PATCH!!!

smokeringhalo · Powder Monkey Posts: 7 **95 Gold** -

After pounding wave after wave of french pirate hunters in tortugas harbor - still no bounty.
Prepatch only 1 or 2 ships needed to be captured for a bounty on SB 1680's

Sashanan · Swabbie Posts: 104 **1172 Gold** -

Well, do consider that if you have a rank it provides a bit of a buffer against bounties (they will accept some backstabbing, although not much of it on Swashbuckler). Also, the hostility of cities is largely independent from bounties; it's well possible for a nation to not have a bounty on your head but an individual city to hate you if you have just taken out 3 ships in its immediate vicinity.
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Rook · Seaman Posts: 132 **517 Gold** -

I havent had an issue with bounties not posting. I currently have too rather large bounties on my head from the English and French and both are being displayed normally. The only real changes I've been able to pull out of this patch is the fast troop movement over ground both during exploration and combat and the new bar fight models of Mendoza and such. Those fights however have proven dissapointing. Mendoza being the annoying caotain was an interesting twist, but considering that he favors the cutless, the fights are still just as easy as they were previuosly. As for the claim of fixing landmarks not showing up is bogus. I had a map just last night for a family member located north of Gran Granda that showed a landmark that wasn't there in sailing mode. The treasure fleet still seems to be elusive as ever though. As for the more serious bugs, I cant comment too much on because I never incountered them. So far I'm pretty indifferent to the patch. It seems that for every item that they did fix, there is another they claimed to fix that isn't. Also the news that Cyber mentioned abot Fraxis not supporting the patch really hurts its credibilty in my eyes. Though I do trust Atari and pretty much grew up with the Atari name, I feel the Dev team dropped the ball on this. Hopefully Wolf is right, maybe there will be a follow up patch. We'll see though.
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Jack Withers · Powder Monkey Posts: 1 **24 Gold** -

Dunno about who may'ave did what to who or pick'd someone's patch pocket, but I'll tell ya this. It works like a charm on Windows 2000 Professional, SP4. Prior to this lil patch, I could not even change the graphics settings without a freeze-up, let alone play the game. After loading this patch, I have not experienced one freeze, dtd, or any fault at all that I can detect. If it has problems with XP, it seems just fine on W2k.

Arrrggg, tis always good ta see a bit o plunder tossed over da side to slow down the wolves. Confused

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cyberops · Swabbie Posts: 107 **3370 Gold** -

Still this patch is a beta version, if you dont belive it ask sam at firaxis he will confirm it. The patch is only placed there because it has already been given out by atari and they thought they might as wel post it on their site to. Also if you use a hex editor and look at the .exe yourself you can see that the internal build is beta and not full version.
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Torbin · Powder Monkey Posts: 12 **538 Gold** -

Good to know, I suppose. Maybe thats why we've heard nothing from Cyberops either.

This "beta" patch still fixed some really good things. The Dances on apperentice, for instance, are much easier to learn now that you know in advance what the daughter is going to do before she does it. I really don't understand why they leave that box there on higher difficulties though, it just gives you a false sense of hope. And with the increased difficulty with dances now, you'd think they'd still show brief flashes to help you along some what... I used to be able to dance fairly well on Rouge, where as now I'm fumbling all over the place trying to figure out thier next move, as well as follow the rythm of the music (which on some songs seems to be off beat quite a bit now)

I agree with some of the others about the land battle fix, too. It's nice... but not nice enough... you still have to wait to do ANYTHING until your units finish walking up that hill, and into the dense forest.

After hearing about the bugs in the game after the patch, I think I'll keep mine at 1.0 still, until Firaxis descides to finish whatever patch they're intending to call "official". I've yet to ever run into much of the problems that have apperently been fixed, and I don't need any new ones that are more common because of the patches.

SlipperyJim · Cutthroat Posts: 418 **2045 Gold** -

Torbin, but I haven't found any problems with the 1.02 patch yet. It fixes the broken Treasure Fleet (from the original game), the broken Annoying Captain (from the 1.01 patch), and a few other things.

So far, the only bug I've heard about from the 1.02 patch is related to foreign languages mixing with English during some cutscenes. That hasn't happened to me, but I'm playing the US version.

I'm patched & happy. Smile

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GaiaGirl Pearl · Powder Monkey Posts: 14 **386 Gold** -

I bought the game yesterday, have killed all the pirates, gotten married, rescued two relatives and am generally hooked. ARRRR - I'm hooked!!

So found the patch on the Firaxis website but had a major problem installing it - it crashed my game.

I've tried to upload the patch on my brand new very high spec PC running MS-Vista, but it crashed the game at this line:

readme\Support\Images|PiratesLogo.gif: successfully updates
Assets\Shaders\FX\Towmsneak\Blue_1_1.fx: cannot remove, denied access
atari.url:cannot remove, denied access

I had to reinstall the game and not include the patch. Is there a problem or is it just me?

regards,
GaiaGirl Pearl
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Roland · Helmsman Posts: 4122 **22914 Gold** -

Welcome to HoP, GaiaGirl Pearl! If you bought the game new, it should have come pre-patched. Only the old-timers who got in when the game was brand new have the unpatched version.

GaiaGirl Pearl · Powder Monkey Posts: 14 **386 Gold** -

Thank ye Captain Roland ... I'll have another look at the game and see if I can find a release number. It was bought & downloaded from an internet site, so as you say it probably has been patched.

BTW everyone, thanks heaps for doing all these mods ... how about a female main character though? oh maybe not, the Governor's daughters scenes might then be more than PG rated
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loki59 · Rigger Posts: 1068 **24252 Gold** -