Bob Dillan

I was excited about this game but on an initial play through of the beta I was certainly disappointed. Most of us who have played black flag or sea of thieves came to this game with high expectations. Expectations that would far out weigh these games which it did not at all. What I liked: The water was done well and the design of the ships were cool. I liked the story line and the fact I could customize my character which neither of the 2 games above could do. I like that it’s a MMO which I don’t know if Ubisoft has ever done this before. What I did not like: the ship combat is so clunky and arcadie. The explosions are very bad like 2010 bad. The cannon fire is not realistic. The sounds are not realistic. The destruction of the ships is way too fast. The enemy ships are at the bottom of the ocean in 5 seconds after you have blown it up. The different kinds of cannon balls and what you can shoot is highly unrealistic ( I expect games like sea of thieves to have this cause it’s fantasy). I would have liked this game to have fantasy type pirates like pirates of the Caribbean. That is a personal preference though maybe in a DLC someday. The characters when they talk make me feel nauseated. The way their mouth moves does not line up with what they are saying and in most AAA games they have this down packed. However this self claimed AAAA has it no where near good. There are other dislikes I have but this is just what I wanted to see fixed the most. However most of them I don’t think they could fix that being it would take a rebuild of some things and Ubisoft does not rebuild anything. I just don’t see how someone can make a pirate game after seeing many of the piratey things we have available that were cool and awesome and then they come up with this.