I am really confused

[Rad]

I have started to play the game with Build 14 alpha 6 and I am really completely confused. I can´t find many basic things, keys and matters in the game that I badly neeed for my normal playing. When I started the game in the ship´s cabin I couldn´t go anywhere from there except only on the board of the ship, where my journey ended. This large board of the ship were used from Age of Pirates and it impresses quite strange while I am sailing small ship as Bermuda sloop. I know deck is demonstrated here constantly this way and it seems to me it isn´t a good option. But it isn´t too much important. But why can´t I go anwhere from there ? So I started again and I chose Oxbay. OK. When I am at the sea on my ship I can´t switch between first and third person view which is complete fundamental for me. I adjusted for that switching key Backspace but when I push it the icon menu will appear instead. So, how can I get to the first person mode at my ship? And my compass is gone although I didn´t want that. Where are the keys for changing cannon ammunition and for pistols reloading ? And I can´t sail at my map because my ship refuses it.
I didn´t want to be much critical this time but if I am not able to play normally basic operations in the game after tons of hours of playing PoTC, so don´t know what to think about it. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" />

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I think opening the Options screen and resetting the controls to default before making your custom key assignments will fix most of the issues you're having. All key assignments should be the same as usual, but sometimes the key assignment is messed up until you reset the controls to default.

As for being unable to get off your ship's deck: There is a locator along the side that will bring you to port. If you can't find it, play the tutorial and Malcolm will show you.

The idea about the compass is that you now need to by and equip a compass item to get the usual onscreen display. Obviously many people won't like that, so there's a BuildSettings.h toggle to turn that off: DISPLAY_BATTLEINTERFACE. Set it to 1 and your compass will work as usual.

 

[Rad]

The reset the keys to default was the first thing that I did after I installed the game. But it didn´t help as I can see. And I set compass to default PoCT game but it didn´t appear anyway. I will try to do something about all of that and if it won´t help I will revert to Build 13 final. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />

 

[Pieter Boelen]

You must set <i>#define DISPLAY_BATTLEINTERFACE</i> to 1 in BuildSettings.h, otherwise you won't get the compass like usual. Beats me why resetting the controls to default wouldn't work. If you set the controls to default and don't customize them afterwards, <i>can</i> you switch between first and third person mode using Tab like usual? You can also open PROGRAM\BuildDefaultControls.c and change the controls in there to your liking, THEN reset the controls to default. In that case your controls will be reset to the NEW defaults you had just customized. Perhaps that works better?