Training mission?

[RealJhereg]

So yea, I've got about 3 quests under my belt, a few little skirmishes. JUST eking out a profit at the start of the game. I picked up a TRAINING MISSION And got my ass reamed by two huge ships. WTF lol. Is that like a ha ha f you you fell for it quest? I mean training mission? LOL No.

[76561188078797539]

Don't run straight at the enemy, you always have allied ships to serve as meatshields.

Not sure what your loadout is (I personally go for range), so hard to give specific pointers on how to tackle more dangerous enemies.

One thing that always applies when facing large ships - force them to sail upwind. That way you can maintain enough distance to avoid them banking into launching a broadside on you. Meanwhile you can pour fire from both sides at your leisure.

Don't forget that you can also immobilize the enemy with a chain- bar-shot. While this doesn't make much sense against ships with comparable armor on sails and hull (switching ammunition type takes time), if the enemy is highly armored on the hull but sails have light or no protection, it's a reasonable approach if you are facing several opponents.

Lastly, you can always run away. Even with some sail damage, you can always use smaller ship's ability to sail into the wind to outpace at least the much larger enemies. And if you think an encounter won't go your way, just turn about and sail away.

For what it's worth, when you'll read the description of the last part of that quest it'll make sense.

[RealJhereg]

Great ideas sheepify, will definitely try your tips, thanks. And sorry if the post was detrimental, was just frustrated. Great game, is shaping up great! Keep up the good work :)

[76561188078797539]

Originally posted by RealJhereg:

Great ideas sheepify, will definitely try your tips, thanks. And sorry if the post was detrimental, was just frustrated. Great game, is shaping up great! Keep up the good work :)

Hey, Tempest doesn't hold your hand at all, so until you figure things out... yeah. Been there, done that, ragequit enough times XD

[BadgerW4]

Originally posted by avreliy.dev:

Tutorial is the last part of development before release... will work on it in nearest time

Thank you... I just bought the game and find myself trying to use trial and error, but it's beyond frustrating. Game looks great, though.

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by Sheepify:

Originally posted by RealJhereg:

Great ideas sheepify, will definitely try your tips, thanks. And sorry if the post was detrimental, was just frustrated. Great game, is shaping up great! Keep up the good work :)

Hey, Tempest doesn't hold your hand at all, so until you figure things out... yeah. Been there, done that, ragequit enough times XD

If you do a training or tutorial you expect a bit of slacking enemies so you are given time to read and learn about the controls and mechanics and test them out. And that has nothing to do with handholding, but just keeping customers. I see a lot of people just refunding due to the bad state the tutorial is in currently.

So let us hope they fix it soon enough as the launchdate has been announced and is closing in.