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Scottb2455
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:53 am    Post subject: Using chase view Reply with quote

One thing I've learned as you chase the baddies around on your family quests, if you get to port not too long after they leave switch to chase view (9 on the num pad). I've been able to run them down much more easily and have saved a ton of game time. Just thought I'd share this.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good advice.

I'll give it a try when i go play pirates in a bit
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm glad someone found a use for the chase view. I had never found anything usefull about it other than showing a more close up picture of my ship.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've often used the chase view precisely in order to see a bit further away when I'm looking for Raymundo or Montalban.

Sometimes I just like sailing like that for the fun of it...
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes, exactly.

The game often cheats by letting Ray, Monty, or Mendzy get to the edge of the screen... and vanish.

If you go into chase view, you can see farther
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If pirates is getting a bit ... repeatative ... then try fighting a ship to ship battle with chase view.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, chase view is good for chasiong Raymondo. Once, I stupidly sailed by a Spanish port in chase view while they had a bounty on me, and I couldn't see the pirate hunter firing on me in the chase view, which left me badly damaged when I finally caught Raymondo.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just unzoom the view with the mouse wheel instead Razz
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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 4:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm always switching to chase view to get a good scan of what's a little further up ahead. Also great when you're on the lookout for the Treasure Fleet. Smooth Sailing
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I almost always have my view on overhead. I will use chase view if I'm- well- CHASING like Raymondo. Sometimes he'll get off screen (on overhead view) so I switch to chase view (while I chase him), and he's back on screen. It's pretty much the only time I use it. The rotation and spinning when you turn the ship (the camera "rights" itself at the stern) causes me to get dizzy. Feeling Sick Overhead doesn't get me dizzy.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chase view is also good when lining up interior bodies of water, especially ones with treasure markers or Panama and Puerto Principe (Gran Granada is a hopeless case)
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Never really used it - as I played it as if I was still on the C-64
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I forgot too that the "overhead" view also helps save my sails. I pull back as far as the view will go, which gives me a "heads-up" to any storm clouds that may threaten my ship, my sails, and my guy's lunch! Feeling Sick

Only if I'm chasing the villian (those cowards!) will I use chase. Smooth Sailing
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope. I tried it, and I hated it! With it I can't judge distances and angles, critical especially during sea battles. Mad
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chase View is a more realistic view like were you on a sailing ship. It puts the player on the foretop* looking ahead. The view from the telescope is limited, agreed, but the graphics are fantastic. The graphics are one of the reasons that I like this game.
Just to be different play through a game on Chase View. More "challenging"? Of course. It makes you use the tools found on the numeric keypad. What's wrong with looking at the map when you are out of sight of land? Call it your "Noon Sighting" with the sextant, almanac, and chart. Just like real sailormen have been doing for 500 hundred years. I'm just sayin'.
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