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<em><span class="caption">A quest that leads you to find long lost family members, and a vast treasure... that is, if you can survive! Along the way you will encounter a band of rather colourful characters who will help you on your journey. You will get the choice whose help you want, each character offering a different style in achieving your goal.</span>
</em>Welcome to final part of the Build 14 Alpha 9 Preview series. This article will go more in-depth on one of the several completely new storylines available to you in "Pirates of the Caribbean: New Horizons".
<p><strong><em>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=0|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}THE DEVLIN OPERA MAIN QUEST
</em></strong>The Devlin Opera quest was the first additional storyline that was put in the mod. It was originally conceived as a test-quest only, until one of our quest-writers got the idea to actually make a real quest out of it.
Taking place in the Early Explorers period, Beatrice Devlin starts out at the dock of the port at Jamaica island and receives a letter from her long-lost dad with hints about a treasure. You meet up with your younger sister, always a recipe for trouble. Together, you need to find your brother, Blaze, who has the remainder of the hints to locate the treasure.In order to find the treasure, you will meet up with a bunch of pirates, each one crazier than the other. You will have to choose which one you want to help you on your quest. Each pirate has a different tactic, making for many available routes to your final goal.
This quest is basically our modders' playground. As such, we don't care about realism in this quest one bit, so stand by for fun and craziness galore! Although far from being finished, the first part of the quest that introduces you to all the available characters is done. This will be especially amusing for those players who are familiar with the PiratesAhoy! modding team.
A modified version of this quest for those people who can't stand looking at the most charming behind of the main character is available. In this version, you play as Beatrice's brother Blaze instead.
{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=1|limitcount=2|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=left}<strong><em>THE REAL BEATRICE DEVLIN</em></strong>
Before Sea Dogs 2 was commandeered by Disney as a movie tie-in, it was to feature the choice out of two different main characters: Blaze Devlin and Danielle Devlin. Eventually the main character got changed to Nathaniel Hawk, but traces of the original main characters can still be found. One of the more obvious ones is the fact that the main character's model name was still actually "blaze". Danielle remained in the game, but lost her last name.</p><p>Eventually Blaze ended up as one of the main characters in the next game in the series, Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales.
He also got a long-lost sister: Beatrice Devlin.
{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=7|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}<strong><em>IN THE GAME</em></strong>
In the early days in the Caribbean, Jamaica was actually a Spanish island with Santiago Vega as its capital. As such, the British Port Royale is unexistant in the Devlin Opera quest and is replaced with a Spanish version of the same town.</p><p>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=3|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=left}The whole town is retextured to look Spanish and the town guards have been replaced with their Spanish counterparts as well.</p><p>One of the other modifications in "New Horizons" moors ships alongside the dockside in large ports, rather than at anchor. This doesn't always look right since {phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=5|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}there are ships of vastly varying size, but when it looks good, it really DOES look good. We have yet to figure out a way to make it always look good.</p><p>When you visit your ship's deck in "New Horizons" while being moored in port, you will actually be able to see the port from your ship's deck.</p><p>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=4|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=left}You get your first introduction to the band of pirates in this quest when you arrive at the Turks townhall. On this screenshot, you can see such notorious buccaneers as Nathan Kell, Catalina the Pirate, Merciless Mark, Couchcaptain Charles, Petros, Thomas the Terror and Pieter Boelen. These names are sure to take on new meaning for those who are somewhat familiar with the goings on in the PiratesAhoy! modding community!</p><p>Build 14 Alpha 9 is finished, but uploading is proving rather troublesome. It will be available as soon as humanly possible, but with a filesize of 889 MB, we cannot say when that might be. The installation process has been confirmed to work correctly and many bugs have been sorted out. The end result promises to be the most stable and playable Build 14 Alpha version since many years!
{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=6|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}This is Part 5 in the Build 14 Alpha 9 Preview series. Part 4 covered the Horatio Hornblower quest, Part 3 was a preview of the Legend of Jack Sparrow storyline, Part 2 gave you a preview of the Bartolomeu o Portugues main quest and Part 1 showed you some of the new interfaces and loading screens and contained some images on the addition of the United States of America into the game. Check out all the <a href="http://www.piratesahoy.net/game-news/new-horizons.html">previous editions</a> if you haven't done so already.</p>
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</em>Welcome to final part of the Build 14 Alpha 9 Preview series. This article will go more in-depth on one of the several completely new storylines available to you in "Pirates of the Caribbean: New Horizons".
<p><strong><em>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=0|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}THE DEVLIN OPERA MAIN QUEST
</em></strong>The Devlin Opera quest was the first additional storyline that was put in the mod. It was originally conceived as a test-quest only, until one of our quest-writers got the idea to actually make a real quest out of it.
Taking place in the Early Explorers period, Beatrice Devlin starts out at the dock of the port at Jamaica island and receives a letter from her long-lost dad with hints about a treasure. You meet up with your younger sister, always a recipe for trouble. Together, you need to find your brother, Blaze, who has the remainder of the hints to locate the treasure.In order to find the treasure, you will meet up with a bunch of pirates, each one crazier than the other. You will have to choose which one you want to help you on your quest. Each pirate has a different tactic, making for many available routes to your final goal.
This quest is basically our modders' playground. As such, we don't care about realism in this quest one bit, so stand by for fun and craziness galore! Although far from being finished, the first part of the quest that introduces you to all the available characters is done. This will be especially amusing for those players who are familiar with the PiratesAhoy! modding team.
A modified version of this quest for those people who can't stand looking at the most charming behind of the main character is available. In this version, you play as Beatrice's brother Blaze instead.
{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=1|limitcount=2|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=left}<strong><em>THE REAL BEATRICE DEVLIN</em></strong>
Before Sea Dogs 2 was commandeered by Disney as a movie tie-in, it was to feature the choice out of two different main characters: Blaze Devlin and Danielle Devlin. Eventually the main character got changed to Nathaniel Hawk, but traces of the original main characters can still be found. One of the more obvious ones is the fact that the main character's model name was still actually "blaze". Danielle remained in the game, but lost her last name.</p><p>Eventually Blaze ended up as one of the main characters in the next game in the series, Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales.
He also got a long-lost sister: Beatrice Devlin.
{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=7|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}<strong><em>IN THE GAME</em></strong>
In the early days in the Caribbean, Jamaica was actually a Spanish island with Santiago Vega as its capital. As such, the British Port Royale is unexistant in the Devlin Opera quest and is replaced with a Spanish version of the same town.</p><p>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=3|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=left}The whole town is retextured to look Spanish and the town guards have been replaced with their Spanish counterparts as well.</p><p>One of the other modifications in "New Horizons" moors ships alongside the dockside in large ports, rather than at anchor. This doesn't always look right since {phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=5|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}there are ships of vastly varying size, but when it looks good, it really DOES look good. We have yet to figure out a way to make it always look good.</p><p>When you visit your ship's deck in "New Horizons" while being moored in port, you will actually be able to see the port from your ship's deck.</p><p>{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=4|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=left}You get your first introduction to the band of pirates in this quest when you arrive at the Turks townhall. On this screenshot, you can see such notorious buccaneers as Nathan Kell, Catalina the Pirate, Merciless Mark, Couchcaptain Charles, Petros, Thomas the Terror and Pieter Boelen. These names are sure to take on new meaning for those who are somewhat familiar with the goings on in the PiratesAhoy! modding community!</p><p>Build 14 Alpha 9 is finished, but uploading is proving rather troublesome. It will be available as soon as humanly possible, but with a filesize of 889 MB, we cannot say when that might be. The installation process has been confirmed to work correctly and many bugs have been sorted out. The end result promises to be the most stable and playable Build 14 Alpha version since many years!
{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=31|limitstart=6|limitcount=1|detail=0|overlib=3|displayname=0|displaydetail=1|imageshadow=shadow|float=right}This is Part 5 in the Build 14 Alpha 9 Preview series. Part 4 covered the Horatio Hornblower quest, Part 3 was a preview of the Legend of Jack Sparrow storyline, Part 2 gave you a preview of the Bartolomeu o Portugues main quest and Part 1 showed you some of the new interfaces and loading screens and contained some images on the addition of the United States of America into the game. Check out all the <a href="http://www.piratesahoy.net/game-news/new-horizons.html">previous editions</a> if you haven't done so already.</p>
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