The New Padres del Fuego is now on Test

here are a few pics, they even did the back beach and added a gypsy so you can get tonics there now

Thanks you Crazypirate ! That's awesome !

Im not digging it... its almost TOO big, and too inconvenient and confusing to navigate around... hmm...

Please, can't we just get more clothes spots, and maybe a notor cap raise??????
It would have been BETTER had they just added these as NEW islands, and not re-made ones. Then, we could have all been happy about the new locales, yet had the old ones still as we liked them. Oh well.

Some more screenies
 

View from the end of one of the docks.


A closer shipwright to the dock, weapon/ammo shops.


The Ratskellar closer to the dock now.


Other shipwright over yonder down the narrow path past the Ratskellar.


Whole lotta nothing across from that shipwright.


View of the volcano from a slightly submerged dock across from shipwright.


Pretty lava from a bridge on one of the ways to town.


Other side of the bridge.


Entrance to the Lava Gorge/Catacombs.


Poor Valentina. They put her out in the middle of nowhere... and her flowers won't grow in this heat. lol


Entrance to Beckett's Quarry.


Another entrance to town. Shops are all squished together.


Fort Dundee. Some textures missing still but it's a bit more impressive. There's a narrow path that leads to it with a guard. At least they put the jail outside of the fort.



More of the Fort


Exit from El Sud to the back beach. Lots of baddies here.






The "beach" has a bunch of crabs...


Some skellies guarding a couple of shops.

It's huge, I'll give it that. No sign of Darkhart or ol Timmy (yet). Haven't found a way to swim to the beach yet (if we can).

Big thanks to Pirate Bood for letting me TP to her past El Sud for pics.

edit: Back Beach pics

Thanks for all the fantastic pics gang! Looks really cool!


:buds:

I have an idea for the back beach. They should put a boat somewhere in the main island, and pay 10 or more coins to get to the back beach quicker, also if you want it to be free, you have to do a hard quest to make the boat ride free. That's my idea. I will send it to them ( Pirates Online By E-mail )

*sigh*

Yay, more pointless updates. It seems like they are doing a "change for the sake of change" type thing. I'm annoyed, I like PDF the way it was. Substance, Disney, SUBSTANCE.

There's some substance in this update. Notice the lines of division in the notoriety and skill reputation bars (see Travis' 1st screenie)? They're divided up at the bottom, skill screen, etc.

That's something, right?

Overall, the new Padres del Fuego has a certain ambience that's different from the current one. The lava can be seen almost everywhere. The trees by the lava flows are burnt, broken, and brittle with little plant growth near them. There's a broken pier and a small shipwreck in the bay in front of the ship wright. The town is tucked tightly together away at the base of the volcano with other houses on the outskirts but they're half burnt and dilapidated. Fort Dundee on a corner of the island standing more grand than it was before, overlooking the town to keep the folk in line. The back beach area on the other side of the volcano is distant from the regular town and teeming with the undead. I actually do see substance, just not the kind everyone else is looking for.

I agree wit ya Jas. I like padres. It's small, they're only stretching stuff out, making it harder. Then, back beach.

Aye, that's SOMETHING I suppose. But... ehh...

Anyway, your above post says no Tim or Darkhart - and if they are gone... I'll be furious.

This is the site map for PDF back beach. You can reach it by exiting El Suderon like before or you can swim to it but the swim requires a wall glitch, they put up an invisible wall out to sea so if you attempt to swim around the island you can't. All you do is hit the invisible wall. But if you can find a wall glitch, and there are so many its sad(some require nothing more then walking into the rocks) you can swim through the island...
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...ckbeachmap.jpg

This is the actual location of the Padres back beach on the larger PDF map. If you continue your swim towards the red dots you end up in the lava pond seen in the above pic. The entrance to El Suderon can be seen as the white rectangle.
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...obackbeach.jpg
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...um/pdfjail.jpg
Two notable changes are the addition of an NPC on the Padres Back Beach to purchase tonics and the move of the PDF jail to a more scenic sea side location.
Notably absent are the 2 Bosses that used to populate the back beach area. I searched the entire area and they are absent. If anyone has the lvl 20 Doll quest open please tell us all where they went to or if its just a pop up now only when the quest is open?
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...ium/newnpc.jpg

Just a a funny aside, if you logged out from PDF last night when you log in today you will start on Tormenta beach. It only happens the first time but its odd when you finally figure out where you are.

Can't wait til me test pirate gets tp to PDF! Finally got used to the new Tortuga...lol But I will miss the island swim if that no longer exists....And General Darkhart is AWOL? We were becoming such great friends! Guess I can sail there, but without a warship...idk

The texture issues are rampant, but sure made for some pretty cacti

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h...27_8-22-24.jpg

I found one Boss on the back beach

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h...27_8-37-20.jpg

From what I saw when I sailed there this morning with my regular Sloop, the huge EITC armada was not there. It was the regular navy and ghost ships that hung out there before the ETIC moved in.

Regarding Darkhart and Timothy, D may not have found their places yet or are keeping them offline until the new PDF is tested out in regards to the layout... Hey, stop laughing.

Maybe Darkhart took a vacation. After all the thousands of times he has been stabbed, shot, & naded...can't say I would blame him...lol

Try this
 

On the path up from the beach where the PDF jail is there is a sign where you can go through the wall. Try to swim to the back beach from there... hehe
Note that I am standing in the entrance to PDF jail. Does that help?
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...e_edited-1.jpg

Fixed 03/28/09

Interesting msising textures, LOTS of wall glitches. The wooden bridge to Fort Dundee entrance is very steep and you take odd little hops on it as you run. No more cliff diving. :(

I ran into the invisible wall in the water also trying to swim to the back beach. I'll have to figure out the glitch.

Found another interesting sign
 

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...h_edited-1.jpg

And yet another new NPC this time on Padres front beach.

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...Cpadresnew.jpg

ANd yet another new NPC this time a ShipWright on Padres front beach.

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...shipwright.jpg

The sign certainly does help...lol :laughks2:

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...etonowhere.jpg

Fixed 03/28/09

My favorite part of this update - the compass rotates with the camera again! Yay!! Of course, they did break the arrow/map direction in the process...

Compass rotation for what? Sailing?

Everywhere, like it did originally. After one of the updates, it only rotated when you moved your pirate/ship. Now it rotates again when you move the camera, so that up on the compass is whatever direction you can see on screen. More intuitive, IMO.

The problem now is that, while it does rotate, down is up (I think just on land, though...have to check that again). LoL

the caves don't line up correctly anymore the catacombs are backwards! Becket Quarry comes out at the top instead of lower lvl of catacombs.

Huh... It seemed to work, at least to me, the way it was before. Disney needs to make up their mind.

I had sort of gotten used to it, but not really. I much prefer the "radar" aspect if it rotates where I'm looking (they just need to get the arrow direction figured out).

Oh, and it does work at sea. Now you can (like before) actually aim the cannon at stuff and have it line up on the compass' radar deal. :)


ETA: Actually, now that I've island-hopped some, it looks like the compass issue is island-specific. It worked properly (arrow up for forward) on PR and Tuga, but not (down for forward) on PDF and Cuba (and the SvS islands...).

Can anyone else confirm this?

Thank goodness - I was tired of all the guess work and surprise attacks from not seeing things right :)

Confirmed - it TOTALLY confused me the first 10 minutes.... I thought I was walking backwards on PDF... and it being a new island the compass mis-direction only made me get lost quicker :)

I also think they improved the cannon graphics and or animation

its perty cool

@_@
 

I cant get the game up for long,
My whole computer crashes after about 10 minutes,
Anyway, when I died, half of padres dissapeared.

Well me little pirate made PDF in her sloop...YaY! Kinna spooky at nite. Couldn't enter the jail though...level 17 Vet would have made me dead quick. Got lost many times. The good thing is that the skellar, ammo & weapons shops are rite there when ya dock. So ya can stock up on ammo and have a quick rum b4 you set out again. Maybe even a quick game of Hold'em.

New launch site faces Outcast. The island of PDF is smaller and easier to sail around. Many of the same ships that used to be around PDF are back and the large number of EITC ships are gone. As stated, the compass seems to be fixed and you indeed do see ships as soon as they spawn so no more surprises for the moment. The rendering of the lava and smoke from the volcano are not there yet. Outcast seems to be farther from PDF and closer to Tormenta.(didn't measure but it seems that way to me)

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...launchsite.jpg

Update: Some of the holes in wall have been fixed and the cactus are green again. The bridge is rendering and colored properly. Unfortunately there are several new walls that are now walk through and the many of the wall glitches that I reported are still there. Still no bosses on PDF back beach.

The "Bosses" are still there, you just need to kill a few of the regular undead guys for them to generate.

Skip ;)

You have seen General Darkhart and/or Timothy Darden "generate" on the back beach of PDF on test server? The bosses that you are referring to are not the same bosses I think :) . If you or anyone else does manage to find either of the missing bosses listed above please post where and the circumstances so we can all get some useful information. Thank you.

I've spent lots of time on the beach, been around every corner at least a few times. No, the General or Timothy have not been seen.

I do know that other Bosses do generate after killing a few Gypsies or Raiders. I had told Skip that I saw a couple of the Bosses, since working weapons isn't his favorite thing to do......... knowing the Bosses by name would be um a surprise to me ;)

We mostly like to sail, test out new features, if anyone is working weapons, it would be me in my spare time.

Yay!! (Sarcasm)

A redo of something that didn't need redone!
No new content, no new quests or story lines!

As far as I'm concerned the "new" PDF is a total waste of development time that could have been spent developing the next story chapter.

It's nice to see that Disney hasn't stopped all development.
It's disappointing that they don't seem to care a bit about the people who have been paying them for over a year and have nothing to look forward to. They could simply give them (us) something of interest and a reason to keep playing the game. A redecorating of PDF isn't it!

I would have preferred it if they left the layout of the islands alone, for the most part, making changes only as needed, and spent the rest of the time on new stuff.

I'd much rather see a new high level island than changes to existing ones, for example...

I just wish they would have left it as is and then make this a second part so we could get more area.
Look, you can see how the maps are patterns over all the rocks. It's horrible. It was way better before. Why do they keep messing up the game? Port Royal and Tortuga were good but this new PDF looks like something my cat would cough up...

We have an accord!

:laughks2:

I truly dislike the new PDF. Incredibly spread out, much more difficult to find your way around and just, well, ugly.

I actually like the new PDF............ Its big tho, and for some reason I crash alot, think thats test servers fault tho.
But the lava just makes up for it tho,