Test Release Notes - January 26, 2009

[Basil Dreadflint]

Got booted from test three times last night.
First time, went to jail on the new Port Royal, and as soon as I kicked the door open, CRASH!
Second time was my own fault!
Third time, was on Tortuga, and noticed something strange in graphics. If I stood near the well by Scarlet, Facing the exit to the beach, the gun shop and the entryway to the beach looked incomplete. The "arch" entry was squared off. As I approached the beach entry, it would morph into the arch, windows would appear in the buildings, a few other things.

I would back up, and things would change again. Trees would appear and disappear, it was pretty strange.

SO, I decided to adjust my graphics in game to see if they had any effect. Changed the grapics to all HIGH, instead of the normal custom that I run, and CRASH!

This one was bad! It affected not only test, but the regular game. For the next 25 minutes, I could not get into either of them, unless I went to windowed version, and kept the window very small. As soon as I tried to resize the window, or go full screen, I would get booted.

I eventually reset my puter graphics to 800X600, opened the game, reset the displays to match the 800X600 setting of the puter, closed the game, rebooted the puter, reset the puter graphics to 1280X764, reopened the game and matched them, and then things seemed to work OK.

Not sure what happened, but I have never had a problem like this before.

[Poison elf]

So many of these small updates, its hard to track what is really happening much of the time.

One Today fixed my items in jewelry and tattoo's.

Breaks:
Water
The f6 crash game now is back. (found that out on a flag ship, oops)
Turning in a circle seems to have graphic skips now.
EDIT: actually looks like staff, doll, and grenades are all auto crashes right now.

New gold plundering technique.

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Now we have a white sea.

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Well anyways, when one thing gets fixed hard to say what that may bring with it.

[Captain Grizzly]

Since the latest update it's pretty much un-testable for me right now, as soon as I get on and start moving the game crashes.

And has anyone noticed the change in the bug report screen you get after a crash now? No longer has an area to enter comments, just has the logs and a submit button.

[Basil Dreadflint]

Originally Posted by Captain Grizzly

Since the latest update it's pretty much un-testable for me right now, as soon as I get on and start moving the game crashes.

And has anyone noticed the change in the bug report screen you get after a crash now? No longer has an area to enter comments, just has the logs and a submit button.

They don't read the comments anyway!