Rare, The devils roar is TOO EASY! (Proof)

This is just a minute and a half of luck not proof.

I’ve been in a Brig and got hit 10 times sailing past one. I got unlucky.

If you were going slower you would of been hit by one of them, if you were in a bigger ship you would of been hit by a couple of them.

As I stated before the aim bot volcanos were stupid. They are balanced now.

Last night we parked the boat at Roaring Traders and the local volcano went off. Our galley didnt get hit once, just sat there while we fished.

Why do you put this in Insiders forum, go and post this in the Feedback+Suggestions forum (where it belongs)

@Cpt-FlameBeard

Found a video I had saved of the old volcanoes.

You couldn't park at the island with an active volcano or this would happen. You would have to just sit on the outskirts and wait for it to stop erupting. Was a waste of time. You can now park at them and take the risk. It's now balanced.

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@cpt-flamebeard if you read what he posted, he said this is of the old volcanoes......

@Cpt-FlameBeard

I don't know what version of the game you are playing but I still get hit by them.

I just uploaded it to show you what they were like as you clearly forgot. It was before the anniversary update when the volcanoes had aimbot.

If you go back in the Insider Feedback Archive to when we were testing the Devils Roar arena map you'll see there that the volcanoes were broken and that's why we don't have that Arena map anymore. I remember seeing 4 Galleons with all the masks down as everyone was just getting hit by them.

Would like to see that map added back with the new Balanced Volcanoes.

I still get sunk over there too. It's certainly not too easy, imo. It's better balanced. And parking at roaring traders should trigger the volcanoe. Maybe it glitched?

It might be time to let this go, man.

Your opinion is your own. Went there yesterday and proceeded to sink 4 times within an hour not to mention the number of deaths. Devil’s Roar is not only extremely ugly but also the most annoying part of the game.

I wasn't noticing it before (after sinking several times I'm just leaving volcano area), but after you said that... Well, I've tried to travel through the dangerous zone several times and I wasn't hit at all. That can't be just a luck. That's just isn't right!
The Devil's Roar was my favorite region. Twice more money, but a very high risk of sinking and I'm forced to wait a lot of times. And what's now? Just a good-for-grind region, especially for skelly coz the are dying on their own.
I remember an old times, when we could get a lot of loot, lose it, and a half hour later find a lot of loot floating in a ocean.

I am all for random. A volcano shouldn’t target you, however it shouldn’t avoid you either. We spent some time in a brig there this week and only received one minor hit.

Felt like snipping the volcano to see if it would attack us like a Meg.

It was designed (or at least advertised) as a difficult area which would require loading up on supplies before heading there. Now it’s just the shores of plenty with a blue screen showing volcanos. If anything it’s actually the easiest part of the map as you can kill entire skeleton OoS waves without using a weapon

I don't know.
I've heard from many people that the Roar was a joke now, but when I finally made it over there to check out the new balance, I didn't find it to be nerfed. I'd say I noticed less hits and maybe smaller/less holes on my sloop than what I expected (and I noticed a blast of magma that hit near our helm did NOT bring down the mast).

The individual's subjective experience, of the randomness and chaos in this game, can skew people's perceptions into thinking their findings are universal absolutes. So, I'm not going to fall prey to that, but I'm wary of others who may be.

I'm very experienced in the game and within the Roar (but hadn't been there much in the past month or so). I never felt like it NEEDED a reduction in danger - not even from the initial balance on the Roar's launch. I loved it's danger.
That being said, I haven't found the reductions to make it a joke or to be overly nerfed. Just because something is adjusted towards the easier side, doesn't mean they completely nerfed it. I've been impressed with the dev team, because I tend to cringe whenever I read patch notes about reducing difficulty on something - but I've found they often are only making a mild adjustment (skeleton accuracy comes to mind). Even the new sloop steering in a storm doesn't seem to be much different (I've only tested it a tiny bit - I need to check more into it, but I went through the outskirts of a storm and the steering was still a significant factor). I bring that one up, because I've always LOVED how crazy a storm can get, trying to solo sail through, and I don't want to see that lost.

Anyway, I heard second hand reports that the Roar was a joke, but I've visited a couple of times since and I can't say my findings match those secondhand accounts. I rarely ever let my sloop sink, and I did lose it to the new Roar once (I blame my partner more on that one, LOL, but it still sank QUICKLY to Ashen Reaches erupting).

shrugs
Maybe it's too easy. maybe it isn't. I haven't seen definitive proof and I know people sometimes make a bigger deal about things than the reality of things.

De omnibus dubitandum

Isn't the PvE just a supplement to make PvP even more interesting? Imagine a player conflict in DR during an active eruption. I'm pretty sure you'll have your hands full

Thank all the whiny "regular" players for this.

I would like to point out that I’m not against making the game harder.

I agree that the aggressive skeletons ships should make a return along with a more challenging Megalodon.

I’m just against the aimbot volcanoes.

I’m on PC with a pretty powerful rig, but you gotta remember the Xbox players with the original console from 2013 will have much longer loading times. Getting killed by one and sinking because the game didn’t load fast enough must blow.

Rare know what they are doing, and will have a reason for changing them.

One thing they could do is increase the amount of rocks that are thrown out with the random spread. Higher's the chance to get hit but they don’t have aimbot.

Personally though, right now they feel much better and less annoying.