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I bought the game before New Years, just got my key today, was really excited to play . . . and it doesn't work. I get this little message: "Game required shader model is 5. Your shader model is 4." Any idea what that is? I've never run across a "shader model" in my life. The good news is, if it's a problem with my hardware, I got some money set aside from Christmas to spend on video cards and such.
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Oberleutnant posted:Is there a way to hide the ui yet? Ctrl+H Myoclonic Jerk posted:I bought the game before New Years, just got my key today, was really excited to play . . . and it doesn't work. I get this little message: Read here: http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/2097-model-shader-5-technical-issues/ It means you need DirectX 11, which means you need a new videocard, most like.
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# ? Jan 4, 2015 02:32 |
Me and another dude both in Cutters where fighting 2 AI. He was fighting alongside I think a Brig at the time and got too close, somehow the Brig basically sucked his cutter in and it ended up flipping over and rolling underneath the brig like it was on magnets attached to the Brigs haul. Was one of the funniest things I've seen and it insta killed him.
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# ? Jan 4, 2015 02:32 |
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I rolled a Brig in my Cutter once, it was awesome. And then I promptly sank.
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# ? Jan 4, 2015 02:34 |
Heh, I just managed to completely dismast an opponent. Didn't even realize the game would let that happen. I saw the masts go down and thought it was sinking, but then realized I was still getting hit by his cannon and he was still there a few minutes later, so I had to sail into appropriate position and finish him off. Felt brutal.
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# ? Jan 4, 2015 03:33 |
Hieronymous Alloy posted:Heh, I just managed to completely dismast an opponent. Didn't even realize the game would let that happen. I saw the masts go down and thought it was sinking, but then realized I was still getting hit by his cannon and he was still there a few minutes later, so I had to sail into appropriate position and finish him off. Felt brutal. Err nevermind it wasn't me, I just had almost the exact same thing happen though. We somehow won the match, me sitting in my Cutter sans mast taking pot shots at a brig that was a hair outside my carronade range. Luckily the last guy on our team managed to finish off the enemy Snow and Brig.
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# ? Jan 4, 2015 03:53 |
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When they first introduced that, it was way too easy to do. Probably realistic that way, but not fun.
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# ? Jan 4, 2015 03:54 |
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Generation Internet posted:I saw people get mad about ramming and it's like I'm playing War Thunder "Cross my hawse and I'll run you under!" "Lol wut?" <sinks, bitching the whole time>
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# ? Jan 4, 2015 05:39 |
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Just unlocked the Snow. Finally - a bow chaser
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# ? Jan 4, 2015 19:48 |
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42 ships in one battle. Try to ignore the teamspeak banter.
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# ? Jan 5, 2015 03:51 |
Nice to see the performance holds up.
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# ? Jan 5, 2015 04:00 |
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If an entirely different game can deliver on PotBS' promise of hundred ship fleet PvP it'll be pretty hilarious. If it's good, anyway.
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# ? Jan 5, 2015 04:31 |
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Colonial Air Force posted:42 ships in one battle. Listening from the banter made me wonder about how did they communicated back in the day: "Nelson dude, turn that loving ship away!"
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# ? Jan 5, 2015 14:23 |
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Mostly flags, but sometimes shouting and speaking trumpets.
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# ? Jan 5, 2015 14:30 |
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On another note, this game looks pretty good already. I`m totally broke and in the process of moving to another country at the moment but I`ll be buying it as soon as I have some money spare. Also, shanties. It is known, after ac4 no sail game can go without shanties.
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# ? Jan 5, 2015 14:39 |
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Pigbottom posted:Listening from the banter made me wonder about how did they communicated back in the day: "Nelson dude, turn that loving ship away!" I saw an Antiques Roadshow repeat on the weekend and they had a captured French signaling cannon on it. Basically they would run up the communication flags, then fire the cannon as a "look this way shitheads" message.
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# ? Jan 5, 2015 15:08 |
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One thing isn't clear to me, is this open world or just death match maps ala war thunder/WoT?
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# ? Jan 8, 2015 14:08 |
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CountingWizard posted:One thing isn't clear to me, is this open world or just death match maps ala war thunder/WoT? Right now just death match. Open world is supposedly incoming, but not sure what form it'll take. I'm hoping (eventually) for a silent hunter style single player dynamic campaign.
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# ? Jan 8, 2015 14:15 |
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I don't think it'll ever be a campaign, it'll be very ree form. It's online-only, after all. We don't much, but there is some info on the Game Labs forums. They're starting with the Caribbean but will definitely be adding other spots later, probably Europe and then the Mediterranean. No idea on sailing times, but we do know that they plan on letting merchants hire escorts, and should they be attacked, members of whatever faction they've hired can "teleport" in to assist (Or NPCs will spawn). See here for that discussion: http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/2654-escort-system/
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# ? Jan 8, 2015 14:42 |
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Oh god I am so loving bad at this. e: Ran into Phly Daily, 2v1, I was the 1. I almost sank him, but the other guy saved him by ramming me right as I was firing the coup de grace, so I missed. I lost but had just over 900 damage, they had about 400 total. I then got treated to watching two frigates trading broadsides at point-blank range. Literally. They were touching each other, one boarded the other, both were listing horribly and one was taking on water. Still broadsiding. Eventually the enemy one sank, but the friendly one was totally crippled. I killed the last enemy yacht to win the game, though! rossmum fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jan 9, 2015 |
# ? Jan 9, 2015 03:17 |
Woohooo, finally got the Constitution!
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# ? Jan 9, 2015 04:23 |
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Pigbottom posted:On another note, this game looks pretty good already. If you sing a shanty on a ship of His Majesty's Royal Navy, they will flog you. They really loving hated singing shanties, that was for civilian sailors.
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# ? Jan 9, 2015 04:45 |
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Just had a very-close-range running duel with another Lynx. Man, that was loving awesome.
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# ? Jan 9, 2015 08:19 |
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You jelly guys? :p Just arrived, gonna go see Viccy and Mary Rose first.
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# ? Jan 9, 2015 13:10 |
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Eek!
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# ? Jan 9, 2015 13:35 |
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Loomer posted:If you sing a shanty on a ship of His Majesty's Royal Navy, they will flog you. They really loving hated singing shanties, that was for civilian sailors. I think that was only while working.
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# ? Jan 9, 2015 13:52 |
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Having never heard of this game before and stumbled across the thread while browsing.... I think this fits in nicely after having finished the first book in the Aubrey - Maturin series, so I am pre-ordered!
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# ? Jan 9, 2015 13:56 |
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Colonial Air Force posted:I think that was only while working. Yeah, the hands singing and dancing on the foc'sle was A Thing in the evening aboard ships in the Royal Navy, but most captains did not countenance work songs while working the capstan or scrubbing decks or anything like that. I think it wasn't considered professional enough.
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Colonial Air Force posted:I think that was only while working. No i got flogged for singing today and I was only visiting
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# ? Jan 9, 2015 22:39 |
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Oberleutnant posted:No i got flogged for singing today and I was only visiting You must have a real Turk for a captain, then.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Yeah, the hands singing and dancing on the foc'sle was A Thing in the evening aboard ships in the Royal Navy, but most captains did not countenance work songs while working the capstan or scrubbing decks or anything like that. I think it wasn't considered professional enough. Things were probably better with the French Republican Navy but they couldn't cope with the sheer amount of pounds sterling the British threw at them.
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# ? Jan 10, 2015 00:37 |
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Panzeh posted:Things were probably better with the French Republican Navy but they couldn't cope with the sheer amount of pounds sterling the British threw at them. The biggest problem with the French Republican Navy is that they executed or cashiered almost all of their good officers, and a lot of terrible ones, and had poo poo leadership for years afterward. Well that, and a little too much democracy on the quarterdeck.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:The biggest problem with the French Republican Navy is that they executed or cashiered almost all of their good officers, and a lot of terrible ones, and had poo poo leadership for years afterward. Well that, and a little too much democracy on the quarterdeck. On top of that, Napoleon micromanaged the poo poo out of the Navy, which he also did with the Army but he actually knew what the gently caress he was doing with the Army. Dude had no sense of naval anything.
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Colonial Air Force posted:On top of that, Napoleon micromanaged the poo poo out of the Navy, which he also did with the Army but he actually knew what the gently caress he was doing with the Army. Dude had no sense of naval anything. That too.
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# ? Jan 10, 2015 02:19 |
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:The biggest problem with the French Republican Navy is that they executed or cashiered almost all of their good officers, and a lot of terrible ones, and had poo poo leadership for years afterward. Well that, and a little too much democracy on the quarterdeck. Well you can't risk guys just sailing 74 gunners into London and handing them over.
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# ? Jan 10, 2015 02:28 |
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||N8|| has been making some videos of the game, this is the newest - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPtRUS943CA
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# ? Jan 10, 2015 15:17 |
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I am so bad at gunnery dropping shots short like it's going out of style
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# ? Jan 10, 2015 15:49 |
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So you're only doing severe damage to a ship once the armor is depleted right? Or is there a possibility of sinking a ship / getting a lucky hit even if their armor is still high I guess I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the concept of 'armor' in wooden ships... really it's just knocking out all the massive timbers that run along the frame and compose the structural integrity of the ship right?
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# ? Jan 10, 2015 16:02 |
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Their paypal broke because they were too successful.
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God drat does PayPal suck.
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