Why is the game so broken?

The waves are bigger than ever before. A sloop cannoneer’s visibility is completely blocked by waves so much more than I ever remember. So much so that in a storm with even bigger waves desync issues such as rubber banding, waves clipping through the ship are even more exacerbated. The waves are just monsters now. Somewhere along the way Rare made them bigger.
Bigger waves equals more frustration when firing cannons due to not being able to see what you’re shooting at.

The lag when you approach Reaper’s Hideout is insane even worse than Port Merrick.

High ping results in a lot of frustration. When you reload a cannon just after firing the reload will get canceled and you’ll have to start again. Just in general if you play on high ping you will have to slow down your gameplay so the server can catch up to what you’re doing. Please don’t match we with an hourglass opponent if my ping is above a certain threshold where playability begins to suffer.

If you exit a barrel/storage crate UI while holding a directional key (or holding the joystick in a specific direction) you will notice your pirate won’t move in that direction until you release the key or joystick and try again.

If you ads a weapon and attempt to fire it before it finishes the animation (the ads animation is really short so this is a small window) you will notice it will not fire even though it is loaded.

Rare must have made jumping have server side authentication because you can actually get jump reg now aka you pressed jump and the game says nope you will not jump, try again.

And then abundant pineapples (not a bug) makes it so much more difficult to kill good players. Dumb decision totally nullified other fruit and even most cooked food.

Crashes on series x have been reduced significantly. Crashes on PS5 although I don’t have the console personally I have noticed seem to be an issue still.

Settings not saving for some clients; every time you restart the game you have to change some settings that won’t save back to what you want.

Cannon hitreg on ships is also a thing. You see a cannonball hit an enemy ship from your perspective but according to the server it missed so you don’t get the music and you did no damage. Backtrack tolerance is too low for cannonballs.

Mermaids should spawn faster in adventure like they do in hourglass especially when the reworked blunderbuss drops and pirates will be knocked off their ship more than ever before.

@bekkbloodaxe96

“various bugs (literally too many to list)”

Make the list. Put forth some effort.

@bekkbloodaxe96

Low effort. What’s the point in typing paragraphs of fluff when you could just list what you think needs to be fixed.

@bekkbloodaxe96

I put forth some effort. I always do. Take it as you will.

This is just my opinion/observation as someone that really only got super into this game (like many others) during covid, and as someone that wasn't into online gaming before this game.

Many online gamers take a lot of things personal and they make a lot of things personal. They see devs as their friends or enemies. Instead of this being just a product that is fun or not, entertainment that is enjoyable or not, it's this personal thing, especially in SoT.

If I felt like many SoT players communicate that they feel I would just leave. I've been here years, daily on the forums. Outside of recognizing a few names and seeing some videos/posts I dunno who the devs are at all. I barely know who anyone is in the SoT networks other than just recognizing names. Frustration/criticism just isn't a personal thing to me. I would just not play this game if I had the "game so broken" mentality.

I'm as passionate about SoT as anyone else but that doesn't change anything, if I don't wanna play I just don't play, if it gets too buggy I'll just move on. Devs did what they could, I do what I can, not a whole lot more to it than that.

Small community, people are cliqued up and talk to each other and all that, I get that, but it's still a product, a game. Either it's fun or it's not. Complaining all day is too normalized in gaming (and most things for that matter). It's been "why is the game so broken" since I have been around. Because it's all a lot of gamers focus on, that's why.

Everyone will justify why they feel it's worse now or why it's worse down the road, that's fine. Everyone gets their opinion based on their experiences and observations. To me it's either making the best out of what exists here or moving on to something else.

Rare doesn't make the game difficult to love, people make it difficult to enjoy, for themselves.

Light at the end of the tunnel? The luxury of gaming is a well lit tunnel.

@bekkbloodaxe96 said in Why is the game so broken?:

@wolfmanbush

You point out that it is a product - nothing more, nothing less. And that is exactly it - I paid good money to play this game. I expect a certain quality in exchange. Simple as that. If we don't provide feedback, especially on bugs, they cannot know there is a problem.

But it has kind of gone beyond just reporting bugs, I am a bit fed up with reporting the same bugs over and over...

I don't want to just 'make the best of what exists here' I want to see the game get better and better. Or at least not progressively worse...

I don't have an issue with feedback or criticism, I do both every day I see both every day and it's all good, when it's fair.

What I have an issue with is when it goes beyond feedback and criticism and enters what I half jokingly reference as energy vampirism.

Lots of people don't have the frustrations that I have in this game, lots don't have the frustrations you have in this game, lots don't have the general frustrations of the feedback areas. It's not because they are wrong and we are right, it's not because we are more experienced and have been around longer, it's not because some of y'all are more skilled at pvp, it's entirely mindset and approach.

I think gaming should normalize quitting and moving on when it's no longer a sustainable/compatible situation. I also think that quitting and moving on should be in a way that doesn't tear everything down.

This game doesn't improve because of the fits in the community and the spamming and the daily defeatism and discouragement. It improves because of the reporting (bugs/exploits/etc) and the patience. It improves because of the people that try to make this game fun even when it's not doing so great with performance.

Perspective is as important as expression. It is important to acknowledge the issues, it is important to offer constructive criticism, it's also important to realize that filling the wait with a bunch of extra criticism doesn't help anything, it just discourages people.

Imo a common mistake people make is labeling optimism as a form of neglect. People aren't ignoring issues because they find an optimistic way around them, they are contributing in a way that is actually productive. Everyone knows this game struggles with performance, is it necessary to spend all day talking about "broken game" as many do? I don't think it's necessary or helpful.

We gotta fill the wait time with something, it might as well be something more useful than "broken game" "cheater game" etc.

We all get it, buggy game, game with some cheaters, game that doesn't always deliver, just like every other game in the space.

It's also an adventure game that has held its own where many have fallen. It's not perfect but it has lasted because they are offering a quality product to people. It's something that many enjoy. It's not a broken game to many outside of the bubbles and the cliques, it's an adventure game that makes life a little better and/or easier.

@bekkbloodaxe96 said in Why is the game so broken?:

@wolfmanbush

You are spending a lot of time talking about it for someone who doesn't want to discuss this issue XD

There are many people that don't wanna put themselves out there is a feedback area. Opinions and views that are held but underrepresented in social spaces. I try to offer support for the organic experience here.

We both clearly like the game - wouldn't both be here if we didn't. I am speaking out here so that Rare can understand there are people in the community who would support slower content infil in exchange for time to really work out some kinks in the game.

Nothing wrong with that, what I take issue with specifically,

why is the game so broken

that's just tearing the game down from the start. It's like bringing attention to someone and then starting it with "What is wrong with A B or C"

RARE makes it hard to love this game sometimes

Depends on what kind of vibes people are attaching to.

If people are regularly around others that are always overly critical and unfair about situations and largely negative about others, and they attach to it, then it's difficult to love something.

The reason that I am always attached to the organic experience and those that play organically is because they keep me in check. I'm like anyone else, I am just as vulnerable to those defeatist/discouraging cycles and habits as anyone.

When I see people enjoying this game as I adventure around it helps me stay focused while I am around people in the feedback/social areas that are excessively critical. There is a balance that is created by seeing and hearing people's love for the game. Most of all the adventurers that play organically and only are here to play a game they enjoy, no content, no brands, no drama, no beef, no cliques, just enjoying the experience.

I do enjoy the game but it's all about the community to me. That's what makes it rewarding for me, I wouldn't play this game as a single player game, even if it ran perfectly.

The surface of the water issue is getting annoying lol.

I thought the qol team was already set up and working...apparently not quite yet from the video.