I love this game and am super happy about new players joining on ps5 as well as all the new content in season 12 and beyond.
I've always read the posts here complaining about the state of things when new seasons launch and wondered if people were exaggerating as I rarely ever experienced anything major myself. This time with season 12 however oh boy.
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Just getting into a server took five attempts with 5-10 minutes of loading screen before getting Hazlenut beards.
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Menus and UI which are always super slow are worse than ever, have to wait 5-10 seconds to see what's in a barrel or navigate to a new page.
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When I got finally into a server, the sounds in the game were out of sync by more 2-3 seconds, i.e only hearing the firing of the cannon a few seconds after the act (this fixed itself after about half an hour of play) Super disorienting.
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My crewmate and I both experienced multiple crashes in the two hours we spent playing. (Xbox / PC)
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We encountered a skelly galleon that was shooting cannonballs vertically into the air in a straight line, never seen such a bug before. Our cannonballs too would sometimes behave very weird after being fired either going much higher or lower than they were aimed.
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And finally, we tried to do an hourglass match. Dove, got a match, started loading into a match and then got kicked. When we rejoined it was our same ship with supplies, emmissary level etc BUT hourglass was still up and it said we were in a match, even though there was no opponent. We couldn't search again or even lower hourglass because the game thought we were in a match. Had no choice but to quit and lose all supplies gathered over two hours. Gave up after that.
In general the game felt super laggy and unresponsive with additional glitchiness all round.
