In the alpha, there would be only about three sharks that would spawn at a time. Now when you are in the water, there could be anywhere from seven to nine sharks spawning at a time. This makes it impossible considering the fact that it takes four out of five pistol shots to kill these sharks. Either they need to be easier to kill or the spawn rate needs to be cut in half.
Too many SHARKS!!!
@d-drabbz Definitely! It looks like someone went a bit overboard with the shark spawn counter... In some circumstances, it has been impossible to escape with the numbers of sharks on your tail...
I have been in some cases where there are around 10 sharks in one spot... usually when there are a few of you in the water, there also now seems to be more closer to the islands.
@d-drabbz I AGREE there are wayyyyyy to many sharks in the game now making it almost impossible to either get chests from ships you just sank or even trying to just swim to land. I believe it needs to be toned down quite a bit
Aye! Them sharks be mighty savage. Me made a thread about it here:
https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/28298/shark-bounty-taking-matters-into-me-own-hooksPersonally I find that more sharks spawn the more people are in the water evening out the odds. It's part of the game and therefore it should be part of your planning as a team. Playing single player I rarely meet any sharks. And if I do there no more than two at a time. One banana and a cutlass is enough to take care of that.
@dwead-p-woberts I agree that the amount of sharks has been exaggerated, perhaps the amount of sharks spawning has to do with the amount of people in the water? I also think that time to death for the sharks differs somewhat between weapons being used, and that they do need a new balance between the damage they take and the damage they dish out. maybe 2 or 3 bites from a shark is to little?.. I'm curious to see what you all think.
@mateymcfly The perfect storm often brings the bravest tale.. your right, it could be a combanation of things that bring many sharks, maybe there should be a shark in the water cap?
@ant-heuser-kush Hopefully its not like Stranded Deep where sharks can sometimes swim ON TO LAND haha.
@ant-heuser-kush @sgt-KlTTY
I "MIGHT" have seen a developer-gif of this happening. But it might be under Alpha-NDA so I will say no more.(edit: Found it and it was not under NDA. Also see post further down)
@ant-heuser-kush
Nope. Not for the alpha. The NDA is still under effect last I heard of it from a developer, just not an NDA for the BETA.The developer gif can be shared as this was publicly shared on Twitter some time ago...
Now only if I could find it!
I never saw more than 5 sharks at once.
Commonly we see 2-3 sharks whenever we dive for shipwrecks and such.
The times I have seen larger amounts of sharks has usually been during fights with another ship. No clue how the shark spawn mechanics work, but seems like it's X amount of sharks per boat nearby. But that is just my speculation.
I have certainly never seen 10+ sharks, ever (in the beta)
@dwead-p-woberts said in Too many SHARKS!!!:
@dwead-p-woberts And it's 3 shots each. That's it. 3 shots each.
Complete lie. Don't listen.
@dwead-p-woberts said in Too many SHARKS!!!:
If you exaggerate the numbers you send the wrong message. I've only seen 3 to 5 sharks spawn in one spot ever. And they aren't hard to take out at all.
Maybe he isn't exaggerating? I've seen six in one spot before too, so you're wrong.
@ant-heuser-kush said in Too many SHARKS!!!:
@kinggzanga said in Too many SHARKS!!!:
@dwead-p-woberts said in Too many SHARKS!!!:
If you exaggerate the numbers you send the wrong message. I've only seen 3 to 5 sharks spawn in one spot ever. And they aren't hard to take out at all.
Maybe he isn't exaggerating? I've seen six in one spot before too, so you're wrong.
Lol. Just because he saw 3-5 at one time means everyone has. Haha! Everyone's experience is different.
I know right, haha.
I would also add that dangers in the waters should be more diversified. I mean... Shark aren't that aggressive towards humans.
I wish we had different under water enemies regarding the biome we are in.
Flesh eating fishes, Sirenes with harpoons...
With an icy biome whales would be great as well (orcas ?).
I'm sure we can find other enemies =)
@stafylocok we must all remember that this is beta and we shouldn't look at its current state as the completed game, there is a lot that we don't know about the game yet, the sea be a treacherous place with many mysteries.
@dark-shadow9056 One time while my ship was taking on water a shark phased threw the hull of my lower deck and took a chunk out of me, made me loose my grog..
@sgt-kltty indeed. And that's why I'm here. I wish the best of luck to the developers of the game, however luck isn't enough, and feedback helps, even though mine comes only from the videos and streams I'm binge-watching at the moment.
So this is just some ideas sent like a message in a bottle, if a rare employee looking for inspiration comes around here and see my message :p obviously some (and most) of this might already be developed or planned in the game.
Staf'
@stafylocok True luck is never enough when it comes to developing and releasing a game, it takes time, skill, experience, and more so creativity! The game industry is much like the sea, and sometimes there can be sharks.
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