Hi, you lousy, slobbering mongrels.
Today, I was playing gold hoarders emissary for about 3 hours or so. I had done the vault on Mermaid's Hideout and was travelling south, intending to steer eastwards to sell all my loot at Plunder when I ran into a Kraken encounter.
I didn't expect trouble (I've killed Kraken before), but this time was different. I was shooting the arms and everything seemed to go fine until... I got picked up by one of the arms. I got the animation with the mouth sorta closing around me and expected to get spit out. That didn't happen.
Instead, the arm just disappeared and I got stuck in the air. I could no longer defend my ship or move or jump or kill myself. I wasn't taking damage and the game didn't seem to register me as stuck either (respawning me in my ship).
So, I basically had to watch my ship sink with all my loot gained from the last 3 or so hours. I couldn't reclaim that loot because the only way to escape my predicament seemed to be to leave the game. And so I did.
I recorded a video after my sloop went down (to have something to show support).
As a new player who very much enjoys the game when it works, I still have to admit that these kind of bugs are definite motivation killers in terms of sticking with the game. Not long ago, I encountered a bug where I did not get paid for selling my loot haul. I don't mind players killing and robbing me (it's a fair cop), but it sometimes feels like the bugs are out to get me. I got a job that's not youtubing SoT-content and I also got kids and limited time with this game, so I want the time I have to mean something more than an excercise in futility.
So anyways, I hope you'll excuse my complaining. Now: being still limited in my Kraken experience, is this common? Does anyone have a tip to how I can avoid this bug in the future?
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