Revive Blackwake

Take the "thieves" out of Sea of Thieves? Riiiight....

Having PIRATES on the seas should be dangerous and fill you with dread and fear.

Players pleading for that element to be removed need to find another game.

As an experienced player with a lot of time invested I'll tell you a secret.

When you are new pirate to the Sea of Thieves you'll spend your play sessions thinking "I hope I don't get attacked"

When you are an experienced pirate you'll spend your play sessions "I hope I DO get attacked"

It makes the game ALOT more exciting and turns it into a truly unique and special experience unlike anything else

@paparug420 said in Revive Blackwake:

As an experienced player with a lot of time invested I'll tell you a secret.

When you are new pirate to the Sea of Thieves you'll spend your play sessions thinking "I hope I don't get attacked"

When you are an experienced pirate you'll spend your play sessions "I hope I DO get attacked"

It makes the game ALOT more exciting and turns it into a truly unique and special experience unlike anything else

No, it doesn't.
I don't get the people who say PVP adds variety, because almost every PVP encounter win or lose plays out the same.

The meta means PVP is boring.

@zig-zag-ltu said in Revive Blackwake:

@scheneighnay I think what they talk about is the core game experience.

So let's take FOTD for example.

I don't know how about you, but first times trying to do it, getting attacked was scary and frustrating.

Now I only propose to do it, as I hope we will get attacked. The first sight of another ship feels like a 'bingo' moment.

Not that PVP never happened before, but this is all this game has to offer. Once you have done all the PVE content, did enough pvp, this full combo is the only thing that makes it interesting.

That being said, I think its time for developers to cool off making ''tik toks'' ''hOw aBoUt wE lOaD tHe ShiP, sAiL foR foRt oF ForTuNe...'' you saw that cringy video right? Sorry, also soundtrack choice (welcome to my playground) is terrible. Poor music taste or an attempt to be 'trending' ? They really should let their music department to do it themselves, if that was their choice, shame on them :D

And focus to bring more ground breaking content to this game.

Look at the reapers, most popular faction also the newest one. They did not exist before and all those 'year one' players probably started to get bored, then BAM reapers and the whole game became like new again for a lot of people. The whole emissary system etc.

I doubt guilds will be anything special, so if they have nothing planned that is being kept secret, we are approaching one year mark with no new exciting content for adventure'(maybe I'm wrong?) Fingers crossed devs have a good plan for next 5 years.

I'm still saying that doesn't add up to me.
You do fotd, you expect to be attacked, you know how and when it'll happen because there's only so many ways to go about it. That's not exciting, it's no different than one more boss wave.

@scheneighnay said in Revive Blackwake:

@paparug420 said in Revive Blackwake:

As an experienced player with a lot of time invested I'll tell you a secret.

When you are new pirate to the Sea of Thieves you'll spend your play sessions thinking "I hope I don't get attacked"

When you are an experienced pirate you'll spend your play sessions "I hope I DO get attacked"

It makes the game ALOT more exciting and turns it into a truly unique and special experience unlike anything else

No, it doesn't.
I don't get the people who say PVP adds variety, because almost every PVP encounter win or lose plays out the same.

The meta means PVP is boring.

Entirely depends on how a person plays

I've always played in an organic style pve/pvp and I only fight ships that attack me or put pressure on me in random scenarios so I fight in all sorts of random scenarios against all types of different crews.

If people only play one specific way they are largely going to have similar outcomes, pve and pvp.

Like if a pvper largely just attacks inexperienced crews

or if inexperienced or passive players keep doing world events

then things lack variety

@grog-minto not even worth replying to people who make such outrageous and blatantly false claims to try support their argument

"eVeRy PVP enCoUntEr iS thE saMe"

Lol what an incredibly ignorant statement

@zig-zag-ltu said in Revive Blackwake:

@scheneighnay So what exactly do you enjoy in this PVEVP sandbox?

Co-op and the ship mechanics.

@scheneighnay try Deep Rock Galactic if you want a purely PvE co-op experience.

It's actually incredible

@wolfmanbush said in Revive Blackwake:

@scheneighnay said in Revive Blackwake:

@paparug420 said in Revive Blackwake:

As an experienced player with a lot of time invested I'll tell you a secret.

When you are new pirate to the Sea of Thieves you'll spend your play sessions thinking "I hope I don't get attacked"

When you are an experienced pirate you'll spend your play sessions "I hope I DO get attacked"

It makes the game ALOT more exciting and turns it into a truly unique and special experience unlike anything else

No, it doesn't.
I don't get the people who say PVP adds variety, because almost every PVP encounter win or lose plays out the same.

The meta means PVP is boring.

Entirely depends on how a person plays

I've always played in an organic style pve/pvp and I only fight ships that attack me or put pressure on me in random scenarios so I fight in all sorts of random scenarios against all types of different crews.

If people only play one specific way they are largely going to have similar outcomes, pve and pvp.

Like if a pvper largely just attacks inexperienced crews

or if inexperienced or passive players keep doing world events

then things lack variety

Not really, there's very short list of tools available, that get shortened further when the meta makes most things not viable.

@zig-zag-ltu said in Revive Blackwake:

@scheneighnay look, you do you and enjoy the game you paid for, but co op and ship mechanics has a lot less variables than pvp as an example, although it falls under same category, its just coop and ship mechanics ;).

Also what exactly do you consider coop worth content pve wise? Role playing or something?

I brought up ship mechanics because whenever someone says "go to another game" it's always a game where your ship is a ship-shaped brick you can control entirely with wasd on the helm and that isn't impacted by waves or wind at all.
Sea of Thieves has no competition in that regard.

Helping other crews on world events, fleets especially, as well as tall tales and voyages is a lot more interesting than spending 10 minutes shooting boarders off at eachother until one of us takes out the masts or hits the other's anchor.

Only PVP I enjoy are the multi-boat chaos fights where I find myself boarding one ship to use their cannons on another ship, or trying to steal stuff or do keg plays.
The core PVP loop of anchors and blunders gets old fast.

@zig-zag-ltu said in Revive Blackwake:

@scheneighnay We all do. But if you approach another ship, doing a world event like the fleets, I bet most of the time you do spend 10 minutes shooting boarders off the ladder. Or if you live long enough you become the villain yourself ^^.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy nice encounters as much as anyone and forming alliances, defending. But this is basically what I meant PVEVP, did not mean to oversimplify. Multi ship battles is the best.. Unless you are a sloop and need to fight two brigs, then any mistake means Davy Jones locker :D

No? You show up and they either accept help, run, or they start firing and you leave them be.

@zig-zag-ltu said in Revive Blackwake:

@scheneighnay Once they start firing it's game on, why would you spend the next 30mins trying to run away from something you have started yourself? Obviously if you are a solo sloop and run away from a galleon or brig thats understandable, but if you are on a brig and sloop starts to fire at you, its free money.

They never follow.