Разработчик: LudoCraft Ltd.
Описание
Choose to be a vicious Buccaneer or an infamous Viking and take a glider to the skies. Your goal is to drop enemy vessels and secure dominance of the ancient North. Fire cannons, help others, board enemy ships or be the captain – whatever it takes to get your enemies out of the way. The success, as well as the bitter defeat, is solely dependent on how well you co-operate with your crew mates.
Finding the right kind of battle strategy is not self-evident in the merciless winds and twisted magic of the North...
Key Features
- Multiplayer FPS for fans of co-op action
- Intense air battles: airship armadas fighting in berserk frenzy
- Heavy emphasis on teamwork. Solo players, time to team up!
- Board enemy ships and take them over!
- Four different types of ships: Battleship, Flying Fortress, Cog and Kamikaze
- Selection of weapons: cannons, rockets, gunpowder grenades, blockers, swords
- Persistent character development. Begin as a lousy low-life and rise in the ranks to immortal glory
- Four specialization classes: Captain, Defender, Guerrilla and Cannoneer
- Use Perks & Flaws system to build a character that always fits your playstyle
- Find out what really happened in the darkness of the past!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, russian, polish
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *:Windows XP SP2
- Processor:2.6 GHz Single Core
- Memory:2 GB RAM
- Graphics:DirectX 9.0c Compatible Graphics Card
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:1 GB HD space
- Sound:DirectX Compatible
- Other Requirements:Broadband Internet connection
- OS *:Windows 7
- Processor:3.0 GHz Dual Core
- Memory:4 GB RAM
- Graphics:DirectX 9.0c Compatible Graphics Card with 1GB Memory (Nvidia GeForce GTX 260, ATI Radeon 4890)
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:1 GB HD space
- Sound:DirectX Compatible
- Other Requirements:Broadband Internet connection
Отзывы пользователей
The game is dead. Don't play it, don' buy it. There is a steam group that might still be floating around, and every now and a then they get together to play the game, but... It's still too little people. The purchase is not justifiable
I'm not much of a multiplayer type of gamer at times. I guess I'm a little bit agoraphobic. Air Buccaneers is a good game for me, in that the community was welcoming and not pushy and were very accommodating to new players. They did not expect me to know my crew station expertly. The captains pretty much suggested where I should go and what to do when I got there before, during and after a battle. There was not much pressure to be an expert at any position and I was comfortable with that. The battles were fantastic and the anticipation of engaging with the enemy was heightened with the dramatic sound track. The maps are brilliantly designed with no great advantage given for any one team. The servers are a bit empty, now, but if they were populated with players, I'd be playing often.
This game is one of my favorites of all time. The only problem I have with it is that the developers seem to have dropped it and there are no more official servers. Also there are some incomplete perks in the skill trees. But despite all this it is still great fun. You now have to find people that play it though, and organize a game. No more just casual AirBuccaneers. A few years ago I wouldn't have recommended getting it. But now it's free-to-play so there's no reason not to try it out.
Empty servers. No updates.
The game could be really good, maybe better than Guns of Icarus in certain ways, but there's only 3 maps?!
Really sucks, I paid like 15$ for this game, now free to play.
The devs took the money and immediately stopped development, then steam released a dead game.
Game development is a weird industry.
As someone who backed this project back in it's earliest stages, it has been in the 'never again' section of my library for the majority of the time since then. Day one was great, with updates strolling out and plenty of people playing to fill up multiple servers. Pretty much immediately after the game was 'done' and this went into development limbo the playerbase dropped off the map as well, leaving me with a useless game with (every time I came back to it and checked around) 3-5 players online, if any at all.
For me, going f2p and offering not a dime to those who had faith at the start is an insult, and their damage control in a vain attempt at reviving a long lost relic is too little too late considering there are other, more interesting (Blackwake) or much more complete (Guns of Icarus) team-based vehicle PvP games.
Game's dead, has been since the start, only then there were what 100+ people in servers, if not less. Had potential, now that its F2P it's still pretty dead, had lots of potential, Dev's threw it away, real shame
A neat idea for a multiplayer shooter but literally noone is online. You can't find a game... Its a shame, but unfortunately this is the curse of indie multiplayer only titles... hopefully a sale or a bundle revives the userbase. Will reevaluate review at that point.
Nice funny Game! I had really fun, if the server just would have more people.
Game is nearly Dead, but its good and fun. You can level up and earn skill over time.
Free to play atm, maybe try it with some friends.
It's hard to give airbuccaneers a fair review. It really is. Why? Because as of writing, both servers up right now have 0/32 players.
I really doubt anyone will even read this review, only because this is a game time forgot. I bought it when it first came out on steam, and since nothing has changed since other than going free to play (with no bonus for people who previously bought, something that would anger most people but I had my fun with it so I feel it's only fair) all I can do is reminisce on previous times I've played this game in 2013 when it wasn't horribly dead.
I feel like AirBuccaneers is a game that if it had a thriving playerbase it wouldn't be at "mixed" of 60% positive ratings. It's rough around the edges- but not in a way that negatively impacts the game. The game works like most air combat simulators, you fly around in airships and shoot different types of weapons at the enemy while the pilot tries to steer you out of the way of projectiles incoming so you don't horribly crash and burn to your pitiful death. What makes AirBuccaneers different than guns of icarus? Ground combat. It's a lie to say you can walk to your enemies base and kill them via one on one fistfights as the ground is covered in poisonous mushrooms, but in AirBuccaneers you spawn in your home base and can choose what ship to board either by walking onto a docked one or using an hangglider to get to one in the air. But how does this equate into ground combat? You have free movement and aren't locked onto your ship, meaning it's a legitimate strategy to either dismount your hangglider in mid air and jump onto the enemy's ship or to jump from your own and engage in proper swashbuckling- or just take their helm and drive their ship into a cliff. You can also use one of the diverse ship types like the Kamikaze ship that instantly destroys anything when touched (but it horrendously underarmoured) or the massive, immobile fort that has a huge cannon on it but can only move via air maneuver which takes a long time to recharge.
Another great thing about airbuccaneers is the perks and flaws system. I found this very unique at the time, and it still sticks out to me as one of the only multiplayer games that has something like this. There are very overpowered perks in each level progression tree that you can pick to make yourself better suited to one role, but there are negatives in that tree (or other trees) you must choose from as well. This would be just OK if the perks were something generic like "move 10% faster" or "repair 20% slower", but they're all mostly fun stuff like "you're drunk and your screen is tilting", "you don't take fall damage", "you have an eyepatch over half of your screen", and "your gun works like russian roulette and has a random chance of killing you". I didn't get that far in the perk tree as this game died pretty quickly, but it was the main thing that kept me playing and I really wish another multiplayer game would pick up something similar.
So all that positive said, do I recommend AirBuccaneers? Hell yes, if you can find players. It's free to play now, and is a great arcadey game with an interesting character creation system. I just really wish it wasn't dead.
this game suffers from only a few problems
these problems are the lack of people. At the start when it was cheep there was alot of people but now there is none i only hope more people will eventually get this game.
problem 2. sence there is near to none servers. the NA servers have the more people but you suffer the lag.
problem 3 the price $15 for a game thats been out for over a year this is not good.
but there is good this game is 10/10 concepts with 10/10 ships and fights i felt as if i was captian killing people as a viking sailing the high winds (or sea's) this game if only it had more people playing it would be better i think the dev's should look at problems and fix them as this is a good gmae just needs more love
Turns out the game is really awesome once you figure out how to play. It's got a few bugs and kinks, but over all it's a great game. The problem is nobody plays it, and for a game with maybe four players a day it is NOT worth 15 bucks.
You will have a hard time finding players. You will rarely have more than 8 people on the entire planet at any given time. This alone should be warning enough. You need human players, there are no bots.
I do not know why so few players stick to the game. While I like the gameplay, it requires more patience than action. It's about airships, and ships move, turn and fire slowly.
Only buy while it is on sale. Not because of the money, but a sale gives a temporary rise in players.
When this game was in Beta I loved it and played A LOT, but now there's a huge lack of players.
+Great game and concept
-Nobody plays it
-The developer said they would update the game but didn't
Not recommended!
Very enjoyable game when the servers were busy - however nowadays the most you might get is a handful of people thrown in with the bots. And I've got to say, I think it's a complete shame, really and truly. It is an innovative and exciting premise a breath of fresh air from the litany of Terraria clones, army FPS's & FTPMMORPPGSFUCKTHATSHIT.
The problem seems to be that the dev's seem to no longer support it, as it's had no updates in a long while.
To make thinks worse the game still retains a fairly hefty price tag of €13.99 - which I think is idiotic.
What the devs should be doing (if they have no intention of supporting it properly) is to be flogging it off cheaply in steam sales on a regular basis to increase the player base and breath some life into the game.
Currently as is, with so few people, I can't say that I'd recommend it for the price - however the game itself is brilliant fun and the level of co-operation I came across with strangers was amazing.
So in short, I am going to recommend this game on the games merits, but would either wait for it to go on sale or for the price to drop.
Air Buccaneers is a game in which you and your team of vikings -or buccaneers- take to the skys aboard rickety looking airships to blow each other to bits. Well, it could be that game. Unfortunately, nobody plays it.
I've been [trying] to play it for the past couple of days and have had a grand total of 2 populated sessions. With a few exceptions, it was the same group of players each time. I'm not really surprised that this is the case, have you heard about Air Buccaneers? It was featured on Steam when it released, but then it just sort of vanished.
The developers seem to be neglecting it too – when I first played it near release among my first thoughts were “wow, this will be great with a bit of polish and some content updates.” I don't think either have happened. A quick visit to the Steam community forums would show you that the small player base echoes this opinion.
It's a crying shame, really. Air Buccaneers could be a really fun game. During my time playing I met a player called Keel and truly were we the gods of the wind! Single handedly we held off barrages from. . . AI controlled airships because only one other person was in the game. While I'm glad that bots take over when there aren't enough players, it's just not as satisfying. Especially since AI ships can't be boarded and captured – which is one of my favourite aspects of Air Buccaneers.
Seldom did me and Keel get a chance to clumsily weave through a barrage of cannon fire, pull up to the enemy and leap through the skies – swords in hand – to claim an enemy ship for our own. But when it happened, it was glorious.
Air Buccaneers has 3 game modes: Deathmatch, Domination and Protect The Golden Ship.
In Deathmatch you blow up enemy ships to score points, in domination you blow up enemy ships to score points and in Protect The Golden Ship you blow up enemy ships to score points but also have to blow up the golden ship – One team defends and the other attacks. So there isn't much variance there.
There are 3 roles in Air Buccaneers. Captain, shooter and Everything Else Guy.
The captain pilots the ship, shouting out orders to the crew and calling out the locations of enemy ships. The shooters man the cannons, manually aiming the cannon and trying to predict the ball's trajectory [there is no aiming reticle]. The Everything Else Guy does everything else, if you aren't behind the wheel or behind the cannon then you're fixing the ship, spotting enemy ships, firing off air-mines or supporting the cannons by reducing the cooldown time on their shots.
The roles are flexible, at any time the captain can ditch the wheel and hop on the cannons or the shooter can decide he's had enough of missing shots and instead just leap onto the enemy ship to engage in an exciting battle of who can click their sword the fastest. Melee combat leaves much to be desired, which makes boarding less exciting than it could be. But is melee combat really important in a game about piloting an airship to shoot other airships?
There are 4 types of ships in Air Buccaneers. As before I'm going to make up their names because I don't think the names of anything are mentioned anywhere in game.
First up you have what I call the Classic. Not particularly fast, four cannons and hardy enough to soak up a few cannons before dropping out of the sky. Then you have the Speedy McGoFast; only one cannon, fairly small and weak, fast enough to get close enough to an enemy ship to initiate a surprise boarding party.
There is also the Flying Fortress. Very slow, very big, I think it has a strong defence? I've never actually seen a cannon hit it. It's an incredibly long ranged cannon platform that nobody really uses. And finally you have the OH COME ON. A speedy little kamikaze ship fit for one person. No cannons because you are the cannon. Pick a target and smash right into them, sacrificing yourself for the good of the team [only to respawn a second later to do it again].
I took a break from writing this to see if I could play Air Buccaneers. Nobody was online.
So, would I recommend Air Buccaneers? Well it depends on how many people are listening to me. A couple of friends? Probably not. The servers are too empty. But if I had an audience of enough people to populate servers? Heck yeah. It's a fun game that's worth checking out if you have a large enough group of people to actually play.
AirBucc has always been a LAN party favourite for my group of friends, and we've been playing since it was a UT2k4 mod. Having missed a few of our yearly LANs and having only played the updated version the other night, I figure it's time for a review.
So, this version --
Yeah, the servers are kinda dead.
Yeah, the RPG elements don't add a lot to it.
But oh my god, there is nothing more fun that screaming at friends to turn that blasted balloon starboard 15º so you can launch a cannonball at some scurvy skallywags. Folks who are giving it bad reviews simply haven't played it in the right environment.
It's also a TON easier to play since the UT2k4 version, since you don't need separate people to load, aim and fire the cannons. Although I liked how much teamwork that required (Making it especially great for LANs), I definitely like how the focus in now much more on flying (Which is also WAY less finicky now) and shooting.
A terrible game with lack luster gameplay, very buggy and servers are dead. If the trailers excited you to purchase the game, please take the time to look at a let's play video first.
An amazing game, I loved every bit of it and I have over 50 hours logged into it. The only problem with the game is the lack of players. Sometimes theres a wave a people from a sale or event but others there are no people at all. If the community is active at the time of purchase you will enjoy this game.
imj nair buccaneers uyyou have to play a game of battleships in the sky vs asome COLOMGS ** VIKING S AAND & BUCCCNANERS...
t owin game u are in charge of fly to ship or to shoot to cannon in
los of people r gonna love ir baby
I played this game back in the day, years ago, I think it was a UT2K4 mod? Anyway I had forgotten all about it and then I see this shit on Greenlight and I'm like, fuck, it's that game I loved. And it will be a game that you, too, will love. I know it's played out but you play as a fucking pirate or a viking flying around in a motherfucking balloon ship and you fight each other with cannons and shit, it is fun as hell. Buy this game if you like fun weird multiplayer games.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | LudoCraft Ltd. |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 74 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 66% положительных (134) |