Bug boarding bug!!

[Ben Coats]

ahhh man im getting so PO right now, i ran into a convoy of dutch ships (5 merchants 2 escorts) i had a class 1 man-o-war, and when i had a class 6,5,4,3's i could board most all ships, when i got down to class 3 i could board every other ship in the convoy, in this one i could only board ONE!!! the rest of them i had to blast into surrendering. WTH??? is wrong with this thing?

 

[modernknight1]

what is wrong with this thing?

If we knew??? - it would be fixed. Sorry I don't have a better answer. I think Luke159 pulled half his hair out trying to solve it.

I am happy to say that I have not seen any of those problems in GOF Eras, and I should have the middle era (1650-1725) released to everyone by mid March.

MK

 

[Luke159]

Lol, yes i almost did MK. In the end it was easier to just remove the surrender feature and see if that was the reason behind it all. If it doesn't fix it then i will go back to GOF 2.0.0 and work from that version which didn't have the surrender feature or other features ported over and update it to use the latest ships and small code changes i had made. Then i will spend weeks testing that version out. I'm a long way from getting a MOW (only rank 12) as soon as i have the chance to fight big battles i will be right in there testing and hopping all works fine.

The only bug i have come across so far will be fixed as soon as i can find out how to do it (never messed with characters before and it seems to be related to them in some way). But it doesn't make the game unplayable it just throws an error each time you manually aim at an enemy ship after you have sunk one enemy ship durring the same battle.

 

[modernknight1]

Hiya Luke!

Got tired of racing again! Hows the farming goin?

Era's module #2 is nearly complete. I hope to have it out to everyone by mid March. I might need your help getting it small enough to distribute. You did the exe and 7z for the last mods and I need pointers. I have added and taken out ships, but have added lots of items and new textures and characters. Its setting at about 22GB right now!

I was thinking when I get module 2 out, we get the whole team back together for module 3 (late era). That could be the next 2.0 expansion mod. The late era seems to be the most popular anyway. Not sure why??? Gotta be the popular media and movies.

So far I have excellent stability, far fewer mast crash issues, no boarding bug issues, direct sail works fine and surrender works.

There are a couple minor bugs though.

Good to have you back Mate!

BTW I saved 95 percent of COAS mod content on the FTP. I have almost everything. Just tell me what you want.

I am getting the paid account with Media Fire so I can hang really big files. I have promised several people things and can't follow up because the free account is not big enough. With the paid account I will start hanging all our stuff back up - and some new stuff too!


MK

 

[Luke159]

Hey MK, its has really been a long time since the team was working on something together and it would be amazing if one day we all did once again work on something again. To this day i think GOF 1.2 was rushed out which is why i respect you for not releasing any of the finished era modules as soon as they was finished and ready for release. GOF 1.2 didn't have enough indepth testing, we was all tired of working on COAS and the fate of GOF was decided the moment we all said it would be the last mod for GOF. Had we been just as dedicated to GOF 1.2 after its release as we was to the CM mods we would have most likely fixed or removed the problems in GOF 1.2 via a patch. But we couldn't be bothered to really look into it, RL and other things took over the time we once had for GOF and GOF 1.2 took the backseat and has alway's been that way since its release.

You know the reasons for me working on GOF and for those who don't they can read that reason in the GOF 2 thread. What i do need though is any work on the surrender feature and direct sail, i would like to get these working at some point for GOF 2. There is no rush for the stuff i would need, i wouldn't be releasing the updated work on till the current testing had finished anyway, so really no rush at all because i don't expect to finish the testing for a long time anyway.

I to don't know why the later era is more the theme everyone likes and goes for, big ships and large scale battles is a perhaps, but as you said the media, TV and movies all seem to focus more on the later side of the age of sail, POTC been one of them. Even though the golden age of piracy died before the age of sail made way to the steam powered ships. I personally like the early periods, smaller ships makes for more fun.

If you ever need me for anything, i'm just a PM away bud.

P.S.
No i still race, Thusday's and Friday's i race in league races, farming though died when Farming Simulator 2013 was released. Its not the game just the time i could put into it, i got into GOF work, then RTW and then alot of racing and back to RTW and now back to RTW, with a few changes from time to time on the company of heroe's map i'm working on.

 

[Ben Coats]

WTH??? i got into a sea battle with 5 brit military ships, captured 4 of them, and the last one,....took me forever to beat, it knocked me down from 250 crew, to 69 @ boarding, the brit riflemen, are a pain in the a$$!!! even tho their are only 2 of them i couldnt kill em cuz the crew would slice me to pieces when i tried to get rid of the gunners, even when i did i was still get'n decimated, 1 i had no armor, cuz i didnt have the achievent yet. here's a vid (its 44 min long cuz i forgot to turn fraps off) so enjoy the fighting.