cannon ammo. Very nicely made, I'll say. Also, after you sink one, another appears one or two minutes later, giving you VERY little time to repair. If your hull is weak, you need to make sure that you have a good sailor and a lot of crew to repair, because these guys keep comin' at ya. Not to mention that these guys are as fast as player ships. For those of you that SVS a lot, the chase is quite similar to when you've got a runner.

4) Not sure when the fourth scoundrel level comes, but I'd imagine after you've sunken several Hunters and other ships. This is supposedly when Ports Close to you.

5) If you're going for a full plunder trip, BRING A GOOD CREW! With this new update, its gonna be crazy hard to get a full cargo of royals solo or with just one person. Their power is not incredibly stronger than that of a normal ship, but they are a lot faster, don't give up chase, and their hull is stronger.

6) I like making fun of the pirate man that talks to you. "Captain, we've sunk her!" Really?! You mean the ship's hull isn't supposed to fill with water and sink below the surface of the sea?!

[FightingExecutioner]

The something Storm you say is the Flying Storm. And the Ship of the Lines (Classified as Warship), Tally-Ho and Battle-Royale will attack you if you are a serious treat. There is a Heavy War Frigate and it is the En-Garde, it gives chase on you at the last level and it looks to be as strong as its early counterparts the Navy Elite and Navy Bastion. the Killyaded and Century Hawk are technically the same as a mix of a Navy Colossus and Navy Dreadnought's power, and the Red Dervish is like a modified version of the first Navy Goliath (BPBB Originally a Lethargic Heavy war Frigate). No matter what type your ship is, including Sloop class, they can catch up to you, even the Ship of the Lines being 8 knots fast for pirates on test, it looks to go twice your speed. And the final level of Scoundrel of the Seas, the Navy would close down all ports nearest to you and some others but leaving only one port open that is farthest from you (i.e. for me near PDF, they leave Cuba open)

[MacIronhawk]

We're going to need some better ships if we want to survive the forth scoundrel level, anyone else agree?

[FightingExecutioner]

Yeah. Once Disney can add the Repair spots to Ship of the Line, we should see it coming back to Test Server, hopefully with other new ships.

[Captain Jorden]

Thank you disney. This should be another update we wont forget!!!

[2Cool]

Anybody else "encountering an error" when starting the desktop launcher? I haven't been able to log in all day!

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by 2Cool

Anybody else "encountering an error" when starting the desktop launcher? I haven't been able to log in all day!

Really? I know there was maintenance yesterday for sometime but when the game was back up I could get on just fine.

I don't know if it'll help but if it's a launcher problem, your problem may be fixed by reinstalling the launcher. To be honest, I have NO idea if that'll help.

[combatlizzy]

From what I have seen, Davy-the fourth rank is when your flag obtains the eyepatch & hat. That is when the ports close to your ship. And you do need a mighty crew-gunners & ship repair pirates & a great Captain certainly is a bonus. The ranking also comes into play with the KIND of cargo that a ship is carrying. Dropping all of your looted crates for treasure chests & then Royals increases your rank & puts you on the Navy's Most Wanted list.

[swashbuckler1]

WHOA THIS IS FUN! oh.. did i forget..? ITS RLY FUN.. I AM A PRIVATEER..

in my ranks.. i got on my own 2 second rank.. them had to go offline had like 1 more ship till the 3rd rank