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Screenshots thread

Concorde.png


The HMS Concorde... having just been taken by force of arms from pirates off the coast of Barbados, and being pursued by her erstwhile companions.

In other words... I had just started playing the main quest from a new game and decided to have a go at some pirates on the World Map. I captured this "Pirate Frigate", but I was sadly outmaneuvered during the pursuit. I turned to fight, as any True British Gentleman would, and much to my chagrin I was sunk by cannon fire. It didn't help that the ship had been badly damaged during the attack and most of the crew had been killed... and that I was on fire, with no "Ship Defense" ability...

I have to say that I am quite impressed with the new pirate warship models - when were these added, and what real life ships are they modelled on? After taking the Concorde I have been trying to capture another.
 
That one looks a bit like a Corsair Frigate, but the colour scheme doesn't quite match up.
See RESOURCE\MODELS\Ships for all the ship models. There are notes in PROGRAM\Ships\ships_init.c what historical ships they are based on.
 
That is the PiratFrigateSup. It is based on the Rossiya and is only available in game to the Pirates and French.
 
Well - it's quite a nice model, and having seen that it comes from the Rossiya, explains why it looks so similar to the frigate of the stock game. My only quibble is that I can't seem to access the raised quarterdeck when in the "on deck" mode - there's no easily available stair case or ladder, or maybe I'm missing something?
 
Armada created that ship last year. It started out as an upgrade to the stock frigate and became almost a completely new ship. No you can not get up onto that rear deck.
 
Colosseum said:
I have to say that I am quite impressed with the new pirate warship models - when were these added, and what real life ships are they modelled on? After taking the Concorde I have been trying to capture another.
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Thanks for your comments! I'm glad you like the ships. :doff

The Concorde, in your case, is indeed based on the Kreyser class Frigate that you can see elsewhere in the game.
This model only came to life because we discovered a spitting image of the stock 'Frigate', complete with plans.
I fell in love with it, so I ended up recreating it as best I could. :cheeky
I purposely decided not to include a ladder to the poop deck (you probably couldn't see past the stern up there, anyway), because the entire cabin was opened up instead, along with the gun deck.
It's all explained in this thread: http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/frigate-rossiya-1728.18305/

The other ships in that encounter are based on the Aurora class Frigate, which is a 'second generation' upgrade for the stock 'Corvette' (I had already improved this model before revisiting it).
This time, the model isn't based on a real ship, but adapted to fill the role of a mid-eighteenth century frigate, the likes of which we were mostly lacking beforehand.
It's named 'Aurora' because the closest real-life match we've found for the stock Corvette is this Russian frigate. Note that one is early-nineteenth century, but the lack of plans and good choice of Napoleonic frigates already in the game meant it was impractical to recreate it.
Again, more details here: http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/corvette-v-2.18160/ The second-gen version is mentioned from page 6 onwards.
 
Great stuff Armada.

Here's the next shot I've taken, this time of the "RN_BattleFrigate".

HMSEndurance3.png


Christened the HMS Endurance, I've been using this ship in the M&C free form campaign. Really a fantastic ship and it's now deadly since I've upgraded it with 24lbers!
 
Nice picture!

Just so you know, F9 hides the battle-interface so you can make screenshots without stuff cluttering up the screen. :doff
 
Just thought I'd mention that I would still welcome some epic screenshots for the Beta 3 release article.
We've got a lot of cool, new content, but we need pictures to show how cool it is!
 
Just made this shot during the Assault on Bridgetown. Looks pretty cool, no?
SeaBattleFort.jpg

Shame I didn't get the angle so you can see MY flag on that fort. But this one shows it:
SeaMyFort.jpg
 
I always try to capture that yellow one in the foreground of your first screenie and rename her "Lucky Lady".

I haven't been doing anything epic lately, so have nothing to show.
 
Guys, is there a way to reenable that "free camera" setting that used to happen on previous versions? I remember hitting Tab while in 3rd person sailing mode would switch between on deck, chase, and a sort of strange "free look" that was very useful for screenshot-taking.
 
Ayup!

Go to: POTC--->program--->internalsettings.h and scroll down to the bottom. There you will find "testing toggles". One of them is free_camera. Change the 0 to 1 to activate any of them.

regatta.jpg

This may not be epic, but there are 9 ships in that screenie and they are all friendly. The funny part is that the smugglers beach is in the background. Are we all just waiting our turn to deliver our goods to the smugglers? :nerbz
 
That's a LOT of ships back there! If you still have a savegame of that, I'd quite like to see your spyglass pointed that way! :sail
 
:facepalm I cleaned out my saves just before coming here. They are fleuts and English galleons although there might be a Manila galleon all the way back there.
 
:rofl

I doubt Bartolomeu took the location of the ship locators into account when he added that there fort. :wp
 
I don't do epic, but this is pretty epic for me. My first successful boarding of this game.boarding.jpg
 
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