Commendation Improvement: Hunter of Cursed Captains

  • In the recent Sea of Thieves direct, Drew mentioned some improvements to frustrating commendations, such as Merchant cargo and miles sailed.

    I'd like to also shine a light on the Hunter of Cursed Captains commendation, which requires 1,000 skeleton captain kills - however, it only counts captains specific to the Order of Souls voyages.
    Not only is this requirement somewhat obtuse, given the amount of 'Skeleton Captains' you encounter throughout the game, it also inflates the requirement to quests that realistically, nobody is going to want or need to do beyond perhaps Pirate Legend or even beforehand; And it definitely takes far less than 1,000 to get there.

    There's no good reason for these specific Skeleton Captains to only count, 1,000 is a big enough number by itself to justify the completion of the achievement by killing them naturally through island encounters and so on.

    I'd like to suggest this achievement be addressed alongside the others.

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  • Hunter of Cursed Captains commendation, which requires 1,000 skeleton captain kills - however, it only counts captains specific to the Order of Souls voyages.

    Well yeah. One voyage alone you fight what 4 captains?
    While random islands you only find 1

    It faster. Make sense and super easy. Plus it also counts toward complete OOS voyages. That two commendations .

  • @burnbacon
    Compare this to other relative commendations of a similar number in different factions, the barnacled chest commendation, the chest of siren sorrow or the chest of a thousand grogs for Gold Hoarders, and these have various other methods for completion, and be completed passively.
    This one, however, cannot.
    Forcing people to engage with early-game voyages in numbers far beyond the amount in which they'd ever need to do them is not fun or engaging content.
    If allowing the island captains is still slower than hard-grinding it, I don't see why they shouldn't be allowed too.

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