Well the topic name say's it all really, but to help the modders out what draws you to your choice ie, COAS or POTC over the other?
I find that POTC is more action rates, you can take on any ship and pack it with crew and go and sink other ships from the out set, in COAS its more strategical, the crew now has 3 skills sailing, gunning and fighting, the most common crew type to find are sailers, although having a ship full of sailers does slow down reloads having a good gunner in charge does help to reduce that reload time but still to able to hold your own at sea you will need some good crew members with gunning abilities, this element has made the game more straegical and harder in some way's.
COAS is more graphical and so it should be for a 2009 game, the problem is its also darker than POTC which means you will find it harder to see at night perhaps why the ships now have lights on them and the health meters for sails, crew and haul are displayed above all ships (perhaps not the case on high skill levels) kind of takes away the idea of the spyglass though.
So many map types in COAS, as you pick your map you have to equip it before youy can view it, thats fine but wouldn't it have been better to equip a map and then when in either 1st person sailing mode or 3rd person mode you could push say F3 and you would be presented with a transparent or solid screen displaying the map, that way you would not have to press F2 go to iteams and equip the map you wish to view all the time. Hope this could be implemented some how one day.
Cannon fire, it seems you don't get the smoke you should get after firing your cannons, in POTC build 13 and 14 i remember been unable to see for a few seconds till the cannon smoke cleared, now its like each cannon has a candal lite and as the cannon fires it blows the cadal out, not much smoke, funny enough you get more smoke from your pistals than the cannons, very annoyingly unrealistic.
The weather in COAS is easy to prodict, if you could be a weather man you would very rarly be wrong "and tomorrow it will be misty with rain" perhaps a update for the weather would be nice. More importantly the ships in misty weather are alway's white shaps, it would be nice if that was removed and only seen with ships just breaking through the mist in the far distance rather than right by you.
The lighting been brightened up its all too dark, if it was more clear then it would be more fun, i have tried setting the gamma on my game but for some reason thats stopped working now.
I can't really say as to which game i would rather play just yet but all i am playing at the moment is COAS i do miss POTC and some features but COAS is the one i keep clicking play on.
I find that POTC is more action rates, you can take on any ship and pack it with crew and go and sink other ships from the out set, in COAS its more strategical, the crew now has 3 skills sailing, gunning and fighting, the most common crew type to find are sailers, although having a ship full of sailers does slow down reloads having a good gunner in charge does help to reduce that reload time but still to able to hold your own at sea you will need some good crew members with gunning abilities, this element has made the game more straegical and harder in some way's.
COAS is more graphical and so it should be for a 2009 game, the problem is its also darker than POTC which means you will find it harder to see at night perhaps why the ships now have lights on them and the health meters for sails, crew and haul are displayed above all ships (perhaps not the case on high skill levels) kind of takes away the idea of the spyglass though.
So many map types in COAS, as you pick your map you have to equip it before youy can view it, thats fine but wouldn't it have been better to equip a map and then when in either 1st person sailing mode or 3rd person mode you could push say F3 and you would be presented with a transparent or solid screen displaying the map, that way you would not have to press F2 go to iteams and equip the map you wish to view all the time. Hope this could be implemented some how one day.
Cannon fire, it seems you don't get the smoke you should get after firing your cannons, in POTC build 13 and 14 i remember been unable to see for a few seconds till the cannon smoke cleared, now its like each cannon has a candal lite and as the cannon fires it blows the cadal out, not much smoke, funny enough you get more smoke from your pistals than the cannons, very annoyingly unrealistic.
The weather in COAS is easy to prodict, if you could be a weather man you would very rarly be wrong "and tomorrow it will be misty with rain" perhaps a update for the weather would be nice. More importantly the ships in misty weather are alway's white shaps, it would be nice if that was removed and only seen with ships just breaking through the mist in the far distance rather than right by you.
The lighting been brightened up its all too dark, if it was more clear then it would be more fun, i have tried setting the gamma on my game but for some reason thats stopped working now.
I can't really say as to which game i would rather play just yet but all i am playing at the moment is COAS i do miss POTC and some features but COAS is the one i keep clicking play on.
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