Naval Action Reviews

Years ago it was probably one of the best age of sail games but over the years it has turned into absolute garbage.

It's a good game that leaves a lot to be desired in tutorials and general polish, but it makes up for it with great performance and combat mechanics. You start the game with a small trader ship and get some beginner hand-holding on how the core game mechanics work. After that, however, you are left without really knowing what to do. There are pitfalls that can soft-lock you from progression if you don't plan accordingly, but mercifully there is a passionate playerbase that supports and advises new players on how to get started. This is an MMO game that is heavily dependent on social groups, where you are unlikely to succeed on your own. The early game consists of doing fetch quests in an impressive open-world simulation of the entire Caribbean. You'll need to learn how to explore and navigate this world for 2-3 game sessions as you collect enough experience to crew a capable combat ship. When you finish the tutorials, you are rewarded with an armed ship that you use to hunt down and loot smaller AI ships in instanced battles. This is where the game really shines with an incredibly deep and enjoyable age-of-sail combat simulation. Midgame offers an entertaining 50-80 hour gameplay loop of fighting increasingly challenging AI ships and upgrading your own. After a considerable grind, you will have grasped the combat mechanics enough to take part in the endgame PVP. In the endgame, there are various activities such as skirmishing with dangerous players in high-traffic areas, trading in a player run economy, and hunting down enemy traders. The peak of the endgame PVP is the large scale clan battles, with game modes such as VIP escort and Conquest, in which clans compete with each other to control valuable areas in the open world. If you are interested in commanding beautiful historical ships in exciting battles, then this game is definitely for you. If you are the type of person that likes player-driven meta-wars (god bless your soul), where you become a member of a tight-knit clan in a brutal competition for resources, then this game also provides that in a somewhat janky, age of sail package.

Time to shut down the server if the game is so hard to grind. People spend time to relax, not to work for another shift, if you want to make sim game, just make it single player, so people can manage their own time. But in a multiplayer game that developers force every resource to be grind and so hard to obtain? I did say, if you guys like to kill the game, shut the server now. I once hoped for this game and bought every single DLC ship; now I just hope the game end soon.

I tried to retun to the game i used to enjoy some 3 years ago. However in its current state its not worth it. The tutorial is nearly none existent, and it does't even try to explain current state of the game. There is no mention of crafting and explanation of how its supposed to work. While doing one of the exams i was kicked out of it over a period of time not even that long period of time like 15-20 minutes. To run a ship you need consumables like repairs and provisions, problem with those that they are nearly impossible to find in a port, Same with gunpowder and cannonballs but worse since you need over half of the hold to do any naval combat. NPC ships do not have this limitations. Now imagine you lose the combat, you lose the ship and everything with it. Then you spend hours sailing from port to port looking for gunpowder and cannonballs before you can try to capture yourself a bigger ship.

Don't play this. A recent update had effectively made it unprofitable to have ship fights, and makes being a solo player impossible. If you want to play a solid pirate MMO, try Pirates of the Burning Sea (not on steam) or Puzzle Pirates (on steam), they're old but they hold up, and they don't hate their player base.

Ive had this game for a couple of years. i play it on and off and hav ealways loved returing to this game, genuienly always had a good time. the latest update has made the game unplayable! the grind for cannon balls and gunpowder is just too much, I want the game i loved, not a new job... hope you reverse this cause you actually have a great game here.

Returned after 3-5 year break. The starting grind was to tiring for me. After ~3 hours I was still driving trading missions just to get enough money to get a ship and fit it out. I dont even have a Port slot to store a single ship and the crafting for the new gunpoder seems to complex for the basic 3 Warehouse slots you start with. When I wanted to get at least a bit of combat though the tutorial the battle was timed to 10 Minutes and the enemy was constantly turning like a dancer making it to frustrating getting about 1-2 good salvos from killing him just for the strict timer to run out and closing the match... I heared the devs are trying to improve things for years but instead made things more grindy. In my opinion the balance espacially for new playes, (wich this game would need) between grind and actual gameplay/fun is out of wack. EDIT:The Slot problem I have with Shipslots in Port and the number of Warehouse slots can be mitigated by farming AI Ships as I learned today. Takes still time to grind out but isn't to bad as it first seemed.

The game had huge potential. Devs never delivered. Gameplay is way to tedious. UI is garbage Economy is Fu*ked New player get fu*ked over constantly.

Devs chose to wipe all players progress ahead of their update aimed at killing off what was left of the player base and stunting any progress the survivors tried to make. This wipe included the PVE/Peace server, years of grinding undone on a whim, not even Gaijin would stoop so low.

I want a game, Not a job. This game used to be fun when i started playing it. There was a definete grind, but it was rewarding and managable grind. With the recent economy changes and new ammo mechanics, you have to grind for hours to get enough supplies for ONE naval battle. For a game that is excusively played for naval combat, the amount of time you actually get to do that, is a joke.