Naval Action

Let me know if you feel like some team damage grinding or some hopeless PvP vs ships twice our size.

 

I actually do pretty well in PVP, usually getting around 10-13k damage in a trinc per match and winning around 2/3s of my matches right now. Yes, there are bigger ships, but when you get into the big engagements there's plenty for smaller ships to do as well (or at least Surprise and up). Granted like a Bellona, Vic or Santi will chew me up in a few seconds but as long as you tail the big guys and keep firing you do pretty good damage and stay alive for longer.

But we'd have to figure out a time that works me being in Hawaii and you in SA... probably sometime morning for me.

 

Thanks to my baby, I'm only playing late at night (I'm going to math now, please hold...)
It's about 12 hours - so when I'm pew-pewing at 22h00, it's 10h00 in Hawaii.

I've invited you via Steam as well.

 

ill probably be on around 10 am tomorrow, perhaps

 

Cool - fire a cannon across me bow when you're on. Can't TeamSpeak - headset's gone down to meet Davy Jones.

 

New patch, 3 new ships.. mostly smallish. Privateer, navy brig, Cerberus light frigate.

 

PG Gamer Article

Finally, a naval combat sim that gets sailing ships right

 

Open world trials are opening up for everyone in a few days, just ensuring they have no show stoppers in latest build that is already up for some alpha testers.

 

Woot! Hopefully I'll have working Internet by then!

 

Supposedly up now for all, I'll try later today

 

I have tried the Open World and its nice. They have changed so that ships cost gold and you make gold
in combat. No trading yet but you can buy upgrades for your ship.

 

What is everyone's in game name for Naval Action? Mine is the same as here.

 

Same as here although I may have to pick a new one if I can't delete it as I picked Sweden on a whim (not to beginners). Tried it real quick, had one battle, can't play for a week as on business travel

 

I want in, stupid closed beta

 

Btw we should all pick the same nation... Thoughts?

 

I have been playing as French so far

 

Well I've been playing Spanish, you get dumped into the open world and you really have no clue what to do, so I'll do a super quick start up guide for those confused:

1) To start with, you get a lynx. Its not great, but what it is is fast and maneuverable. I personally started with Spain, but the starting country honestly doesn't matter much at this point.
2) General rules: You can attack all other factions with impunity. You cannot attack your own UNLESS its carrying contraband (identified by clicking on a ship, then clicking 'hail' to figure out what it is and if it has escorts), then its free game. You CAN attack your own nation but you will become a pirate. If you're a pirate, you can only dock at neutral and pirate bases, plus you can attack and pirate other nations as much as you want even with a nation so being a pirate isn't that useful right now.
3) To start, you have no money, no xp, so go sailing. Go somewhere that has ports of other countries. As spain, the Virgin Islands were great with a combo of Danish, British and Norwegians. Anyway, THERE IS NO IN GAME MAP RIGHT NOW, USE THIS AND PAY ATTENTION: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?usp=sharing&mid=znKaQtPyLToc.kaQduRE0l4HU
4) Find trader lynxs, trader brigs, and trader cutters. These ships are defenseless and have no guns. They are easy grinding for your first couple of days. Fighting will get you XP and Gold. Gold is for buying stuff like ships, guns, upgrades, cargo for trading (its enabled now, fairly simplistic). XP is your 'rank', the higher your rank, the more crew you are able to command, which indirectly controls what ship you can get. You could buy a Trinc at your base level if you have the cash, but you won't be able to command more than 30 crew where the Trinc needs a few hundred, so its not going to perform well at all.
5) Anyway, after grinding a bit, I noticed anytime you went into port and any wood is selling at 1-2 gold a piece, buy it all that you can fit in a hold, take it to another port and usually you can see it for 10. I did this a few times and easily afforded a bigger ship (PICKLE!) fairly quickly.
6) Trade, fight, capture your way to fun
7) oh yea when I started they just disabled capturing, capturing is a good way to get cash if you can board and capture an enemy ship.

Overall impressions:
1) Combat is good, but I knew that from sea trials.
2) Open world is ok, but obviously a work in progress. There isn't a real point except to just build up to bigger ships from fighting and a bit of trading, unfortunately PVP or PVE fighting is right now the only way to level your rank. You can fight bots, which most fights on the sea are, or players, players tend to be tougher and people in alpha shy away from PVP unless specifically asked first. Good foundation, interesting to see how it comes to fruition.

 

what about multiplayer, can we share a ship?

 

It's only multiplayer and no we can't share a ship

 

You can have fleets, everyone only pilots one ship, but you can team up with others. And to be honest while you could split up shooting/aiming and piloting, it's easy enough to do it all that I don't think it would make sense. It's open world mmo