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@bestbear500 I dont agree with some points, ofcourse I will explain why.

Sword: I do agree with this one, the range is an known issue, and the stun is very annoying. Hopefully they will remove it.

Pistol: Might indeed need a bit more damage, but then again, you eat a a fish or pineapple while the enemy is reloading and he is full health again.

Eye of Reach: Perfectly fine? Is that a joke? Its the most broken weapon in the game. Its meant for long range, but everybody is using it as a short range weapon to almost instant kill u. It should only do massive damage, maybe even instant kill on a headshot from long distance, because that is its purpose.

Blunderbuss: This one I see as perfectly fine, you can easily counter it, keep some distance from the enemy player, and if you are to close, just do some avoid manoeuvres.

@mentimjojo But the eye of reach requires you to scope in unless you are touching the person you are fighting. Also, most people don't want to have to switch weapons every single time they come into an encounter with another enemy, they prefer to find one weapon they like and they just use it all the time.

@ultmateragnarok It might have sounded confusing when I worded it, but what I was thinking is, if the player is slowed down, the stun should still be there, but if the player does not slow down, then the stun should be removed, personally I would prefer the player gets slown down.

@ultmateragnarok

I agree with nearly everything you stated, apart from the fact that EoR is used to often in mid range while being fine.

To me personally it just lacks oomph at long ranges (and I am against headshots; this is a cross platform equalizer and needs to remain). Hitting those shots tends to be hard enough once, let alone twice in a row with the reload, bullet travel time and the movement of the ships. The impact of hitting someone at long range is minimal to nonexistent in most engagements, as it is easy to recover from.

For me it is mainly a mid range gun, while the flintlock is the all rounder and the blunder the king of close quarter combat. Based on my mood, role and the situation/planning I pick accordingly. I rarely equips two guns, as the mobility of a sword is irreplaceable for me during my time on the seas.

Personally I enjoyed the old days more where the cutlass had the slow effect on swing and felt more like a dance swordplay style, with all its intriguing small tricks, than the current slash and dash style.

Regarding the cutlass I believe that this post is neglecting the state of blocking with a cutlass... it feels so bad to use as a block and not just the stance to do a dodge jump.

Also, it might just be me, but lunges seem to risky in the current state of the game, while it used to have a place in actual combat.

Great post, and great comments so far. I agree and then some with the cutlass. Especially the stun lock. Far to often I get hit once, and the fight is over because you can't even raise your sword to block. The only time you should get stun locked from the cutlass is on the receiving end of a sword lunge. Otherwise, just get rid of it all together. I also believe that the movement should be reverted back to what it used to be. The cutlass fights themselves seemed to be much smoother, and more skill was required in a cutlass fight.

I like how @Galactic-Geek worded it.

@mentimjojo has a great point on the eye of reach. It really should do less damage at closer distances, force people to use it the way it was intended. I doubt we will ever see a change to damage based on where you hit someone though (headshot). Rare has had enough issues with hit indicators as it is, let alone identifying a head shot vs shoulder or body.

i like how you say the blunder can one shot when 50% of the time hitreg.exe has stopped working

Honestly I don’t think they’ll ever change the combat much more than what it is now. The fact that most posts in this topic have all one similar thing in opinion and that’s it’s just spammy and luck combat.
To me this was to attract the kiddies to the game since the original sword combat moved to slow and took patience to have a good duel. A lot of changes lately have seemed more geared toward the younger crowd. Even the cosmetics seem bright and goofy like something out of fortnite.

-Cutlass revert back to original movement speed.

-Flintlock keep the same.

-Eye of Reach have a damage range on it. Have it do half of what it does from point blank to its minimum range. The damage now when it’s in its range. After almost the longest distance it’s a OHK. I’d suggest making things blurry when looking through the optic on the EoR that are before the minimum range. So players know when they can shoot. This would hopefully detract from using it below deck. Want to talk about it being used outside it’s intended area well two pirates shooting rifles at each other at 15 feet on a sloop or brig seems out of place to me. Especially the amount of damage it can do. I’ve cleaned out the belly of a galleon with an EoR and cutlass. Seems more like an arcade shooter and less pirate.

-Blunderbuss for me feels kinda noobish. Would guarantee if this game had public run servers you could host you would see a mass of servers called “No Blunderbuss or kick/ban”

I think the issues really is that it’s capable of OHK. While I agree that’s the point of the gun I think it feels cheap in a game that takes a solid fifteen minutes of gathering supplies and setting off and getting face plastered by a pirate in a split second.

I’d say keep it the way it is but double it’s reload time. So players can still get that OHK but they have to be good. Otherwise they miss and must make the choice of run and reload or pull the cutlass.

Insta-kill shotguns are fair.

I prefer pistols but my heart skips if there is a shotgun aimed at me.
Some of my favourite and tense moments was last minute dodging and blunderbuss shot and countering with my sword.