War Sails - First Reactions

[Piconi]

Hey everyone!

Now that War Sails has been announced, we’d love to hear your initial thoughts.

• What stood out to you in the announcement and the trailer?
  
• What excites you most?
  
• Which new features are you most curious about?

We’re eager to hear what you think and will be keeping an eye on this discussion!

[Zaleo Zöuñ]

More native gameplay functions is good. Playing between the Nords and Sturgians will be cool. RIP Sturgia. It'll be interesting to see what modders can conjure up with the added features from both the expansion and the patch.

Might just have to return to (raid) Calradia again~

[Monkey]

Why focus on stealth and Naval and maritime combat and not flesh out the main campaign with proper depth to the relations and politics within a kingdom. Flesh out the empire and actually make it feel like a civil war where they are trying to reconsolidate the imperial borders.

[Aya]

Will the base game still be updated as the DLC gets developed? A lot of players are dissatisfied with the current state of singleplayer, and there's a reason why people who care about the game's PVP offerings play the competing product instead.

[Happy]

- What stood out to you in the announcement and the trailer? : The dynamic movements of the naval ships (Hope that also matches gameplay)

- What excites you most? : The new faction for sure!

- Which new features are you most curious about? : The realistic water and how the wind effects the overall gameplay.

[GetUrAssToMars]

Trailer looks fantastic. Clearly you have grown as a studio based on the quality of that presentation. Absolutely impressive.

Excited for naval as long as it's not just a tacked on gimmick. If it has tactical/economic implications other than getting to play pac man on the high seas then im excited.

Base game updates look really nice as well. Hoping you stick to your word and keep communicating w the player base here on out.

Well done.

[Descri]

Honestly, the addition of naval combat and stealth has put me off the game. Combat, in general, needs fixes, and there's still no messenger system to recruit clans or hire mercenaries. Diplomacy is a joke compared to Warband. The amount of information I can pull up is still lacking; for example, Bannerlord doesn't allow looking at previous messages if things go too fast. So yeah, I deleted the game from my system and will not return until diplomacy is added. Best of luck to you all, and I hope this game gets the fine-tuning it desperately needs.

[⦃Sค†คn⦄]

Hype af but I really hope they improve on diplomacy and freedom of diplomacy more. Cant wait to sail the seas and raid as nord

[Zoli]

What happens to the ships when we fight on land?

[Lucius Confucius]

Can ships break in the middle when ramming them?

[Shaman Chief Nyima]

What i'm most hyped about are the Nords. Sadly, the Sturgs never did it for me, and i prefer the classic Vaegir/Nord faction. Having the Nords arrive again is nothing short of awesomeness.

As for sea battles? Meh? The more the merrier though.

[SJWs R TRAITORS]

Hope they get naval tactics correct !

[Kaia]

what stood out to me the most is that you're releasing a paid DLC for an unfinished game that you took a decade to dev, only to rush it out of E.A with seemingly no actual plans to finish/polish it down to its most broken core aspects (diplomacy, economy, smithing, char skills/perks)

I guess the sheer audacity of the bullpatootie nature of it all just jumped at me ya know.

I guess my second biggest impression was the realization that once again you seem to be wanting us to pay for modded developments from the unpaid community. Will you be compensating them i wonder (fourberie, brytenwalda, and the others)

What i am most curious about is if you will be doing curstom Knighthood orders from PoP next and calling it kosher, slap a 15 USD tag on it while giggling at us?

Warband was lightning in a bottle and instead of cherishing that legacy you decided to milk it at the expense of any goodwill your studio had accumulated over the years. Toodles

[SlowFatKid]

I didn't see a price

[SniperBoss207]

Please please please improve diplomacy and politics, free improvements are great, but the amount of goodwill that would be received from PROPERLY improving these two areas ALONE would be crazy.

[Teralitha]

My only question that hasnt been answered yet is.... what is the eta on update 1.3?