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Here is everything that has happened since june
Release Notes - July 23 2008
- Privateering has been added:
- Side with either the French or Spanish pirate "Lords" as a privateer and engage rival Pirates in epic sea battles
- Launch your ship from the islands of Isla De La Avaricia (Spanish) or Ile D'Etable De Porc (French), and you will automatically be put into Privateering mode
- New Privateering loading hint screens have been added
- Added Privateering chat. Now you can communicate with other members of your team without an opposing team knowing about it. (This type of chat will appear in a gold color in your chat window.)
- While in Privateering mode, flagships will sink immediately when you disable them
- Adjusted the armor on NPC ships so it is slightly weaker than player ships
- Cannon balls are no longer be able to be shot through islands
- Added a minimum system requirements check to the game launcher
- Added the Crew Heads Up Display (HUD) so you can see what other crew members are doing
- Updated the Basic Access player popup
- The radar now remembers your zoom level when boarding and leaving a ship
- Added NPCs with glowing question marks above their heads. These "helper NPCs" will give advice in the same manner as Quest dialog. You can find a couple of these NPCs on the Privateering islands
- The ship repair panel will update correctly when repairing your ship
- Undead Grenadiers now animate properly when attacking players
- Avatars that teleport to friends (but whose friends are still in jail) will be able to leave the jail, if the door was already kicked down
- Updated the ship damage interface
- Cannons do more damage the closer you are to your enemy
- Removed the teleport totem icon from the map for Kingshead island
- The Ray-Of-Light will guide you better to your Quest objectives
- Fixed several Quest dialog bugs
- Fixed a bug that caused the cannon reload status bar to occasionally hang at an intermediate point
- Fixed a bug that was preventing clothing/jewelry/tattoo rewards from being dropped by enemies if your inventory was already full of these items
- Fixed a bug that allowed players to appear undead outside of PVP
- Fixed a bug that allowed the French/Spanish NPCs to respawn on their ship if it was taking too long to defeat all NPCs
- Fixed a bug with the voodoo doll that would divide healing power among all attuned targets(including enemy NPCs) instead of only dividing it among attuned targets that are players
- Fixed a bug that would not allow you to run after you died while taking aim with the pistol
Known Issues - July 23 2008
- On rare occasions a player's ship will be stuck at sea
- Workaround: The next time the game servers are restarted, the ship will return to the player
- A recent AVG Internet Security update falsely detects Pirates Online's "Launcher1.exe" as a Trojan Horse.
- Workaround: Download the latest definition file from AVG released Sunday, April 27
- Trend Micro Anti-Virus has falsely detected Pirates Online's Launcher1.exe as a Trojan Horse
- Workaround: Download the latest definition file from Trend Micro
- Occasionally, a Boss Battle crew will not remain intact after teleporting to the Boss Battle
- Members of the crew will sometimes get left behind when boarding a flagship, causing the player to be unable to move.
- Workaround:Hitting F1 will release the player.
- The Whisper chat window closes the second time you click Whisper and try to send a message.
- Workaround: Close and re-open the Pirate's avatar panel each time you want to whisper to a fellow Pirate.
- The Lookout System seems like it is often not able to find matches for higher level Pirates looking to do PVP
- Workaround: Invite other high level Pirates to PVP before initiating the Lookout System.
- The chat panel sometimes switches to Local when you are chatting with your Guild or Crew.
- Workaround: Click either the Guild or Crew chat tab.
- On rare occasions, pressing the Enter button on the keyboard will not bring up the Chat window.
- Workaround: Click on the gold arrow next to the skull icon, which is found in the bottom left hand corner of the game window.
- Game does not minimize when clicking Upgrade button on Mac.
- Workaround: Switch your game settings to Windowed Mode
- Grenades are not hitting the fort floors or ship floors.
- Workaround: You must hit an enemy directly to cause damage.
- Vista and Mac game-related crashes occurring while boarding, sailing, and docking ships
- Workaround: For users with ATI video cards, try updating to the newest driver version which you can download from here
Release Notes - June 16 2008
- Fixed the radar. Townsfolk are green, players are blue, and enemies are red.
- The quest journal should now scroll when using your mouse's wheel