Just saying that the Sea of Thieves has become a lot more hostile and toxic due to your pvp infecting Ships of Fortune patch. Elite players have an even bigger advantage now, you basically awarded those who already spend too much time on the game to become even more deadly for casual players. It's just shoot and kill now, doing the tall tales is almost impossible because other players will approach you and follow you, sometimes literally for HOURS, even if you don't have loot. Do you remember that little game called battleships? Which you could play with pen and paper? Sea of Thieves is becoming that. Just mindless pvp no matter what. And ALL the elite players look the same: small frame, black ninja clothes so they become invisible. It's not pirating anymore, it's just who can spend more lifetime in the game and troll other players with their insane nolifer skills. AND you even implement more taunts to ridicule so these nolifers can mock you even more. What is this?
Welcome to the Sea of Trolls: Ships of Reaper: The Rapening on the toxic Ocean
Of course your raredrones will defend this. Because "git gud" and "muh pirate XD" and all that garbage.
This patch was a mistake and it made the game lose a lot of soul and brain. You also ruined the arena, exactly the same thing. It used to be strategic, you had to know the islands, be good at treasure hunting and sailing. Smart decisions had to be made. Now it has degenerated into a hotpot of random, mostly luck based pvp. You can meet three different crews at the beacon and participate in a chaotic shoot-out and eventually win the chest - but why go through that trouble? Just go to the outpost and wait, kill whoever approaches, take the chest and cash in. OR watch every crew do exactly that - which results in not a single chest getting cashed in. Every game is just camping, stalemate, waiting until someone makes a move. It's frustrating, mindless and BORING. Just like every reaper just camps at the reaper outpost, blocking other players from progressing. Forcing this kind of pvp on players isn't fun, it's bad game design.
By the way, I have no interest in discussing any of this post with players who think they know better. I just want the devs or mods to take note of my opinion, I don't care what becomes of the post. This is not ment to be a constructive critique, it's simple feedback. I hate this update, it made the game a foul experience.
