Windrose

[ChaosGladiator 856]

This game looks incredible, demo is out for free and seems to have quite a lot of content. I’m definetly enjoying it as so far and it looks like this might be what I was hoping Skull & Bones would be. Looks like it’ll be solo or group pve, not sure if that will change to include pvp later.

 

 

[Tar-Eruntalion 530]

this looks interesting, @TurboR56Mini maybe we could keep this on our sights to check if it's good when it comes out?

[ChaosGladiator 856]

New trailer showing a lot more stuff and some they have already shown too. Looks like there will be boss battles and also settlements. I got about 10 hours in the demo so far, no more quests to do but I can still sail around and sink ships or build my own little settlement further. Building in this game is smooth as hell btw, when placing foundations, walls or roofs you can just keep holding the mouse button down and drag it to build multiple of what you want as long as you have the materials, and any resources inside chests within your landclaim is automatically used.

 

 

 

[Sennex 2,154]

yea, I need to keep my eyes on this one, it looks fun

[GazzaGarratt 11,321]

Great find Seb @ChaosGladiator. Definitely looks like some great fun and a solid mix of building with exploring/fighting. Sea of Thieves is a fun game to play with a bunch of us, but I do miss that slightly styled Black Flag game we had years ago that had lots of mini games and quests to achieve.

 

How many are allowed in a co-op group on the game?

[ChaosGladiator 856]

19 hours ago, GazzaGarratt said:

Great find Seb @ChaosGladiator. Definitely looks like some great fun and a solid mix of building with exploring/fighting. Sea of Thieves is a fun game to play with a bunch of us, but I do miss that slightly styled Black Flag game we had years ago that had lots of mini games and quests to achieve.

 

How many are allowed in a co-op group on the game?

From what I’ve seen you can host co-op sessions with 4 people. But I dunno if that will change as there’s supposedly actual servers coming too.

[TurboR56Mini 997]

There's a demo @Tar-Eruntalion, downloading it now!

[ChaosGladiator 856]

21 hours ago, TurboR56Mini said:

There's a demo @Tar-Eruntalion, downloading it now!

You’ll get quite a few hours out of it before you run out of quests. Still worth playing after though if you enjoy building

[ChaosGladiator 856]

Official release is tomorrow!! Holy shit this flew right under my radar. I’ve even checked the page several times to see if they have put up a date and out of nowhere a youtube video with the title "Windrose is finally here" caught my eye and I instantly went to check their steam page. Fuuuuck yes

[ChaosGladiator 856]

New trailer released along with the early access release. There’s also talks of them testing out the possibility of upping the co-op player limit from 4 to 8 people which would be great.

 

 

 

[phil bottle 10,314]

Looks to be doing very well right now, getting decent reviews considering it's early access 

 

 

[TurboR56Mini 997]

I have an FG server if anyone wants in. The game is fun for sure!! They have hit over 200k concurrent at this point and over a million sold.

[Diddums 4,396]

I might have a look, certainly looks good. 

[ChaosGladiator 856]

It’s a mix of utmost frustration and fun for me, still get well pissed off every time I die to something silly, but I keep coming back anyways 😂 
 

The fact that questprogression carries over between sessions is nice, same with your gear and whatever you have on you or in your ship transfers between them too. I do wish the progress you’ve made with the different factions also carried over as that can be quite a grind to level up, but can always go back to your own world and get what you need from them and then join a buddy’s game and you’ll have it there too.

 

Also the fact that to get a crafting recipe for armor or weapons, if someone else has the item you can borrow it for 2 seconds and you’ll unlock it as a craftable is nice, on that note, if anyone gets the rapier of a thousand cuts, let me know. I need that little bastard 😂 And if anyone needs pieces from the filibuster (I have almost the full set), conquistador or privateer let me know. Think I have some odd pieces of others too as well as the cutlass and two different clubs that I can’t remember the name of

[ChaosGladiator 856]

Couple tips for anyone starting this or considering starting this.

 

Never stop grinding for resources. Early game it’s not too bad but you do get a taste for how much you will actually need when you build your first ship, mid to late game it gets very, very resource heavy.

 

Always pick up food and potion ingredients. Better food means better bonuses, but needs more ingredients to make so grab it when you see it! Potions ingredients will also be very important as fights will only get harder and you’ll need to heal more often if you can’t master the dodging and parrying.

 

Upgrade your gear and your ships gear. I kept losing fights and sea battles over and over and over, upgrading my gear as high as I could for how far I had progressed definetly helped out a ton. Specially for sea battles against multiple ships. Once I upgraded the hull, cannons and my boarding crew it was like going from playing hardcore instadeath mode to playing the game normally so keep an eye on it!

 

Before you start exchanging your insignias and letters of favour for reputation with the different factions, make sure you check the different provisioners!! They will all offer different schematics for upgrades, building and so on and early on silver will not be easy to get until you find the different factions own holdouts where they actually buy things off you. 
So don’t waste your silver early, look at the different provisioners, see what they offer at what reputation level and then decide wich factions to turn your insignias into. (Also note that upon switching game sessions the reputation does not carry over, but you can go back to the session where you have said reputation, buy what you need and then switch back and have what you bought still available.)

[phil bottle 10,314]

I suspect ill pick this up at the end of the month.

 

Does anyone know if they fixed the issue with save files?

 

@ChaosGladiator Didn't know you were on PC now, welcome to the brave new world 🫠

[Diddums 4,396]

I love how @TurboR56Mini went straight from "I'm downloading the demo" to "we have a server" lol.

 

I'm downloading it now, be good to fuck about with you cunts again 😄 

[ChaosGladiator 856]

1 hour ago, phil bottle said:

I suspect ill pick this up at the end of the month.

 

Does anyone know if they fixed the issue with save files?

 

@ChaosGladiator Didn't know you were on PC now, welcome to the brave new world 🫠

Thank you! Actually been playing pc for a few years now but still mainly on the ps5, but bought a pretty decent Asus Rog Strix laptop which set me back a good 2000£ or so. Seems to run anything I want fairly smoothly so far. Hope to see you on the big blue sea soon dude!

[phil bottle 10,314]

1 hour ago, ChaosGladiator said:

Thank you! Actually been playing pc for a few years now but still mainly on the ps5, but bought a pretty decent Asus Rog Strix laptop which set me back a good 2000£ or so. Seems to run anything I want fairly smoothly so far. Hope to see you on the big blue sea soon dude!

Ah, I did wonder how you could play DayZ on console lpl Nice one, I like laptops just afraid of the heat 🫠

I've picked this up now as i have no chill, so I'll be joining too 👊