Naval Action( PC)

Had an interesting time tonight.

I'm playing as a U.S player, and members of 2 U.S clans worked together to try to capture a deep water pirate held port.

As I do not have high enough rank to fully crew a deep water ship, I was unable to participate directly in the port battle however I was still able to play an important role.

As the allied fleet of 10 ships sailed to the port to attack I went ahead to report on enemy fleet movements and basically harras and delay reinforcements.

I encountered and shadowed a small group of four ships, reported their movement to the inbound attack fleet and procended to harass them. Unfortunately the bulk of the enemy fleet was already stationed at the port( 21 ships)

After a long battle the attacking fleet retreated with only 3 survivors in bad shape. 11 of the defending fleets ships attempted to pursue. The defenders eventually caught up to the fleeing attackers in the open world and began a fight. Being in the open world I was able to engage in this battle as well..

Realizing that the 3 retreating ships had no chance of winning, I messaged my allies and told them I would attempt to cover their retreat. I moved my smaller ship to engage the enemy force. Using the wind, and maneuverability of my ship I was able to slow the advance of the 11 ships long enough to make it impossible for them to catch my retreating allies.

I did end up losing my ship, but in the process was able to help save 3 far more valuable ships and royally piss off some people.

I know, not the most exciting thing to read about, but was an interesting, fun, and challenging series of events. Least for me lol.

Not the one I was looking at, but it does the job so I'm finally able to play PC games.

I was lucky I had some help with mine.

Posted 12 February 2016 - 01:22 PM

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Sparse info on this feature went out in the Russian forums so we must share it with everyone.

We are working on the very big feature now which was taking 90% of the time for the devs and art team. The feature is in development in secret since October.

We have taught the engine to pull the land from our procedural map into battles.
If you attack a player in the hispaniola channel you will fight in the hispaniola channel.
If you attack a player in a narrow passage you will fight in a narrow passage.
Attack a player near land if wind blows towards land he will not escape.
Port battles harbors will be based on our map harbors making some ports extremely easy to capture and others impossible to capture.
Attack someone near a shore battery spot and you will have to fight under battery fire (this will allow us to eliminate reinforcements button).
This will change the gameplay completely and might ruin the game. Or will make it awesome.
The feature is in internal testing as there a a lot of spawn problems to be solved. But it plays and feels epic.

ETA Unknown but hopefully by mid spring it can be given in experimental build for testing.

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