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badthechadass

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Hey everyone, new to the site. I was a huge fan of Pirates of the Carribbean despite it's shortcomings and I stumbled across this game. I've done some reading on how buggy it is, but it would seem the latest version of this Supermod alleviates alot the problems. Is it actually a playable game with all of the updates?
 
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Hey everyone, new to the site. I was a huge fan of Pirates of the Carribbean despite it's shortcomings and I stumbled across this game. I've done some reading on how buggy it is, but it would seem the latest version of this Supermod alleviates alot the problems. Is it actually a playable game with all of the updates?
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<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":gday" border="0" alt="hi.gif" /> Yes it is, still buggy but playable!
Patch 1.5 is the most stable but Supermod has more features.
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/poet.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":hmm" border="0" alt="poet.gif" /> I prefer PotC as the Modding Community is allways active and
the game has far better gameplay (story) than AOP! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sailr.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":sail" border="0" alt="sailr.gif" />
 
That's a shame. I love the cannon and water effects in the vids for AoP. Who knows, if Akella releases something like the build mod maybe there's a chance for it to really take off. Well I decided to try POTC for the PC, just ordered it an hour or two ago for 12 buck after shipping. I can't imagine what it'll be like with build mod, I was sucked into it in it's stock form.
 
the cannon and explosion graphics have improved to this standard: (see attachements)

click on them to enlarge. tell me when you've seen them so i can remove them again.

*removed*
 
and there's mister sarcasm again. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
 
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it was cold hard truth.
 
see! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> i'm sure that some people might disagree. but as long as no more modders show up, you could indeed be right.
 
I hate to see when games release in such an incomplete state. I would rather a game be complete crap than to be broken and show such promise.
 
Why would it take AOP 5-10 years, when it took PotC 2-3? Currently, AOP modding seems to be thriving on the Soviet side of the house. I presume the future release of PotBS is not helping matters, any. For my part, I'm reacquainting myself with the models and methods of Akella games and starting to work on things. I've 2 character models, Brig, Sloop, Gunboat, Corvette and a Man-o-War in the works. What stalled me last time was knowledge hoarding.

Is there a known method for importing character models and ship models into the game? Where can this documentation be found?
 
Oh and thanks morgan, the smoke looks great now. It doesn't really seem that there's much of a difference in graphics between the two. I probably shouldn't expect to ever see PotC's water to look like AoP's should I? I know nothing of modding, but I know they're both running on the same engine.
 
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Why would it take AOP 5-10 years, when it took PotC 2-3? Currently, AOP modding seems to be thriving on the Soviet side of the house. I presume the future release of PotBS is not helping matters, any. For my part, I'm reacquainting myself with the models and methods of Akella games and starting to work on things. I've 2 character models, Brig, Sloop, Gunboat, Corvette and a Man-o-War in the works. What stalled me last time was knowledge hoarding.

Is there a known method for importing character models and ship models into the game? Where can this documentation be found?
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<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/poet.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":hmm" border="0" alt="poet.gif" /> Yea, and wish my russian would be better! I've got it on my Computer
and it looks very promising but it's not working too well at the moment, so it looks
like back to 1.5 'till something better comes along. I tried Thomasthe Terror's Part
Translation, but it's not working to well for me. I'm glad to have POTC to fall
back on! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sailr.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":sail" border="0" alt="sailr.gif" />
.......wonder what happend to CyberOps? It's very quiet, even on his Website?
 
*screenshots removed! note: the fire looks better in-game*

incredible hat is still missing as well. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> he should be back by now.
 
i know i have been quiet, at the moment im sick have been sick for the past 2 almost 3 weeks. Also very busy with the Pirate Simulator game which went into Alpha testing last month. So not much time to do anything at the moment and i dont get much sleep because im sick. If you do need me then you can always post a message at my forum where i opened a new forum last week, i check messages there almost everyday, or if it's really needed you can always email me.
 
when I installed AOP and then went into the folder in program files, made sure all the files were no longer Read Only, I then installed supermod, and all the supermod patches, and it hasn't crashed once, Cyberops I would like to thank you for your superwork in making this game bug free <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
i just remembered something about the PotC water: because of my ancient graphics card, the water doesn't look as good as it could look. i don't have any shimmers.
 
lol my potc water is purple... though only at certian angels <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="<_<" border="0" alt="dry.gif" /> anyways potc with the mod packs still is the pwnage :p, though still think ao[ is worth a shot...
 
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i have AOP now, its incredible and not a single crash and only one noticeable bug <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />
 
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