1. 17th Jan - Servers stopping
2. 18th Jan - Data wipe
3. 19th Jan - Head start
4. 20th Jan - Long maintenance (approx 9pm CET till 9am CET next day)
5. 21th Jan - Several exceptional ships given to all captains who logged in from 19-21
6. 21th Jan - Release (tentative on valve timing)
There is PVP and also PVE server, pretty mush the same thing but only bots around.
There is not mush beyond Sailing and combat, but that is already fun.
If you are in to the period Age of sail. Go in. If not, let the smoke come down first, there is a lot that can go wrong with the social part, content its sparse, UI basic etc.
I´v played a bit before EA and was a very relaxed experience with people generally helping. Now its a bit of a mess with the influx of new players.
Does this game like, operate in a way that you'd expect for massive ships shooting cannons at each other?
Or do you just click on someone, click your attack button, and watch as it simulates shooting and damage numbers come flying out of the top, then when HP is 0 they explode?
Its more like 3ºperson with Boats. You can check in the video above 2.3mt in, there is a red bar, thats your aim. You can even take a mast down, with a few hits.
Does this game like, operate in a way that you'd expect for massive ships shooting cannons at each other?
Or do you just click on someone, click your attack button, and watch as it simulates shooting and damage numbers come flying out of the top, then when HP is 0 they explode?
There are no HP bars per say, but at the same time there sort of are.
You got "armor" on each side of your boat that gets destroyed and your boat has to sink or be captured for you to lose.
You can still sail for a bit even with almost no armor left at all with Survival mode on.
For example if you got armor on one side of your boat, shooting Grapes there won't kill any crew but if your side armor is destroyed first, then shot with Grapes, your Crew will vanish rather quick.
So yes/no. You won't just explode if your "hp" goes to zero.
Also just to add, wind, waves etc also play a big part in the battles.
You can use waves to your advantage to hide your ship a bit or shoot down on other ships, like shooting straight at their deck with Grapes when they are still full HP, it will kill a lot of crew in one go and less crew in this game is rather heavily penalized right now. Losing 20% of your crew like doubles your reload time.
EDIT: The things that are in game right now work like a charm pretty much, I like the features alot but at the same time I find it lacking... something.
I have played it for about 30 hours total but very little of that after release.
It's amazing but at the same time I cannot bring myself to play it for some reason right now.
Maybe it's the grind, dunno. And the combat is a bit slow paced for my taste, especially the bigger battles.
Heads up. Another patch drooped today, things are shaping up good.
Being playing more than initially thought, so i thought of bringing this up in case someone miss this (niche) game.
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