Kraken attacks me constantly and I cant make any progress so I'm quiting.

@aetherbones said in Kraken attacks me constantly and I cant make any progress so I'm quiting.:

Every few weeks I get some friends together and jump on, and every single session within the hour kraken attacks and it's much harder to escape than before, so it kills us every time even with fully stocked ship. If we have any loot on the ship what so ever, kraken attacks. I'm just sick of Krakens, I want to experience something else. I guess it's just bad luck, but it's been the last 6 months strait.
I've tried stait up killing it, I've tried keeping my heading and slowly sailing out of the area, no matter what the thing will not let up and sinks us every single time. It feels like a punishment rather than a fun encounter.

I've been attacked literally strait out of leaving the dock when first starting many times. Something is wrong with the game. I love this game and Rare, but I guess I have to take their hint and stop playing which is really sad for me, but it's just not fun anymore I feel like Rare itself is just picking on me. Bye I guess.

The fact that you die to the Kraken says a lot. The kraken is horribly easy. The only person you can blame is yourself. Won't lie, its probably a good thing you are cutting it quits here. If you are complaining about the kraken, I wonder how much complaining you would do when an actual player steals all your loot.

@aetherbones

The kraken only attacks when the other two events are not active. The stronghold event, signified by a floating skull-shaped cloud with eyes that occasionally flash green or a yellowish orange, and the skeleton fleet event, signified by a floating cloud bearing the appearance of a galleon cresting a wave, the broadside cannons flickering with the same green or yellow lights. Keep an eye on the sky, and only set sail when one of these is either already up, or has been down for at least a minute, which means the kraken has attacked someone else. When the conditions are right for an attack, stay near an island or rock formation, and if at open sea drop the anchor. They seem to not like attacking stationary ships, and it cannot fit in shallow waters.

For the kraken itself, it is a hard encounter until you learn its attack patterns, after which it becomes remarkably easier. When you see it attack, the water turning black and the roar accompanying your ship stopping, do a 180 if you wish to simply escape its grasp. It will not follow you out of the ink, and seems to have difficulty interacting with ships on the edges of the ink as well, even if they are slowed by it. Regardless, the closest edge to you is directly behind you, so you can simply turn around and face the sails with the wind and you'll be out very quickly.

Should you wish to fight the beast, its patterns are simple:
Each ship caught needs to defeat a certain number of tentacles to drive the creature away. This only changes based on the ship that it originally attacks, rather than any other ship type within the ink at any time. A galleon will have to dispel all eight tentacles, a brigantine will have to defeat six, and a sloop a mere two. Each tentacle, when defeated, will dive under the water, followed by a cry from the kraken itself. It will then resurface elsewhere, and attack once more as it did before. When driven under again, it will writhe in the air before quickly pulling under, accompanied by a rather dramatic musical cue and followed by a piece of treasure and a piece of kraken meat rising to the surface above the tentacle. This also means that while a galleon must essentially drive off 16 tentacles, with no more than eight attacking at a time, a sloop can drive them under anywhere in the range of 4 to 10, defeating six once and two twice, or only defeating two twice. Keep in mind that the tentacles occasionally move on their own, submerging and resurfacing elsewhere without taking damage.
The tentacles have three attacks they will perform, among a variety of animations which are mostly just roars and movements, as well as their occasional resurface elsewhere.
The first attack is a suck or grab of sorts, where the tentacle will open its mouth and begin inhaling while targeting a pirate on deck or in the water. The targeted pirate will hear a loud screech from the tentacle, and see clouds of dust being pulled towards it, allowing them to get to cover (it cannot grab one that is belowdecks, though it will continue to pull at them and the dust will continue to rise) or fire back, cancelling the attack. Should it succeed at grabbing the pirate, they can be retrieved from it by a harpoon shot, or dropped if the tentacle takes enough damage. It will repeatedly plunge its captive into the water, damaging them from impact and drowning damage, which comes on nearly instantly within the ink. Should they survive several plunges, it will spit them out, flinging them far across and occasionally out of the ink.
The second attack is a slap, directed at the ship. The tentacle will rise up near the hull of the ship (sitting lower and closer to the ship than the tentacles normally do), roar, coil up, and unfurl into the hull, damaging and launching the ship, along with anyone too close to the impact. There does not seem to be a way to cancel this attack.
The third and final attack is the wrap, where a tentacle will come up beside the ship and wrap itself across the deck and around the entire ship, then begin to squeeze it, damaging it heavily and turning the entire ship back and forth. The tentacle on deck can cover the staircase on a galleon or brigantine, preventing access in or out and preventing water from being tossed into the sea from below. Anyone trapped belowdecks by this should prioritize repairing every hole which appears from the wrap, and pick up a full bucket of water when required (a single bucket can hold almost a quarter of the water it takes to fill a deck of the ship, don't underfill it). They should not attack the tentacle from below, it will take very little notable damage and will squirt ink from its wounds at those attacking it, blinding and damaging them. The same will happen to anyone on deck attacking the tentacle on deck with them. The priority for those on deck during a wrap should be to locate and defeat the end of the tentacle, where the mouth is. It will be near the ship, in the line of fire of the cannons, and lower down and closer to the ship than the other tentacles. It often has its mouth open in a roar, revealing the critical hit spot: the interior of the mouth. After being hit enough, normally after a single cannon shot, the tentacle will submerge and reappear again, in a similar spot and rarely in the same spot. The process should be repeated until the entire tentacle releases the ship. Notably, the tentacle end will sometimes place itself on deck, requiring it to be attacked with handheld weapons rather than the cannons.

Crew should be distributed about the ship, prioritizing repairing in all cases, and the helm and sails (should you wish to flee) or the cannons (should you wish to fight). On a sloop, one crew member can fill both required roles, especially a crew member who knows the patterns of the kraken. A duo on a sloop can split up, one to maneuvering or firing and the other to repairs, helping each other as needed. A duo or trio on a brigantine or a trio or full crew on a galleon should always have at least one person above and below at all times, to protect against a wrap blocking the staircase. The two cannoneers should not both go belowdecks for reloads at the same time, instead they should alternate going down so that one refills on cannonballs while the other remains firing (and not both go down to escape the grasp of the kraken and the other to reload, or similar). Those belowdecks should not run out onto the top deck to throw out water, but should instead stop on the staircase to do so. Repairing is their priority, as no matter how much water they take out of the ship more can always pour in, however stopping repairing to save the ship from sinking entirely is a good thing, as in most cases one or two pirates with buckets can save a ship from any amount of damage. Galleons should be wary of the holes on their central deck, should the water reach that height.

I hope this helps you fend off this creature, and I offer sympathy for its apparent disliking of you in particular. The Sea of Thieves can be a hostile place, and it is better to experience it with a crew, preferably one of friends. A mentor is not a bad idea for a new player, either. Help is always here, all you have to do is ask. Should you decide to leave the game for good, then I wish you farewell and success wherever you decide to go next.

Also, @Xultanis-Dragon , be nice, especially to the other players. A newer player might not know how to fight the kraken, and not nearly to the extent that you do.

@aetherbones

Refer back to the section on defeating the kraken wraps that I wrote, and the part about how to effectively flee it, alongside to avoid it for good. Yes, it's a bit long, but it's relatively well organized. As for any pirate lord getting sick of constant kraken attacks, I know at least one well known skeleton lord who would not like to relive the experience. Cursed chests can be quite annoying, after a time.

@aetherbones

At least krakens are more avoidable than megalodons if your wish is to not get attacked in the first place, what with the event limitations. Sorry about the fact that one of them doesn't seem to like you, though I suppose at least you can likely get plenty of practice with some help from my guide if you want to. Six krakens is quite a few, I've never seen that many in quick succession and I draw the things like moths to a flame sometimes, perhaps an error with the game? Best of luck to avoiding it, or fighting back against it.

@UltmateRagnarok is on the ball here. I would point out that i have been krakend while raiding barrels of plenty. Also, server merged after killing a kraken with a dropped anchor. While patching holes, the new server dropped a fresh kraken too, still anchored. The only sure fire way to avoid her is to stay shallow, or sail only if a fleet or normal fort are visible...or unless you see her attacking someone else 😁

The slap attack is also preventable. One of the other tentacles that appear to be doing nothing, will disappear and re-appear for the slap. If you injure the tentacle enough(not necessarily kill it, just make it submerge) before it starts to submerge, it wont re-appear ready to slap. This gives you a large window to finish the fight/repair/reload before the 'wrap' stage even begins. This is tricky, as players are often below deck for the grab attack, reducing time available to fire the cannons, but sometimes you get lucky.

Edit: I also remember a time, about 16 months ago, maybe 18 months. We fought an unkillable kraken. Galleon with 300 cannonballs and 100 planks(old barrel system). We landed at least 250 hits, then used pistols and EoR for about 10 minutes till we ran out of planks. Im sure it was a bug though, never seen it since.

@pomalotacusmk3

The anchor is not a surefire way to avoid it, but I have noticed that it does not attack as often on unmoving ships. The merge thing you had is unlucky, though you at least would've gotten more treasure for it.
For avoiding the slap, while yes, you can drive off the tentacle before it starts, during the animation of winding up for the slap, it cannot be stopped. Even defeating the kraken itself will not stop the attack, the tentacle will still hit the ship after the ink and the other tentacles have left. The same also happens with a wrapping tentacle, where once it comes up and starts to move it will wrap around the ship and immediately unwrap once it has finished the first animation, regardless of the states of anything around it.

@ultmateragnarok Yea, once the slap tentacle goes underwater, before reappearing closer for the slap, its unavoidable. The merge double kraken was interesting. I only anchored as i sunk a skelly galleon while fighting kraken. I anchored near the loot before fighting her. The plan was to repair, then collect skelly loot, then kraken loot. The merge took skelly loot and kraken #1 loot, leaving me with just the loot from kraken #2 😥

Getting Krakened early is always a good crew check.

No good crew is gonna go down from a Kraken (with supplies) so it’s a good test of crew adequacy.

@ultmateragnarok

I want to help honestly I do, but I've drawn the line to when players ask for help vs players who just complain. I'm very cordial to players that ask for help. Even those that openly say "this is going to be a salty post but I just don't know what to do"

Any semblance of responsibility and I'll be helpful. Wasn't always like that but I can't always bust out the whole kraken how to do manual because these posts happen at least a few times a week. The other thing that actually killed my helpful attitude was the reluctance to listen after I gave them help. Thats when I realized that when a person comes in to complain more often then not they already made up their mind and don't want advice, any advice given is automatically dismissed and then they try to verbally attack the person giving the advice.

I could be a product of just some bad threads but at this point I couldn't careless. Those that ask for help are more than willing to learn and listen. Those that complain will just yell and scream and kick because in their minds the situation they were in was completely impossible.

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This part is to help you and @PomalotacusMk3 if you guys didn't know already.

I've went after this broad for a good month, just attacking and attacking her, trying to figure out all her little secrets.

So having the anchor down does not in fact help. She attacks any ship out in open water.

If multiple ships are in close proximity to each other, she is more likely to spawn on one of those ships out in open water. Which is why it always seems like she spawns on a ship whenever you are chasing or being chased.

Location or the color of the water doesn't matter. Some players like to think she will spawn in deep dark blue color water, that is false. As long as there is enough space between her ink and an object, its spawn central. One of the reason why shes able to spawn right as you leave an outpost sometimes. Just have to have enough room on all corners so that there is enough room between the ink and whatever.

Loot has nothing to do with the spawning. Some players like to think the more loot you have the more often it spawns on you, that is false. This is really just roll of the dice, if there is a deciding factor I haven't found it yet. I've had her spawn on me while a ship full of loot was rolling away from the fort when I was just solo on a sloop.

Don't believe ship size matters either. Its just when the Cloud is down she has a chance to spawn and I think whichever ship reaches the optimal location for it to happen first, it will happen.

I think there is a timer because sometimes she will spawn within 2 minutes of the cloud going down, there are times she will spawn after 5 mins. I've rolled around the Seas for 15 mins before she spawned on me one time.

Hope that helps you all. o7

@xultanis-dragon

I'm not sure if krakens can spawn back-to-back, but it could be the reason for the occasional long times between the event ending and the kraken appearing. Bit hard to test that, obviously, as proper testing would require control and communication over most or all of the ships in a server, and many tests of completing events and attempting to get a spawn.

As for salt, you are one of the participants in crossplay threads, yes? I've seen you on some before. Those players often take a lot of convincing to change much of anything about their opinions, and some don't reach that point at all. A lot of them will say that they don't care about anyone else's opinions and have made up their mind, going so far as to attempt to disprove evidence just to avoid being convinced. Essentially, they've believed their own claim of not changing sides, and their subconscious will do its best to keep that. Some players are like that, and are some of the worst community members to argue with sometimes, but most of the players who complain about things aren't that bad. This post, for instance, was a last resort to stop getting repeatedly killed by the kraken, as they encountered it abnormally often and did not know how to effectively combat the wrap attack. They were open to new strategies and suggestions, and any player who is willing to take someone else's post under consideration can change their attitude/opinion about the topic.

@ultmateragnarok

I am in all of those crossplay threads lol.

They've been complaining about the Kraken since day one honestly. The new edition is with the wrap and how it wrap the stairs. Others argue with how it shouldn't attack you when you are solo and such.

The multiple kraken spawns I've never ran into, I have run into killing the Kraken, server merging, and then Kraken spawning again. Only issue is that the Kraken itself is horrible easy. We look forward to killing the Kraken because it drops really good loot and drops kraken meat which is AWESOME in PvP.

Its really all about team work and communication. He complains about being attacked by the Kraken every hour or so, which is about the time how long it takes for Raid to despawn. That is not a lot. Now if he was being attacked 4 times in succession then I would completely be on his side, but his post does not convince me of his plight.

He has state is that every few weeks, WEEKS, him and his friends get on and within the hour of starting the game get attacked by the Kraken.

How many of us had a week of playing where the Kraken would attack us right at the start of the game? I know I have, I've heard other players also have this problem. We just draw it up to bad luck and move on. No complaining needed.

The more I read it, the more it seems as if someone is just really throwing a temper tantrum. "Rare is out to get me".

I feel for the guy I do, but even with a fully stocked boat they can't kill the Kraken? Which means he never actually learned how to kill the Kraken, so instead of asking us how to kill the kraken he just writes us his "goodbye letter".

Like I said, I'm probably jaded from all of these types of threads and I could try to be more helpful but I don't think I can be anymore or that I even want to be. If someone asks for help, I am more than willing. If someone complains and points fingers, then almost of those threads always leads to them saying "you werent there" or "I'm not here for the git gud speech". Almost every single time when they write up their complaint thread. So I guess yeah I am jaded towards those types of threads.

@xultanis-dragon

He did say later on that he never learned to fight the tentacle wrap after the update to it, that would be why they never manage to defeat it anymore. Being unlucky with being the only ship attacked after the stronghold goes down repeatedly and being attacked right off of the outpost happens, and I can see how it would get someone mad after a while if they do not know how to fight it off. I assume he was annoyed with constantly being unable to defeat it, and this was a way of giving up with a last attempt to get help.