If you click "Return to Main Menu" in the options screen, there *needs* to be a confirmation box. That's an extremely annoying button to accidentally press.
Ouch. I just figured out that upgrading ship armor is actually a *downgrade*. Your ship gets bigger, which means you're a bigger target and, even worse, your cannonballs are spread out! With no armor I was a tight little laser of death. Then I added a bunch of armor and now my cannonballs are spread out so much most of them will miss the smaller boats no matter how well I aim.
One thing that would be a big improvement: Save the graphics setting when the game is saved. I get a horrible framerate on the default settings and I have to reset them every time I play.
The reason port and starboard would be good is because up and down are occasionally meaningless. Sometimes I head straight up so that I can lead the enemies back to the top of the screen. It's very hard to shoot at them at those times because sometimes the good angle for shooting makes the cannons fire the wrong way. If 'v' shot one way and space shot the other, the game would have more precise control with the same number of keys.
Okay, I get the firing now. Up and down is in regards to the screen, not the ship. That's a very confusing method. It's also totally useless when my ship is pointed straight up and down. At those times I have no idea which way the cannonballs are going to come out. I'd prefer Port and Starboard to Up and Down. If some people like Up and Down, perhaps there could be a choice in the options menu.
I agree with DocZee, the firing is confusing. Usualy it fires to the left, but every once in awhile it will fire off to the right and I can't figure out why. Also, sometimes only one cannonball will come out even though I still have plenty of crew and I had time to reload. Very confusing. Good game in general, though.
Evilbottom, I'm not sure how you can't see that the 5151 thing is a problem.
For one thing, you don't even need to set up the pipes that way to get the rat to run to the other side. There's a much simpler solution that many people use that doesn't look anything like 5151. Also, it's not even entirely pipes, you have to look at pipes for the first three digits and a completely different thing for the last one. That's like designing a puzzle around an abstract painting.
I think I found a bug. I tried putting the compost onto the beaker. They now occupy the same inventory slot, but they don't seem to be combined. I can't move the compost at all now, and I can't get more compost.
Putting the charged power core where it is supposed to go is buggy. I tried several times and gave up. Then I read the walkthrough that said I was right and tried again. You have to put it on the exact right spot.
Todd, click on the weapon so that it is highlighted. Then click on the bot so that it is highlighted. Then click the Mount button. The tricky part is that after clicking Mount, the bot isn't highlighted anymore and you have to click on it again to re-highlight it.
The career mode is very enjoyable, and I gave it 4/5 because of that. The game there is in choosing the right gear.
But the challenge modes don't have that component, so they don't have strategy. What little control they do have just make them seem barely controlable, which is very frustrating.
So there are some good aspects to the game, but there are also some things that detract from it. Nothing is worse than something that was good turning bad, so people complain.
Defius, people aren't complaining that it is hard because of a lack of trying. We're definitely trying.
Do the challenge again and see if you get it on the first try again. If you do, let us know what you were doing. Heck, if you get it in the first 10 tries, let us know how.
"on the rogue quests, you have to kill the rogues, then go back to the city hall to complete the quest and get the cash."
I don't understand. Where are the rogues?
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