Dear devs,

just equipped a cuirass as Miss Devlin. It is VISIBLE!!! B-d-y gorgeous too…

KUDOS to you, keep up the good work!

Rgds.,

Oldtimer

Don’t know…MK found and added many models over the years. Some he may have decided don’t work, doesn’t like them, are duplicates, or haven’t yet been retextured, or in some cases, may actually be used by something other than Pirates, even though they were named such…any number of reasons, I suppose.

Code looks fine. You can add a message that will display in the rolling text of the upper right of the screen to verify the F4 key registered with the game:

void ExecuteConsole()
{
RealShips[sti(Pchar.Ship.Type)].TurnRate = 16.07;
Log_SetStringToLog("Success");
}

You should see the Success text message, then F2 to check Maneuverability…[Read more]

Ok, thanks for the info Jeffrey

Is this the ship described, “An English designed armed merchant ship built in the 1670s-80s…?”

I loaded this ship, but I don’t see what is missing? Do you have a screenshot to show what is missing?

It’s still enabled in ERAS, but it is very difficult; the damage to masts in COAS/GOF was way too high, so a few hits and they would fall.

In ERAS, we changed the damage to be dependent on the cannon caliber, but also the ship class, so that large ships, presumably have much tougher masts. Also, the masts are much sturdier…according to MK,…[Read more]

Btw, what happened with the naval battles that I cannot destroy the masts of enemy ships? I remember that in ordinary COAS I was able to destroy masts, but in Eras I haven’t had a chance even with large ships and with a lot of cannons. Has that feature been removed? I remember it was buggy in GOF 2.0 version.

I have tested it. It’s 90% better now. Still happens something like a stutter from time to time on Spanish Main, but it’s not a big deal, FPS is stable now. Thanks Jeffrey!

Not a problem…check out the foliage/FPS now, I think you’ll notice

Maelstrom Update

x64 bit FMOD update to version 2.01.04 – 9/10/2020 Studio API minor release (build 111454)

Fix VideoRect issue not playing

Fix occasional visual glitch in 64 bit due to flag anomaly

Improve FPS with foliage enabled at sea

Thanks for all the hard work Jeffrey.

I have good news! I figured out a way to mitigate the foliage problem while at sea and the FPS is much better now. Will be in the next Maelstrom update.

Just wanted to share this random screenshot I made. It looked so real to me, to see a ship on such distance from port (Marigot).

It happens in all the South American continent. And no, just reducing the foliage does not help, only when completely disabled will make fps back to normal.

Someone also noticed FPS drops during storms, that also improved if foliage was disabled.

Does this same thing also occur around other parts of the South American continent, like Belize?

Also, instead of disabling, does reducing the foliage quality help?

I’m trying to figure out if is the specific foliage patch just around Maracaibo, and also…[Read more]

Edit: I suspected that foliage was causing the problem and I was right. Turning it off will make fps run smooth. So I guess no foliage in that part of the Caribbean.

I’m having considerable fps drop when sailing close to Maracaibo and the other southern parts of the Caribbean. It’s strange because the game works so smoothly everywhere else, and I haven’t had any game crash since I started playing it a few days ago.
My specs:
Intel Xeon E3 1270 3.4GHz
AMD Radeon R9 270x GPU 2GB DDR5
8GB DDR3 RAM

I was thinking also how nice it would be to have this music in Eras mod. It’s music from an old pirate game called Cutthroats: Terror on the high seas.

It’s been 2 years since I last time played Eras Mod. For the first time now I’m playing it on the Maelstrom engine and I have to say that I can’t believe what this modding team has done with an old game that still happens to be the best sailing and pirating simulator on the game market. Thank you for this wonderful work!

Change data of player ship.

Mr, Jeffrey,

Following your instructions above I could change my ships data, but no longer.
This is the code change:

void ExecuteConsole()
{
RealShips[sti(Pchar.Ship.Type)].TurnRate = 16.07;
}
But now nothing happens after pressing F4.

What`s wrong?

Rgds, Oldtimer