Skeletons are frustrating to fight

All of the points mentioned are %100 correct.

Trying to kite four metal sniper skelles that are stood in the middle of nowhere is a pain especially.

What can you do in that situation except run with barrel and hope to get close

@targasbr I always do this, it helps a ton, but it isn't always very reliable and you can only cover yourself from one angle. I like that you can do this though, it's one of those things that i don't think was really intended but happened to work well with the gameplay :)

I agree. The skeletons feel very robotic to fight. I wish they felt fluid and natural.

@goedecke-michel

I don't think their miss chance is that big of a deal. It is usually the firing squad that does me in. When there enough skeletons that even if a couple of them miss you, you will still die is the frustration of it. Especially when solo and you cannot have the crew act like meat shields for each other and all take your own gunner.

The seeing through fog and such doesn't bother me that much. They are cursed creatures, so who knows how the world looks from those hollow sockets of theirs.

The not effected by an earthquake though... sometimes just means you are dead. They catch up, boom (as the normal word is in the profanity filter) you up or just shoot you.

I'd like it if their AI was better - if they took cover, tried to flank, but I also kind of like their mindless attempt to try to rush and kill you. They are skeletons after all.

I dislike the idea that the should all have a timer for when they shoot at you. I've been enjoying the random trigger pull. I'd rather have them have more "personality" like this to make them feel less robotic. If you get took close, the blunderbuss skeletons should try to pull up and shoot quickly. Or maybe the pistol and sniper skellies have a higher miss chance if they fire with less of an aim time, so it's more like shooting from the hip.

I don't think they should make skeletons less challenging by any means. This game needs more difficult challenges I think.

The problem lies in the amount of gun skeletons that spawn at a time. Because it ISN'T fun to be gunned down within 30 seconds of returning from the ferry. I find that very frustrating.

I always thought they should increase the difficulty of cutlass wielding skeletons and then reduce the amount of gun skeletons spawning.

@chronodusk They can't increase the "difficulty" of current skeletons because they have little to no challenge. They are nothing but brain-dead aim-bots. They run straight at you with no variation and shoot at you with perfect accuracy(only missing because of RNG). Skeletons need to have their guns confiscated. With the exception of the blunderbuss skeletons, there is no room for player choice in dealing with gun skeletons. If they roll a hit, they WILL hit you(sometimes even through walls), if they roll a miss they will miss you. This is terrible game design in a game with no health regen. Skeletons need to be refitted with relatively slow moving projectile weapons that can be dodged. Something like skeleton magic fireballs or something. Then there would be room for interaction, rather than everything being decided by an internal dice roll.

@betsill I said increase the difficulty of cutlass skeletons, not all skeletons. And then reduce the amount of gun skeletons that spawn...

I think they could make cutlass skeletons a bit faster and smarter which would balance out the reduction in gun skeletons in my opinion.

It's not so much that the skeletons are too easy or too difficult. They're just... bland.

@betsill seriously. Dodging a bullet is just pure dumb luck. And don't get me started when they shoot me through boards and rocks.

@chronodusk They are all the same as far as design. If they see an enemy they attack if in weapon range, if not in range then they walk the shortest route towards the enemy until in range. There is no difference between skeletons other than the range of their weapons. Simply reducing the amount of gun skeletons does nothing to fix the problem, it just lowers the frequency of the problem(same as when rare added RNG to their accuracy). That's why they need a redesign.

@marsmayflower It's seemingly not possible to dodge a shot. If they miss it's because they rolled a miss on their internal dice. I've been hit will flying threw the air from being shot out of a cannon(twice!). If they can hit me in that circumstance, there is no way they would miss me because I jumped to the side a little. Perfect accuracy is just that.

I once had the same issue but i learned a crafty trick once they start gaining drop anchor let them pass raise anchor than stay behind them try to make them collide with island their ship will get stuck usually free fire that skelly ship than steal loot

Another issue is skeletons running thru me and hitting me from behind, even when I'm covering with my sword.
This is annoying.

@boomtownboss I think the way they're designed is just fine. It's very simple but the combat is still fun, the problem is just that there's sometimes a lot of frustration involved and i think that happens when the player doesn't feel in control; and what i mean by that is if you ever feel like you died just because the game suddenly rolled the dice and you got unlucky, it won't feel very good.