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Not bad, but the multiplayer lagging issue REALLY needs fixing. It's really annoying to land a solid hit on a ship only to see it jump backwards by about half its own length and have the damage you just inflicted undone.
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I also have a suggestion, Instead of just the compass rose and the dots maybe some form of minimap or directing arrows to loot or an option to look over a map in the pause screen that shows real time locations of the boat and enemy boats? Better stopping abilities would be nice and yes another upgrade system to boot. I mean I love the game it is wonderful in many ways, but it is agreed that it needs some refining.
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cursedwinds is a horrible game. The AI is the most predicable and meaningless since Space Invaders, and the "boats" merely slide around the screen without regard to wind, current, or even turning radius. It's laughable. Complaining about not being able to upgrade ships in this game is also absurd, since the crew is how you upgrade your ship! Do you want more speed? Buy the guy that gives more speed! More armor? Buy the guy that gives more armor.
All that said, this is best sailing battle game since the original Sid Meier's Pirates, and BSD Sail.
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Having played this, I was sure I'd played something almost the same (or at least very similar) before. After a quick trawl through my kong history, I was right!:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/FreeOnlineGames/cursed-winds
I wouldn't say 'stolen' but, the premise has been utterly plagiarised.
You can upgrade your ships much more in Cursed Winds, too!
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@ Retrorocket : Crew member helping durability makes plenty of sense. In the Navy, a lot of stress is put on damage control. In this case, logically the durability can increase by adding a crew member that knows how to plug holes quickly and efficiently as well as put out any fires without hesitation. My question is how does additional crew members (more weight) make a ship's top speed faster!
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good game +1
good missions and multiplayer +1
but you need do something with the camera and graphics, the game is very slow to load de graphics.
PS: my english is not very good.
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whenever I exit multiplayer game, I have to refresh the page before I can join a new game. It hangs up on the loading screen.
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Really nice game and everything but it gets really annoying when I steer out of control. It's also annoying that I freeze up in the game at unfortunate times.
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Windows XP / Mac OX 10.4 or later
2.5Ghz Single Core CPU / 1.8Ghz Dual Core
2GB System RAM
10GB free hard drive space.
Are you SERIOUS Channel4? I've seen the latest 3D FPS require less than this for decent quality! Even with all the graphics and options turned off- I'm always crashing during the loading screens... it's no wonder!
It's a good game, but take it back to scratch and actually work on it this time!!!
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Controls: for us who play on a qwertz (or any other different) keyboard layout it pretty ugly to use the Z/X for shooting. pls. make it customizable or at least make it Z and Y / X...
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You can stop the camera from zooming in, and if your having trouble with frame rate quality and are being kicked from an online game I have the answer. For zooming in an out, right click on the screen and disable auto quality and auto zoom, YO MUST PRESS BOTH. If your being kicked out of multiplayer games because of low frame rate, right click and go to quality. From there if you were on high, go to medium, or low.
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I love the wilhelm scream s awesome that you included it!
I loved the game ^_^
Awesome consept, good music, arts and everything. 5/5 & fav
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I say for multiplayer you need more maps and you need team deathmatch or something like that. It's fun doing free for all but I'd like it if we had more game modes.
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I wish it was more realistic on the types of shot. Because the knippel shot (chain shot) was made to damage especially sails, and didn't do much damage to the hull. The standart cannonball was the most hull damaging (besides the exploding shot). And the Grapeshot was made to kill the crew, and the damage it did to the hull was insignificant. So I suggest that you separate the whole-ship-health-gauge into three different types: the sails gauge, the hull gauge, and the crew gauge. If the sails are damaged your ship would become very slow, but not hull-damaged. If the crew is killed your cannons would take longer to reload and the maneuverability would basically suck.
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I enjoyed how realistic the game play was. Its a solid game, but it simply lagged too much for me to get deep in the game. The graphics got the best of my laptop I guess. The constant resetting of the zoom was a vex on the game play as well. Besides all that, I give it a 4/5.
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Great Game! Unfortunately after a while there is nowhere else to go. Upgrades are really limited and after you get a couple of the top crew you just can't improve.
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This could be a great game. A few things that would really need to be fixed though.
To start get rid of the mouse. Having to use the mouse makes playing this game on a laptop impossible. Just make it so that you can use the mouse AND 2 keys (Z fire left, X fire right).
Also adding the ability to upgrade different parts of the ship with cash and or xp. Not sure if leveling your character helps out at all but that could also be added to really make it so people can fine tune their ships. Otherwise its a pretty fun game.
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I'm trying to like this game too, I mean what's not to like about the time period? But trying to sail the ship and hitting your target while not getting hit yourself is nearly impossible. Especially when you don't know where your enemies are going to come from. The whole thing is just awkward, ya know? And it would be nice if you weren't either going full speed or stopped. Surely there must be some inbetween?