[SERIOUS ISSUE] Sprint resetting the ability to aim your guns and shoot.

@ezratheskeleton said in [SERIOUS ISSUE] Sprint resetting the ability to aim your guns and shoot.:

@silenius-x They literally explain all of this in the patch notes:

"Double-Gun Switching – The Pistol, Blunderbuss and Eye of Reach have new wield animations and enforce a delay when equipping and switching between these weapons."

It's not an issue nor a bug.

Riddle me this then.... Why is there a delay between me runing and shooting? if you sprint and try to shoot there is a massive delay im sorry to say but in real life people run and shoot quite effectively so why do I have a 1.5 sec delay from a sprint while my blunderbuss is equipped to shooting it? it is ridiculous.

@ticklepantzz Run... or sprint? If you simply run in the game, your weapon is out and you will not have a delay.

@bran-the-ent Sprint sorry, Its like the delay they added between wep switching it doing same as you sprint. It also seems to happen in the water. It feels very strange

@ticklepantzz The delay occurs when you pull a weapon out. It makes total sense to have such a delay... so that you can't fire until the weapon is out and ready. You do not have it when you are running or swimming normally (when your weapon is already out). Learn to adapt. If you are sprinting, drop back into a run first. If you are speed swimming, drop back into a swim first. Simply requires rethinking your timing.

@bran-the-ent Yeah, Thats one way to make the argument the other one is that its just clunky and feels weird since anyone in real life could sprint and run up to you and shoot with a blunderbuss being held in their hands anyway difference of oppinion I guess.

Thanks for the input!

I like the new changes. They actually balance combat out much better than before. Now you actually have to use real tactics. You can't just rely on hip shot. As for the delays, I have not found them to be an issue. It is not a long delay. I like that it takes a second for you to use a gun when boarding my ship, gives me a better chance to defend. And forces you to use better tactics than just pull gun and pull trigger.

@ticklepantzz arrr i agree the fix should have been disable the two gun loadout, which would upset those players but easy code to have wrote. And the problem disappears completely

@borges1091

Yeah I suppose you are right but either way whats been done does not work and I basically hate it lol

@faceyourdemon It's not fake. I have a video of me doing it why would I lie about it lol? I even submitted a ticket and its being investigated. Also more people have complained about it and submitted tickets

@galactic-geek Yeah its actually terrible. They made it so basically you can no longer do any "Big" plays because you get on a ship you are slow as ****. You cant basically run up to someone and ADS them in the back when they are on cannons etc... its just made the whole thing feel absolutley unrealistic. Some people have said well you can run and shoot ...... that's dumbest logic I ever heard for a cell shaded fantasy game lol.

@grimmycool Yep....

@silenius-x Hey dude,

yeah I've also dropped the game. I actually cant stand having my mobility in a PVP game being limited and being forced to not use any of the stuff I have learned to use. Such as jumping off the capstan onto guys running after me and hip firing the blundy before swording them. All you do now is pull sword out button mash like there is no tomorrow and pray.

I find the whole thing a step back and worrying considering the focus on the arena. For now however as much as this is probably my favorite game of all time I just simply can't play it it feel like im being forced into doing stuff I just dont want to do. This being an open world experience makes this fact even more unbearable.

@galactic-geek I understand what you are saying, my issue is, before this update, I would die long before I could employ anything you had shown me, and most often could not get what you had shown me to work properly or effectively. I am fairly sure I can still do the running slash though. As for quickdraw techniques, I am glad they are gone. I can't aim as fast as many I face in PvP, so this update helps peeps like me actually be competitive. And allows me to use techniques such as attack/withdraw then attack again that I never could get to work before.

@silenius-x Not fast enough mate. Not afraid to say it either. This way, I am not dead before the fight even starts. Love all of the changes. It just forces you to change your tactics some and actually takes time to think about what you want to do, rather than, board ship, aim, shoot, and done.

This is not a first person shooter game. Clearly Rare doesn't feel it is as they wanted to stress the importance of the cutlass.

Also, they now balanced the weapons so that each one has a clear role. No longer can you just use the EoR for everything. Love that they nerfed hip firing on that.

@silenius-x Also, you say practice, I tried, hard to do when you last seconds at most before being dead.

@silenius-x said in [SERIOUS ISSUE] Sprint resetting the ability to aim your guns and shoot.:

Glad to see the majority of the playerbase agreeing on this, even here on the official forums.

Would love to know where you get that statistic from. Seems fairly mixed, if anything, most like the new rebalancing. Several threads in these forums with many comments supporting the changes.

I would remind you though, this is only the first change, they will most likely keep a watch on it and make more changes as they move forward.

@grimmycool said in [SERIOUS ISSUE] Sprint resetting the ability to aim your guns and shoot.:

started the download, 27gb, read the forums, cancelled the download

Reading other opinions is a great reason for not doing something. Trying it yourself would be stupid.

@silenius-x said in [SERIOUS ISSUE] Sprint resetting the ability to aim your guns and shoot.:

@nofears-fun Tactic? you mean buttonmashing with a sword?
They removed the skill gap the game had, battles are extremely boring and braindead now.

If that is how you play, then good luck. Sounds like you don't want to play a pirate game. Sounds like you want to play a first person shooter. If that is the game, then this is not the game for you mate.

@ezratheskeleton Oh is that the new excuse for bad game mechanics?

@faceyourdemon I got it about 3-10 its very hard to do but im sure if someone really wants to they will get the hang of it. I get that it still esentially fixes the issue but still there in some shape or form :P

@ticklepantzz yea it needs to go it rewards bad players