Upcoming game: Ahoy

[Techwright]

Just learned of this:  Ahoy.  Apparently, this will be a team Age of Sail warship game, though there will be a solo captaincy combat option as well.  By "team", I gather one creates a character, goes through training ("Seamanship") to run a "real" sailing ship and learn the articles of war to which players will be bound (presumably this starts as midshipman), then works one's way up the ladder of success.  Friends can join the same ship and assume the roles of officers under one friend as captain.  

 

"Ahoy is a skills-based experience, where seamanship should be easy to learn, but hard to master"

 

Sea Trials - Closed Alpha - targeted Quarter 1, 2026  - Closed Alpha players will be aiding in the testing of the Seamanship portion of the game.  It doesn't sound like combat yet, unless there's target practice.

 

Arena - Public Release - targeted Quarter 4, 2026  - This will be the battle stage.  Demonstrated were British vs. Continental Navies, but there were 3 other flags available.  There's suppose to be 4 modes of this stage, with more opportunities to come, both sea and land, as well as new ships in the future:

• Sea Trials - Peaceful Sailing with friends
• Beat to Quarters - Two teams, multiple ships
• Naumachia - Every captain for themselves
• Dominion - Capture and hold the objectives

 

Open World - "Future Vision" - TBA  - the gist is that they want to make the entire Caribbean an explorable and colonizable content: "trade, smuggling, piracy" were a few points named.

 

Side note:  I must give them credit for smarts for using Boccherini's musical duet as a sure way to motivate Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World fans to join the game.  (full name of piece:  Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid (Night Music of the Streets of Madrid), Opus 30 No. 6 (G. 324))

 

 

 

Also, the sea chanty sung by El Pony Pisador at the end of the video is really quite catchy:

 

Edited Saturday at 05:01 PM by Techwright
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