ChaosGladiator

So I’m 65 hours into this now. Just unlocked the 3rd biome and I’m working on getting the big bad mother Frigatte. Been grinding silly amounts of resources for that and also for the FG cove that’s in the works. Helped @RenFengge @Tar-Eruntalion and @TurboR56Mini beat the first boss so they could unlocked the 2nd biome, the brig and more crafting starions and recipies. We also finally found the rapier of a thousand cuts 😅 Instantly ascended it and fully upgraded it as the bleed effect is so damn nice to have.

The charging boars have already been subject to some very funny videos on youtube 😂 Yes you don’t need to chop down a whole forest yet… You’ll get there trust me 🤣 Stick to the ficus trees and the palm trees are a joke in terms of amount of wood you get. I really wish I could have been there to hear you discover the charging boars 😂 Next time join the discord!

It gets better when you get used to parrying them. But yeah, I had a loooot of deaths to them both on the demo and early on in the early access 😂

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!

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.)

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

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.

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

Sigh… I swear you could put Kepa in goal behind Maldini, Vidic, Desailly and Cafu all in the primes and he’d still find a way to concede a goal. I actually had high hopes going into the match until I saw him on the teamsheet 🤦‍♂️

I also see IGN gave it a 6/10 and they also gave Concord and the likes a 7/10 so I’m taking these reviews with a truckload of salt 😂

I did see one review saying the game is very dull up until your about 8+ hours in and then it gets a lot better

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

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.

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.

Can I just say, Bodø/Glimt smashing Inter Milan 5-2 over 2 legs is one of the wildest scores I have ever seen in football 😂