Pirates of the Caribbean OnlineFollow

Is there a free trial to this available? It looks a lot better than Pirates of the Burning Sea to be honest.

there is no way thats possible, i tried toontown online, and it was like it was made for preschoolers.

I'm going to guess that if you disliked toontown then you likely didn't get past the first 2 or 3 minutes of the game.

Much like Shrek, there are elements in it that could really only be understood by an adult. Humour marks, sarcasm, twists of words, etc. It's pure fun, like going sledding down a steep snowy hill or water skiing. Anyone can do it, and its fun to just about anyone who ever does go sledding or skiing.

There is a free to play download. It's the same game, same servers, etc. as the subscription, except there are ads at the top of the game window and a few limitations placed on non-subscribed members, however, there is still much that you can do within the game regardless of the limitations.

I thought Toontown was fun as a mini-game type thing. The bingo fishing was interesting. The raids on towers were fun. Despite the obvious heavy anti-corporation, anti-capitalism undertones of the game, it was fun to play around in.

Pirates of the Caribbean is a much worse game than Toon Town.

Cons:

The battle system is clunky. I personally don't like having to use the mouse and keyboard at the same time. Let me do everything with one or the other. (Currently, you move with WASD and attack with the mouse click.)

Even at the lowest settings the game seems very laggy when other people around around.

The range at which you hear other players combat is HUGE, if you are near town, the clash of swords and gun fire is deafening. I wish you could turn this off so you can actually hear yourself and your opponent.

The game is full of kill stealing. You can be in the middle of no where attacking a guard, and suddenly there are 2 people spamming the attack button right next to you, cutting your "Notority" (EXP) earned in half. This is more than likely due to the number of little kids playing not knowing any better, but it'd be nice if the game designers would implement a "claim" system or something. I think even Toontown has a claim system.


Pros:

It's free?

Technically, you can use the ctrl key for swinging instead of your mouse, and alternatively, use the arrow keys instead of WASD.





I haven't noticed any difference in notoriety gain when others contribute vs. not. Rate seems the same regardless if others start "helping" or not.

Toontown doesn't really have a claim system, but only up to 4 can battle at once - though I do find the need to swat players over the head for using backwards tactics, trying to battle the higher levels first, and lower last - when everyone gets greater experience if lower levels are killed first and higher levels stay unharmed until the end.

I would agree that it's somewhat obnoxious about the level of players in a zone causing lag, but hadn't experienced the pain of clashing from miles away issue. They seem to be fairly balanced to me. I wonder if its a difference in hardware usage, or just me not noticing. If it's the latter of the two, I'll likely start noticing and will have you to thank for pointing out something that will now likely annoy me :P


I find many strengths in this game, but my biggest "beef" would be a lack of group UI representation for health meters. I don't want changed colors if you have someone as a "member of my crew" or anything like that, just further indication besides the "friends" window which displays health meters so we all know why "Joey O'Conner" is running away, and assist in getting the bad guys off his back.