thank you, for this late Christmas Gift^^, Mega is not bad, download finished after 1 hours 17 min.

Thank you so much for your excellent work and for sharing it with us.
The ships look fantastic.
It will be exciting to explore all the innovations in eras. I´m so happy to start it NOW.

Nice job on the website MK. Love it so far. I expect great things from you. As one of the guys on MODDB commented today the mod is EPIC. I am privileged to be one of your beta testers and have to agree. I don’t usually go out for older games but what you’ve done here is extraordinary.

Just because its old doesn’t mean its not awesome and with a little imagination I find myself back in ye ole pirate days.

Thanks so much and looking forward to more in the future. I was worried you were going to shelve this after the last months happenings. I am so glad to see you bounce back my friend.

Hammer

Hi, thanks a lot for sharing this fantastic mod. I love it. It’s like a time machine, I’m really impressed with the historical accuracy, and ships look great.

I wanted to share these little tweaks I made for more immersive gameplay, don’t know if someone will be interested in, but here it is :
https://www.sendspace.com/file/5nkgmz

It removes the hud at sea, the crosshair reticule, the spyglass info, and remove corpses timer (no more looting hurry, corpses will only disapear now if you leave the area).
The files contain two versions of the tweaks. Full (no sea hud), and Minimal (with compass, speed, cannonballs, etc…).

Nicee 😀 Though if you let the corpses lie around, will the soldiers in towns respawn or not?

I just tried and when you have killed 40 or 50 soldiers the game crashed. But, the only way to kill so many is to use god mode, so I hope it’s not game breaking. And I think the game crashed because of a infinite spawning problem in this particular case (the screen went black, but I still hear my character doing my commands and hear no enemy attacking anymore). Gonna check in case.

I already thought of including it in the mod options, but I’m just a beginner, and not skillful enough with modding yet. But that would be nice. I’ll try if I can do something.

At the moment I’m working in realistic sinking animations for ships, and with good results. Manowar take 5/10 minutes to sink, smaller ships just 2/3 minutes. Maybe I’m wrong with these numbers, if someone knows how many time a ship takes to sink, just tell me.

I’m working too with the low poly crew from the deck, to decrease/increase their number based on the numbers of the actual sailors we have hired. This way, if we lost some sailors during battles, it will be reflected on deck (no more sailors walking on the bridge when we have 0 crew). That’s a tough one, I managed to read the actual crew members, but it don’t refresh when we hire/fire some sailors, it requires to make a whole new game in order to refresh numbers…

Thanks for your welcome ModernKnight1, feel free to use my tweaks in your mod if you want, that would be an honor.

PS : I fixed my no sea hud tweak, I forgot to remove the sails state of the companions.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/9d505e

You can sink with your ship in first person now lol :

Glad that you like it. I’m still working on it, but when it’s finished I will post the link ;
Now the problem is that the sinking sounds are too short, I must find longer sounds… and I must find a way too for poping a blue filter when we are under the sea (sadly, the last screen is photoshop). Maybe if I try something the same way the spyglass works…

Mmmh, the sinking thing is too buggy, I give up.
(the crew is still walking on the deck under water, the ship doesn’t sink too deep, I don’t know how to pop a blue filter, etc…)

Ok, here it is. Search for “set attributes for sinking effect”, I edited those lines.
I think we can do better, if we find where the dead ship effects is located (the thing that makes the ship goes darker and disappear). I say that because it reads the height of the ship, I tried negative values, and the ship was flying and never disappear in outer space (btw that was a funny trip lol). If we find this, we can even make the ships sink in two or three times (the ship starts to sink slowly, after a while a little faster, and when it’s full of water sinks much faster)

https://www.sendspace.com/file/suna6x

PS : To see the changes, you need to start a new game.

Could someone please reupload altered-beast’s fixed sea hud tweaks?
TIA and Happy Sailing

hey i you know i am a newbie and i want to download GoF eras 2 but i have problem to download in mega because i am using low speed internet connection and the speed max reach is about 90 kbps so i must wait 17 hours but what i want is there another download link that can be downloaded with idm because when using idm my max speed is about 280 kbps and can be resumed tomorow please understand my problem and if there’s another link i suggest mediafire or another link that can be paused on idm post it or send it into my email : [email protected]

thank you from mr.nobody?????????
oh yes i forget i only can using internet at 13.00-16.00
because i’m bussy so because that i need another link

thank for read my problem from mr.nobody????????

• This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by mr.nobody. Reason: i forgot to write my reason to request another link thank

hello and welcome to our forums Mr. Nobody,

Sadly there is no other source where you can download the mod from. If your own connection is so slow, I suggest you ask a friend of yours with a better connection at his place to download it. As of now, there are no plans to put this file up on anything other than mediafire. Previous attempts to upload it on other upload websites failed and as of now the root of your problem seems to lie in your own internet speed as your the first person to complain.
The usual download speed for me of the mod is around 1mb – 1,5 mb per second 😛

even at 280 kbps it would take alot of hours to download it. after all the whole mod when unpacked is 32gb big (it consists of the game + the mod)

So the easiest solution for you would be to go to a friends place and download it there with a 16k connection dsl connection it will take aproximately around 3-6 hours, depending on the overall use of said connection, a 50k or 100k cable connection has even fast download rate, Im sure you know someone with a better download speed 😉

you know i have think’s about that but there also another problem you know my friend wo have stable internet connection is very far from home even if i want to using school wifi it has been passworded you know you right about idm speed but i have solving the speed download of idm by using registry editor so when download reach about 10 % i can save all data i need to resume it tomorow so if one day have 10 % percent i can complete it in about five days i also completing many files using that trick but when i cant download a file with idm that is my problem a far friend,low internet connection,and only 2 hours internet time i am full with problem also i download a film to forgetting my problem that’s my answer thank for answer my problem oh if you have a torrent for the GoF eras file can you give me a link i will download the torrent because i can using that trick too you said it consists with the game so is that just extract it then play it or i have to have the AoP 2 game ? if the answer yes then IF POSSIBLE i just need the MOD thank you

from mr.nobody??????????

Its the whole game and the mod packed into the download. Extract it and play it. Again theres no torrent file or other downloadable source except the place MK1 uploaded it to. I hope you manage to download it somehow despite your limitations, its a grandal mod indeed.

How about the Gold Fleet from Porto Bello, how often is it sailing ?

I was supposed to read MK’s comment here, but i cannot see it… what happened?
Just read on moddb some great news, but no sign here
Maybe a bug on this site?
If my comment is wrong and everyone else can read Mk, pls delete my msg, but inform me through email 🙂
Thnaks

I’m really excited that the latest update to this mod is going to be out any day now. Do you have a release date MK?

That’s good news I can’t wait. Keep up the awesome work!

I exploded when i read that your work is done!
THis brings so much joy
Cannot wait to test the new version, thank you thank you thank you!
🙂

Hey-hey! Are there any news regarding the download link? We would appreciate any news! Thanks a lot for your work!

just started to download – i will give you some feedback in the next 24 hrs
thanks (again and again)

HYPE! Thanks for your work!

MK, the solution you offered here https://buccaneersreef.com/forums/topic/vanilla-screen-and-camera-view-resolution-modfix/ , is not working for this new version of the game.
I copied the 2 files (engine.ini and the other one) with no result, so i am blocked with the game itself, because at sea the image is too unpleasant. Please help me 🙂
(the game is running ok, no bugs so far)

Later edit: when i play full screen, the game uses only 4/5 of the screen or smth.
The only options available in config are 800/600 and 1024/768
Thanks 🙂

Downloading now. Does this require a fresh install of COAS or can it be installed over a previous version of Eras?

Hi MK! Thank you so much!

Please tell us which CoAS version is required? 1.3.0 or… which? What is the game version you are using?

Thanks a lot in advance! Cheers!

No you guys you don’t have to have a fresh install or even have COAS installed on your computer you just unzip this open it up and double click on the start.exe and play the game.

I see, thanks =) I figured it out 😉 It is the difference between *should* have the original game and *must*…

Works like a charm. Now I will try to figure out how not to loose the battles, because I get myself constantly killed during first boardings. Will go search for tips on the Internet. It would be nice if someone prepared a tips&tricks topic here, on The Reef.

Thanks in advance 😉

• This reply was modified 9 years ago by 0range.

One little (tiny and not important) bug to report : when you talk to the boss-lady in bordels, the dialogue freezes. You can try to select one of the two answers ( i want X lady, or the other answer), but no result, the game is blocked. Only alt+f4 helps

And one… difficult question :).
Mk, you limited all the other captains on the game . The max lvl of theyr ships is 5, which is kinda funny. I am not questioning your decisios, i am just asking if you are kind to change that. It would mean A LOT to me.
Thanks 🙂

When I tried the ladies boss, she worked correctly. Dialogue was ok. Maybe depends on the town?

I was robbed in the tavern twice the same visit… That was strange =)

On unzipping the download, Windows flags and quarantines the file dvm.dll, saying it has an “Obfuscator.XZ” file in it. It did this for past versions too. Any idea why?

• This reply was modified 9 years ago by Alan Q. Smithee.

Alan, it did not happen to me. I have Windows 8.1 and ESET antivirus. Please tell what antivirus do you have, probably that is the reason.

Oh my! MK, thank you!!!

Hello, MK, thanks for your feedback, first 🙂
Now:
1. I played many times till level 41-43,(i don;t remember if i reached 43, 41 is 100 % ), but encountered only captains with maximum lvl 5 ships in taverns. Strange. Anyway : i don’t question what you say, who knows what i;m doing wrong.
2. I am having a laptop now, just sold my pc, I5 4570 CPU, GTX 950 graphics, 15.6” screen, with 1366/768 resolution.

If noone has this problem, it might be (again) my mistake.
I have no idea 🙂
ANyway, thanks for asking. Maybe i will get used to play this way.
Good luck to you all.

PS – no other bugs encountered. Good job indeed 🙂

I cannot edit the last post, so i must add here: i am running windows 8.1

I understand your frustration – right now in my country major changes occur, but too many are silent. And this affects the result on many levels :).
Anyway : thank you very much for the patch idea 🙂
I stay tuned, as you say.

Long before you make a torrent for Your New Mod ? I have problems download With Megasync

Belzeburg

Ehm what do you mean you have problems with resolution?

First time I started the game the resolution was fine. Then I happened to launch config.exe by curiosity and did not find anything of interest, only lost my resolution. Config.exe was giving me only two resolutions that do not fit my screen.

So I went to engine.ini, opened it with notepad, put

screen_x = 1600
screen_y = 900

manualy saved the file and here we go! Obviously, you may put the numbers you want there, not only 1600X1900.

That is why I am silent about the resolution! =)

• This reply was modified 9 years ago by 0range.
• This reply was modified 9 years ago by 0range.

Orange, THANK YOU.
It works, now i can really enjoy the game.
Thanks a lot, mate!
Have a nice week 🙂

Now that i can really play, i found this : some naval battles cannot be finished.
I play adventurer, on Commodore level, under England flag.
England is at peace with France, and i cannot finish boardings (when attacking english or french ships) because after the deck killing phase, the ganme is not going to the next phase, the captain cabin’s fight. My soldiers are surrounding me, as usual, but the button that announces the next screen does not appear. I tried to find any remanining soldiers all over the ships (tried this many times, in many different situations), but there is noone left… and still i am not being able to continue the game 🙂
Therefore i can attack only spanish/dutch and pirate ships.
This is a major problem.
Thanks 🙂

Same situation broke the English Questline.
First mission, escorting Duke X (don t remember the name), close to Antiqua boarding the spanish ship, no way into captain’s cabin.
I stop playing the game till this is solved. it;s too annoying 🙂
Thanks again.

🙂 you are very kind, MK, but i know that. I played all versions (in facut i play this game since Sea Dogs .
What happens now is different.
Could be, again, my mistake. But it’s not about clicking 🙂

Damn. Now i feel really, really bad. You have so much patience, but i didn’t. I deleted that game and started a new one, in a moment of big frustration :).
Sorry i cannot offer feedback, i was too impulsive.
In my defence: i am tired this days :).
Sorry, again. Next time i see something like that, i will report as you tought us 🙂
Thanks for understanding.

Still problems

Well I am really enjoying the game and have not run into to many bugs in fact, it seams as though most of the bugs that where a big problem are gone which is really nice!

This game mod was awesome lots of fun hiding in the shadows, everytime u’ll play u’ll found something new and interesting..thx for sharing ur treasure Mk

MK, hello again!

Please stay with us, we do really appreciate the mod you are doing! I remember visiting your moddb page, I remember having asked you there to keep up excellent work and include me in the list of the people you might share the mod with, I remember your explanations, I remember myself waiting for your new site, reading threads…

I have seen this small but faithful community of yours grow here on the reef…

I guess I understand your feelings as of the creator who requires more attention, more passion for the project, more involvement from the fans, not only “liked/did not like” comments. You do all the job and might find sometimes sad the people won’t hit but a pair of buttons to comment something, explore something or just give you the attention and humanly chat with you.

So, please, stay with us, you do have the community of yours that love and respect your hard work.

Sincerely yours,
0range

Great way to express the feelings that many have, but cannot find the exact words for that , Orange.
English is my third language, so i’m not exactly the best to try something like that, therefore i am so glad you did it , and thank you.
Yes, MK, here comes another voice that appreciates your work and thanks for everything you have done 🙂
Thank you.

I must first say it is a great Mod, no errors. I think as myself, feks not having English as my mother Language,one might come out with a wrong meaning

belzeburg

Dear MK, thank you for your great work in 2015.
I wish my english would be better, so I could tell how enthusiastic I am about all your achievment in developing Eras. Please don´t loose your devotion to the topic.
I – and I think I speak so far for everyone who downladed your work – wish you an your family a merry christmas and all the best for the next year.

Happy New Year MK and community! Hugs!

MK I have problems to find Places to hunt Places to black Pearls, They seemes to deassapear after a awhile Aint not one on right on the map

Can you make this topic pinned on the top of the page? It would be much easier for new members or even guests to download the mod and enjoy playing it.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Samir.

Hello all!

I’ve lurked a bit for a while and must say the dedication to this is impressive, Modernknight (and others). I recently had an increased desire to swash my buckles and have tried to download Eras2. Unfortunately I’m having issues with the Mega site (first limitwise, then after a while it goes faulty) and can’t get Pro account on there (at the moment) because it doesn’t accept my card.

Is there a possibility of some nice person making a torrent or an alternative share?

Cheers,

J

Thanks for the answer Jeffrey. I’ve gone through TOR to make my IP alternate during the download, I noticed it was the usage check which made the download fail after restarting. (Probably corrupted data) I’ve managed to ever so slowly download the mod and am now happily playing.

I’m considering getting a MEGA account anyway, I need some decent back up space. But that’s for later. Now I’ll get to exploring the game.

Going back into the game to cure a bit of a depression right now. Maybe the swashbuckling will wash away sorrows and help me set up onto the desired path again.
Looking forward to seeing MK again, didnt hear from him in a while. All i know is that hes busy travelling and has only limited connection. Maybe he already cooked up a treat for us, who knows. PA! certainly is failing behind as their “team project” is stuck and they are still defining their “progress” on their first game POTC, which by the way feels so outdated I might aswell just play Pokemon on a gameboy for these pixels.

I wish all some nice holidays and a wonderful winter season to come!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by Devoidbrah.

Yeah, it’s a strange time of year and depression is fairly common. Probably a bit of winter doldrums (depending on if you live in a part of the world that is experiencing winter right now) with the shorter days/longer nights and sometimes dismal weather, and holidays that for whatever reason dredge up in the psyche elements that make one depressed. I hope it passes soon.

I notice that probably I use some hobbies to vanquish depression. Just recently dusted off my guitars and have been practicing some cool tunes and learning some new pentatonic scale exercises to further my skills…along with gearing up and chomping at the bit for some winter steelhead fishing that is just about to start. Already took one trip and caught an ‘accidental’ winter run silver salmon, so I’m getting pretty keyed up about that.

I also hope everyone enjoys some nice holidays and a good trudge through the winter season 🙂

Everyone feel free to post any problems/fix requests that I might be able to programmatically solve and I’ll do my best. But those model problems recently brought up by Samir are outside the scope of my knowledge, so apologies for my lack in that area.

well we both work in the IT industry, as you know, working overtime is at some point mandatory in that business. But I am also going at the same time to a private university even though I have a full time job with up to 12-13 hours a day of work. But since Im going for a master in IT administration I have to get used to not actually “living”.

friday after work I go to university and on saturday aswell each week of the month, I also trade on ebay and cowork with a mechanic buying/selling cars, repairing them, importing em and helping him with his paperwork since he is not that able in using the computer/emailing.

Do I have a private life? I dont even know anymore. I remember when I was a kid at the age of 11, I used to tell “how bored I am”, now, I wish I could buy that “bored” time to use it in the time now since I sometimes feel I am working as two guys and still find time to spend hours doing fitness in a gym.
I think at some point I will come at a breaking point, but it seems even my fathers death could not sway me, thats why I was depressed in the first place. All my family died of cancer, I am dead sure I am gonna die of it at some point in a couple of decades aswell, but after the depression left I am embracing it and have a reason now to work even harder than before, before the best version of me may end up dead.

Maybe that can be motivating for others too. I dunno 😀

Devoidbrah , first i appologyze for my very poor english.
Second i appologyze if i am writing anything that could trouble you or make you uncomfortable.
But i cannot shut up 🙂
In my family, we hahe the same patterns, but i am not concerned about cancer – in fact i think i might have been closer to that than i know, but the behaviour i adopted changed facts into my advantage.
Sadly my pathetic english is noth helping me to express/say all i want to say to you, but i will try my best: cancer is NOT a disease, in fact. It is a reaction of our organism to some extreme situations, when our body has to change it’s chemistry to face them. IF this situations persist and our body most do this effort for a long time, it might trigger some sideeffects, and we call that cancer. The process is terribly complex, the words i use are cutting down 99% from the entire picture. Plus we live in a relative world, that means it depends on your genes and your other habbits (other that the extreme stress ) too. And many other very hard to cuantify factors.
Anyway, my point is : don’t think this way if you wanna help yourself. Mind has a ,…. lol “mindblowing” power, EVERY thought has a .. how should i say it. Has a reaction, a response in our chemistry. EVERY thought. You think that your happy, your body produces the happyness chemistry. You think you are sad, the chemistry of sadness is beeing developed. So, if you think positive (yes, new age is not exactly stupid, they got something, but not the entire picture 🙂 ), that helps. A lot, in fact. Decisive, in fact :))
I used to help people, a time ago, after exploring some very dark sides of life (including my dad’s death and my wife’s living me when i was sick ) and finding some answers that i thought could help others. So you are not approached by a newbie, or nonconnaisseur (i stopped doing that on emails or phone when i realized how lazy people can be and i only “work” directly face to face, to be sure some results will occur (if they do. If not, i say “be healthy and happy, but i don t know how to help you”).
Maybe my words find a way to you, despite the language:)
My wish was only to share.
Peace and a beautiful life 🙂 (i enter very rare buccaneersreef, pls do not be angry if i was missing some point and made some mistake here)

351 Dollars is a hefty cost. If you are interested, I could ask my stepfather if theres place to host this site on one of our servers. We would need to port the stuff over but I think it could work out without much problems and ALOT cheaper than what you are currently paying. You would get the rights to administer it and make a 1:1 copy of the current site, provided you have all the files needed. The question here is if you would like that or would rather consider to continue the wordpress way. Our servers are situated in Germany.

As I am trying to download the file from MegaSYNC, it gives me a message saying “select pay system or continue download in 8 hours”. I don’t have the money to be paying for their services, nor do I want to. This is obviously a problem with the hosting company. Many of us don’t want to have to get through a paywall to download this game. Unfortunately, however, there are many other online file companies that do this practice. I know of one that doesn’t. It’s name is MediaFire. It would be better if this file was up for download elsewhere.

I don’t think downloading from Mega requires a payment. There should be a free option as well.. or try downloading without MegaSYNC, with the browser. I just tried that out and it was working.

Mega doesn’t require payment, however you have to wait several more hours for the game to download.

bump…

Take a peek at the first post. New link for new and revamped version is now up.

New version is DirectX 9. If anyone still wants DirectX 8, download all files from https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg. Use 7zip to extract the files.

Then download the .zip file from the ERAS2.6DX8 folder here:

https://mega.nz/#F!WtMDgRxK!hbeUg86kGLlQAqvWRNwTqg

Copy those files in the second download into the directory you extracted the original files, overwriting the start.exe, modules, etc.

there might be a problem : mega put me on hold for 5 hours, because i exceeded the 5 Gb transfer limit / 6 hours. This means i will have to wait 6 + 6 hours + the regular download time.
I’m not complaining, after all your work , but in my humble opinion this is not the best host for the game:)
SOrry if i did smth wrong .

PS thanks for the release. Cannot wait to test it 🙂

My mistake, MK!
And i have to apologize for that. Sorry, mate, from all my heart.
I heard from a friend about https://infinit.io/ , but it seems they are shutting down the business. Have no alternative, and i regret that post.
Thanks for your undestanding .

Same thing here, i caped the quota and have to wait, i must be patient…

OH MY GOD, IT’S HAPPENING!

Thank you everyone who participate in the development of the mod, you are awesome! 😀

Now to the adventure 🙂

An update is already available for some issues:
https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

Update.zip

Copy them into the game directory, overwriting existing files.

MK & Jeffrey: Have you looked into ModDB hosting ERAS?
http://www.moddb.com/

Hi Guys, Unfortunately I am not the sharpest tool in the drawer when it comes to downloading and installing stuff. Here is my problem: I downloaded ERAS2.6 from Mega; I then extracted it to my desktop; What I have is a folder with files ERAS2.6.7z.001 thru ERAS2.6.7z.018. I thought I would get a folder that resembled what I had before, with PROGRAM,RESOURCE, et al. Obviously I have done something wrong, but I don’t know what.

Please Help, Ted

Thanks for your help MK. I’ve finally unpacked the game and it’s running great. I like what you guys did with the textures, cabins, and ship skins. It has a really cool look and feel. Now for the bad news. I can’t change the Mod Options. No matter what I do the weights and costs stay the same. I’m playing as Drummond and captured a “Valciria”. I just completed a quest with van de Velde and now have 433 gold @ 9cw per unit. That’s 3897 cw. My ships capacity is 1832. If I could use CoAS weights it would only be 866 cw. I could actually get that on the ship.
As usual I may just be confused, but I doing things the same way I did in ERAS 1.5.7.
I really like this game. Thanks for your help, Ted

Thank you Jeffery. Now I can move my ship and make some real money.

I really like what you guys have done. Ted

I’m having problems with trying to run GoF ERAS 6.0 on my computer. I’m using the files from the Update.zip folder alone to try to run the game, and every time I do, I get this error of “interfaces.ini file not found!” I don’t know how to fix this, and any suggestions on how to fix it would be welcomed.

It says that they cannot open because they are not archives.

New update. Fixes the occasional missing sail-to for some shores/towns. Longstanding bug in the game, that the newer compiler accentuated/exacerbated. Was a problem with ‘undefined behavior’ for a certain un-initialized variable.

DirectX 9 (Update.zip) https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

DirectX 8 (ERAS2.6DX8 folder) https://mega.nz/#F!WtMDgRxK!hbeUg86kGLlQAqvWRNwTqg

@ Jeff, will we need a new savegame if we apply this fix?

I just wanted to ask a question, in the last release 2.1.5 i managed to level up quite high and get a lot of skills for the officers and so. So i remember i achieved such a sailing skill that when i avtivated the turning speed increase hability(and the ship was already turning like crazy) i could turn my ship like a top-leg, it was insane, unrealistic, irritating and hilarious too… Have you touched the turning speed and overall the speeds of the ships?

You also mentioned in an old post pre-2.6.0 release you were going to change it so has it actually occurred?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Steven.

Everyone, get the newest update.zip for this important fix. Details here, if you want to know the why/wherefore: https://buccaneersreef.com/forums/topic/bugs-and-fixes/#post-3865

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

Update.zip

Another update. I found a flaw in a recent mod if you get into a fight with one of the other Hero captains if angered by your refusal aboard his ship; it messed up all nation relations. I fixed that and all works as it should for that now.

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

Update.zip

Discovered a flaw from way back in the original game that can cause a crash…has to do with the handling of item models. Surprised it took me so long to actually experience/encounter the problem. Get the latest Update.zip here: https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

New changes.

Although I was using an updated,newer fmodex.dll than the old, original game, it was still a bit dated…from January 2016. I decided to upgrade to the brand newest one, updated by the FMOD crew just this last week: http://www.fmod.org/documentation/#content/generated/common/revision.html

So a whole new FMOD for sound, using fmod.dll, rather than the now deprecated fmodex.dll.

Also, discovered bugs in the Esmerelda/Deserted Beach shores of Cayman, where you can’t access properly from town/sea. Should have discovered that back in the beginning, with our new Bodden’s Landing, but alas did not. Anyway, those appear to be now fixed, but for any current saved games, they will remain broken unless one runs an init on both Islands and Locations. There is code to do so in the console.c, just copy to Programs\console.c, hit F4, save the game.

#include "locations\locations_init.c"
#include "islands\Islands_init.c"
void ExecuteConsole()
{
    InitLocations();
    InitIslands();

    Log_SetStringToLog("Operation successful! ");
}

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

Update.zip

Let me know how the sound turned out for your particular hardware setup. I have found it to be quite good on my system, but if anyone experiences any sort of trouble, or worsening sound let me know as I did have to make a few changes for their new API system.

FYI, if you have downloaded the update, with the new FMOD, I have found on my system, that using Windows MultiMedia produces better sound results on Windows. That is a setting in the start.ini, under the [sound] section, enabled with a 1 value:

UseMM = 1

I added this to the SetupNotes.txt and you should experiment with MM on/off to see what works best for your system. Also a reminder that setting the START.exe to WinXP SP3 Compatibility also seems to work best for the app as well.

I regret to inform you that MUSIC\03-hat.ogg is dead…the day the music died.

Get the latest: https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

Update.zip

I had been meaning to try out this mod and figured after the recent large patch now would be a good time to start. However I’ve run into some problems starting the game, after extracting the archive and launching the game it loads to the main menu then crashes to desktop every single time. I have the included dx and c++ installed and have tried changing some options through the start.ini to no benefit. Is there something I’ve blundered over to cause this?

While there is more pending material due from MK, he has been delayed due to unforeseen circumstances. In the meantime, since I have some fixes and new developments already in hand, I decided to release what I have, knowing further updates/upgrades will likely follow in a short time.

New upload: https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

Update.zip

I modified the music somewhat. The old/common way was for a music track to continually loop. But an idea I borrowed from a recent PA! post was to add an option for AC IV shanties. However, when switching to sea, a song track is randomly selected, but once one is chosen, it would loop continuously; this wouldn’t do. So I built a way to detect the end of one track, then randomly select another to keep playing different songs. The config.exe has a new option to choose a music theme, and Shanties is one of them (also ERAS, GOF and COAS). All that selection drop-down does is actually write to the start.ini, so it can be manually edited as well:

aliasDirectory = ERAS\

Pretty fun to listen to the crew sing…I added all the tunes for the shanties I could find, so give that one a try and see what you think.

I also did some work to mitigate the store, tavern and mayor services being consumed by your hero competition, often causing a lot of waiting, so that should be reduced now.

A few of Orazio’s new ships are added and the Cayman island sail-to problems and the visible nearby land masses while at sea in that area are gone. There is another auto-save type feature that will periodically save your game during a transition, then reload, transparent to you, to help minimize resource creep during play. That can be turned off and the time can be altered in start.ini:

AutoReloadEnabled = 1
AutoReloadTime = 30

Also a couple bug fixes…I think one was for fixing the ‘wash ashore after sinking’ feature where you would be in a bind if flying an unfriendly flag; your flag will be altered to fit the nearby town if you have the perk and if not, you will only wash ashore on an island that fits what flags you can fly.

I have now implemented a way to Play All Nation Questlines in a single game. There is also an option to have your fighters spawn on a boarding deck near you every time. Neither of these is tested or uploaded, but they are coded, so they will hopefully make it into a future upload soon. The new Shanty music option was changed slightly per a request from MK, where the english tunes only occur when flying a Pirate or English flag. Future shanty music will contain tunes in other languages (Dutch, Spanish, etc.), which will then be heard when you are flying the relevant flag.

OK, the new fighter option for boarding tested and uploaded. Look under Options/Mod Options, scroll to bottom.

The music changed to only Pirate/England with shanty. There is a way to circumvent that and have them play all the time at sea, for all nations if you replace the RESOURCE\INI\Shanty\music_alias.ini names in the section for [music_spokplavanie] with all of the names from [music_enplavanie](do not change the [bracketed name] but replace everything underneath it in just that section, including revolves = 1).

Also in the update is a modification to how other heroes, that might have lowered relation to you that will factor your leadership, luck, and reputation into their decision to work/join with you.

Play All Nation Quest Lines (PANQL) is also in there, but turned off for now as it is untested yet.

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

Update.zip

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Jeffrey.

Thank you for a mod ))) But something goes wrong. Zoom don’t work on the some ships (Mordaunt, Frigate_r, SOLEILROYAL…..)
May be it’s a problem only for me,,, but….. Can you help me pls )) ?

p.s. Sorry for my English…

A torrent option for download would be greatly appreciated. For downloads this big, there are only advantages to torrents over file hosting.

Yes. Each time you updated the mod you’d need a new torrent, as the hashes and sizes of the files would change even if there were the same number. As for the corporate VPN situation, that could be a problem if other users didn’t seed the torrent or on new release days. The problem I’m having with MEGA is twofold. First, the download is too large and is causing Chrome on both rigs I’ve tried it on to throw errors and abort the process. Second, the download can’t be stopped and resumed, which makes it a little difficult in my current situation to acquire such a large file.

Hello and thanks for accepting me. I am Cap’n Noris from piratesahoy. I encountered a new problem this time with the Ascold Quest. I can’t find the tablet. It should be located on the Cayman islands but when I try to teleport there it says no location… I also saw that apparently there is a pirate settlement on that island, I presume it is a new feature of the ERAS mod that maybe messes up the tablet location. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

The update mentioned in my previous post is now fully uploaded and available.

I been trying to download this for a few days now. Been running into the 5GB limit making this difficult. First tried downloading the whole folder as a zip and that ended up being corrupted after letting the bandwidth limit countdown reset a few times. Now I’m doing individual folders and running into the same countdown issue again. Would appreciate if you could host these files in a way that made it easier to download.

I am testing a torrent today with MK, but I suspect it won’t work as I am near certain the VPN I sit within all day probably blocks peer-to-peer.

I finally managed to download the files, however no matter how many times I try, when I go to unpack, part20 ends up corrupted. The game still works but is missing lots of sounds. I managed to copy over a lot of them from the base install but there are many unique ones that remain missing, like gunshots.

A few small bug fixes, but one concerns a potential crash. Included:

Fix font sizes on SKILL table for ship/captain change assignment screen
Fix Camera bug (first person) when companion sinks last ship in a pirate quest
Fix dialog/follow bug at completion of passenger quest in tavern

The crash was a lucky/accidental finding. I was in first person mode (as opposed to 3rd person view) on the deck of my ship during a battle with the squadron another NPC pirate had invited me. I ordered one of my companions to board the very last ship and as soon as they did, crash. I had a save just before that, and every time, if I was in 1st person mode on my deck, and my companion boards/defeats the last ship, the game crashed. So I ran the same in debug mode, found the code that caused the issue and fixed it.

The dialog bug at completion of the passenger delivery was a longstanding/original bug in the game that MK just told me about. When you reach the tavern, you have to run to the bartender quickly before the NPC passenger talks to you (they follow you and force dialog, so you have to be quick to avoid them, LOL), and order crew. If you do that, the passenger is stuck standing there in the tavern forever and won’t speak to you/complete the transaction. Or, in another twist, you can run to another patron and sit to drink with them before the passenger catches you. In that case, YOU are stuck at the table and can’t ever move or do anything. Fixed that. Now, the only dialog you get with the patrons is a blow off and you can’t sit with them, and the bartender will simply state ‘Heh…’ if you order crew until you get ‘interrupted’ by the passenger to complete the deal. After that, the tavern patrons/bartender will react normally.

They were both special cases, that most people would never encounter, but now they can never happen anyway 🙂

https://mega.nz/#F!WtMDgRxK!hbeUg86kGLlQAqvWRNwTqg

Update.zip

A new update is available. One new ship and over 40 new ship textures changed/added.

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

Update.zip

Hi and first hats off for the extensive work making this mod what it is, easily the best pirate gaming I have seen.

Jeffrey, what did you do to reduce the effects of competing hero captains? Is it perhaps even possible to directly edit the waiting time in stores (they bother me to the point of ruining the fun of merchant playing)?

Thanks for the answers, good to know. I am a strong fan of giving the player more options to customize the experience so I of course support that idea of making it an editable option.

Since we’re on that subject, would it be possible to make at least some of the components making up the difficulty editable in a similar way?

Say that I would like to keep the npc level fixed at the middle level where neither mine nor the ai crewmen has any advantage over the other, for maximzed realism. So 100 player sailors become just as strong as 100 ai sailors, all other things equal. But then I might choose to increase the skill levels of the enemy captains, or the costs, or some other important factors, not to mention the ai:s decision making (I am unsure if it improves with difficulty level now).

Another nice thing would be enemy crews. In my experience the crews are always maxed or close to maxed when you play on the middle difficulty levels. That makes sense from a pure gaming perspective but it is also completely unrealistic (fluyts sailing around trading stuffed with sailors…).

Well, I’ve been mostly quiet, but busy for sure…and not to worry, the hiatus from here was for work on this and I think you will find it worthwhile. I admit, I have not done much for features in the actual game most of you will notice, but that will likely change in the near future as I’ve finally gotten the improvements in the back-end of this thing that I’ve been hoping for.

First, I have listened to the size complaints and textures were literally the largest culprit. I wrote a software utility that enabled me to compress them en masse, and now the 40+ gb (unzipped) game files, are now 20 gb. I have now compressed nearly every eligible texture file. The compressed 7zip of the entire game is now 8 gb. I have also identified duplicate texture files and wrote logic into the game to backtrack every directory of a model start and placed a single of the duplicates up that chain of directories, and removed all the others.

The texture compression also speeds game play up, but for those of you that already have the game, for whatever the in-game compression might add to performance, you will unfortunately have to download the whole thing and be sure not to overwrite, but place into a brand new place (or delete what you have). Otherwise, an overwrite, will still leave some of those larger files, due to my technique of duplicate file moves and directory backtracking now in place.

Also, to speak in automotive repair parlance, I did a RR (remove and replace) of the memory management. This nearly eliminates memory fragmentation, reduces memory consumption, and is quite a bit faster. Very sweet, indeed. The 64 bit (which will be freely offered to everyone that participates here in a short while) really leapt ahead in speed with this change.

A few tidbits were added by MK, notably some new ship flavors/textures and some additional Dutch shanties. Also, some of the recent reported bugs were also fixed during the interim (flickering ship textures, infinite church mission reputation increase).

During my memory replacement, I also discovered and fixed a number of other bugs in the engine source, including: divide by zero errors, index out-of-bounds errors, a pure function call error, random items spawn without a model definition. All of these led to potential crashes.

I also fixed some of the geometry logic to be more efficient in some calls not being needed in certain cases, yet it would still traverse through a bunch of unnecessary code; I simply put some simple checks to avoid going into procedures that weren’t warranted for the case. This leads to speed.

Overall, this is the best improvement in performance I’ve noticed so far, and it already out performed its predecessor by a long shot; I think you will be pleased.

For those of you that already have the original download, you can still just get the update, but keep in mind a cleaned up, smaller base is also available if you want to replace your original contents, but it is not necessary.

(the update is already available, the core base files are still uploading and I will notify when ready)
https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

Update.zip

“You will have to get the new model, then run a console.c fix to reinitialize the ship after you load a game”
Ya lost me there lol, will i have to do something special after applying the update as usual?

Hi there.

I recently downloaded the game and the mod, and still learning the new contents that it has.
I find a bug referring to the spyglass. No matter the one I have equipped, I can never see the details of other ships. I can only see the type of the ship and the commander. Cant see the guns, or the crew. I’d tried every spyglass, and its always the same. It’s some bug or I am missing something?

By the way, thanks for the huge improvements!

Hi! first thank u a lot guys for doing this amazing game shine again!
i was just chilling arround on files and i noticed the black pearl still in th game, its somehow a way to get it?
btw aweasome ships! trully amazing ty once again

• This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by madz.

wonderfull! ill search it and ill find it!
btw guys did u realize the true potencial of what u created? this game feels amazing.(i would like to talk with u about it)
there are new quests made by u?
once again thank u guys GJ!

Dear Jeffrey/MK

The “#define PGG_TASK_MITIGATE 110” works fine and I have no more problem with the store owner being busy. However, the store delivery quest come another problems. When want to handover the cargo, the shop owner saying some captain or person is taking care of it. Very frustrated especially having deliver cargo from tortuga to Port royal and upon reaching the destination the shop owner say somebody has taken care of it. Also apply to other town. Please help.

Thank You

david

There’s something haunting me these days.

I can’t board basically no one. I tried many times, but no matter how close I am, there’s no option to board. My ship is bigger, my skills are better than my opponents, but still no way.
I have 39+50 grappling, and have a bosun with 89 grappling, longer plank e master boarding.
I’m english, and tried dutchman ships and pirates. Even the smallest ones can’t be boarded. When the enemy boards me, it works, though.
Is this a error, a bug or something else? I tried to turn off the choice of surrender in the mod options, but still nothing.

Another thing that I found, the stores almost never have the first items on the list to sell. That goes from cannonballs until medicines. Weapons, food, powder, these things I usually get looting other ships. I noticed that my crew needs way less food than it needs in the original game, but still, I go from town to town, always looking for it. On the other hand, there are tons of items that the city export, the green ones. Unless its food or the ones I already mentioned.

Sorry for disturb you guys. But its great to play this game again and Im just trying to understand some new padrons.
Thanks!

I haven’t tried the latest version but I had a similar problem with this mod downloaded sometime in june, maybe. Anyway, I found the following fix on the Pirates Ahoy forum (I know what you think of the staff there MK, but at least some of the users are much more helpful), posted by one Miguel Sanchez, which did the trick for me. I haven’t spotted any drawbacks or side effects but my technical knowledge of this game is certainly limited, so that doesn’t say very much.

“I’ve been looking to solve this problem and found a possible solution. The boarding action uses a lot of variables in three different files.
Program\battle_interface\BattleInterface.c
Program\SEA_AI\AIShip.c
Program\characters\CharacterUtilite.c

Making all the research I did so far short, the problem is that for some reason (still looking for it) any ship is not able to be board. They can board you because another conditions in the code control this.
The work around so far is simple. In file CharacterUtilite.c replace “return sti(rCharacter.Abordage.Enable);” with “return true”. It should be replaced inside the following function in this file.

bool Character_IsAbordageEnable(ref rCharacter)
{
if (CheckAttribute(rCharacter, “AlwaysFriend”))
{
return false; // boal
}
if (CheckAttribute(rCharacter, “Abordage.Enable”))
{
//return sti(rCharacter.Abordage.Enable); //Original
return true; //New
}
return true;
}

The problem is that “rCharacter.Abordage.Enable” is always “false” for every ship so you cannot board them. I’m looking for an answer for this. You do not need to start a new game or anything else.”

Check it…new world map coming along

The new map looks very interesting, good luck with it.

I downloaded the latest version this evening. The loading times seem really faster than before, a huge improvement.

During the night, buildings and islands shine like in daylight, as well as vegetation. I remember the problem from before, but I think vegetation was not affected then. Is this something everyone else is experiencing or does it point to something being wrong with my settings or video card drivers or whatever else?

A 3D sound bug was pointed out to me and it is fixed:

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

EngineUpdate.zip

tulkas had problems boarding any ship. I found a bug. I am not sure how, but the ‘fantom’ characters from world map encounters somehow got flagged with a boarding attribute as false, disallowing boarding. Once this happened, that attribute was always present in future encounters…forever, because the fantom character slots are reused for every encounter. My fix is that each time a fantom is set to a different world map encounter, their attributes are refreshed.

Hey MK, remember that sail type problem you also mentioned? This is likely the cause of that too.

New update: https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

Update.zip

Hi Jeffery,

When you have a moment, can you clarify what to download from MEGA to have the latest in place…I got a bit confused as to the additional files posted there recently due to user feedback/corrections on this thread. I want the latest, but don’t want to mess up my install, and I probably will if I wing it on my own…

My ERAs game is currently running using the following:
1. All of the 700mb files from your 8/9 load
2. Update.zip but older than the 9/18 one just created (I think it was from 8/26 or something like that).

Questions:
1. To update to the latest, I need to download the latest Update.zip and install of course…but what about the EngineUpdate.zip and the TextureFix.zip? Do I just download those 2 zips and let them over-write anything in my install folder after applying the Update.zip?

2. Is there a specific order these 2 zips should be installed into my folder?

3. Is there anything I need to do after installing the additional zip files (such as hitting F4, etc…I saw posts about uncommenting some code but not sure if that was specific to chris gardner’s cannon issue…and that is where I started to get confused…if I even need to do this)?

4. Will I need to start a new game or can I continue to wreak havok with my current save?

I do not have the boarding issue, but I have the ‘at night, buildings and islands shine like in daylight’ one so was hoping to resolve that one mostly.

Thanks as always!
CQ

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by Capt Qbert.

Hey, I’m new to this game and mod, but it looks like a fantastic achievement.

I’ve been trying to set it up on my Mac through a port, and it seems like it’s been working really well with only one exception I’ve found so far. I’m unsure if it relates to my installation process, graphics settings, porting or what.

Basically at evening and nighttime in game, all the buildings and outdoor environments look like they’re still in sunlight. Only characters, ships, and water are responding to nighttime lighting conditions. I tried my vanilla version of the game and this doesn’t happen, so I’m thinking maybe something went wrong with my installation of ERAs. I wasn’t really sure how to install it with the Mac port, so I think I just copied over and merged the files with the vanilla installation.

Thanks~

So I don’t know what happened but I tried to make a post earlier with some screenshots. I did a fresh install without vanilla and with the updates applied. This time the issues were less significant: basically now the lighting issues at evening/night are with the characters, the flowers and grass type foliage, and the ships when they’re ashore or viewed from land. Everything else is fine. There was also some minor things with certain objects having an outline and sea foam sometimes looking a little strange and choppy/flickering.

Despite that the mod looks great, so thanks again. If there’s anything else you think I can do to get this running perfectly, I’d be glad to know.

hello everyone.
I’m new here, and I have just downloaded your wonderful mod, but I have a little problem: at the moment my only pc is a laptop with an integrated gpu and a nvidia 950m, and the game despite my efforts (such as force the start.exe to use the dedicated gpu) recognizes only the primary video in the setting.exe.

There is a way to change this?
thanks in advance

Yeah, you’re right. After some tweaking now the game is using the nvidia card, despite what the setting.exe shows. I have some fps drop, but I think is my laptop faults, because the mod is much more heavy than vanilla game. By the way this is really a great mod, or I should say, a great game!

Once again, MEGA is preventing me from being able to download any of its files. It has a system in place that prevents you from downloading any files that are above 5 MB unless you pay a monthly subscription for more bandwidth. This paywall (for lack of better words) makes me wait 3 hours before the download can continue. This paywall happens EVERY time you exceed the bandwidth limit, not just once. This makes the download virtually impossible to complete without either waiting a very long time (probably weeks) or somehow bypassing this limit without paying. Anyone know how to do so? Megadownloader doesn’t work anymore because of some policy they implemented on June 3rd this year that stops free downloading programs from accessing their servers.

I know I had a similar issue – I had to leave my computer on all night just to get the full download. So it may be time to switch to a new download client, especially since it will hopefully draw in more players.

On that note, have we put any consideration into putting this game up on Steam? I’m pretty sure you can sell the base game for free there, and then add paid content as DLC packs. Steam is also a pretty mainstream gaming shop, so it could really draw a lot more attention to game. It even solves the issue of finding a new download client, since the Steam downloader is pretty good from my experience.

Any thoughts from you guys?

If itch works, then that’s great. I suggested Steam because while it would be a solution to the download issue, it’s also pretty mainstream, and therefore might be a good way to advertise our game to the wider public – something I think we’re all interested in doing. If it requires payments to host the game, though, I fully understand that it might not be the best option for right now. Maybe we could consider it when we start releasing paid content DLCs?

EDIT: I believe, from what I looked at online, that Steam takes a percentage of any sales – however, I have also heard stated that the company is very friendly with Indie game developers as well. So I suspect that a free-to-play game may require payments for hosting, though I do not know for certain – payment is something they really don’t advertise publically

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by Vincent.

Well I’ve finally managed to get past the MEGA download paywall by downloading all those parts individually, for some reason my game fails to load every dll library it needs on startup. The files are there in the correct folder, just for some reason the game compiler doesn’t recognize them. Any idea why this is?

Unfortunately for me this glitch happens even after I applied both the update and engineupdate files. Since I don’t know where my log file is, I’ll tell you I’m using Windows 10. As for the log files, I need to know where the program typically stores its logs to find them.

Well I don’t have the debuginfo or tracefile options in my start.ini file. Any idea how to add them?

Have you been able to figure out what the issue was? I’ve been trying to launch it around once every day just to test if anything’s changed but it hasn’t. I get the same issue every time I try to launch it.

Hi all,

I feel idiotic for asking this, especially as I have installed an earlier ver of GoF but:

– after dling, how do I proceed with installation? I forgot which file in the downloaded folder does it… And yes I have read the readme in update folder.

Rgds, Oldtimer

@Maltacus

THX for your attn.

Rgds, Oldtimer

Dear devs,

will the upcoming update be save compatible?

Rgds, Oldtimer

The latest update is now available:

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

ERAS2.8Update.zip

The core, base files (…7z.001-012) for 2.8 are being uploaded and will replace 2.6, once finished. But, if you already have 2.6, or 2.7, simply overwriting with the ERAS2.8Update.zip, will get you upgraded.

Hey MK, Thanks for the update. Downloading!!!

By the way, what characters are able to equip the armor?

Happy New Year, Sea Dogs

Thanks a lot for the update but care to direct me to a Changelog, if possible .

all love

it is not necessary to have a change log, a quality mod is always the priority, and this mod my good sir is a gem for sea lovers, so i was away in works but now i’m ready for blunder and will see the change for myself.

good day to you all

Hey guys,

So in the 2.8 update, whilst in sailing mode the ships look rather squashed.

Anyone know what’s up with that?

Armor? Anybody? What characters are able to equip the various armors and suits and uniforms that you come across in the game?

I’m loving the Black Flag sea shanties, it’s a great touch to the mod 🙂

Is there any chance you could get them to play in map mode?

The texture fixes for San Felipe and Dutch Heavy Frigate, gun charges > 4, option screen fixes, and ridding the sometimes jagged sea are complete.

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg
ERAS2.8Update.zip

@Jeffrey: installed those fixes yesterday; we’ve been wrong about what caused the thinking breaks.
Seems like the jagged sea fix fixed that, 12 hours and not one break!

i experience some problem with visual, red flag for the Spanish and gray one for the English, the excellent map are in raw texture, all purple and pixelated, also but not test yet in the latest patch the sails improvement some time seen as a bug, i feel like there are problem on my end so all help are welcome, thank you.

Came across a 2nd rater at the shipyard, cannon quantity should be 70, but then it was 68.
Went through the ships descriptions and then init, id as Resolution. Spawned the ship ingame to check the model, 68 is correct.

The latest update contains some of the fixes discussed over the last couple weeks. It also contains:

Brand new cabin from Orazio, for the small class 7 ships

Officer loyalty tweak, where if an incompatible officer/companion (with a different alignment than the captain), that decides to overlook some of your bad/good acts, contrary to their alignment, after many times of doing so (they have a random chance, weighted by their loyalty measure), their own alignment will start to tick up/down, as they become ‘influenced’ by their captain. They can still retain their own alignment, if they refuse to overlook, and their loyalty drops instead. So if they steadfast stick to their alignment, loyalty drops, but if they let the action slide, after many times, their alignment will start to shift toward yours. Of course those that already match your alignment, they just continue to appreciate your acts that match and loyalty builds accordingly.

Some ship encounters have been altered for number of possible ships

Services should automatically open up after 4 consecutive, busy days, no matter what. There is still a mod option to turn off competition completely.

Fixed a rare engine crash from a cannon anomaly

Fix some missing textures/char models that were added, but files did not make it into last update.

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

ERAS2.8Update.zip

There is more content coming out soon, but in the meantime, since some AI updates have been done, a couple script changes/fixes, I went ahead and put that out:

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg
ERAS2.8Update.zip

It still does not support the higher poly character models, as that will only be distributed when the first character with that high count is introduced in an upcoming update, but some sail-away AI logic, and prevention of companion ships bashing into islands, along with the recent FMOD 1/31 update is now included.

Oh, and Maltucus, you can re-enable foam and see if some of those weather hours look better now.

Keep me updated with any thoughts…

Hi,

just installed latest Update.zip and loyalist patch on top and now the game reads 2.8.0. Should I be concerned?

Rgds, Oldtimer

Hi mega wont allow me to d/l the update file even on its own without install of its client?

Hi I am a bit confused in the order I should overwrite eras in order to update it,I have Eras2 2.8.2 published on 02 January 2018 and it working,so I thought I would check first.I have recived and d/l the following,loyal member updte,ShipsUtilites.c file that it said I should get,and ERAS2.8Update from the link on post #5746,also to add thank you for taking the time and effort to put all this together..just to add its the link on post#5871 that mega says I need to install its client for that is for the single file only,but post #5746and#5871 link to the same page one page lets you d/l and not the other,oh well I hope its the same file rgds ian

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by ians. Reason: info

sorry jeffrey do you mean ignore MK loyal member update and use your latest update above?I also d/l the ShipsUtilites.c as per instructions.Im going by the instruction from the private message I was sent, meaning the “Loyal Members Update PM has been sent thread” thats whats confused me.to my mind it means write over files in game folder with your latest update post #5746 then over that with loyal member update from private message,then last of all the ShipsUtilites.c file..sorry jeffrey I must sound as thick as a man o war keel

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by ians.

I understand ,ignore my private reply sent before i read this,thank you

Would love to try this mod out… But Mega’s HMTL cache is full. I tried to clear it. It says I have to upgrade. Is there a way to upload it to google drive or Mediafire? Asking qgain about the HTML thing cuz no one talked to me the first time.

Any help is welcome.
I even tried using didferent tags. Blah blah…

Thanks!
Chloe

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by acenewton1.

First of all, I thank you for improving one of my favorite games to date and for giving us the opportunity to increase the hours of play, with each update, the game improves considerably, but I’m not sure if it is necessary to create a new game for that works properly, I’ve also had some problems in the tavern, since it is full of captains, I find it difficult to recruit crewmembers and officers, also the statistics of the officers are not correct for their work, for example, the fighters should have Strength, Reaction and Resistance with a little Insight, It would be better to define the statistics using the work of each one and not leave them so random, if you had officers with good statistics it would improve something inmercion, Sorry for my English so bad I have tried hard not to have so many mistakes but surely I have them u.u, Thanks for the effort, this can only improve. 😀

For starters I want to say thank you for the great effort you made for the game. you did a great job for the game and I love it. I have one problem with it. every time I download the game through mega it keeps telling me transfer quota exceeded. I used chrome to download, I Used microsoft edge, and the mega download client. everytime I download at some point the quota is exceeded and I have to wait an hour for the download to continue. instead of downloading the game in one hour or two hours maximum. I have to endure 10+ hours to download the file. could you please provide us with a torrent link addition to the mega download, or upload the file on another download server that does not have limited quota or limited download speed for the download to be easier.

I have not updated the commonly available, but I do have a report about the Loyalty version.

I have updated a few things:

Flag movement, very low wind fix

Some extra ship textures

FMOD update to version 1.10.04 – 3/5/18 Studio API minor release (build 93853)

Config.exe and DirectX startup will now recognize other video adapters, rather than just primary.

I believe it was Jolie that had a problem with ammo reload in 64 bit. I still can’t recreate the problem myself, but I did attempt some guesswork, so take a look and see if it helped.

There are some changes to new game characters, where we have added multi-color text for highlighting character starting facets. Also, some characters will now start beyond level 1.

Constrain Heroes option is now on start screen.

Background character daily updates are now a true, background process, to mitigate the lag one experiences during that process.

If one loses a companion captain to a life-boat, but any other ship besides yourself picks them up, you lost that captain forever. With a new change, if one of your own companions picks them up, they now appear back on your ship and you can reassign them. If an enemy picks them up, you can board the ship, and if you win the captain battle, you have now rescued your companion. If you leave them behind, another NPC hero will survive and eventually gain their own ship again…they will a little angry when you meet them again 😉 A ‘standard’ NPC, will die at sea…tragic.

Grapeshot will become less effective when enemy crew is sparse…more difficult to hit them.

Some other, minor fixes…

For the config.exe to point at another video adapter…in order for it to ‘remember’ what adapter you chose, you must first manually add this line to start.ini:

DeviceNumber = 0

Somewhere near the top is fine (e.g. near screen_x)

If you don’t do this, it will still gain the x and y for screen settings, but not the actual adapter you chose. If you add that line to startlini, then for instance choose an alternate monitor in fullscreen mode, the game will actually play in that other screen; couldn’t do that before. However, I’ve not yet figured how to get windowed mode to play on anything other than the primary monitor (it’s different for windowed), but it should still be playing under the video adapter you chose. So if you have a separate GPU, that wasn’t recognized before, you should be able to select resolutions for it now and also have DirectX start up in-game actually using that particular adapter. I can’t actually test myself, as I only have built-in Intel, but give it a try.

Ah, yes, the new AI tacking upwind is in there too.

But, I realize I forgot to tell something for the new Loyalty update:

I realize most people don’t always overwrite their start.ini file (due to perhaps personal settings they might have changed) and I did not upload that file, but there is a change; you should also correct the spelling for this, at the bottom:

In start.ini, change HorisontalFramesCount to: HorizontalFramesCount

Coming soon: Ship AI Improvements

I’ve been mired in a new task to improve ship AI and I’ve got a treat for everyone; I’ve got a significant improvement in hand concerning escape/flee plans, navigating a path around impeding islands.

What happened, is that the work I was doing to give AI to ships in port, and enable harbor scene, traffic and even battles, I was able to stand and observe AI behavior for ships setting sail to some random point in the world, over and over. Then, watching the behavior, and tracing through code, I found some flaws in the logic and also found some strengths in the logic I didn’t know before, but were either under-utilized, or simply missing some data points that would boost the ‘smarts,’ and by simply adjusting some of what was already there, was able to grant the AI system much more intelligence.

There are still some other problems, like ships can bump into each other, due to a deficiency in predictions (which I will also probably work on and address), but this improvement is for the overall strategy employed by the AI character…for instance, one of the problems is that a fleeing ship will often head directly toward the center of an island, reach it, then turn, no matter if their true destination was nowhere near that island…that sort of thing will be history and no longer happen. I found out why that occurred, and what they will do now is actually head the best, straightest/fastest path to their actual plan of escape.

I also made some refinements to the upwind tacking as there were a couple, minor problems.

I just want to test a bit more and also apply this to the other codesets I have (e.g. 64 bit), so they contain matching logic/improvements.

Herro evelybody, (finally) o7

testing the newest iteration of the GoF mod right now.
Just want to say thank you for still developing this awesome mod
for AoP2

The commonly available Update has been changed to fix the following:

Schiavonna’s animation adjustments

Fix excellent map textures, Centurion, Sixtrate bluish textures at distance.

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

ERAS2.8Update.zip

The Loyalty update also has a couple corrections; see your PMs

Sorry for this offtopic, i write in mobile Phone And i dont have free time because finally im a sailor in Armada española.
I See a lot of improvements the problem is i hasnt a pc to play here… For the moment.
Thank you to all the People Who Work and contributive to this mod.I hope i can try this New updates soon. Thank you all!!!

Some updates.

The common version updates:

Fix alpha blending problem with dialog box background texture

Fix character font width for 0, 3, 8 and add comma separators in money format

Fix tavern characters dialog sit direction

Add missing Brigantine21 sailorpoint file

The Loyal version contains same updates as above, plus:

FMOD update to version 1.10.05 – 4/26/2018 Studio API minor release (build 94661) http://www.fmod.org/documentation/#content/generated/common/revision.html

Fix: For 64 bit to play .ogg video files (Title video) properly, need the DirectShow filters installed from https://xiph.org/dshow/ (opencodecs_0.85.17777.exe)

Player town alarm modification to display status while “hiding” in residence/church/tavern, and to also dissipate if remain out of sight, either the streets or inside a building.

Add available memory query feature

Boarding crew size modifications (if sufficient available memory)

Add feature to obtain nearest enemy ship character index. (For Myth request)

Some more, small performance tweaks (sqrt removals)

Sky next dir/material change and sky blend change (see if this helps a rare, wrong texture problem)

Common version here: https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

ERAS2.8Update.zip

Loyal version in PM

hi all,

just wanted to inform there is no port controller npc on boddens landing, kind of breaking my pirate playthrough as i cannot store any ships
because there are no other port controllers on pirate ports, is this an easy fix?… just changing some lines here and there, if you explain it i can do it

Thanks

Update for Loyalty version

Option to disable PC main char auto-level at startup

Sailors/lowmen on ship number reduction when actual crew number is less than lowmen count

FMOD update to version 1.10.06 – 6/06/2018 Studio API minor release (build 95384) http://www.fmod.org/documentation/#content/generated/common/revision.html

New taverns for Boddon’s, Bermuda, and Tortuga

Feature to render sky last in scene to mitigate blue palm outline (not used in ERAS…yet)

Dialog back texture half sometimes missing fix

Fix jumping glitch that requires releasing/depressing run/walk to continue after “fall jump”.

Added feature to allow jumping just about anywhere else in the game, not requiring a “jump patch” in the location model.

Hi all thx for the continued effort you guys put in the game.
I use windows 10 64bit and i would like to try the 64bit version of this mod to help you guys out with finding bugs and other issues.

Any way thx for your work 🙂

Update for Loyalty version

There was a slight problem with closed doors in the new taverns for Boddon’s, Bermuda, and Tortuga for newly started games. I fixed that.

Great news for I finally encountered a save bug that crashed the game. This was different than the old, notorious one that corrupted save files; we don’t get those (at least I don’t, and I don’t hear about it either). This one just crashed, no save file. It took awhile, but I finally found a bug from the original game that was probably very uncommon due to how memory got allocated in the old, fragmented way. However, our more efficient memory allocation very likely caused the probability of this bug to go up. I finally had it happen, and was also able to reproduce it, so I tracked it down to a problem in the xinterface source code, found the root cause, and fixed it.

Also, the game .exe has changed names. The game executable, START.exe, has been renamed to Maelstrom.exe. If you use a shortcut to launch the game, you will need to change the target to match the new name. You can delete your old START.exe after downloading the updated file set and copying them into your game folder.

Link in your PMs.

Alas, another Loyalty update. I found out the day after I uploaded the last version, that FMOD had a new update on 7/3, which I did not notice.

So, new FMOD update to version 1.10.07 – 7/03/2018

Also, I found a bug that caused the game to crash, but it required a very specific scenario, which I assume most people won’t encounter, but I discovered it while testing so figured may as well fix it.

The fix involves the compatibility between save games from the 64 bit and loading that same save with the 32 bit version, or vice versa 64 bit to 32 bit; the save compatibility between the two were a problem for situations where cannon balls are in mid-flight during the save and reloading same save in a different bit version of the application would crash game. That is now corrected and the saves can be loaded in either version without a problem.

Hi, Jeffrey and MK! Nice to salute you again.

I updated the game. Starting with Jeffrey’s Loyalty updates, I applied first the Eras2.8Loyalty of 210.7Mb update, then the 20.8Mb x64 update, then the 395Mb MK Member Loyalty patch…

Suddenly I got a mess. Maelstrom.exe cannot find any of the libraries. Appcrash.

Could you please explain me what are the exact files and their exact order that I need to have and extract? Thanks beforehand!!!

Updates for both common version and Loyalty.

Common version:

* Raised minimum deck camera height
* Fix Sea-to-Sea fader transition

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg
Eras2.8Update.zip

Loyalty version:

* FMOD update to version 1.10.08 – 8/09/2018 Studio API minor release (build 96768) http://www.fmod.org/documentation/#content/generated/common/revision.html

* Sound update for initial loading/buffering of music is now done in background to remove any hiccup/lag for on-screen action

* Secret sound update…see if you notice

* Fix looped sounds sometimes stopping/never looping at random times

* Raised minimum deck camera height

* Fix Sea-to-Sea fader transition

* Fix resume music

Loyalty check your PM

New update to the Loyalty version.

I did a complete rewrite of all sound mechanism and added an enhanced sound feature.

Fix ShipLights crash for Yacht

Fix bug in save overwrite cancel that still deletes file

Config Logging option to ease turning log files on/off, now as a simple checkbox.

Check your PMs.

Update coming (though not yet uploaded, pending some testing) for next Loyalty release:

I finished two item interface changes. You will be able to exchange items with any officer or companion from the character item screen in one simple interface, similar to the trader screen. Your hero items will be the “trader” (on the right pane) and you can scroll through all officers and companions and swap items. Also, when you open a chest, if nobody is with you, the same standard chest loot box. However, if you have fighters in the same location with you, again, that “trader” screen will appear, with the source on the right the contents of the chest, instead of a trader, and you can scroll through all your fighters and they each take items from the chest.

Also, at the bottom of all trader, chest and officer exchange screens, there is a 3-way toggle on the bottom, to filter items only the left has for inventory, all, or only right side has for inventory; this was borrowed from GOF 1.2, and some of the code was there, but not fully implemented in ERAS for some reason. I noticed this during my work, so just went ahead and added that feature as well.

The above features, coming soon to Loyalty…

Hi guys! I’ve been a bit of a “ghost” loyalty member, haven’t played the game in quite sometime and as such havent had anything to post here for a long time either, but I poke in every now and then to see whats going on. Last time I posted was about an issue where I could get unlimited cannons on my ship due to a bug. I tried the fixes jeffrey suggested but sadly non of them worked so I decided to let the game bake a little longer.

A few quick questions:
How do we loyalty members download the loyalty updates?
Are there special instructions for the loyalty version?
Any idea when the full loyalty version will be released? The last time I checked in, I thought I remembered seeing something about the game being purchasable when fully released; how much will this be?
What is the processes for updating the game now a days? In the past I think i remember just having to copy over a single “update” zip folder over the one currently being used

Thank you in advance, and Im looking forward to a release everyone can use. Im more then willing to shell out some cash for this game, im quite fond of it and the work you guys have put into it 🙂

New update:

Config starting directory for Save/Launch

Change all internal strings to use standard

Correct island tracing for AI runaway when destination is inside land mass.

Change ship AI follow when lead ship stopping to use offset distance

Correct AIBalls save/load object 32/64 bit compatibility

Random number generation correction

Fix Sawkins timeout and correct win condition

Fix PGG nation selection for PGG pirate quest

Fix Carrier flaws

Fix Treasure hunter count

Fix missing Portobello locators for officer gate reload

Fix missing torch sounds in PuertoPrincipe

Fix Survive_In_SeaOfficer message

Ship sale proposition mod

PGG pirate quest ship, when last ship of enemy squadron, surrender does not allow board and immediately terminates quest…fixed to allow boarding first, then terminate quest.

Unique brothel models

Loot from chest show all officers in location, item exchange from character screen, add GOF 1.2 toggle filters

Kill Beggars add quest city to log message

Fixed flamhouse model for missing fireplace sound

Fire ambience for any location that has fireplace

Change COAS log entry to hint going alone

Fix Jamaica and Trinidad map texture misspellings

Victory music fix

Remove FreePoints if maxed out (personal or ship)

Repaint ship mod

Fix License validity for NPC

Locator exist feature pre-update

AIShip optimizations/improvements

Add hero weight overload run message

Fix PGG hero quest bug when mission declined and never get another offer

Cartagena Fort addition/change

Fix town musketeers

Invalid cannon bort message fix

Narwhal destroy quest fix and model correction

Sea Alarm on load fix

Add log message hours to dive COAS, priest candles fix, barman hint about San Augustine key location.

FMOD update to version 1.10.09 – 10/11/2018 Studio API minor release (build 97915) http://www.fmod.org/documentation/#content/generated/common/revision.html

Nice! Okay I did the same installation procedure as last time, but used 7zip. last time it was a couple hours of gameplay in till i got the CTD’s so Ill follow up then with an update on how its running. Thank you for your input Jeffrey!

Two other questions: Was that ship pricing an error?

Also, I just got a 4k screen, is it possible to run the game in that resolution? If it is, do you recommend doing so?

@Devs

Dear devs, THX awfully for the recent update. GoF has become better, again.

Rgds, Oldtimer

Thanks for the update. I’m downloading now.

I seem to have done something wrong with the installation. I started a game as John Strong. My English ship is flying some sort of weird combination of French and Spanish flags. I tried changing to pirate flag and back, but I still get that weird combination. Other English ships seem to be doing the same. Any ideas what this is about?

this is what it looks like now. This should be an English ship.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by Antiscamp.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by Antiscamp.

Thanks! It looks much better now.

Im having some trouble on the British Trade Secrets quest for Dutch questline..
Ive done it before on a save 2 years ago but for some reason the guy im supposed to break out of prison is not there, just another guy that wants to be broken out in a separate quest.

I found this issue another dude was having on google (mk you might remember this thread on PH)

“Peter Stuyvesant wants you to speak with Edward Mansfield, a Dutch pirate, about the English trade war and British measures against Holland.
Go to La Vega and visit the residence. Mansfield knows nothing, but maybe Morgan does. Go to Port Royale and visit Morgan’s residence. He is on Antigua so go there. A dungeon entrance near Morgan’s house allows you to enter it in case of a locked door. Morgan asks for a favor so help him.
A certain filibuster named Pierre le Picard needs to be checked so sail to Tortuga and ask the tavernkeeper, the brothel ownerin, the shipwright, the storekeeper and the moneylender about Pierre.
You have learned enough so report to Morgan”

Now everything is correct up to this point but Morgan tells me he doesn’t know anything about where Modyford is going to attack and then he tells me about the british officer… there lies my problem…”

I’m on Antigua and braking into the St Johns Fort, and im having the same issue as that guy ^^^. This is the right fort right? The dude im supposed to be rescuing is just not there.. The OP i quoted above later said he loaded a later save game and suddenly the quest worked this time, but im skeptical that there’s been a bug.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bx6knxrr6cj74rz/C1%20Hispaniola%20-%20Sea%201%20before%20morgan?dl=0

^before I talked to morgan^

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hcqi55qelo1wma8/C1%20Hispaniola%20Port-au-Prince%20Street?dl=0

^2 hours after I talked with him and gave up on breaking the dude out of prison^

If its possible the save can be continued with after I talked to him, that would be cool; if not that’s fine 2 hours is nothin lol

Thank you for taking a look Jeffrey! I decided to go back to before I talked with him, made sure I had 24 hours before the dude gets hanged, and was able to complete the mission and move on.

One thing I noticed, is when more then 24 hours pass, there is no update to the mission letting you know you’ve failed, so im pretty sure your doomed to perpetually have the quest in your log

Another thing; I remember having to fight my way out of the prison and defend the prisoner, that he refused to tell you what you need to know until hes brought to safety. This time, I was able to just talk to him in prison, and then he just vanished and I could leave on my own accord. Idk, perhaps im mistaken and thats for another quest line where he must be escorted out, but I thought that was interesting. I was happily suprised the mission was easier then I anticipated.

As always, thank you so much for your dedication to this game <3

Is there anything that can be done to stop all the stores from selling out of cannon ammo and powder once mid game is reached? Im around level 13 and right about now as Im starting to go from one ship to multiple, its impossible to outfit my ships with ammo and powder.

My understanding is its because the other heros in game are buying them up, but why are they buying it all up now and not earlier? I dont like how if I want to outfit these guys im forced to board and loot to get ammo and powder supplies

also I seem to be getting random crashes with this save
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nygo9auk3f3s18m/C1%20AutoSave?dl=0
They seem to happen when there are a couple (3+) ships in a battle

currently it crashes while loading the boarding scene or after they have surrendered the vessel and im starting to go to the next ship, then it crashes.

Can anyone confirm if it happens to you to?

EDIT: Im pretty sure it has to do with time warp, I just tried playing through the battle and this time not accelerating time. I was able to sail over to the next ship, sink that one, then decided to let the 3rd one go. Lowered sails, and time accelerated, hoping it wouldn’t crash, and it did

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by chris gardner.

I like Hefeweisen 🙂

Also just bought a boat (1967 Cal 28) So some solar panels would be nice XD

But in all seriousness wow, that sounds big! Glad to be a part of the fix 🙂

Its funny how for me the problems became easy to reproduce, I recently upgraded my graphics cards from 2 hd6950s to 1 rx580, and its been giving me problems with most of my games, its actually been less compatible and produced more trouble then the drivers for my previous cards, and they had driver support dropped a few years ago lol. So idk it seems ironic my experience with most games has been crashes but my experience of one of them has helped solve a major bug

Question:

I decided to change to the newer compression for save files, and one of the options in the library is the compression degree. I experimented and if I reduce the compression slightly, the time to save the file is nearly instantaneous. I was going to just do it, but thought I’d ask the opinions here:

Would you rather the highest compression, with a slight delay in writing, or can I reduce the compression to where the save is nearly instant; you can’t even see the delay? The file size for this change, averages about 40kb more (yes, forty kb). To me, that seems minuscule and I like the very fast write for such a small difference. But, I seek other opinions…what do you think?

The game has been updated. But, the distribution method has changed from Mega to Itch.io. Get the latest here:

Also, a crucial fix (per chris gardner’s problem/resolution) has also been applied to the Maelstrom Engine, so be sure get that through Itch.io, too. There are some setup changes, that are all documented in both the Itch.io instructions and a new doc, MaelstromSetup.pdf. Dmitry is helping to create a new launcher that will hopefully enable launching from directly within the Itch client, but for now, there is a documented way to just build Windows shortcuts for all the now released other mods/vanilla versions that are playable now, including COAS, GOF, POTC, CT, etc.; they are all now available on Itch.io as well.

If you are part of the Loyal group, and have not received a key for free download, PM me here and I will give you your own personal key that entitles you to free download and all subsequent fixes/changes will be free.

All others must pay the piper.

Is it possible to give more graphics options to the game? I’m asking because I have some fps issues in some parts of the game while in others tiles it runs butter smooth, I think the more demanding things are lighting and special effects like smoke. I run on a Dell laptop equipped with an i5 3337U and Intel Hd 4000, I know that a pc with a discrete GPU can make it but if we could get an option to disable some of these it would have a bigger impact than resolution and textures ( that I haven’t noticed any difference in fps from low to high ).

Nice To see The work Being Done here..was way for some time due to illness..back now..Very impressed..

Hello! I was wondering if the maelstrom engine is necessary to be able to play the mod … since it already costs money (which I do not have) and the mod is really great and I would like to play it so any help thanks 🙂 regards Rafa

Hi guys! I just bought the maelstrom engine, installed it on a folder, placed the .exe in the mod folder and everytime I try to run it, I crash on startup (first loading screen before main menu). I installed everything, from both redist to the directx again, to the .ogg file, and even tried every single exe (directx 8, directx 9 32 and directx 9 64). I just can’t make the game work. I have read the manual to get this started, did everything it says and still no luck. I just don’t know what could be wrong.

I didn’t like the new client and I’ve uninstalled it. It’s a mess and makes installation and updating behave weirdly. I already have Steam, that GOG thing, IndieDB, the Bethesda thing and Origin unfortunately, and a whole range of other useless clients installed. I don’t need another one, especially one I find a mess.

Have I been deleted from the loyalist list?

Have got my new system running at last and that`s the reason for my absence. I do not see any info on updates in my notifications.

Rgds, Oldtimer

Mr. Jeffrey,

THX for your attn., I Hope you will post update info here and keep them at MEGA too.

Rgds,

Oldtimer

Hi guys! Been awhile since ive been here, but i got into the game yet again and got around to installing the newest version on ichi. took me a min to comprehend the install PDF, but i got the shortcut working and the game runs just fine so far. I do have a questing as it comes to configuring the game settings before actually launching the game:

Before i got the shortcut working, i clicked on a different exe, and it brought up a tiny settings screen on my desktop that displayed the game resolutions in a drop down menu, and some other setting options. I didnt change ANYTHING, as i missclicked and meant to start the game. It worked! But now im trying to max out the detail settings, and poss try and run 1440p or 4k res. My issue is I cant figure out which file i clicked on to bring up that settings screen! I thought it was config, but when i try to do that now, it says, ” could not find start.ini and/r options file in game directory: E:\maelstrom\gentlemen-of-fortune-maelstrom-engine\directx9_64bit”

I have never gotten that message, I followed the PDF instructions to the letter for assigning the shortcut to launch the game, exception being the game is on a dedicated drive E: not C:

The game runs perfectly fine! any one got an idea for my as to why it cant find start.ini suddenly? it seems i was able to access the settings just fine before the game launched for the first time, and now it cant find it..

I put the config in that directory and it worked! (preface, i run my desktop native at 1080p) I set the game config to run in 4k, and maxed out the other settings and it ran great, but the UI was too small (would be great to have a UI resize option in the future!) so I quit and changed config to 1440p.

When i loaded my save again, the UI (health/power portrate, time display in upper right corner, quick travel icons) looks like its still the same 4k size and should have gotten bigger. I thought maybe because my desktop res and game res isnt matching up is breaking something, so I put my desktop to 1440p.

Loaded up game, still looks like its trying to run 4k.

So i said to hell with it and changed both my desktop and game res back to 1080p, but my save upon loading still shows a super small UI! Im pretty stumped atm, this is what i get for wanting nice things lol

EDIT: i did only copy the config to the directory you mentioned, so the og is still in its original place, could that be making stuff wonky?

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by chris gardner.

They do say 1920×1080

EDIT: just tried starting a new game and i still get small UI

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by chris gardner.

Itch updated with latest.

Maelstrom Update

Add animal nature shore crabs

Limit screenshots (F8) to 1 per second…no multiples on key hold.

Add support to allow multiple languages to work with a single install, select in Config.exe

Add cannon direct aim fire support

FMOD update to version 1.10.11

Support for new sail type to fix lateen/spanker sail deficiencies

Feature update ship lights toggle on/off when daylight change while at sea, instead of just during scene load

Reintroduced sink effect splashes that were removed. Found and fixed the bug that caused me to remove them.

Changed square sail angle effects in various wind directions

ERAS II

Fishing fleet cost fixes

Fishing pirates change to pure neutral/no flag

Fix ambient ship/sea/rain sound resume post-battle

Bounty Hunter, Bold Privateers and Coastal Guard ship selection changes for more variety

Fix PGG dialog for when PC has no ship in “First time” dialog

Fix random bug of the doors in Bridgetown being locked/unlocked when door is needed for the Blood/Weston, Blood/Weaponsmith quest.

Fix house encounters for some of Blood Quest

Smuggler mission dialog/fight fix

Citizen/Port controller mission ship selection (variety)

Add crabs on seashores

AI/Merchant ship selection changes (variety)

Fix Duel/Tavern loading screen

Add boat to Pirate town dock (Bermudes)

Direct Aim cannons when certain gunner’s items exist in player/gunner inventory (new feature)

Fix random bug for sea cameras during save-load

Fix music to go battle when firing on friendly fort

Other script code cleanup/condensing/efficiencies

Fix another ship swap bug

Hero personal flags for PC

Fix save-load select last free slot

Fix Galleon Legero cannons

Fix XebecLight cannons

Ship lights toggle on/off when daylight change while at sea

Fix lateen/spanker turn angle (new sail type)
Ships updated with new type:
Barkentine
Barque3
Bermsloop
BrigQeen
BrigSW
Duthlineship
Galeoth2
Galeoth_h
Lugger
LuggerVML
Lugger_h
Speedy
Surprise
Veinard

Reporting in: Upon pressing f4, very interestingly, it reports 1920×1080

Screen shot:

very nice updates, can’t wait to try them out! Having itch to download the updated fiels for me is great, it was a good choice for a host site. Now I just need to get my old computer working again so that I can grab my custom music files from my older game copy…

correct, i am not playing in window mode

Hi Jeffrey, good news, the window mode does indeed workaround my issue. Both the rez and UI now change according to what i set config to! I can run the game in 1440p with no issues so far. I would be nice to run in full screen eventually, as i need to run in windowed to get my UI out of tiny 4k mode, but for the time being this works rather nicely. Also, you may find it helpful to know i still have that f4 hotkey as we left it, and even after getting the UI and game to run nice in 1440p, the game still reports 1920×1080

Let me know if I can help out with a test here or there if you want a guinea pig to fool with a range of resolutions

u da man Jeffrey

Is it normal for all ports to be nearly or completely out of cannon ammo and powder? Im only level 3, just got a decent ship for fighting, (only been trading till now) and i cant find any powder

just a note, musketeers are walking around without guns in my game, and atialiasing still does weird things…

I too am getting occasional musketeers walking around without guns in my game, AA might be doing some weird graphical things too but i just accept it lol.

I am however getting a graphical glitch with my ships wake, please see screen shots here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ouzn5kii5dzio5z/wake%20graphic%20glitch%201.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lcz7y88ivbkbgqo/wake%20graphic%20glitch%202.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/agv8u6v9u1wn3cg/wake%20graphic%20glitch%203.png?dl=0

I have been getting it since the beginning of the game, it didnt bother me too much then, but since ive been doing more ship combat recently, its kinda an eye sore

I do still get random crashing; day before yesterday, it crashed 2x within 10 min of each other, while just last night, I played for many hours without a hickup. Eventually one came, but it was like 3-4 hours in, and another ship was ramming me in battle lol, and i make a shiny new save every time i leave port.

besides that, the game runs really well at 1440p max settings, and the graphics, though limited by the old engine, do look as best as they possibly can given whats being worked with. The water and lighting look very good!

• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by chris gardner.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by chris gardner.

Turning off AA fixed my ship wake issue easy peesy! Jeff, you think i was getting that transparent ship wake because ive had to run the game in “windowed” mode while having AA on or is AA the sole culprit? i run the game on a single rx 580 gpu

Interesting, thank you for your input and invaluable help Jeff!

I was preparing to do the dutch quest line were you defend fort orange, but when i went back to Stuyvesant, he said he doesn’t know me.. What could I have done? I dont think i talked to the pirate gov. on Bermuda.. I did talk to one pirate gov though thinking i could gamble with him, but i fear i did that which your not supposed to do when on a nation questline. Did i mess something up?

Wanted to report a few bugs;

– The sound effects from the opening menu continue to play during the intro/tutorial scene when starting a new game, should probably be fixed.
– Combat music continues to play until a scene transition after defeating rapists.
– The new sail billow direction could maybe use a bit more work to refine it – it works fine currently, but I’ve noticed a few times that the sails seem to switch to the wrong direction when sailing in certain orientations compared to the wind direction.

Nice work, Jeffrey!

As for the sail direction, I was sailing the Snauw at the time, but from what you said, I may just be seeing things that happen correectly and interpreting them incorrectly in my own mind.

Going back to this one:

– Combat music continues to play until a scene transition after defeating rapists.

Another peculiarity with both this scene, and the “gang” encounter, is that as soon as a fight commenced, the thugs would attack, then briefly sheath their weapons, then resume attack and fight ’til the end.

I spent a considerable amount of time tracing this through and eventually solved that problem. It was something always present since the COAS days, but it’s fixed in all our COAS-derived versions now.

My apologies if this has already been covered, but I have a hard time searching the site forum. I’m finding ERAS2 to be very stable and great, but the one thing that is driving me crazy is the pitch blackness of caves. I’m playing on a laptop with Intel graphics, so the default screen brightness settings are somewhat limited. The two caves I have been in so far I would just run into the blackness without realizing that I wasn’t going anywhere, or not knowing when I whether I was turning left or right. It makes the caves a bit of a nightmare. The gamma and brightness settings in the options are disabled, and I’m not seeing anything in config.exe. I don’t really want to screw with the system wide display options for all programs. Is there a workaround for the program?

Okay, new question. I’ve tried several “Pirate’s Proposition” quests in ERAS 2, and they haven’t worked like what I’ve seen previously in playing CoAS. I get a clearly specified location like “Ruin Beach by Pirate Colony”, go there, and then nothing. No battle on the shore, nothing. There are some ships from the country we are attacking in the vicinity, the pirate ship is still a companion, and if I let the time limit lapse the pirate captain comes after me demanding money, but I never can find the fight I have traveled to carry out.

I’ve only done a couple of these quests before, so maybe it’s possible there’s a version of the Pirate’s Proposition where you have to go back in the jungle or attack ships, but I’m not thinking that’s it. It’s looking like the quest trigger isn’t working for some reason.

Thanks,

Gnat

Update on my work so far:

I’m getting closer to a beta for the PT lang, I say beta as it needs polishment as I can’t translate it accurately without context so I would want these characters to add to the font image: ç,Ç,ã,â,á,à,ê,é,è,î,í,ì,õ,ô,ó,ò,û,ú,ù,Ã,Â,Á,À,Ê,É,È,Î,Í,Ì,Õ,Ô,Ó,Ò,Û,Ú,Ù. so I can test it before bringing it here, I did saw some of the characters but it was messed up like in one box ç would appear but in another, it didn’t and I did create a new fonts_lang.ini with the characters added.
About the completeness, I’m on the last archive of the RESOURCE INI text folder at the quest_texts so from there the only thing missing is the PROGRAM text folder texts, and also I would want to know about the new texts added from January until now as I remember something being added after I’ve completed that text so would be cool to have some kind of comment on those files dating the changes, and I probably will do the same for future DLC’s as well. The whole game as a bulk might be done until early May, but again, unpolished.

It’s been mentioned a couple times recently…the missing soldier muskets. I found the problem today and it will be fixed in the next update.

Updates

Maelstrom
https://chezjfrey.itch.io/gentlemen-of-fortune-maelstrom-engine/devlog/77005/maelstrom-update

FMOD update to version 1.10.12 – 03/14/2019 Studio API minor release (build 101101) https://www.fmod.com/resources/documentation-api?version=2.0&page=welcome-revision-history.html

Fix for dupe SHIP_LIST during add

XBox controller support (the engine now supports the controller and works, but still much work to remap many fight controls and provide some interface for control configuration within the game scripts that can be used in conjunction with a keyboard)

Fix AI Task for dead fort

Check SaveDir exist and if not, create in Maelstrom

Allow for different lo_man model dirs

Multi-Board engine mod

Fix XP incompatibility in Config.exe and render routine

Camera from eyes change

strcmp function for scripts

Sound StopAll fix

Square sail switch buffer angle

ERAS II
https://chezjfrey.itch.io/gentlemen-of-fortune-historical-eras-module-2/devlog/77022/eras-ii-update

Fix for options read for new/non-found options

Blood quest fixes for save-load problems with location attributes

Repel Boarding perk

CheckRunMode so strafe while running does not deplete energy

Duel/Insult changes

Camera from eyes change

Extend dead body timeout 5 minutes MOD_DEAD_CLEAR_TIME 300

Tortuga ship upgrades

Dead body locator mod for FastAction

Mouse scroll wheel control changes for commands to allow mapping

Sort for trade screen

New game sound fix

Fix Rapist/gang alarm, post-fight

Correct enemy sheathing during fight

Fix shipyard model for wrong object textures

Fix Portugal soldier models for Pirate quest shore encounters

Castelf spanker fix

Change citizen “seek friend” and port controller “journal” captain to not check flag if friendly flying

Lower boarding deck locator fixes

Unequip pistols for duels

Fix GOF/ERAS mod options table click and Portugal trade license

Fix ARGB for ambient light

Fix missing muskets

Add Portugal to statistics screen

Add quicksave to control map display

Updates

Maelstrom

Script internal function modification for strcut

Minimize “throw” distance when colliding with ship

Location.dll crash fix

Sail fixes

ERAS II

XBox controls and Keymap file changes (XBox controls still WIP/Beta)

Ship Attack task fix

Fix for flag when wash ashore

Alarm timeout changes/fixes

Update

Maelstrom

Feature to remap correct entity to script var to support bad ship/char entity fix for sail state icon when return to sea

ERAS II

King’s Man-o-War gun fix 112 to 102

Bad ship/char entity fix for sail state icon when return to sea

Bad faceid fixes