Nerf Kraken Probability (When Only One Pirate Is In The Crew)

  • MoonMonster11
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    At least three times since Tall Tales have been released I've been Krakened while solo sailing my brig over to wherever the next Tall Tale is located. I try to sail over solo or preferably start at the outpost (if a tall tale starts there) so I don't waste the time of people on lfg. Every time I try to do this, even if I look around for and see an event cloud, it seems to despawn as soon as I've sailed away from an outpost and I immediately get krakened and lose all my supplies and time.

    Please change the probability of getting a kraken so it's less likely when you only have one crew member. It shouldn't matter the size of the ship, yes the kraken is manageable solo in a sloop but if I'm trying to do tall tales I want to run a brig to do them with more than just one other person. It's just incredibly frustrating because there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it on a big or galleon.

    All you have to do is lower the likelihood of it spawning if are completely undermanned. If you want your game to stay fun you need to make this change, because the amount of kraken attacks since Tall Tales has skyrocketed for whatever idiotic reason. Right now it feels like an exercise in poor developer decision making and incredibly stupid and frustrating enemy AI that cannot be defeated or staved off by one person. Having it regularly target ships with just one crew member is incredibly stupid. It shouldn't for any reason need to unnecessarily attack when you only have one crew on a Brig or Galleon. That's a guaranteed sink and waste of time making the game significantly less enjoyable than it should be, all because some unbelievably idiotic and frustrating mechanic that could easily be fixed and immediately make the game much better. Please change this ASAP.

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  • PollyOliverPerk
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    No need to nerf, if you're solo on a sloop and you don't want to waste time fighting, the minute you hear Kraken music turn your ship 180 degrees, keep your eye on the edge of the black water and look for the notch of blue water... aim for that, make sure your wheel is straight, then get below. Patch and bail, you'll be out in minutes and can sail away around the black water with your ship intact. Practice this a few times and you'll be able to get away from the Kraken more times than not, usually with the loss of no more than 9 planks. Stay below until it's over or risk getting mauled by the Kraken. There is new damage added to ships now, but so far I haven't had a problem with this. (not to say I won't :-D)

  • IISrgntWolfII
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    I agree with @PollyOliverPerk , If you're going to sail solo on the Brigantine (I do it all the time b/c it's so much faster), be prepared to run from Kraken. Can you take it out solo? Of course, but it's a much longer/drawn out fight than on the sloop.

  • MarsMayflower
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    You lost me at brig.

  • TONY CLIFTON JR
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    @moonmonster11 "Having it regularly target ships with just one crew member is incredibly stupid"

    i think its stupid to believe that the kraken regularly targets single member crew's specifically.. added to the fact your riding round on a brig solo and moaning when attacked ?!?

  • Corvum Mortis
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    LOL...

    I want to play the game hard mode, on an extra hard ship to solo... BUT it's too hard, so make it easier!!!

    Wow...

  • Jza16
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    @moonmonster11 can't say I agree with you on this one guy. I've been sailing around every day solo since the update and have only been Krakened a handful of times, and even so it's an extremely easy fight even if it happens. Sure on a brig it may take longer but still easy to finish in about 5 minutes. When a tentacle arches back and opens its mouth run below deck before you see the air start to suck you up and you'll be fine. And if it's that much more difficult for you on a brig then just sloop. Wouldn't you much rather it take a little more time to get where you're going than have to start your Tales over again every time? You'll save more time in the long run just slooping.

  • Nabberwar
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    @moonmonster11

    At least three times since Tall Tales have been released I've been Krakened while solo sailing my brig over to wherever the next Tall Tale is located.

    ...and you lost me already. If you aren't aware Kraken difficulty scales with ship size. The targeting is also random, but why are you here exactly? You do state your understanding about the Kraken being easily solo-ed on a Sloop, yet you sit there and ask for nerfs. I mean you must be aware you are playing the game in a capacity that will subject you to much more hardship than normal, while also ignoring the fact that you have a ship better suited for solo. Your trying to play the game in a capacity that is beyond your means.

    I want to run a brig to do them with more than just one other person. It's just incredibly frustrating because there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it on a big or galleon.

    I might need some clarification here, are you stating that the Kraken is impossible to beat with these different ship types, or specifically you can't solo Kraken with these ship types? To answer the first part, Kraken is manageable by a full crew easily on each ship type. To answer the second part, well duh you can't solo it, nor have it easily managed with two people. I don't know if you have noticed, but the ships manageability scales with ship size. Meaning, that a bigger ship requires a bigger crew to actually manage it properly. If you are running only two players, stick with a Sloop. The solution is clearly at your finger tips. Your request for nerfs is silly, you are playing the game in a way that is beyond your means, when the solution is already there.

  • Crimsonraziel
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    @moonmonster11 said in Nerf Kraken Probability (When Only One Pirate Is In The Crew):

    Please change this ASAP.

    Nope, sorry. If you want to play a team based game alone and on a ship that is designed for 3 players - deal with it.

  • Geoffman72
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    It doesn't need a nerf, in difficulty or spawn frequency. Sounds like you have just been unlucky being the only ship on the server sailing, while others are probably parked doing a tall tale/fishing, so it targets you.

    As for difficulty, I regularly solo brig, and pretty easily took down a kraken now that the inhale from below deck bug isn't a thing.

    About the only way you can sink now without being able to do much about it, is if your stairs get wrapped and you're still above deck. Pretty sure I know how to identify when a tentacle is about to wrap though. Watch for a tentacle spawning close to the ship, and opening its mouth like its screaming at you. It won't be the inhale animation. Every time I've shot that tentacle, the ship doesn't get wrapped. Every time I don't catch it in time, the ship does get wrapped.

  • Goedecke Michel
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    @corvum-mortis

    I have a boyfriend, who cannot speak. That's why he hardly plays in teams in this or other online games. The others don't notice that, allthough he types it, they talk to him, he can't answer vocally, so they think he's strange, they invite him to a party repeatedly, lock him up or leave the game. All I'm saying is that there can be different reasons for playing solo. One should be careful with insinuations and mocking.

    Nevertheless, @PollyOliverPerk is right imho. One can handle the Kraken, even as solo player, by escape if one won't dare a loss in fighting it.

  • princes lettuce
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    Play solo on a sloop. Always bring at least 50 planks. When the kraken comes up, keep your anchor up and make sure your sails are catching wind.

    Then get below deck and shoot her with your sniper. You can aim through the windows in the back of the sloop, and she can't get to you. When she wraps around or hits the ship, repair as needed and bail your water out of the same back window. You'll survive!

    I see that you don't want to play sloop, and I get your point. But if you're finding it so frustrating I think sloop is your best option atm. :(

  • Corvum Mortis
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    @goedecke-michel hahahaha what are you even talking about? Your story has no contextual relevance.

    I never use a mic... I don't like talking to most of you people. I only use quick chat commands.

    I also only play the game solo anymore.

    I should be careful?? I'm not"mocking" anyone, nor have I "insinuated" anything....

    It's trite. "I want to do hard stuff... Make it easier". It's all the activity in this forum and it's boring!

    You should be careful about calling people out when you don't even know why you're doing it.

    Solo is hard mode. Solo brig is extra hard mode.

  • Corvum Mortis
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    @princes-lettuce that's very unnecessary. Just stay at your cannons, bail water as needed, keep hitting the tentacles with cannon balls.

    It takes 2-5 minutes and 20-30 cannon balls to beat kraken solo. Board up your holes after the fight.

    Most of the time (sloop), I don't even have any holes after a kraken fight. You just can't give it time and you have to keep hitting it with cannon balls.

    Also, I find that kraken appears much less often if I travel close to/between land masses.

  • Chase 2 point 0

    I’ve been attacked by megalodons more times than the Kraken. I’ve killed them solo, the kraken, skelly ships and the Meg while can be irritating it’s all part of the fun, needing them would be a mistake because you must never let your guard down cause if these stop appearing sailing the seas would become boring very very fast.

  • Grievous32
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    NO !!!!!!!!!!!
    Stop complain about Kraken's difficulty ! It's not a hard enemy, it's one of the easiest of the game, seriously, stop ! Learn how to play, there's plenty of videos on Youtube to know what to do to defeat the beast !

    Actually the Kraken should be buffed and not nerfed !

  • Goedecke Michel
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    @corvum-mortis Unfortunately, occasionally, sometimes more seriously, sometimes less badly, it happens to me that I misinterpret the subtext of the written. The reason is not a basic lack of linguistic understanding, but my mother tongue, which is not English. I read the texts and, to make sure that my 40 year old school English does not mislead me, I usually send everything quickly to a translation machine. I write my answers in English and send them to the translation machine for translation into my mother tongue. If the result corresponds to what I wanted to write, I send it off.
    And yet, the basic understanding of the subtext of a language in one's mother tongue is absorbed with one's mother's milk. You can't replace that, even not with a lot of effort. At least I sometimes fail, the translator also - and then in this forum recieve the muzzles, completely rightly.

    Your answer introduces with the fact that he plays solo, because it is more difficult. I couldn't see any reason for playing solo was told in the text of the OP. He wrote that he plays solo with the brig because it is faster. A reason for solo playing in itself has escaped me - despite all my efforts.

    I have written a very cautious text based only on this, using an example of my dumb friend who plays solo for personal reasons. I wanted to politely point out that there may be reasons that you don't recognize as an outsider. I just wanted to point out that "You play that because..." can be an introduction that weakens the argument, as long as one merely assumes a cause. I was tempted to do this by my friend's experience, which is strikingly different from your experience as a non-active player.

    I wrote this softly formulated text in English, translated it back and forth with the machine and felt that it was quite okay.
    Obviously not, your reaction clearly shows that.

    Maybe my now long text can explain the whole thing a bit better. I had neither the intention to attack you nor to hurt you.
    If I did that, it was unintentionally, for which I ask for understanding.

    In my understanding, the question of the OP was whether one could determine the difficulty gradations of the Kraken according to the number of players instead of the ship type.
    Few have answered this question at all.

    I would say yes, but for a completely different reason. Too often the expected third friend doesn't come to the game, or has to leave earlier than expected. You are then faced with a ship that is too large and underpaid, disadvantaged and at a disadvantage in relation to the higher requirements. It last happened to me at the Gold Hoarder, of three players first one was gone, then the other, because they couldn't make it through the Parkur. I then spent an hour alone threshing into the Überlord des Goldes and then went to bed tired.
    On the other hand, I would deny it, because you could take advantage of that by temporarily leaving your crew for tactical reasons.

    In this respect I am not in a position to make a decision.

    Therefore, my answer to @MoonMonster11 is, don't demand a change, but choose the ship that fits the current number of crew members.

  • Schwammlgott
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    @marsmayflower sagte in Nerf Kraken Probability (When Only One Pirate Is In The Crew):

    You lost me at brig.

    Same

  • Corvum Mortis
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    @goedecke-michel lol! No worries.

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