Hey, welcome back. Sounds like you had a marvelous time!

Those ships were indeed encountered during a couple smuggler/Gentlemen of Fortune encounters.

I’ve not uploaded my fighting changes for difficulty level just yet. I’m still gauging things. I’m more satisfied with the Emerald Shore and Isabella Arrest. I’m just about to give…[Read more]

I had almost forgotten that in the beginning, Pearl Village was broken and model[10] = “pirate_11”; through model[27] = “pirate_28”; were stricken out of LAi_utilites.c. Since the models exist in RESOURCEMODELSCharacters, I took a look and fixed it so that the newer models will show as ModernKnight intended.

The initial model array was not…[Read more]

I had almost forgotten that in the beginning, Pearl Village was broken and model[10] = “pirate_11”; through model[27] = “pirate_28”; were stricken out of LAi_utilites.c. Since the models exist in RESOURCEMODELSCharacters, I took a look and fixed it so that the newer models will show as ModernKnight intended.

The initial model array was not…[Read more]

I had almost forgotten that in the beginning, Pearl Village was broken and model[10] = “pirate_11”; through model[27] = “pirate_28”; were stricken out of LAi_utilites.c. Since the models exist in RESOURCEMODELSCharacters, I took a look and fixed it so that the newer models will show as ModernKnight intended.

The initial model array was not…[Read more]

To continue on with the difficulty settings…it seems broken. From setting = 4 and above, the NPC fight action/damage is insane and near impossible to endure. I am now level 17, with a Flemish cuirass, nice fast-loading pistol and above-average light weapon. With bonus items, 73 fencing score, 43 pistol score. Against the 3 opponents, solo,…[Read more]

Thanks Orazio.

In those ‘other captain’ quests/requests to find some ships, attack/loot and the player immediately teleports to the nearest shore, sometimes the screen goes black and stays that way. If you hit the ESC key, the menu to Resume game pops up and then everything looks fine. This bothered me.

I had a thought that maybe if I could…[Read more]

BTW, I’ve not submitted/included the Emerald City change per difficulty level, as there might be some discussion/disagreement with my reasoning: What follows is my proposal that I have tried at various difficulty settings by simply uncommenting/changing the line at the beginning to change MOD_SKILL_ENEMY_RATE 1-10 and relaunching/retrying my save…[Read more]

Ascold fix. There has been a longstanding bug since AoP, where the body-switch in the Ascold quest makes your fighter officers disappear forever. I have been meaning to fix this and just got around to it. I don’t have an old save for that part, but the code snippet was tested in the debugger and works to simply remove the officer from the…[Read more]

Ascold fix. There has been a longstanding bug since AoP, where the body-switch in the Ascold quest makes your fighter officers disappear forever. I have been meaning to fix this and just got around to it. I don’t have an old save for that part, but the code snippet was tested in the debugger and works to simply remove the officer from the…[Read more]

This difficulty thing got my curiosity going…since I’d never thought to try it out, I did some experimenting, with dismal results considering the two places I tried it: Tavern robber and Emerald City shore. I concocted some code to replicate both the tavern and the Emerald shore scenarios by copying the code, but placing it in a loop that…[Read more]

Speaking of difficulty level, while poking around looking at things, I found that the current game’s level is supposed to display on the Statistic tab, but doesn’t because ever since AoP COAS, that line is passing a font name that doesn’t exist.

In Questbook.c, change:

CreateString(true, “LevelComplexity”, XI_ConvertString(“m_Complexity”) + ” :…[Read more]

OK, since I tried a few things on Impossible difficulty (as seen here: https://buccaneersreef.com/forums/topic/eras-2-gameplay-on-impossible-difficulty/), I then tried Captain, and there are a few things that are completely unbalanced and I’m having a hard time understanding the logic/thinking that went into the approach. A sort of bug in COAS…[Read more]

OK, since I tried a few things on Impossible difficulty (as seen here: https://buccaneersreef.com/forums/topic/eras-2-gameplay-on-impossible-difficulty/), I then tried Captain, and there are a few things that are completely unbalanced and I’m having a hard time understanding the logic/thinking that went into the approach. A sort of bug in COAS…[Read more]

Though I’ve done the Enchanted City quest several times, I just now noticed in the quest log texts that the second entry intended to be written for the player in this quest, is never coded anywhere and has been missing ever since the original AoP COAS. I put it where it belongs, in ProgramDIALOGSrussianTavernMaracaibo_Tavern.c:

case…[Read more]

A few more fixes.

From system.log
Can’t load texture resourcetexturesWEATHERSKIESBLUE3SKY_FR.TGA.tx
Can’t load texture resourcetexturesWEATHERSKIESBLUE3SKY_LF.TGA.tx
Can’t load texture resourcetexturesWEATHERSKIESBLUE3SKY_BK.TGA.tx
Can’t load texture resourcetexturesWEATHERSKIESBLUE3SKY_RT.TGA.tx
Can’t load texture…[Read more]

A few more fixes.

From system.log
Can’t load texture resourcetexturesWEATHERSKIESBLUE3SKY_FR.TGA.tx
Can’t load texture resourcetexturesWEATHERSKIESBLUE3SKY_LF.TGA.tx
Can’t load texture resourcetexturesWEATHERSKIESBLUE3SKY_BK.TGA.tx
Can’t load texture resourcetexturesWEATHERSKIESBLUE3SKY_RT.TGA.tx
Can’t load texture…[Read more]

Another missing ship in common.ini

string = Sophie,”Sophie”
string = SophieGen,”Sophie”
string = SophieAcc,”Sophie”
string = SophieDat,”Sophie”

Updated .zip file in my download link.

In addition to the points made by Devoidbrah above, I have noted a couple other things about the Impossible setting:

It seems to really slow your perk progress. I got to level 4 and finally got my first personal ability perk…I have yet to get a ship perk.

It won’t allow you to fast-sail to the nearby sail points unless ALL the ships in your…[Read more]

LOL!

I started a new game with Impossible selected just to give this a try. I also want to start reviewing/debugging Spanish questline. I’m gonna have to do a different game for that questline review because this is insane. I stopped counting my death toll after about 30, utter insanity, LOL!

I got real lucky though when starting because in…[Read more]

Some enemy ships in my spyglass did not show a type, so I boarded them. The description allowed me to determine they were a FR_SuperiorWarship1 and 30GunFrigate missing in common.ini. For lack of a better name-type, I simply added the following:

string = 30GunFrigate,”30 Gun Fregate”
string = 30GunFrigateGen,”30 Gun Frigate”
string =…[Read more]