Nightstrasza

Yeah, they are the mos glitchy mob right after the bear (bcs bear does all kinds of stuff, not just being op, such as space programs when loading on the ship, or earth core drilling when placed in stables). However, the most pain in them is that their rotating = they can hit us even with their ass while their hitbox is all over the place and the only hitbox that matters is head which is under their chin... and their head on top of that slithers left and right, fighting them while having "high ground" doesn't realy feel beneficial when their head is hidden in dirt like an ostrich, would be nice if when they changed direction, their head would just change direction an the rest of the body would just follow the head.

5 hours ago, Bowtie said:

I like the increase in certain zones so I know when I go out hunting I will definitely find what I am looking for.

I sail to a couple GA ruins every day and down a dozen or so level 50+ each time. I don't want those zones reduced, but wouldn't mind the non-GA, non-arctic zones to be less infested.

Agree that some zones should be infested while others not so much, it creates an area where ppl can hope for a good resource to be there and also a palce where ppl go to farm loot. The constant spam of SoD everywhere where we live is just straight annoying, of course we gonna outrun them, but o we realy need ton constantly be molested with 1-4k dmg to one of our planks bcs there's like 20 of them rendered? Also that's not like our company doesn't clear them... that's just that nothing bellow orange is worth wasting resources.

6 hours ago, StarWhispers said:

I have seen so many in game talk about the lag the sotd cause, spawning almost on top of them, or just today a sotd had pinned them into a rock.  At this point the only people asking for more sotd seem to be the claim flag owners who want you to do all the work while they get their get tax from you...

Earlier I was heading through a claimable region and a group of newer players were talking about having 7 ghost ships following them. I had advised them to try to outrun them and heal what they could at sea. With the lack of wind they tried to get to shore to anchor but instead they got pinned on a random rock by the sotd and were not able to anchor. They were sunk, and promptly started talking about how it does not make sense to have so many of the damned ships. As they talked in chat a person who owned a few claim flags in the ocean and on land in the region started talking about how they need to get the f over it and just suck it up and pay their taxes.. I did not know if they were joking or being rude so I asked the claim owner if they meant real life. This person went on a rant talking about how they do not even lift a finger and have all that they need.  Apparently people who own claimed lands and ocean areas are ENTITLED to have you kill the sotd so they can make money off you.

This is why if I am in a claim area I never fight the sotd. I would rather fight them in lawless where I get 100% of my earnings. Sucks when you play games to have fun or escape real life BS and end up having to deal with much worse BS in the game you play.

SoDs give laughable amouns of gold anyway and surely those ppl doesn't care about those random boulders or spike shots in their bank. Feel free to kill them, even if the SoD gives like 50 gold, they gonna only get 15 of it with 30% tax and that is some realy high SoD bcs they mostly give trash rewards.

We have so many whales and SoDs now that once seen 4  blue whales or 5 sperm whales in one place, arround those 4 blue whales were like 15-20 SoDs. Before update we had mostly clear waters, had to dodge maybe to like 3-5 SoDs at most clumped in 1 place and whales were rarity to look for, now they are everywhere and in massive numbers, almost can't squeeze between them without agroing 1 or 2. And yes, the green ones are worthless to kill, who want's to waste 25-50 medium cannon balls on something that gonna give common 1% better than default common blueprints an the npc levels are pointless, might aswell just get cheaper an without wasting metal at freeport.

They could just make so ships gain 300% damage resistance only in company or ally territory, not neutral or enemy.

They also could keep it but make mortars stronger to punish ppl from getting that close to a base.

1 hour ago, wildbill said:

Ok, say you "fix" the bear.

You make the bear so it is not good to do treasure hunt, what other tame would you bring? I'm guessing you think no tame should be needed. Way funner to bring a tame, but make that a pain and no fun by "fixing" the bear. It is good for treasure hunts because it is tough and can carry the weight of the gold.

Oh, the bear carries so much, lets break that, so now what would we use, nothing? Maybe the horse? The horse steering is so derpy, I prefer the bear and the bear will defend itself and me when I'm out gathering, the horse is not nearly as good at it. So then what would we use for carrying stuff around? The horse is a pain to tame, way easier to tame a bear.

Yup, the bear is broke, too easy to tame, lets break that too. Make it like the elephant or giraffe where you get killed about 10 times before you usually find the sweet spot where it doesn't kill you.

There, you have "fixed" it. (Like it was ever broke, it just works, so lets break it to be like all the rest of the tames.)

Yeah, if for thou the fact that bear doing everything is not balance breaking means nothing only tells us there's no point further trying to explain why is that no fun to have a jack-of-all-trades master-of-all afk-RMB-farming-machine, please enlighten us with thy glorious skill while sitting on a lvl 1 bear and clearing masterwork map by standing still and pressing RMB, the APM must be in thousands.

SoDs even tho don't target anchored ships, they will fire at something that damaged them and is behind that ship, 300% dmg reduction surely slowed down punching thro those 12k planks, but with enough dedication they could just lure SoD and get it stuck on the shore, then keep punching it to grab agro and hidding behind galleon for the cannon balls to hit it.

3 hours ago, wildbill said:

Bears are good. 

I suppose if you don't like tames being used in game you will want them nerfed until no one uses them. 

Sorry if want meele, archery and guns to be usefull, right now, just bear this, bear that, bear everything, in terms of combat?, just use bear, no skills are needed, just spec cheap into tier 2 riding, have someone in company to tame the bear and enjoy a lvl 250 alpha yeti hunting machine bcs everything gets knockback locked from the bear and for no durability cost just spam RMB, other than alpha lion that dismounts, there is no non-mythical creature that stands a chance, we don't even have to worry about our life bcs tame takes dmg first and they rapid regen as if we stuffed herbs up the ass of it. Also why do even tools exist in this game if we can just have tames do everything better than even a mythical tool.

Would not complain if they get 90% health reduction.

Yay to even more overpowered tames, let's just scrap guns, artillery, unarmed, archery, meele and any tools, we soon won't even need stone tools bcs in freeport we gonna get a pretamed chicken to gather us resources as we hold it. Gotta love it when a lvl 250 yeti comes out and a single 50 lvl bear can handle it solo or treasure maps being tone by 1 player spamming furriously RMB as the rest of company waits for free loot.

The bear sank under the floor and drowned.

Bear is a boring mode, surely our company will stand against our statment here, but hate bears and wish they were gone, they are easy mode yetis, easy mode any animal, easy mode any quality treasure map, gather berries better than a horse, gather fiber like a champ, gather thatch like a champ (in case of having access to thatch bushes), they got gigantic aoe, there's no point in using tools or weapons when having a bear that can keep knocking enemies back with sustained dps. Those pricks also have tons of health and in wild they are pack animals and despite having so much health and speed and damage... they have no head hitbox!

Chicken gives eggs, is fine as is.

Cow gives milk, is fine as is.

Bull is supposed to be a thatch animal, but is useless, also bleeding attacks are useless.

Crow is cool, however inteligence sucks, the initial crafting bonus is a dice roll no matter how high inteligence is and it only slightly matters in upgrading, no point gimping self with inteligence and crow doesn't give enough to matter.

Elephant is a easy wood mode, tbh that's fine, even tho hate tames, choping is boring and there's no hatchet bps.

Pig is almost useless, however is an easy home defense when amassed except against alphas or radiculous bear aoes.

Giraffe is a worse horse.

Horse is fine as is, sturdy, loyal companion, one of fastest animals, flexible, not a damage dealing animal so no bullshit alpha yeti killing capabilities like a bear. Just remove the fear when standing near the wild ones, infuirating, especialy when there's a whiny alpha horse, they are also almost impossible to tame without them jumping into a trap.

Lion is a douche, alpha lions should not exist as if it grabs us, there's no way to escape or corpse run for items, thankfuly never got into such situation but just wait for it, male lion have screwed head hitbox, they also fly further than frickin horses.

Monkey is a poop turret, never used tho.

Ostrich is like a horse but squishier and with more dmg (for whatever reason)

Parrot... is like crow except with fortitude, however not going to keep parrot 24/7 to keep self warm so just gonna put few own points into it and screw parrots, useless.

Penguin is cute for some, good selling product, nothing else, they are a walking campfire without cooking ability and need fish to eat not berries, definitely useless other than blubber farming or selling for cute factor.

Rabbit is useless.

Rhino is a walking pickaxe, however they are not that usefull as they do nothing to boulders, they only get bonus to pure metal nodes so might aswell just mine those with a pick insteed of hauling heavy and buggy animals arround the world.

Seagull is useless, if will want to go diving, gonna grab a diving suit.

Sheep is useless, just kill some sheep or find an alpha sheep for fleece.

Tiger is a lion on steroids.

Vulture and his six million vulture buddies wanna say hi before nerfs, but in all seriousness, they are useless, just gather than corpse with tools.

Wolf was a cancer, then the guns were nerfed and made them extreme cancer bcs they could take 2-3 bullets in the face while charging at us in numbers of 5 in pack, and then they were nerfed very hard, however, since we hold so much hate and frustration and unfun from pre-nerf times that they may stay like this forever. As a predator we prefer lions bcs they atleast don't knock us arround like a beachball and don't have machine gun attack speed, now atleast they have so weak dmg that those things doesn't matter, just flying arround after being bit is still annoying as hell, they can now be destroyed with any weapon with a headshot. We thought that they would be a good fighting tame, but they have no aoe like bear and have pathetic damage compared to a bear and they have no weight capacity so wearing armor already consumes half of their wegiht capacity lol.

Head hitboxes, yes, know this is about just taming, but those animals have no hitbox: bears, chickens, cows, bulls, crows, elephants, pig (they have but like, inside their throat or something when they bite, almost impossible to hit), giraffe, horse, lion (only male and only slightly, their head hitbox is screwy and sometimes counts as body shot, maybe that's bcs their texture is bigger but their hitboxes were not adjusted to the size from female model), monkey, ostrich, parrot, penguin, rabbit, rhino, seagull, sheep, vulture, (and now non-tamable creatures), bass, tuna, shark, manta ray, turtle, propably also angler fish and jelly fish, propably all those stupid dinos, and other animals that forgot about, why almost all animals have no head, wtf grapeshot?

20 minutes ago, Chett said:

For me FPS got worse, distance rendering is much slower now and i have graphic glitches now. sometimes very long stripes crossing my screen...

Put ground clutter distance to 0.

26 minutes ago, Teach said:

If they only had a mode where you could deal with this crap yourself...

Oh yeah, it's called PvP.

Forgive me for not being more sympathetic, but the idea that Grapeshot has to continuously appease carebears and dedicate hours to making essentially 2 games out of one to satiate the pacifists has always been upsetting.

Had you just played on PvP and grown accustomed to how PvP works- you wouldn't be making this long winded post crying for outside help to deal with your internal issues.

It's not really a downfall of the game, but a failure on the communities end which makes development of this title 2x as long having to account for all these PvE-Unfriendly mishaps.

What you are experiencing is daily routine on PvP, but we don't amputate ourselves by playing PvE and do something about it.


With that said, dude should be banned.

Oh no, the true legend, the pvp player, everyone hide, the alpha male has come!

Just now, Pax said:

But then you can never have the SOTD follow you across the boarder then

And?, want to lure all SoDs into one grid to troll?, bcs it serves no other purpose to have them chase ppl across grids other than making a great wall of china.

Stop with invicibility buff ideas, force them to finally fix the problem by restricting anything going close to the border insteed of giving them a bandaid crap solutions.

12 minutes ago, Humcitysav said:

My crew made one awhile back, we play on PvE so it’s more for fun than ship to ship combat, although it does work against SOD pretty well. 

Simply screenshot it, unless sending photos from phone by making a photo of that phone with photo on screen.

As for ship, looks rather cool, however SoDs and players usualy aim/hit planks or nearby ship making those armors kinda useless. Not sure why anyone bothers with inside armor, only armor that matters is side armor on planks.

18 minutes ago, Dragonchampion said:

Didn't you guys watch the stream? Ironside planks and decks are going to be added in the Late February Patch.

Yeah, that will be cool, like being a tank in games.

50 minutes ago, Jean Lafitte said:

Pillars. Already implemented.  But, people have gotten banned for using them that way.

Those pillars are just absurd. Yes, they exist and, there should be limit how high can someone build from ocean floor to prevent this or even don't allow building in deep ocean at all, only on shallow and medium water.

As for mines, it would be just something like buoy mixed with spike shot, they could deal like 2k dmg or something, won't one-shot even a sloop, not like the pillars that instantly explode this when the wave goes down.

11 minutes ago, Anatas said:

I'm PvE player!
- So, i want underwater base.
- Flying Ship
- Nuclear bomb
- Tamed Animals must be strong like Alpha
- Mine's field
- Sea Mines.
Ohh, ofc, pitfall traps!

Sea mines would actualy be cool... as long as they need maintance and alot fo resources... and don't one-shot.

1 hour ago, Olivar said:

Dear Wildcard,

Please don't listen to the PvP'ers. They're always enforcing insane standards, turning every game into a second job.
Allow us to have fun and not become toxic members of the community that want to enforce something on the entire player base.

Yes please, already watched hardcores turn 3 games we liked into min-max math equations etc and removing fun mechanics.

44 minutes ago, TheSzerdi said:

Meh, personally I couldn't stand the ugliness, but with this much buff I might suck it up and armor my ships.

Yes, the armor is ugly, did not say that used it... + played on pve, who cares about max efficiency there... Also the walls in general look horrible anyway, they connect to those wooden ceilings we place inside the deck which means there is alot of space between them and planks or they clip inside eachother, the worst is back and front, our schooner have a massive gap at the back between wall and back plank, those things look radiculously ugly no matter the armor anyway.

They did cover their ships with wood even before the upate up to limits, the update didn't change anything in ship building.

1 hour ago, WC_Baker said:

I agree, the character vocalization sounds are really annoying. The way they're set up now is to play over and over again until the debuff is gone. I plan on fixing it by having the vocal trigger once and then put on a long delay before playing again.

Aarrgh....Uaaaghhh...Aarrgh...Uaaaghhh

2 minutes ago, Jean Lafitte said:

And what would you like me to trade?

Metal? - only what's in the rocks. 0 metal nodes.
Crystal? 0
Gems? 0
Salt? 0
Carrots? Turnips? Beets? Sugarcane? Coral? Pearls? All 0.

The only thing my island has, and it's a large island, is Trees,  rocks and massive amounts of berries.  Nothing anyone else doesn't already have in abundance.

For tamables, I have bears, horses, crows, pigs, sheep and a few wolves and lions.   Wolves have been nerfed to be a shadow of what they once were, lions have a huge weakness in their lack of HP. Bears and horses are commonplace elsewhere.  Sheep give hides, not fiber(*boggle*).  Pigs are only useful (and damned funny) if you have 15 of them trained to follow you around but they're not going to fit on a sloop. And the int buff from crows isn't really implemented yet so, other than looking cool, they're pretty useless.

Now tell me, how many of those tames am I going to have to load onto my sloop to get 1000 paste and how far am I going to have to risk going in order to find someone that doesn't have a bear or a horse and does have paste/sap to trade?

And even then, that 1000 paste gives me what? 50 stone walls?  And I'd still need 1750 metal?  Any idea how many rocks I'd need to pound for 1750 metal?

There is iron in tundra, however not on every island, E13 have like 8 or 9 nodes on the shore of 1 island and some more on another island. There's no gems. Crystal is rarer than iron... but who cares about crystal. Salt none. And plants are worthless, just spam berries into animals untill they tame. Tbh... well, have no idea, the only adventage tundra have is it have resonable ping, maybe if we could sell server performance to other grids we could buy something.

Does large cannon fit into large gunport?, or that's just a gunport but with 2x more health and is not realy that large.