What I thought is that it might be
@ChezJfrey's own personal channel!
Oh...
And what fun do I spot there in the comment section?
For clarity's sake,
I never ever said they
don't have DirectSail.
I said that I wasn't sure if they had.
That's quite something different.
I've seen that the island models in CoAS (and maybe TEHO too) actually include the
entirety of the archipelago.
The only difference in the 3D files is the point of origin (x,y,z) and the locators.
But those were still island-specific, so it would seem like you could sail from one island to another without reloading.
On arriving though, you wouldn't be able to moor as the locators were loaded for the previous island.
Reload to worldmap, then reload back again would take care of that though.
So that's indeed pretty close to DirectSail-behaviour; right there in the original game.
All that was missing was an auto-reload; and maybe some encounters along the way.
If the ERAS2 team managed to add that, I'm honestly very glad!
It would be my great wish that ALL cool features from PotC would be ported and shared with the other games in the series too.
Earlier today on Discord, I proposed a future where ALL these games could one day be merged into one UBER-GAME.
Of course that would be a BIG project; and changes would need to be made.
But it would be a an absolute dream come true!
And we could only ever accomplish it by working together.
Imagine having ONE game with "To Each His Own" as a storyline right next to "Hoist the Colours".
And where the CoAS sidequests would be available
in addition to these:
New Horizons Quests | PiratesAhoy!
In my humble opinion, THAT WOULD BE RUDDY BLOODY AWESOME!!!