Hardcore mode?

[Tramuntana]

Hi all,

I'm kinda new here and I haven't been able to test the game myself yet but from what I have seen the only hint of a "hardcore mode" is the manual sail control.

Are there any plans in the future to add a full on hardcore mode? i.e. having a very minimal HUD only showing bearings and speed. The player will have to check his flags to see where the wind is actually coming from or even simulate some of the instruments used at the time to help with that task.

Also when approaching an unknown ship, having to properly check his/her flags to determine whether it's friendly or not. Instead of displaying the player name tag in red or green. This could potentially open up some good role playing where a pirate ship could fake a nationality and in the very last moment raise the Jolly Roger.

 

Cheers.

[Gentry]

I doubt it. 

[BustyLove]

This would require its own server as I don't think anyone would want to put themselves at a disadvantage by doing this.

 

It's intended to be an MMO, not (As of yet) an arena combat game. Though it could be a possibility in that instance.

Edited May 10, 2015 by BustyLove

[Mirones]

ctrl+h

[Aussie_Fox]

ctrl+h

 

 

this will turn off the entire HuD. if you want to make it more challenging for yourself

[Doschichis]

lol ctrl + h is a truly hardcode mode, if you want medium you can go manual sail and easy at auto

[Käpt´n Blaubär]

hm a hardcore mode in the sense of losing a ship means losing it forever could be an interesting idea.

[Sir Darric Vandhelm]

ctrl+h

This made me laugh... Must try it sometime.

[Mirones]

dont for get N for skirmish matches removing the white band wont work in OW ofcourse

[Blackjack Morgan]

Best super hardcore game mode you can find is outside your front door....it's called Real Life.

[BustyLove]

Best super hardcore game mode you can find is outside your front door....it's called Real Life.

 

I'm undefeated so far!

 

Mostly PvE though.

Edited May 18, 2015 by BustyLove

[Captain Clark]

busty love you need to play pvp, undefeated by the cut down ai in pve is nothing to boast about.

if you look at the leaderboard you will see even the great MrMoran sometime looses, have a duel with him and see how you fair

good luck

[Joe]

We could have a chance of half your crew dying of a given disease that would be really hardcore. How about permanent death that would be hardcore to. Let's not forget a random storm that sinks you that would be hardcore. All that and real time travel and you could be in hardcore heaven! Ooooh how exciting and you would be "hardcore"!

[kaboki]

ctrl+h

 

Yeah, but it takes away to much, I would prefer a menu in the settings, where I can preset what I like to see, I always manually remove the battle, map, but I wish I could remove nametags aswell, and keep bearings and gun controls.(I would like to be able to remove the wind from the compass too)

Ctrl H is excellent when im runnign away and not needing to much info:p

 

In short, I want to be able to remove as much uneccesary clutter on screen without taking away to much vital info. Nametags is the most annoying thing for me, I want to use my excellent spyglass for identifying friends from foes.

 

Also, switching beetwen different loadouts on cannons doenst work, when in ctrl H mode

 

 

This would require its own server as I don't think anyone would want to put themselves at a disadvantage by doing this.

 

It's intended to be an MMO, not (As of yet) an arena combat game. Though it could be a possibility in that instance.

 

lol, im already sailing in OW with more disadvantages than you can imagine, Always sail on sails set to very slow/battle mode in OW to get more immersive map speed:p. If I could change guns while in ctrl h mode I probably would be in that mode most of the time.

 

I wish the playerbase was big enought too support, hardcore mode in different servers and a noob/easy server for the rest:p. Hardcore mode would be slowerr OW speed and minimal clutter on screen in battles, and manual sailing all the way, not letting anyone using auto skipper...

Edited May 23, 2015 by kaboki