The Guild II: Pirates of the European Seas
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Developers | |
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4 Head Studios | |
Publishers | |
2007-2011 | JoWood Productions |
2011-2016 | Nordic Games |
2016-present | THQ Nordic |
Engines | |
Gamebryo | |
Release dates | |
Windows | May 18, 2007 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 63 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Business, RPG, Strategy |
Themes | Medieval |
Series | The Guild |
The Guild | |
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Europa 1400: The Guild | 2002 |
The Guild II | 2006 |
The Guild II: Pirates of the European Seas | 2007 |
The Guild II: Venice | 2008 |
The Guild II: Renaissance | 2010 |
The Guild 3 | 2022 |
The Guild II: Pirates of the European Seas is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view business, RPG and strategy game in the The Guild series.
The game is the first standalone expansion pack for The Guild II.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SecuROM 7 DRM in international releases. StarForce 4 DRM[Note 1] in Russian releases. |
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Amazon.com | ||||
GamersGate | ||||
Platinum Edition | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | ||||
Green Man Gaming (unavailable) | ||||
Green Man Gaming (unavailable) | Platinum Edition. |
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
- Platinum Edition includes the base game, Pirates of the European Seas and Venice.
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Disable Intro[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\userconfig.ini[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/39660/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\savegames\[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/39660/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Windowed
Edit userconfig.ini[citation needed] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sound effects, Music, Speech. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Notes | |
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LAN play | |||
Online play |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Issues fixed
Black screen on startup
Skip intro videos[citation needed] |
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System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP, Vista | |
Processor (CPU) | 2 GHz | 2.8 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 9 compatible Shader model 1.1 support |
Shader model 2 support |
Sound (audio device) | DirectX 9 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (39660) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.