If I was lucky, I might suddenly warp someplace useful… or the enemy might actually warp within range of my guns, but that luck was uncommon. It took me four tries to complete the tutorial because my boat would sit quite still, refusing to move an inch regardless of where the wind stood or how much sail I laid on. Major, long-term, lag, that manifested itself mostly at sea. No flying colors, but nothing too horrible. Still, it can be done the old fashioned way, by hitting that key than tabbing out to paste into a graphics program.įor a first night, things were not too bad. I am a little disappointed that the “print screen” key does not take screen shots. Just to give myself something of an out, and another accent to work with, I gave my first character a German name, Germans show up just about anywhere during that time frame.

We figured that would be something of a contrarian play, plus, as I pointed out, bad French accents on Skype are much more palatable than bad English (think Ren-Faire nightmare) or bad Spanish (which I can do, but it requires a lot of lisping to be authentic) accents. I was home from work (one more day of vacation before the return to the office) so got to begin the download just after 10 am Pacific time.Ī power blip that turned off my computer kept things from being perfect, but by mid-afternoon the files were all downloaded and by the evening I had time to install and log into the game.Īs stated before, I rolled up on the Guadeloupe server and by mutual agreement between Potshot, Gaff, and myself, went French. That part actually went pretty smoothly for me. The Pirates of the Burning Sea pre-boarding party/pre-order/early bird start began yesterday.įor those not in the beta but in possession of a pre-order box (which had the sound track and a pair of product keys and not much else) getting started meant downloading more than 5 GB of installer and data.

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