Rise of Piracy

I want to like this game, but it is just not stable enough. For example if you visit an island (not a city, but an island) it puts you into a similar screen as if you are in combat, but there is no obvious way to exit the screen, control your ship or interact with the game in any meaningful manner. Has good ingredients but needs to bake more. I plan to give it 3 to 6 months and try again.

Really good. still is early stage but still a very solid game and worth the prices

« Après l'euphorie passée, car on y croit... on se rend vite compte du vide sidéral et de la redondance de ce jeu de pirates. Un de plus... Quel que soit votre mode de jeu ou votre nation, le jeu tourne en boucle. Même Sisyphe s'y lasserait. Côté graphique, ce n'est pas ouf ; pour être honnête, c'est même complètement dépassé, bref, c'est loin des standards actuels. Côté réalisme et immersion, on est passé à côté du sujet sur plusieurs points : aucune vie ou semblant de vie tant sur terre que sur mer. Les combats pour les villes sont lunaires ou plutôt apocalyptiques tellement c'est peu convaincant. La stratégie ? C'est quoi déjà, ça ? Les villes sont amorphes, idem pour les interactions avec les PNJ : c'est très basique, très sommaire. Les batailles sur terre comme sur mer sont très vite ennuyeuses, pour rester poli. Quant à l'interface, elle est rudimentaire, rien n'est ergonomique. Ça fait 8 ans que ce jeu est en développement... Dans 20 ans, il sera prêt. »

It's fun but very unfinished and far from a full game

I bought this on the steam summer sale, and its worth it at that price, but not at full price. It's like mount and blade warband but with ships. Note that I mentioned WARBAND and not BANNERLORD because the functionality is still quite limited. The skeleton of a good game is there, but not the flesh. Immersion isn't all there, and the UI still needs work, its a bit unintuitive in battles. In the campaign map, everything is a menu, which is fine, but it could use more flavour. I feel like they basically copied mount and blade warband and put it at sea. The methods for capturing setllements are also more brute force than tactical. I don't seem to see much use specialization or need for specialization in ships for amphibious assaults since numbers carry the day. There also aren't ways to save and set up troop deployments. It deploys troops onshore as a massive blob, instead of men getting off boats. Also, I don't know if I'm missing something, but it seems like my ships can't provide fire support during beach landings. Graphically, they do it, but I don't see it having any effect one enemies. Ship battles, while cool looking, come down to who has the most guns, more so than who has better tactics and the leading wind direction. While basic naval tactics apply, don't expect tactical control a la empire/napoleon total war. The economy is there, though its pretty barebones and lacks dynamism - prices stay the same, supply and demand doesn't shift much, and the wealth of a settlement slowly replenishes with time with no relation to other impact.

yes ,, needs more ,, but yes i like it

For an early access game, it is pretty good and looks very promising. I really am looking forward to more content and gameplay being released. Keep up the great work Devs. This game defintely scratches the itch of playing something like Pirates!

The sails dont even turn with the wind... That was the first thing I noticed starting out and its very immersion breaking. The game needs a lot more time to cook as of right now its got a good idea on paper but so many details are not taken care of yet and who knows if the devs will. Ship combat is boring and ive had multiple fights where the enemy starts out with all their ships on fire. Seems fire is used as a visual Hp status. Traveling the main map is boring and confusing as its all blacked out like you woke up with Amnesia but now you are a fleet commander. The track route will disappear if you stop so you have to go back to the missions and re track it if its a quest. Also pretty boring as it just sails you to the port automatically and maybe you will have a fight on the way. Lots of graphics glitches and if you zoom out you can see right threw your ships into the water. Also Ships move like tanks and have horrible physics. Why even play a naval game if the wind and water has nothing to do with combat. Ive been told i can buy a new ship at port then at any port there are no ships available. And Ive already seen enough videos about the land battles and how bad they look, so before my 2 hours is up I'm done with this game and getting my $ back. Maybe when the game is finished and the sails actually move around with wind direction ill pick it back up cause it is a cool idea but for now there is a lot of other Naval strategic type games to spend time on.

Too easy... needs more to it. A bigger world, more city stuff, can I build my own pirate empire, expand to Europe across the world.. that would be cool

I am absolutely loving this game, as an avid fan of Sid Meier's pirates (I played the 2000s version on an ipad a lot as a kid, not old enough to have experienced the original) this game is a wonderful successor and it isn't even out of early access yet. If this dev keeps it up, he's going to have a banger of a game on his hands. More content will not hurt this game, it will only help it. I haven't even delved into treasure hunting yet. Anyways, I have hope for the future of this game, looking forward to more. The only bug I have encountered thus far was my first attempt to raid a native settlement, my troops walked underground and disappeared lol. So I suggest quicksaving before deciding to get into a battle. Otherwise the game has run well for me.