Hey, I've been trying to find something to play with a friend, we both enjoyed Pirates of the Burning Sea, and I remember a game that was almost identical to this, any tips?
Also, tips for other ship battle pirate mmo would be nice.
There's always Pirate 101 - I have a friend that loves that, and the 101 games don't have standard MMO combat. It's probably quite stylistically different from Burning Sea though.
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Achaea has lots of pirating because players can buy ships and sail them around to different islands, but you can be attacked by other player ships at any time on the seas. So people form pirating groups and terrorize the seas, basically. Also the Bard class has Swashbuckling as a skill which is pretty pirate-like.
I'd give UWO another look. I played that and PotBS and have to say, the depth of Uncharted Waters far surpassed Burning Sea. There are very limited land battles, with most of the game taking place at sea. The crafting/trade aspect just gives you something worth losing if you do venture out as a pirate as well.
It's just not very pretty. It's passable, but not great.
The most fun in the game is the early levels as well, so you aren't really missing much if you stop after that. Beyond that, you just amass more and more wealth, or lose more and more ships to pirates. Discovering new ports and actually using Google maps to plot your course can be fun though
I will admit though, I've gone back to this game since initially playing it and found it lacking. Lots of wasted potential, mishandled by its publishers, manipulated by its developer and exploited by the players. I suppose it's one of those games I look back to with rose colored glasses and think about "the good ole days". Still, the first several levels of the game are quite fun though.
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Voyage seemed very focused on land stuff, would prefer something with little or no land stuff.
Uncharted just seems, bad.
something like that is what I'm looking for, was fun as hell, but sony sold/scrapped it or something.
Closest I've found was Bounty bay online, but that seems to be kinda focused on landcombat aswell.
PoTBS is great game but there is a lot of ground stuff too.
I think it is in open beta under new development team or so:
http://portalusgames.com/games/
Yeah you should check out ArcheAge, it does in fact seem to notably favor pirate ways, I would even say they are encouraged.
But you did say you wanted no land combat, so there's that. But you know, being a pirate is more than ships and seas.
While it was not what we were looking for, it looked awesome and at least I will try it.
My friend has a hate for "mmorpg" style combat.
I'd give UWO another look. I played that and PotBS and have to say, the depth of Uncharted Waters far surpassed Burning Sea. There are very limited land battles, with most of the game taking place at sea. The crafting/trade aspect just gives you something worth losing if you do venture out as a pirate as well.
It's just not very pretty. It's passable, but not great.
The most fun in the game is the early levels as well, so you aren't really missing much if you stop after that. Beyond that, you just amass more and more wealth, or lose more and more ships to pirates. Discovering new ports and actually using Google maps to plot your course can be fun though
I will admit though, I've gone back to this game since initially playing it and found it lacking. Lots of wasted potential, mishandled by its publishers, manipulated by its developer and exploited by the players. I suppose it's one of those games I look back to with rose colored glasses and think about "the good ole days". Still, the first several levels of the game are quite fun though.