I have been to the other side and it is good. First off, let’s get straight to the point. When the new update hits live it will include a bump in weapons and notoriety.
Notoriety will go to 50 and weapons will go to 30. There will be a new quest offered on test called Casa Muertos. House of the dead? Nice. Ships go faster, get a speedometer and will no longer slow down just because you tweaked your direction a little. Enemies give more rep and the caves. Ohhh the caves.
All of the caves have been revamped. Well actually scrapped, dumped, destroyed, tossed out, and replaced with something far more complex, far more beautiful and way more interesting. Gone are the cookie cutter caves of old. Also gone are their beige color schemes, identical layouts and dull, short footprints. These caves are unique and complex. No two caves have the same color scheme and, honestly, individual parts of the same cave have different looks. The caves affected are:
- Murky Hollow – Port Royal (PR)
- Royal Caverns – PR
- Thieves Den – Tortuga
- Lava Gorge, Padres del Fuego
- Beckett’s Quarry, Padres del Fuego
- The Catacombs, Padres del Fuego
- Cursed Caverns, Isla Tormenta
I have been to them all but only have a few screenshots of some. I am going to post the ones I have so take a look and sit back and know that good things are on the way! And so is part two of this post…I hope.
Semper Fidelis – Ironmonger
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- Inside the Royal Caverns.
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- Royal Caverns.
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- Every cave gets a map.
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- Royal Caverns
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- Into the Murky Hollow.
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- The running water looks great.
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- Oooohhhhhhh….Spooky.
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- Are those MAGIC Mushrooms?
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- Nice cave…Nice Shirt. An Undead Bandit gave it to me. Really…
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- Looks like Mordor.
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- Yep… Mordor.
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- The animation on this guy was very smooth. Looked good.
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- I love the boat speedometer.
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- Thieves Den.
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- I would SO live there.
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- I don’t know what these are but they looked cool.
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- Dregs now guard the entrance to Tormenta.
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- Moody…
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- Looks Davy Jones-ish…
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- PASTED!
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Jim, I just saw the August email from POTCO, and was coming here to write a post asking you to provide some comments from your test experience.
I should have known that you’d already have it covered, totally. This post is phenomenal, really, and I love the screenshots and the artwork.
My questions were answered, including how high level your test pirate had gotten.
Also, I noticed names on test chat that I’ve seen before in the real game. I’ve done SvS with Mikhail Skulls before. And Breezy, is that the Breezy that we hung around with for a while by any chance???
Thanks a bunch Jim!