Virtual Regatta Inshore Reviews

Simple upgrade

Crazysk8t3r

Make two buttons. Vmg upwind and vmg downwind. It’s annoying to duck someone and to hit the vmg button which sends you straight down wind... feel like this is something you can make as an option but would be preferred by tons of people!

Frustrating

1093747

Very frustrating app. Crashes and stops working often.

Sail control

Ras7ach3f

I would like to see more sail control options. A lot of time if feels like you have to sail 90 degrees to the wind in order to move.

keeps taking my tokens

Imbf

UPDATE: utter trash app. constantly hangs or drops games now. DO NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY WITHIN THIS APP i use my tokens for race helps, then i try to start the race. it hangs and/or send me back to the homepage and does not return the the tokens. so i’m constantly losing tokens without even being able to race or get the benefits that i “spent” the tokens for. this has gotten worse more recently and makes using this app incredibly frustrating.

Stole my $

NnOoRrMm!

Didn’t get VIP features I paid for!

Good

bob275319462917464

Very good but needs better controls and the wind physics are only OK. Also, can you add more of a ship customization feature? This is a very good game/app an I think anyone should get it.

I ve been kicked out of the game too many times

Pelagic310

I play on my iPhone. Control buttons are low on the screen. If you click for bearing away to close to the edge of the screen, the app closes! Same with tacking button or hoisting spinnaker. Latest version seems even more prone to be doing this than before. I went DQ or DNF on many races because of this.

Wind shifts

soconnor1318

Extreme wind shifts are making the game unplayable. Reasonable shifts are great, but when wind goes 40° left followed by a swing 40° right of neutral, it’s hard to call the game realistic

Core concept is good, but lacking in so many ways.

UrsusDenali

The Good: this is an enjoyable racing game that has some real-world feel in tactics and strategy. It is definitely helping giving me some mental exercise in thinking about whole course thinking during pandemic and subsequent real-world sailing. The Feature Request: - Race Replay: If I could save/replay races, even reduced to the 2D map, this would be invaluable. I would be happy with this being a VIP feature. Any method of highlighting the good/bad from a race as well - like a Play of the Game, to let me see where the big gains were made. The Bad: - Rules Implementation: There seems to be some issues here around the idea of opportunity to keep clear leading to competitors using the rules as a cudgel. There are spots where the give way and keep clear boat switch very quickly without a clear reason. - Controls: Having one button for each direction with no adjustable sensitivity leads to situations where maneuvering is either too sensitive or not sensitive enough. There are far better control schemes out there for mobile games touch interfaces; using a gesture type slider with proportional control would be helpful to improve maneuvering. - The layout of action buttons (tack/gybe, vmg, luff, spin) could be clustered in a square rather than across the bottom of the screen, or provide the option to rearrange. Separate tack/gybe controls or actions (such as hold and flick up/down), as well as VMG upwind/downwind, spinnaker hoist/douse buttons would help avoid unintentional actions that ruin races. - Pay to Win: The monetization scheme feels all wrong. To pay for VIP features but still require further payment for reliable access to race help and design boosts is frustrating. To pay this much for a game that has such issues with controls, crashes/lags, rules implementation, and the fact that it feels like it hasn’t received significant improvements to keep it up to mobile gaming standards in 2021 is frustrating.

Not realistic

Groksana

It’s the best there is out there. I’m a sailor, I’ve raced, I’ve played video games — this is more game than sailing. You can’t run over your competitors on the water — or things get wet for everyone real fast. They just need to think about the rules and what they’ve created — there has to be a better balance in how the games handles allowing one boat to just sail through another... for me, it was fun, but I had to delete the game because I just lost interest.