Pirates of the Caribbean: New Horizons
Pirates of the Caribbean
- Single Player Realistic Sim
Pirates of the Caribbean
N/A | Released Jun 29, 2003
Designed as a thrilling blend of role-playing and action Pirates of the Caribbean takes place in a large group of Caribbean islands during the golden age of piracy and high seas adventure. You will take command of a ship and its crew, swordfight with other captains, accept and complete daring quests, chase rumors of dangers and riches, and change allegiances amongst the colonial powers in the game. Through skill and daring, you will have the ability to obtain more power than the toughest captains in history ever dreamed possible. You will be able to customize your captain, crew, skills, and attributes to their individual liking. During shore leave on the many fanciful islands, players can interact with townspeople and shopkeepers to replenish stores of ammo and crew, and explore the wilderness in search of adventure and treasure! A party-based system on land and at sea allows you to hire friendly captains to form small fleets of ships for trade or battle, and your own band of adventurers...
Build 14 Alpha 9.5 Patch 4
Description
Many bugfixes, some of which to long-standing bugs like Shipberthing and the storms. New features, such as the new Officers System and Lagoon seas. Quest updates, including a new part for Assassin and the beginning of a whole new French storyline.
It's still an Alpha though and there will be bugs. If you encounter any, be sure to let us know on the PiratesAhoy! bug tracker. And make sure to save often! If you encounter any random problems or crashes, usually reloading your savegame will get you through properly.
Installation order:
1 - Install Build 13 Final (if you haven't done so already)
2 - Extract Build 14 Alpha 9 Full file on top of your game and allow it to overwrite all files it wants to
3 - Install Build 14 Alpha 9.5, following the instructions in the installer and allow it to run RunMe.bat
4 - Install Alpha 9.5 Patch 4
5 - Run RunMe.bat in your main game folder
6 - Start the game and reset the controls to default in the Options menu
7 - Tweak the controls and the game's settings to your liking in the Options menu
8 - Start a new game, select a storyline and ENJOY!
Tips:
- If you have Windows Vista, DON'T install the game to Program Files; security measures tend to prevent the modpack from installing correctly
- !!!SAVE OFTEN!!!
- Check out the controls in buildinfo\Default Key Assignments.txt
- The game tends not to work if:
. You have an Intel Onboard Graphics Card - workaround with SwiftShader
. You use ffdshow and don't have the game added to your "exception list"
Feature List:
- New Officer System by a simple virtual sailor and Aconcagua (WIP):
. All officers contribute their skills, not just the three selected ones
. Change Officer Role button added to Passengers interface
. More information in "buildinfo\New Officer System.txt"
- Improved Weather Mod by Screwface:
. Storms fixes, including music, wave colour and texture, sky colour and bow splash
. Storms in DirectSail mode
. Storm remains active until the weather improves (there's a chance of this happening every 60 seconds)
. Rain chance depends on the month and distinguishes between the Caribbean wet and dry season
. Lagoon Colour Mod changes the sea colour to Caribbean light blue close to shores
- Periods Mod:
. Random Relations Mod replaced with Period Relations
. Town and island names differ in each period
. Town nationalities change per period
. Historically correct governors
. Personal and Pirate Flag textures finished by Thomas the Terror
. Storyline-specific and quest flag assignments and changes
. Historical Ships Mod by Doober
. Worldmap ship models flags updated; Napoleonic ship added in "The Corsican"
- Realistic Gameplay Mods by Screwface:
. Fast Travel only enabled after you found the location manually yourself first
. 'Alarm' status only enabled after present enemies drew their blade; no prior warning
. Spyglasses only enlarge the view, but don't give additional information anymore
. These all fall under the "Realistic Sailing Mode" toggle in the Options interface
- Code updates:
. Improved Sea AI fixes by Screwface
. Shipberthing Mod fixed by Screwface
. Enable shipberthing at Cozumel by Screwface
. Fort Fast Travel fixed by Screwface
. Fixes for main character with no ship by Screwface
. Cozumel reload fixes by Screwface
. 'Auto Skill System' off Character interface bug fixed by Aconcagua
. Prevent start new game after already starting a game by Aconcagua
. Gunpowder weight increased to realistic value by Aconcagua
. Trader quest dialog improvement for skipping map and viewing map multiple times by Aconcagua
. Address form fixes in many dialogs by Captain Maggee
. Eleuthera resurrection fix by Captain Maggee
. More Varied Ship Sinking Animation by Halfman
. Different Flags Mod: random flags used by pirates; ability to pre-set personal and pirate flags for quest characters
. Cursed Black Pearl GiveShip2Character bug fix
. Period-correct town names in Select Storyline interface
. Pre-set difficulty levels per storyline
. Cabinfight and Anacleto dialog confusion cleaned up
. Escort quests destination, questbook texts and map fixes
- Quest updates:
. Tales of a Chevalier storyline added by Thomas the Terror
. Assassin Storyline Part V added by Bartolomeu o Portugues - jump-start code included in the opening dialog (cheatmode required)
. Cozumel inaccessible in standard storyline until after the main quest
. Work-around for Bridgetown capture block included in Danielle dialog
. Capture of governor Silehard and boarding of Black Pearl in standard storyline fixed by Captain Maggee
. First Contact quest unlinked from Lucas quest in standard storyline by Captain Maggee
. Assassin storyline 'enemies on ship' fix by Bartolomeu o Portugues
. Master and Commander 'quest' restored, including questbook entry to explain the lack of an actual story
- Jack Sparrow Quest Updates by Captain Maggee:
. Ability to join EITC later
. Alternate way of acquiring HMS Interceptor fixed
. EITC office and Sir Christopher Mings mansion changed to 'normal' locations
. Storyline loops fixed
. Updates to Lucas and First Contact quests
. Updates to Sao Feng sidequest
. Updates to Gentleman Jocard sidequest
- Model updates:
. Character models for Billy Brock (young and old), Annabella Brinkley and young Cutler Beckett by Thomas the Terror
. Jack Sparrow (Pelegostos god version) by D4V1DXxX
. Edinburgh Trader skin by D4V1DXxX
. Crimson Blood by Cylon13
. Soleil Royal by red10october (WIP: needs to be properly fixed for PotC)
. Field cannons added by SuperDurnius
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Thank you for this one !:)
I got some bugs though, as always.
The 'Auto Skill System' off Character interface bug still wont work.
The Cursed Black Pearl fix still wont work either. When you put the Black Pearl as you ship, it seems that your character doesent have a ship at the menu. When you click start game, the game crashes.
The Auto Skill System bug is the same as always. You can't turn it off, and your levelsettings wont work.
I also noticed that some of the storylines are bugged. When you click start game, the game start. But all you can see is the character icon in the corner. You and also press F1, F2 and so on. But the rest of the screen is completely black.
Ill look for more bugs as we speak, but i hope you got any answers for my problems.
Cheers
Are you absolutely sure you installed correctly as per the instructions?
The "Auto Skill System Off" bug definitly IS fixed; I have just checked to be sure.
All storylines start just fine and there's no Black Pearl black screens either.
I ran the bat after i extracted the patch into my folder. Some files didnt copy though, but i guess that is normal?
I had patch 3 working perfectly, and just extracted patch 4 over it, and run the bat.
Anything i did wrong?
Any chance you could give me fast instructions on how to shut down the Auto Skill System then?
When i do it, i go to the BuildSetting notepad file in the Program folder. I go to Automatic skill system line, and types 0' , for stock POTC. It still doesent work. I've had problem with these notepad files ever since the patch 3 came out. It just wont work in the system during gameplay
Now i did a complete reinstallation of the game. Everything works fine until i get to patch 4. When i start the ''Run me - batch'' file, it misses something. In between this, the black pearl fix and some other things. The bat runs and i get alot of ''Cant find the specified file'' messages between the ''File Copied'' messages.
I dont know if i am doing something wrong, but i am 100% sure that i followed the instructions properly. Patch 3 works perfectly, so the bug lies in patch 4.
The error message i get, is that the bat cant read the Buildsettings files. So it doesen't affect my gameplay at all.
You're supposed to use the Options>Advanced Options menu to change the game settings. That works.
Do you still have those black screen errors?
Ehm. I use the Advanced Options menu to choose the level. but you need to turn off the Automatic Skill System on the buildsetting.h file. Ive done everything.
I can post a screenshot of when i am running the bat on the installation of patch 4. At the very beginning.
Img186.imageshack.us <- A photo of what the error might be
And yes, still got all the same bugs. The Buildsetting files wont affect my game. Some of the storylines is blackscreening, and the black pearl crashes the game.
The messages on that picture are nothing to worry about.
But seriously, I don't get what's going wrong with the installation.
Please enable error logging: Moddb.com
Then load the game and post the contents of compile.log, system.log and the possible error.log here.
Hopefully that'll give a clue as to what's going wrong.
Oh... and you definitly DO need the Advanced Options menu for turning the Auto Skill System off. That's how I did it and that worked for me.
My advanced options section ingame is the same. Start level, start money, start wealth and so on. There is no place to turn off the auto skill system.
I dont really care about the pearl as long as i got the Dutchman, but i need the lvling to be correct.
Okey. I did find out what the problem was. You have to reset to ''Default'' in your Options menu. The bottom huge button. Just as a helping guide to other users that may have the same problem :)
Thanks for the patch anyways, and keep up the good work! Love it ! :)
And thanks for your help :)
There SHOULD be an "Automatic skills-system" option in Advanced Options.
You have to scroll down a bit though. Do you still have those black screen errors? Because those are definitly not normal either.
I got the blackscreen errors, and the black pearl error. And my Advanced options ingame is not big. Start level, start money, start wealth, change nationality and one more. No menu for changing the Automatic skill system.
The Automatic Skill System thing i figuered out of myself now.
But still the other thwo bugs though, which dont have anything to do with the Advanced Options section.
Please enable error logging: Moddb.com
Then load the game and post the contents of compile.log, system.log and the possible error.log here.
Hopefully that'll give a clue as to what's going wrong.
I will do that as soon at possible.
Hey there
These mods just moved an old okay game into the only thing that I play.. Thanks for the great efforts you guys put into this :)
However I do seem to have some difficulties getting it to work properly.
Build 13 works - a few ships doesn't have their picture in the "ships" menu but apart from that it seems to work as planned.
build 14 from 9 final to 9,5 patch 4 on the other hand.. I can't berth ships.
Pictures are missing.
Half the time I can't do anything after a quicksave and half the other time the fast travel wont show up
And the flags are completely random.. Spanish is blank and what should be the spaniards shows up at the pirates and so on :/
That's not normal; did you follow the installation instructions as can be found above?