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Dutch Gambit:

We sail to Antigua, go left and go into Charlie Knippel's house. In order to be given a task for the English side, you must have the following characteristics: navigation - 30 points, positive or neutral honor, and the main character's rank is not higher than 15.

If you have met all these conditions, you will receive the first task. We need to capture the East India ship. Before you take on this task, swim around the taverns and hire a couple of boarders who can become officers. Also purchase nipples and cores. After that, return to Charlie and take on the task. You will need to force the direction of Martinique - Antigua - St. Christopher. Also, fourteen days are allotted for this task. If you do not meet this deadline, the British will not work with you. But in theory, you should fit in. As soon as you see a ship with purple sails, that's our goal. Swim to her and join the fight. We destroy two small ships, and take a large one for boarding. After a successful boarding, we assign an officer to the ship with silver and return to Antigua to Charlie Knippel. We report on the presence of the ship and silver on it, and receive an order to come exactly one day later to get acquainted with the commander, receive a reward, and also a new task.

Passage of "Corsairs: To each his own." Dutch Gambit for England

Richard tells about the Schneur family, about Abigail, about her father, who thinks he is an evil pirate and therefore wants to marry his daughter to an evil Dutchman who is an enemy to Richard. Richard will ask to bring Abigail to him, and we agree. We sail to Willemstad and go into the Schneur house, which is located next to the residence. Solomon meets us at the house and starts talking about some grandfather's skull and that we return his money. Also, he will tell you where Abigail is. We go to the church and talk to her. Abigail does not want to leave her father until the family values are found, so we will need to find them. To search for latitude and longitude, we need a compass, as well as a working chronometer. We have a compass, and the chronometer is bought in the GVIKA building. A working chronometer is made in inventory (K) by crossing an hourglass and a chronometer. After that, go to your cabin, put on a working chronometer and compass, and then look for the right place through the “think aloud” option. Coordinates: 12'48 and 64'41, sail to these coordinates and then go to sea. By the way, the coordinates do not have to be exactly the same, an error is permissible. The main thing is that when you go to sea, an inscription about the location of the island appears in the ship's log. After that, land on the island and go to the grotto. A chest awaits us in the grotto, but it explodes at our approach, and a zombie will come out of the ground - the guard of Chavinavi. We kill him and rummage through the corpse, after the chest - in the chest instead of money there will be a head. After the events experienced, we go to Richard Fleetweed and talk about everything we saw.

Arriving at Richard Fleetweed - we tell everything that we saw and show the head of Bald Gaston. Richard will ask you to look into this situation and go to Bridgetown (Barbados) to check whether Gaston really died or if this is a deceptive maneuver of our enemies. After that, we should sail to Curacao, to the Blanca lagoon, to Charlie, who will be waiting for us with money to ransom Abigail. We need to meet twenty days. We sail and go to the tavern. There we receive a letter from Gaston with warnings about the Englishman and the Dutchman. And that no one can be trusted. Now we need to sail to Curacao, to the Blanca lagoon, where Charlie is waiting for us. We sail to the place and find out that there is no need to swim anywhere else. Charlie sends a letter from Richard with wishes of good luck and two hundred thousand pesos, so as not to be completely disappointed in this English traitor. There is nothing to do, you have to fight with the Dutch dogs. Also, Charlie will be asked to join your team. Take it you won't regret it. At the exit from the lagoon, three Holland warships are waiting for us. You can fight them, or you can run away. Remember, if you decide to fight, you will ruin your reputation with Holland.

After you break away from the fleet, sail to Antigua to find a pharmacy. Get down into the underground passage, which is located next to the entrance to the church. Wandering through the catacombs, you will stumble upon Murdoch, who, in turn, will not want to give up the papers and will attack you. Be careful, he is not alone, but with a Chinese.

Passage of "Corsairs: To each his own." Dutch Gambit for England

It will be possible to remove from Murdoch's corpse: seventeen thousand pesos, a trombone, John Murdoch's archive and two sealed letters. You also need to find the cipher, for this: we leave the dungeon and go in again, after that we go straight and turn right. We search the stones and find the cipher. After that, we sail to the Cayman, to Esmeralda Bay, where Lucas Rodenburg is already waiting for us. If you have a ship of rank 4 or higher, then you can board it. If not, then just heat it up. After the boarding, the following things can be removed from Lucas: an officer's saber, a dueling pistol, a good spyglass and twenty thousand pesos. In the chest you can find: twenty thousand pesos, a four-barreled pistol, one hundred and forty-five gold doubloons, the Jade Turtle amulet, the Fisherman amulet, Ix-Chel tears, blue amber, amber, meteorite. After killing Lucas, get off the ship as soon as possible, as it is mined. After a successful boarding and explosion of Lucas, land on the shore of Esmeralda, go into the jungle and go into the grotto. Inside will be two hundred thousand pesos and the keys to the drugstore, our new property. Don't forget to visit your new home in Antigua and meet your new friend, Gino Guineilly. He will give you a beginner's alchemist's chest, as well as a recipe for an antidote.

After this adventure, you should have accumulated a million. If you haven’t accumulated, then complete side tasks, and then go to Michel and make him happy with your first earned million.

The fourth task is the Dutch Gambit. Dutch West Indies Campaign.
Lucas Rodenburg is your goal, we get one more task from him. From the history of this task.
From the history: A few months ago, a merchant's flute under the English flag left Recife and headed for Willemstad. On it, as passengers, there was a family of Jewish refugees who were striving to get to the Dutch colonies ... however, he was not destined to reach Curacao - along the way he was attacked by the well-known pirate Jacob van Berg and sank off the coast of some unknown uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea. Of the entire crew, only two Jewish settlers managed to escape - Solomon Shneur and his daughter Abigail. They somehow miraculously reached the shores of the island. Solomon also managed to drag a chest with his family gold to land. Perhaps they would have stayed on this island forever, but they were lucky again, the noise of the battle was heard by Richard Fleetwood, who was passing nearby on his ship, and attacked the pirate. Van Berg did not accept the fight and disappeared, and Fleetwood landed on the island and took the wrecked people on board ... The funny thing is that Solomon took Fleetwood's Valkyrie, which approached the island, for Van Berg's Mirage and, frightened, hid his treasures deep in the island. As a result, Abigail and Solomon arrived in Curaçao without a broken penny in their pocket, on Fleetwood's ship, which landed them ashore in the Blanca lagoon ... Solomon himself told this story to Lucas Rodenburg. Since the Company provides all kinds of support Jewish community in Curacao, in general, Lucas Rodenburg wants to have a wife, Abigail, and since you are new and unfamiliar in the Dutch colonies, you are honored to solve this problem. I need to go to some girl. Abigail Schneur, and convince her to marry Lucas Rodenburg. Hmm... I have never acted as a matchmaker. Well, I'll try myself in this field too... Abigail's house is located in front of the residence, on the second floor of the house, talk to the girl. How trite ... It turns out that the whole thing is about money? We need to talk to Abigail's father, maybe he will still remember the island where he hid his savings.
From the log: Right at the exit from the Shneurs' house, I was met by a certain Portuguese - Joaquim Merriman. and offered to go with him to his house for a conversation. He is aware of Solomon's caches, and offers for a certain relic, a jade skull, as much as half a million pesos!
You should have the following instruments - an astrolabe, a compass, a chronometer and an hourglass. In the alchemy menu (key K), assemble a device called the Sextant from a compass and an astrolabe. And from a chronometer and an hourglass, make a valid chronometer. The expiration date of the last device is 30 days. Go to your ship, enter the cabin. Press Enter, click on the reflection icon (through which you usually scroll through time) and select the phrase "Find the island by coordinates." If you do not have the above devices, then buy them at the GVIK headquarters. Most likely, the devices will not be there all at once, so the poet will have to go there every week, or look for them from merchants on other islands (this happens VERY rarely). So, let's assume that you have the devices. I go to my ship to the cabin - there I can use the instruments to determine the location of the island on the map. After clicking on the phrase, wait 30 seconds, and your character will say that he marked the island on the map - 12 degrees 48 minutes north latitude and 64 degrees 41 minutes west longitude. Swim along these coordinates - the coordinates will be shown under the compass in the upper right corner on the world map. I'm heading there. Coordinates - 12 gr. 48" north latitude. 64 degrees 41" west longitude. The island is located between Curacao and Martinique. Approximately in the middle. Well, it doesn't matter, you will find it by coordinates. Yes, the most important thing is that the coordinates do not necessarily coincide minute by minute. Just swim to approximately the same coordinates and exit to the sea navigation mode (exit the world map).
From the log: Apparently, Solomon hid his treasures on the very island, the coordinates of which I learned from the journals of van Bergh and Fleetwood - they were both there! The location of the island has been determined. Here is the desired island. You need to land on the shore and look for the grotto.
Land on an island in Buccaneers Bay. Go to another location, there will be a fork in the next location - go left and enter the grotto. Turn back, you will see the exit, and to the right - the chest. Take all the money, gold nuggets and a skull from the chest.
From the log: Decide for yourself who you give the skull to. Solomon's money and a relic - a jade skull - were found. Now back to Willemstad. That's just who to give the skull - Solomon or Merriman? The money is returned to Solomon. He was extremely happy - he even gave me an amulet. Now you need to talk to Abigail. Abigail gave her consent to marry Lucas. It's worth making him happy. Lucas Rodenburg was pleased with my work - he paid 50,000 pesos and presented a valuable item.
Fifth task Dutch Gambit. Dutch West Indies Campaign.
After completing the task, you can go about your business and leave on your own for a couple of weeks, as soon as you return to the port of Willemstad, the fifth task will begin.
From the log: In the port of Willemstad I was met by an orderly officer. I urgently need to come to Rodenburg. According to Rodenburg, I am in danger - the apothecary John Murdoch decided to settle accounts with me. It is very strange, because at the meeting John did not seem to me a scoundrel, although, while serving with Lucas, I had seen enough of everything ... It is better not to risk it. I'm heading to Antigua and I'll finish this apothecary.
Find the church, this will be your guide, stand with your back to the door of the church, and look a little to the left, you will see two houses, and between them is the entrance to the dungeon. Looking for a place brickwork with a break. Fight Murdoch and his friend, search the bodies, you need the keys to the pharmacy, go up the stairs to the pharmacy.
From the log: In a chest in a pharmacy, I found the archive of John Murdoch, or rather, Johan van Merden. But it is not possible to read it - a meaningless set of letters. Obviously, some kind of cipher is needed. But where to find it?
On the second floor of the house you will find the character Gino Guineili, who will give you a recipe and teach you Latin. The cipher is hidden in the dungeon, you should thoroughly search the dungeon, I can tell you from memory that you go down into the dungeon between two houses through a hatch, turn in one direction where there is a move, then you reach the first branch, turn right and all the way, but I I could be wrong, there are few passages in the dungeon, I think in five minutes you will find the cipher.
From the log: I deciphered the archive, but I wish I hadn't done it... What a bastard this Lucas is! Well, to hell with him. He is a dangerous man, and he has enough opportunities here to harm me. Let's pretend that I don't know anything, and besides, the beauty Abigail doesn't want to ruin her life. This is her choice, although against the background of Lucas, Captain Fleetwood looked like an angel. And I'm getting into real estate. It looks like I have my own house with an underground passage.
Sail back to Curacao.
From the log: I reported to Rodenburg about the destruction of van Merden. Lucas sails to Europe with Abigail. Well, happy journey...

Recently, Mikhail Naritsa and Maxim Kulakov hosted two streams of Corsairs: City of Lost Ships, the penultimate part of the cult pirate series of games. In this blog, I will tell you about the latest installation of the saga - "Corsairs: To each his own!".

For the sake of atmosphere

To begin with, let's take a short historical digression, for those who are unfamiliar with the series. Corsairs is an Action/RPG with open world strategy elements. The series has five official games, as well as a number of additions.

The first game of the franchise, developed by Akella, was released in 2000 and became a commercially successful project for the Russian company. Moreover, in North America the game was published by Bethesda, and in Europe by UbiSoft, which is very, very commendable. The second game was linked to the first Pirates movie. caribbean and was released in 2003 to lukewarm reviews and comments. The third part was released in 2005 and was almost universally denounced by both critics and players for its buggy nature and weak storyline.

Further, the series passed under the development of Seaward, which previously dealt with fan mods for the second and third games. And oddly enough, but two worthy games came out of the hands of amateurs - "Return of the Legend" and "City of Lost Ships" (both 2007). The latter became a global refinement of the previous part and brought the game mechanics to mind. The fourth Corsairs, according to the promises of the developers, were supposed to be a revolution, but the financial crisis and lack of budget buried the project, and it never came out.

In 2012, Corsairs: To Each His Own! (KKS for short) developed by BlackMark Studio, formerly fan-made add-ons. And, in fact, this is the patient of our review-analysis. KKS is a light attempt to rethink the "City of the Lost Ships" (CPC for short), introducing a number of new features to the basic game mechanics, which will be discussed now.

Gameplay "Corsairs"

Gameplay consists of three modes. The first is land. In it, the hero, under the control of the player, runs through cities, jungles and caves, fights during boarding and plundering colonies. In this mode, the hero explores the land, communicates and fights NPCs.

The combat system is interesting and complex. The player can inflict different types strikes with melee weapons, depending on the situation. Surrounded by opponents - circular strike, the enemy sat in the block - punching. In addition, the hero can equip firearms - both muskets and pistols. The former are more powerful, but take longer to recharge and are useless in close combat, while the latter recharge faster but are weaker. Reloading is automatic. In addition, the hero can equip amulets that will give an increase in skills.

The second stage is tactical. In this mode, the hero controls the ship, participating in naval battles with other ships and forts.

Vessels are divided into 7 classes: from a tiny tartan to a giant manowar. Ships have three "health" scales: plating, sails, crew. Damage to the hull will sink faster, slow it down to the sails, and on command will make it slower to reload guns, control sails, and also reduce the number of fighters during boarding.

The third allied ship is not visible, because he knows where the hell is due to a bug

Ships of even the same type are not of the same type and may have different characteristics. Among them are guns that differ in appearance and caliber. The larger the caliber, the greater the damage and weight of the guns, the type affects the range and reload.

The movement of the ship is affected by the wind, some ships go better with the wind, others perpendicular to it. In calm, of course, everyone swims slowly.

The third mode is strategic, in which the hero travels on a global map, which is the Caribbean archipelago with part of mainland America. The player encounters encounters that are pirates or ships from one of the four nations; in addition, the player can get caught in a storm. In the event that a player enters into a confrontation (both with NPCs and with the elements), he is transferred to tactical mode, which, in turn, in the event of boarding, goes into land mode.

Character leveling

Characteristics are represented by the PIRATES system: Strength, Perception, Reaction, Leadership, Learnability, Endurance, Luck. They affect the character's skills, giving an increase to certain points. A strong hero hits harder and carries more things, the leader has a better team and officers.

In this part, the characteristics only affect the initial stages of the game, since it has an extensive plot and is not focused on freeplay. And this means that the developers are forcing you to be a terminator, both land and sea. Which, in turn, gives little space for acting out, since the plot is set on rails, which, however, sometimes offer the player a very serious choice.

Abilities are divided into land and sea. The former are responsible for all sorts of increases in stamina and health, are responsible for the ability to handle pistols, and so on. Pumping ship abilities allows you to open up new opportunities in naval combat. Boarding will allow you to capture ships from a long distance, inflict preliminary damage to the team with a musket salvo, carpenter skills will allow you to effectively repair a ship in battle, and so on.

However, before using ship skills, you need to hire the appropriate officer with the same skill. Pumped bonuses to damage from guns? Kindly appoint a gunner with the appropriate ability. In addition to the gunner, the ship has the following officers: navigator (speed, maneuvering), boatswain (boarding), doctor (protects the team in battle), treasurer (trade), carpenter (repair) and three boarders who accompany the hero on sea and land. Officers can combine up to three positions on a ship with the appropriate skill. In addition, passengers and prisoners can be transported on the ship.

And finally, the skills of the hero. They are also divided into personal and ship. Individuals are responsible for handling different types melee and firearms, and are also represented by stealth (responsible for successful sorties to an enemy fort under a false flag), charisma (reputation and leadership) and luck.

Even with 100 luck, the game trolls you like the first Witcher

Ships are responsible for: navigation (management of ships of various ranks and the ship as a whole), accuracy and weapons, boarding, repair, trade and defense. Skills are pumped as in the TES series - by practice.

Difficult? Enough. But, like contour maps, it is not as incomprehensible as it seems at first glance.

The player can complete quests, most of which are repeatable quests. They can be issued by prominent figures of the colony: a merchant, a usurer, a shipbuilder, a port manager, a priest, a governor. In the city, NPCs may ask you to transport or escort somewhere, to find someone. As a reward, the player receives pesos or doubloons, an increase in skills during the course of the task. Quests also affect the reputation of the character: failed quests will lower it, which in turn will not allow you to do some things in the game (playing cards with governors, for example), and may also cause officers to rebel if they have the opposite reputation to the player.

So, with a very large introductory part, it’s finally over and you can go directly to “To each his own!” where this blog started.

I must say that I played the game back in the year it was released, in 2012, and then it was, to put it mildly, a disaster. The developers obviously overdid it with hardcore, and as usual for the KKS series, they had a bunch of bugs at the start. Now it’s 2018, and it would be nice to check not only the presence of qualitative changes in the game (fortunately, it is still supported), its durability, but also the compliance of the series with the realities of current game design standards.

KKS is almost no different from the GPC in terms of the basic part of the gameplay. All the same three modes, the engine is still the same Storm Engine, which overclocked the very first part. However, there are still changes.

Kraft appeared. The player can make potions and other useful items such as amulets, paper cartridges, and a means of determining latitude and longitude. Craft is simple and rather useless, it does not affect the balance in any way and is used, often just because of the periodic need to determine the location.

And then there are grenades, probably

By the way, this is a new mechanic after all. According to quests, sometimes it is necessary to find an island hidden on the global map, or some specific meeting point, which is helped by an astrolabe, a compass and a chronometer. Such an innovation fit in well, it does not cause any particular rage because of the crookedness and, most importantly, it looks appropriate and authentic.

We shoveled the concept of amulets. In their current form, they do not work together from the hero's inventory, but only when they are directly equipped on the character. Moreover, their action is limited in time. Again, this is not a major innovation, nor is it a significant impact on game process does not, because you can do without them. They are rather a small bonus, which is not essential for a pumped hero.

But a more or less significant innovation is a new currency in the game - doubloons. They are more expensive than pesos and, unlike them, have weight, so carrying them in thousands will not work. A new currency is used, mainly in quests and there is not much sense in freeplay from it, since the peso pours generously for both quests and boarding. Doubloons, it seems to me, were introduced only for the sake of extra sticks in the player's wheels. Like so many things in this game.

Compared to the GPC, the ship fleet has slightly expanded in the KKS. New items were added, some colonies were taken over by another power, a little more random events and quests appeared. Slightly changed the F2 window. In short, the developers have touched a little of everything, without hitting any vital organs. Almost.

KKS after the second "Corsairs" (those that are "Pirates of the Caribbean") made a big story campaign. And it is the main innovation of this part. The main advantage and the main disadvantage at the same time.

Main quest and game problems

Passage of the plot "To each his own!" takes 70 hours including additions. Not counting saves/loads.

The second half of the 17th century, the heyday of piracy in the Caribbean, the era of a collision with the unknown and not yet known, the struggle of the powers of the Old World for the redistribution of the New. A young nobleman, Charles de Maur, arrives from Paris in the French colony of Martinique, a typical rake who senselessly spent his life in high society up to 25 years old. He was called to America by a family debt - it is necessary to rescue his half-brother Michel de Monpe from a French prison, in which he was imprisoned for a debt of a million pesos, Governor-General Philippe de Poinsy.

Naturally, everything will not be so simple, even after the protagonist's brother is free. But before that, you still have to go. The game starts with a fairly detailed introduction in which you complete simple quests and get acquainted with the game mechanics. As a result of the starting tasks, you will have a ship, a crew, possibly the first officers and, most importantly, experience in doing business in the Caribbean under control.

Then the macroquest begins, during which the hero earns the coveted million pesos in one way or another. This is one of the few tasks in the game that offers you to choose a side of the conflict. In this case, it is: Holland, as well as two different options for England. And here both the advantages and disadvantages of the fact that the plot is at the forefront begin to emerge.

As already mentioned, the plot is very large, sometimes it even seems to be endless. The plot itself does not shine with some kind of genius, it is rather more interesting for the player to participate in local battles, get from one adventure to another, which is why a crowd of characters flashes in the narrative, whose names (if not existence) you will forget when passing the next quest. Assignments, though elaborated, are quite similar. But, it seems to me, this will not stop the Corsair lover, since the gameplay itself is all the same beloved and unique Corsairs.

Sometimes the game wants to fuck you

But what is the problem is the saves/loads mentioned above. I can’t even imagine how many times I reloaded in this game, according to the statistics at the end of the game - 419, and that’s not counting the fact that I had to replay some moments.

If earlier in the game there were troll encounters and troll storms, then troll wind and troll time were added to them. No, they were also present in the CPC, but here they are driven to utter exhaustion.

The game has an indecently large number of quests that require completion in the allotted time. And everything would be fine, but the wind troll puts sticks in the sails every time, so quest failures due to being late due to a bad wind are a common thing. It's not uncommon for you to seemingly go through a quest and find out that it's been failed for like a month (in my case it was The Pirate Saga) because you were late. And no one tells you that there was any time limit - load an early save, start a few hours of the game again.

And after all, no one bothers the developers to increase the time to complete the quest or one of its stages by several days. No one bothers to add more notes to the ship's log in the spirit of "you need to hurry." And in the end, instead of hardcore, this results in nothing more than a crooked game design. Something like a light version of troll games.

We are not talking about directly passing quests. The game has an indecently vulgar number of situations by type: the hero is left face to face with a crowd of enemies - fight with them. And in the end it's not interesting, but again it's crooked and even funny from time to time, especially if you play shoot-and-run tactics. The only thing missing is the music from "Benny Hill" or I Got You Babe in case of repeated replays of this episode. Or something more authentic, like cutting Chuvash anger.

And you think that's it? Hell yes, the game can throw some surprises, like forcing you to collect some amulets or dueling pistols all over the archipelago. And if the latter is even more or less excusable (no), then the former is a facepalm. And then they will force you to look for all sorts of plates, large pearls and candles. And yes, all this is not something impossible and hardcore, it rather infuriates with its absolutely dull and unoriginal routine.

No, I'm serious, these sweeps of locations alone are complete bullshit.

Let's get back to the plot, which I will now mercilessly spoil. The fact is that it was interesting for me to go through the main quest as a lover of this series, but as a person interested in all sorts of cinemas and other plots, the game began to disappoint me from the second half.

Why? Because there is no problem or idea in history. In fact, it's just another game on the theme "the kid went to success", and that's it. Unless the change of the protagonist and the disclosure of his inner qualities are shown well. And that's it. And the story does not have a core around which the game is built. The hero spends more than half of the plot in subplots, solving other people's problems over and over again. Therefore, it turns out that the story is not about two brothers, but about how one of them wandered around the Caribbean for months, so that the second one would send him on another voyage with one dialogue.

And besides, after crossing the equator of history, the paranormal begins to actively invade the plot. First we have a terrible curse that keeps the pirate on the ground. The woman herself, of course, died a long time ago, and now exists in the form of an almost indestructible corpse that revives other skeletons. Is this not enough for you?

And how do you like a whole Indian island of the dead. Cool? And how do you like the fact that the plot rolls into Indian game associated with the rebirth of the gods and time travel? Amazing? Of course, because this is so in line with the spirit of pirate adventures, which are quite realistically made, and most importantly, served with a serious tone.

And as a result of the passage of the plot, I have a double feeling. It seemed to be not bad, and it was quite exciting to go through all this, I was pleased with the rare opportunity for a different option for completing the quest. But the crookedness of the game design and the periodic game in the plot make the gameplay sometimes almost unbearable. The main distinguishing feature of the game turns out to be its weakest feature.

What else besides the plot? Yes, all the same endless "corsair" freeplay, in which the player entertains himself, and about which I have already written in sufficient detail above. By the way, the developers decided to get rid of the lines of national quests because of the vastness of the plot.

DLCs for the game cannot offer anything essentially new - they are macro quests for several hours of playthrough with both all the minuses and all the pluses of the main game. It is pointless to talk about them in more detail, and it seems to me unnecessary.

Results

These are the well-developed, contradictory, complex, crooked and unique Corsairs. What about "to each his own"? We can say that the mechanics of the game in 2018, although they still look fresh and interesting, smell like a budget game dev from the early 2000s. By the standards of the series, the gameplay was, in general, the same as in 2003 and 2007, it remained the same. And for a modern gamer, this is by and large a sentence, because the KKS does not forgive the player from the word at all. And some old people or even those who have played before may just get tired of playing the same thing.

The immortal Storm Engine produces graphics that are, by and large, ten years old (at the time the game was released), periodically bugs in such a way that it can ruin the save or crash, and is also not friendly with folding; and I'm not even talking about the periodic appearance of crooked scripts, when something didn't happen as it should, and as a result, you can't leave the location, because everything is locked. And, of course, we should not forget that the dialogues are not voiced, and the gameplay, sometimes, comes to ten minutes of reading the text at the bottom of the screen, and even if there is no voice acting, then what can we say about the production.

The plot, which began for health with realism, slid into a paranormal body, which, to be honest, was not very fun to pass in the final because of the hackneyed tricks in the spirit of the same crowd of enemies per player. However, this is still a good adventure that will entice a fan of such games for more than a dozen hours.

"To each his own!" can offer the same unique pirate experience that no other game has been able to give so far. "Pirates" by Sid Meier and AC IV: Black Flag are light arcade errands, in comparison with which any part of the "Corsairs" seems like a real simulator of the life of a sea wolf.

Therefore, I would advise you to do so. For beginners and those unfamiliar with the series, I advise you to generally forget about the plot in the first passage and engage exclusively in freeplay. And only then, having gained experience, start the plot. I would not advise the old people to hope for some kind of revelation, but I would recommend passing it in view of the fact that there is nothing corny like this on the market - and this game, for all its ambiguity, is able to satisfy the feeling of nostalgia and give at least something new.

And the best Corsairs are still the City of Lost Ships.

Now you must sail to the island of Antigua to find the informant on it. He is the one who can tell right person, through which you can send a message to Fleetwood. Head there and drop anchor in Falmouth Bay. Then move to the city. Be careful, because the Mirage ship has robbed the British more than once. Try not to be exposed. Once at the fork, go left and go through the city gates. Then move further until you are near the stairs. Stop and find a pharmacy located nearby. There you will meet a man who will provide information about one of Fleetwood's buddies. You can continue the passage of the Corsairs: To each his own and return to the ship.

Open the map and go to Dominica. After Longway doesn't come to your aid, wait until the Valkyrie, under the leadership of Fleetwood, looms on the horizon. Make every effort to capture this ship and chat with the captain. Only after you talk to him, his life will be restored again and you will have to get rid of him again. If you do not want to fool your head, then just let the ship sink.

Then return to the island of Curacao and tell Rhodesburg about what you have done. So you will replenish your balance by 150,000 gold. You will also learn that the ship on which the assigned tasks were performed has now become yours. And the former was flooded near the pier. Then head to the governor to receive one of the state awards in the amount of 1000 gold.

The fourth task. Jewish money

After you take a break for a week, return to Rodenburg and get the next task in the passage of the game Corsairs: To each his own. He will tell you that he is in love with a girl named Abigail. However, she resists marrying him without giving reasons. You have to figure out what's what. Head towards the residence and turn left.

Once near the gate, go into the house on the right. Go inside and go up to the second floor, where you will find the girl. It turns out that she does not want to marry Roddensburg, so that she will not be condemned for doing it for the sake of profit. In order to avoid such rumors, you need to find a chest on one of the islands that her father hid. Waste no time and go down to chat with the old man. However, he will not remember the location of the island.

Leave the building and move along the street until a stranger approaches you. After talking with him, you will find out that his name is Joaquim Merriman. He will ask you to follow him, agree. Once you are in the room, talk to him. It turns out that he is interested in the skull, which is hidden in the same chest as Solomon's savings. If you bring him this skull, you will be rewarded with half a million pesos. Continue the passage of the game Corsairs: To each his own and agree to complete this task.

Open the diary and read that the coordinates of the desired island can be found in the records of the baths of Berg and Fleetwood. Now you will need a compass, an hourglass, an astrolabe and a chronometer. Bring up the alchemy menu and connect the chronometer to the hourglass to make a functioning chronometer. Then hurry on board your ship and go to the cabin. Then apply a function with which you can find the island only by coordinates.

After receiving the information, start the journey. This piece of land is located between the island of Curaçao and Martinique. After you get to the goal, disembark and go to the fork. Move from it to the left, and then go into the grotto. There you need to find the right chest. After you take away the contents from it: a skull, gold, money. You can return to Solomon and give him what you found. It is up to you to decide whether to return the skull to him or receive half a million pesos. Then go up to Abigail and tell her about everything. It turns out that she now agrees to marry Lucas.

Now in the passage of the game Corsairs: To each his own, you should head to Lucas and report this. He will reward you with an amulet and 50,000 pesos. However, he does not have a job for you yet, so take a break and do something else.

Fifth task

After you return to the island of Curacao after a while, a stranger will suddenly run up and say that Rodensburg wants to see you. Talk to him and find out that you need to kill the traitor Murdoch before he does. Open the map and start sailing to Antigau. Drop anchor in the port and go to the church. Stop and see two buildings in front of her, go to them and find a hatch between them. Open it and start descending into the dungeon. No matter how hard you try not to get into a dead end, you will still find yourself there.

Look around and find a passage in the wall. Go there and examine it to see the entrance to the warehouse with barrels. After you enter it, finish Murdoch and his accomplice. Then in the passage of the game Corsairs: To each his own, you will need to select the third bottom line in the dialogue with Longway in order to hire him. Now you can search Murdoch's body and find the keys to the pharmacy. You can move further through the warehouse and climb the stairs.

Once in the pharmacy, go to the chest and open it to take 25,000 pesos and an archive belonging to John Murdoch, who once worked for GVIK. Now you need to try to find the encryption, which is located in the subway. Only then can you return to the city. Using the hatch for this, you can go to your ship and climb aboard. Start your journey to the shores of Curacao to complete the Dutch Gambit quests. Approach Rodenburg and report to him about what has been done.

Dutch Gambit. secret organization

In order to start the passage of this series of quests in the game Corsairs: To each his own, you should meet the following indicators:
- Weapon skill not lower than level 30;
- Character experience - not lower than level 15;
- The reputation should also be at the level of "Unknown Pirate".

If you have all this, then you can go to Barbados and chat with the owner of one of the taverns, whose name is Gaston the Bald. It is from him that you will receive the first order.

Spanish Hidalgo

Now you have to eliminate one Spanish nobleman who calls himself Fernando Rodriguez. It can be found on one of the islands under Spanish rule. Since the appearance of this character is randomly generated, just stop in different cities and visit taverns at night to find him. If you find yourself in the right place and at the right time, then the owner of the tavern will tell you that he is walking around the city somewhere or spending the night on his brigantine. Then find the ship, board it and finish off Rodriguez. Just do not try to let the ship sink, because after you kill the enemy, you need to pick up his belongings and deliver them to Bridgetown to Gaston. If you do not do this, the task will not be considered completed.

Ship's log

After Gaston gives you a new quest in the passage of the game Corsairs: To each his own, get ready to steal the ship's log from Richard Fleetwood. After 10 days, he will appear in the governor's office, at this time you need to be in his house, kill the guard and climb to the second floor. There you will find the desired magazine, and then exit. Be careful as three opponents will attack you now. After dealing with them, run out into the street and finish off the rest. After a while, you will lose consciousness.

Trap preparation

Open your eyes already in the pharmacist's house. Try to carefully follow him and get out of his house at night. In order to do this, you need to use the dungeon. But when you come to your ship, it will be arrested. But don't be discouraged, because now Gaston will provide you with a courier lugger. However, if you do not want to complete the task on it, then return to the pharmacist. In the further passage of the game Corsairs: To each his own, you need to talk with him to find out what best friend Fleetwood, Charlie Knippel is now going to sail towards Curacao. And he will be on the brigantine. So you have a whole week to catch up with him.

Get to the outskirts of the island of Curacao and try to board this brigantine. After that, you can interrogate Knippel, and then move to the city and find Fleetwood's beloved to him. Persuade her to sail with you to Antigua.

Then head to the tavern and find a pretty drunk man there. After he gives his consent to deliver the message to Fleetwood, he will tell you how much this service will cost you.

Fall of the Valkyrie

Open the map and move to Turks Island. After walking a little, you will meet Fleetwood and talk. Then you need to fight him. After the victory, return to your ship and head to the island where the Valkyrie is located. Try to board the ship, and then return to John. As soon as you report to him about your deed, he will offer an officer rank. Of course, you have to agree.

Dutch West India Company

In the further passage of the game Corsairs: To each his own, you will become an opponent of GVIKA and fight with Lucas Rodenburg. After you get a tip on the GVIKA brigantine, which is now located between Antigua and St. Christopher, get down to business. Open the map and find the ship in purple there. After you take him on board and hand over the letter, return to Willemstad.

Once in place, you will see that the Mainfeng ship is now in the roadstead. Head to the tavern and find out more about this ship. After that, you can head to Van Hato Bay. Now you can see a purple ship in it. Try to overtake him and board him. After that, continue the passage of the Corsairs: To each his own and move to the Mainfeng. Go down into his hold and interrogate the Chinese. Just make haste to conduct the interrogation as soon as possible, because the Chinese may die from his wounds. He will ask you to drop him off in Guadeloupe. Agree to learn important information.

The end of Lucas Rodenburg

Head to St. Christopher and sail on the new ship to the Dutch galleon. Having approached, send a boat to him to chat with Stevesant, and then go with him to the island of Curacao. Once in place, you can arrest Lucas to get a decent reward. After you return the ship to GVIK, you can head to Antigua.