I want to make sure people dont think the above is what I want to see happen.... just my personal prediction of what will.
What I want to see:
I want to see the Kraken be a Boss Battle just like with the Black Pearl in chapter one. Having to excel in quests, to a final point of a crew battle against the Kraken. The battle would be much more crew important this time. You would need people with dolls especially trained to use the chains to hold the Kraken's individual tentacles statoinary while others attack it. Each tentacle would be like an enemy, and they must be defeated one at a time, and have their own health bar...Then coordinate with a health bar for the total life bar of the Kraken. Like each tentacle could be a level 30-40 enemy boss.... But the story quest would include some thing to do with Jack Sparrow again... Like you have set sail with Jack to do some thing on the Pearl, while completing that part of the Boss Battle, the Kraken attacks you and must be defeated...( defeating the Kraken in your journal would also result in a special prize, a leadership skill for some weapon, or a special very unique clothing item). Then that segways some how into a Chapter 3 story quest that relates to repairing the Pearl, giving the developers time to come up with another substantial story quest for Chapter 4, with Davey Jones, and maybe the Locker.
With the coming of this new Chapter 2 story quest I would like to see included a new island, with higher level enemies on it that take a new style of fighting to defeat. Possibly the Orient some how like in the movies. This would result in higher level caps, and the ability to reach higher levels by defeating much harder enemies. The new island could include new side quests for clothing, tats, and jewelry...
As of now, the new updates to me really are not that big of a deal. The new islands are just new eye candy. It is not that big of a deal to create new buildings, and landscapes. They are just dressing up things, then placing the same stuff we had before into the islands, same shops, bars, etc... It is not that hard to do what they are doing. I am a drafter-designer, and have messed with alot of 3-d modeling, all they are doing is making new models... It really isn't much different to things I do. The hard part comes with designing the new thing, PLUS adding the code to make players interact with them (fight, control the ships, splash water etc...). It probably takes them a week or 2 to come up with a new islands layout, then they just copy the old islands door openings (various interactions), and shops from the old one into the new one. You can see on many of the islands jails they forgot to do that this last time by all the "statue like" guards who dont move or breath while sleeping. I will admit though, all is not bad, I like the new set up for crewing, and friends. I like the added map sections in the compass, and the map that you can make appear on your screen.
Larence Tuppington
