Become a fearless captain in Buccaneers!, a classic pirate RPG. Change the course of history, and join one of the unique factions to conquer an ever-changing Caribbean sea. Featuring hours of replayability, Buccaneers! lets you find legendary treasures, battle powerful ships and leave your mark on t...
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Become a fearless captain in Buccaneers!, a classic pirate RPG. Change the course of history, and join one of the unique factions to conquer an ever-changing Caribbean sea. Featuring hours of replayability, Buccaneers! lets you find legendary treasures, battle powerful ships and leave your mark on the world. Will you bring about a new Golden Age, or stomp out piracy once and for all?
Pledge your allegiance to one of four factions with unique abilities tailored to different playstyles. Sign up with the British, French or Spanish empires or join the fearsome Buccaneers’ League and fight for dominance in the region. Each faction’s starting location and number of colonies changes when you start a new game, tipping the balance of power and allowing endless possibilities.
Take command of your own sailing warship and engage in intense naval battles where superior strategy wins the day. Sink or capture enemy ships and storm coastal forts to gain land for your faction, then upgrade your ship or acquire a larger one to become the most feared captain in the Caribbean!
Whether you’re boarding a ship, assaulting a fort or sneaking into an enemy harbour in the dead of night, you have a wide variety of melee and ranged weapons at your disposal. Equip up to five weapons from swords and pistols to muskets and grenade launchers, and switch weapons on-the-fly to deal with any situation.
Buccaneers! is fully-playable in VR as well as standard mode, with shared game saves between both modes. In VR, your full-scale warship is brought to life as you steer it by hand and use any combination of melee and ranged weapons to slay your foes however you want.
I was hoping for AC Black Sails when I went into this. It definately isn’t. Sea battles are on a flat plane, where you circle each other firing, no strategy (no waves or turning sharply or using mortars). Ship combat is like M&B there is only a couple of walkways, no jumping the railings or anything. Graphics are average. Towns are empty, but not as much as ManOWar. No real customisation. Missions are picked up from mayors desk, and you simply zoom to the marker and fight. No story. It’s not bad, but it’s nowhere near as good as other comparable titles and adds nothing not already seen. Why can’t someone just do a black sails game?
I would give the game 2.5 stars but that is not possible.
I don't know what the deal is with the Steam reviews of this game. Currently the bar for pirate-based games is set on titles such as Akella's Sea Dogs games (particularly the 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean game with the excellent New Horizons mod) and Assassin's Creed Black Flag.
While both of those games possess features that the other lacks, this game does absolutely nothing for the genre, it takes like five things you can already do in those other games and slaps them together in a very simplistic environment. In my opinion, the biggest issue with this game is that the open world section of it functions identically to those old Sea Dogs games which came out a long time ago and were unfortunately subjects to the limitations of the hardware available during their development. The ports, the buildings, the sea are all their own separate instances, you want to walk on over to your ship and grab the wheel Assassin's creed style? Well for that you have to walk down to the pier and press F to get teleported onto the ship and the only walking on it that you'll do is around your little cabin, having literally only the map to interact with. You can't even walk around the ship while sailing, even the Sea Dogs games have that.
Regarding the visuals, everything is pretty obvious. While I do understand that the dev team is small and the game intentionally went for an indie feel, the fact that the NPC models come from a 50$ asset pack says a lot.
Just like the Sid Meier's Pirates game, there's about an hour of excitement you'll get out of this game before you turn it off. Unlike its inspiration PotC New Horizons, this game has NO RPG elements, no various goods to trade, no skills, stats points, numerous ships, numerous weapons, officers, none of the complexity save for some ship upgrades, 1 unfun storyline and 1 side quest of sinking ships.
Get Akella's PotC game and install the New Horizons mod, the VR wankers on Steam giving this a positive review are misleading you.
Great atmosphere, simple but charming graphics, crashing cannonballs, seaports, seagulls, bloody sword fights. Some alternative carrier path/start would be great. Highly recommend!
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