Huge update yesterday, bringing aforementioned moggies, the ability to revive comrades and a whole new way to play - faction emissaries.

I bought a mog. The purrs are comforting.

They trickled the content in perfectly. Imagine if they released it with everything that's in it now.

Head assplode

Just Bob to go!

Man I miss this game. It's just excellent

bad_hair_day wrote:

Cupatay, so glad you're all having a whale of a time.
Just curious - what do you guys like doing the most?

Going to the pub ha. I like abit of treasure hunting and working out some of the clues. We did a tall tale the other day and that was good fun but I'd say the best part is when another ship is spotted.

We planned an ambush the other day on a galleon that looked like it was on a mission on a island. It was the worst attempt at a suprise attack I've ever seen.

As we sailed side by side (it was very dark btw) with them and shouted fire the cannons, we hit an island directly in front of us. We had to stop firing to see what had happened and start repairs. By then we'd attracted as much attention as possible and we were stuck on land, like a sitting duck. If I were on there ship I would have been crying laughing at us idiots. They absolutely ruined us.

Twice we've managed to sink other ships and then decided to hang around anchored patting ourselves on the back only to be boarded and murdered like helpless morons. Still, it's been so much fun.

It's quite a buzz when you see a another ship or two and things just happen so all the emergent stuff with other crews I guess would be the best bit for me.

Best online night ever for me. Was fucking amazing. Even better than when we all hid from that guy on BFBC2.

Now that was funny. All those fucking acres of sublime landing patches and I pick the square metre with the lamppost on it.

Oh man, the absolute scenes!

I think the game does excel because it allows you to create your own adventures and stories, it's not just everyone doing the same 'levels' over and over.
As mentioned I've been playing this with my daughter a bit. neither of us are good enough to go for big prizes and difficult tasks like skelly forts etc. and she's too young for 'online language' so all the voice comms are off and no interest in teaming with others.
so we just potter around doing simpler quests, where the site of an enemy ship on the horizon is enough to send her into a panic.

in a recent game, we were most of the way through a 'skull' mission when we were attacked by a shark thing. we decided to try to fight it. i think a skelly ship turned up too, or i may be confusing that with the previous days adventure, but ultimately we got sunk. stranded in the sea, but we had a row boat. so i collected all the treasure and set about trying to row to an outpost, but she didn't like being stuck in the rowboat. so she got a mermaid and respawned with a boat on the opposite side of the map. she sailed our sloop single handed across the world, while i rowed half the world in a diff direction trying to get to the nearest outpost, using her map and where i thought we were to try to judge which way to row.
eventually we both got to the outpost pretty much at the same time, sold the skulls and had a drink together before quitting.

and that's the funny thing with this game. technically we had a boring half hour where we were separated and each just rowed/sailed in a vague direction to get to an island so we could 'finish' our game, doing nothing interesting. but the tension, and the sense of being in the world (like using the rising/setting sun to give direction while rowing, or having to stop rowing and turn around with compass in hand etc), and the epicness of it all meant it was a brilliant adventure and a great achievement just to get together and sell our treasures.

Yep, a great adventure was had there.

I just tried this yesterday. Havent done any online for ages and it was somehow just so chilled and fun. I felt I need a few mates though. Just done one mission and I love the sea and the pace and the atmos!

What's all this about ghost ships?

Zoinks!


Rare just keep adding awesome stuff.


Release notes

The ghost ships are good fun. They shoot screaming cannonball things at you and they are devastating. The sound they make as they come towards you is freaky. They are easy to destroy though and it makes for a different kind of battle.