Decatur iirc then raided into the harbour many months later to destroy this state of the art super frigate.įrom a dev post in the forums. Get 32 of these gunboats and you essentially have a 32 gun broadside of a larger ship with the advantage of being able to attack from all angles and have a small profile that is harder to aim at.Ĭaptain Jack was forced to clear the area as fast as possible.Ī real life example of a frigate getting captured like this is the USS Philadelphia which got stranded in a Tunisian Harbour trying to raid it and forced to surrender by gunboats firing from its blind angles while not being able to turn effectively. You see each gunboat carries the same armament per tonne as a large ship. The enemy harbour defences were somehow alerted and a swarm of these gunboats came out even though the seas were a bit rough for them. His ships boats were rowing back with a friend or spy. ![]() I need to go and ask on the forums if heavy seas will swamp this one.Ĭaptain Jack was in a frigate just outside an enemy harbour. By the time you got back you would have missed out. Fleets of them would swarm out and hit frigates at all sorts of odd angles confounding the larger ships broadside. Were used in calm seas for harbour defence in the west. These little gunboats as they were called. Apparently there are rough seas maps testing at the moment but I have not been fortunate enough to play on one. I don't edit or sugar coat anything in my pictures so people can gauge things as they really are. We plan to make it a lot less hostile than POTBS or EVE."Ī few more screenshots from my PC. "PVE is going to be in game - you will be able to sink AI ships with friends.īut i promise pvp will be more fun. This is what the devs had to say about single player when I asked: This is the last I heard from the devs on single player: Next year open world alpha/beta should arrive. If so then the other player(s) are put on your side and you coop vs AI ships. If not you play on your own vs 1 or two ai ships that are random. Player vs AI means you join a lobby and wait to see if anybody else joins within 60 seconds. ![]() The testing game consists of these modes currently This will enable you to download and play the testing game atm. Right or left click changes ship in dead free camera modeĮvery friday steam keys are sent via email Home disconnects camera to go looking for the enemy Scroll mouse to adjust it to the zoom you want S - Tap S until you have ordered less canvas set to setting you want W - Tap W until you have the sail speed settings and right amount of sail canvas set Hold Rudder key A or D down to turn rudder temporarily. Press again to unlock (red crosses indicate lock)ĭouble tap A or D for perma rudder setting Right Click on the side you want to fire from to enter firing mode writing one now would just mean they have to do it again later.īTW there is actually one on the sea trials forums which only you and I can see as pre-order peeps. It is Alpha and tutorials and the like come when all game features and balance etc are set in stone.
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