While I agree with the issues about enemies shooting through each other, what I found was a bigger issues was the fact that the different factions wouldn't attack each other. I kept leading the navy to pirates, and then I would just get ganged up on. Otherwise very good
Reviews for "Pirateers"
A great game, was great on the run through, though I will say it's not a perfect game in the genre it's in. One of the most significant flaws in this game is the replayability, sadly. I went through the game enjoying the time till I pushed myself to acquire the mighty Battleship model, despite the stat bars stating otherwise, there's barely anything different with the two models. The normal ship you start off with gets an AP of 1,200 when fully upgraded and 47 Knots in speed, whereas the Avemaria gets 1,800 AP, and 39 Knots when upgraded, besides the two abilities (which one of them is basically similar, the Pirate Launcher disables enemy ships attacks, but doesn't stop them from moving. The Giant Fish net disables movement, but allows the enemies to still attack. Nice difference huh?) and the obvious cannons (you get +1 more cannon on each side on the Avemaria, basically the reason why it says it has so much "damage"), you really get nothing else. Another different point (and this one is going to be a pain, yet decent challenge) is the Avemaria's huge girth in size. In the very beginning, because of the ships terribly slow speed, and huge size, you'll become just an oversized floating duck 70% of the time, and you WILL die. A FUCKING LOT. You will gain a hating passion against the Shotgun Ships (the ones that basically blast out a huge amount of tiny cannonballs in a large AoE) and the Dragoon Ram Ships (the ones that look like swords and bulldozers), even the damn forts will be able to get a bead on you unless you get the speed upgrades. Kind of hilarious how the ship basically looks like it's going to make the game a walk in a park, when in reality it's going to give you more hell then the other ships at first. The Damage stat shouldn't be that high, seeing as the cannons or abilities have no damage increase at all. All of them are the exact same upgrades, the only difference is well..you shoot one more cannonball instead of 3 (probably if you shoot it right, it'll land all cannonballs on an enemy). So overall, great game initially, just 'bleh' in replayability, unless you love the challenge like me. Hopefully in the future if you make a game similar to this or update this one, give out a few more tweaks on the units to make them more unique. Other then that, can't wait for the next thing you whip out ^_^.
I really liked it, reminded me of a game I tried to make a long time ago.
There were a few things I didn't like tho;
- No penalty for death, once realized you can just rush in, guns blazing it makes combat less appealing. Knowing when your outmatched and having to worry about the consequence of staying and fighting, 1: makes the battle more gratifying when you win and 2: Makes the player have more thought than "run in, shoot, if I die ill just re-spawn so gg"
- Scaling on items/upgrades... from what I saw, most things costed the same amount of gold at every level so its slow to level up at the start but faster later on when you start earning more gold. Having the game give more at the start makes it more appealing and once the player is committed to the game it makes saving up for the later ranks more rewarding.
- The screen size was way too small... im not sure if its just me but i had to sit extra close just to experience it properly. would have loved this full screen!
Unfortunately I didn't have the time to play most of the game. So if the game does scale and combat gets more strategic towards the end, my pardon.
Great game, I actually took the time to write more than "Wow I like pirates!!" so im not trying to down this game, just improvements that could be for the better.
looking forward to the next installment.
This is quite a good game, although the treasure island mini game seems all too familiar. The upgrade system is very slow at first, and the speed really needs to be increased. Kinda too slow even when fully upgraded. And i think its a bit repetitive after a while. But i still enjoyed it :D
i shoot the last shot before i die to The kraken, loves how the game says i defeated it rather than treating it like a normal Tuesday, i like it.