Recent reviews by Alvercaine

most bugged ♥♥♥♥ ever.

it's a mixed yes/no that will change with the patches.

played 9h in one sitting, theres good, theres bad.

good:
gorgeous armor set, character with creation
incredible batle animations with finishers that feel great to do (jumping Y, stabing, blood)
some good new class ideas.
the ox cart to go around
some really good musics for bosses

bad:
pawn are still stupid as ♥♥♥♥ with only 4 orders for them (dd online did it 20 times better)
if theres more than 4 people on screen goodbye fps
the storage menu is a gigantic joke, they removed the "changer armor from storage" option and "sell from storage at shops" be ready to get everything out to change sets, sell etc. stupid.
the first region is litterally a bad copy of some north dd1 map. cliffs, cliffs, cliffs.

To break some reviews here, the dlc sell rift crystal, a currency you get in game when people rent your pawn.
it's as useful as buying a soul pack dlc in a from soft game. dont do it its useless.

the game script has a lot of similarities to dd1. yes, and it's totaly normal. DD is about the arisen cycle and the dragon test , stealing your heart. thats the lore of DD, its like getting mad at DS game for having to ignite the flame in 3 games.

for now with the horrible optimisation and the quality of life storage missng, the game gets a 6.5/20 (and god i have like 700h on xbox360+ps3+switch+pc of dd1, i'm a BIG fan of the series)

in this state its like having your favorite food but someone sneezed on it.

wait the patchs. and denuvo must disapear.

I still play AOP2 coas (sea dogs 2) modded with gentlemen of fortune and eras mods, maelstrom engine.
i played potc too, pirates of the burning seas and TEHO, the previous game they made.

even at 20 min of game play, the game is still inferior to modded coas.
3 captains, (+50 on aop2 modded) most reuses assets. reused everything, everywhere, from voicelines to mini quest , the just pasted a new interface and made the game a bit more fluid. the "improvements of this game could be a QOL mod for a previous entry, it wouldnt change a thing. yeah, it looks like there muskets playable. the mods did it.

the problems of the original game still stay there. the controls are outdated and feel like you put your toaster on joytokey to play. the accuracy without a cannoner at the game start is so much a joke that shooting is just useless, just overcharge your ship with npcs, ram , and get the power ratio just good enough to win.

take it cause it's free, but for 3 euros more get AOP2 coas and mod it.

the game will have potential if the modders do what the team won't.

positive review cause it's free. gotta respect that, even if i could be an abandonware at this stage.

not really a purely negative review, but a 60/40 bad/good one.

the game gets just tiring and repetitive after 15 hours so.
lets go with the bad/good review:

the goods
-immense map
-free character build (go archer, thief, mage, mingle them, a few gameplay worth perks ( wild beasts friend, road stamina economy, double jump)
-the glider-wingsuit, funnier than just botw type gliders
-the towers, good waypoint for fast travels and jumps with say gliders
-the village craft and npc based craft stations ( smith, carpenter, alchemist....)
-the shroud that makes you run for your life to get out to not die

the bad:
-red ground shroud. a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ idea that punishes you by killing you nearly instantly for missing a jump.
it wouldnt be a problem if you werent exploring 90% of the time and had to go again 15 min to recover your body if you didnt find a fast travel point. outward did this better with the option to drop or not your backpack. there, it get old fast. especially when you died AGES ago and theres 2 markers for 2 bodies miles away. dont be tired and chose the wrong one.
-PV bag level oriented ennemies. the chasm between the same ennemies at 2 points of the map (and theres like 7 different ennemies for the whole lower half of the map i visited) feels too important. if you didnt builded around PV build yourself be ready to die in 2 hits.
-the craft is a little too present and would need to be simplified. monster hunter did the craft with items from your chests AGES ago, for the love of god when i have a village with 15 so small chests it would be QOL to be able to craft with items from those chests included, not having to buzz everywhere getting the smallest bit missing. minecraft being a hit doesnt mean your cant improve on it.
-attack moves. 3. 3 for one handed weapons, 3 for 2 handed weapons. plus jump.
-bow, wand, staff. distance attack. thats all. magic is pew pew based. no gameplay fun using spells.
why not make the bandit weapons style playable? double swords, cannons, crossbows?

i loved most of my time discovering the map. but if a map so big becomes boring after 20h, i'm not wating more time on it.

the game has lots of room to improve though.
make it possible to create npc guard/ workers to recolt and build to make the village more than 5 pnjs. make the beastmaster tree link yourself with a wild beast that REALLY follows you like a familliar ( wouldnt be a cheat seeing how its a waste of points now)
make other fighting styles from the monsters/bandits, and their wepons armor droppable ( you can drop one sword/pick and one cleaver from bandits and shroud beasts drop only)

or open it to workshop mods

j'y ai joue plus de 3h ailleurs chez un ami, je l'ai repris et vais me prendre un casque, ce jeu est a lui seul l'argument qui m'a fait investir. c'est fun, c'est de l'exercice avec peu de place en s'amusant, le sound design et ambiance graphique sont des tueries, le peu de personnalisation est déjà ouf.

ajoutez a ca 3000 musiques customs sur le net, un indispensable de la VR.

PS: IL FAUT un dlc synthwave. avec un stage sur grid, soleil au fond et palmiers rose et filtres vhs. du gunship/carpenter/perturbator/dance with the dead/ kavinsky/lebrock etc dedans.

son seul defaut est de ne pas mettre un workshop qui permettrait aux moddeurs de mettre des tenues, mondes et marteaux moddes.

ne négligez pas les balades celtiques calmes sur un fond de monde de foret. ca n'est pas pour rien que la première musique en est une.

while i wouldnt have recommended it in beta state, as for management and possibilities warband was better, the complete version is really a good game and dont have to compare to warbrand at all.

-a very big and lively map, beautiful too
-the fighting is fluid for the most part. just warbrand with better animation.
-the side jobs and quest are great, tournaments gives rare loot, smithing with your team is interesting (you can even do orders to gain money as a smith)
-sandbox mode added for those who dont want the banner story
-music is as always incredible (on the map anyways)
-the perks system makes more styles of play useable, merchant, smith, bandit lord.......

cons
-face models feels a bit dated
-missing some music from warbrand, it wouldve been nice to have the best tunes
-very slow start, they replaced the 'become a noble concept' with ' clan rank'
-LOADINGS. oh god, sometimes you missclick in a town and just go search a drink in the meanwhile.

i just love what theyve done, just to hope that the modding communty goes as ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ as warband (star wars conquest, 3 kingdoms, GOT)

take it on sale if you're not sure, and i just brushed the "lord"part of the game

Not the best one , but a real good one.

I'd put it behind 2 and 3, but better than 1 and 4.

pros:
incredible intro music and movie
really good battle system, fluid, fast fun, even if it lacks a bit depth and customisation options at the end.

some characters have become my favorites of the franchise, good design and writing

wide areas to explore, even if we are far from open world.

good OST.

Cons:

story is good-ish, but some scenes feels cheap, like some fights have fews npcs in a war, of a public execution in front of a crowd of 3 npc.

perk systems feels like ff10 (good thing) but leave you with really few options for combos at the end, we are speaking like 5 different moves per character.

the endgame dungeon is pure ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and a maze. the backgrounds are the same and MADE to lost you all the time

i'd give the game a 6.5 or 7 on 10.

get it on sale, if you like the series you should atleast do it one time.

i dont know why its showing o.2 while i plyed this at least 12h...oh well.

elite, while having many good idea is litterally everything i despise i space sim, glued in one game.

everything is cumbersome and long as ♥♥♥♥ to do anything. be ready to loose a lot of time and be punished because you are discovering.

i wanted to play as a bounty hunter, i had to go online to understabd i needed a special interdiction module to do that, wich the tuto didnt told me cause it got stuck in a bug.

only 36 ships. yeah. and every cosmetic is a microtransation.

the gigantism of space is a nice thing, but the exploitation of travel and speeds is HORRIBLE. think having to do a 300 km trip with a car who can only do 10, 40 and 20 000 km/h.

they chose to not be user friendly, they choose to go full sim and ignore hte game design aspect. that's a choice.

i made mine.


X3 with its extenstions a a lot more fun, alive, and entrancing. freelancer (discovery) is so full of things you'll lose days with your friends. theres a lot of space sims out there, but few hit all the good boxes.

i'ts more of a middle ground review. honestly the bad point are just tipping the balance here as the game has good points and potential.

IT'S NOT FREELANCER SUCCESSOR. if you are here to free roam a space society with faction, definite style and chesive world....it's not. it could be, but not now.


Good

-incredible ship maneuvrability
-the 'diablo' build system with ships ult and passives that let you built either sniper stealth, thorn armor, full blast or full tortoise and whatnot
-the loot variety
-the nice artistic direction
-the puzzles in ships wrecks

Bad

-Story closed progression, no free roam mode for now
-no real world design as the 'map' join every sector with the jumpdrive.
-that kills all possibility of real merchant play as sectors and waypoints exist for a reason
-no life in the sectors exept for sometimes a lone freighter or fighter npc. we're far from X3 or freelancer budding worlds
-the music is tolerable, not memorable.


with only 5h maybe i didnt seen it all, maybe there a gazillion sectors with dozens of unique factions out there. sectors where you dont feel you're lost at the end of space. if it was, i dont think they'd put it behind a timewall. they got the cards in hand, all they need is to make good game design decisions.

not worth the price as it is now, but i'll observe what will happen next

put a freeroam mod (i cant hope for multiplayer but who knows)

gros problemes de fps pendant les travelings, qund il y a plus de deux monstres dans les combats.......le 60 fps n'esperez meme pas. pas fluide pour un sou, et la traduction francaise est totalement aux fraises. "les hussards" au lieu des dragoons d'acacia? vous savez des gens qui chevauchent des dragons quoi? cayenne et anselme au lieu de solt and peppor?
les decors lisses.....avec un immonde filtre floutant, non non ca c'est pas l'IA du moguri mod et de ff7 SYW...la c'est juste ignoble.
mention a nobuteru yuuki pour avoir rajoute quelques artworks, et aussi au artworks des persos remis a neuf.

le reste, emulez le avec le patch fr. c'est une honte.