Naval Action 2023 Review - Does This Age of Sail Simulator Sink or Swim?

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Naval Action is a simulator lite set in the Caribbean during the 18th Century. This is my naval action 2023 review and includes multiplayer gameplay to give you a taste of the game. In general, I think this game has some really compelling reasons but it is weighed down by the grind and the out of tune developers but I am still playing it. Some who are looking for a persistent MMO that is rooted in history and realism may really enjoy this game.
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01:20 The Good
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08:17 Multiplayer Example
11:45 Battle Begins
14:28 Stern Attacks
24:48 Finishing Blows
27:40 Closing Thoughts
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@Enigma89 Год назад

In short, this game is a bit tragic. The combat has a lot of depth and it feels really rewarding even if you win or lose. The open world nature of the game also allows for a lot of flexibility and it really feels like you are exploring while you build out a network of farms, plantations and mines. The issue is the general instability because the devs can't make up their mind. If you like boats, I would recommend to check it out but go with caution.

@superfortressstudios Год назад

I bought this game all the way back when it released on steam, even back then it had a pretty painful grind, especially for a game that wasn't free to play. The combat was amazing but the grind pushed me away and I've never come back to it. It always felt like a potentially incredible game held down by an atrocious grind and scammy devs.

@n1salat Год назад

been on and off of this game since alpha / early access release... the devs went a weird way... not all bad.. but well.. the game could be so much better.. Playing on PvE at the moment for some relaxing gameplay

@amplify6613 Год назад

been playing since 2016 and yes the devs have always been the issue. we used to have 2k people and now we barely pull 200. can't wait to see you on the main server do the f2p server gets wiped war server doesn't

@diomedesbc Год назад

It's f2p so low risk I guess.

@travisj2370 Год назад

ive got 35 hours and noticed how bad the grind was so i quit love everything else about the game tho im tired of grinding for levels just to crew a ship you buy with real money glad somone warned me about getting the redoubtable while only having half the required crew could of ended badly

@shinysdcs1212 Год назад

I played Naval Action in 2017 and 2018 before I discovered DCS. I put in a lot of hours (it is a time consuming game) and had fun. Once I found DCS I had to give up NA because I didn't have time for both and I like planes more than ships. The combat in naval action is outstanding and exciting.

@Enigma89 Год назад

I have been enjoying it just to do something different isn't airplanes but has a nice methodical pace to it.

@falkwulf3842 11 месяцев назад

SAME HERE... I played NA back in 2015-2017 and it was a late night after a big Port Battle and meeting a dude from the NPG clan that introduced me to DCS. I gave up NA for DCS and have not looked back.

@Election0747 5 месяцев назад

Same here! But eventually DCS was just waaay too complicated for me :(

@parab225 Год назад

Naval Action alpha and beta were wild times. Also, lol, at how universal some sim problems are.

@Enigma89 Год назад

For real

@jeremynuckoles2907 Год назад

This really is the worst of the worst, though. Don't mind so bad when devs disregard much of community feed back, there's a lot of solid research that shows that consumers can often be the worst people to talk to about what consumers actually want. However, these devs are outright antagonistic to their customers, and at the same time they put together dominatingly the best ship combat "sim" in any era that I'm aware of they are absolutely awful game developers. I have to give them some credit for at least trying to be game devs though, something the likes of which DCS, Il-2, and war thunder actively avoid. Think about it, without folks like enigmas team and Finnish (and some other really great ones), we wouldn't really have "games" at all, just really flipping fancy digital toy models that "light up and sound like the real thing when you press the button!"

@kazansky22 7 месяцев назад

Man Enigma, if only you played this game when it was popular, the battles were glorious. Spies were everywhere, lots of fleet were being intercepted trying to initiate port battles etc.... it was Eve Online with sails.

@TheBlackSpastic Месяц назад

I bought it in 2017 after playing ELITE Dangerous and was blown away because it was exactly what I wanted it to be. I haven't had the nerve to try it in years. Especially since they went free to play.

@Madcows Год назад

Man I miss this game, shame what the devs did to it

@Localnimation 10 месяцев назад

What the dev did to it?

@EpicNitroBiLLe 8 месяцев назад

nothing@@Localnimation

@PomitusTV Месяц назад

@@Localnimation imagine you have 3 kids.... an its christmas. And your kids have to pay for the presents... and after this you take the presents away... and gave them back... but the new presents are crap... but you made the kids pay again for the presents

@vmaq2detx Год назад

Hi I played this game from early access til now, on and off. Over 2500 hours in game and that’s a very low number compared to many. Your analysis was very spot on. I still play on occasion. It’s a love hate relationship… I’ve not played on the new server that wipes regularly. No American nation, no play. Game was way better long ago. But even with all its flaws it is still a beautiful game to play. BTW you need to work on that sail management!! You’ll run into a veteran someday that’ll eat your lunch. If that pirate had been a real veteran you would’ve lost most your ships in that battle… they’re some scary skilled dudes playing this game… or at least used too… Also a fan of your DCS content!!! Great stuff!!!

@user-fz5uy5pk4w Год назад

Its been a pleasure to play with you guys, this next season will be excellent

@Enigma89 Год назад

Thanks!!

@SardinesQ Год назад

Great video, and its been really fun to play this game! Hopefully this video draws some more attention to it, because I genuinely have a lot of fun playing Naval Action and it's only better with the clan we've formed. Many (seems like all) disagree with developer decisions, but finding the fun in the game despite the heavy-handed approaches to balance is not hard. Lately, with the dev putting out polls, actively developing and pushing patches frequently, I think there's a chance for significant improvements in the areas that could use it. With a wipe approaching soon, there's no better time to start and get familiar with the game.

@danielfang749 Год назад

I've played this game around a year ago and I had a blast! I've been thinking on getting back to it but can't dedicate too much time regularly. If you know of a not-so-hardcore clan or if yours is accepting new people, I would love to join!

@Enigma89 Год назад

Thanks! Been noticing the polls, kind of shocked by the results though. I get the feeling there are a lot of PVE players.

@backalleycqc4790 7 месяцев назад

I'm a fan of the board game "Wooden Ships, Iron Men" and this game looks truly awesome!! It's too bad the developers are making it difficult to play it, I'm check the game out in a few months time to see if anything has changed.

@mauricedesaxe1745 Год назад

NA veteran here! Played from early access on. I think your video nails it on the head. The DLCs are worth dwelling on as obvious cash grabs that really make this game pay-to-win. The fact that you can print ships of just about every class daily for triple-a prices is deeply depressing. There is some incredible developer lore here. If you want to go on a wild ride, look up Banished Privateer and the antics surrounding his one-man war against the developers. The game is definitely at its best when you play in a clan. The grind is brutal, but manageable if you pool resources. And my fondest memories come from clan activities. Props to you for, in my view, playing the game the best way! I would log on and give your clan all of my stuff, but I suspect my hoard was wiped.

@falkwulf3842 11 месяцев назад

Same here, I am one of the Former American Senators from what used to be the (MOB) then (FEAR) Clan. Depending on when you last played there is a STRONG possibility that your account is WIPED and your starting over from SCRATCH having to recertify and begin the grind all over again, to even fully crew a Trinc.

@mauricedesaxe1745 11 месяцев назад

@@falkwulf3842 Howdy! I was in BORK in their earlier days with Sweden. Were you involved in the American-Swedish conflicts over the northern bahamas ports sometime between 2018-2020? We might have fought against one another, FEAR is a familiar clan name.

@falkwulf3842 11 месяцев назад

@@mauricedesaxe1745 Were you one of Bad Benny's Crew? In 2018 near when I gave up the game I did fight in the Bahamas as a Rattler Driver. During that time a few of the senators, Josey Sails and Zaphod did switch over to Sweden to join Bad Benny as FEAR was pretty much going inactive.

@mauricedesaxe1745 11 месяцев назад

@@falkwulf3842 I'm afraid I don't recognize Bad Benny as a username. I was a heavy carronade Surprise driver following a Swede named Teutonic, who I know is inactive now: he founded BORK. He assembled about a dozen of us in Surprises to fight shallow PBs and group PVP together. We were pretty deadly but ran into a brick wall against the Pirates and GB, who didn't like us going after their ports. I think I remember a US player named "Lionheart" or something similar to that, he was a frequent opponent.

@falkwulf3842 11 месяцев назад

@@mauricedesaxe1745 I was just flying some DCS with Senator Slingarian he reminded me that BORK was Bad Benny's clan. If Teutonic Founded BORK then that was Bad Benny, he must have changed his name..... Lionheart was the leader of the No Pants Guys, aka (NPG).. Its no surprise that you ran into a brick wall with the Pirates, Cheese and LOCO with the help of Nurytle could simply out produce any nation, they were masters at DUPING ships... Now I did have some GB friends the CKA guys who were Canadian and sailed out of Kingston. They were just GOOD and had sailed together for a LONG TIME.

@jannikg4211 Год назад

The real game is the RvR and massive well organized PVP fights up to 25 vs 25 commanded by port battle commanders. That is the most fun I have had in this game.

@Enigma89 Год назад

I haven't done that yet, our clan is still too under leveled in terms of player ranks. I hope next wipe we can take part

@tmo_117 Год назад

Would love to see more of this teamwork and game. I need to get back into the game, I don’t mind myself taking out smaller to medium agile ships, just don’t play with anyone or do pvp myself, always outmatched lol

@Enigma89 Год назад

A LOT of people on our discord are playing if you want to join in

@jeremynuckoles2907 Год назад

I played this back close to the very beginning, well before the open world was around. I think this was like 15-16 or so. At that time the community was small but tight and the game was an absolute blast. Still sim in the air with some of those virtual captains! The battles if I remember correct were up to around 60 ships with 2 teams. There was a lobby and a usualy no more than 1-5 matches to choose from. We all exitedly anticipated the open world game play, but then when it landed it was just so awful, and at the same time we completely lost those glorious battles we had all enjoyed for so many hundreds of hours. They remained for awhile in some form, but nothing like our Trafalgar-esque epics repeated every couple of hours. I wouldn't find that kind of enjoyment again until a few years later when I really started to dig into IL2, and now these days also helos in DCS. I have come back to NA a few times over the years, but that juice just is not worth the squeeze by a long shot anymore. One sad thing is the combat and mechanics are very much as they were, the principals of energy and wind/sail were the keys to success. It's hard to know the greatness of the game is still there, with all the fun hidden away. Still miss this game so very much when I see it in my stream game list. Ask me about the time I one v oned a Santissima in a snow... and sank that that turkey! (Took over an HOUR and a half, i was genuinely spent in the end). It's the pilot not the plane indeed maverick.

@alarminglyfastmovingskelet7289 Год назад

I guess I see what you mean but not every naval battle in the age of sail had 30 ships on each side... lol

@falkwulf3842 11 месяцев назад

Ok we played about the same time frame, Were you playing before the map coord changes, back when we had a special map file that had to be brought up via window paint to cross reference our in game map position cause the in game map did not have a location icon? Were you ever a part of the bloody battles for Anclote and the nightly tangle with the British over Misteriosa where the pirates would try and jump us all as everyone was leaving the Port Battle.

@Arefear 8 месяцев назад

I had fun in this game some years ago now, I recall having to buy a flat for a port battle then having to carry it to start the battle with the chance to intercept on the way. Not played for a long time but was cool to see a battle again

@kairos4486 Год назад

Nice review! I hope to see you making more Naval Action content on this channel, we need more content creators for the game.

@Enigma89 Год назад

Thanks, I do like the game, i will try to make some more videos when we get some interesting fights that aren't a 11vs1 lol

@kairos4486 Год назад

@@Enigma89 sounds good, looking forward to seeing what you produce

@ThuglifeWTF 5 месяцев назад

The game is dead long time ago wtf.

@peterp4037 Год назад

The Spanish were the first modern global empire. They lasted until 1800s when they lost the last territories in south america. there is an attempt to substitute them in history for the dutch but the reality is the Spanish were there even in the netherlands country that the Spanish occupied until mid 1600s.

@francothebrazilian2764 2 месяца назад

Nah what are you talking about, the Portuguese was the first global empire

@vincecowell6891 Год назад

thats a great game ive been playing it for about 6 years ,good for chillin out or go hunting best of both

@JClark2600 Год назад

This looks like fun! I never even heard about this game but I think I may give it a try.

@cathalbrugha7962 Год назад

Good review, and really does sum it up. The reddit post linked has a good summary of the devs atrocious behavior over the years

@johjoh9270 Месяц назад

24:19 Also, without 3rd person, just from the view the admiral could get from the quarterdeck of his own ship plus the info relayed from other ships through signals or within his own ship risking info degradation

@capthawkeye8010 Год назад

This game very much resembles Sea Dogs and Sea Dogs 2 to me. Rare and completely forgotten sailing games. They were both by a defunct Russian developer-Akella, the original makers of Postal-and they were both also highly dysfunctional games with many technical and stability problems. Nonetheless, they were ALSO a pair of very unique and original games with lots of well thought out multi-layered meta similar to to this game's. A functioning trade economy, automatic time compression for sailing, etc. Other than Naval Action literally nothing like them has emerged in over 20 years.

@captainharlock3998 7 месяцев назад

pirate Ahoy! made absolutely amazing mods (ERA 2) for city of Abandonned ships, and now are working on a Stand Alone game (Corsair Legacy) that takes Sea Dogs 2 and bring it to today!

@therealCG62 Год назад

The grind really is abysmal. Going from fifth rates (what i was sailing in that big fight, which put me squarely in the "baby ships" category) to fourth rates is going to cost me 400xp. You get maybe 20xp per fight if you tackle somebody who actually stands a chance of sinking you, and more like 10xp if you just bully smaller boats. Even a relatively one-sided fight can extend on past ten minutes when you're talking fifth rate vs. sixth rate because you just don't have the broadside weight to sink the enemy quickly. So worst case scenario you're looking at a double digit number of hours spent grinding just to go from a small ship to a somewhat less small ship. The grind is also brutal starting out. The ship you start with is effectively worthless, IMO- terrible piddly guns, tiny crew, paper-thin planking, and you don't even have the cargo space to do trading stuff. Once you graduate into a "proper" ship it's better, but man the new player experience is rough.

@Enigma89 Год назад

Well said

@wirelessmouse9579 Год назад

I tried this game a long time ago and the grind was impossible. After 50+ hours I hadn't made any meaningful progress, so I just quit and never looked back. War Thunder, infamous for its grind among grinds and currently embroiled in controversy around that grind, is still far more generous than Naval Action was when I played it.

@novemberbravo7769 11 месяцев назад

Recently got back into playing this game and wow, it’s so different from when it originally launched. A lot of grinding but a real fun game. Having a few friends and even doing some PvE together is a good launch.

@coreyreynolds01 Год назад

I played NA in closed alpha/beta, then during open beta through release. I was very active in the forums at that time. I can say the downfall of this game is 100% the devs. They are utterly toxic in to the community in a way I've never seen with a game. They had a great game as a battle arena in Alpha. Battles were FANTASTIC! Amazing combat and strategy. The problems started when they decided to go Open World, and it was clear from the start that they had zero clue how to do an Open World game. They would institute a change people wouldn't like, tell the whole community how dumb and wrong we were, then change it again 3 months later. It was just relentlessly toxic, and like mentioned by Enigma, constantly changing so you couldn't get into and learn the mechanics of the game because they're constantly changing, yet the game was a MASSIVE grind. It's really sad. I was so hyped for this game early. Best combat for an age of sail game I've ever played.

@Enigma89 Год назад

I only started playing recently but this seems to vibe with all of the long time players i have talked to. Thx for sharing

@gregsutton2400 Год назад

I played for quite a while from right when they added the open world. Really there is a gap in the IQ of the development team. They would add one or two cool things but in the same release totaly spin the whole freaking table about the nature of the game in a half thought out mess. They would constantly try to tweak the game for better griefing. Our clan kept busting the number of players that could be in a clan. It was funny.

@mrcapsam4646 Год назад

This is so true, Thank you for making a video on this, lets hope it blows up and perhaps changes the devs : D

@Enigma89 Год назад

I hope so too!

@ThuglifeWTF 5 месяцев назад

hahaaaa ur kidding right

@Parchin8482 2 месяца назад

The funniest thing is that Naval Action was better and more popular as Early Access game than after full release (which can be checked on steam charts history for player count).

@xxfloridamanxx6666 Год назад

I've played the game in small doses for maybe 3 years now. Since Pirates of the Burning Sea died off I've looked for a decent age of sail sim/game. It is a very fun game in many aspects. I really fell into the rabbithole of mixing wood types when building ships for changing performance aspects. But I only play like a week or two at a time then leave for a month or two, then return too get my fix lol. I think if I found a clan I would really get into it. As a solo player, it's pretty empty and feels like a single player game.

@overwatch7100 Год назад

Great video enigma

@Enigma89 Год назад

thx

@JD96893 Год назад

i played the hell out of this game back when it was in EA. In those days it was a world of tanks style 10v10(or was it more?) MMO. Not that that was their dev goal, it was just a way of play testing ships and mechanics. I can confirm the devs for this game are HORRIBLE. The development was extremely slow as well because they spent like a year alone just changing game engines. I stopped playing when it went open world, then got back in like a year later to find basically the same game. The combat and ship modeling is really good, its just the direction the game has taken as an MMO is not what we all wanted. Not to mention it's taken way to long.

@ScarryHarry93 11 месяцев назад

What does the pirate say again? 21:54

@NicoGrosso78 Год назад

I love naval battles in holdfast

@olddirtycracker 11 месяцев назад

I agree or believe most points, in fact never got fully enthused again after losing my alfa belongings. What i'm hoping is the semi anal wipes preserve some kind of ship class/economy balance.

@elguitarTom 11 месяцев назад

WIsh you could play as a person and have to walk around the ship, on land and give commands to your crew like in Sea of Thieves.

@hasbrosbeforehoes 11 месяцев назад

cool stuff

@DTMCRAZYGAMING Год назад

Might have to give this a try!

@Enigma89 Год назад

It's neat

@ThuglifeWTF 5 месяцев назад

no u dont...

@chiefexecutiveaccelerator 4 месяца назад

It’s combat part is amazing but trading part is completely unplayable but it used to be playable before the release and now you can’t almost trade anything to make profit and if there is no traders on the routes pirating has lost its meaning as well and then it becomes a dead server I don’t expect to have funny discovery missions in this game as what uncharted water series did but bring trade back to life because it is essential for a sailing game no matter how small it is no matter how boring it feels like

@182Nym182 6 месяцев назад

Crew capacity for a ship of the line is around 800 men not 8000.

@chikokishi7030 Год назад

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS GAME. But yes. Its very very hard to stay with it because its such a hard grind... I cant get any of my friends to stay with it.

@user-hu5mz7qs8s Год назад

joining the group tonight : )

@Enigma89 Год назад

Find us on discord under the gaming section > naval action

@Hyper2235 Год назад

5:28 war thunder got the strongest community out if we are talking about what community did to the game in last 2 weeks

@cathalbrugha7962 Год назад

This game is about what the devs have done to the community ever since the game was available in early access. This is a couple of marathons and is still not over, with the devs slowly screwing the players

@tmo_117 Год назад

Yeah it’s a great comparison to this game, it’s basically like both, if both die out then there will be no other game to get the same experience, that’s why they have such strong communities

@jeremynuckoles2907 Год назад

It's been a long time since I logged into WT, lot of great memories in there. I'm happy for how you guys were able to push back. Having said that I'd bet heavy that in a year you will find all that stuff has crept back in bit by bit along with some new predatory practices. Anytime I feel like a fool paying 50-80 for a module in DCS or IL2, I think of Gajin and remember what a great value these other companies actually offer.

@corsairslegacy 8 месяцев назад

"Ahoy! ⚓ If you're up for some swashbuckling action, try out Corsairs Legacy's free story demo. It's a lot like Naval Action, and we think your viewers would love to see your first impressions!"

@ddraig1509 11 месяцев назад

I'd say its still worth playing, you can have a lot of fun, especially with friends

@Enigma89 11 месяцев назад

100%

@ThuglifeWTF 5 месяцев назад

The fun is long over in this shell of a game...

@Alopen-xb1rb 5 месяцев назад

I really enjoyed this game back in the day but the time sink was too much. The video mentioned the grind but also some of the flaws were not probably expounded upon well enough in the video. It’s not a game where you can chose to play a twenty minute instance like warthunder or WoS and its over after 20 minutes. You have to enter the open world look for a fight and come back to port before you log and can often get pulled into battles against your will. It essentially can make logging OFF a chore at times. Essentially, Players can tag your ship which pulls you into an instance. While you can run away in the instance, often his buddy is waiting outside to tag you all over again which prevents players from leaving a lopsided battle by chain tagging other players. There are often many tools for veteran players that are used to keep you locked down in the instance and unable to leave. The community in general loves to gank players. Because many of these ships represent hours upon hours of investment you stand to lose it all if they keep capture or sink your ship. Its a huge cat and mouse game to tag while you have the advantage and avoid being tagged while your weaker. You usually get tagged when you don’t want to like when returning to port or full of loot from clan activities and need to log for the day. And some dude just is camping outside your port, tags your ship, and pulls you into an instance on your way back to port. If you got RL obligations they have to wait, each time you get tagged could last up to 1-2 hours. It was the inability to put the game down when I wanted to night after night that made me walk away. Still dabble on the PvE server at times but I can’t commit the kind of time it takes to excel at this game. It’s a shame because the combat is excellent.

@LithoSpear476 7 месяцев назад

wait did he say 800 consistent players which server is he on? i wanna join that server oh ! wait im an old NA player so what i think doesn't matter and what i know doesn't as well

@DerHuman 7 месяцев назад

If it werent for the wipes I would have downloaded it right now

@lt.clifforthz3942 6 месяцев назад

im supprised these people havent been sued or bought yet

@Enigma89 6 месяцев назад

I wish this game could get its s**t together

@ThuglifeWTF 5 месяцев назад

@@Enigma89 it wont and u know it, if not now u know it...wth this game is dead for like 10 years, fun is over no one cares anymore, i rember when thousnand of players sailed around this massive map and had so much ideas and all, nohing was implemented, those greedy fucking cunts dont care, enjoy playing a shell of a game, with this low player count this doesnt even work out. so yeah dead game.

@Turkeysammich3000 4 месяца назад

The gank could have been ok, if it weren’t for the tiny ball energy gang mentality. Ive been to too many parties that had fights, and you just got those guys that can’t control their adrenaline. I mean, I get it, I played Potbs for a long time, each faction hated pirates, but this, the ego is out of control.

@exitsignman5348 11 месяцев назад

I get the reason for wipes, but I hate them and they generally determine whether I play or not

@charlesquigley4383 Год назад

I'd play this if it supported crew heavy small ships for commerce raiding.

@zenistfpv Год назад

Crew heavy? You mean 250 souls crammed onto a Prince de Neufchâtel isnt enough? That is the kind of head up arse 'balancing' the devs are notorious for.

@Enigma89 Год назад

You can get books which give you more marines so you can act as a small ship that does really good with boarding

@hetalziendoog9484 8 месяцев назад

There is also Uncharted Waters online, that might in its own way offer even more depth and similarities.. I`m hoping games like this will never shutdown and love to see economy`s thriving.. The fact this game has season wipes makes it not worthy of living in for me unfortunately.. I don`t mind grinding but it has to be some kind of worthwhile persistent progression.. o.0..

@1armstrong607 Год назад

just started this game. coming from war thunder its not that bad. the reset is dumb but the grind really isnt as bad. long no doubt but its an rpg

@Enigma89 Год назад

Fair!

@JimBobDuffMan Год назад

Do you mean 800 people at 2:30 ?

@Enigma89 Год назад

I meant to say 800 and one thousand at the same time so it came out weird.

@funkyschnitzel Год назад

Haha, I came looking for this comment. Sounded like "8000" and I was wondering what crazy sources Enigma had been reading!

@Patradis.199 8 месяцев назад

Many just want the tutorial to be a free demo and can be play in offline (the tutorial + exam) and ask for hull4 sail4 as a permanent bonus for every DLC ship ( the other bonus can be random) but the devs don't care of any petition and launch the F2P that ruin the PVP and PVE server like a disaster ...

@hungryhedgehog4201 7 месяцев назад

ship combat looks nice idk if I wanna play a game about enabling slavery tho

@ThuglifeWTF 5 месяцев назад

you dont, its a shell of a game, no fun, its all BS what tehy talk here,....the fun is over like 10 years ago....its simply dead as a mofo.

@cubsfan910 Год назад

Grind, grind, grind...then, wipe! Grind, grind, grind, then another wipe! Players will be using a revolving door, as this gets old.

@Enigma89 Год назад

You may be right. Grind sucks and wipes make it worst. I will be playing the next wipe though.

@WDYUE 8 месяцев назад

I miss how the game was man., u could really have trade route things like that.. it was awesome it was to good to be true.. but it was true ! for a couple of years. Then the Devs destroyed it..

@Killspec 7 месяцев назад

I think you meant 800 people not 8000 lol

@armyman29340 5 месяцев назад

You should review it now after the last wipe. They wrecked it even worse.

@Enigma89 5 месяцев назад

I'm good j stopped playing

@craigbotha654 Год назад

a bit more practice and you could have taken all of the stern armour off with that first rake

@Enigma89 Год назад

I am getting better, hoping I can get to the point where I can comfortably PVP alone

@cathalbrugha7962 Год назад

For new players, clarification on DLC ships. When you buy a DLC ship, you can redeem it for use immediately. However, YOU MUST have enough XP to have enough crew to use it. And DLC ships are NON REFUNDABLE. So if you buy one, find out how long it will take to rank up to use it and decide nah, you can't refund the ship. This is the summy part of ship DLC and new players. You used to be able to undercrew ships, so it was possible to use larger ships early, but they removed that, and now you must have full crew to use. Another part of the devs forcing players to play how the devs want.

@Enigma89 Год назад

thanks

@TOFKAS01 2 месяца назад

A real simulator who simulates ther real life onborad of such a ship in detail would be nice. Those games are way to "arcade"-like for my taste. I want to simulate crew-management, rations, discipline and the day to day management of an old ship.

@niklasrosenlind4374 Год назад

Played it since 2019, cant leave it. This game could be soo nice....and that vic couldnt shoot ;). Nice video

@Enigma89 Год назад

Thanks!!

@thathumanhayden2979 Год назад

I highly recommend Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail. It has great ship customization, campaigns, and battles.

@zenistfpv Год назад

I highly recommend NOT supporting a completely toxic developer who makes promises never delivered on.

@thathumanhayden2979 Год назад

@@zenistfpv Thats fair

@Enigma89 Год назад

Thanks for the reco but I don't really play single player games

@imageeknotanerd9897 Год назад

This reminds me of playing Empire: Total War Darthmod and doing the naval instant-action battles. Would love an instant action version of this where I can just throw ships at each other without having to grind to unlock things.

@Enigma89 Год назад

It's a fair point but with how things are open world and the ability for PVP it does get interesting

@Paul-js8jk Год назад

>mentions that the game wipes >instantly get tarkov flashbacks

@Enigma89 Год назад

yeah it's unfortunate, i hope they do away with it

@hullabaloo9824 Год назад

Good review. The golden age of this game has been and gone. The combat mechanics and tactical depth were once a thing of beauty and it had the potential to become a genuine classic in computer gaming. Two patches in the last 2 years have radically altered the combat. It's now a joyless parody of what it once was. Such a shame and so easy to fix. The lead developer (as well as being unstable and prone to crazy rants) has done what he thought would best maximise profit but in the process sucked out everything that made it great. If the new owners can get rid of him, perhaps it could be resurrected.

@Enigma89 Год назад

One can hope, the game has good bones its just how things work hold it back incredibly.

@c0lonelmustard14 Год назад

Going to download today and get used to it. Hope to play with the group when I can a hand on things

@Enigma89 Год назад

I would just post on our discord to start getting direction. The documentation in this game is terrible but it's not hard to learn.

@ThuglifeWTF 5 месяцев назад

And are u still playing, i guess not.

@PsychoDiablo Год назад

Hit the nail on the head saying how many hate how much they love the game, there's nothing out there that can compare and the devs have been slowly murdering it over the years. There is hope on the horizon with a new sim "Ahoy". I am cautiously optimistic.

@PsychoDiablo Год назад

I was a Trader fyi and when they "overhauled it" i bailed.

@armyman29340 5 месяцев назад

They don’t wipe experience.

@user-uw2yi8pz5y 11 месяцев назад

Assassin creed black flag and rouge?

@martinlagrange8821 Год назад

Hornblower ?

@Enigma89 Год назад

Haven't seen it but it's on the list now

@CptAeRoTR Год назад

Combat used to be so good, you needed skill, knowledge, experience. It feels like a different game now, but still one of a kind. Could have been epic with different developers.

@Enigma89 Год назад

I wish i could have played it in its prime

@robertoferrero2264 8 месяцев назад

Very probably the best game I have ever played (11k hours). In a server with 3000-2000 players it was simply the best. BUT dev ruined the game. Today there server has 200-300 players. Combat is broken, PvP is broken, economy is broken, community is broken.

@cgerlach1883 8 месяцев назад

pirates of the burning sea came out 15 or so years ago and this game borrows much from that game and you can still play it and its also free

@theonefrancis696 9 месяцев назад

To me it looks like the Developer teams are reset every six months, with the wipes. They fire and hire new people to get ideas, but every new team simply erases what the others have done, basically changing the game. This is more common than you think in wordwide companies.

@StatsGam4er 8 месяцев назад

So many veterans quit this game about 4 to 5 years ago. The only people that play this game are noobs that just discovered it. Poor people will be crushed after 2 minutes playing. RIP

@FallenPhoenix86 11 месяцев назад

Coming from War-thunder the grind in NA sounds non-existant.

@boundtodie Год назад

that was a very poor rake quick tip you can set fire modes from front to back and you tried a rake with rear to front and make sure your keep that speed in a rake and fire front to back if you time it right ever cannon ball ill touch him bum and you will demast him

@Enigma89 Год назад

Yeah I am still learning. I am getting better and matching speed and kicking the rudder over to try to get all the cannons to meet target. Last night was the first time where I got 25/26 to hit in one go

@jeremynuckoles2907 Год назад

@Enigma Sail management is what really separates the wheat from the chaff. I honestly never got heavily better than average at gun Management, though pretty on at aim. I could still take down much better ships by respecting the wind, and always remembering that I can constantly use the wind and sail Management to move in a full 2 dimensions. You might be surprised how often moving backwards is the best play! (Not often, but especially in smaller battles maybe more often than you'd think!) BTW, I think you looked pretty darn good for a "newer" player.

@eligio5790 Год назад

You know what is misrepresented? Real history. Is there anything more cliché than naming the Spanish Armada as a notable moment? In reality, it was defeated by the elements, as Felipe II stated at that time, due to an actual storm. However, it seems that everyone prefers to say that the British defeated it. Probably, if that hadn't happened, Jacob II would have become the new king of England. Why not highlight other notable events? For example, the attempt of the British crown to conquer Lisbon and crown Antonio de Crato as the King of Portugal (at that time, Portugal was part of the Spanish Empire). Antonio de Crato offered the British crown numerous possessions and gold. They created a "Contra-Armada," which was humiliated by the Spanish. However, due to British, especially Anglican, manipulation of history, we often only hear the cliché description of this era. They can make movies about their few victories while ignoring countless other defeats. We could make thousands of movies about how "El Glorioso" humilliated 12 British ships while they were trying to capture it or the popular siege of Cartagena de Indias, where Blas de Lezo humiliated Vernon. Anyway, I recommend reading about these events. You will be pleasantly surprised and learn more about history beyond the "glorious victories of the British everywhere. Had to comment on this because I see it all the times and is very boring and tiring, rest of the video was good 👍 (except for the ganking againts 1 ship as a big group, no honor on that, you should play British and roleplay as Drake)

@Enigma89 Год назад

They were examples used to highlight a very famous period. Whether it is true or not is not relevant as they are commonly believed and pointed to as big moments of that period. The point of bringing it up was to contrast it with WWII which gets a lot of love in games but the Age of Sail does not.

@MrChaosi 4 месяца назад

if it has wipes, then its not a mmo hard pass for me

@cubslee907 11 месяцев назад

it sank along time ago

@Enigma89 11 месяцев назад

People still play, it hit 1k concurrent users for the first time recently in a year.

@faceyourfear.getfree. Год назад

i was so addicted to this game its get out of closed beta. i played 100h a week. This game is wasted potenzial. Wipes, moth without updates, back and forwards steps like nothing....

@filipzietek5146 6 месяцев назад

Age of steam is far more overlooked.....

@marks7502 Год назад

a grinding game where your progress is wiped, and players can take your stuff, no thanks.

@ionaguirre 10 месяцев назад

At the video introduction there is the usual mistake, a time jump of more than two centuries. What about the Spanish Empire ? Seems the the Spanish Armada affair was anything for Spain. For the Empire it meant nothing but an honour matter. Jumping two centuries is a political and not an historical decision.

@Enigma89 10 месяцев назад

This is a video game video not a documentary. The purpose was to mention how there were some notable mentions in that period but the entire period is under-covered in video games relative to other periods such as WWII.

@jimk8592 10 месяцев назад

Battle and sailing controls are very nice however, the grind and other aspects of the game wore me out and uninstalled...

@jimwagner4014 11 месяцев назад

All you on one ship must have been hard. This way NA has gone to shit

@Enigma89 11 месяцев назад

We were brand new to the game and that was like our first time sailing into the pvp zone. We had no idea what to expect

@Kiwoeoe 7 месяцев назад

200h to get to the endgame is a bad grind ? my guy you play warthunder/so do i/ that is a bad grind naval actions gind is a walk the park

@Enigma89 7 месяцев назад

War Thunder grind is not nearly as bad as this one. You can buy into anything with ear thunder. With NA you can't escape the grind

@Kiwoeoe 7 месяцев назад

@@Enigma89 oh okay fair point yeah didnt think about this, i just thought i have several thousand hous in WT and i still dont have every nation haha so to only spent 200h to get to the endgame (top tier) is a wet dream haha

@DirkVaughan 5 месяцев назад

Sink

@ClintonDAshley 7 месяцев назад

Wipes are why I quit Naval action and no longer play Tarkov.

@zenistfpv Год назад

Sadly you showed up 2 years too late to experience anything like "simulation lite" and the latest patches (and incredibly poorly designed player "polls") indicate nothing so much as further decline towards mobile monetized style game play.

@Enigma89 Год назад

I've heard i hope they turn it around but the current trend line is not encouraging

@Kiwi_Dave 11 месяцев назад

Game was great before 2019 - toxic devs ruined the game.

@howarthd Год назад

Haha painful to watch you noobs. :P I sunk 200hrs into this. The game was awesome during peak player count, before they introduced the economy stuff. The economy stuff wiped the player base. You got to learn to spider finger those keys.

@Enigma89 Год назад

We are learning still, i did dino my first 1st rate yesterday

@howarthd Год назад

@@Enigma89 I’m sure someone schooled you already but with square rigged ships you need to manage your front and back yard arm positions independently as you turn.

@djbiscuit1818 Год назад

This sounds like War Thunder, and that makes me sad. Fantastic core gameplay, awful grind, out-of-touch devs seemingly determined to slowly ruin the game....a game you hate that you love and deapair for lack of competitors. It sounds really cool, but I'm not sure I have the will to try another amazing but grindy, frustrating F2P that will slowly drive me to hate it

@Enigma89 Год назад

War Thunder to me seems a bit grindier to me than this because at least you can make your own fun in the open world but you aren't too far off, it's still REALLY grindy

@matthewriley4935 6 месяцев назад

I love the ships and battles. I hate the rest of the game.

@Enigma89 6 месяцев назад

A fair summary

@Fireburnin21 Год назад

The game's awful for solo players, simple as. This game will stay somewhat dead until the grind and ganking is controlled.

@Enigma89 Год назад

You aren't wrong

@hullabaloo9824 Год назад

I agree, the grind is indeed awful for solo. Ship crafting is impossible without multiple accounts. However, they have just painted 80% of the map in 'No PvP' green splotches and most PvPers have left the game, so you might be ok with the ganking now? Enjoy sailing around with no sense of jeopardy whatsoever.

@ArkhBaegor Год назад

Huh they finally removed all the nonsense factions like Prussia and Russia? I might give it another go

@Enigma89 Год назад

Yes they did

@rainerbrombach5502 Год назад

I see ganking still is an issue, but gankers still have no skills.

@user-vd1ko7zx2k Месяц назад

So painful to watch your skill issue:( can I join you and teach you?

@samaeldesolado Год назад

The developer is clearly the issue .. not just with this game , all the other games that company ever released are half backed , half made games released quickly to fund their next half baked and half made game... dont trust me ? check all steam reviews on their games , one of the worse companies ever .. unfortunatelly one of the only ones focused on naval games..

@Enigma89 Год назад

It's the tale as old as time. Good games on the cusp of being great but held back by the devs :(