Reduce Volcano AimBot Hacks - Confirmed AimBot

Let's turn that down a little please

Any lower then it be a safe haven.

It's no wonder I never see anybody in there...

That why it the best place.

@aubination trust us buddy, it used to be a lot worse. This is tame.

I will share a secret. Don't be predictable. They work like a home seeking missile or whatever you call it. They will target your trajectory. If you are unpredictable, you won't get hit once.

What it's like nowadays is a mere fraction of what it used to be. I think it's in quite a good point currently, plenty of rocks hit and the closer you are of course the more dangerous it's gonna be. The rest is up to you really.

The reason nobody goes there is due to lack of updates and lack of REASON to go there. As the game evolves, the best money maker is going to be the biggest attraction, so as having 1.5x bonus to super basic loot isn't enough to sway the interest in the direction of the Roar. It's wildly inconvenient to get there as they seem to refuse to let us just spawn in there, making it not a worthwhile venture to keep server hopping until you reach Ancient Spire and then sail all the way to Morrows AND THEN start your actual gameplay

Cackling because I know exactly where he got hit.

I get hit there too 😂

I do think there should be a total rebalance of the roar, because it could be good, but unlike all other natural hazards in the game, the roars hazards just feel too artificial and excessive.

If it didnt feel so artificial, it would be fine to me, but rocks that constantly target ships, and geysers that sprout every 5 feet and where ever a player decides to take a second to dig, while spraying every other second over and over just feels way too forced and is extremely immersion breaking.

@goldsmen I always liked the idea of what you suggested. Rare could easily create some adventure that leads to the whole Devils Roar calming down. In turn properly expanding the playable map, leaving the visuals obviously, but removing the annoying environmental hazards. The volcanoes could still erupt each time a world event is completed there, but more for visual purposes rather than to annoy anyone there. At the moment, the 'meta' game only happens around the rest of the map, Devils Roar is forgotten by most pirates and as you mentioned - for very good reasons.

@zig-zag-ltu said in Reduce Volcano AimBot Hacks - Confirmed AimBot:

@goldsmen I always liked the idea of what you suggested. Rare could easily create some adventure that leads to the whole Devils Roar calming down. In turn properly expanding the playable map, leaving the visuals obviously, but removing the annoying environmental hazards. The volcanoes could still erupt each time a world event is completed there, but more for visual purposes rather than to annoy anyone there. At the moment, the 'meta' game only happens around the rest of the map, Devils Roar is forgotten by most pirates and as you mentioned - for very good reasons.

I dont think it needs to be made safer in specific, just rebalanced so the difficulty there doesnt feel so artificial, because at the moment it feels too forced and unnatural.

Yeah, but when you got a bunch of gold skellies, no food, ammo ir firebombs those geysers always get scarce on me.

Leave it alone lol

@goldsmen I dare to disagree.With current mob spawns it would make sense. I dont know if the devs were able to see the future and create an area taking up so many resources that nobody wants to play in? Wouldnt make sense, right? And we can all agree that its a useless area atm, you never see much action there.

Making the area tame would give a "real" map expansion, more world events could spawn there. Perhaps reduced geysers and volcanoes would open up space for 1 more ship?

once again i dont mean turn them 100% off but they shouldnt start when player gets on an island. They should serve as distant decorations and perhaps set of for real if a world event is finished. My opinion and my money on this idea, I think it would help the game grow.

@zig-zag-ltu sagte in Reduce Volcano AimBot Hacks - Confirmed AimBot:

I will share a secret. Don't be predictable. They work like a home seeking missile or whatever you call it. They will target your trajectory. If you are unpredictable, you won't get hit once.

uhm, I cannot figure out: is that a joke, or does it actually help?

If It actually helps, and if the Rocks are actually targetting movement like NPCs shooting cannons, isnt that something odd.

I can certainly agree with @GoldsMen:

just rebalanced so the difficulty there doesnt feel so artificial, because at the moment it feels too forced and unnatural

@parrotlord6426 No I'm serious. I sail right next to an active volcano and never get hit If I am not lazy.

The best one word description was written here by @Musicmee . Just move your ship as if it was a snake. Left and right. If you go in straight line, the volcano will hit you.

@zig-zag-ltu sagte in Reduce Volcano AimBot Hacks - Confirmed AimBot:

@parrotlord6426 No I'm serious. I sail right next to an active volcano and never get hit If I am not lazy.

The best one word description was written here by @Musicmee . Just move your ship as if it was a snake. Left and right. If you go in straight line, the volcano will hit you.

alright. Neat trick, but the fact that volcanoes seem to work that way is really alienating to me. I mean, the whole Devils Roar always felt kinda artificial too me (waay to many eruptions eg.), but I would have not guessed that this is actually a thing. What the Fluff, Rare! xd

@parrotlord6426 But hey ''glass is half full on this one'' you can avoid it!

But there is no way to avoid geysers and almost imminent earthquakes and eruptions. Devs somehow thought that making such ridiculously annoying area, so players could cash in Ashen Seafarers for 426 pieces of gold, instead of 213 will be worth it!

With current economy and how annoying the whole area is, if a single Ashen quest would give you 100k, I could see more players going there to grind gold and more people going there to try and steal it. Otherwise why even bother once commendations are done?

@foambreaker said in Reduce Volcano AimBot Hacks - Confirmed AimBot:

First comes the earthquake.
Then if there is going to be an eruption the volcano starts to smoke.
Then a loud crack sound.

If you are paying attention at all you should be sailing away

Correction - staying away* .

How often do you play there yourself sir, and if you do, how do you feel about pvp?

Imo It's a good place to 'grind' for people who can learn what you suggested, but want to avoid all PVP. Otherwise, no crew would waste time with that. It was fun once or twice when it came out.

But if Rare does not want to cater safe spaces and want to encourage pirates to interact, taming it seems in line.

I get it, though. Sometimes, the Roar pseudo-randomness can get too much, too frustrating, even if you know the tricks and tactics to sail peacefully there.

I just did an Ashen Athena to grind some of my final levels and check on some glitches the game has had for a while there, and not only are they still a terrible way to Athena (I was barely rank 3 1/2 by the time i got the Ashen Athena), but it just feels... ancient, balancing-wise.

Which is both an issue with the Roar (you've got the eruptions, the earthquake, the geysers, the emergent threats, the bugs, the lack of spawning at Morrows) and the old Athena quests (not enough valuable loot, not enough Athena stuff, stronger ennemies), which combine to make it a tiring, frustrating experience overall, with a terrible risk/reward ratio.

So I get why it's deserted, and yes, a rebalance would do the Roar good, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon, or ever (just like the quest board, or other stuff abandoned by Rare).

@foambreaker

@zig-zag-ltu Yeah it is annoying. Not over the top for me, but I could certainly like some kind of rework, to make it all feel more organical.

I remember finishing my athena "reach level 20" voyages there (back before Veil existed and when athena cap was level 20), and also my Merchant Alliance Level 50 grind. I dont think it is "over the top" unfair. If you pay attention to your surroundings and have a little bit of luck.. most of my sails went pretty chill, all things considered.
I certainly enjoyed not having to worry about other players while sailing athena level 5, because noone (exept me, ofc) was dense enough to sail there xd

@parrotlord6426 Yeah I've done majority of my Athena 1-20 there. It was super frustrating, but still better than loosing my gold to a galleon or brig.

Since then, I became a lot more active here and I can notice that devs really want everyone to participate in PVEVP, so out of idk maybe 300 hours in the Roar, Ive done less than 1-2hours of pvp there. That land really fits the Ashen curse, and perhaps Morrows peak could become a reaper dominant outpost?

OR whatever the changes would be, I don't understand why people are so scared to think about changes, but once changes happen they stick to them and become scared of new ones?

I play in the roar all the time. I do almost all my lost shipment and vaults in the roar, as they keep you in the roar instead of sending you halfway across the map and back.

I just find the length of the volcanos annoying. Sitting and waiting for 5 minutes for the volcano to stop so I can go on the island is quite boring. I don’t mind the rest though, it’s a volcano region and it behaves like one.

@zig-zag-ltu Love the idea of the Roar becoming reaper territory. Would also fitt the map since the biggest "good guys" bastion right now is Port Merrick.

People are always afraid of changes xd. Doesnt mean they dont want them - they are just afraid of the unknown. Maybe an evolutionary issue

@foambreaker Nope. I just think you are a little bit confused at your old age.

@ghostpaw Dont lecture me. One of ''those'' people must have been a compliment and a constructive answer in your book?