In the Free play.. you start in a cabin as usual. Then your ship mate comes and talks, and you got 4 options.. talk about the basics of what you need to get done, etc. then there are 2 more options in the chat dialog.. and the 4th one is "I better go offshore, a French squadron is sighted..." something like that.
Ah, that's the "Stormy Start" option.
You go offshore, and as soon as the screen opens @ land, a message comes on top left "AMBUSH!" .. as you saw on the picture I posted earlier.. me and my shipmate were fighting a large group who came attacked us.. it took me 2 hours to finally kill them lol
That doesn't
always happen with a Stormy Start.
In fact, I think you need to ask some crew to join you ashore before stuff like that can be triggered.
I also found out that if you die.. and you don't press/click on any button or mouse.. after the death video you get re-spawned in Santo Domingo and a lady talks to you in a room.. but i ignored that and i kept reloading till i killed those ambush wankers.
That is not related to clicking your mouse or not. It is simply a random chance that you survive.
You can tweak that chance under Options>Advanced Options.
As for the ZIP file.. do i have to make a new game for effects to take place, or it fixed automatically on my saved game?
If I recall, no new game is enforced but I'm not entirely sure anymore.
Nope with me McAllister is a midshipman (WITH a ship) according to what shows on pressing F2. I tried walking to the store and town hall but no rank appears in the dialogues I tried - how are you testing his rank (console for attributes?) because I can't believe we are getting different effects unless you have something other than the latest exe and 27May Zip in your version? Or is this also now fixed too with your missing code re-instatement?
What I did:
- Start the game
- Select Free Play Storyline
- Change date to Colonial Powers
- Select "brtmds1_18" as character model
- After getting control of my character, the F2>Character Menu shows me as midshipman
- F2>Ship shows that I do have a ship and I can go to sea just fine.
Similar for just changing the default "Brave Black Flag" settings to "Navy Officer", but then I start as Lieutenant.
That is all as intended.
As I said above, I'm not 100% sure anymore what is and isn't in the latest ZIP.
But I'm about to find out because I'm doing a WinMerge with the latest public files right now.
Once that is done, you can expect another ZIP with everything I've got right now.