I Think The Hungering Deep has Quelled My Hunger for Sea of Thieves

I know experiences are subjective but I had great success finding folks to team up with and enjoyed the battle. All my friends did as well.

I honestly don't see a problem.
What are you guys doing all the time where you cant find one! ONE! 1! guy to help summon the beasty and then shoot it into submission?

Simple calculus here.... You get on a galleon with likeminded people. That's 4
You sail around do the quest and first you go to sharkbait cove. Se anyone there willing to help Profit. If not sail around use the speaking trumpet to find any crew willing to place a fifth person on board to summon the shark. Just to summon him, not even to kill it. and again profit.

completing this is no simple task. i have been working on this since it started with absolutely no luck.

ive tried server hopping. bribing. approaching with friendly hails. even when getting attacked not fighting back. absolutely nothis has worked and i can say with the time put into it ive spent many days trying.

its actually frustrating to hear how easy it was for some people and yet others no luck at all

I've fought Meg 11 times. No problems.

There is frequent discussion about being able to select your server. While I completely understand the desire to have multiple ships of friends do THD it also undermines the whole point of communicating with other crews and working together with unknown players.

I think a bigger issue is that many of the players who want this are also the ones complaining about griefing. Do you really want those griefers to be sailing in packs? Do you really want to consistantly get crushed at skull forts because those 2-3 ship packs have already predetermined you don’t stand a chance?

Let’s face it, random servers are best.

@biter-wylie said in I Think The Hungering Deep has Quelled My Hunger for Sea of Thieves:

@dislex-fx said in I Think The Hungering Deep has Quelled My Hunger for Sea of Thieves:

I've fought Meg 11 times. No problems.

Was it all in the first weekend? My crew missed the first weekend on a works party, but have not found a single crew to do it with.

Maybe just bad luck.

This even includes not yesterday, but the day before.

I'd rather the challenge be more from the event than the players. Finding crews that wanted to fight Meggy, was really tough. Dealing with Merrik campers, was also an issue. They'd come on board, pretend to be friendly, play music and dance, then just shoot you in the back.

Hey ... I get it. Some, if not most of you had amazing luck! I'm happy for you, I really am. My experience was really bad luck, pretty upsetting and exhausting. Last night I was really lucky, after about 7 hours of searching, sending Xbox messages, server hopping, waiting at Merrik and Meggy, I finally fought and won against Meg. I can accept all of this, if it in some small way can become a lesson for Rare.

With that all being said, I really enjoyed the actual event. And I absolutely loved the fight, despite the extreme stress, knowing that this was my only shot and if I failed, I'd never get the Meggy figurehead.

Please understand that this is feedback and not whining. Everyone had a different experience, this was mine.

Based on the stats that Rare recently released about player numbers, I calculated elsewhere that there are likely thousands of SoT servers spun up at any one time — certainly hundreds.

Finding another crew on the same server willing to join the fight was a coin-toss: Heads you do; Tails you don't. In the first few days, the coin was heavily weighted towards Heads. After that, the weighting shifted, and the chance of tossing Heads diminished.

I tossed Heads five or six times, and beat the Megalodon each time. But I also tossed a few Tails. In reading the forums here, some people had a run of bad luck, and never tossed Heads. Others seem to throw a string of Heads. Of course, many stopped playing after they won a single coin toss, which is what made it harder for others.

The problem was exacerbated by a disincentive to switch servers. You would get a ship, and sail — sometimes a long way — to Shark Bait Cove, filling your barrels with cannonballs, bananas and (most importantly) planks, along the way. So, when you got to Merrick and no other ships showed up, you would be reluctant to try another server because of the time spent gathering those resources.

@ulfwizard killed the best for me one time 4 a frienf and one time 4 my gf and helped i dunno how many crew to kill him ( maybe 6 ) u probably been really unlucky or ur approach is not good i dunno i only supose here there many way to claim help giving chest or skull or only be nice with ppl pretty sur u tried some approach but dont be mad about it this game is about having fun with friends in my opinion u maybe focus too much on goal then the way too reach them and killed or not u can have the drum and the trompet so no big deal here its not like u lose the opportunity to get the best sword or gun in game only some bone on ur drum think about it

On principle.

No player should need to source a crew externally, if it can't be done in game, or is extremely tedious to do so, it is bad game design. Nothing else.

Gameplay loop, its the most common phrase in game design.

Sea of thieves gives you a tiny taste of something else to do, then forces you back into the same god awful voyages that literally are the same experience from lvl 1 to 50.