People have been so desperate for the Assassin’s Creed ship combat in something other than AC that they went absolutely bonkers over Windrose despite it being very firmly in the incomplete/early access category. I tried it out and had the same combat experience til I was sitting at the computer going, ‘You know not everything has to be fucking Dark Souls combat’ like a Yahtzee review
Maybe in a year it’ll be tidied up but survival games in EA who get a lot of success right off the top usually end up bloated messes constantly changing meta things instead of completing what they set out to make
Yeah. Everything I read said “ZOMG, this is the pirate game we’ve been waiting for for the last decade! It’s amazing!” No. A pirate game where you can only swim for 15 seconds before you die, where you lose every naval battle, where a bird that humans made extinct because it was so underpowered kills you is not the pirate fantasy I was waiting for.
The build system is great. I wish I could do 1/50th of the customization on my ship that I can on my house. Really, setting up a pirate cove should be end game, not the first thing you do.
Great point, it’s wild that you can build an island spanning castle pretty fast but you can’t even get a bedroom on your ship. I’d like to be turning the ship into a mobile base so that going ashore is in the action loop instead of just being a bleedin’ land lubber who gets on the ship just sometimes
People have been so desperate for the Assassin’s Creed ship combat in something other than AC that they went absolutely bonkers over Windrose despite it being very firmly in the incomplete/early access category. I tried it out and had the same combat experience til I was sitting at the computer going, ‘You know not everything has to be fucking Dark Souls combat’ like a Yahtzee review
Maybe in a year it’ll be tidied up but survival games in EA who get a lot of success right off the top usually end up bloated messes constantly changing meta things instead of completing what they set out to make
Yeah. Everything I read said “ZOMG, this is the pirate game we’ve been waiting for for the last decade! It’s amazing!” No. A pirate game where you can only swim for 15 seconds before you die, where you lose every naval battle, where a bird that humans made extinct because it was so underpowered kills you is not the pirate fantasy I was waiting for.
The build system is great. I wish I could do 1/50th of the customization on my ship that I can on my house. Really, setting up a pirate cove should be end game, not the first thing you do.
Great point, it’s wild that you can build an island spanning castle pretty fast but you can’t even get a bedroom on your ship. I’d like to be turning the ship into a mobile base so that going ashore is in the action loop instead of just being a bleedin’ land lubber who gets on the ship just sometimes