Question about release.

[Fataldutch]

Goodday,

So i have a question. I bought this game last week and i absolutely love it. However, there isnt really alot of content. Iknow im early in the game but when i reach late game pvp im geussing it will stay the same aside from port battles. So thats fine because its early access. But yesterday i heard devs are planning to release the game at the end of the year/early 17. When i check the devs plans all i see are improvements rather then pushing content. So i was wondering is this basically it content wise ? I hope not.

Btw, this is not a rant im just curious.

Thanks.

[The Spud]

Well, for sure there will be allot more ships in the game, but I think you are rather refering to "stuff to do".

 

In short I think we only got the core game mechanics sorted by now (penetration, crew, health kits, etc.), so I would expect the next patches to be mostly gameplay changes and new content.

The fun thing is, almost every time they introduce a patch, there is something in it you didn't expect. Sometimes only small things but with a great fun factor.

For sure they will add more mission types...

 

What would you like to see added in this game?

[The MetaBaron]

This is an open world pvp sandbox game... .you make your own content, you make your own story. I could write books about the battles, wins, losses, chases, close calls, surrounded by interesting people (both in the good way and not) I have experienced with my nation.

 

I think people are spoiled by games that grab your hand and drag your through a story, and now have trouble with the concept of actually making their own way.

 

Use your imagination, its getting a little dusty.

[pietjenoob]

http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/14640-devlog-forthcoming-content-patches-plan/page-1

 

may i reccommand you see this give u a bit of an idea what the devs are planning and what is already released and yes i know it is a bit bare bone, but i think and i still do it going to be a great game

[Fataldutch]

This is an open world pvp sandbox game... .you make your own content, you make your own story. I could write books about the battles, wins, losses, chases, close calls, surrounded by interesting people (both in the good way and not) I have experienced with my nation.

 

I think people are spoiled by games that grab your hand and drag your through a story, and now have trouble with the concept of actually making their own way.

 

Use your imagination, its getting a little dusty.

 

I wouldn't call it spoiled.. It's more like innovation. you're almost saying more content = bad?

[Sir Texas Sir]

And remember cause we are ALPHA testers and this is an EA game we won't see all the content.  Look at the UI they don't plan to release until the game is released.  Which will be a suprise to us when we see what it's going to be like in the final product. If you have ever BETA tested a game you will know that they leave a lot of content and even story out of the testing so it will be new and a suprise to folks when they play the final product.  We are here to test the mechanics of the game out.     Up until recently I would only pop in and play a few days after each patch to check out the new content and give my feed back.  Now that more and more stuff is being put into the game I find myself on pretty much every day playing.   Every time I find something wrong in game I F11 and report it or come on here and give my feed back.  That is what my current job as an ALPHA tester in this game is, folks tend to forget that and look at this as a finished product which it is no where close to being.  Hell I just want them to get to the pirates mechanics and I'll be happy...or really pissed off....lol

[Fataldutch]

And remember cause we are ALPHA testers and this is an EA game we won't see all the content.  Look at the UI they don't plan to release until the game is released.  Which will be a suprise to us when we see what it's going to be like in the final product. If you have ever BETA tested a game you will know that they leave a lot of content and even story out of the testing so it will be new and a suprise to folks when they play the final product.  We are here to test the mechanics of the game out.     Up until recently I would only pop in and play a few days after each patch to check out the new content and give my feed back.  Now that more and more stuff is being put into the game I find myself on pretty much every day playing.   Every time I find something wrong in game I F11 and report it or come on here and give my feed back.  That is what my current job as an ALPHA tester in this game is, folks tend to forget that and look at this as a finished product which it is no where close to being.  Hell I just want them to get to the pirates mechanics and I'll be happy...or really pissed off....lol

 

yes i get that. but they are planning to release the game end of year or in jan. i cant see how they will push that many content in 3 months

[Atreides]

As far as content that is self generated I am in the process of preparing to journey south through the amazons to get over on the Pacific side of the map. Just to explore and because it is a goal I have to visit every area of the map. There is some risk making it past enemy ports on the southern approach to the amazons but I am looking forward to it.

[Sir Texas Sir]

Every time you say EA game, I get a small chill down my back.   So many bad experiences from beta testing with EA Games, the company not Early Access.  

 

From Motorcity Online, perhaps the best online racing hotrod game I have ever played... where you could actually build your engine.  Not just slap some stage 1 upgrades on a car, but actually change the camshafts, pistons, bore out the block and try different flow rate heads.  Yeah real gear head stuff.   But they killed it because they didn't think it would work. 

 

Or Multi-player Battletech: 3025, when they killed that after beta because they said there isn't enough following in the Battletech/MechWarrior community.

 

Yeah I dislike EA Games. 

I'll be honest every time I type EA I keep thinking it's EA games....and have to keep from throwing up.

[HardyKnox]

 I am in the process of preparing to journey south through the amazons to get over on the Pacific side of the map.

Is it known that there is a passage through the Amazons to the Pacific?  Don't the Andes offer some problems with that theory?

 

My understanding was that the Devs were going to make the Pacific side a separate sandbox for the PVE play, on one unified server, with the two geographies separate.  If that is so, there would be big complications if players could sail from Atlantic to Pacific.

 

Just puzzled about the way you plan to sail "through the Amazons" instead of " 'round the Horn".

 

~ HK ~

[Atreides]

It is mentioned in another thread from others who have done it. I imagine that once in that region the ROE will be PVE and tagging another player are impossible.

As far as if it is possible or how it works. I will make a thread in the next several days charting my progress, or documenting my failure. It is an adventure!

[The MetaBaron]

I wouldn't call it spoiled.. It's more like innovation. you're almost saying more content = bad?

 

There have always been games where you are taken by the hand through the story, and games where you make your own. Its not "innovation", its a different game.

[Jean Ribault]

I like the fact that you can set your own course in this game.  You can either be an enthusiastic pvp player, or a trader, or go pve and do all AI stuff, or just craft, or explore, lots of options.  And any combination of those.  Plus because the status of all factions continually changes, it sort of makes your game new every month or so.  In that respect I think there's plenty to do.  

[Lurken]

Well, for sure there will be allot more ships in the game, but I think you are rather refering to "stuff to do".

 

In short I think we only got the core game mechanics sorted by now (penetration, crew, health kits, etc.), so I would expect the next patches to be mostly gameplay changes and new content.

The fun thing is, almost every time they introduce a patch, there is something in it you didn't expect. Sometimes only small things but with a great fun factor.

For sure they will add more mission types...

 

What would you like to see added in this game?

oh for sure land combat, land missions and walking around in towns. real forts in portbattles overwatching a town, Galleons, why dont we have any galleons in the game yet :/