Announcement TLOPO Beta: Status Report

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John Foulroberts

John Foulroberts

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Hey everyone,

The Crew at TLOPO hopes that everyone has been enjoying Beta thus far! We've truly come a long way progress-wise in the development of the game.

In addition to implementing some original game features, we recently announced our own custom game update, Hollowed Woods. In case you missed this announcement, you can check it out here.

We'd like to give everyone a status update of sorts - a "State of the Game Address," if you will. We have identified and have been working toward a handful of critical items that need to be added and/or fixed before TLOPO leaves its Beta state.

Here's our to-do list! This list is by no means exhaustive or a final representation of what needs to happen before TLOPO exits Beta. Items listed are in no particular order, have no explicitly defined priority, and have no expected or posted completion dates. This list is solely to inform you of what we are working towards completing and that we are aware of some critical bugs affecting gameplay as a whole.

BUGFIXES:
  • Fix the infinite loading screen bug. We've heard everyone's reports about it and are working to correct this issue.
  • Fix sailing charms being placed outside of the weapons inventory - often glitches pirates.
  • Quests disappearing from player journals and parts of quests not showing up.
  • Rays of light pointing to an incorrect location.
  • Fix some minor issues with animations not showing to other players (e.g. emotes, staff casting/effects).
  • Fix sailing items (rams, charts, globes applying their respective boosts/abilities).
  • Fix SvS/PvP rewards and their vendors.

TWEAKS:
  • Add more inventory space. With Hollowed Woods introducing over 50 new items, players will need more inventory space (and it has been a general request for a while).
  • Implement a scroll bar for sailing loot. Sailing loot currently goes off of the screen and is inaccessible.

CONTENT/ADDITIONS:
  • Implement Raven's Cove. We have been working on the RC questline and its attributes for a bit of time now.
  • Implement Invasions.
  • Re-implement Cannon Defense - this was in an earlier version of TLOPO but has since been disabled due to a bug. It is on our radar to bring back into the game.
  • Implement the Queen Anne's Revenge.
  • Implement Treasure Fleets.
  • Finish implementing the remainder of potion buffs/effects as well as polishing weapon buffs/DoTs/immunities.
  • Implement Matchmaking (Crew and SvS).
  • Implement alternative forms of PvP (5v5, 4v4, 3v3, 2v2).
  • Implement random bosses.

PLATFORM SUPPORT:
  • Correct issues Mac players are facing with chat as well as audio during sailing.
  • Correct issues preventing those who have recently upgraded to MacOS High Sierra from playing.

We are certainly aware that there may be smaller bugs lurking that we have not addressed on this list. These are simply our main focuses right now - once we knock out most or all of this list, we'll begin to drill down a bit more and work on smaller things.

After we have implemented the contents of this list, TLOPO will essentially be in a state of "full release." We're excited to have all of you with us during this journey and hope you'll stick around - because we're only getting better from here!

Hope to see you around the Caribbean - and we hope this status update has been beneficial to you!

The Crew @ TLOPO
 
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John Foulroberts said:
After we have implemented the contents of this list, TLOPO will essentially be in a state of "full release."
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I think this is a question on everyone's mind more or less. When we went from alpha to beta, there was a reset and pirates embarked on their journey in the Caribbean from the start again. Has this been something the Crew has considered and/or looking to do going fro. Beta to Full Release?

Aside from that, I can't wait to see the fixes be made and start journeying into chapters of the Caribbean unseen before and what more the storyline and content teams have in store for us.
 
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I think this is a question on everyone's mind more or less. When we went from alpha to beta, there was a reset and pirates embarked on their journey in the Caribbean from the start again. Has this been something the Crew has considered and/or looking to do going fro. Beta to Full Release?

Aside from that, I can't wait to see the fixes be made and start journeying into chapters of the Caribbean unseen before and what more the storyline and content teams have in store for us.
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There shouldn't be any wipe when transitioning from Beta to full release.
 
John Foulroberts said:
Hey everyone,

The Crew at TLOPO hopes that everyone has been enjoying Beta thus far! We've truly come a long way progress-wise in the development of the game.

In addition to implementing some original game features, we recently announced our own custom game update, Hollowed Woods. In case you missed this announcement, you can check it out here.

We'd like to give everyone a status update of sorts - a "State of the Game Address," if you will. We have identified and have been working toward a handful of critical items that need to be added and/or fixed before TLOPO leaves its Beta state.

Here's our to-do list! This list is by no means exhaustive or a final representation of what needs to happen before TLOPO exits Beta. Items listed are in no particular order, have no explicitly defined priority, and have no expected or posted completion dates. This list is solely to inform you of what we are working towards completing and that we are aware of some critical bugs affecting gameplay as a whole.

BUGFIXES:
  • Fix the infinite loading screen bug. We've heard everyone's reports about it and are working to correct this issue.
  • Fix sailing charms being placed outside of the weapons inventory - often glitches pirates.
  • Fix a variety of quest issues. Players have reported quests disappearing from their journals, parts of quests not showing up, or rays of light pointing to an incorrect location.
  • Fix some minor issues with animations not showing to other players (e.g. emotes, staff casting/effects).
  • Fix sailing items (rams, charts, globes applying their respective boosts/abilities).
  • Fix SvS/PvP rewards and their vendors.

TWEAKS:
  • Add more inventory space. With Hollowed Woods introducing over 50 new items, players will need more inventory space (and it has been a general request for a while).
  • Implement a scroll bar for sailing loot. Sailing loot currently goes off of the screen and is inaccessible.

CONTENT/ADDITIONS:
  • Implement Raven's Cove. We have been working on the RC questline and its attributes for a bit of time now.
  • Implement Invasions.
  • Re-implement Cannon Defense - this was in an earlier version of TLOPO but has since been disabled due to a bug. It is on our radar to bring back into the game.
  • Implement the Queen Anne's Revenge.
  • Implement Treasure Fleets.
  • Finish implementing the remainder of potion buffs/effects as well as polishing weapon buffs/DoTs/immunities.
  • Implement Matchmaking (Crew and SvS).
  • Implement alternative forms of PvP (5v5, 4v4, 3v3, 2v2).
  • Implement random bosses.

PLATFORM SUPPORT:
  • Correct issues Mac players are facing with chat as well as audio during sailing.
  • Correct issues preventing those who have recently upgraded to MacOS High Sierra from playing.

We are certainly aware that there may be smaller bugs lurking that we have not addressed on this list. These are simply our main focuses right now - once we knock out most or all of this list, we'll begin to drill down a bit more and work on smaller things.

After we have implemented the contents of this list, TLOPO will essentially be in a state of "full release." We're excited to have all of you with us during this journey and hope you'll stick around - because we're only getting better from here!

Hope to see you around the Caribbean - and we hope this status update has been beneficial to you!

The Crew @ TLOPO
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Honestly thank you, this is exactly what i wanted to see, TLOPO Team your on the right track i couldn't think of anything else that is on the top priority list, this is great, hope to see these bugs and tweaks implemented soon, along with content that isn't finished yet coming sometime after.
 
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