Enemy Variety and Emerging Threats

  • Hi

    Here is a post to share a few thoughts i been having recently with the game.

    Variety:

    With the new enemies who came on Season Three (Phantoms, Sirens and Ocean Crawlers), even though they are really cool and with some mechanics, they still lack the variety that Skeletons have (Normal, Gold, Shadow and Plant), which always add a cool change in the pace of the battle.

    Maybe a fire phantom who leaves fire behind when uses dash, or some Ocean Crawler who needs to be taken out of the water to be able to kill. Or a siren who requires a specific song to be able to deal damage to him.
    Because of that, in my opinion, new content, like the Sunken Kingdom and Fortress they felt too repetitive so easily. If we had some variety of those enemies would be great.

    Emerging Threats:

    Another topic that bothers me in the recent Sea of Thieves updates, is the lack of Emerging Threats, like Skeleton ships and Megalodons.

    I would really like to see some new emerging threats, some even i think could be taken from the Tall Tales. Like:

    Phantom raiding: you are adventuring on a island, suddenly a bell start ringing, and on the shores of the island, it appears a ghost ship standing still and shooting cannons at the island while phantoms appears, you would need to take down the phantoms, and use ghost cannons (Like the ones on the first adventure) to take down the ghost ship. We have even some island already prepared for that, like the shores of Old Faithful and Cannon Cove. Similar to what happens on the Third Tall Tale of Pirates Life.

    Siren Domain: an area on the Sea where it start to spawn sirens on the hull of your ship, damaging the hull, while Ocean Crawlers jump on your ship, that way, you would have to deal with the Ocean Crawler, while being on the edge of your ship shooting down the sires to get them away. Like what happens on the Pirate Life trailer.

    And last but not least, i know this isn't the the post for that, but since we are in the feedback category here it go:
    Rare, please focus on making the game more smooth and glitchless instead of content. I see no point on adding new structures or enemies if they don't work properly.

    Besides that, keep up with the good work Rare team.

    Thank you for the amazing game.

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  • We already have ashen skeletons, though they admittedly aren't very dangerous despite their fiery appearance.

    Ocean Crawlers were the Siren's answer for land-based threats, so having to draw 1 out of the water is kind of backwards.

    Music is alteady used against certain enemies - of the slithering kind.

  • It would be nice if the skellies who spawn on the islands randomly aren't just all bone ones, but also the variants (expect the ones you need to light with a specific soulflame, that would be to annoying).

  • Would love to see a skeleton brigantine at some point. It’s a real shame they’re still not in the game

  • @ninja-naranja said in Enemy Variety and Emerging Threats:

    Would love to see a skeleton brigantine at some point. It’s a real shame they’re still not in the game

    Imo a skelly brig should drop 2 keys

    would go good with skelly sloop ashen chests along with the extra ashen chest from a fleet that doesn't get a key

    getting some keys out there floating around would be a good use of the brig imo

  • Just a few things to add

    If those new enemies or Emerging Threats are too difficult for a new player, Rare could make a system to make them appear only to Pirate Legends, that way, you would give a new meaning for Pirate Legend, besides a few new voyages and items.

    Aswell, by adding new variety of enemies and Emerging Threats, we would have a bigger looter-shooter feeling, which i think fits perfectly with a pirate game.

  • @guepardo6741 said in Enemy Variety and Emerging Threats:

    Just a few things to add

    If those new enemies or Emerging Threats are too difficult for a new player, Rare could make a system to make them appear only to Pirate Legends, that way, you would give a new meaning for Pirate Legend, besides a few new voyages and items.

    Aswell, by adding new variety of enemies and Emerging Threats, we would have a bigger looter-shooter feeling, which i think fits perfectly with a pirate game.

    Great idea! Would be amazing to have a random encounter that would also drop athenas loot.

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