Barrel Emote (The ultimate stealth hiding)

  • This emote will cause your pirate to pull out a handful of planks and frantically construct a barrel, promptly hiding inside it. Its a moving disguise with pros and cons.

    This barrel will look identical to any other generic barrel and you can even move around, sprouting your feet below and shadily sneaking along.

    The idea is about hiding in plain sight.

    It does not come free though.

    To activate the emote you must have all 5 planks in our inventory and once you disable it, you must gather another 5 to do it again.

    If you are hit, or if you run it will also destroy the barrel instantly.

    You can activate this whilst in water too and will float along.
    You could use this to your advantage hiding among barrels near shipwrecks and generally at sea and being harpooned will even take you over like a normal barrel.

    They will realise though that they cant open it which will signal ots not a normal barrel and infact a player.

    Mermaids will see you as safe if in a barrel so it could be a way to travel without their interference, However the balance to this is that barrels are really slow and very visible just like a rowboat...so basically a really slow rowboat.

    Ive even thought of some little one liners you can say whilst inside it.

    “Keep rolling rolling rolling”
    “Barrel of laughs in here”
    “Watch where you put that sword,” (Pop up pirate easter egg)
    “I ‘wood’end of expected this,”

    Given the cartoony theme of SOT this would fit right in.

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  • @daringclarky
    As fun as this would be, it wont work in this game. I've done MANY chameleon invasions in Dark souls games(chameleon is a spell that transforms you into random objects based on the area such as boxes, pots, statues, etc) and it's an absolute blast. It works in Dark souls because you only have a set area to run around in, the host is notified by the game that you are in the area, and the host can leave if they make it the boss room(they can also summon). In SoT it's far to open and it's completely unreasonable to make players be suspicious of every single barrel in the world. Not to mention that barrels specifically are double bad in that they attract player right up to you for loot where you could then one shot them with a blunder.

  • @betsill not to mention the amount of people who know this game in and out and would notice a new out of place barrel

  • I like the 5-plank idea, but not the part where you can move in it - that's a mechanic, not an emote.

    If shot with a harpoon while floating in water, it should immediately reveal you as the harpoon reals you in, giving the pirate on the harpoon a split-second to say, "oh snap!" before you effectively board his boat.

    In any case, we already have a barrel-hide emote that works much more simply by using the barrels that are already present within the world.

  • @galactic-geek I would be happy to have it the way you describe :)

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    Can we get a red exclamation over our head when we find you?

  • Nice idea but not personally not a fan. This is SoT not Fortnite with the frantic wood builds. I think sometimes you can go overboard with a concept. I know tucking is already unpopular with some people on this forum, if you could make and hide in a barrel can you imagine how much irritation that would cause?

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