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    Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes out

    Well for pre-order in alpha sea trials anyways

    You need dx11 for it.

    Just thought in relation to Aircraft and similar games that some like me may like the older types of ships in a game called NAVAL ACTION.
    Requires DX11 though. The open beta is due in a few weeks to a month for pre-order guys

    You get to command one ship only and either play in open world or I think perhaps single scenarios or PVP/PVE battles.
    Ships are individually customisable I believe.

    What as a tester I am excited about is that you get down and fire ranging shots from deck level before releasing your broadside.
    Can turn on and off individual gun decks and fire them in any order
    Can allocate the crew to prioritise different task
    Control the mast sails individually or auto
    Contol the helm\rudder obviously along with the speed of the ship
    Weather such as fog, storm seas among others
    Choose round types like roundshot, chain, grape\shotgun sort of shot
    Forts and I think other land things like ports and the like....
    IIRC game tracks every ball fired and damage like smashed cannons and leaks or sail damage/masts falling off etc are all there.

    The ships are pretty much replicas of famous real ships.
    So far seen are the HMS Victory (over 100 guns), USS Constitution(heavy super frigate 44 guns), HMS Tricomalee (a match for the USS Connie?), cutter, brig, mortar brig, Yachts, HMS Surprise (Russel Crowes ship in master and commander), Bellona (74 guns).


    Here are a few shots of me testing.

    Anyone who loves Hornblower and 1700 - early 1800 age of sail ships might like this one. It's kind of unique.
    http://www.navalaction.com/#ageofsail
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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    WOw, thanks for posting.
    Love all the screen shots.

    I love the big rigs....I may need to check this out....but will wait for bargain basement price, LOL!

    [edit] I just checked out the website....Looks very promising...I was figuring it was a Steam game (i.e. Goat Simulator type game, LOL!). This is independent and I may be interested in the pre-purchase just to support them...very compelling concept. Not sure if I can handle DX11.
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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    I used to play a PC game called 'Age Of Sail' and another called 'Wooden Walls & Iron Men' I have all the Bolitho & Hornblower books
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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    I watched "Master and Commander" last weekend....awesome movie.

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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    Quote Originally Posted by Roblex View Post
    I used to play a PC game called 'Age Of Sail' and another called 'Wooden Walls & Iron Men' I have all the Bolitho & Hornblower books
    Have you read the Aubrey-Maturin series from O'Brian? Seen Master and Commander? Or the Drinkwater series from Woodman? The Delaney from Parkinson? Ramage by Pope? Or gone even further back in time and read Frederick Maryatt (whom Forrester, Kent, O'Brian, et al must have read, too)?

    I am sorely, sorely tempted ...

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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    So is this worth getting?
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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    That looks really cool!
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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    I bought it yesterday. I should be getting my Steam Key this week to get into the "Sea Trials"...they are testing for Network/Server issues and general game play intuitiveness. Still in Alpha.

    I doubt I will have much time for it....but hopefully can find an hour or two next weekend to check it out.

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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    FYI - I just saw a post in their forums that states if you purchased after Nov 21, no "Sea Trials" for you. Oh well, I missed it....I don't really have time right now anyway.

    But though you all would like to know. I'll let ya know when I do get alpha access.
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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    thanks for the info. Would love to have this sim. Will keep an eye out for it!
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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    From the Naval Action Facebook page:

    Dear Captains.

    We will deploy the update for the Alpha sea trials build today. We will fix some of the issues that existed in PvP, update for-and-aft rigged vessels wind angles and add some other things to the testing build. Detailed patch notes will be posted later today on our forums.

    Next batch of Steam Keys will be sent to pre-order buyers on Friday 28th November.

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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    Got my key...


    ....first attempt at warfare..


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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    Lol, nice video Marmus, it looks like you got stuck pointing up wind at the end.


    Does it have crew managment for pumping water out of the hold, putting out fires, changing sails, ect?
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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    So are we talking Silent Hunter but with sailing ships? If so that's pretty cool. Although I'm going to be waiting until it's out of alpha/beta first for sure. I dislike buying early access games.

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    Re: This weekend - Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes

    Nice. Commanding a Ship of the Line versus blasted Boni Would be great if you can hone your crew with exercises and discipline, maybe make a seaman or two 'kiss the gunner's daughter' or 'keel haul' them if they really misbehave

    Does it model spilling wind of other ships? Those guns wouldn't be crewed by a single man though, they'd have a team on each. I noticed that on the first shot the French ship crossed the T, bad positioning from you old boy

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    Re: Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes out

    Here is someone else's video...they must have gotten good at it, they worked their way up to a much bigger ship!




    Yes, it has crew management....you set priorities....so when I started to take on water, I send some men to pump, but that limited the number of canons I could use. I think the One man per gun is just the progress to date.

    This is all very early Alpha, this is a small module out for testing of the gun engine and intuitiveness of whole sailing process. They plan on a financial aspect to game, so I guess you can trade or raid, etc.

    I believe that "spill wind of other ships" was brought up in their Alpha forums, but at this time they do not plan to model it.

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    Re: Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes out

    I hope this time they do not mistreat the Spanish ships as in other games.

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    Re: Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes out

    Thanks Marmus

    Spartan, do you mean treat them as not as well designed for rougher waters as the British ships? Would be good if you can actually pull alongside and board, then take as a prize.

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    Re: Naval Action - Age of Sail - first person historical shooter comes out

    Quote Originally Posted by Osprey View Post
    Thanks Marmus

    Spartan, do you mean treat them as not as well designed for rougher waters as the British ships? Would be good if you can actually pull alongside and board, then take as a prize.
    The screen shots from OP above show boarding and taking over ship...so that will be in final game.

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