TEST Release Notes 9/29/09

[Midhav]

Originally Posted by Jamesvsthekraken

aye i think ye be right hopefully big d keeps to their word and releases it "before" the end of the year. still keeping my hopes up i would like to see a new developers diary though :/

surely they will release a new lore for this, and James i think the invasion begins next week in next month. a new developer's diary will be promising though. i want to see what happened to my dear loot and inventory system, and shi custom and kraken.
but mates, this invasion came with little warning, so i suppose that there are more things they havent promised us that just might be coming. namely, new forests, redesigned wild islands, ?new islands?, possibly more guild features, and more ship features. i have no source, im saying these just might come as one of their surprises. the new cave environments were not highlighted as much of a bug thing in the diary, yet it is a big thing. lvl caps happened to be mentioned in the brackets lol. and its still a big thing.imagine what big things they promised us to come. they will be humongous and rock the caribbe. the Kraken is such, they've been working on this for a year. i wonder what its gonna be anyway. ship custom and new loot and inventory have also been promised to us last year, and thus been worked on for one year
but has anyone had the me to imagine, what they will give us once all their promises ( and more ) are done.
probably for that, tey'll look into that whole list i made for my ideas and suggestion thread lol

[combatlizzy]

Just wanted to add...Roger commented about Stumpies & Dragoons Well there were stumps to fight on PR...

[Eliza Creststeel]

I am in ecstasy!!! DANG IT! I have to wait for this!!

[Midhav]

thank you Combat Lizzy, but still a few more qustions:
what of pdf and tortuga next?
what if in servers, there arent players and thus the city falls, what will Jolly do to the mansion?

but i have a funny idea. me and he rest of me guild will um, go to a quiet server and take on them undead and stumpies. once jolly roger comes, we disperse and run away from him while he destroys PR. nice idea right?

[ukebec]

My thoughts on the encounter:

Waited 3 hours for a repeat, but no luck. I'm hoping they're poring through bug reports - LOL.

The undead showed no levels. They were insanely hard to kill, but didn't do much damage...more of a time killer.

I seem to be the only one that saw a 7th level...I thought that was the Jolly Roger landing, but it was an insane lag-fest so I'm probably wrong.

I took 7 screenshots, but can only get one to show...that's of the outcome and based on what Sarah and Lizzy posted (and Swash in The Helm), it's definitely player-based, not overall.

The lag was what you'd expect for an event of this size, but the duration was amazing. I didn't time how long it lasted, but it was a long time...I'd guess 30 minutes. Your character did not have time to heal from one wave of undead to the next. I believe the stumps didn't make an appearance until wave 5 (6 if you count JR's arrival).

It was tough. I'm a level 31 on test and some kind soul revived my dying keester. This event requires healers as well as fighters.

I had a ball. I'd have to say, apart from my first Boss Battle, this is the most fun I've had in the game in the nearly 2 years I've played. You have to be on-the-ball for this one.

I would advise those on Open only to level up your weapons as much as possible.

I thought this would be a repeat of last year's Halloween/Muertos Moon event, but it's ever so much more.

Good times - no idea when it will hit open, but I think you'll love it.

[Jeanne Stormcutter]

I wasn't there for the attack, but i have to say that i LOVE the 3D!!! It is beyond beautiful, kudos to Disney!
I especially like the fighting in the 3D mode, your sword nearly comes out of the screen!
(so i highly recommend you all to get the r&b 3D glasses, it is worth it!)

And i think they have their hands full of feedback now, so the events will probably be back later. It is still the Test, so the delays and little maintenances are understandable

[Maximvs]

Beautiful pics as always Sarah

And I'm hoping to find 3D glsses today to try to that feature. I must admit I had no issues with connection or any issues switching to 3D mode (video). Ionly got to play a few minutes last night though - so I'll see how it goes today.

[Jack I]

Originally Posted by Roger Dreadrage

thank you Combat Lizzy, but still a few more qustions:
what of pdf and tortuga next?
what if in servers, there arent players and thus the city falls, what will Jolly do to the mansion?

but i have a funny idea. me and he rest of me guild will um, go to a quiet server and take on them undead and stumpies. once jolly roger comes, we disperse and run away from him while he destroys PR. nice idea right?

As of now Padres and Tortuga are safe. The invasions are a follow up of the Muertos quests, which has given Jolly Roger the ability to set foot on Port Royal unscathed.

Still no clue what terrible thing could happen in Roger makes it to the mansion, probably won't be too good for us.

[Buck Seahawk]

Ummm..... I was on last night and NOTHING came! What time did it start?? Lol. Or was it this morning.....?

Heh heh, Jolly Roger looked a little mad seeing someone taking a photo ( Screenshot ) of him, eh?

[Sarah]

Buck, it was around 10 eastern last night, on the "A" server.

[Buck Seahawk]

Ugh, I got off around that time yesterday after waiting a while! Why do they put it so late?!?!?! Looks like another disappointment from Disney.........

[Capt C Ray]

Agree, Sarah awesome shots. Pretty well covered the whole string of events. The notoriety bonus at the botton of the screen was for each pirate. Mine was around 1800. And yes, the lag was pretty bad when you were around a lot of other pirates. But a few times when I was battling a skelly with just a couple other pirates, not much lag at all.

All in all, it was a blast. Cant wait to do it again. Hoping tonight. Let the fun begin!

[The Skirata Clan]

Lets see how are they going to do this one... what I mean is... is it going to be just some servers or all servers at the same time, are they going to schedule this, what days is this going to happen? so many questions for D and the testers. Keep it up guys, hopefully they listen to your bug reports and do something about it. Because it would be bad if Test became of a teaser server instead.

[Sven Niscadae]

Originally Posted by The Skirata Clan

Lets see how are they going to do this one... what I mean is... is it going to be just some servers or all servers at the same time, are they going to schedule this, what days is this going to happen? so many questions for D and the testers. Keep it up guys, hopefully they listen to your bug reports and do something about it. Because it would be bad if Test became of a teaser server instead.

I would hope that they wouldn't run them one at a time or have a set schedule, or else people would just be flocking to those servers and the lagfest will just roll throughout. I'd like to see a good/great number of people doing the invasions but possibly not in the proportions that I saw last night where the map is a giant blue blob of pirates. Sure the event is quite epic, but there can only be so much lag before it becomes unbearable to play and enjoy.

[Sarah]

As for another one of the updates:

Townsfolk will now notice nearby players and greet them. Enemies will either taunt or cower from nearby players.

Too Funny! Gray enemies cower in fear, or say "No!!" when you get close to them...then they walk away from you. Green enemies do the same. Didn't run into a yellow one last night, but the Reds...LOL, they laugh at you as if to say "yeah buddy, you think you can take me??"

I hope the invasions are spread out on different servers at varried times. It would be impossible to move if it was all at once. We shall see.