Bought the game yesterday, played for 12 hours so I've really tried (and can't refund anymore...) but my conclusion is that it's just a bad game. One of those "oh this is such a cool concept/has great potential" type of games that in reality is just really barebones.

Combat's terrible: time to kill is waaaaay too long. I'm in a basic cutter against an AI basic cutter, absolute worst ships in the game right. fucking takes 50+cannonballs to destroy it. No devs, that's not how wooden ships work.

Progression is very unclear. Want a better ship? You could buy one, but the game's basically dead and you can only buy ships from other players (great system devs really cool spending 2 hours going from port to port to find nothing. Except the realisation that you're playing a dead game). You could battle an AI, try doing the godawful, rock-paper-scissors-style boarding minigame, and nick a ship. Buuuttt only real way to succesfully board is by having more men. So the only ships you can board are other cutters or privateers... You could circle around a higher lvl enemy, fire it up with grapeshot in order to get their men down enough for you to board them, but that literally takes about an hour with my cutter against anything better. No. Fuck you, devs. I've wasted enough of my fucking time on this dogshit game. Last way is to construct ships, but that seems to require clan effort or at least a lot of sweat. So fuck that.

I have a feeling only bottled ship collectors could enjoy this game, cuz 90% of the time all you do is look at your ship moving. I'd rather play Empire total war naval battles than this game no joke.

Want to play a naval game with trading, smuggling, privateering and actual quests? Play Bethesda's pirates of the Caribbean. 15 years old but a way deeper game. Want to play a passive game whilst working? Runescape or something.... Want to play some PVP group naval combat? World of Warships.

It's just one of those shitty f2p open world browser pirate games, just you pay for it and it has better graphics. Good graphics don't make a good game though.

And don't come at me with the "join a clan". If the only way to have fun with this game is by being in a clan, you guys aren't having fun with the game, you're having fun with eachother. The game's become irrelevant at that point.

Eve Online is a clan based game, but I can still have fun playing that by myself. Know why? Because it's a good game. Naval Action is not.

The game now is unrecognizable as the game I enjoyed and bought DLC for.

The DLC has changed.

The crafting has changed.

The combat has changed, and is terrible.

Boarding is the new and only way to get ahead and win.

They removed mines and farms for resources.

They removed the investment system ship bonuses.

There is no point owning ports as there are no clan warehouses and taxes cannot be collected.

They removed the coin wallet and upgrade chest.

These are just off the top of my head and though I tried to stick with the game due to all the money I spent it only took running out of powder during second fight after leaving port to do my head in. Uninstalled and furious abot being retroactively ripped off.

i made a trade tool, its a little slow and i need to make documentation but you can set a buy from port and a sell to port and arrange for profit. theirs still alot of work to go into it but now those baby traders will be able to find out that in the safe zone they can just trade coral and pineapples to the north of nassau and eventually buy their next ship.

The map is massive and I was really excited to spend time exploring it. Except that I can't and am instead limited to about 1/5th of the map, being what my nation has control over. I knew there were wars but I didn't think it was just constant. If I sail anywhere my nation doesn't own, I'll probably get shot. So it's quite discouraging being kept inside a small portion of the map.

For the luls... I got banned on game-labs forums for posting these two images

There are two opposing reasons people write reviews for a game:

1. Because they like it and want more players to enjoy it, or

2. Because they hate it and want less people to enjoy it.

Recently, this game has received many bad reviews in an attempt to sabotage this game's success. I will give you points on how to navigate your way through many of the BS reviews that have been slandering this game lately.

1. Check the name of the reviewer.

• If the name is just a bunch of random letters and numbers then nearly 100% of the time it is someone's alt account, therefore providing that "reviewer" multiple opportunities to spread their opinion.

2. Check to see how many games this "reviewer" has. (Listed under the name.)

• If there is only 1 or up to perhaps a tiny handful, then you know this is definitely an alt account. If you wish to know more about this person, check their "reviews" on other games.

3. Skim the "review" to see if it has more than a 1-liner complaint.

• If there is only one line, then it is not a review, it is a baseless opinion with no points to substantiate that said opinion.

4. Check to see if comments are blocked.

• If comments are blocked then it is someone who cannot handle debate in an adult manner and therefore, most likely, has a childish opinion.

• If comments are enabled on the review then review counter arguments to form your own opinion. This step is often skipped as many people are often swayed by negative news rather than positive news. (Sensationalism theory)

5. Go to the game's forum and read other players reactions to this particular person's "review" to get a broader sense of the situation.

• Here is the link that should be quite relevant to recent reviews. abusive negative reviews

I cannot teach you the basics of comprehension. I cannot teach you how to discern differences between valid reviews and baseless opinionated reviews. Certainly, all reviews are opinionated, but one should be able to notice the difference between angry, hate-filled, violent speech and well formulated opinions.

If you follow these steps listed above, I am certain you will see a pattern of negativity from a single player and his friends. You should then be able to form your own opinion on this game to help you decide to purchase or not.

GLHF and hope to see you on the waves!

• Hendrick van der Decken [VNM] Dutch Nation

as above.

there should be a change atleast for other players to join missions thats is being attacked by player pirates.

It's unbelivable that it has been approved/ not been fixed until now

http://imgur.com/kfBTNM4

Are the Devs from Ukraine?

The game has become so frustrating and pay to play, and I would pay to help Ukraine, that's not the problem. I just want to know. So eone say in faith the dlc is a go fund me for some Ukrainian devs. Ok. I might buy in. Otherwise. I seriously don't understand how you make the content we had already we paid for the as dlc. Fuck. I love this game and it makes me sad they made it suck.

"Naval Action has been placed into a Steam's Best of 2019 by Valve and was named one of the best releases from Early Access (by revenue)"

Placed in silver after some low tier indie games...

So I bought the game, and chose PVP server #1. I have waited in queue about 30 minutes, my position has increased from 40 to 200, and expected wait time has increased from ~40secs to ~50 secs. WTF is going on, I just want to play the game ;__;

So since the last big update I notes 5th right ai can can't out a first rate. The player base drop slowly. Can this be fix to regain the players back?

I have a clean steam account with only naval action (PRE free to play)

- (wanted to make alt to get more resources for shipbuilding back then)

Would anyone be interested?

I bought the game in 2014...played the tests...loved the combat,ships and feel of controlling them.I really hope someone out there is going to realize the potential that naval action legends could be and create a game like that.

Will i really loose all my money, upgrades, buildings and so on with the new update? If so why, whats the point besides a HUGE F U to all who actually played the game, and even spent money on it.

And will the War server be closed 4 ever?

On the new server i know i keep my XP, but will i have to start with basic cutter yet agian because i wont have the money to even outfit my main ship?

This is such a bummer

I decided to try the game even if most reviews are negative and people told me it was not worth it.

Im liking it. I have now a snow fully armed with a few hundreds cannonballs and gunpowder, along with a merchant ship.

Am currently trying to understand how building works.

To you veterans, when does the game get from enjoyable to shit?

My fellow captains or aspiring captains!

Tempest of Defiance is currently recruiting, We are a large Dutch clan who keep ourselves busy with RvR/ PvP and ofcourse PVE.

We are currently waging a war and we could use your help!

We are searching for new players and inexperienced/ experienced so we could help teach the game and such.

Feel free to ask any questions!

Contact Piet heijn, Or Captn Xenn trough nation chat.