Hourglass needs a rework

  • Hourglass desperately needs to be reworked. There aren't enough players playing it so you bounce between players who struggle to hit basic shots and people who have spent a thousands of hours playing and don't miss a single shot. There is no middle ground so people are going to struggle to get better. Then the reputation you earn is atrocious to the point that if any game goes on 20+ minutes there is no point in playing because you don't get extra and it doesn't scale which I think is understandable otherwise players will do what they did in Arena and hit areas that won't create holes and get hundreds of points. I wouldn't even mind at this point if you get an alternate way to achieve some of the rewards like the curses and some of the cosmetics for example.

    The gamemode is following Arena's mistakes of them just not looking after it. They need to some kind of rework to attract players back whether that is fixed supplies, shrinking circle, time limiter. I don't know what the best solution would be but the gamemode in its current and fragile state has the strength of a thin tree branch.

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  • Hourglass needs their bug fixed - then people will return playing it.

    Also, is a new topic really needed, on the first page of recent posts:
    https://www.seaofthieves.com/community/forums/topic/167479/suggested-hourglass-changes/1
    https://www.seaofthieves.com/community/forums/topic/167413/its-time-for-a-new-hourglass-its-dead?page=1

  • Its necessary when they've all but abandoned it like they did with Arena. Like I said Hourglass is following the exact same path as Arena. I don't think its the bugs that are solely to blame for people not playing it its that you don't meet people your level and people can attrition others into losing.

  • @outlander3234 If you'd have followed the advice and check the previous forum post as suggested you would have known that this topic was already discussed in details.

    HG is part of the main game and as such is having some setbacks because of the bugs that plague SOT these days. Furthermore HG is not a mode apart like Arena and for this reason will not suffer the same fate.

  • @metal-ravage Then why is it following such a similar timeline to Arena? Rare need to look after Hourglass consistently early on which is the same mistake they made with Arena. They are gonna announce a rework soon I hope to god and then a year from then they'll sake it off due to lack of interest. Just like Arena.

  • I'm willing to bet that none of the developers have played the live servers for hourglass matchmaking for more then 2 hours the past 3 months because if they did they'd actually understand what me and others are going through and not come with empty words like "Be assured we are continuous making improvements". If I play more then 1 hourglass match the game feels like its going out of its way to break my kneecaps. Backsplashes, hit reg, masts not going down the 1 unlucky time that I couldn't interact with my anchor, lagging like yesterday when I was on average 54 ping. There's a reason that some more people bravely hop onto hourglass when its gold and glory because the rest of the time its not worth the hassle.

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