Bring back speed digging

speed digging

Name says it all. Players are doing everything to fast and need to slow down to fully experience everything.

The best speed digging is with your crew, working “together”

@magus104 said in Bring back speed digging:

For over 3 years you let the speed digging exploit stay in the game..... Then for whatever reason decided to nerf it...... I could see this being a balancing thing for ARENA.... Yea I get it wasnt intended for people to stow and draw their shovel quickly to animation cancel and dig faster.... But its little tricks like this that are just something you learn from experience. After using that trick for 3 years I went and tried to play the other day and noticed this nerf and digging normally just felt gross. Its not how my brain has been trained to play for the past 3 years. All the nerfs for the sake of arena. The weapon delays, sword range, sword hits against objects not triggering a swing delay... Basically every aspect of the game has been made to feel worse from a control perspective just so bad players and players on console can feel better vs a PC player.

I admit I didnt try the sword lunge + jump exploit but i imagine that one is still in the game as you guys claimed to like how players had learned this little trick. but if were going to be nerfing trivial things might as well. also nerf lunging off land into the water giving a speed boost. This is very Blizzard like levels of "Beep, Boop, Fun detected must fix"

Speed digging was an exploit. it got fixed. The weapon changes were not for arena they gor balance.

Sword lunging was an unintented combination of mechanics so different from exploiting.

@magus104 I suspect fixing the “Speed Bucket” exploit also fixed the “Speed Shovel” exploit. I’ll say I was a regular user of the speed shoveling, so adapting to watching the full animation of my shovel has been quite painful, however, I respect Rare’s decision and will continue on with fond memories of the Speed Shovel.

Sword Lunging has been made a feature by Rare and it won’t be taken out of the game. As someone who used the speed digging, it’s a pain to dig now but I respect why they took it out.

Hopefully they can speed up the digging animations slightly in the future.

Exploits need to be fixed. No need to bring that back.

However, not long ago I proposed a shovel combo that would bring an element of risk/reward to faster digging. There were some other good ideas proposed in that thread as well. Would love to see a fun mechanic implemented to speed up digging. Here's that thread if you want to take a look and comment in there:

https://www.seaofthieves.com/community/forums/topic/144378/shovel-combo/1