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Captain's Diary
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| UGO E3 Preview |
| Monday, 24.05.04 | Captain's Diary | By Hatjo |
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A good E3 preview that missed our radar screens for a few days was the UnderGroundOnline Sid Meier's Pirates E3 Preview
The article by Hugh Sterbakov, a contributing editor over at U.G.O sheds light on a whole lot of details would be pirates have been wanting to know.
If you like to read it yourself i suggest you head over there now instead of reading my boring newsitems.
In the article Hugh Sterbakov confirms that you will have a html output with your greatest achivements when you retire. This is good news for would be pirate-braggers :) I quote:
"At the conclusion of your game (and retirement of your pirate), you're ranked on a scale from pickpocket to governor. The game will even output an HTML document with your greatest achievements, which will no doubt be the stuff of many fan websites."
And yes Hugh Sterbakov this will be the stuff for many fan websites :)
The game is still in pre alpha as can be confirmed by the statement: "We started an interactive demo of the game, which is still in a pre-alpha stage (..)" Remember this was probably seen at the E3 show, but still this means the beta is probably still far off.
You will be able to upgrade ships to move and turn faster. And even different types of weaponry. Add to this that there is 27 ship types and you have a lot of fun to be explored. The upgrade and ship types seem to be dependent on what year you start the game in. Quote:(from Barry Caudill) "There are 27 ship types in the game," says Barry Caudill, also from Firaxis. "And each can be upgraded with things like cotton sails to move faster, copper plating to turn faster, and different types of weaponry. Some of this depends on which year you choose to start in."
There will be famous pirates like Blackbeard - who will feature a ship with 32 guns and iron scantlings (seems to be a upgrade) - that tells me he got a ship bigger than a sloop but still not a very huge ship so he might be light, agile and deadly hehe. Quote: "But heavy-hitters like Captain Kidd, Jean Lafitte and Blackbeard are ready and waiting: Blackbeard's ship features 32 guns with iron scantlings and all the upgrades."
Picture: A close up of a battle
If you read this far i suggest you read the entire article over at ugo, its written well and is very informative - I guess there is a reason Hugh Sterbakov is a contributing editor at the famous UGO. :)
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