TEST Release notes: July 8, 2008

[Jack I]

Originally Posted by TooHip

Release Notes - July 8 2008

• Removed a handful of French and Spanish Privateering related quests
• Removed the infamy reward temporarily
• 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
• Removed the teleport totem icon from the map for Kingshead island
• The Ray-Of-Light should guide you better to your quest objectives
  
• Added the Crew Heads Up Display (HUD) so you can see what other crew members are doing I plan to look into this, I'll have some pictures up soon of how this works, what it does
• Updated the ship damage GUI
  
• Adjusted the armor on NPC ships so it is slightly weaker than player ships Hopefully this will make up for weakened cannons
• Fixed several quest dialog bugs
  
• Added a new player animation for repairing your ship when in Privateering mode I'll try to get pictures of this tonight
• Added debugging information to help track down issues when ships sink

I'll update this post with some more info about the bolded new features, as they sound like key points of the update.

First off, this is what the meant by updated ship GUI. Noticed it when I set sail for a repair pic, but didn't get it due to a DC.


Next, the Crew HUD. I didn't notice anything fancy about it, doesn't seem to tell you where or what they're doing, but does help out a bit when watching their HP. There is also a crew icon button, which didn't make much sense to me. If some people would like to get on and meet in the top ocean at tortuga, I'd be glad to test this out more.


Here's a picture of the new animation, as long as another pic of the ship GUI. The new animation has your pirate pull out a hammer, then kneel down and start hammering on the deck. As for the ship GUI, it's a very nice upgrade. While we lost the ability to rotate your ship to see damage, you now have a damage meter for the left side, right side, and back of your ships on top of the overall damage meter.