Pirates of the Burning Sea

By rss@youtube.com (lindseyangela) Animations I made for the Florentine fighting style for the MMO Pirates of the Burning Sea. Sword and dagger attacks, blocks, parries, and special moves. Character model copyright Flying Lab Software. Animated in Maya 7. Keywords: animation animator Pirates of the Burning Sea avatar comb...

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...

By James Egan Pirates of the Burning Sea is a title that's been undergoing some major overhauls in terms of game mechanics. Flying Lab Software has been revamping the game's combat systems, both those of ship-based combat and avatar combat. We've mentioned a few of those changes in the past, such as the i...

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By Cody Bye Nothing says "Hello!" like a punch in the face.Every time you look, the developers at Flying Lab Software are implementing some new skill, change or system into Pirates of the Burning Sea. Now that their Avatar Combat changes are hitting the... read more

By news@mmorpg.com MMORPG.com's Ernest Ross writes this overview to some of the changes coming to avatar combat in Flying Lab Software's Pirates of the Burning Sea.

The large v1.11 update to Pirates of the Burning Sea titled The Clash of Steel that introduces huge changes to avatar combat went live last week - head over to the official site to read about the new stuff in v1.11.  Here's a snip from the patch notes on the content changes: Every AvCom mission in...

 NY - By Mike Fahey , 10:20 AM on Wed Dec 31 2008, 425 views Flying Lab's MMO Pirates of the Burning Sea sails into the new year with the release of the highly ...

By Colin Brennan Filed under: Fantasy, Historical, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Game mechanics, PatchesAvatar combat was always the stepchild system in Pirates of the Burning Sea. Where ship combat was polished, intense, and very different from your standard MMO combat fare, avatar combat just seemed...

By news@mmorpg.com The folks at Flying Lab Software have provided us with these seven avatar combat screenshots.

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By news@mmorpg.com MMORPG.com's Carolyn Koh recently visited Flying Lab Studios' new offices in Seattle to talk to the team about the upcoming Avatar Combat Revamp for their nautical MMORPG, Pirates of the Burning Sea.

By James Egan Filed under: Fantasy, Historical, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Game mechanics, News items, PvEThe latest Pirates of the Burning Sea developer blog focuses on the title's avatar combat revamp, which we've discussed a bit at Massively in the past. "AvCom Revamp: NPC Archetypes" is writte...

By news@mmorpg.com Flying Lab has posted anew developer diary which reveals new and improved NPC combat tactics which were made possible with the game's new avatar combat system.

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By news@mmorpg.com The folks at Pirates of the Burning Sea have posted a new developer diary which looks at recent revisions to the item system, and how they brought items in line with the new avatar combat system.

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Pirates of the Burning Sea. Major avatar combat revisions are in development for Pirates of the Burning Sea. Kevin Maginn, Lead Designer at Flying Lab Software, has written a dev blog on the subject. Here is what he said: (Quote) ...

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By news@mmorpg.com The folks at Pirates of the Burning Sea have posted a dev log which details the work they have been doing on revamping avatar combat, and letting players know how they can get involved with testing the system.

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Pirates of the Burning Sea devs have had a lot going on lately as posted on the official site. Between moving into new offices and reflecting on avatar combat, there's a lot to keep fans happy in the latest "State of the Game" letter. ...

Combat would be ship vs. ship combat, and I'd borrow a lot of good ideas there from Pirates of the Burning Sea. As the ships are Victorian, broadsides in space would be very cool, and give combat a tactical maneuvering component. There could also be planetside avatar combat on the fantastic wo...

By news@mmorpg.com Flying Lab has posted a new dev journal which details the revisions they are making to avatar combat in Pirates of the Burning Sea.

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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...

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 IL - Oct 14, 2008 Kevin Maginn, Lead Designer at Flying Lab Software, has written a new development log on the subject for Pirates of the Burning Sea located at ...

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By news@mmorpg.com While attending Gen Con in indianapolis, we had the opportunity to talk to Russel Williams, CEO of Flying Lab Software about recent and upcoming updates for Pirates of the Burning Sea, player governed ports, alternative advancement paths, and the revamping of avatar combat.

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I will compare this situation directly to Pirates of Burning Seas (PotBS). PotBS took a huge delay to put in Avatar Combat. Avatar Combat failed miserably and painfully took away development time from polishing what did work: ship ...

By Suzie Ford Ten Ton Hammer editors sat down with the Pirates of the Burning Sea development team for a post mortem discussion of the latest patch and the future of PotBS: 1.4 also has a lot of improvements for everyone. We have the first revamp of how avatar combat works, we have the new supernatural epic m...

By Ethec After receiving a laudable 89% in the usually MMORPG-averse PC Gamer's May issue, we thought it might be smooth sailing for the Age of Sail themed MMORPG Pirates of the Burning Sea, released in January. Eurogamer, however, took issue with the game's instancing and avatar combat before si...