Options is a list of modifications you can make while playing the game. You can access these by pressing the ESC key or going to the Sea Chest (Tab) the clicking on the Gears button.
General[]
The Legend of Pirates Online added a new General tab. These options were not available in the original Pirates Online. Enabling these options can enrich the player's experience but can affect game performance.
- Fancy Loading Screen: Toggle the loading screen with a progress bar On or Off.
- Fancy Sky Dome: Toggle On or Off the layered sky affect which can affect game performance.
- Frame Rate Meter: Add an FPS meter in the upper right corner to display the animation rate.
- Animation Smoothing: Affects the animation cycle to improve appearance but may affect performance.
- Discord Rich Presence*: Added in TLOPO, the pirate can decide whether their Discord profile will display that they are currently playing Pirates Online. This option defaults to Disable for privacy.
Display[]
This is the Top menu and allows you to set the visual options for the game.
- Choose whether you would like the graphics to Low, Medium, High, or Custom. The lower the graphics, the better the game's performance will be. The game defaults to Medium.
- 3D Glasses: Checking this will allow you to see the game in 3D, as long as you have 3D glasses .
- Window or Fullscreen: This option allows Pirates Online to be played in a scaled Window or automatically use the entire screen area.
- Resolution: Each option has a list of available resolutions based on your video driver. The higher the DPI (dots per inches) the better the quality but it may impact game performance..
If you select Custom, another set of options will display.
- Hardware Gamma: If the game appears too bright or dark, check the box and adjust the slider.
- Water Reflection Detail: Added to TLOPO, it allows high quality water reflections, but can affect game performance.
- Shadows: Enable/disable shadows of objects (Enabling may slow game)
- Reflections: Enable/disable reflections on surfaces (Enabling may slow game)
- Texture: Set the texture detail to Low/Medium/High (Higher settings may slow game)
- Aggressive Memory: Check box to help conserve PC resources (May cause lag effect)
Advanced (Display)[]
Added to The Legend of Pirates Online, this tab offers enhanced video display options for fine-tuning graphic quality. These options should not be used without a stand-alone GPU (Graphics Processor) in your PC and if game performance suffers, it might be best to leave them all Off.
- VSync - Short for Vertical Sync, Vsync is a display option to synchronize frame rate with monitor refresh rate for better stability, but it may lower FPS.
- Anti-Aliasing - This option adds digital smoothing of jagged edges on curved lines and diagonals. However, it can affect game performance, even as it enhances overall appearance.
- Off
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 3 (Fancy)
- Anisotropic Filtering - Enhances surfaces at oblique angles. Can increase image quality, but can cause process lag.
- Off
- Anisotropic 2x
- Anisotropic 4x
- Anisotropic 8x
- Anisotropic 16x
Audio[]
This menu controls in-game sounds. Disabling or Enabling sound may effect game performance.
- Sound Effects: Toggle the sound effects On and Off. Slide the bar to the left for quieter effects, or to the right for louder effects.
- Music: Toggle music On and Off. Slide the bar to the left for quieter music, or to the right for louder music.
- Advanced*: TLOPO added this option so the player can adjust various types of sound effects for the best experience.
- Looting SFX - Sounds of loot chests dropping and opening.
- Interface SFX - Sounds of buttons and menus being selected.
- Footsteps SFX - Self-explanatory.
- Voodoo SFX - Sound effects like attune and other hexes in use.
- Combat SFX - Sounds like swords clanging, gunshots, etc.
- Ship Combat SFX - Volume control for cannons, ship damage.
- Voiceover SFX - NPC voice volume, including the First Mate voice.
Interface[]
This menu controls how the player interacts with the game and how the game will respond to the players actions.
- Invert Mouse Look: Inverts the Y axis of vertical mouse movement.
- Ship Look Ahead: If checked, this will change your view while sailing to face forward when you press the up arrow key.
- Interface Scale: Slide the bar to the left for smaller GUI features, or to the right for larger GUI features.
- Chatbox Scale: Slide the bar to the left for a smaller chat panel, or to the right for a larger chat panel.
- Rotate Compass with Camera on Land/at Sea: If unchecked, the compass will always correlate with North, South, East and West. If checked, it will correlate with the direction that your pirate or ship is facing.
- Transparent Minimaps*: TLOPO added this option. If checked, it will present the area Mini-Maps on screen as a transparency, so pirates can continue playing and navigating while the map displays without having to pause or turn off the mini-map (F8) to continue.
Tutorial[]
The Tutorial menu allows you to Enable or Disable the Game Hints and Tips that appear while playing.
- Disable Basic Game Hints (Ex: Hold the Right Mouse button to Look Around)
- Disable Intermediate Game Hints - (Ex: Press F8 to View a Map of the Island)
- Disable Advanced Game Hints (Ex: Attacking enemies in the back gives extra damge!)
Logout[]
- Return to Game
- Return to Options Menu
- Return to the Choose a Pirate screen.
- Close the Program and Return to the PC Desktop.
Game Notes[]
- While standard animation rate is 24 fps (frames per sec), the goal for most video games is the highest frame rate possible for smoother appearance without affecting game play. If your framerate starts low or dips dramatically while playing, consider lowering the graphic quality, resolution or disabling some of the advanced display options. Areas with a lot of action and/or other players will affect the frame rate the most.
- Over time, some games cause memory leaks to occur as they're being played even if the software takes steps to reclaim memory, etc. If you have been playing a long time and see a performance drop, log out and back in to refresh.
- Many players find the First Mate Voice annoying, check Advanced Audio then slide the Voiceover bar all the way left to silence him.
- A lot of the new display options have come about due to advances in the game engine.
- In update 2023-12-14 tlopo-pyp-v1.12.0, the option to use F7 was removed entirely.