@atomictoyrobot said in Skeletal ships feedback:
Excuse my language but FRICK Skeletal Galleons.
I just spent 15 minutes being aggressively assaulted by a Skeletal Galleon as a solo sloop player.
Within those 15 minutes I wasted all of my cannon balls, all of my fire bombs, all of my planks of wood, was knocked off the ship twice.
I got so heated raged quit without giving a damn about my loot.
I don't understand why Skeletal Galleons take so much work to sink especially when they are such a broken PvE experience.
Their aim is dead on, rarely do they miss a shot. They turn incredibly fast, they sail fast, they ram you with zero regard to causing damage to their ship. It's so frustrating.
I honestly don't know what to do when one is chasing me across the entire damn ocean. I hit the hull with a ton of cannon shots, which seems to do nothing. I throw fire bombs onto the deck to try and keep the skeletons off the cannons, seems to do nothing. The boat doesn't burn like a ship normally would so the fire just fizzles out. They seem to take on water at a slower speed so they take forever to sink, if by some grace of God they even do sink.
It's so frustrating as a solo player to have to deal with these boats.
They arent too bad!
I solo these things in a Brigantine so in a sloop isnt even a challenge.
Aim below water line.
Full right or left turn and you dont even need to steer, just fire and repair. Its easy!
They are tough at first but you soon learn their pattern
They basically mimic your steering inputs.
Full left or right turn, sails all the way down. No special balls needed. Down it in about 50 cbs if you arr accurate.
The sloop has a tighter turning circle so you will have more opportunity to hit and you will remain mostly in their blind spot
Doing the same in a brig, youll remain outside their firing arc almost indefinitrly in open water doing this trick. After s few barrages at least. Then you can hit them and they cant hit you.
Theres tons of ways to kill them.
I mainly choose the wheel technique (full left or right) so as a solo i dont need to steer. I can focus on repairing and firing.
Take a storage crate to shores of gold and scuttle your ship and load in tons of cannonballs like 500 or so. Practice firing from stupidly far away. Before you know it, you can hit things from very far away all from muscle memory. (For the odd occasion it drifts far away)
Those skellies wont stand a chance!
Neither will any pesky pirates when you are comfortable doing long range shots, which you cab only learn by dumb firing lots and lots of shots and getting a feel for it.