(46 votes, average: 3.46 out of 5)
Loading ...Navyfield is a 2D tactical naval simulation MMO set in World War 2. Navyfield plays like a real time version of Gunbound, but on the open seas. The game has an immense amount of ship customization, as players can actually distribute armor plating across individual parts of their ship. Blast your way through massive 64 vs 64 battles and fight over 100 different types of ships.
Navyfield Information
Game Title: Navy Field
Genres: 2D, Shooter, MMO
Publisher: SD EnterNet
Developer: SD EnterNet
Area: Global
Official Site: Navyfield
Platforms: Microsoft Windows
Pros: +Up to 64 vs 64 battles, +Unique concept of tactical naval warfare with RPG elements, +Lots of customization
Cons: -Small community, -Tutorial doesn’t elaborate on upgrading your ship, -Difficult to compete against more established players early game.
Navyfield Review
Navyfield is a tactical naval simulation game that is set in World War 2. You start the game off in an incredibly weak starting ship. Before you can start playing the game with other people the game introduces a series of tutorials which are highly recommended, as without playing through them you’ll have no idea what to do. Navyfield doesn’t play like your average shooter. Aiming and moving around can be incredibly difficult at first so its wise to get some practice before you actually start playing with people.
One interesting aspect of Navyfield is that the game offers a series of missions which can be completed alone or with friends. Although you only need to complete the first three missions, which are tutorials, before being able to play with other people, it’s a good idea to play through a handful of missions before actually trying to join battles, as new players will find them selves out gunned in every game they join. Luckily, even if you get killed in battles, you’ll still earn experience, so long as your team did well.
Battles are organized in a simple way. As soon as the game host hits begin, the game automatically divides up whoever is in the room into two sides and they square off. I can’t emphasize enough how weak your starting ship is, so prepare to be disappointed upon entering your first few battles. You’ll likely be destroyed by your enemies before you can even land a single shell on them, but at least the game still gives you experience for being in the battle. It’ll easily take a few hours of getting destroyed over and over again until you can finally start being useful in battles.
Another downside to Navyfield is the game’s incredibly small community. In my hours of play, I haven’t seen a single new player other than myself, which made battles incredibly challenging, as nearly everyone would be able to sink my ship from a huge distance, and I wouldn’t even be able to reach them. The game’s developers did create a mode where you can only play against other beginners, but unfortunately there aren’t enough beginners in Navyfield to start a battle with.
One interesting aspect about Navyfield is that every ship in the game is modeled after a real life vessel during the World War 2 era. Weapons and parts are also historically accurate. Another interesting feature about Navyfield is that players can actually select one of four nations which each have their own advantages and disadvantages. The four nations are United States, Germany, Japan and United Kingdom. The game also has a unique set of RPG elements incorporated to the ship customization. Players have to place sailors on their boats to operate guns and repair their ship, but each sailor can level up and grow more proficient at specific tasks. The game has 75 different sailor positions like gunner, mechanic, scout, etc.
It’s clear that the game developers spent a lot of time polishing the game for historical accuracy, but that doesn’t make up for the games drawbacks. Navyfield doesn’t even explain how to upgrade your ship or what each attribute does for your sailors. The only game that’s even remotely similar to Navyfield is Gunbound, and thats turn based.
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looks good
What is the name the song? Its cool
its by rammstein dont know the specific song but thats the band
Game is fun
Umm just so you know that song is not in the game. The in game music is only one song and its just music (no words). It [the in game music] gets annoying to the point everyone turns the music off and runs Windows Media Player in the background.
The game is fun until about level 25 ish, then its a massive grind. You are doing the same thing over and over and making the same movements you get sick of the game. The experience you need to level up doubles or so, but you get the same exp as you got before. It has the effect of making each level you progress take twice as long as before. The max level is 120.
There are weekly updates (every wednesday) where the game is offline for an hour or so. The “updates” are suppose to be bug fixes and “balancing” fixes, but most of the time the updates make things worse or dont fix them. The latest update was suppose to fix your Radio Man (a type of salior, whos only job is to keep your buddies list, friends, and let you start a clan [called a fleet in the game].) If you want to chat to a friend in the game…you click on your radio man and scroll to your friends name. There was a bug and the game would not let you scroll or access the radio man. So there was an “update” designed to fix the bug, but instead it made it way worse. It took two more weeks for them to fix it back to the simi-working bugged way. There is a great deal of laughter in the game about “oh its a bug…lol.”
The game is very unbalanced and its even more unbalanced the newer you are. Everytime you raise your salior’s level enough to get a new ship class (ie going from a dd to a cl) you start back at the bottom again (meaning that high level dd’s will pawn your cl and so forth all the way up the ship line.)
Pretty much the only people whos opinion get listened to are the high level bb5/6’s (there are 6 levels of bb’s…bb1 the lowest bb6 the highest and most powerful.) and the cv5/6’s (cv’s are carriers with aircraft and just like bb’s cv1 is the lowest and cv6 are the highest most powerful). This makes the unbalancing greater, as the bbs want longer range and more powerful guns for them, but weaker and shorter ranged weapons for everyone else. As it is now, a bb1 has no chance to even slightly wound a bb5. Where the bb5 can sink the bb1 in one shot. The range difference is so great that from where a bb1’s shots land to where the bb5’s shots land is about a full screen lenght.
If you are going to play there are 4 races IJN [Imperal Japanese Navy], KM [Kriegsmarine or Germany], UK [United Kingdom], US United States].
IJN is good at torps…good for dd’s and subs only, you would never want torps on your bb. Torp bombers are better because of the better torps. Negtive is armor sucks and there is suppose to be a speed advantage but 1 or 2 knots is not an advantage if you have no armor.
KM is suppose to have a range advantage, but its small. KM is suppose to reach the same ship at a lower level, but its only 1 level lower, so not much of a plus. Good figheters for cv’s. Again really bad armor, bad torps, less damage per shell.
US is the average of the group. No plus or negitve. The US bb5 is probably the 2nd best of the game. US has a good figherts for cv’s. Middle ground on torps, damager per shell…everything.
UK has a huge advantage with armor, plus UK gets an extra support salior (support saliors are for repairing damage, or making your ship go faster.). UK also has a real boost to damage per shell. There is suppose to be a lower speed negtive but its only 1 or 2 knots and you can counter it with that extra support sailor and actually make it a speed boost.
Overall go UK, that armor bonus and support bonus and damage bonus pawns the other ships. UK ships can get pounded and just shrug off 18″ shells as if you were tossing rice at them.
Thats cl..c l. I know it looks like d. Going from a dd to c l. I guess it smashed everything closer together.
Also this game has a huge learning curve. It will take you about a month to learn manual aim…Then each time your BO (Bridge Officer) or your Gunners level up, your aim changes and you spend about a day or two to re-learn the new angles. Each time you move to the next ship up, it takes about 2 weeks to learn the new angles for the new ship. If you put different guns on your ship…more time to learn the angles of the new guns.
To fire at the other ships, you point your guns at them and then raise and lower your guns elevation. This is shown as an angle… 0 degree (bug here, 0 degrees will fire your guns into the deck of your ship, most people use 2 or more degrees to make sure this doesnt happen), 1 degree, 2 degrees, 3, 4, 5, 6 and so on…up to the max allowed by your gun (some anti-aircraft guns can point stright up or 90 degrees). You have to remember what angle fires what distance and then adjust your fire.
There are rules, such as no stacking (where you put all the high level ships on your team and all the low level ships on the other team), but they are only selectively enforced. As long as the MOD is on the winning team…no problem. If they are on the loseing team, then they will ban you for 24 hours. Also if you get banned for 24 hours, you can buy something from the NF [NavyField] store to get unbanned. There are players who brag about how they know the MOD’s and have been banned from the game…yet somehow they still are playing. Cheating is a major problem because of this. Durring HA [Harbor Assault] there was a “bug” where if you did it you could make your team millions of credits [the form of money you use to buy things like ships and ammo] and points [the thing you use to class up your saliors]…teams caught using the “bug” were banned, only until they bought stuff (for real cash money, probably more like a credit card though). So most figured it was worth it to make millions and spend 2 bucks to get unbanned…I mean 2 bucks to buy a c l prem ship and then get gunbanned.
I should make two final notes:
The game is Free….100%. You can get to level 120 and have a bb5/6 or cv5/6 without ever paying. You just get a -40% to exp gain and credits gain. There is a bug here, so how it works you actually get -50% exp gain and the same with credits (some say its not a bug but programed that way, others just think so many bugs it has to be a bug.)So it just takes a little longer.
And nothing you need to know (such as how to get that next ship or how to class up your saliors) is in the NF guild. The NF guild is very crappy and tells you next to nothing. Lucky, some fan of the game has a fan site that explains everything in detail. ( http://trainworld.us/ ). It explains everything that the NF guild and the forum dont. The forum is basically for high level players to complain how they got sunk by a low level player and how to “re-balance” ships so this does not happen again, for cheaters to brag about stacking, and WW2 buffs to talk about the smallest little details of WW2.
There is suppose to be a NF2 comming out soon, its suppose to be in 3D and have a better battle system…
Rammstein - Mein Herz Brennt
Just like German Panzer Steel