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Year 2009

 

Rate Video: Solo PvP (song retry)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Fri, Feb 6

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By rss@youtube.com (halfpint37) This is the same video as Solo PversusP but with different songs, hopefully it won't be muted. Author: halfpint37 Keywords: PotBS PvP 1v1 TYC Pax Added: February 6, 2009

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Original at YouTube external link    Thu, Apr 17

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By rss@youtube.com (dwilliam01) Final one. A rather long video for such a trifling engagement, I know, but it's my first real PVP. Good to have. Author: dwilliam01 Keywords: pirates of the burning sea potbs bath caribbean fraps Added: April 17, 2008

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Original at YouTube external link    Thu, Apr 17

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By rss@youtube.com (dwilliam01) Part 2 of "Smoke 'n Oakum". Several mistakes here. I used a hull patch instead of a mast brace. A poorly-timed tack is another, not too mention my complete lack of bar shot! Author: dwilliam01 Keywords: potbs pirates of the burning sea pvp fraps caribbean Added: April 17, 2008

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Original at YouTube external link    Thu, Apr 17

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By rss@youtube.com (dwilliam01) British Captains Keir Buchanan, L. 39 NO in a Stralsund Joseph Urta, L. 27 NO in a Stralsund French Captains Baptiste Final, L. 50 PR in a Stralsund This was an ad-hoc battle just outside of Belize. Managed to lure the 50 into the circle, where he attacked myself. Urta jumped in shortly after. Was a g...

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Year 2009

 

Rate More Pirates of the Burning Sea

Original at Zam external link    Sat, Sep 12

If you've never played Pirates of the Burning Sea, that's alright; with a revamped economy, enhanced PvP combat and tons of new epic missions, there's never ...

Rate Skirmish warfare coming to Pirates of the Burning Sea

Original at Massively external link    Fri, Feb 20

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By James Egan The Flying Lab Software developers working on Pirates of the Burning Sea have done a lot of writing about the avatar combat changes of late, but it's clear that they're still aiming to improve ship-based PvP on the high seas. Pirates of the Burning Sea is going to get a major new feature as of p...

Rate Massively: Pirates of the Burning Sea to get revamped avatar combat

Original at virginworlds MMO external link    Tue, Oct 14    9 related articles

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Filed under: Fantasy, Historical, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Game mechanics, PvP, News items, PvE Swordfighting in Pirates of the Burning Sea is going through a major overhaul, not unlike how ship combat has evolved since the game launched. Flying Labs' Isildur has written a dev blog ti...

Rate The Pernicious Privateers of Pirates of the Caribbean Online

Original at Massively external link    Fri, Jul 4

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By Brenda Holloway Filed under: Historical, Events, in-game, PvP, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, News items, KidsArr! Closer come ye, for I have risen with news of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean Online! Continue reading The Pernicious Privateers of Pirates of the Caribbean Online

Rate Epic ending to the Age of Conan Open Beta

Original at mvuh696.musiced.net external link    Mon, May 19

By mvuh696 On the 10th of May Funcom is transforming silkroad gold the entire Open Beta into PotBS Doubloons PvP MAYHEM, while at the same time giving testers access to all which Hyboria has to offer! As we take down our servers for a short period ...

Rate Age of Conan Closed Beta Impressions– Part III

Original at potshot (WordPress) external link    Wed, May 14

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By p@tsh@t I did both single player instance (Tortage night) and multiplayer instance (Tortage day) quests. I didn’t do any PvP minigames having tried them in the stress tests which was enough for me. I get a distintcly more PotBS type feeling about this or maybe Guildwars type of zoning/instancing.

Rate New Pirate Classes In PotBS

Original at Kotaku external link    Tue, May 13

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By Mike Fahey Up until now, pirates in Flying Lab's MMO Pirates of the Burning Sea have gotten the short end of the stick. While the different nations had a choice of career paths, pirates were pirates, which works fine in PVE but in group PVP it led to an imbalance...everyone knows what they're up against whe...

Rate GDC and PvP Beta

Original at absint.nu external link    Sun, May 11

By mthz616 Twelve Sky Gold RF Online Dalant lord of the rings online gold PotBS gold WYD GoldWith Your Destiny Gold lotro gold RF CP lord of the rings gold Pirates of the Burning Sea Doubloons lord of the rings online gold ...

Rate Flying Lab Software announces patch 1.4 of PotBS now live on ...

Original at MMORPG blog external link    Sat, May 10

 - May 10, 2008 In addition, the dev team will also be looking to test the newly revised skills in high-level PvP fights. Volunteers for this part of the test phase will be ...

Rate PotBS: Build 1.4 Devlog Series: Skill Changes

Original at Gaming Today external link    Thu, May 1

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By Shawn Sines Related Articles at Gaming Today:Pirates of the Burning Sea Devlog Introduces New ProducerPirates of the Burning Sea Devlog: Conquest & PvP ImprovementsPirates of the Burning Sea Underdog Tools DevlogPirates of the Burning Sea Reveals Bey's RetreatPirates of the Burning Sea P...

Rate Pirates of the Burning Sea Exchange Shop Devlog

Original at Gaming Today external link    Mon, Apr 7

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By Shawn Sines Get the full details on all the changes as well as some intel on changes in store for patch 1.4 on Pirates of the Burning Sea. ---Related Articles at Gaming Today:Pirates of the Burning Sea Devlog: Conquest & PvP ImprovementsPirates of the Burning Sea: Duels and Skirmishes DevlogPirat...

Rate Patch: Huge Pirates of the Burning Sea update...but is it too late?

Original at GAX external link    Wed, Mar 19

By Hudson The account is still there waiting for me to use the free 30 days so maybe with this patch and my current bout of MMO boredom I will activate and test this game out. Only thing is I am not a big fan of PVP games and from reading ...

Rate Patch: Huge Pirates of the Burning Sea update

Original at Hudson's Hideout external link    Tue, Mar 18

By Hudson The account is still there waiting for me to use the free 30 days so maybe with this patch and my current bout of MMO boredom I will activate and test this game out. Only thing is I am not a big fan of PVP games and from reading ...

Rate Pirates of the Burning Sea Reveals Bey's Retreat

Original at Gaming Today external link    Tue, Feb 26

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By Shawn Sines Related Articles at Gaming Today:New Screens for Pirates of the Burning SeaNew Pirates of the Burning Sea ScreenshotsPirates of the Burning Sea Interview with Russell WilliamsPirates of the Burning Sea Devlog: Conquest & PvP ImprovementsPirates of the Burning Sea Devlog: Ship...

Rate Pirates of the Burning Sea: Patch 1.1.69.0 Live

Original at Breaking News from Curse external link    Mon, Feb 25

By Zyuu (Zyuu) We’ve made a few bug fixes and improvements we wanted to make available to you sooner than we can make 1.2.x available. Things like preventing turn-ins from taking a port past Pirate PvP and adding a couple new Tutorial m…

Rate Nationalism in MMORPGs

Original at Tobold's MMORPG external link    Sun, Feb 24

By Tobold A while ago I made a negative remark about Pirates of the Burning Sea, saying that I didn't see why my freetrader should finance the PvP combat of another player I don't know. Grimwell replied to that, talking about team spirit and pride. Today I read an entry about Warhammer Online on Keen and...

Rate Adrift in a Burning Sea

Original at tagn (WordPress) external link    Wed, Feb 20

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By Wilhelm2451 PvP - We're losing ports like crazy, which is bad. On the other hand, as long as I stay out of those contention zones, which don't last very long, I can thumb my nose at those in the pirate faction who seem to be out trolling for suckers to engage them, with one wee ship out front, and three or four m...

Rate PotBS: Patch Notes for Build 1.1.54.0

Original at Pirates of the Burning Sea on WarCry external link    Tue, Feb 12

By Kalia Unrest supply bundles finally work. We've added the turn-in missions for these so you can produce them and hand them in to generate unrest on an enemy port. Read this other devlog from Rev on Conquest and PvP improvements. Rare pirate gang spawns are now twice as frequent as before, so those bo...

Rate Research might help

Original at syncaine (WordPress) external link    Fri, Feb 8

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By syncaine So DAoC simulated real war did it? Far more accurately than say EVE or Shadowbane do? Right… Last I checked, real war looks a lot like group vs group PvP now anyway. Maybe he meant WW2 style war, but I think we had an MMO based on that war already…

Rate Things you wish you'd known about PotBS

Original at Massively external link    Tue, Jan 22

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By Mike Schramm Filed under: Pirates of the Burning Sea, Culture, Forums, New titles, PvP, Tips and tricks, PvEPotshot has an awesome roundup (from a post over on the official forums) just in time for today's Pirates of the Burning Sea release about "things you wish you'd known" (and that the in-game hel...

Year 2007

 

Rate Opinion: My in-depth PotBS Beta Impressions

Original at Keen and Graev's Gaming external link    Mon, Dec 3

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By Keen I want to talk about the PvP a little bit more; infact I want to include some PvE mechanics in this too. This isn’t a game without risk like some of you might be used to. In PotBS your ship can sink if you’re defeated in PvP AND PvE. When your ship sinks, depending on the ship, it may be lost forever. Shi...

Rate Opinion: Pirates of the Caribbean Online

Original at GameLedge » PC external link    Mon, Nov 5

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By Kit Pierce Once you get into the game, you are led through the various aspects of the game: Swashbuckling, crewing a ship, owning a ship, pistol play, PvP options, casual games, questing, and magic use. All told, (skipping past the cut scenes) the initial arc for a new character takes an hour or two.

Rate Brendan Walker gives details on PVP and Conquest in Pirates of Burning Sea

Original at MMORPG blog external link    Sun, May 6

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By Enrico S. Sinking ships seems to be more fun but more risky. The unrest points gained are based on the level of the ship sunk. It's been said that 10 points are granted for level two ships while you can get a whopping 105 points for a level 50 ship. You only get half the given points for NPC ships, so player-co...

Rate GDC 07: Pirates of the Burning Sea Hands-On

Original at Kotaku external link    Sat, Mar 10

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By Seth Abramovitch Just to touch on what is probably the most intriguing feature of Pirates of the Burning Sea, the port control PVP aspect could take the MMO world by storm. Each of the four factions control several forts in the Caribbean. Owning a port allows members of that faction to build structures and har...

Chatter

Year 2008

 

Rate 14 days of ARRRRR. A Pirates of the Burning Sea review

Original at Escapist Magazine external link    Sun, Apr 20

By Ixal The only thing you can do in PotBS is doing Port Battles over and over again. Even intercepting traders to cripple the enemies economy is hard to do as you can only attack them when they are in unrest zones or have the PvP flag on to ...

Rate International Balance

Original at Pirates of the Burning Sea external link    Tue, Jan 22

First, let me say that I am a relative noob to this game, I wasn’t in Beta and have played the pre-release without ever having engaged in any type of PvP. However, after logging in last night one huge glaring problem hit me with the PvP system. How does PotBS handle widely varying player numbers...

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