The gun freezes time when you aim, a nice way to survey and control some of the tougher enemies. If a tougher enemy is downed, you can perform an all-out attack to sic you and your buds on them like a swarm of cartoon bees. It's still early days yet, and I like to think I'll get more comfortable with it as time goes on, but it very much feels like a game with a different focus.It's about as tense as herding ants, though the Persona 5 style treatment gives it more life than it deserves. In conclusion, I'd say this does not scratch the same itch as PR3 or Patrician 4 does for me. I don't like how they've tied the number of captains you can hire to this, as it essentially puts a limit on the number of armed convoys you can have. I like the Concession system, where you spend Fame Points to purchase the right to produce different goods, or bonuses for your ships. Makes it more interesting to set up your convoy paths.
In general, your convoys will be faster moving East to West than West to East. There is also now a concept of wind direction, a la Sid Meiers Pirates!. On a positive note, the graphics are improved a bit. I'm not entirely sure, but it seems the costs of production buildings have been rebalanced to make them much more expensive. There is also a new aspect of adjacency bonuses, with many more support buildings to get a handle on, and more though goes into where to set up your houses and production buildings. Each city is much, much smaller than in PR3, setting up more for distributing your production over more cities. Setting up or modifying your trade routes feels more tedious.Ĭity management has also undergone a change. Assigning convoys to trade routes feels clunky. There is still a limit on the number of cities you can assign to a trade route. Not really what I wanted.Īlso, the trading doesn't feel as smooth as it did in PR3. In PR4, they seems to have wanted to make combat a more central focus. The game in general isn't turn based, why is the combat? For me, Port Royale and Patrician are trading games, with the ability to go into combat if you want.
Honestly, that aspect of it seems.out of place. These are used during the turn based combat.
Different ships give you different abilities. Higher levels give you different skills and abilities. Captains can only command so many military vessels before they need to level up. In order to have military vessels, you need captains. There is more attention payed to the combat aspects. So, it does feel like a bit of a different game. So I picked it up, and the short answer is stick with PR3.
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