Pirates of the Burning Sea gets its first major content patch
Flying Lab Software has issued a press release to say that Pirates of the Burning Sea will be receiving its first major content patch today, Tuesday the 18th of March. This will bring the game to build 1.2.67, and the press release includes a few of the highlights that are in the update. These include a new and challenging group mission called "Bey's Retreat", changes that makes it harder for nations to win the world PvP map back-to-back, and some UI improvements (the chat bubbles we featured earlier will be making it in).
The press release also details some new community features available at the PotBS forums, and a link to a ginormous list of patch notes is provided. This list gives a few more notable changes: the introduction of a "/spam" command to report troublesome gold spammers, and the previously dicussed changes to Open Sea Battle placement. The whole press release is available after the jump.
FIRST MAJOR CONTENT UPDATES RELEASE
FOR PIRATES OF THE BURNING SEA
Build 1.2.67 goes live on Tuesday, March 18th
(Seattle, WA) March 17th, 2008 – On Tuesday, March 18, 2008, Flying Lab Software will release the first major content patch for Pirates of the Burning Sea, the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) featuring high seas action and adventure in a world of pirates and plunder.
A few highlights of the changes in the build will include:
· Bey's Retreat - The new mission for experienced players of Pirates of the Burning Sea. Don't try this alone.
· Underdog Tools - If a player's nation wins the map in PvP, it becomes more difficult for them to do so next time. While the other nations get a boost.
· UI improvements - Revamped the chat channels, added chat bubbles that you can turn off, improved the Social UI, and other user interface changes.
In addition to updating Pirates of the Burning Sea with a major content patch, Flying Lab Software has also spruced up the Development forums on their website (www.burningsea.com/forums) with additional discussion areas that focus on player ideas and allow players to weigh in on future changes to the game. Here are the new forum areas:
· Community Suggestions - A place for community to discuss, collaborate on and refine new and interesting ideas for Pirates of the Burning Sea.
· In Concept - All of the threads in this forum area will be either created by Flying Lab Software based on ideas from the Community Suggestions area, or new game features that are currently under review by the Pirates of the Burning Sea development team for inclusion in the game world.
· Milestone Discussion – This forum area not only gives players a look into the future of Pirates of the Burning Sea, but gives them a chance to weigh in on the changes to come.
· Testbed Discussion – This forum area is devoted to discussing the Milestones that have been published to the test server, known as Testbed. This is the last stop on the journey before the combined ideas from the players and the developers become reality on the live game servers.
"Flying Lab Software has had a long history of listening to our community, and we believe these new forum areas can only improve the communication between the Pirates of the Burning Sea community and the Flying Lab Software development team," says Troy "Aether" Hewitt, Director of Community Relations. "We're excited to work with our community to grow this new initiative into the future, and we'll depend on you to keep things interesting."
The Pirates of the Burning Sea game servers will be unavailable while Flying Lab Software moves Build 1.2.67.0 from Testbed to Live. Click this link to find detailed patch notes for Build 1.2.67.0:
http://support.flyinglab.com/cgi-bin/flyinglab.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=393
About Pirates of the Burning Sea
Developed by Seattle based Flying Lab Software, now under SOE's Platform Publishing Label, Pirates of the Burning Sea® is an MMORPG of intense tactical ship combat and swashbuckling adventures on land and sea. In the Caribbean of 1720, English, Spanish, French, and Pirate captains battle it out for glory and power. Every player is the captain of his or her own ship, engaging in both PvE and PvP game play that has the power to truly change the game world. Compete to conquer enemy ports, pursue 1,000+ missions, engage in a fully player-driven economy, and earn ships, skills, and gear to become the most famous -- or notorious! -- captain on the burning sea. Independently developed and in the works for five years, this is an epic online experience unlike anything else.
About Flying Lab Software
Flying Lab Software, a Seattle, Washington based game development company established in 1997, is the maker of the critically acclaimed Rails Across America®. Flying Lab Software's current project is Pirates of the Burning Sea® for the PC, an innovative massively multiplayer online role-playing game of adventure and naval combat set in the Caribbean of the 1720s.
