Naval Action

[albert]

No it's not anything to do with belly buttons, but looks a hell of good fun: http://www.navalaction.com/#ageofsail

and O_Dingo77 playing it on Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/o_dingo77/c/6022642

[Gorion]

Very nice, but a tad expensive for an alpha.

Definitely interested for when I have more time on my hands.

[sulky_uk]

looks good

[Sparko]

Reminds me of Assassins Creed Black Flag ......Sim

Looks pretty good

[Gorion]

Reminds me of Assassins Creed Black Flag ......Sim

Looks pretty good

Age of Sail series, if you missed those.

Apparently AC Rogue will also have some ship gameplay by the trailers I seen.

[albert]

I've given this a few hours of gameplay and I think I'm going to enjoy it.

The game is in Alpha at the moment and they have the environment, tides, wind all nicely crafted. The ships look amazing and they have auto and manual sailing but I must say I went straight for manual and wasn't put off at all.

The technical terms for the sails etc aside. You control the fore and aft masts and the ones in between as well as your rudder to adjust your course and catch the wind in your sails then as a unit try to out maneuver and defeat the enemy team whilst trying not to hit each other or collide. You get cannons on the port, starboard, fore and aft of the vessel and can load them with 4 types of ammo all with different flight and damage characteristic.

You crew work busily away on desk to reload, repair, bail, and keep the ship running.

The pace is faster than I expected, although not exactly speedy but is good fun because you have to think carefully about how you will use the wind to your advantage and also learning to aim and hit is a challenge although I got a few decent hits by the time I'd played an hour or so.

I think this will be a good team game, and as more features come out it'll be a comprehensive story/ sandbox sailing game that will be a nice change from what I'm used to.

The graphics are epic as well

And they might be adding this type of thing as well:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1295347623900272&pnref=story - Permission granted to poo oneself!

[albert]

Black Flag is on sale right now, and it's the most silly confusing DLC format ever. The DLC is like 3 x the price of the base game.

So I came back to this to see how they are coming along with development and they are testing the Open World.

They have a Google Map:  https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?usp=sharing&mid=znKaQtPyLToc.kaQduRE0l4HU

So far it's still awesome, a bit aimless right now but you can hail and attack other ships, and take them over etc. trying to learn how to do all that.

[albert]

Low def screen shot in the open sea with the sun rising in the East obviously, no in game map so totally lost quite unnerving.

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[Gorion]

How do you orient yourself then? Sextant, compass?

[sulky_uk]

Tried to buy this and they aren't taking orders at the moment

[albert]

How do you orient yourself then? Sextant, compass?

Nothing yet but in addition to your 2 suggestions, they will add by the stars I believe. Plus, lots of coast crawling for smugglers.

[albert]

Tried to buy this and they aren't taking orders at the moment

Maybe I can get an invite for you. I'll pm.

[sulky_uk]

Coolio

[albert]

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[Gortex]

Yep I have got my eye on this game for some time as it looks like it could be a hit for me. Like Sulky said they have stopped additional people buying it and have done so since early Feb. I check the website regularly so fingers crossed they will open it again soon.