I have no problem with the Safer Seas forthcoming update, except Commendations. I'm not sure if I missed it in the season 10 update trailer but I did not hear anything about commendations not being available (except for Reapers and Athena emissary commendations). As someone who has put thousands of hours into this game- as others also have - I would appreciate our hard work not being devalued. Take for instance vault sails - they should not be able to be unlocked by opening 100 Gold Hoarder Vaults in Safer Seas mode. Rare has always said this game was about risk and reward and it's time they stood by that. Being able to unlock commendations (some with the most coveted cosmetics in the game also locked behind the commendations) in Safer Seas, that up until now have only been earned by crews completing them with risk of attack by other real pirates, will make these commendations too easy to get. Vault sails will go from being incredibly rare to being modestly rare very quickly - Nothing will stop experienced crews from using the new mode to quickly grind out commendations they have been unable to in the normal mode. I have not unlocked all the commendations there are and probably never will, that's part of what is great about this game. Every pirate has his own identity in a way, a level of notoriousness that is reflected by a pirates earned cosmetics, titles and commendations. That being said I have no issue with Rare making some commendations exclusively for Safer Seas as a way for new players to experience the commendations
system. I would like to hear what everyone else thinks about this.
Commendations need to be locked in Safer Seas.
It will have more locked than just Reaper and Athena, but we won’t know exactly how much until release.
I do think it should still allow for commendations(correct spelling) and achievements, but they should be cherry picked. All tall tales should unlock everything like normal. Purchases should unlock everything like normal.
We already know FOTD and FoF, including the Chest of Fortune will be locked. According to Mike’s reply on Twitter.
Over the years they’ve nerfed commendations and I understand the sentiment. I had over 2k hours in the game by the time I finished turning in all my Chests of Sorrow. I spent hours on end looking for them, trying to turn in every single one, farming small island captains for their digs in order to hopefully dig one up… only for them to release a repeatable voyage that guarantees them and now people can spend significantly less time working on the same commendation. That’s just the most recent one. They’ve done it to a lot over the years.
Think about the people who did everything in alliance servers, it’s no different. Should they have their achievements stripped away? Doing 100 vaults is still doing 100 vaults. And if you choose to do them in the roar with no emissary flag up, it’s basically PvE, so what’s the difference?
I think the commendations and achievements that were put in the game specifically to create PvP scenarios should be locked for Safer Seas, but the rest are ok.
@d3adst1ck Arrrrr....I'm a pirate so me spelling not be very good. Thanks for pointing out my error, ugh.
