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Invisible Walls in the Ocean!!
treefitty
Member Posts: 260
Now I know what really happened to Titatnic!!!!!
I really like POTBS, however, I was playing the other day having a blast with sea battles when all of a sudden my ship went to dead halt... bam I had hit a invisible wall in the ocean.. I thought could this be a cloaked ship >8D... could it be invisible sea monkeys from mars.... could it be a failed attempt at a joke... unfortunately not.. FLS, lives in there own lil world of invisible walls in the middle of the ocean.
Well to make a long story short my beautiful Bermuda Sloop sits at the bottom of the see do to this invisible wall in the ocean... Yes it is true.. It felt like on the Truman show when Jim carrey ran into the side of the wall of the studio deal he was in...
My suggestion is why not put like a waterfall as in the edge of the world that would be a nice touch.. still be a lil weird but better than nothing
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In combat or Open Sea?
Combat has walls but they also have 9 exit points along those walls.
Open Sea could be server lag.
it was in a battle.. i was getting chased by three frigates and my lil sloop slammed into the wall the ships came up raped my ship.. you know i could almost see there crew laughing. Why does there need to be a invisible wall.. im sure they could have thought of something better hell this is 2007. EVE is old as hell and you can go on for ever in there "instances" , they sort of have instances.. not a EVE fan boi but geez potbs get with the program. I like your game but invisible walls sort of kill the immersion.
..realy *laugh*
such a let down..maybe to avoid to much kiting..
but then again. Kiting was real in seabattle
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Next time, hit "M" (for map) or look at your mini map radar display.
When you enter ship combat, you are placed in a small square bucket of water (the instance).
"Don't corpse-camp that idea. Its never gonna rez"
Bladezz (The Guild)
What a stupid concept! Invisible walls?! WTF!
Actually I can totally sympathise with the OP here. Something that has bothered a LOT of beta players is the fact that the combat instance has 'walls'. It really really shouldn't. There's no technical reason for it to other than to artificially reduce the play area. And, frankly, there's no need to do that. They should never have implemented them.
"A ship-of-war is the best ambassador." - Oliver Cromwell
I hate this too..no chance for escape..not very good at all
If you can't outrun three frigates in a Bermuda Sloop, something is wrong.
Shifty, it is poor design. Period.
Nothing more for me to say really about this game. I have made a few post stating my opinion, every game has it Fanbois..ahhh how I remember them when Vanguard was coming out
There are various escape points on each map you can sail to. There is always a way of escaping.
Yes the invisible walls are silly. Maps that were too small and where you ran into the walls too easily/often were made bigger. Furthermore with the escape points the walls are really irrelevant. They were only a problem in CB.
It's not poor design if someone can't outrun another ship. Every situation has an opportunity for escape.If someone cant find a way to do so, they deserve to be sunk.
I want to retract this statement i continued playing the game and the problem is only in a few missions which FLS seemed to fix. I am now 25 and this game is great. Just preordered. THe game grows on you, you really need to level up past 20 to see it shine.
Also mate if you have been playing it do u know if u have to order the special pre order pakage to get parrots or can u easily get them in the game?
Open beta. Anyone can play right now.
As far as I know you need to pre-order to get the parrot and stuff.
I have see no parrot vendor, however in the help encylopedia in game it has parrots listed as droppable items. I have yet to see one. I'll keep u posted beta is almost up.