Comments - Thagarr

Ok, that is a new one to me, never saw that brand of keyboard before. From what I was able to find out, it is USB only. Without knowing the rest of your computer hardware however, I have three suggestions for you to try.

#1 Try plugging your keyboard in to a different USB port, preferably one on the IO panel on the back your motherboard.

#2 Check your computers BIOS and make sure that Legacy USB is set to Disable or Off.

#3 Try a different keyboard.

And your hardware is?? Type of keyboard and connection?

It is a standalone release, you should not need the previous demos.

Thanks for the encouraging comments, they are very much appreciated! We have a long way to go, but your support will certainly help get us there!

Great Dev blog mate! I am really looking forward to playing this one! We are just starting to get in to character development ourselves. I am sure we will run into similar problems once we get people climbing in to the rigging.

As far as I know, no one else has reported a similar issue. What exactly are your hardware specs?

Hearts of Oak is being developed as a single player open world game. Similar to Mount & Blade in some respects, but no co-op campaign mode. At some point down the road, we do plan on adding a limited PVP mode.

We are using a plugin. We started out using the Suimono water system, but had issues with a couple of things, we are currently using the Ceto water system.

We tried several different game engines, including Cryengine, Unreal and several others. At the time we switched to Unity, Cryengine could not handle weather changes the way that we needed it to, and a couple of other minor things. Both engines are pretty comparable today, however. I don't see any issues with the look of either engine, they both can be made to look outstanding.

Thanks mate, glad you like it! We are currently developing Hearts of Oak as a single player game, but we do plan on fleshing out the world as realistically as possible. At some point in the future, we do plan on adding a limited multiplayer head to head capability, but at the current time, a full blown MMO is not in our plans.

We are attempting to make the game as playable as possible by as wide a range of equipment as we can. Of course, we can't do much for anything that is too old. What are your computer specs mate? Have you tried the latest demo?

Thanks for the support mate! We will need plenty of help with 3D models, and you are most welcome to join us! Head on over to our recruitment forum and introduce yourself!

Thanks mate! We have a long way to go, but we are determined to get there!

Thanks for your feedback Stealthy92, it is much appreciated! To be sure, we have a long way to go to get what we want implemented in the game. We do plan on being able to walk around on deck with the crew. There will also be explorable island interiors coming, but those are both in the future. These demos are intended to help everyone follow our progress, so that you know we are progressing. Feedback such as yours really helps us in the development process and will make the game better in the end!

We have actually been in development for several years, but we have had several setbacks and had to change engines a couple of times. Please keep in mind that we are not a development studio. We are just a bunch of volunteers who are tired of waiting for the big game developers to give us the game that we want, so we are making it ourselves!

As for the controls, F1 will turn off Auto-fire, you have to have that turned off to fire the cannon. The F key will fire all cannons, and the space bar should fire each individual cannon. Also, the up and down arrows will raise or lower the cannons trajectory. F2 will turn off Auto-Engage, you should see the check-marks in the little boxes on the bottom left. If your using a laptop, sometimes the keyboard function keys are quite annoying.

Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it! Our Dev team has some great stuff in the works, so stay tuned!

Please download the newest version HoO_Setup_1.7.15319.0 and give it a try.

There were some technical issues with the last upload, and a fatal bug in the October demo. We should have a new one up shortly.

Somehow the links got mixed up during an internal download, the file above is indeed the September release. Sorry about the confusion, we will have the new download up as soon as we have it confirmed and working.

I just tried it myself and got the same thing, Looking in to it now mate.

Ahoy Wintercross, absolutely mate! Along with many other things, including different eras! Concentrating on the things mentioned in the blog first allows us to get a solid foundation to build off of.

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