New maps, classes, weapons, art, music, and a new contest!

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Welcome to another BF Pirates 2 update. Our beta testers are getting anxious for the next build, and thanks to the work of the very creative, hard working and dedicated development team members, it will be in their hands shortly!

Joining us recently are two new crew members, 1|2Hawk and TaiChi, who will be creating maps for future releases. 1|2Hawk has been hard at work unwrapping our remaining models, we can't wait to show you them in-game!

Our lead mapper, Catbox has been recreating Pelican Point as well as a new map Black Beard's Atol. He has sent over 2 dozen map builds to the team in an effort to squash out bugs and get the maps looking perfect. We hope you enjoy the current screenshots of both maps, which are awaiting structures from our skinning department.

Pelican Point



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Black Beard's Atoll



With so much talk about our current build, you must be getting curious about exactly what it includes. The current build contains the following:

3 Levels
Shiver Me Timbers
Pelican Point
Black Beard’s Atol

3 Ships
Dingy
Gnat
Cutter

5 Kits
Sharpshooter
Sniper musket
Pistolet
Cutlass
Smoke grenade
Spyglass

Raider
Musket
Pistol
Cutlass
Grenades
Spyglass

Gunner
Blunderbuss
Pistol
Cutlass
Grenade Launcher
Powder Horns
Spyglass

Surgeon
Musket
Pistol
Cutlass
Surgeon bag
Spyglass

Carpenter
Musketoon
Pistolet
Cutlass
Powder Kegs
Hammer
Spyglass

And of course, structures, props, and other weapons such as different cannons. We are getting close to a release, most that remains now is for the character models to be completed, as well as the animations and textures for remaining weapons and ships. The rest is up to our beta testers, and we’ll be inviting other mod teams such as RC, PoE, EoD, FH, etc to join us in pillaging and looting on the high seas!

Now that we’ve listed off all of these weapons, it’s time we previewed one of them! Today we’re showing off the Musketoon, a short barrel musket. Modelled by Ratkin and skinned by Achilles, the Musketoon is equipped with a small iron sight, and while it has a shorter range then the musket, it is quicker to reload, thus deadlier at mid-range to those who become skilled with it.


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If you frequent our forums, you may have caught an in-game glimpse of the blunderbuss the other week by Kev4000, but unfortunately we only had the temporary 1p arms for the Undead in-game, and as a result we received some neutral comments- Owen “Eturnip” has been working extremely hard on the 1p arms, and the new “Pegleg” arms are looking incredibly life-like, so we are looking forward to showing new in-game shots as soon as the textures for the arms are completed.

In the sound department, our musician, Kielbasa, has been hard at work creating music for you pirates to jam to, and we’re excited to let you hear the loading, winning, and losing music that can be heard in our first release.

Main theme
Loosing track
Winning track

Also, we’d like to announce that will be using Alternative Battlefield Ranking starting after the first release, but we will be heavily modifying it to our own needs to focus much more on teamplay and unlocks, to provide a better ingame experience working with other players, and provide players a greater selection of weapons to choose from. Our art director, Mike Perry, has been hard at work creating some amazing pen and ink artwork of the characters for use within the BFHQ, but you will have to wait until we near our second release to get a glimpse. As always the rest of the art department has been very busy, and we’re going to leave you with some amazing concept art by Wegvisor, as well as a beautiful wallpaper by Bibi.


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Lastly, several community members have been asking us where they can get BFP mouse pads, t-shirts and other swag? Well, submit a funny slogan or good design/idea for a product and the top 3 enteries will be sent our new pirate booty for free! Submit your entry here

Join us next update when we show off our new ships the Cutter and Runabout!
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[theboomboom]

Yarrrr!!!
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[[BFPE]The Fornicator.]

Arrrr good news that is :>

A few things though :
*I can't wait to test these classes, especially to see if they are balance enough. Because the Surgeon will surely be the most used class with that equipment, but I don't know, we'll see
*The huts' roof looks weird, maybe for that new version you shouldn't make it all flat, but more like hay's heaps put on some planks
*For the tracks, I like the loosing(althought I won't hear it that much ) and the Winning ones, but for the main theme, I don't find it fast enough : everytime it accelerates, then it goes down and then change theme. But maybe that's just me. I like it when the loading song get you all excited and you can't wait to play xD (well I listened to it again now, it brings that feeling a bit yeah )

But I love that all anyway :}
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[Kev4000]

The classes are for what's planned for now. Don't be surprised if anything is changed during beta testing. I also saw the same problem with the medic, but we could reduce the medic's sprint for example.

[[BB]Enfield]

*claps*

Go BFP2 team GO!

Nice stuff , love the music and it looks awesome all.
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[ReaperOfsouls]

I like it!

The music is absoulty awesome! GREAT WORK!

I am really excited about the release now!
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[ShadowDragoon]

Sweet new update! I love how the maps look! The main music theme fits so perfectly with the whole BF music style! I can't wait for the release!

[[BB]EmptyShadow]

this update.... it is beyond words. That music if flipping amazing and i just about fainted when i saw the artwork and level screens. It's just all so beautiful. BFP2 team... will you marry me?
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[Raiding Reporter]

I like how your making the old stuff in bfp one look the same. We need new stuff sure but it's always good to see the orginal stuff too.
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[Bunny]

Awesome update! That music is spectacular!
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[Tren]

Fantastic update guys. Good work to everyone but I'll give a big hand to the sound team, that music is perfect.


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[Lod]

Indeed a great job. The music is just great.

And Raid They are the Original Huts from BFP1 they will have been ported to save time on new stuff, for now untill they are replaced.
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[TheViking]

amazing music!!! now i migh ttry to loose to hear that song too :wink:

great job guys!!

[RK-Mara]

Absolutely amazing!
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[Green_Vietnam]

wonderfull update guys, keep it up.
Nice music
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