Sovereign harpoons totally broken

I had a heck of a time yesterday with the harpoons. Plunder didn't work at all. The others work if I park the boat to either side of the tent and shoot with the outside harpoon, then turn and drop the loot. So opposite of how I used to use it. If the platform is up it locks onto that all the time. And also it makes a horrible noise when I am standing at or near the harpoon/platform.

This still appears to be an issue. I've totally stopped playing since it makes selling too painful to make it worthwhile. I'm shocked more people aren't complaining about this.

Does anyone have a video of how to quickly harpoon loot from your boat at the Sovereigns without hitting this problem? Having to rotate the harpoon for every piece of treasure is not a sufficient workaround, since that requires way too much user input when you're dealing with 150+ pieces of loot.

@scheneighnay I don't believe it's overdramatic to state that the harpoon bug makes the game unplayable. I've stopped doing Merchant runs altogether, and won't play until this is fixed.

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I also want to report that this is a really game breaking experience and I hope that it will be fixed with the next update/patch.

However I would like to give a couple of tips to everybody struggling with this glitch atm.

Docking the rowboat to the sovereign platform is a legit way to sell your stuff, but if you want to utilize the fastest way to sell in the current situation follow these steps.

Please keep in mind, that you want to angle your ship in a 90 degree angle towards the sovereign platform with every ship type. If you for example hit the platform on a 45 degree angle there is the possibility that the physics weird out on you wich pushes your ship away from the platform.

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Sloop

1. Place all the loot you want to sell at the very tip ow your bowsprit.
2. Approach the sovereign platform from the same side you dock the rowboat.
3. Slowly sail forward and position your ship in a way that the tip of the bowsprit is over the small steps close to the sovereign vendor.
4. Leave a bit of sail down to be set in position or anchor the ship.
5. Drop the loot on the sovereign platform and start selling.
6. (Optionally) Turn the ship 180 degrees to make emergency bailing easier.

Keep in mind that some sovereign platforms are lower than others. Plunder Outpost and Morrows Peak for example are low. Therefore the above mentioned steps are not a problem to execute.

However on the higher platforms you will run into problems, because the bowsprit of the sloop is barely higher than the edge of the platform. Therefore you want to follow these steps.

1. Follow all the steps mentioned above up to point 4.
2. When your ship touches the platform drop the anchor and run do one of the harpoons.
3. Harpoon the edge of the platform and carefully hold the ship in place till the anchor is dropped.
4. Now slowly easy the harpoon by letting off the left trigger (controller) while slowly tapping it. You want to easy the ship off the platform as slow as possible.
5. As soon as you feel that the ship has stopped moving backwards let off the harpoon.
6. Follow point 5 and 6 from the instructions above.

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Brig and Galleon

There are two deviations from the instructions used for the sloop. Follow the steps laid down for the Sloop and adjust the following.

1. Place your loot in the upper quarter of the bowsprit but not the tip.
2. Approach the sovereign platform from the side that you ship is facing down the long pier towards the island.

The reason is, that the bowsprit of the Brig and Galleon is too long\high to be able to place the loot on the steps. Additionally there is a chance to joink your ship of the platform or into the sky if the bowsprit hits the sovereign tent.

I hope that this can help some players who still want to sell to the sovereigns in a somewhat quick manner.

If they are broken they usually work at one angle. Move them around until they work and let them stick to the sea. Now sloooowly move your ship over :)

Discovered that yesterday and clipped it :)

SoT Bugs: Harpoon completely broken hitbox