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Friday Fun Thread for May 22, 2026

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I've been playing Windrose. It's a pirate game. It's closer to a survival game like Conan exiles than it is to other pirate games like Black Flag.

The good

  • The base building in the game has a well working quick build mode. Usually I find it a chore to build bases in survival games but this turned it into enjoyable again.
  • Combat against same level enemies feels good. There is an element of danger and some amount of basic tactics you need to adhere to or you will get wrecked.
  • Sailing on the seas feels cool, the waves are big as hell out in the ocean. Its not a flat expanse of water. The waves add a challenge to the naval combat, where if you don't aim well your shot will hit the wave blocking enemy ships or pass over them as they ride a dip into the waves.
  • Story has a pirates of the Caribbean vibe going. With some weird magic creating the undead.

The bad

  • The combat is entirely gated by your character and gear level. You can fight maybe one or two levels up, but more is usually a slow suicide fighting a few levels down is just easy. This applies to ground combat and ship combat.
  • The map is totally blank until it is explored. And finding all the tiny islands is annoying.
  • The combat system works much better on open land. On ship boarding actions you can get screwed over randomly. The safe/optimal strategy is to take pot shots at the enemy from your own ship and let your own boarders slowly whittle them down. But that strategy is boring and takes a while.
  • The fast travel system has artificial limitations. Limited number of locations you can setup and a limit on where you can place them.

ugh. I want to check it out, but it looks like it suffers from terminal camera-off-to-the-leftism

Never heard of that term, but the camera has been fine in my experience. Camera control via the mouse. Movement with WASD

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