Oh boy do I have a tale for you. I had a very simple voyage, gold hoarders in devil's roar. Simply put, go to devil's thirst, easy riddle, dig up one chest and go. How it actually went was quite the opposite of easy in any way. I arrive right as the volcano's erupting so good sign right away. After waiting that out I come back and it erupts 34 seconds after I get off the ship, oh well, extremely annoying but fine, whatever. I wait that out, come back, finish the riddle, it goes off again, I wait that out, come back, dig where the chest is, it goes off again, I wait that out, come back, I don't even make it to the chest before there's an earthquake again, back to the ship, I fall off a cliff and die in the process and I'm just hoping the volcano isn't going off yet. I come back to life, the earthquake has stopped and there's no smoke, right as I'm about to get back on the island it explodes, no warning, no smoke, just volcanic rocks flying everywhere. Naturally I can't make it out in time and I die, my ship sinks. I respawn and before I can even raise anchor on the new ship I'm reinstanced, all my loot is gone anyway. Go back to the island to at least grab my chest that I half dug up and it won't let me, I'm just digging empty holes, the chest is now completely cosmetic.
Look, I like the volcanoes, I like the game mechanic and I like what it brings to the game, but after how many times this exact type of thing has happened, it makes the game unplayable and takes the fun out of it. Please rare, give volcanoes a cooldown longer than like 15 seconds, it's utterly ridiculous that stuff like this can even happen, let alone the frequency of it.
For the 1000th time, volcanoes are ridiculous
@wraith-04 ill agree the volcanoes are a bit ridiculous, also the homing lava rocks of doom need to chill out as well.
When you are on an island and start an eruption, just one of the crew members will return to the ship and watch out to repair the holes caused by the volcano. At first I kept getting away from the eruptions, but over time we realize that it is quite simple.
This just does not work by playing alone on a sloop, but I really do not see fun playing alone...
I feel u mister OP. They can be for sure.
I solo'd DR for Athena's from 7 up to 10.
There were times it was just crazy mad. Other times it felt to easy compaired to the madness it can bring.
To me it was just hard-mode. I liked it, even when it could be SO annoying from time to time. Wouldn't ask a change but that me.What i noticed, same as u post. Sometimes the vulcano's don't "smoke". They actually do but u can not see it with the naked eye. If i took my sniper and aimed down sight i was able to see smoke. This became my go to tactic as soon as an eruption hit. Never ever i got caught of guard anymore. Maybe the spyglass works aswell. I do not know. I know Sniper works.
U also mention not being able to pick up a half dug up chest. Did u server merge? Because that kinda stuff tends to happen after server merge especially if u are just to far off. Loot can only be pick-up after server merge if u were REALLY close or when its on your ship.
Its easy to solo the Devils Roar, the issue is that when there isn't any one in there apart from youself, that is what "triggers" the volcanoes, if DR was more populated with players you would notice that they don't explode as often.
The method that works 99% of the time for me is arrive, point sloop out to sea, drop anchor and sails.
Nip onto island and hopfully kill all the skellys/dig up all the loot
The MOMENT an earthquake starts head to the sloop, and grab the anchor. The MOMENT you hear the top "pop" and see smoke then lift the anchor.
Once out to sea a bit spin the wheel to lock it in one direction and hide downstairs. You will only be hit on the odd occation that you are heading towards the island and agaisnt the wind. As long as you stay downstairs you are safe.
I head over to DR most play sessions as there isn't anyone there when I go, and with the above process is easy but very time consuming.
TLDR: The issue is the volcanoes trigger due to presence, more people in DR less often volcanoes
@solestone563412 said in For the 1000th time, volcanoes are ridiculous:
@wraith-04 Solo is tough anyways, and even more so in the DR. I believe that they tuned the frequency of Volcano's down in the latest update (Shrouded Shores). At least, it seemed like they did when I played last time???
They have, it's in the patch notes thread and on the official page I believe too now.
@death-pilot37 rocks? u mean funking METEORS... whoever came up with this devil roars bullcaca needs to get hitman47ed... minding my own business to get cargo delivered... got the legendary volcanoes to sink my ship..... THRICE.... FUNKING THRICE AND IM LEGEND LVL10 FUNK U RARE FUNK U DEEP
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