Rare, what's your plan here?

The hit reg don’t bother me. At no time did I ever have a high level of expectation for Melee PVP in a game that looks and plays similarly to Roblox and Minecraft!!!

Look, I GET IT, if I’m playing Ranked RB6 and the Hit Reg is arss that’s a problem! If I’m playing a silly, funny, goofy, cartoony Pirate game hit Reg ain’t that big a deal!

It works fantastic in the ship to ship and that’s the real combat. Not your fat goofy or skinny cartoon pirate bunny hopping all over the place.

There is no K/D so what about this game calls for elite sweaties to get all raged up over hit reg?

Enjoy it for what it is!

If there is ONE long term issue that people can get a bit salty about it’s the uneven Death Penalty and they fixed that by separating XBOx From PC..

Hell, I’ve had mermaids and trips to the Ferry take 2:30 + seconds and it’s still not bad enough to turn me off the game!

And no one hacked for their Gold. Even the cowards that got Rich doing the Server Alliances still put in an ungodly amount of time!

Not Rares fault these people don’t have a Job!

@glannigan said in Rare, what's your plan here?:

The hit reg don’t bother me. At no time did I ever have a high level of expectation for Melee PVP in a game that looks and plays similarly to Roblox and Minecraft!!!

Look, I GET IT, if I’m playing Ranked RB6 and the Hit Reg is arss that’s a problem! If I’m playing a silly, funny, goofy, cartoony Pirate game hit Reg ain’t that big a deal!

Ok first of all, Minecraft and Roblox aren't the only cartoony looking games, and games being cartoony doesn't mean that the users should expect them to not work properly. There is a competitive scene for Sea of Thieves. There are plenty of PVP streamers as well. Both of these things prove this isn't a "kids game" and that there is a large market of adults who want to play Sea of Thieves and expect it to work properly.

It works fantastic in the ship to ship and that’s the real combat. Not your fat goofy or skinny cartoon pirate bunny hopping all over the place.

Ship to ship combat has lots of hit registration issues as well. Chainshots are probably the most common types of cannon shot to see this in action; sometimes you'll hit a mast and it won't count, sometimes you'll backtrack a mast (miss it, but because of server lag, it falls anyway). There's also the cannon loading bug, where the loading animation completes, but until you release the cannon and re-grab it, or switch to another cannon, you can't continue to operate a cannon. Boarding, a major part of naval combat, is also, obviously, impacted by the bad melee and ranged hit detection.

I actually play with Manbun a good amount, and none of our friends have stick-thin tuckbots or joke fat pirates for our main accounts; most of us have normal pirates that we enjoy buying cosmetics for.

There is no K/D so what about this game calls for elite sweaties to get all raged up over hit reg?

Enjoy it for what it is!

You can enjoy being good at a game without a lifetime KDA. You're not making any argument here other than continuing to be ignorant to the fact that lots of people do enjoy being good at this game, and improving. Moreover, games that do track KDA usually also have some form of skill-based matchmaking; KDA is just one metric that doesn't mean much compared to your ranking in those games.

If there is ONE long term issue that people can get a bit salty about it’s the uneven Death Penalty and they fixed that by separating XBOx From PC..

Hell, I’ve had mermaids and trips to the Ferry take 2:30 + seconds and it’s still not bad enough to turn me off the game!

That's not a penalty, just a consequence of bad, very outdated hardware in older models of Xbox. Most people don't build PC's with hard disks anymore, just SSD's and M.2 SSD's.

And no one hacked for their Gold. Even the cowards that got Rich doing the Server Alliances still put in an ungodly amount of time!

Not Rares fault these people don’t have a Job!

If you're insinuating that Manbun is talking about alliance server players, you're hilariously wrong. A mutual friend ours has nearly 300 million gold, mostly from steals, and she's both employed and a single mom, so no we're not talking about "no-life alliance players" as you seem to think.

@galactic-geek said in Rare, what's your plan here?:

I haven't personally seen a hit-reg issue against other pirates in weeks...

I have had much better hit success than ever before with a pistol.
(Must be my recent 100+ hours on Battlefield V paying off) Ty gamepass/ea

@galactic-geek said in Rare, what's your plan here?:

I haven't personally seen a hit-reg issue against other pirates in weeks...

Anecdotal evidence doesn't change anything. Everyone knows that you participate in a fraction of the amount of combat that serious PVP players do, including you. Stop being intentionally disingenuous in threads you don't like, it's a bad look by now everyone knows that's your game.

@galactic-geek said in Rare, what's your plan here?:

@comrade-molly I participated in PvP just yesterday, as I made pirates work for my generous gifts (singlehandedly sunk a galleon of 4). And yes, it may be anecdotal, but there's still no harm in sharing - if enough pirates took the time to do that instead of complain, then I think you would find that it would no longer be anecdotal, as far more pirates have working combat than malfunctioning combat.

Unless you were using pistol/sniper you probably just don't notice the hitreg issues. You're literally just saying "if more people who don't know what they're talking about chime in, then it's clearly not an issue"

You just pedantically muddy the waters and make it impossible to have an actual productive discussion. In that sense, you act almost identically to a certain outgoing US president. Nobody likes people like that, knock it off.

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I spend quite a bit of time with Sasquatch and he loves the game and disagrees with everything you’ve said.

So there!

This is a silly, goofy, funny, cartoony Pirate game. If you can’t come to grips with that then there is no meeting you or manbuns expectations.

I have a solution to all future hitreg issues: Just make a new “gameplay feature” were our (poorly taken of) weapons misfire and fire blanks all the time. Our swords probably aren’t in great condition either, considering how often we swim in the ocean without properly protecting them. It’s amazing any of our gear works at all, considering how many things we throw at ourselves/others. Then the pirates who complain can’t say it’s a bug, and the rest of us that never notice any issues can continue as normal.

@arctroopachedda said in Rare, what's your plan here?:

I have a solution to all future hitreg issues: Just make a new “gameplay feature” were our (poorly taken of) weapons misfire and fire blanks all the time. Our swords probably aren’t in great condition either, considering how often we swim in the ocean without properly protecting them. It’s amazing any of our gear works at all, considering how many things we throw at ourselves/others. Then the pirates who complain can’t say it’s a bug, and the rest of us that never notice any issues can continue as normal.

That’s actually a great point. It’s not like any of these weapons were known for accuracy

and yet rare and sea of thieves has grown. we will always have haters on the game and in every game. I'm excited about where this game is going as I have someone who talks to devs and art designers all the time and he knows that this game is going to get a big update that will add content. Trust us people who know whats comming its big and its amazing....

I've never really understood people complaining about the ammount of gold in the game. The story of the game sets up someone hoarding a ton of gold as an example of what not to be, and then after you defeat him the pirate lord shows up and straight up tells you the game is not about the gold. That seems like a pretty clear message about the intent of the game. If you enjoy grinding out voyages, yeah you are gonna end up with alot of gold. Heck, even if you just play alot you will end up with alot of gold.

What the game is trying to tell you when the pirate lord says "it's not about the gold, it's about the glory" is that you shouldn't approach it with the ends in mind, play the game for the journey. I mean even the map reinforces this by not showing you a rout to get where you are going, but instead showing you the path you have taken.

If you have alot of gold, that's great. But, it doesnt mean anything. The game exists for what you went through to get that treasure or cargo to the outpost, it's about awesome stories not numbers going up.

And yes hit reg is an issue from time to time but it's an issue for everyone for all the times that you should have killed someone, there are times that someone probably should have killed you. But we are using black powder muzzle loaders here, and based on the fact that we can just dump a handful of powder and shot down the barrel without ramming it, probably not correctly sized projectiles. Just chalk it up to the shot ricocheting down the barrel and flying off target and move on with your day. Rare probably is working on it but they cant fire there whole development team and artists to hire only network engineers. It's a complicated problem that affects every online game ever made, particularly real time projectile based ones.
It is more noticeable in sea of thieves because the volume of fire is so low. Each player has 10 shots maximum for a whole engagement most of the time, where as in other games the player fires 10 projectiles in a couple of seconds. If the game switched to using a hit scan system, the registration would be better, but then people would probably complain about the firearms being overpowered.

@gettinnashty89 sagte in Rare, what's your plan here?:

@manbun-magic I completely agree it seems to me that the only thing that they are actively working on is how to get players to spend more money on this game instead of adding new things that you can buy for gold. They are neglecting the players who have played since day one. The only things that are added to the game are recycled from older updates and they try to pass that off as new content. New players might see that as new content but pull the wool over the older players eyes the last actual new content they dropped were the emissaries. And just like everything else that is good in this game that was also neglected there have been no new rewards for being in the top of the emissary since it released. I have just come to the realization that they don't care about the day one players anymore or people that actively play their game because they never address any of our concerns. The only people that are catered to are the people who play this game for a 1 hour every 2 weeks and complain about PVP.

Tbh I feel like they are just pretending to care. If you happen to have the same opinion as the devs they will talk to you and respond to your posts, but as soon as you post something critical or something they dont want to do you are out of luck. Its really like a one sided conversation. As long as you request something they already want to do, they will do it. But if you toss in ideas that they dont want to do, get lost! That's what I call "not listening to your community" and forge your one-sided fanbase to you. I bet most people who disagree with "their vision" left the game or will sooner or later.

Not to mention when you have a mode you neglect. Dont add anything new to it, and just let it die slowly cause you dont care. Then say you are not continuing to support it cause it didnt do well.