What the hell is going on with skeleton spawning all over the place. Many of us use to enjoy making landfall and exploring the islands for treasures now none of us want to leave the ship. So lots of skeletons are spawning constantly and ifs that was not enough it takes 9 hits to kill when it use to be 3. No one likes doing order of souls quest because it is easier to do a skull forts then a g******n souls quest, a souls quest sucks it takes so much longer to do and the experience is so poor. Treasure quest are also heavily impacted by this issue, quite of my friends won’t even log on till the issues have been resolved.
Skeletons over populated on islands
@brit-churchill said in Skeletons over populated on islands:
What the hell is going on with skeleton spawning all over the place. Many of us use to enjoy making landfall and exploring the islands for treasures now none of us want to leave the ship. So lots of skeletons are spawning constantly and ifs that was not enough it takes 9 hits to kill when it use to be 3. No one likes doing order of souls quest because it is easier to do a skull forts then a g******n souls quest, a souls quest sucks it takes so much longer to do and the experience is so poor. Treasure quest are also heavily impacted by this issue, quite of my friends won’t even log on till the issues have been resolved.
I dont mind a few skellies here and there.
Maybe you were unlucky and another crew in your lobby had a skull bounty quest going on for the island you have been on?
I've read and been told that it's due to your level and the level of your quests. The higher your quests the more the randoms spawn and the more hits they require to kill them.
For example, I was on Crooked Masts last night digging up a chest for a pirate legend quest. The chest was right at the very top on a tiny bit of land and as soon as I hit the chest with my shovel, 12, I kid you not, 12 bloody skeletons spawned. It took us about 4 or 5 attempts to kill them all before we could collect the chest.
That is indeed because of your level. You can bring everybody with you on high lvl voyages but with high lvl voyages comes greater risks (makes sense right).
Wait till you hit Pirate Legend, praise the lord they only spawn melee sekeletons, but you'll be running with a chicken coop and 20 skeletons on your ***.
I think Rare has done this right.
@sowieso010 I also think it's right it should be more difficult at higher voyages (as should be the reward - a separate discussion).
However I think the problem with it for so many people is the tedium of the encounters. It's more of a nuisance than a worthy challenge.
Hopefully in future new enemies appear at the higher levels that change up the game play a bit. They almost have it right with the gold vs shadow vs plant thing but since they can appear at any level, the only difference is quantity.
I witnessed my friend, just digging, running away and back, digging, rinse repeat. I asked him why he wasn't just dispatching them and his response was "I really can't be bothered" which kind of sums it up, not for me personally, but for a lot of people.
7 out of 8
