Hi Rare! I love Sea of Thieves and have played since launch! I have a serious suggestion, because of megladons being so buggy recently and just so nothing happens to someone who happens to run into the elusive shrouded ghost (I wish), I really think it should have a despawn timer of 10 minutes. That way people don’t have to panic about it accidentally respawning because of it being so gosh darn rare. My whole neighborhood would hear me scream lol if I ever find it. Please add a ten minute despawn timer to the shrouded ghost. All other megladons can stay the same. I hope I come across it!
Shrouded Ghost Despawn Timer
In season 8 they made a really really bad change to megs from the point of view of a meg hunter.
They made it to where other people's megs do not target any other boat, making it extremely difficult - impossible to kill a meg that spawned on someone else if they choose to avoid the meg or if they sink.
That change was very obviously gonna create a situation where people lose shrouded ghosts and some people have since season 8 for that very reason.
I don't have any issue with a longer timer for such a rare encounter but what really should be done is they should get rid of that change that happened in season 8 and make shrouded ghosts have the same or similar behavior to the new ancient megs. Don't buff the shrouded, just make it more aggressive and to where it will attack anyone and everyone in its territory. This will help people to not lose them, because they have nerfed megs so much over the years and turned them so passive it makes it easier to lose one as they have existed since season 8.
They've brought their aggression down so much and restricted them so much over the years that there are even areas in open sea where you gotta move the boat so they re-target you and don't wander off.
If one ever pops up use the poison dart as much as you can. Works effectively and quickly. Switch to sniper/blow dart if one pops. Make it a habit to take ammo crates with you. If you sink for some reason you might get the kill that way. Poison darts are a real game changer for meg hunting. Opens up getting kills in a lot of different situations and a lot quicker.
@itz-majman said in Shrouded Ghost Despawn Timer:
It despawns if you get close to an island or bigger rocks, stay in open waters and you be fine
Problem is that it can spawn on you right before you are sailing out of that open water, so that you don't even have a chance of staying in that open water (even dropping the anchor imidiately would already put you out of that open water). So i can imagine the need for something to guarantee that you still have your meg if you imidiately turn around and return to open water. On top of that i have had megs despawn while i was actively fighting them in open waters, that is also very annoying.
@itz-majman with how rare it is, it seriously needs a despawn timer just so nothing accidental happens. There’s players who’ve lost it to despawn. That shouldn’t happen. It’s rare enough to encounter. I’ve never seen it and played since launch. It ought to be simple enough to implement a 10 minute despawn timer on it. If not killed in 10 minutes then it will despawn.
I agree, just for the future. Once a Meg spawns and you hear unique music, that's shrounded so be quick on the anchor if approaching a place where it would despawn
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