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I sail SvS everytime I play. I don't know how, don't care to know how and have never used a glitch. My computer sucks. I've played with lag from day one (anyone got some extra laptop RAM or vid card they don't want?). Here's my quick take on a couple of things I've seen skimming this thread:
1) A lot of the "freeze" that people are experiencing is NOT due to 'lag' and bad computers. It is not directly reflected on the use of thunder or fury. I've had this happen to me a good number of times and it's always from certain ships out on the sea. If it were the fury, then any ship launching fury at me would freeze/lock-up my computer. That's not the case. I've been at sea, fighting multiple ships using lighting and fury and my computer lags as normal. Then another ship will come in, shoot it's fury and I'll freeze up and sink. I'll go back out, fight the first ships again (them using fury/lightning) with no problem, same ship comes by as before and shoots fury and I freeze and sink. I believe this is a glitch that may be set in place by using other glitches (auto-repair/invicible?).
2) Auto-repair. Simply put...fix it or don't allow ship repairs. This is absolutely inexcusable. Auto-repairing light sloops are the worst as they like to brag in game and on these boards how good they are in their light sloop.
3) Lag caused by firebrand. This is horrible. My computer will be running reletivaly lag free until someone uses firebrand, be it my crew or an enemy ship. This will set my computer into a state of I-don't-know-how-to-work everytime. It's the most annoying thing about pirates. I don't know why Disney can't animate fire without causing horrible lag. It even happens with torches and voodoo fire animations. Pathetic coding (or whatever). Let me turn off your lame fire animation. Just show the cannonballs as red....I don't care. This lag from firebrand will cause a freeze-up on my computer, I'll disconnect from Pirates and I'll even have to completely restart my computer sometimes (you know when you close out pirates, it goes back to the screen to enter your password....I've waited over 15 minutes for that to appear while my computer is grinding away, killing itself. I can't 'end task' on it or anything....my start menu lags for minutes sometimes because 99.9% of my computer processing power is going towards Pirates. And seriously, my computer isn't THAT bad).
4) Ship being hit when cannons are nowhere close to you. This is the worst!!!! This is not caused by typical lag. Not even close. I'll be sailing one on one with another ship...no lag what-so-ever. I will circle around perpendicularly BEHIND enemy ship. I can see my rounds hit enemy as soon as I shoot them and they hit where they're supposed to hit depending on the timing of my shot. I can see the enemy broadsides shoot out nowhere close to me (keep in mind, I've been behind this ship for a good long while, completely out of broadside range) and yet his rounds hit me. Not only that, by they'll hit my War Sloop for extra damage because it registers it as a hit in the rear of the ship. This is unacceptable. This happens ALL THE TIME, EVERYTIME, ALWAYS...not lag related. I've even parked behind a parked ship and said ship has been able to hit me with broadsides without moving. This needs to be fixed.
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER
The developers working at Disney aren't experienced enough to handle a game like this. They try, but are dumbfounded when it comes to things that didn't work properly. They seem like a bunch of high school interns and it reflects very poorly on the quality of this and any future game Disney releases. I'd quit paying them for the game to see if they'll care why....but they won't and I do enjoy playing the bugged out game. Disney needs to hire some developers that know how to program/code a game and fire the ones who just know how to add clothes or make your reputation double. This game should be good....work on it Disney.
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