Black screens from the rowboat

  • Please stop black screening us off of our rowboats back to our ships if our ships get sunk or we just bail on the ship and want to rowboat across the seas for a while. It's happened multiple times to me; once I accidentally sat down instead of sitting at the oars and it BS'd me back to my ship (spawned on the other side of the map entirely). Second I was rowing to a small seapost so my friend to sail over and we could meet back up (I had loot that I grabbed out of the water from our sinking). As soon as I got off the oars, it black screened me back to the ship and we lost that loot cause it was gone by the time we arrived.

    In short: if we're far away from our ship and interacting with the rowboat, please please PLEASE stop black screening our characters back to our main ships. We'll be out there for many, many reasons and that black-screen should be limited to when you actually get stuck, instead of just being far away from your ship. The rowboat is an absolutely great asset, but not if it can't be used in its full capacity. I really think the black screen back to your ship should be reserved solely for when your character is stuck and cannot move. Not trigger just because you're so far away. Please fix this.

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  • Haven't used rowboats yet, but does this only happen if your ship sinks while you are on a rowboat? Does it happen if your ship is at mermaid range but hasn't sunk?

    The only thing I can think of is that when you release the oars, the game doesn't know what to do (it should spawn the mermaid) so it just teleports you to your ship.

  • @sgt-dartez

    I've had this happen once, but I was stood up in the rowboat and we'd just collided with a rock - as we have a dedicated feedback thread for FS and issues we feel should be looked at, it might be an idea to copy/paste this here -

    https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/73310/mega-thread-forsaken-shores

  • @katttruewalker I posted on the mega feedback thread already. I was the first to post on that thread and I pasted this same thing.

  • @sgt-dartez Thank you!

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