Corsair to gra która potrafi wciągnąć pomimo licznych wad, kursowanie od portu do portu i walka z bardzo różnorodnymi statkami wielu frakcji znanych z uniwersum Warhammera może się podobać. System rozbudowy statków i zarządzania załogą nie jest bardzo rozbudowany, misje nie należą do złożonych. Grafika jest brzydka, system walki na lądzie i abordaże są frustrujące, potrafią uprzykrzyć rozgrywkę. Po kilkunastu godzinach gra zaczyna się nudzić, wcześniej jest ok.

Dawno nie było tak dobrego symulatora pirackiego życia. Nie dość, że gra jest dobra, to w dodatku osadzona
w realiach Warhammera. Więcej na ten temat w materiale
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Man O' War: Corsair is one of a number of games come to PC based on old Games Workshop miniature games - the specialized games. These weren't the big titles like Warhammer and Warhammer 40k, where players might buy hundrets of miniatures, but even just a handful would be enough to have a fun evening with friends.
Some of these games have been translated with 100% accuracy to the PC: Blood Bowl, Talisman, Chainsaw Warrior, Warhammer Quest, Space Hulk. Others like Battle Fleet Gothic and Mordheim have ben addapted more freely.

Man O' War: Corsair is going a bit further with this freedom - and it is a good thing.
The old board game was about players taking turns moving their fleet in naval battles. But le'ts be honest, while the Sea of Claws is interesting, naval battles never were something that Warhammer Fantasy fans truly cared about. Not in the way that 40k fans cared about the big space battles fought during the Horus Heresy.
So it makes sense to use Man O' War: Corsair to explore intriguing parts of the Warhammer world in a new way:

In Man O' War: Corsair you play as the captain of a ship. In the single player campaign this will be either a human captain or a chaos captain. The human captain can be part of one of seveal factions (Empire, Bretonnia) or independent. The Chaos captain will follow a god and have their goals and starting fleet reflect this choice. You can freely sail your ship from Kislev and the Sea of claws, down to Tilea and Sartosa. On your journeys you can fight pirates or become one yourself, fight orcs, chaos marauders, dwarves and elves. You can pillage towns or defend them against enemy fleets. You can trade or search for lost treasure.
You can do all that with a variety of ships - the majority of the miniature range are being digitized (sadly the team being small, they had to draw the line somewhere and Chaos Dwarves and Norse will have to be left for a hopeful expansion). You can upgrade your ship. You can hire loyal, or not so loyal crew for your ship, and train them as they gain experience and equip them. You can hire wizards, and air support (griffon riders, pegasus knights etc.). And you can hire allied captains with their own ship, to slowly build up your fleet. You can gain reputation with factions and even join them.

In skirmish mode you create a fleet of any faction in the traditional way of buying with a point system. That means Empire, Bretonia, Orks, Dwarves, High Elves, Dark Elves, Skaven, Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle and Slaanesh.

Sea Monsters. They deserve a special mention, because there is nothing like sailing the high seas and have a huge shark surface next to your ship, ready to take a bite out of your hull. OK, maybe there is, but it involves a large narwhal like monster surfacing next to your ship, in the fog and ramming your ship with its horn. Or a Leviathan's maw opening up, ready to swallow your ship whole.

Man O' War: Corsair is the one game that allows you to travel around the Warhammer world where you want and at the pace you want. The only thing that stops you is unfavourable wind.
Good hunting, sailor!

The best advice I ever got from reading the reviews for this game was: If you're interested in it, get it. I admit I had my reservations about this one, but it's much, much more fun than I expected. As others have said, imagine Mount & Blade: Warhammer - The Seas of the Old World and you know what you're in for.

Yes, it's a little clunky here and there. Yes, the visuals aren't amazing. No, the melee combat isn't refined, and it's more simple than in Mount & Blade. BUT none of this gets in the way of the fun!

The ui clunkiness is forgiveble and easy to navigate through, and the sheer variety of foes and allies you can fight against or with makes up for any other issues. The visuals are pleasing, and you do get plenty of atmosphere from the day and night and weather cycles. Melee combat is serviceable and fun, and only a small part of your play in the Independent campaign at least.

Look up the different types of ships you can run into in this game, they require somewhat different approaches and spice up the game play nicely! Oh, and did I mention the wizards, the flyers, the ammo types, cargo weight affecting your maneuverability? On their own they may not sound impressive but when they all play together it gets engaging.

I've played only 7 hours now and feel like I've only scratched the surface of what the world has to offer. I got the game on sale but I think I'll get more than the full price's enjoyment out of it, so I will recommend it.

Excellent concept, huge potential, still feels like it's in beta however.

Melee combat is definitely the weakest point in the game still. There has been improvements since it left early access, however it still feels awful. Everyone moves as if they're underwater, combat feels sluggish and unresponsive. Getting in good hits doesn't feel skill-based, it's all about flanking and scoring free cheap shots. Stamina drains fast and recovers extremely slowly, making every boarding very quickly feel even slower than it already is at best.

Ship to ship combat isn't terrible, but can feel a bit unfair if the wind isn't in your favour. Guns don't do a particularly large amount of damage, so cannon fights are mostly about attrition, whoever has the most armour and most guns wins.

Quests can be buggy, I've seen quests called "Error", and I've seen some quests that I thought finished hang around until I dismiss and abandon the quest. You can gain favour with factions, however the process is incredibly slow and quite a grind.

Upgrading your ship over time is enjoyable, expanding this area would be good, plus seeing more visual feedback would be good. Expanding the crew upgrading system would be good, including things such as new armours and a greater variety of crew types. Levelling up crew is limited to "better at melee", or "better at repairs". Nothing really interesting or anything that would make you feel even remotely attached to any crew member. Considering how disposable crew are, upgrading their weapons individually is also a bit of a slog.

Overall a lot of parts of the game feel half-finished. They're still updating the game, potentially in the future this game could be great, but for now it really feels like a budgetware title.

Nie polecam absolutnie nikomu. Gra miała praktycznie gotowy pomysł, wzorce w postaci Sea Dogs czy Pirates of the Carribean już są na rynku, wystarczało rozgrywkę przenieść do świata młotka. W tym momencie to aż szkoda mi autorów bo budowę gry rozpoczęli od komina czyli natłukli całkiem sporo modeli statków i postaci na imponującej liście frakcji, porobili całkiem ładnie wyglądające zestawy krajobrazów, a zapomnieli zrobić cokolwiek by granie w to choćby pięć minut miało rację bytu. Bitwy morskie, a tym bardziej abordaże nie mają najmniejszego sensu, Problemem gry jest to, że to jedyne aspekty jakie oferuje więc na tym można zakończyć. Nie warta nawet promocyjnych 10zł, nie mówiąc o cenie regularnej z kosmosu.

Verdict: Man O' War: Corsair is a fun game, and for sure one a game that can hold its own in the Warhammer genre. I loved the open world concept and how it drew onto older games like Sid Meier's Pirates! However, the combat and some of the graphics were incredibly basic.

Pros:
+ Huge and well made open world, a ton to explore and can keep the gamer interested for times to come.
+ Loved the easy trading, faction, and relation systems. Nothing overly complex and very straightforward.

Cons:
- The 3rd person graphics and interactions are incredibly dull and and basic. Your guy walks like a duck and the hand to hand combat environments are full of weirdly placed walls that can lead to enemies or allies glitching into unreachable areas.

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• Ship combat is easy, accessible, and stresses fun over realism but still keeps the realistic feel alive. Combat is fast paced and rewards daring maneuvers.
  
• Extremely unique ships with crazy weapons such as drills, catapults and boat rams makes each time you fight a new ship a new experience. Higher end ships are NOT just stronger copies of the smaller ships.
  
• Warhammer universe inherently gives the game a lot of potential lore to work off of.
  
• Easy to understand trade system takes the pain out trading while still allowing more advanced players the option to profit greatly if they are smart about which city needs what resource.

• Only Orcs and Humans are currently in the game as well as the map being limited to the first few cities resulting in only a few hours of content being currently available.
  
• Sailing is long and boring, even with a 2x time speed up it takes a bit too long to get anywhere especially when you have to run back and forth during quests.
  
• There is severe graphical hitching when loading in new ships or cities. Framerate also is very inconsistent even on my GTX 970.
  
• Quests need balancing, as many of the longer quests give you extremely low amounts of gold in relation to how much work you do.

As someone who hated Naval Action for having long drawn out boring battles Man O’ War really hits the spot for me by providing fast paced, fun ship vs ship combat. Ship combat and control is simplified with you only needing to worry about the range of your shots and the direction of the wind, giving the game a more casual (but still deep) gameplay feel. The biggest problem with the game is that there is only a tiny bit of content available; you are restricted to only exploring around 1/10th of the map and interacting with only 4 factions which you will quickly run out of things to do with. While I don’t think this game is currently worth the price tag, I do think it is a game that will eventually grow into one of the best naval combat games available as it progresses through early access. Game key aquired from developer for free for review purposes.

This game plays and looks like some sort of alpha demo of a hybrid between Mount & Blade and Sid Meier's Pirates. The 3D models are serviceable (although overused, making each race appear to be made up of a minimal handful of lifeless clones), but the world looks like a muddy, blocky mess. The animations appear to be in slow motion. Boarding combat is a boring clickfest, and NPCs tend to clip through things frequently. There are interesting systems in the background (radiant content generation, individualized crew members with small, interesting differences, special crewmember classes that can be manually controlled, weather), but they don't make up for the game's flaws or price tag. I love the background of the game (Warhammer), but a few racial-themed ship and NPC models don't fix core gameplay issues.

Man O' War: Corsair doesn't appear to be a finished product, yet it has been "released". I might repurchase it sometime in the future, if it receives some major polishing (and perhaps a fully-fledged sandbox mode, instead of "campaigns" for only three races and a custom battle mode I have almost no interest in), but it's not worth getting your hopes up or wallet out for in its current state, in my opinion.

Gameplay:
The gameplay consists of two “phases”. The naval combat phase has you piloting your favorite bought or stolen boat. This part of the game is fun. Every ship in the game is comprised of multiple pre-cut sections. Depending on whether your sail section or your cannon section is damaged, your ship will be hindered accordingly. This creates a strategic layer to the naval combat which is only further improved upon when you buy the different cannon ammo types that do extra damage to the different sections of ships.

One can’t run a ship alone however. You will also have to hire a crew who have special skills and can level up. A well-rounded crew is very important and you definitely feel when they aren’t there to man your sections. Without crew members your boat becomes slow to maneuver and the cannons reload at a turtle’s pace. Your crew members don’t last long though, because you will often need to board another ship or you will get boarded. Getting boarder or attacking a town on land leads to the other phase of the game, which is third-person real-time combat. The NPC AI in this game is terrible. In third-person combat your crew members will run straight at the enemy, whether they are injured or full health. Some boats can even take over your units and make them fight their own comrades! These two problems mean that it is quite hard to get attached to crew members because they will die and be replaced quite often. They aren’t left to fend for themselves though.

As the captain of the ship you get to fight too! Unfortunately, controlling you captain in the third-person combat phase feels like mush. Your strikes feel like they have no weight to them, and without good audio or visual feedback it was almost impossible to judge the range of my melee weapons. Not only that, but every ranged weapon seems to be as accurate as a sniper rifle with a few points into the awful perk system. As if the game wasn’t frustrating enough, there are copious amounts of bugs to be found. I have seen flying ships, my enemies in a town I was pillaging got stuck in walls, and you can block mid attack animation causing combat to become a chaotic mess that is hard to understand.

Finally, the trading system and mission system seem to be merely tacked on. Trading has you buying goods at one port and taking them to another that will pay more than you bought it for thus making you a profit. I didn’t have any issues making large sums of money nor did it seem to me that I could create a merchant empire so trading didn’t feel necessary in the slightest. The missions in this game are procedurally generated save a few unique ones; which I’ll get more into later. The part of this game that makes it a monotonous slog is that there are only about five or six mission types. I spent ten hours in the game doing the same mission types where I mainly would go from one port to the other and there would be a “surprise” ambush waiting for me.

Overall this was a disappointing gameplay experience because the naval combat and crew management is fun but everything around it isn’t.

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Story:
My biggest problem with this game is that it has no story whatsoever. Right out of the tutorial I hoped that there would be an overarching quest line. To my dismay I found that the meat of the game was procedurally generated quests have no story added to them at all making them all bland and uninteresting. The few unique quests you come upon occasionally do give you a taste of a story and they made me really excited. I thought a few times that I had found a quest line to follow and would have interesting characters to meet. Unfortunately, they all ended abruptly and I often had to kill my quest giver in the end. The game isn’t even good for role-players. There are few options when it comes to dressing up your character and the world doesn’t seem to care which faction you ally yourself with. Considering this game is set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe which is full of lore and great stories I find the fact that is game doesn’t have a single shred of decent story unforgivable.

Sound:
The sounds in Man O’ War: Corsair are full of weight are pleasing to listen to, except for a few. The cannonballs hitting ships and the wood cracking under their force is satisfying to experience. Your first mate yelling the same lines constantly or your weapon hitting an enemy sounding like someone rubbed a piece of wood over cardboard is not an enjoyable experience. The sound design overall gave me mixed feelings because there are some great sounds here but there are also some grating, awful ones.

Music:
The music in this game is the only part the game about which I have nothing bad to say. The soundtrack is full of high-energy orchestral soundtracks that really make you feel like you are a captain of the high seas, out for plunder and bloodshed. I really enjoyed going into combat for this element alone.

Graphics:
The graphics are really nice to look at the first few times you see them. The graphics for the towns are constantly re-used in uninspired architecture across the same empire. The architecture for the towns do change depending on which port you are in however, unlike the NPCs. You often see the same NPC models a lot, in the same place! I once had a male NPC model in a red robe in turban running a shop in front of me, while the same person visited the shop, and the same person came out of the pub beside me. The ships are nice to look at though!

Pros:
Interesting Crew management
Ship Battling is fun
Good combat

Cons:
Same NPCs everywhere
No story
Terrible third person combat
Re-used building models
Terrible Roleplaying options
Frustrating Boarding Mechanics
Annoyingly small amount of First mate lines.


Rating
5/10.

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