#💬│windrose-chat
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yep
Not the cooking fire, but a bonfire? Also, is it within range of your boxes?
right outside the door of my hut
And you're also standing close to the bonfire when trying to build? that's super weird, it's always worked for me in multiple bases
Demo is good, now release it tomorrow, well fix the game with you!
just out of curiosity are the developers still popping up servers now and again and dumping gunpowder stashes on people cause i could really use that lmao
I don't think that's a thing, but you can kill the pirate dudes when they respawn
totally happened lol. i was there and got some, was just wondering how frequently it happens
i posted something else and its saying blocked ?
Not a thing lol maybe another player, but just farm the first poi on new worlds repeatedly can get hundreds pretty quick
you sure that was the devs themselves?
and this took place during the demo?
Well if you want to know how to actually farm gp thats how id do it
More modded stuff lol 👎
someone should read the pinned about modded stuff
Jk, really hope it comes soon, this game is suuuuch a gem...
They only post modded stuff with brag comments like they're cool lol
Yeah and to self promote. Not getting me to check out any off that.
still no word on early access or full game release?
👆 This. Since King George II was the king of England during the time of piracy in the Caribbean any HMS ships in Windrose would be "His Majesty's Ship" Unless we are going by a completely alternate timeline. Which is possible. One of the notes in game referred to Henry Avery/Henry Every.
Henry Avery was more than likely not even alive during the pirates of the Caribbean days. He was already a legend by that time. He sailed in the 1600s on the other side of the world in the Indian Ocean and is known for pulling off one of the greatest heist in history. Not only did he pull off this amazing heist but he also was never captured. His fate is completely unknown. What we know about his eventual end is only speculations and hearsay.
read #│announcements
Not only will a short wall stop a boar, you can attack them right through it! (sorry it was dark)
lol
lol what
crap they are capped at 60
how did you get so many?
dev console
oh ok lol
Unless you got to lvl 405 in the demo
You can't. They're just modding because they're bored
lol Im only lvl 5
true, I have a mod from nexus and a launch option on steam
I know, but I can also see why others dont
anyone knows how to open that spawn menu where you can spawn any item?
I know how
I just read the pinned messages, and just want to say, I really hope it remains co-op/pve. If there's PVP I really hope it's opt in only.
if you have the permission, can you tell me how to do it?
Sounds like if there is PvP it will be an option you can have on your server. I think default will be PvE
can i salvage said ship to build with?
No. Its not really in the game nor will it be
But it IS beautiful

The Cap'n got jokes.
Perhaps they can run it up through the centuries. Imagine survival in the pacific seas starting out with a u boat until you can find the battleship.
What good is a pirate game with tall ships if you're going to introduce 20th century warships
That's basically already a game lol
It's called Uboat
Can you upgrade to a battleship though?
You can name your tall ship "Battleship" if you want to
Raise the main sails!!!!!!
Why can't I have a Yamato in my 17th Century Pirate game, boooo
Can’t wait for the full release!!!!! Ahoy 👋 🏴☠️ 🏝️
o7 sailor. Same bro
So I finished the questline on easy and decided to change difficulty to a harder mode and do all the upgrade stuff like upgrade weapon to legendary, the game starts me out back on the starter island but my base is on a island south of it, everytime I try to sail the boat there i get halfway and get leave water area or be destroyed and wind up dying and spawning back on the starter island, anyway to fix this without starting all over?
Maybe crank the difficulty back down? I've never seen this problem honestly
Thats the world border.
I always just started a new server when I started a new character
Yeah when I load the easy mode back up im back at my base
Look on the map youll see a hatched area, thats the world border, dont sail into that
I was sailing the same exact path i did the first time
Post your map so I can take a peep? Just a screenshot will do
If you want to play a higher difficulty why not just roll a whole new character on a new seed?
because i want to just keep playing and exploring on the same character and use the upgrade items but on higher difficulty
You could keep your lvl 5 too and just start him on a new seed.
You can change your existing worlds difficulty in the main main. Just got to the settings page when choosign your world
Not trying to tell you how to play your game bro just offering suggestions to make it work better maybe'
thats my easy char, halfway down that line i die on the higher difficulty
Thats... realy weird. Sounds like a dumb suggestion but try going around in arcs both to the east and west and see if theres any change.
Worst case its just a bug with your world generation
how many islands are in the game currently?
3
Only the first 3 of the Archipelago
the biome is MUCH bigger though and that will be shown publicly in EA once it drops
EA is supposed to have a bunch more when it goes live
but I would have to do the questline over again right,
Nope. Inventory and progression are tied to your character, not the world
you can do half of a quest in 1 world and then the rest in another with no issue
ok ill try that then
all inventory aka stuff in base or just whats on your character?
just the inventory youre carrying
What would y'all do if I was to attempt to make lizardman pirates?
pack what you want to take with you in your inventory and on your ship
your ship will also travel with you
ok ty
are you argonian?
No
I think argonians look weird
Thats weird? Thats all my school photos 😬
Back when you traveled by horse and wagon?
We weren't rich we had to use geckos
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! What has my life come to!?
Yoyo games awesome, Just joined. Looking into researching "local threat" i've found an image on a windrose tools site , looks like a darker no beard no shirt old pirate purple coat brown hat cant seem to find him. haha probably not out and i been fighting pirate ships for no other reason then pure chaos just figured out i can post a pic lol
Dang alright i completed the discovery i can start hoarding pig fur and copper 😄 thanks man
Played through the demo and I gotta say if you enjoy this game you are super attractive.
when is the game release? also have they added anything new to the demo since drop?
He's officially official.
i love this game
Aye, the servers may crash on day of release,lol
Why would servers crash ? isnt it mostly self hosted ?
wait .... the instant death is timed based right ?! so if i were to build a bell in the middle i could reach the next island 🤔 ? can i build out that far tho
i was doing that exact move on my night out just before
Hmmm
Aw damn I shouldve submitted ye olde HMS Budget Cuts for the build contest. I wouldve won easy
njice boat build
What he didn't tell ya was that's what was left after his ship burnt up lol
may i ask how many ships are available in the demo? besides the raft and the starter galleon
Just the two. A dingy and a ketch.
roger thank u
You will occasionally see pics of stuff here that is not in the demo. Some players still share pics from playtests long past. Others use mods.
There are some pics from the dev's in pinned above 📌 in this channel as to some of what is going to be in Early Access 🙂
Demo will run until Early Access and demo is ruffly only about 5% of what will be in Early Access. Explorable area of Archipelago in demo is only about 2.5% of what will be in Early Access. Early Access will be announced in the #news when it is time. See the latest post here #│announcements message from Yar_Master. As far as price and packages, that will most likely follow Early Access Release info. Also, characters, items and buildings will not transfer to the Early Access, it is part of the demo – different client, different game builds – See Dev comment here #💬│windrose-chat message. So enjoy playing the demo for now until that time
So short answer on Early Access. Early access is Soon to be sometime in 2026 🙂
Also can see latest on upcoming Triple-i Initiative #│announcements message
🤣🤣
@wide forge share that in #1352659456911212636 please
Trying to keeps posting here
is there a level cap?
lvl 5 in demo yes
Lvl 5 in the demo
XP is from quest and poi's
thanks
Shovel ❤️
We be a very valuable item to carry in Early Access. One the most useful tools in the game for builders for sure 🙂
It also makes for a handy melee weapon which i love
Dear dev's will you make the public anouncement on april 1st that windrose will come to console's?
I am the designated builder for the dune guild i am in. The building in this is amazing for me and the shovel is amazing.
I am currently making a DIY cliff surrounding a bay on this island so I can make a cliffside town and fortress c:
I played Dune Extensively, loved the building there. Have played in the Windrose/(previously Crosswind) Alpha, which had full building sets. They have since added some really cool pieces to those building sets. I believe you going to go crazy when you see all that you can actually unlock and the ways to unlock those pieces equally so. Can't wait to hear from you after Early Access to see what your building experience is 🙂
This is the only tease from the Dev's, but it never gets old seeing it lol
I wonder if glass is gonna become an actual resource needed, or if its gonna be like that one glass window we have in game now and its just wood needed
So excited!
Wen Release Date
tomorrow
Liess
🙂
Demo will run until Early Access and demo is ruffly only about 5% of what will be in Early Access. Explorable area of Archipelago in demo is only about 2.5% of what will be in Early Access. Early Access will be announced in the #news when it is time. See the latest post here #│announcements message from Yar_Master. As far as price and packages, that will most likely follow Early Access Release info. Also, characters, items and buildings will not transfer to the Early Access, it is part of the demo – different client, different game builds – See Dev comment here #💬│windrose-chat message. So enjoy playing the demo for now until that time
So short answer on Early Access. Early access is Soon to be sometime in 2026 🙂
Also can see latest on upcoming Triple-i Initiative #│announcements message
yup, just my daily "Wen Release Date" post lol, cant wait for April 9th
Think my favourite shovel use is digging below the water to deepen an area and get a ship right into an inland dock without bottoming out
I did something with the shovel
I came from precision digging in valheim this is nothing XD
Inspiring!!
now someone needs to build a bathhouse
think it's already been done
a few times actually haha
well shi
I don't have enough build pieces to get the aesthetic I wanted
not sure if its in the building contest vote too but i saw some in creative
Japanese pirates existed so I should be able to build a proper onsen eventually.
Not in the carribean though
Hey guys, how do I make gunpowder?
You cannot sadly. not yet.
You can farm the pirates on the island every hour or so to get gunpowder
gotta find it on pirates and in chests
oh thx all
Well done 🙂
You'll be able to unlock it in Early Access - it is in the game, just not the demo - it is behind other systems not accessible in demo.
Aye it not be to much longer till we can feel the wind in our sails
Give me a wet sheet and a flowing sea
A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail
And bends the gallant mast
🥳
um can someone explain why i didn't need this support building the tower but now if i try to remove it the whole tower will break, i only built this support beam for the roofing on a floor above cause i was running into some building problems?
eh i guess i'll just implent it into the build lol, no idea why it is now deciding it needs this support but oh well.
Working on a tavern
Only heard about the game at like 10pm yesterday, it’s 4:24am for me… I just played almost a solid six hours 😂
Structural stability - you need structural support in the game.
yeah i know, but i placed that support after the tower was built
did you add anything since you added that support?
make a save first (copy the save folders somewhere)... then try to trmove it, sometimes i did and things dont break. worth trying
if it does break just reload the save no reason to be tryhard
no and yes when it started requiring that pillar i hadn't added anything other than the pillar itself but now that i just decided to keep the pillar yes i finished the roofing on the tower.
sometimes some pieces look connected and game decided that they are not, like maybe some of the wall pieces
hence it might be a decent idea to hide a few thin support vertical sticks in the walls on the sides
i might have to try that but it's kinda growing on me so i might just keep it, but yeah maybe in the morning i'll mess with it some more.
where can you find the iron pickaxe
Not in the demo
if you referring to getting sulfur - you can get it with the ship canons, but you can't make gunpowder in demo. Recipe is behind content not in demo. You can easily farm gunpowder from pirates and pirate camps.
ok thanks
it is definitely in the game 🙂
What's the release date?
Hopefully towards the end of this year if all goes well from what I’ve read
The only date for end of the year is a placeholder that automatically placed there by Steam and has no bearing on the Early Access date 😉
pokes head in hai! :p
Can someone please help.
How do I attach these to my ship?
Trough the wharf
No idea what that is
It's a building you need to build.
Oh I see
Wharf
One question: when is the full game expected to be released? (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4)
we dont know
EA sometimes in 2026
ahoy
☕
Just finished the the quests! Any ladies in here who can help me adventure around so I can get plans to decorate 👧
HEY dont scare me like that
Game release April 2026 or else i will steal from the elderly everyday
Game releases soon
nice tower
I don't think it will take that long...
Also any plans for a crouch button for sneaking? Is it bad I’d rather try to sneak than fight rn
dont worry ... moderators are watching 🙂
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I used to be a lala until i made her look more like my discord picture last month o:
<@&1354821664998817822> Time to make him walk the plank 
What a grass

fellow popoto friend!!!
Potato?
Lalafells
Not anymore. Do miss it because cutest little Alice in wonderland outfit
Awwww mines a tough lil tater
she was supposed to be more pirate-y but then trauma happened so she’s more rogue
Ended up going catgirl because only one with slit eyes. Still satisfied but 4 days after i got dawntrail it went on sale and because of helldivers and now pirates, i have wasted half of my sub this month.
Ooof 🙁 i only log in a couple times a week rn too. To run my venue or go to fighting roleplay venues or my friend’s venue
Can we keep the weird ff14 chat to offtopic
WE NEED FLL GAME WE NEED IT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW ❤️
did i miss anything new?
btw i think i tinkered a little with my RTX settings & the game graphics look real good, but i might be wrong not sure 😂
Release date 37th september
30th of February
🤣🤣🤣
some of ya'll need a hobby
I can only do medium graphics rn until I get a better computer but even medium isn’t bad at all!
Trolling is a hobby 😉
i've had a couple warnings so i've stopped lol
o and then there's the 3 day vacation i had from dis lol
not sure which mod gave me that one
i still think if some one is cool enough to take a 5 day break u should have minor banss removed
like a check if they try to rejoin again...
but i would give out blind bans with ut a end date know to the bannee
dunno , i didnt even get a warning shot..was argueing with some tool and bam vacation lol
i love you r use of vacation xD
hehe
I HOPE YOU GOT THE WARNING! ❤️
ive been banned with out an explenation before, i take them less serious
well , there was only 2 mods on when it happened so i don't say nuthin while they're on , 1 of them is here now
not knowing when it ends is terible enough, but not explaining why...
see , my thing is , the db i was argueing with deserved it 100%
honestly if i was running an admin team these things will hapen, but i would tell them thats not the game book i was running
well as long as its clear to you.... that matters... els you shouldnt expect ppl to change
and i wasn't the only one hammering on this person either , i asked in a dm to someone else who was argueing and asked if they got a vacation too , they were like nope but i stopped argueing when you got the boot lol
well i was almost booted out lastnight too, i met some one that had it worse then me
and the entire chat hated having a second me xD
i actually ended up going to fl and fishing for a month lol, said screw it and got off the pc
BWAH, back to nature to touch some fish....
u took touching grass next lvl with that one budd
man , i was on the water almost every day , caught 3 fn fish
i would pick a bigger prey
i spent more in gas for the boat than it took me to get to fl in the first place lol
if i and to go to florida... i would hunt the hunters... get them gators out!
yeah well..those hunter back
thats what i was there for
nice , i like gator meat, you ever get youre snake permit?
remember that terible flood a little bit ago?
some one send me pics of the gator like moving into their flooded yard xD
hell..gators do that without floods , dam things can climb
at the same time this guy sayed... he had pics of gators being frozen in the lane side moat
he was a trucker too! they were scary, he send me the vid his colege made of a gator running through snow xD
game needs more wild life!
ok so , im from lauderdale..1 of my first trucking jobs i was on the alley and blew a tire , pulled into a rest area and called a tire guy , he showed up , i went to get out of my truck and he starts yelling dont..there was a 6 footer right under my steps
how did he know!
he pulled up to change my tire and saw it lol
he left it there while doing the tire?
ow i got it wrong my bad
i got distracted by doggo
no , he called the fhp and they came out and got it with one of those dog poles, 3 of them drug it out from under my truck towards the canal and let it go
damn man u can prolly get a permit to turn them in for money
theres canals on both sides of aligator alley..in a semi you can see them and they're filled with gators
reason for the nickname " alligator alley"
why leave them there xD
its the everglades , gator natural habitat
you know how big the glades are?
7/9
you cant just go hunting lol , it has seasons like deer
yea i see why you all are having issues xD
same with snake hunting season
if u let americans hunt for fun... ur country would have been empty already
u know how fast bison went?
not for deer
you know it actually took a couple decades for bison to be hunted out
not like it happened in a year lol
thats a flick of a spit of a eye blink in the scale of it all
true
i strongly disagree with you... given they had less means
they ran them off the continent INCREDIBLY fast
and bison arent extinct btw
and i dont hunt so..
i havent fired a gun since i got back from iraq , i'm 55 now , i could go the rest of my life without touching a gun again
not even a super soaker?
heh
The royal armouries I live next to here in the UK sell tiny desk sized madieval seige weaponry like mini trebuchets and catapults you cna use to launch stuff
great fun
I GOT ONE FROM THE ROYAL ARMORY TOO!
I used to own a lil cannon pencil sharpener but I lost that years ago
jz i need to know where those are at for when i get there lol
The Royal Armouries in Leeds. Tis a great day out. It houses weaponry and armour from all eras of history up to the modern day.
but when i flew back i took it in my take on luggauge and i had to turn in the smaller then a envelope opener sword, so i went to a fantasy store in my city and bought a random fantasy sword that happened to fit, not it has a snake sword instead of a straight sword and it look like i got a special edition of it just by changing the sword out xD
i'll be there may 7th till june 23rd
yea it was a good place to visit
o by the speke castle?
no its like half int the watter babe
No. Liverpool is coastal, Leeds is pretty much slap bang in the enter of Britain
its a cool building even with out the stuff inside
ah ok , i'll tell my friend , maybe we can go there on the way to scottland
u should! its defenitly good to see the tower of armor
https://royalarmouries.org/leeds Here's their website
Next time I go on a run I'll take a few pictures if I remember
o wow that looks cool
i have a ton of pics from last yr , we went to that recycling place too that turns knifes/guns/scrap into statues
virtual tours killed the museum stars
honestly if ur in leeds anny way hopp by the city council house too
just walk in as far as u can the fist part is open to public, and it had one of the most beutifull stairs i have seen
i really like liverpool , there's a texmex resturant that has the best chili i've ever had lol
I live slap bang in the center of Leeds so everything is within walking distance
the super huge slabs of awsome slightly spiraling upward with those tiny steps... BEAUTIFULL
u go to liver pool for tex mex... is the most american thing of the year... you beat trumps sillyness with that one budd
Will this be better than Valheim? 🤔
I would hope so. It takes inspiration from Valheim and a couple of other games and Marries a lot of their gameplay elements into one extremely well.
i didn't expect to go for texmex lol , my friends ship she served on was in port , we went to visit and got hungry , one of the mates told us about the resturant so we went
I started playing last night and I can’t build anything but the bonfire. It doesn’t even give me an option for other builds.
I suppose it could have something to do with my key-mapping but that doesn’t seem likely. I am a one-handed gamer and have most keys remapped to facilitate the use of my Razer Naga LH mouse (19 buttons)
Any help/suggestions would be great.
There is a right click build menu for me, pretty sure it's default
Yep, remapped that key to -
It’s supposed to bring up options for the things I can build and it doesn’t do anything.
@idle orchid Did you do the initial quest after placing the bond fire? Have you tried to dismantle the bonfire, and replace it?
i asume you need to do the quest line more. interact with things you build? and if those dont help u can try starting a fresh charr
Could you remind me what that quest is? (It was a late night lol).
Dismantling the bonfire and moving it changes nothing.
I cannot build anything but the bonfire.
i cannot help you exept maybe bind esc button onto your naga so you can exess all the windows u need to open
u can exess all the windows to read with esc and clicking mousy
@glad hawk has a point. You could go to the character menu and look at the bottom of screen - create a new character below the first one and try to load that one in on a new world just to see if you bugged for some reason.
i can immagine being 1 handed... but that only gets me so far
its kinda of a personal prefrence thing so i compliment your mouse choice
@idle orchid also sent you a DM.
I’ll try the new character.
I’ve searched every menu several times but haven’t seen anything that solves my issue.
The pop-up boxes that tell me to use RMB to access build options won’t go away either. That why I thought maybe it was a bug.
did u ever get banned for games using that new bin technique to recognise cheater/ for using ur mouse more then normal people?
@idle orchid Trying a new character is a quick test to see if it is a bug or not.
ive seen games that dont alow third party programs and your mouse technicaly does that
Key-binding options rarely work well enough to suit my needs. I was hopeful on this game for minute. 😅 Devs never seem to test key-binding very well.
I’ll try a new character. Maybe I’ll try my custom x-box controller.
Either way, I’ll submit feedback at some point.
Thanks for all the help everyone!

I haven’t used the Razer software for remapping yet (I always try to avoid that). Only the in-game key-binding menu.
Is there any trading in the demo? It says we cant keep progress to early access, but we get these insignias for tortuga. Is there anything we can do with any of the trading goods?
oki thanks boss
no trading yet for the demo
Those will play a big part in Early Access but not in demo no.
and is it correct that we dont get to keep our progress from demo to early access?
yes whipe is incomming
Demo will run until Early Access and demo is ruffly only about 5% of what will be in Early Access. Explorable area of Archipelago in demo is only about 2.5% of what will be in Early Access. Early Access will be announced in the #news when it is time. See the latest post here #│announcements message from Yar_Master. As far as price and packages, that will most likely follow Early Access Release info. Also, characters, items and buildings will not transfer to the Early Access, it is part of the demo – different client, different game builds – See Dev comment here #💬│windrose-chat message. So enjoy playing the demo for now until that time
So short answer on Early Access. Early access is Soon to be sometime in 2026 🙂
Also can see latest on upcoming Triple-i Initiative #│announcements message
How big is the game now, as a demo? Is it worth grinding now? Or should i wait?
You can't carry anything over to the early access
You get a decorative spyglass in ea if you play the demo. The demo have 3 islands, can't make gunpowder or do farming. Trees will not respawn but caves respawn every 2 hours irl.
As for scale, the demo is pretty tiny compared to early access
both map and content/features
Swabien - Devoted MemberModerator — 3/5/2026 1:30 AMThursday, March 5, 2026 1:30 AM
Demo will run until Early Access and demo is ruffly only about 5% of what will be in Early Access. Explorable area of Archipelago in demo is only about 2.5% of what will be in Early Access. Early Access will be announced in the #news when it is time. See the latest post here │announcements from Yar_Master. As far as price and packages, that will most likely follow Early Access Release info.
Also, characters, items and buildings will not transfer to the Early Access, it is part of the demo – different client, different game builds. So enjoy playing the demo for now until that time
Although... do have to wonder what is that 5% comparted to 2.5%. Is the 5% everything else than the map?
buildable things
2.5% is basically the size of explorable area the demo has compared to rest of map, the 5% is just the content you have available in demo compared to Early Access 😉
Btw happen to know what is counted as explorable area or how it's counted? Everything, including ocean and islands, only islands (but by area) or the number of islands?
Suppose doesn't mater too much but there is a subtle difference... the number of islands doesn't consider how large the other islands are and could even be more than 97.5% by land mass
if landmass of islands only, could mean less islands than the number suggests but could be larger in size
I have heard 30 islands in ea compared to the 3 we have now.
in the beta we had what , like 12 , but there was a huge rework to what was that game and what we have now
Ocean and islands is counted in explorable area, there's a lot of islands, lots of islands. Much more than we had in last Alpha which was 13. Some islands can swallow the 3 in demo a few times over so some of them are massive. The exact number was not named and we won't tell you how many there actually are - you'll have to wait for Early Access 🙂
Early Access will be the first actual Beta.
yeah I don't find it in pinned anywhere now. But pretty sure I did see 30 island mentioned here.
Right here #💬│windrose-chat message
Thanks. Was starting to think I did go crazy again 😄
firefly is pirates right??
no a player mentioned 30 - no dev or mod said 30 as that is not an accurate number - you'll have to wait and see how many on Early Access.
i hope for random spawned seeds
Either way, sounds exciting. Was a bit worried there would not be more variety in size of islands
Even in last Playtest some of the islands were massive in comparison.
Bermuda Triangle when?
Just a personal opinion, but I prefer using smaller islands as a base so it feels more like I own/control the entire island, but would prefer medium/large islands for exploration
That is why I hoped for a healthy variety in size
Well if you take a look at the loading screen there's roughly that number of islands, right?
If sailing was ultra realistic, such as hard to detect shallow areas with sharp rocks close to surface and other hazards:
Tortuga and Port Royal included
is it the actual map or a placeholder tho?
It's just a map to look at, not accurate representation of the game
its the real life map of caribbean
oh yea no wonder if seemed familiar shaped
it should be historicly correct map 🙁
why?
i dont have the RAM to use google earth mod
the game itself wont use the map, but that image is representing the Caribbean in as such accuracy it is dificult to increase it.
Just hoping that release date of new games I'm waiting for don't get too bunched up. 2 of them already coming somewhere in 2nd quarter, 1 of them might come next month... another coming in 2 months, but hard to say when Windrose is coming
good problem to have imo lol
Soon 🙂
ngl, was just hoping one of them would have come first quarter, but I suppose this month is pretty dry for games every year anyway 😂
noway... if you have to choose between 4 games... you might have to cut one due to income... so im not crazy for saying ppl think with their wallets and devs might release when they have less competition....
safe them for the steam sale i mean ofc xD
yes and no @raven dagger I feel like tons of people have games on the back burner that never get played cuz somthing is always coming out or they arevert to what their group plays lol
i have the opposite problem to where i cant game for a few months, so to me is a good issue to have 👍
mick... pay your bills
usually I'm not in too much of a rush to start playing right when it comes out, but all 3 of them are games from relatively small and new teams... well 1 of them was a small team, but has already grown to be large enough to publish small indie games, just by the success of the first game alone, and now they finally releasing 2nd one
kao... make sense when you comment
its not financial choice lol i dont play games just to be playing
do you make them? you think devs release due to other games release schedules lol that is a good one actually 👍 😉
i wouldnt hold it against them
if you get away with a writers strike,,, and delay the release...
just to cut some costs... and delay it with the competition
as long as you do the right workers compesations i can write the writers off for tactical market placement
lemme talk to the board
i never understood why ppl find marketing hard...
but i would make a finished game before i would pre-release... im super expensive
if you make that the end goal it leaves you a little wiggle room in pre post-production
i see alot of games fail due to pre release being to early
not having enough content/content still looking too much like... not enough flair...
also the fact ppl can sue you if you DONT actualy give a full game...
pre release... sounds like a insurance issue if you dont make ur goal finished product first
no i dont release game i play test games....
I have a question, not sure if it's answered somewhere or not.... When you're out and you take over an enemies ship, do you get the ship too? Like, if it's better/bigger then your ship, can you use it?
So far in the demo it automatically sinks the ship
Dang.... Ok.
Who's to say what changes will come in EA or 1.0 though?
True. It would be a great way to upgrade your ship!
Or add to your fleet, I agree
We have the ability to build new ships at the Wharf. Seem like it would be an aweful waste if we didn't get to build other ships somewhere along the way.
There are various ships you will be able to unlock through various ways in Early Access.
spoilers
||i heard the demo got reverce enginiered and there are mods that let you use more of the demo data... technicaly the files are on your pc ||
Those files are not the same files in Early Access - just fyi
yes
but honestly im amased the demo has so little content with that much ready and done
different client and totally different build than whats in Early Access.
Also some things including ships from the last Alpha were removed, other things added 🙂
oh I just spotted in a trailer's comment section that this used to be intended to be f2p live service pvp game, honestly I think they dodged a volley of cannon balls with that. Not to say that it couldn't work and I believe it could even have been fun... just probably not the best option in current state of live service
I found the demo to be huge, personally.
i found a death plane
for peaks from dev's see the pinned messages 📌 above
Thanks
Some of the swords in the pinned message remind me of Inigo Montoya's sword.
At least when compared to average game, maybe. But when comparing to games in the same genre like Valheim, not much. But from the looks of things it's probably going to be significantly bigger than Valheim in full release
early access alone might be bigger...
bigger isnt always better
more content isn't always better?
I've kinda written off Valheim. I got tired of waiting for the final Biome.
Valheim didn't really have much of a demo though. If they did it was years ago. Valheim pretty much went right into EA then just stayed there for years.
Bigger doesn't mean more content - you can have a massive area and no content.
i rather have a tiny island with ALL the windows and stuff to do,,, and make a nice ship and sail into empty space... then a eternal world with not a single nice thing to make yes
Comparing size of playable area is kind of pointless metric though. Elite Dangerous is literally 1:1 simulated Milkyway
dessert rose or something
very big... more empty then morrow wind
And with procedural generation you can have seemingly infinite worlds... so when it comes to size of a game think comparing the amount of content, how much there is to do is more fair
Salt 2 is a great example of this. Endless world of procedurally generated islands, but not a whole lot to do. I got bored fairly fast.
im more a fan of the random generated seed
I used to, but recently have come to prefer handcrafted worlds. random generation does work really well for specific kind of games though
it auto up the replayability if the game is good, but that is a gamble yea
such as DRG, thanks to random generation you can have seemingly infinite missions that are mostly different
the only thing i want is high sea marrige and high sea treason
if they add marrige rings and big servers with manny players there might come a day some ppl are gonna get married at sea in a game... like its WoW
Didn't play the demo more than a few hours because I'd like to save up the proper first time playing for the early access, just played enough to get feel for the land combat since that could have been a deal breaker for me... is there ship customization?
Me with 60 hours 
Me with 87
That would fall under mmo scope, this is a survival co-op.
like instead of hirering a church... hiering a event server...
Now that I think about it if it went mmo route it would be competing with games like skull and bones
who hurt you?
Ship customization to an extent is in Early Access. as to what that is, will have to wait until then.
nice
good evening
I'm cool with a regular co-op game. People get too crazy about marriage in games.
HEY! its just natural prgression ok, all my buddys that met their goil through apps
I met my husband online too. My sister mey him on an MMO game forum, and invited him to her friends Vent server. That was almost 18 years ago.
Hopefully something for weapon systems too. But drip for ship is just as important, if not even more so
getting married at sea is due for a come back anny way??? maybe we can open the strait if we use it for marrige... iran can get the marrige pressents... and the straits open again...
i dont know why ppl thing marketing is hard....
It's hard because if you make a mistake people will be big mad
Going back to ship customization topic... imagine full menacing looking pirate ship drip and the amount of aura farming you could do
i dont know this word... mistake?
I want gold plated everything like on AC4 lol
mistake, similar to words such as error or doing something incorrectly unintentionally
you posted that gif too late
THE DOGGO JUMPED ME!
didn't notice it before sent reply lol
i would have insta faceplamed but world wanted me to get face pawed
dont worrie i have good karma ok
Me with 160 hours... on a demo... lol 
I'm not playing all month sorry I got life job
thats mine
i played for 1 week
i mostly was using a shovel though....
i want this game to steal 1 more effect
crouch/gears of war cover
they have half blocks you cannot hide behind... it pisses me off
91.8 hours so far. I'm still experimenting with building mechanics. I'm sure my number will continue to increase until EA gets here.
yea i was making hight with shovel and diggin moat infront of it
its a shame adding "stuctural mass" doesnt add structural integrity
Posts and Beams seem to do a nice job of adding integrity when building above ground.
i got the highest with the floor platform thing u can make them pretty high up and latch on to them
spoilers
||but it changed when some one send me the mods...||
That staircase is awesome looking
it was in the demo game files ok
u need to realy not care about a potential ban and game hard, its better to just buy the game
yea but u can also see me stacking the wierd pillar floor thingy
those ARE demo included
u just cant use them that way they gave out the demo
Just dont share, not hard
Just a reminder** Some of you have decided to dig into the files to view or mod. Refrain from posting content not playable in the current demo. Content from last Alpha in Summer of 2025 is fine. **
Yeah seems like they would need something supporting them in game.
i think if they added that stuff they had installed on my pc... with installing the demo... ppl would have had a better time...
and im highly convinced this was just the like 3-5%
and the demo is only 0.1%
Not sure you know what a demo is 🤔😏
It cannot be added as much of it has been changed, removed, an other content added - Also, many systems are tied to content not in demo and turning any part of that on would crash the demo. Demo goes away When Early Access launches.
i talked to ppl that did the play test and they where like... where did all the stuff go...
so i know a little
I played the playtest and understand why a demo is limited and a playtest isn't 🤷
Do you understand the meaning and purpose of a Demo? It is a SNAPSHOT of the game, limited in content to give you a taste of what is coming. It is not comparable to a play test or an alpha/beta version.
still wanted to sail off, that death plane though...
I did the last Playtest in Summer 2025 and some things were removed - even a couple ships, and other content ships, assets were added in. Early Access is way more than what the last Alpha was or demo is. Demo is simply that, a small test bed for people to get a basic idea without giving too much. Want people to really have a lot to look forward to - not a little 😉
yea i am taking care of my brothers dog atm
and ima ask him to buy me this game for doing so
pay it in advance!
THEY TOOK THE CUTTER MY BELOVED!

so i hope its not more then 40 bucks
I am doing a Windrose Demo playthrough for a 4th time. I had fun with what is offered in it and figured out fun ways to use what was available to build some interesting things. I am still having fun, I am not were where the "ppl would have had a better time" is comming from. The demo I am guessing is to introduce new people to the game in a nice controlled package as well as to test some new concepts in the code (which users never know about). I am pretty sure it is as simple as that. I am looking forward to the official EA release but I would prefer them to take their time and get things tight backend wise instead of doing like most every AAA game distributer has done over the past decade and push stuff out in not so good shape.
Make them walk the plank for that one
Nah, I cant plankwalk the Crew. Even if I could I wouldnt, theyre making a truly incredible game even if I cant have the cutter anymore
ok we start a pertition for a cutter for you then 😉
I'll never forgive them
im starting a pirate EU for people that dont wanna vote on that
Sadly also Nah. Benjamine said they didnt like how it handled with the wave system updates so they removed it from player control
How about we bottle one as a deco item just for lore sake
oooo I like that idea actually
give us ships in bottles to use as decorations like Blackbeards Cabin in POTC 4
YES!
If not in a bottle then perhaps just small models that set on a shelf or table top
There might be a better boat coming 😛
@thick wyvern please share that in #1352659456911212636
This is my dream game. Been playing the demo for several weekends and cant wait for EA og Launch.
aww it was cat reply to cat snow fun
The cat walked with purpose, no clue where going but surely somewhere important
sulfur obtained. but you can't craft anything with it sadly
Fellow pot wearer I see
it is the only way
was looking in announcements but must have missed it, has launch day been decided on?
Not yet, more info on April 9th
clay pot looks better than copper in my opinion
indeed
I'm a well known trader on the 7 Seas. My specialty is all what you consider "rare goods".... but of course for good gold I can get you an island too with all the decoration you are wishing for. 😏
This sow was pretty mad it couldn't get to me. But I could stab back at them.
These crabs were also pretty mad they couldn't get me. But with enough fiber you can walk from your boat to the chest and not fight anything.
It’s interesting that when you strike an enemy while they are mid swing it’ll cancel it the first two times then automatically hitting you on the third. I need to get better lol
I had to deal with dark souls and elden ring I think that helped me a lot, I find the combat pretty easy and satisfying
I'm glad guns actually do damage instead of just parrying... Bloodborne take notes
Would be cool if we could use Smuggler's Chests and such as personal storage. I built a structure on top of the Smuggler's Cashe on the first island. The underground cashe makes a very cool little cellar with little effort. Sadly the existing chests only work one way even if you have a bonfire set up nearby.
Yesss I like that aswell
I’m so used to Last Oasis combat so I gotta change it up
You can use the area as personal storage, would you like to see?
If you got some tips I would be curious to see what you did.
just drop the stuff in the building they dont disappear
Yeah lemme load up my save
Can’t wait to craft gunpowder 🙏
hey I'm playing the demo with my brother right now and we have explored the first island completely. but we cant find a way to get a ship to sail on? are you able to do this in the demo or am i missing something.
press K near the water to summon your small boat. later when you get your ketch you do the same to summon it, with a menu to choose witch boat
If you follow the questline it will guide you. You have to travel accorss all three islands
You have the boat though right
After you do the quest to mine Copper Ore it will unlock the part of the quest to find a ship and crew
i see no boat and i have no more quests available.
I posted the pics in #🎨│creative for you
Thanks Seaweaver
yes but im not giving spoilers
have you checked your journal?
honestly, after seeing the Playtest footage, the Cutter made SO much more sense as your first ship rather than the Ketch
like, I understand their reason for making the Cutter NPC-only, but I do wonder if there's some way to make it usable, but limited to regions where the Sea isnt too rough - after all, we can technically take the Boat out into open waters 🤔
No problem
I like it a lot. I thought about clearing the area and trying to build there but I kind of like the character that the existing clutter creates.
Yeah I just leaned into the clutter hince it being an "Off Limits" basement bit of a wearhouse that just has a bunch of storage shoved inside of it all
Having that insta spawn for your ship is amazing
yes, big QOL.
i wonder if it will make it into EA or if it was just a time saver for the demo?
Would this run Windrose
Yeah I don’t see why not
when online 100 vs 1 zergs foundation wipe porcorn everything pvp ?
I’m probably gonna get the lap top it’s a good deal and I want to play Windrose and sea of remnants
I have a 4050 and it runs most games well on medium settings. Windrose, it runs on medium settings around 40fps. I do however use lossless scaling and that helps bump up the fps too to around 70-80 if I run on high settings with LS running
So you think this will be ok
I think the 16gb of RAM is a bit low nowadays, but it's probably fine for most games.
Is it enough ram for the game
I can’t afford a high spec pc
I’m not sure, I’ve got I think 40 gb of ram so a lot to support it
Obviously can get a memory stick
My pc is a ddr3 i5 4570 ,16gb ram and a 1650 and it runs it ,not great ,but no issues
Little bit of stutter/rendering slow on loading into a server or whatever but it runs
Settings are as low as possible lol
I’m a console gamer but gonna get the gaming laptop
Should run it , not amazingly but gets your foot in the door of pc gaming
32 gig to future proof for a while
The other is this one
me with a rtx 4090 wishing i bought a radeon instead. . . want to jump on steamos.
1st world problems.
I have an i5-13240 with RTX4060, 32gb ram. and it runs fine.
You can use that 4090 on Linux just fine.
its not fully supported. (neither is it officially supported)
steam isn't officialy supporting nvidia cards for steamos so i ain't gonna do it, sure i could, but. i rather have something that works with minimal effort.
Just use something like Endeavour and forget valves walled garden OS.
yeah thats not what i want, i want steamos.
Why? It's just locked down Arch.
When is the full game released
i don't have any objective arguments, it is all subjective.
we don't even know when early access comes out so how we would know when full comes out?
I don't see any mention of a discreet GPU...
feels like it got integrated instead of dedicated gpu yeah,
yeah sorry my bad, i didnt checkt that, i whas just checking the RAM sorry
yeah it runs radeon 680M
Is this a good one
thanks
On it
Damn, I got stuck trying to feed Charmander in pokopia
this feels like
and then the winged hussars arrived.
Wrong jolly gif
no sorry i forgot looking at something

😎
I'm reading the patchnote and i see "Adjusted the combat balance of certain bosses, including Reed Devil."
Was it too easy?
what kind of patchnotes are you reading?
(also i might suspect you are on the wrong discord channel, as reed devil is a boss for anotehr games) @barren jetty
@barren jetty this isn't Crimson Desert its Windrose lol
This chat has really slowed down...
Just the day and time of day. Normally really slow Sunday evenings.
Don't junx this blissful silence
I'm enjoying the calming ocean sounds
Listning to similar myself sailing a trade run.
me and my friend just completed the demo and were thoroughly enjoying the game we cannot wait until its fully released great work devs!!
Demo will run until Early Access and demo is ruffly only about 5% of what will be in Early Access. Explorable area of Archipelago in demo is only about 2.5% of what will be in Early Access. Early Access will be announced in the #news when it is time. See the latest post here #│announcements message from Yar_Master. As far as price and packages, that will most likely follow Early Access Release info. Also, characters, items and buildings will not transfer to the Early Access, it is part of the demo – different client, different game builds – See Dev comment here #💬│windrose-chat message. So enjoy playing the demo for now until that time
So short answer on Early Access. Early access is Soon to be sometime in 2026 🙂
will the early access progress carry over to the full game when its released?
It will not
The demo won't carry over to ea, no idea about ea to full release.
Read the above post 🙂
i know the demo wont i just wasnt sure about ea to release thank you guys for taking the time to reply!
Gotcha - Early Access may - we don''t know at this point - will have to wait and see what the Dev's decide once Early Access Launches.
im gonna try to bring over a save lol
from demo?
Let me know how it goes
If from demo, will not carry over. Totally different clients and builds and some items have changed or been removed and other things implemented. But like Seaweaver says, let us know how it goes lol.
i'll probably have to google it ..quick google try 😂
I’m excited to get new items. I can only have so many of the same chairs! Lol
New building sets are going to go crazy
I just hope theyre not all really hard to obtain
In order to obtain one you'll have to find a specific tree walk around it 3 times clockwise 6 times counter clockwise and then cut it down.
I don't know that but that would be kinda funny.
OR I can use my magic powers and get Sindland to hand deliver me the recipe's in game (I asked nicely)
good morning
I played with a guy yesterday and he had gear that I have not found myself including a fishing rod
Wipe from ea to 1.0 pls 🙏
Just started. Any tips?
place a bonfire near combat areas, it'll constantly heal you
Ok thanks
Learn the parry/dodge mechanics fast
collect everything on the beach, seaweed, shells, rocks, sticks, and break up the wood (you'll get nails too!)
And one last note from me. You WILL die, a lot. Its part of the game and aprt of the fun so dont let it get to you
Alright thanks guys. Wasn't expecting so much help
Of course. Welcome aboard and we hope you enjoy!
upgrade your gear as soon as possible. Gear is more important than levels in the demo. Food gives you valuable hp buffs. "T" to target enemies if needed. Enemies don't regenerate so use that to your advantage if there's too many to fight at once. Some of the letters you find might be extremely important, so reading them will be important. Get used to parrying and dodging its the core mechanics in fights. And most importantly, have fun and take your time, you can enjoy the demo for as long as you want and build or battle as much as you desire.
Cheers bro
why would you die though ? 😄
Well in any first playthrough sometimes it is inevitable
Good morning!
wrong discord lol
Yeah Windrose is a better game hehe
i'll see that when we have a full version, i liked the demo tho
I saw some youtubers reviewing Crimson Desert and given that it is 70 euros and has a lot of problems with inventory, UI, key bindings etc, it's not worth it for me personally
still better than pre ordering it..ive done that once and never again haha
Never again
its exremely risky nowadays..if there was a demo beforehand or something to actually show proper gameplay and such, that makes it easier to see if the game has issues. demos should be normalized again tbh
Right right
especially for Early Access Games ... 🙂 ... some games change there whole direction during production phases. or need 10 years to develop
ea games have more of an issue of "might never leave ea and get abandoned"
you're right. For me is camelot unchained an example for those kind of games
I am going to pre-order windrose if that is an option hehe
medieval dynasty for me..was fun and promising but ended up getting abandoned..
Yep - that one will never release, I fear. Bin 13 years since kickstarter -.-
to be fair, we have a demo and devs that def are loving what theyre doing, so its one of the safest options..ofc if it would have a pre order haha
iam not only pre-ordering the game. I'll pre-order the pre-order, send my wife and kids to a 30 day vacation, rent them a seperate appartment, let my best friend move into my appartment and prepare my groceries like iam preparing for war.
u better find out how to send my wife and kids to a 30 day vacation cause my internet is better than yours mate... 😛
are wife and kids pre ordered too?
nope. Wife is premium deluxe edition and kids are expansions
i lost my 50/50 in life and shall remain in my dark corner. good on ye lmao
got the wrong dlc i see
aye. didnt check the reviews first
thats fine for me. But dont make your problems to mine. i still have to figure out how i can convince my wife to give me a 30 day freepass for all the homework, parenting and other family stuff when ea starts. and i expect from my wife that it will cost me a lot
Hell yeah dude
Windrose
Yeah especially when the prices go up, you gotta look it up before you buy something
any roadmap for early access?
that will most likely follow early access
do we know any realease date?
Maybe we will find out on the 9th of April but we are not sure
2 months off and right back to top 5 on pubg. Hoping to see the early release of this for my birthday in June.
Super cool game! Is every world the same layout?
will they announce release date already or not
some estiamation would be good because for now it look lika scam demo designed to sell basing on hype to bigger game studio for good money
Many game take like 1 year after their debut trailer to show more game mechanic...
Play other games till this game come out :/
Y'all really are impatient
👴 Let me tell ya a story. I used to do alpha and beta testing of games and app. The last game I alphaed was Defiance. Fun game, had to buy a headset, got my first experience with squad vs squad and faction vs faction battles. Fun stuff. The last build before their set release datehad a game stopper bug in it. During one of the boss fights the boss would teleport in to a wall, end of fight, quit out. Game went out as was and they tried to patch it before the preorder folk got to it in the release. With in a day hundreds were demanding refunds. The devs blamed the alpha testers. Have not done an invite alpha since.
*A developer should never set a hard release date. And players need to gain a week of patience. *
Maybe april 9th will tell us something 🤷♂️
ayo wtf?! they srsly blamed the testers?
Yup.
thats disgusting behavior
Well they did partner with Chrysler, and the series, they had set the release date for the same day the series released. But even after fixing it, it got developed to death. Basically they built a nice half ton Dodge RAM truck, then stacked 2 tons of crap on it. They just kept adding factions and events. Last I checked the game was nonstop chaos.
sounds promising. man..sometimes i wonder if some companies even realize how much they ruin with their weird decision making. reading that kinda stuff makes me think they just blame someone else every time it doesnt work. like how often consumers get blamed for when a game doesnt go as planned
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love windrose.tools btw 🍻
Appreciated ❤️ I should be releasing a big update shortly
This reminded me of Windrose immidiately in the first few seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwf7b4tgxNA
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The mining looks exactly the same haha!
or at least very similar, looking forward to play this game again. Was there any news on any time schedule so far for releasing it?
nope nothing
-# in all seriousness, April 9th there's an announcement scheduled, so we largely suspect that we'll get the Early Access date if nothing else
out of the ships you've sailed in Windrose, which is your favorite thus far?
The big one from the previous alpha
Yo what is that from Mace?
I'm trying to figure out what my "main" will be
like many, I imagine, I want to at least try something akin to the Jackdaw in size/profile/cannon compliment
Probably either a ketch variant or one above it if you want jackdaw size
cant wait to see what comes playable in EA 😁
I just like going with the biggest because I like being a tank in any group or even solo
Reasonable
I'm not sure how "Fleet" management will be, but I expect I'll likely swap between a "main" ship and have a proper big boy "tank" if I'm heading into troubled waters
It'll very likely be similar to what we see in the demo, so a dingy and an active flag ship that you can change / swap at a wharf.
Ketch variants confirmed 😅
i think they just mean how you can customize your ship with different hull and cannon compliments
I know its a reach, but I hope the Devs consider a rudimentary "admiralty" system like Black Flag had, that way there's still some incentive to capturing/building ships even after you've gotten your ship established.
I just mean the customization stuff, plus I'm also guilty of playing with modded sessions so I was definitely referring to stuff that might not even make it to EA
Oh that would be awesome. Minus the companion app please. That felt too mandatory.
Yeah unless we hear otherwise tho I'm not sure it'll be any time soon
Thought so, was trying to be funny and obviously failed 😄
honestly, I never bothered with the companion app 🤷♂️ 😅
just used the in-game stuff
I used to use the companion app all the time, I loved it as a little side thing to do while I was out and about
for sure - though whether its the mini-game approach, or something more grounded like physically speaking to "your" Captains in Tortuga, I'd definitely love to see it - plus it'd give you a reason to upgrade those ships as well
-# could even have NPCs that are better for specific types of scenarios, and assigning them as Captain would increase your success chance 🤔
I mean.... Oh no I'm so sorry, I totally spilled the beans on accident, I didn't mean to reveal I'm playing a super secret early access version. Whatever will I do.
Nah fr tho, I wish. Otherwise I wouldn't be binging Pokopia
In the previous alpha I absolutely LOVED the contract mechanic where you could build a stall with an NPC who could be paid to do your farming for you, there was even a crop one that you would give seeds to and they'd grow the crops, I'd love if we had something like that but we have to give them ships we aren't using instead so they could get us stuff like the insignias
Insignias, anything from the ship-combat loot table, maybe even a low chance for random weapons/upgrade ingots
the potential is definitely there
As long as people realize I don't mean physically watching them sail out and sink stuff, while I would love for that to be part of it that may be way too much extra work for something that used to be purely UI
I know that could or could not have changed in EA, but since I didn't play alpha: how effective has that NPC-farming been in terms of "wood per hour". Reasonable amounts? I guess self-farming will always be more effective, as one is investing time, but does npc-farming matter or is it more "cosmetically"?
Oh 1000% agree - at most seeing your ship leave port would be cool, and realistically anything thereafter being on a map or just unknown until success/failure
It's hard to say because in the alpha you could only hire 1 every 12 hours due to the MMO lite aspect so with that changing the balance of them has probably changed if it even is still a thing but alpha wise it was perfect, you'd pay a sum of pastries, go do other stuff and just come back to exactly what you needed from them for your other purposes.
It'd be cool but knowing how development works if it comes down to it I'd prefer they just make the table work and then way later down the line could add the extra visual stuff
Absolutely agree on this - no need for visuals concerning npcs sailing while there's more important stuff on the road.
Has there been any mention of further optimization for lower end rigs? A friend has a GTX 1080 and minimum is listed as 1080 Ti, apparently the game runs decently when everything is set to low so it's playable at least from what he said
the 1080 i think is about 10 years old..i can see them optimizing the game further but i wouldnt count on it since at some point, one has to see that their rig is simply not up to date anymore :/
sucks that when the game gets fully released we wont be able to bring anything we have done across.
We don't know that yet. We only know that progress from the demo won't carry over to early access.
i mean everything we are doing now is in a demo though.
i mean to be fair..the demo is nothing compared to what we gonna get lol
You can't get the weapons you got in the demo as easy in ea
yeah thats true
the demo is like 5% of the full thing so i dont think its gonna take us a long time to get back to where we are now
oh for sure but you can do a lot within the demo already so having to go back and do that again is a pain haha. ive played 30 hours and kinda stopped so im not having to put another 30 into it jsut to end up where i am now lol
morning
I've got about 200h and honestly, i don't mind throwing in another 200 into ea when it drops. maybe even more haha. I imagine the game getting lots of qol as well since people been throwing out a ton of bug reports and feedback in general. They been cooking for sure and I can't wait to see how much it has improved
The part until where we're now, quest-wise, should only take a small amount of time. If the start of the game is actually exactly like the first few quests in the demo. Might be different, although I don't think it will be.
dunno what the beginning part was like back then when it was still planned for being an mmo but perhaps it might still be similar to that? Maybe we have some extra scenes or stuff to do before the tutorial happens. I didn't read the notes yet since i want to keep those for ea but knowing what we were doing before that would be interesting
Crosswind was fun. It was still early so far from perfect, but having so many people in Tortuga was great and I’ll miss seeing the masts and sails of incoming/outgoing ships.
And who could forget the PvP zone that was bikini bottom
oh im soo excited to see how it turns out!
Ye olde Devils Throat PvP zone. Literally just bikini bottom
what was the beginning like? Was it similar to the one we have rn? Like in the tutorial
i love this so much haha
Overall yes the experience is similar. But the demo is FAR more compact and polished. Despite being a tiny fraction of what Crosswind was like.
Honestly I prefer the demo to the alpha.
as I understand, Tortuga could still act as a psuedo hub world space ||kinda like the Tower from Destiny||, though I could be mistaken
personally I'd love to be able to see ships coming and going, see other players' drip, etc.
Tortuga is utterly ruined in the current storyline. It’s been taken over by the dead and only a tiny fraction of it remains untouched. I don’t remember which trailer shows it the best but Tortuga has fallen, millions must walk the plank
Are we going to conquer it back? Or can you not talk about that? 🙂
Imagine conquering and building it back piecemeal... I'd like that!
Genuinely wish I knew. Right now the story only goes so far and I WAS thinking about that last night.
Perhaps after full release we’ll get story expansion updates until we eventually throw hands with Blackbeard himself? Who knows. It’s still WAY too early to know
people often underestimate how much of a difference in fun and gameplay quality it is when a game is polished. If it makes sense to say it like that
Aye
would love for it to be a case of
"this area is solo until you reach X spot in the story and Tortuga is freed, then it becomes a social hub"
its such a fun gaem and the community already seems amazing to be involved with!
Sounds very ‘sea of thieves’y to me.
cant think of any cases of that there, but it has been quite a few years since I last played SoT 🤔
Just sounded very similar to the whole golden sands arc.
Skeletons took over a popular player port.
Big community effort to get it back.
Eventually turned into massive player social location.
Or at least it was meant to be like that. There are no social aspects to SoT anymore. It’s just sweats and runners. No one actually wants to chill in that game anymore
windrose when?
Early access this year!
yay
santaclauses birthday
ah ngl, completely forgot about that whole "arc" but I suppose I can see the parallel you're drawing
-# also totally agree on the sweats aspect, I used to try and just get some fishing in and would get harassed for existing 😭
GOT MY HOPES UP..
I mean a fleet is always nice, but having one true Captain is cool too
Pog
now we can finally use cannons on other player ship
Now that a fix-list I can get behind.
Amazing. xD
played the fulllll demo got my guys in today on a cop op fresh server
These devs are already doing some amazing things. Cant wait to sink my anchor into this game!
are there multiple ketch's for co op? O.O
Every player has his/her own
oh sheeet niceee tyty
1,5mil wishlists? holy moly
HD2 Friendly FIRE? 😛 xD
we are getting so close, i can taste the salty waters now
well i hope next month were getting date
randomized loot is gonna be fantastic
ehh
Trade will skyrocket I hope.
true, now i can just start a new world and repeat loot the easy early chest to find everything
u probably gonna get the same stuff anyway. just in different places
also this
this game got me super excited. got black flag vibes but better from the demo
Damn thats alot of news!
I imagine they'll have different loot tables to prevent folks from doing this and getting god-tier stuff from island 1
after all, the starting area isnt actually gonna have gear like we had in the demo
TO be clear these don't affect the demo right?
Its one of the benefits of living Post-SkullNBones, Windrose learned from Ubisoft's mistakes 😂
well from the items that have been extracted from teh game, and from how the worded it does not at first glance look like that.
yea it will update the demo
wording definitely implies these changes are intended for EA
"More players in co-op. We’re testing the increased limits of co-op capacity. While the real performance in the end will be affected by many factors, including those beyond our control (connection of each player and the specs of each server), we will do our best to increase the coop limit from 4 to 8 players. That said, in terms of gameplay difficulty scaling, we believe the best experience lies in the 1-4 players range. With more people in your crew at the same time, you will probably steamroll everything laughing hard, but that’s fine if that’s the way you want to have fun!"
That would be awesome
My thoughts
These changes sound great
Was there really much to learn from other than "have a clear vision and don't suck?"
having 8 players, 1 on helm and 7 on cannons, would be OP
I had presumed the loot in the demo was intended to get us a chance to try out multiple different playstyles. Glad to see they are indeed randomizing it (though I had assumed they already were going to do that)
Where did it say I'd love to have new content in the demo fingera crossed
They've already updated the Demo before, and this is Demo Feedback

