constant open fire!
 

Hey all, a guildy mentioned to me she was in svs lastnight and someone aboard knew how to keep the ships Open Fire from ending. THIS NEEDS TO BE FOUND OUT AND FIXED. It explains an awful lot why sometimes we just get close to a ship with the same amount of crew mates (sometimes LESS) and don't stand a chance. I'm apalled that this would happen and if anybody know's it then let big D know, the girl left before she told anyone (which i doubt she would anyway). Just a heads up... But this is by far worse than the repair and cannon glitch by miles!

EDIT: possibly one for broadsides firing without recharging too, not sure.

o great another SVS glitch to worry about.......and I agree THIS NEEDS TO BE FOUND OUT AND FIXED.

Its sorta sad how many people need to resort to these glitchs, I mean really its just a game.

i had that glitch once but by mistake when i got my war frig. i sailed with it around padres. it was just like those times that you get stuck with "slow" or one of those. never happened again.

Well how did he do it? lol

I have not seen this glitch yet, but if found I will reported here on this thread. I have gotten the infinite full sail one, but it just the wind part that keeps running. The Open Fire sounds more challenging and problematic...should be reported ASAP.

Hard to say if I've come across someone using this glitch i do SvS fairly frequently and here's the thing use "come about" to maneuver behind their ships and if you do that this glitch becomes much harder to use (because they're sinking hehehe)

I have had this used against me, and yes there is a glitch for constant firing as well. I was getting blasted by a small crew and they were repeating 3 lightenings one after another, with no recharge interval.

Open fire doesn't make the recharge any faster. Leadership make recharge faster. Open fire causes more damage. Maybe this glitch is bigger than we thought and theres a way to make everything constant.

So after skill reallocation came out I reset my cannon skills to have all the skill points possible in lightning and fury and in SvS the damage was a little stronger but not extremely stronger, even when the captain of the ship used open fire the damage was strong but not extremely so. Well it seems they've found a way to make lightning extremely powerful, I had barely moved away from the island when I was halfway down on health on my ship and was sunk within a few minutes. Idk if its another glitch but if its another that needs to be fixed right away. I agree with Sven.. its so frustrating when people have to stoop that low to use glitches to win. It is a game, make it fair and fun for everyone.

Okay first of all what kind of ship and second of all if you shoot the burning spots on a ship it does about 1000-1200 in SVS ( with lightening maxed ) out of svs it does about 2500-3000 maxed ( the 3000 maxed is with barrage )

5 points in Barrage is sort of like having 2 extra skill points in a skill if that skill is maxed out, not, as erroneously claimed, like one. It's 25 percent more damage on whatever item of mention, and calculates full value.

As it relates to constant open fire, well, they're are ways to do that without a glitch as well, though I'm not saying I don't believe you (as I do). Still, I know plenty of tricks to keep Open Fire rolling, like the many-man sailing option where a line of consecutive people take the wheel.

It was a war sloop Vs war sloop and i can understand if they had maxed open fire and maxed fury at the same time. But someone in the crew actually said they know how to have constant open fire, but wouldn't tell us and then vanished. It could be a false claim, but i think it's worth knowing it may exist, but just like the cannon glitch and triple explosives and lightning it was a pretty secret glitch until recently.

I haven't heard anything on this one. I do know you can quite easily shoot three -1 -1 under one open fire solo, or two volleys of fury. What you can do with a few players could make this definetly last long enough to take out any opponant with much a crew.

With several of these glitches like setting something up with one thing and switching to another, may be a similar deal.

Triple Threat cannons - Report it!
 

After days and days of frustration ... being sunk by smaller vessels while aboard War Sloops crewed at 50% with level 40's.

I was finally shown the glitch, because sending the complaint and screen wasn't enough, D requested details. It is scarily simple to do. I confirmed it with each of the single fire ammos and it worked. Bang! Bang! Bang! As fast as your round shot. Exactly how it had been used against us for days. It is the Triple Explosives, Grape, and Lightening glitch.

If you believe you've been attacked this way - chances are you have. You're not imagining it. We kept trying to justify how it could happen without cheating. Others tried to justify it for us. You play the game, if you know its impossible, it is. D isn't going to lift a finger until the community majority is in an uproar over it.

This proves devastating to anyone not firing back with the same cheating glitch.

IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DO IT, REPORT IT! It needs to be corrected.

If you've fallen victim to it, take your screenshot and report it.

I know how, and i have reported this bug many times and like always Disney does absolutely nothing...

P.S i will not post this glitch on here the thing has already spread fast enough, and people will spread it even more like crazy

And people wonder why I refuse to SvS or PvP...........

But on the other hand I feel NOT posting the glitch is shooting yourself in the foot. If you don't use it great. However, I feel EVERYONE should know how to do it who does SvS and PVP. Just for the fact it can be used aginst those uho use it to cheat.

PS I don't know it nor do I give a rat's but to learn it. Like I said I REFUSE to SvS......

there is a worse glitch becasue i have fought a war sloop and it had 4 cannons firing continues fury and it did not stop even when people on my side ran out it just kept coming and coming i mean we sunk very quickly even tho the fury aims were bad... and their life never seems to go down...:piratewheelgo2:

POTCO Fan, That particular glitch is the "skeleton" glitch. Before when you were in it you appeared as undead. You also have unlimited ammo while in it. Now you appear normal with the unlimited ammo.

It is common for the little creatons to combine the unlimited ammo glitch with the others in SvS.

Just one more thing where disney screwed the pooch when they tried to fix something.

Sorry to hear about your expierence wiyh it. PLEASE report the glitches with screencaps when you can. Hopefully if enough people gripe about it they will actually do something worth a **** in the game.

Yeap it's gotten around pretty quickly about the triple explosive/lightning cannon glitch and hopefully with the reports it should be fixed. I haven't heard anything more about the constant open fire thing though, and haven't seen the girl who claimed she could do it since either :(

This seems to be about a month old but I know for certain disney fixed the triple lightning explosive and grape glitch and as a result they made reloading times a little longer for when you initially grab a cannon before you can fire even if max rate and reload is used.

Don't know about the skellie glitch where you got unlimited ammo but have seen ships firing fury non stop in almost continuous lines.

Learned recently how to hide a light sloop or sloop in the rocks between French and Spanish isles and only so that occasionally I can go inside and kill those cowards when bored. The good news is that once inside those ships can only hit targets about 3 feet beyond the rock wall and ships outside the rock can now fire inside.

(kudos Disney for fixing this problem) they did not fix being able to do it only they made it so that only stupid people will do it as it is a death sentence.

There is also supposed to be a glitch where people hide inside kings head or port royal during privateering.
I manged it once in port royal by accident and once inside when I tried to let go of the helm I lost internet connection.

does that also explain the war sloops going on a like 100 ships sunk streak and are only scratched by then???

Sinking 100 in a row is not easy, but we have done it several times. As far as I know, most bugs and glitches are fixed in svs, see an undead glitch (unlimited ammo) every now and then, but that seems to be it. We dont allow it on our ships at all, most accuse us of cheating anyway, sure dont need to give them more to gripe about. There are four or five ships that dominate svs in general, all have good captains, who have figured out what works, and cannoneers that have done the same.

As far as not taking damage, we've seen ships that appear to not take damage several times, but usually the lag appears to be the source of the problem. They go from full health to dead in a split second. Thats the server lag, we just keep shooting, and when it catches up, it usually gives you the damage done. I really dont know how they could ever fix the lag, unless all players were playing on the same ISP speeds. My connection is a little slower than the players blessed with Cable or T1 connections, and there is no way it could be solved unless we were all directed to servers based on our connection speed.

A captain cannot know if there is cheating going on, on his boat. A captain can surmise cheating, when one of his gunners sinks an enemy ship with a one-hit-wonder shot. But rarely, can a captain even see that a crew member just shot one-of-each-type with a single mouse click. But a captain can surmise that when they sink 10 ships in a row and all of those ships disappear, that someone on board is crashing them out. Are your enemy's ships always stuck a minute or two at their base, before logging out (with the entire crew flying in space?)

Even if it is only close game-friends or guild-friends on board, the captain cannot know what they are up to.

The dramatic increase of "blinking" in December certainly can't all be server lag. But yes, hitting them repeatedly as they are stationary, starting their blink, often is effective (but only if you finish the job before they blink a compass width - or two - away.)

If it really is "server lag" caused by my ship coming in proximity of an enemy ship that has one person on board with a slow connection, (which I doubt) then Disney needs to tweak its thresholds a bit more. A lot more. My cable connection rarely shows noticeable internet traffic, when playing POTCO...max is something like 0.25%, IIRC. Yet I see blinkers on abassa every time I'm in SvS now.

people "resort" to these glitches because they are there. its an opportunity, not something to be ashamed of, its just getting the best of the game...

its not making the best of the game, it is CHEATING, and it takes the fun out of the game for most players.

It has been fixed so noone has to worry bout it

doing this isnt cheating at all. it is used by people who really need it i guess.