Please create an offline mode!

@shokugeki-kid said in Please create an offline mode!:

@mogley1992 and so if you cash in then jump to live servers you wolud keep the xp and gold? not very fair

Separate save files. It's not rocket surgery.

@cattaleyaathena said in Please create an offline mode!:

@mogley1992

Hitman 2016 ► Always Online? Always a Problem.

Microsoft Responds: Xbox One's DRM, Always-Online, and Focus on TV/Games - Adam Sessler Interview

^Bingo

We revolted against this garbage when they proposed it for the launch of the XBOne and they changed it. I see they're still trying to slip it in. It's a ridiculous idea.

Gotta love those times either early in the morning or late at night when no one is playing and you’re the only player on the server.

Day 1, first time playing it was just me and one other guy in a sloop and we grinded PvE uninterrupted, being the only players on the server. It was my first day playing SoT so he taught me lots and we had ourselves a peaceful grind. Lots of fun.

Day 2, I was with a galleon crew and the same exact player in a sloop kept finding us and attacking us. We’d sink him, then move. No matter where we went the exact same player kept finding us. Got really annoying as he was clearly targeting us even when we had no loot. Just a sloop so no problem sinking him, he just got annoying. That’s the thing about the PvP.
Players will hunt and attack you even when it’s clear you have nothing on you. Games like this are griefers haven. Where players hunt other players, not for treasure but just for the hunt. We also had a player join the crew just to start dumping all the loot off board. One moment we have 6 captain chests on board, then suddenly we have 2 and we find those two in a different location than where we put them. Just to find one of our own crew members was taking them and either dumping them into the ocean or putting them on one of the passing islands. 10/10 pirates these kind of players be. Not hunting and looking for treasures, but just looking to grief. Players who simply play the game to ruin other people’s experiences.

Day 3, I and another galleon crew had the whole server to ourselves. It was so empty we kept having the 4th slot being taken then opened over and over because the 4th kept leaving and no one would stay. Just a three man PvE grind from 8am - 11pm when we finally got off. Yes we had a server to ourselves for 15 hours. We hit 2 skull fortresses without any PvP, and we would even continue to do voyages after hitting the fortresses since there was no threat of any players. Lots of fun, again.

Day 4, at the time of this post a patch was released adding the private and open crews. Players were everywhere and no one was friendly. Back to the griefers paradise of players attacking each other even when they have no loot and players joining crews just to dump loot in the water secretly and then leave. Servers kept crashing so the annoyances didn’t last long when it came to the PvP.

Being PC gamer, I haven’t been on the Xbox since before the Xbox One was released. Forgot how many 8 year olds were on Xbox. Would love an option to join a “PC Only” server to avoid all the immature squeakers.

But overall, Day 1 and Day 3 were the most fun days.
Unfortunate that if you want a PvE experience, you have to get on at a certain time, in my experience early in the morning, and wait for the server to die so that you’re the only one left. Then you get your PvE experience and can grind without any worry. ;)

@blazzered2 Shhh. Now everyone will play at these times.
I have bitten my tongue about server play times since launch and now you've blown it wide open. lol

I sloop with an American who plays all night and sees his kids off to school in the morning whilst still playing SoT. As an Australian this works well with me playing from midday up until 10/11pm.
We have played earlier but that's what I have come to know as the jerk-fest period. Which is about the time the kiddies come home from school in the States, right up until their bed time. It would also include some bad eggs in the work force too. Just saying.

@blam320 said in Please create an offline mode!:

If you're only playing the game for the PvE content, you're not playing it right.

No one has any right to tell another person they are playing the game wrong. They have their play styles, you have yours. Neither is right or wrong.

@mogley1992 said in Please create an offline mode!:

This is such a beautifully made game but the lack of an offline mode is really disappointing. I fully understand that the game being multiplayer is a large part of the experience and lots of core reasons to play the game would be missing without other players, but believe me, this game would hold up without them. This game would be awesome for kids if there was at least a friend only mode, Also some people just don't have a solid enough connection to play online, and can barely download games (myself included) breaking the game for them.

No...never. Not at all. Good day.

I've come around to this way of thinking and would be ok with them adding an offline mode. If people want to play offline, by themselves, let them.

@blam320 said in Please create an offline mode!:

@arcticharmony70 said in Please create an offline mode!:

@blam320 said in Please create an offline mode!:

If you're only playing the game for the PvE content, you're not playing it right.

No one has any right to tell another person they are playing the game wrong. They have their play styles, you have yours. Neither is right or wrong.

I have every right to tell someone to stuff it when they start complaining about people being able to steal your loot in this game. It's not only a legitimate strategy, but a primary feature of the game. Setting aside PvE-only servers for those landlubbers who can't hold their grog whenever another ship pulls up guns-a-blazing kills one of the game's main selling points.

Let's try this again: No one has any right to tell another person they are playing the game wrong. They have their play styles, you have yours. Neither is right or wrong.

@lord-sphinktus said in Please create an offline mode!:

I don't think it would be easy to make an offline SoT... SoT uses tons of online services to deliver the game experience. Quest generation, loot placement, enemy placement, wind direction, storm Dynamics etc.

They can barely run the online mode, I agree offline mode would be a stretch

@warmcreator8491 They can't even add private crews. This game is doomed.