Rise of Piracy

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

Very rushed game. Could be good with ALOT of time in the oven, But rushed out to early access and needs alot ofwork to make it a great game. A shame really.

« 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. »

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.

I'm looking forward to seeing this unfold further, it's still in quite early days of early access. I do see a lot of things within the game that I love, and those likening it to Cutthroats aren't far off. There are a lot of things needing polish, I just hope the sales tracks upwards to make that happen. What I'd like to see is some functionality from the old Cutthroats game added back in, namely crew demands on resources over time. It's a nice realism layer and I think it would be cool. I'd also like to see a Caribbean accurate map for some familiar names and places. As for the bits that need polish, camera controls and landing scenarios on multiple island towns are a bit janky. Overall though the core game is solid, I'm keen to see where it goes.

Waiting for the Korean patch...:(((

has a good playable start. can be brought up to a classic game with improvements

some of the ships are blocks of wood with no details whatsoever.