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It's possible that they might block IPs from Japan, Korea, or China, since they have their own version of the game.  But the Netmarble/Gpotato version is essentially the global one, meant for use throughout the Americas, Europe, etc.

If you can't download it from Gpotato, then there are other places you can download it, such as here:

http://www.fileplanet.com/220714/download/Uncharted-Waters-Online-Client-(Free-Game)

That's an old version, so it would take a lot of subsequent patching if you do that download, however.  Alternatively, you might need to be logged in to Gpotato in order to download it.

The Recognition-skill ist actually better than just "exploration".
With this skill you seem to find items people lost to the sea while fighting pirates.
I found some hardened iron plates lost by player A, some cannons 14 dropped by player B, and many goods. My favourite skill currently. :)

wow that was a wall-o-text and a half.... i wouldnt really call that a rewiew as its more of a over view writeup...a review is more of a personal account/opinion of a product...

i havent touched uwo since they brought out the item mall and were selling high level ships for lv 16 players at retarded prices

its all well and good to claim the iron clad frigates in the item mall are a joke compaired to the lv 40 ones ... but seeing as for about 10-50 bucks usd you could at 16/16/16 sail one of the end game warships kinda turned me off from playing.. plus it was just too grindy for me

i was spending days in the carib killing npc pirates with a shitty tugboat that did nothing but sink 90% of the time just to get lv 45 battle

i should pop back on to uwo and help the ratpack again but ahh the game is just kinda dull for me now.. mind you i have not tryed the new dungons where people are racking in 10mill for 30-60minutes worth of work

im not a fan of gpotato.... and GG is a freaking joke of an anti-hack... given that there are websites dedicated to disabling every version of GG since its launch.... putting GG on any game is the same as drilling a hole in a leaky boat to let water out

Originally posted by Ichmen

i was spending days in the carib killing npc pirates with a shitty tugboat that did nothing but sink 90% of the time just to get lv 45 battle

If you don't want to grind like that, then don't.  You don't have to, you know.  Sure, if you want to get rank 15 in some skill as soon as possible, that's going to take a lot of grinding.  But you can just go play the game and slowly level up a bunch of skills at once.

I want to tell you that i have copy-paste your entire review to my PC.

In all honesy i havent read half of it, but i will do so when i have the patience.

If you did spent the time to write all of this by yourself, i give you props for the details given on the game.

Something with this kind of detail sure deserves to be read. Thank you and congratz.

Probably the best mmorpg i played for years

The cash shop was too unbalanced for my taste though

The day there's an english subscription server available, most of my guild & myself will be back in a heartbeat

Lucky Japanese, i think they do have such a server

Anyway, great review op :)

Originally posted by vladww

Probably the best mmorpg i played for years

The cash shop was too unbalanced for my taste though

 

The day there's an english subscription server available, most of my guild & myself will be back in a heartbeat

Lucky Japanese, i think they do have such a server

 

Anyway, great review op :)

The cash shop and Netmarble income is still heavily biased toward gambling for exclusive ships in the treasure boxes or premium tickets, I don't think that many players will tolerate this for long with less than a 5% chance of obtaining one.

We probably will not see a subscription server but I feel that the cash shop should be expanded to offer many of the ships and other buffs as individual items and the lottery to be made a kind of lucky dip at much less cost. 

The ops review is a well written description of the considerable UWO content available with the dungeon update on another thread, I would like to see more guidance in the way of end game goals and methods of achieving them.

Well I'm sold. I've been playing for about an hour or two and I'm working my way through the Adventurer School. Would you reccomend I do all the lessons for the other 2 schools as well (merchant and mariner or w.e. the third one is, if that's even possible)? 

My recommendation is to start by doing all three of the beginner schools.  The game's conventions are so different from what you're used to that if you try to jump in and play as you might be able to for a typical WoW-clone, you'll quickly end up lost, confused, and frustrated.

Once you've done the beginner schools, try to go out and play the game for a while.  Sail to nearby cities, talk to NPCs, find some nearby trade routes, do a few quests, buy a bigger ship, or whatever.  Get some idea of what you're doing, and what you don't understand.

Then go do all of the intermediate schools.  Finishing one intermediate school gets you all of the European port permits, so that opens up a lot more things to you.  Don't try the level intermediate battle final until you've got a level 10+ ship, or else it will be too hard.

Once you've done the intermediate schools, go out and play the game a while again.  Search around more, try some more things, do some more discoveries or quests, and so forth.  Eventually you want to go do the advanced school.  You really only need to get those to the semi-final (do 10 quests to continue), as that gets you the information there.

You'll eventually want to do all of the advanced finals, but there's no dire rush.  Note that the final for each school gets you 4000 experience, which is actually quite a lot.  You'll probably want a level 17+ ship or so in order to do the advanced battle final.

You get some job change cards from school, which you should use.  You can switch to a job that you've previously held without needing a job change card again.  So when you have a card, it's nice to use it for a job that you haven't previously held.  You can get more job change cards from quests later, but the school cards get you a nice start.  I'd recommend using the adventuring job cards you get from school on helmsperson, biologist, and excavator, as those are the useful early adventuring jobs.

Also, if you get stuck on something, don't just get frustrated and quit.  Ask for help.  There are people in school chat who will answer a lot of questions.  I think I spent about an hour trying to figure out how to use consumables in land battle before I figured it out.  (Incidentally, that one is character -> equipment -> land battle items, and you have to register them before entering a battle.)

Originally posted by NortonGB

Originally posted by vladww

Probably the best mmorpg i played for years

The cash shop was too unbalanced for my taste though

 

The day there's an english subscription server available, most of my guild & myself will be back in a heartbeat

Lucky Japanese, i think they do have such a server

 

Anyway, great review op :)

The cash shop and Netmarble income is still heavily biased toward gambling for exclusive ships in the treasure boxes or premium tickets, I don't think that many players will tolerate this for long with less than a 5% chance of obtaining one.

We probably will not see a subscription server but I feel that the cash shop should be expanded to offer many of the ships and other buffs as individual items and the lottery to be made a kind of lucky dip at much less cost. 

The ops review is a well written description of the considerable UWO content available with the dungeon update on another thread, I would like to see more guidance in the way of end game goals and methods of achieving them.

I agree, the cash shop is a crap shoot and i for one avoid it at all costs..  also it's asking for too much money for the things that  arn't crap shoots...   Like the item that lets you change your character's apperance. We all eventually get tired of seeing the same ole character and want a change... but unless you buy the Nearly $15 item, your stuck. waaay too much money for something that should already be in the game in the first place if you ask me.

Subscription server? the game is good yes, but 1/2 the reason i even started playing was that it was a free sandbox.

As to "end game content" this is a ideal that has sprung up in the last 10 years or so that for some reason people want to be taken by the hand and shown what to do...

It's a SANDBOX..  there IS no guideance.. make your OWN goals.. your OWN achievments

Games are not ALL about grinding to max level then gearing  out for some insanly hard dungeon, use your imagination... 

Do you know how this game compares to bounty bay?(the eu version of voyage century)