How many more times must I get sunk because some random guy is behind me with a blunder while I am repairing?
If your gonna have one shot guns, make it so I know they are there. How else am I supposed to defend the ship.
Just one of many improvements this game cries out for and has never been addressed as if its a none issue when its a huuuuuuuuuge issue.
Something visually alerting would be a great addition.
@bun-e-hopps There is a splash sound when they board via the ladder. if they deck shot you don't deserve the warning. listen for footsteps.
@captain-coel said in Make boarding actually noticeable.:
@bun-e-hopps There is a splash sound when they board via the ladder. if they deck shot you don't deserve the warning. listen for footsteps.
Actually since last patch when they said they fixed silent boarding I have noticed that silent boarding has become way more common.
@captain-coel you still get a warning if they deck shot. For that matter you always get an audio warning when someone shoots out of a cannon.
I hear positioning is key for a lot of fighting, especially on Sloop.
If you know where your opponent is and where you are, and gather info on the activities they may be performing, for example, going for a board. You should be able to hear:
That high level of awareness keeps you ready for fights, but that doesn't necessarily mean you will immediately succeed. Give it some practice in learning the sound cues and your defenses against enemies might get stronger!
It may be worth recording your fights so you can play them back later and see if there was, in fact, a splash sound you missed of a player boarding.
I had to do that for a while before I became attuned to listening for the right sound, and now it's extremely rare that I don't notice the boarding splash.
@ghutar said in Make boarding actually noticeable.:
@bun-e-hopps it's because boarding splash is horrible buged.
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Nope that's not the case at all...
They're deaf.
I can't believe I forgot about that specific problem. Hopefully the dev team might have something cooked up by Season 11 for the deaf.
@nex-stargaze It's not that they are deaf. It is bugged sometimes, where they is literaly no sound. I have had a couple of times where i was guarding the ladders (since i saw the enemy coming), so i knew when the splash sound had to come, but it never came. The sound is just bugged from time to time.
@bun-e-hopps Ack - yeah I forgot I saw you'd made the thread on accessibility improvements for deaf/hard of hearing players.
I hope they implement something like that soon!
@super87ghost While it may be a bug for normal users, the creator of this topic is deaf and has severe difficulty playing the game and it's PvP.
@captain-coel said in Make boarding actually noticeable.:
@bun-e-hopps There is a splash sound when they board via the ladder. if they deck shot you don't deserve the warning. listen for footsteps.
I just figured out recently that many sounds in game only work if my Xbox is using Dolby Digital. HMI and regular stereo have many sounds that are very faint.
@super87ghost yeah no buddy, OP is literally deaf and needs additional accessibility to help them play and stand a chance.
