The colours in CH are much nicer in my opinion.ħ) The ship-control buttons that toggle between stay-in-place/follow-me/attack enemy: it's not clear to newcomers that these are actually toggle buttons. I just wish they'd hire a UI/UX person to work on the non-touchscreen experience.ġ) Seamless merging of harbours with Open WorldĢ) The fact that we can now access and upgrade the fort and buildings in captured ports.ģ) the map (chart) icon is better than the one in CH, which was easily mistaken for a compass.Ĥ) I like that we are not pressured to attack ports before we feel so inclined.ĥ) The ships sometimes exploding prior to sinking.Ħ) the news tidbits gleaned from recued surviors.ħ) While I generally prefer realism to fantasy, I have to admit the Cracken is cool!ġ) the grey look, dull colours, and rather sombre atmosphere (partly due to the relatively sombre music).Ģ) The blurry graphics and plasticy-looking rocksĥ) The sea birds, which now look like annoying moths, due to their size.The seaguls were fantastic in CH.Ħ) The relatively sombre grey-green colour of the ship-management and other windows.
The microtransactions seem a lot less in-your-face in PotD though, so there is that. I've not progressed that far in either game, but PotD feels like just the endgame of a CH-type game. You can raise any flag you want, and will be treated just like any other ship of that nation so long as you don't fire on anyone (even in self-defence). Abilities like exploding barrels, burning oil, or rum(!) are specific to certain captains (though you can have any number on a ship), which you unlock as you progress the main story.
You don't have a skill tree, so there is no XP or levelling. There are random world missions which can sometimes be spawned from taverns, but they're pretty meh (just merchant ships with little to no cargo). PotD has no smuggling, ferrying, gambling, or nation changes over time (AFAICT). Now that I've played a bit of both, I'd say that Plague of the Dead is a somewhat more polished game, but Cairbbean Hunt has a lot more depth.
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