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Vendetta: Curse of Raven's Cry - open world pirate action-RPG from Two Worlds developer

Jrpgfan

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Played it a little bit today.

First fight after the prologue, I'm on the city and I kill some guy for his blade and after I drop him I notice my character is still on guard and taking damage. I turn around and there's a monkey throwing rocks at me from some bushes. I kill him and loot his scrotum. That's gotta be one of the most random things I've seen in a game. I definitely wasn't expecting that.

Game so far is really enjoyable. I'm really digging the atmosphere and am finding the combat fun. My only gripe is with the performance. It seems the game is autolocked at 60fps and I didn't find a way to unlock it, and the performance in some places is really bad, fps dives as low as 30 fps on a RTX 2080 Super. Some optimization tips would be appreciated since there's not much info about the game on the web.
 

Baron Dupek

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This project was fucked because the ladyboys over at CDP vacuum sucked up all developers in Poland they could find to grow their studio. But the final joke was on CDP! Whichever fuck introduced the pissing bug in Raven's Cry did the same in Cybertranny 2077.
Sounds like STALKER in case of Ukraine, eveyone working in related fields worked on the game from the series.
 

Konjad

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I forgot to add to my screenshots that this game has better dialogue trees than anything Bioware ever made:

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Konjad

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Be despicable and lie to a lady that you own her husband money, or be an honest man - beat her up, then murder her husband. Quality choices.

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Konjad

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^ damn, that's cheap. I should have waited before I bought and gifted 10 copies of this game last few days :lol: Oh well, it's a great game, now you have no excuse not to get it.
 

jebsmoker

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Insert Title Here Strap Yourselves In I helped put crap in Monomyth
has the meele combat truly improved? i remember trying the game a couple years ago after it got a massive patch and i got shafted by enemies due to how weird and unresponsive the meele combat felt. as rudimentary the meele combat in two worlds 2 was, i remember that it felt far better

except for two worlds 1, i've mostly enjoyed reality pump's games, including their insanely ambitious command and conquer alikes
 

DalekFlay

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I remember wondering if this game was improved since it seemed so up my alley, but looking into it well after release people said it wasn't. However it sounds like good stuff Konjad, maybe it will be my post-Cyberpunk game. I already own it from some $5 sale or whatever.
 

Lord_Potato

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Ok, I'm 3 hours in. Got my first ship, even upgraded it a bit. So far visited the first town from the prologue and Saint Lucia, finally arrived in Bridgetown.

The game seems fun so far, but I already experienced a lot of minor bugs. The first guy I attacked (some random dude in a tavern, just to see if I can start combat with strangers) melted into the wall and was never seen again. Soldiers I battled in the first location often lost focus and just walked in front of me in circles, forgetting to fight and getting slaughtered by my saber. Same thing happened with the Ogre, one of the more badass enemies in Saint Lucia, thus granting me an easy victory. Several times I encountered this bug when I'm leaving a building and the moment the outside location loads, my Chris becomes unmovable. He cannot walk, jump or turn around. The only thing I can do is navigate the camera so that the doors of the buidling I just left become active, so that I can come back inside and regain my mobility. Leaving this very building by other doors allow me to play on, but I dread the moment when I find myself in a house with just one entrance and this bug reemmerges.

All those bugs create a feeling that Vendetta is barely held together by a duct tape. I expect it to fall apart once more elements and mechanics are introduced.

However, when it works it's cool. Dialogues are vulgar and funny (with some badly recorded voice acting here and there), quests often have several solutions, the swordfighting is better than I expected/feared (perhaps it's just a gift of low expectations but still, blocking enemy sabers and countering feels good). The color palette is a bit too dark, after all this is supposed to be the Carribean sea, but I guess they were going for more grimdark and edgy tone. I am looking forward to playing more. Never cared much about mainstream reviews, especially when it comes to low budget games.
 
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Reader

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I only played Two Worlds 2 but enjoyed it.
Minor bugs, AI stupidity and clunkyness do not bother me.
However i'd like to know how much is the lategame rushed. I'm gonna play it anyway, just want to be prepared.
 

Lord_Potato

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Ok, there are already some things I really like.

Towns are reasonably big, not like in Risen where they were composed of 3-10 buildings. Here you can really believe that these are settlements of big, established colonial empires. The reactivity of those towns is low, but they sure look realistic.

Pistols are deadly. They cause much more damage than your saber. But you can shoot a pistol only once during intense combat (after that you need to manually reload it, a process that takes time and leaves you exposed to enemy attacks). Fortunately, you can take up to three loaded guns into a fight. This means that every shot counts. If you hit enemy, you may kill or seriously wound him. But he may dodge the bullet or, if you try to shoot him from a small distance, simply push your pistol away with his hand. Even better, if it rains and you get your guns wet, they will not work properly. The first time it happened to me I was positively impressed by the game.

The worldbuilding is deliciously misanthropic. Everyone is an asshole only caring about his position. Player has to learn to live with all those shitty people and look after his own fortune.

Ship management is interesting. There are many factors that you have to take into account: the size of your crew, number of cannons, types of ammunition, supplies, cargo. Everything factors in into your ship's performance.

The economy is always changing, with prices of different products dependent on supply and demand (which you influence by your trading operations).

Performance is ok on my 2016 PC. I'm definately having a good time.
 
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Yldr

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I went in expecting something like Risen 2/3 so I was pleasantly surprised to realize it has full-featured naval combat, so in the end it felt more like a modern Sea Dogs homage.

Low-tech firearms are easily 50% of the appeal to me so I didn't mind guns being overpowered as usual. While the melee combat is much less broken than other similar titles, one-hit-kills with firearms are still the go-to soluton most of the time, along with glorious overly elaborate reload animations.

The other 50% would have to be Age of Sail ship porn, and here too the game delivers, the visuals are solid and benefit hugely from a ReShade touch-up. The towns are big for its own sake, which works wonders for immersion but loses its charm a bit once you realize it's just a big 3D menu between shops. I wouldn't want to undersell the atmosphere though, in fact how the songs help carry the mood deserves a mention: you often walk by people singing and dancing in the streets, taverns even feature full bands, they do get repetitive over time but there's no denying they make the world feel vibrant and lively.

One thing that could have dragged the whole thing down was the camera. Thankfully you can customize it but the default one is really an eye-opener on how bad camera settings can make a game look cheap and amateurish. I went with a custom camera closer to a typical aRPG: 85°ish in 1080p, high enough to hide your belt and the character slightly to the left so you see what's in front of you.

Another one of these nice little games everyone hates, though in fairness these guys had it coming with their disastrous PR. If you have no stakes in this, my final take is that as someone with fond memories of Pirates of the Caribbean, this feels like a modern fangame: not terribly deep, indeed nearing baby's first at times, but earnest, charming, and with nice HD visuals.
 

Konjad

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I only played Two Worlds 2 but enjoyed it.
Minor bugs, AI stupidity and clunkyness do not bother me.
However i'd like to know how much is the lategame rushed. I'm gonna play it anyway, just want to be prepared.
Vendetta is way better than any Two Worlds. Rushed as well, but overall content quality and mechanics are on another level.
 

ERYFKRAD

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Strap Yourselves In Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
I only played Two Worlds 2 but enjoyed it.
Minor bugs, AI stupidity and clunkyness do not bother me.
However i'd like to know how much is the lategame rushed. I'm gonna play it anyway, just want to be prepared.
Vendetta is way better than any Two Worlds. Rushed as well, but overall content quality and mechanics are on another level.
If only it had some polish. Other than the dudes making it of course.
 

Smerlus

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I thought Two Worlds 1 and 2 were decent but couldn't stand this game.

The ship combat was surprisingly good, graphics decent and scale was alright. Combat is junky but serviceable.

It was the terrible voice acting, the repetitive shit the crowds of people would say, the crashes, freezes, falling through the map, and the 4th chapter that was really fucking dull.

One of the last missions I had to just run as fast as I could to enter a building because all the npcs fighting would freeze my game with an i7 and 3070.
 

Lord_Potato

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I thought Two Worlds 1 and 2 were decent but couldn't stand this game.

The ship combat was surprisingly good, graphics decent and scale was alright. Combat is junky but serviceable.

It was the terrible voice acting, the repetitive shit the crowds of people would say, the crashes, freezes, falling through the map, and the 4th chapter that was really fucking dull.

One of the last missions I had to just run as fast as I could to enter a building because all the npcs fighting would freeze my game with an i7 and 3070.

By one of the last missions you mean the attack on the plantation? It's probably the biggest land battle in the game. That's weird your modern PC had trouble with that moment. I played Vendetta on a desktop from 2015 and it coped well with this scene. Perhaps newer devices don't work well with this game.
 

Smerlus

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I thought Two Worlds 1 and 2 were decent but couldn't stand this game.

The ship combat was surprisingly good, graphics decent and scale was alright. Combat is junky but serviceable.

It was the terrible voice acting, the repetitive shit the crowds of people would say, the crashes, freezes, falling through the map, and the 4th chapter that was really fucking dull.

One of the last missions I had to just run as fast as I could to enter a building because all the npcs fighting would freeze my game with an i7 and 3070.

By one of the last missions you mean the attack on the plantation? It's probably the biggest land battle in the game. That's weird your modern PC had trouble with that moment. I played Vendetta on a desktop from 2015 and it coped well with this scene. Perhaps newer devices don't work well with this game.

For me, the quality of the game got progressively worse the farther I got in the game.

That plantation raid would freeze as soon as the friendly NPCs got to the corn field so I had to test a bunch of solutions. I tried to let the NPCs run ahead of me, I tried not to talk to the guy that initiates the NPCs joining me and running straight to the house, and found that I had to start the quest and run straight to the house.

Not talking to the guy that initiates the NPCs joining and running to the house makes the house empty except for 2 ranged guys and then the basement is missing textures. I ended up falling through the ground and had to reload.
 

cretin

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thanks Konjad for swindling me into buying this crap

Can't tell you what the game is like, because I got to the city and it ran like such a piece of shit that I refused to put up with it. And changing settings doesn't even do anything, lol!
 

Fluent

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Hey guys! So, quick question. Can I roam around in an open world in this game, just trading, maybe capturing an enemy pirate's ship, doing open world things? Or is it so tightly focused on story that it's more of a story, linear experience? It says open world on the tin but I'm wondering if I can just be a trader or do some of the things that are associated with more sailing simulation type games. Thanks! :)
 

Lord_Potato

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Hey guys! So, quick question. Can I roam around in an open world in this game, just trading, maybe capturing an enemy pirate's ship, doing open world things? Or is it so tightly focused on story that it's more of a story, linear experience? It says open world on the tin but I'm wondering if I can just be a trader or do some of the things that are associated with more sailing simulation type games. Thanks! :)

Yes, roaming the open world, sinking flotillas, searching for most profitable trade routes, exploring treasure islands is 70% of the fun. The rest comes from following the main plot.
 

Fluent

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Nice Lord_Potato ! Sounds exactly like something I'd be interested in. I am also eyeing Sea Dogs: City Of Abandoned Ships. While I think that one has more RPG elements, skills and such, I think I'm gonna go ahead and put Raven's Cry above it for now. Thanks for the information bud! :)
 

Nikanuur

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By the Jolly Roger shivering me timbers! 'Tis a fine piece of landlubber's endavour all along!

I've purchased for 10E or so at sales. Been playing it for 10 hours. Combat is wobbly, quests are funny and witty, the pirate's life depicted is ugly and romantic just in the right amount, and there's plenty stuff to do. Exploring unbeaten paths for hidden treasures, naval battles, crew morale handling, ship upgrading, side questing, raven-enabled stealing, Privateer-like trading, old maps reputedly showing burried pirate's treasures investigating, and then some. I raise my thumb, and I consider getting my arm chopped-off to be as cool and spooky as Christopher!
 

Skdursh

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Anyone know where I can grab the OG version of this game from BEFORE they retooled it and removed all of the hilarious sailing dialog and major bugs? I want to play this game in its jankiest, most comical form.
 

Ryzer

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Is this game worth it? Poles tend to shill this game but they are biased in some ways, so how does this game feel? Is it a truly good pirate game?
 

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