What is different from this and the original Puzzle Pirates?

[DaniNyo]

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[Meadow]

This blogpost contains links to the official forums detailing the differences.

In short this is a heavy PVP focused oceans with permanent warfare between two factions, the Defiant Armada and the Shadow Fleet.

Additionally important to mention: Dub purchases are seperate from the "vanilla' oceans such as Meridian and the game client can only be accessed through Steam.

[DaniNyo]

Weren't Dub and Sub oceans already seperate? So are we going to have compeletly F2P vs Dub oceans now?

[Meadow]

Nah, this ocean (Obsidian) is also a Dub ocean however it does not have any shared Dub pool with the other classic Dub oceans like Meridian. You can read about it in the linked blog to forum post.

[DaniNyo]

Is there any chance the playerbase has seen a rise in numbers? Can you carry over your old account to the new server? I have a halloween slope still hanging around on some account

[Snipah Shot]

You can't carry over your old accounts to the new server, it is a brand new client and if you want to play the other oceans then you have to download the regular game.

More changes would be the fact that there is no SMH badge required to join SMH, there are no blocades or flotillas in the game yet as well (supposed to be added in couple of months, while having a blockade "event" for these months).

The game is based heavily on PvP, as was mentioned, but that PvP is also sinkable. There is one archipelago which isn't sinkable and that is the Greywaters which is the one of the starter island (Port Venture). You can still be attacked by players there but you just can't be sunk.

Here is the map of Obsidian: https://yppedia.puzzlepirates.com/Template:Map:Obsidian_Ocean

Lionhaven is the home base of the Defiant faction and Night Harbour is the home base of the Shadow faction.

Because there are no blockades in the game yet, the only available houses to purchase are shacks and those exist only in these 2 islands and the starter island. Both of the faction islands can be easily reached from the starter island.

[Blind]

Well, the game runs faster... so there's a duty report every 2 seconds >.>

[Walksfar( 走远 Zǒu Yuǎn)]

rather then wipe oceans, or correct issues, they released new ocean where all the banned players and botters can romp around again, Grey Havens cares less about this game the OOO did, last ditch effort to milk money from a dieing game

[Blind]

Originally posted by Walksfar:

rather then wipe oceans, or correct issues, they released new ocean where all the banned players and botters can romp around again, Grey Havens cares less about this game the OOO did, last ditch effort to milk money from a dieing game

I'm hoping that by being steam exclusive they can VAC the cheaters

[AblazingGrace]

Originally posted by BBX:

Originally posted by Walksfar:

rather then wipe oceans, or correct issues, they released new ocean where all the banned players and botters can romp around again, Grey Havens cares less about this game the OOO did, last ditch effort to milk money from a dieing game

I'm hoping that by being steam exclusive they can VAC the cheaters

This won't happen.

[darkone264]

the game has anti bottig software in it so anyone who does bot will probably get kicked fairly quickly

[AblazingGrace]

Originally posted by darkone264:

the game has anti bottig software in it so anyone who does bot will probably get kicked fairly quickly

Only specific bots. I've been seeing plenty of people using bots and even admitting to making bots who are still playing. I like to think it depends on whether or not you're spending irl money, cuz god knows that's a thing.