Honestly, simply flying around the map was a pleasant experience, finding new areas and getting into fights with random pirates. Some are on neighbouring towns with their own side missions for you to earn more money, whereas some perches offer insight into the lore of the Ursee and its history. It lets you take in the beauty of the game’s art style and its rolling seas, discovering various sights and new perch points for your mount. You aren’t guaranteed success, but at least you’re given the option to stop banging your head against a brick wall, for a while.Įxploring the vast Ursee is a lovely experience, bringing some nice respite from the more combat-heavy missions within the game.
THE FALCONEER REVIEWS UPGRADE
Making money will let you upgrade your falcon or your weaponry, allowing you to go back to those tougher story missions with a little extra bang for your buck. That said, you can decide to put off a mission until later, instead taking on delivery work or claiming the bounties of pirate scum. Considering some missions consist of multiple parts, checkpoints are a must. Imagine having spent ages on a huge battle, the odds stacked heavily against you, only for that annoyingly accurate AI to take you down, and you have to do it all over again. If you die at any point during a mission, you’ll have to restart it from the beginning. It also commits a rather old school sin: no mission checkpoints. Plus, the bigger ships had regained their lost health too. I’m fine with games being tough, but this felt like kicking me while I was down, especially after I’d already spent quite a while taking out a couple of the pirate birds.
Worse, if you find yourself running out of ammo and have to retreat to find a storm to recharge, there’s a chance your enemies will respawn upon your return to the mission area. Even knocking the difficulty down, there were missions that still felt a little too difficult. On the standard difficulty, you simply don’t last. No matter how much I banked and rolled, feathers would fly as almost every shot found its mark. However, I found my enemies to be unnaturally accurate with their shots. Your warbird is agile, able to move around with much more precision than your typical aerial combat game, and it makes for some fantastic battles.
Even the most basic of fights can feel pretty epic as you swoop around one another, shots blasting through the clouds. The controls are simple, with the ability to dodge and roll for maximum defence, as well as slow your pace for quicker turning to keep your enemies on their toes. The dogfighting (or birdfighting) is excellent, but is also showing a few cracks in this preview version. I got myself wrapped up in a trade dispute with the wealthy owners of Dunkle’s mining contract, which led to various revelations and lots or aerial battles with pirates. For this preview, I was a resident of Dunkle, a small mining town. With multiple campaigns, thanks to choosing from a selection of character classes when you start the game, there’s a chance that your first playthrough will differ from mine. That bit can be a little tedious, but we’ll come back to that. Oh, and those tanks are recharged by flying into lightning storms. Admittedly, it’s a giant falcon with an energy gun wired to big, Steampunk electricity tanks on the Warbird’s back. There are mild RPG mechanics, a fantastical open world to explore, and there’s the small matter of you piloting an actual falcon.
You might be wondering what falcons have to do with space flight, but it’s quite simple: The Falconeer is a combat flight game. Remember when combat flight games were everywhere? Be they the old Jane’s simulators or the more arcade Ace Combat series, or the countless space combat games like the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series, Freespace or even Colony Wars, they were rather popular for quite some time.
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