Redbeard
Sailor
So. Sea Dogs To Each his Own. An acceptable upgrade to CoAS simply because it uses steam instead of TAGES. It feels considerably more masochistic however. The rats are a much bigger nuisance, melee is downright painful with a stamina bar determining if you can block, etc. I'm not saying its a bad game, because I personally cannot get enough Piratical goodness, and will support Akella anyway I can. However. The quests have to be played to be believed. They truly are the worst quests in the series, and impose a time limit (albeit a rather generous one.) along with numerous other little hiccups that mean you can easily burn 12 hours at the beginning and still be too broke to leave the tutorial island.
However. The developers spoke in length about wanting to add new charactors, and from this DLC it looks like they have added some. Wether that means they are model replacements, or a freeplay mode remains to be seen. Im hoping the latter, as I hated the quests, but would play a free-play version.
Anyway; TL;DR new DLC as soon as they get done translating to english.