Test Release Notes - March 25th 2010
 

Release Notes - March 25, 2010

• El Patron's Lost Weapons have been found!
• Hundreds of new weapon items can now be discovered in-game.
• Enemies and ships now drop loot containers, which contain a variety of treasure.
• Sailing Items can be found in loot containers, which can help improve your sailing skills.
• New skills can be found on some of these new weapons. These skills can only be used when the weapons are being used. There are also two new types of skills:
• Break Attacks - Powerful special attacks that can be used when you are in a tough battle. These skills only recharge when you take damage. Completing a Combo Attack also helps recharge a Break Attack.
• Defense Skills - These skills protect the player by automatically blocking incoming attacks. Defense skills recharge normally and cannot be triggered manually by the player.
• Pirates now have 4 Weapon Slots, so you can choose what weapons you have equipped.
• Pirates now have 1 Sailing Item Slot, which gives the pirate bonuses while sailing or using cannons.
• Some new items are also available in stores for purchase.
• Pirates can now change their clothes, tattoos and jewelry without having to visit stores.

Known Issues - March 25, 2010

• Mac users are unable to log into the Test Servers. We're working to resolve this soon.
• Crash may occur when collecting an item and placing it in a slot that already has an item. Work Around: Use the right-mouse button to collect items or make sure a slot is empty when plundering items.
• During the Barbossa pistol tutorial, you may not be able to shoot the monkey. You may press 'Esc' to continue with the tutorial.
• Some Spanish and French Undead may have weird motion trails on their weapons.

Nice i cant wait to see this. :)

Haha of course I get test server access today and right when they update Mac users are unable to login. Can't wait to see it though.

-Finch

I will go now on Test and make some videos and Screenshots and will post it later here. Stay tuned ;).

When you see the video pls pm me

I have a question for the Testers.

How does the new weapon system really work? Is the old F1-F6 system gone?

Now the whole weapon drop.

Do we get to keep all of our weapons but we can add some more? Are we going to get repeated weapons? Do levels restrict some weapons?

Now yet another question.

How is this new set of skills going to affect the current skills a pirate might have? How about the skill points, are going to have relocate points?

Thanks!

The F1-F6 system is gone. It's now just F1-F4, with the weapons you want to have there. There is an inventory slot that you go to in the sea chest and you place what you want in the spaces from the choices you have from weapons drops.

You can keep the weapons you currently have, and can add more. There are repeated weapons because I currently have two flintlock pistols. There are level restrictions on some weapons. For instance, I have a bayonet I think it is that requires level 7 pistol.

I'm not sure about the skills, you would have to ask someone else. Hope this helped!

*(X)= number of skill points

For eg, in my skill points allocated before the update for cutlass was

Old Combo:
(1) Hack, (1)Slash, (2)Cleave, (3)Flourish, (3)Thrust.

The combo for a new sword that you might have picked up will stil have the same number of moves in a combo, so therefore the skill points stay.

(1) Chop, (1) Roundhouse, (2)Spin Cut, (3) Reverse Spin Cut, (3) Jumping Slash


And you get to keep all the weapons you ever had: i had my rusty cutlass, my first dolly, my single shot pistol and also al the upgraded weapons from weapon quest.

Any repeated or unwanted weapons can be sold for gold. Gold seems to add up fast this way as some of the clothing and weps go for a good amount. Yes your points seem to stay in the same spot and fit into any new weps attack bar. The broad sword that he has shown the skill list for above attacks anybody near you its pretty cool and has it own unique animation. Also some weps have a added attack point like +1 on thrust that comes with them but may have a lvl req to use. For people like me who play with the arrow keys and the mouse mostly ( A habbit from another game ) the weps are actually easier to access as you just click on the icon in the lower right corner instead of using the # keys

So Far I have only picked up Cutlasses, and one broad sword. I did not however get to use them all, and the broadsword was the main one I couldn't use. It does however explain that broadswords can attack enemies in a wider range, so multiple enemy attacking is its main benefit. I will continue to try and find more weapons and post more names.

The system is rather advanced, there are both loot back, chests, and probably even more objest to get items out of. It looks very detailed, but sadly nobody cannot hold any items at the moment, so looks can be deceiving.

But, So Far I have Found these Weapons:

Sword;

Worn Cutlass-One bit stronger than the Rusty Cutlass, but nothing special. found on an Undead Bandit.

Voodoo Cutlass-Rather strange new cutlass, it can be bought at any Gypsy, but heals you while you use it. At a nice price of 480.

Heavy Broadsword-Broadsword that has a good +1 sweep skill and 34 power bonus. Can be obtained from a Swamp Alligator.

Silver Sabre-Contains an ability called cleanse that removes all harmful status effects after a short period of time. This can be obtained from a Swamp Alligator.

Steel Cutlass-One of the original cutlasses, but now has the ability to increase damage a bit more. Picked off of a Cadet.

Sharp Cutlass-This is a cutlass that give a level 1 critical strike bonus. It can be fonud off of an Undead Pirate.

Heavy Cutlass-Can be used at level four, but has no special effects rather than a +1 hack bonus. Found off of a Grave Digger.

Tempered Cutlass-A powerful level 7 cutlass with +25 Power, it has a lvl. 2 increased chance to hit a critical strike, and a +1 sweep boost. Picked off of a Cadet.

Swabbies Cutlass-Can be used at level two, has a +1 Sweep Bonus. Found off of a Grave Digger.

Light Broadsword-Only Explains attacks can attack multiple enemies. Found off of a Grave Digger.

Range;

Flintlock Musket-Musket with 1 Barrel, but can shoot from farther distances than any regular pistol. Can be found on an Undead Bandit.

Rattler Pistol-Definite match for the name Rattler, this wicked gun packs in 13 attack, along with unlimited venom shot. It also has a venom shot boost. Sadly however, it only has a single shot frame. This weapon can be found off of an Undead Bandit.

Flintlock Pistol-Normal old weak pistol, nothing special.

Cruder Blunderbuss-A powerful gun that is only available at gun level 6. This gun can be picked off of a Cadet.

Voodoo;

Voodoo Doll-Just the Voodoo Doll, found on an Undead Bandit.

Cursed Staff-Oldest staff model, can be found on a Grave Digger.

Also, there are apparently onus Items such as sea charts to make you charge certain sea skills faster. You can loot this from any old enemy such as a cadet or grave digger.
Here is a list of found Sea Charts:

Navigation: Loads navigation types of movements faster, things such as Come About, Ramming Speed, and Full Sail.

Bad news, looks like the minor update just pushed to test reset the inventory system, and all testers are losing weapons, clothes and gold...

The test server website says the game is currently unavailable or something like that. I hope that means they are fixing the bugs, and putting the weapons we had before back in our inventory!

I think they are. :)

I hope so. You guys are almost making me feel sorry for you with all the sad stories XD

It actually got pretty comical. my pirate was standing there in white boxers, boots and a hat. Then the boots and hat disappeared. No weapons, no pants, no gold. So what happens next?

Invasion Time!! Free Rusty Cutlasses all around. The plight of a tester I guess. :piratetongueor4: But I think I'll name my next pirate Rusty Cutlass.

I will continue to post more weapons tomorrow. Sadly I could not really test any out today due to the sad programming error. Where we get the words Minor Bug is beyond me though. It may be a small thing they messed with, but it took away almost everything. I do enjoy being a tester however, and try to help out POTCO with feedback. There were points where I couldn't use my cutlass even when I had it after the Barbossa tutorial. So if you skip the tutorial, you will both lose that pistol, and your cutlass will do no damage.

I am rather concerned of how they will fix this. I hope if they can't fix what they messed up, the can at least give us all 50000 Gold to buy new weapons. But I would still prefer to get all of the items back that I plundered off of my enemies.

*It actually got pretty comical. my pirate was standing there in white boxers, boots and a hat. Then the boots and hat disappeared. No weapons, no pants, no gold. *

Sorry to hear that! :laughks2: I can't wait for this to come out for all to see! What's more, basic members can get in on it too! Nothing's in the game's made me this happy since the first Muertos Moon way back when... I'm such an old pirate. We didn't even have good weapons when I was young... (Wheezes)...You had to kill alligators with a rusty cutlass and you were proud of it! (Sighs) Now give me a moment to record this in "The Biggest Happenings in Pirates Online History"... :bookishfj7: I can't believe that for once, basic members actually get in on new features! This is unprecedented! (Looks again):bookishfj7: Back in the day, we basic members got a steel cutlass, (This later was taken away) an old flintlock, and a light sloop. After a couple of years, we got light galleons and cloth dolls. (Cloth dolls were taken later as well.) Perhaps I'm being too
long-winded, but I'm an old pirate, with old ideals. (Sighs) Maybe this will make young pirates friendlier again... Oh well. We'll see.

It was pretty sad though. Defending Tortuga from Jolly's army during the invasion with nothing but a rusty sword. Needless to say we lost big time. I guess the best that we could have hoped for was that the skels contracted tetnus. Nothing sadder than a skeleton with a bad case of lock jaw.

I just came on at the start of an invasion. Pretty bad when a level 14 that has a flintlock pistol is murdering a load more skeletons than anybody else. I died and lost my weapons soon after, and decided to make a new character.

Update: Seems as if we still have issues on the test server. Looks like Big D may have dug a bigger hole than they could fill.

Well, it looks as if we're not going to be playing today. Maybe they aren't fixing it, but it doesn't look good.

When are they gonna reopen test? :(

Very good question, probably when they fix it tomorrow, seeing as they don't do anything on their weekends.

The guy who i talked to on live chat said they've been working on it. :(

Well, that means they are having a very big issue. It is test, thank goodness. But I wish they could at least give those who beat the weapons quests those weapons back. Sure, we obtained good weapons, but it is test, so they shouldn't sweat their mistake. I just hope they can get it back to working soon.

Man, from what I've heard, it's a mess. It will take some time.

Time to open up test server #2, we know you're hiding something Disney. Nah, but you would think they tried this out on the admin server before they went to test. At least there, they only have to fix their pirates. Doing it there and messing up would take about 10 minutes to fix, but with all the pirates on test, about 20000 minutes.

Hope they do fix everything this time around and listen to the tester. Please Disney take all your time with these updates. I think we can wait a little more.