@galactic-geek said in Well, You're Getting What You Asked For....:

Meg bait?

HUAHAHAHAH!! I guess so! :D

@greengrimz said in Well, You're Getting What You Asked For....:

@Galactic-Geek

Here's another one, from last night's session. I present to you, the mother of all worms: click here for video.

Meg bait?

@Galactic-Geek

Here's another one, from last night's session. I present to you, the mother of all worms: click here for video.

@greengrimz said in Well, You're Getting What You Asked For....:

@Galactic-Geek

There it is: click here.

Seems similar to my experience the 16th early in the morning. I wanted to pick-up a reaper's chest close to the Sea Dog island when I saw it high in the sky with some loot floating in the water below it. Luckily I could harpoon it.

A while ago, I grabbed up a reaper's chest but didn't take it out of a shipwreck (the other treasures I did take with me); when I came around later the shipwreck was gone but the Reaper's chest was still there below the surface of the water (thus not floating up).

@Galactic-Geek

There it is: click here.

@galactic-geek said in Well, You're Getting What You Asked For....:

@greengrimz said:

Last night I encountered a shipwreck, without a ship! Just a bunch of planks/fruits/loot floating. Some above the water (in the air), some slightly under, but static nonetheless.

👀
What!? That's a new 1! I've never heard of that before. Please tell me you recorded a clip! I would like to see that!

I didn't, but I can as it's recorded in my stream sessions, and will do it for you.

@treefittymonsta said in Well, You're Getting What You Asked For....:

@galactic-geek I've been waiting for patches dedicated to bug fixes since the release. I'm glad to see the devs focusing on the bug issues that have plagued the game for years.

frankly I would be fine if they focused on fixing bugs for the next few months. with no new 'content'.

Pssst,, 3 months ago we had a monthly update soley focused on this as the game readied itself for steam launch.

@tehstepford said in Well, You're Getting What You Asked For....:

we shouldnt need monthly 'content updates' if the game features solid gameplay and the most annoying QoL issues are addressed. games like CS had people packing 24/7 dust servers for years on end without clamouring for 'more content'.

well said... this is absolutely correct.

to add 75% of the people I've sailed with have quit due to being frustrated with bugs in the game.

@galactic-geek I've been waiting for patches dedicated to bug fixes since the release. I'm glad to see the devs focusing on the bug issues that have plagued the game for years.

frankly I would be fine if they focused on fixing bugs for the next few months. with no new 'content'.

Just read through all of the summer challenges. Wow!

I must say - I am not unimpressed. 😅

@theblackbellamy I was actually surprised to see cannon hit-reg being addressed because IMO this was 1 of the best, and most balanced aspects of the game to date. I know I may be sounding cliché at this point, but outside of the few times I got dropped into the water for firing myself from it back in the early days, I never really had any issues with cannons, like ever. They always fired, and they always seemed to work appropriately on hit or miss.

@lem0n-curry said:

waiting until the new one pops up can take quite a bit from a crew's available session time and they may not be in the mood to waste their supplies at fort # 501 for example.

This actually happened to my crew last night. I was playing with a friend who was showing a new pirate the ropes, and we had hoped to face an Ashen Lord, but never got it before we had to call it a night. Needless to say, the new guy was less than impressed.

@greengrimz said:

Last night I encountered a shipwreck, without a ship! Just a bunch of planks/fruits/loot floating. Some above the water (in the air), some slightly under, but static nonetheless.

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What!? That's a new 1! I've never heard of that before. Please tell me you recorded a clip! I would like to see that!

@galactic-geek Well do you want new content every month or proper QA? I'm not saying they have to be mutually exclusive, but based on the precedence of practically every update, Rare may not have the capacity to offer both.

You are special and immune to bugs, but I'm sure others like me would truly appreciate a focus on quality over quantity.

You will like what you see, but be even more disappointed with what you don't see. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

I'm actually excited to see if cannon hit reg is better. Naval is meta in arena, and I need wins.

Would I prefer if all reg was magically fixed? Yes. Am I disappointed that this update will not fix it? No, because I didn't set myself up with that expectation.

Now if I find cannon reg to still have problems when I play tonight, then I might be disappointed. I certainly won't be surprised. I will still be appreciative that they are trying.

@d3adst1ck

Ahh. Because it's only been happening since last update and doesn't happen in insiders build I assumed it could be part of the distribution/location algorithms in the build. i.e putting me on servers half way round the world. It happened several times last night and my ping said 73 or so.

@wagstr said in Well, You're Getting What You Asked For....:

I've been getting loads of instances recently where all of a sudden I can't move at all, completely frozen, then my ship goes underwater or slowly tilts upside down or sideways or upright or I fall of for no reason and end up at the bottom of the sea then all of a sudden again things go back to normal and i'm back near the helm with no blackscreen or anything. This can last up to 20 seconds or so or it sometimes ends up with a beard error and I have to rejoin. It's not great if you're in the middle of an encounter or heading towards a rock or something, especially solo. Hasn't happened on insider.

I am happy with a bugfix update. We'll see.

This isn't a bug; it's a classic sign of connection problems.

Your ship continues to rotate or float/sink because the game client predicts ship movement based on the last known position, rotation and direction of travel in order to make the ship appear to move smoothly between data packets. It will do this until you timeout or get new data, which will update the position of the ship and all of the players which is why you get snapped back into place.

You'll likely continue to see things like this after this update if it's being caused by network congestion, latency or some other connection problem.

@needsmokes
Have to agree with ya. Personally I don't feel like these updates add fresh content to the game. Sure, the bosses and ghost ships are cool. However, they all reward the same thing. Gold.
The issue is, gold is only used for buying cosmetic items, and if you are not interested in them then you have no reason to do these events.

I think they should work on other stuff at this point. We have a lot of ways to earn gold, but only one way to spend it.

We have a big empty world. I'm sure they can add more activities that don't revolve around killing something and selling its loot.

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@tehstepford said in Well, You're Getting What You Asked For....:

we shouldnt need monthly 'content updates' if the game features solid gameplay and the most annoying QoL issues are addressed. games like CS had people packing 24/7 dust servers for years on end without clamouring for 'more content'.

SoT has been sold as a Games as a Service though; new content is expected.

i bought it as an online muliplayer game. i never really expected monthly content updates any more than i expected them for quake or rust or whatever. imo if you need to regularly add gimmicks and whatnot to the game, the gameplay must be lacking.

You're getting more than you bought it for then I guess; still doesn't change that it was sold as a GaaS. Stopping with new content would cause issues, certainly for a next game they might want to sell as one. They can change the frequency though, or skip a month once and again in favour of QoL and bug fixes.

Lacking gameplay was one of the complaints at launch IIRC. I have enjoyed the game since just right after launch, enjoyed the once-in-the-three-months big updates as well as the bilge rat ones who some labelled as repetitive. But I don't think I would have paid full price if it would be just the game as at launch.

Then again I bought it for the PvE to do alone or with others with the added risk of losing what you find.

at launch, the game clearly lacked content. but i think SoT is now at a point that yet more fotm clouds in the skies arent what is needed. for whatever reason all these things they add dont really seem to keep people engaged, and i can only conclude its down to the gameplay somehow. its surely not the repetition, cos there is nothing more repetitive than a CS 24/7 dust server, yet those kept people engaged for years.
im thinking everyone gets bored simply because everything has gotten so easy.

I think they should disable some events in a server when they introduce a new one or really up the frequency of the new one (such as 1 in 2 events); waiting until the new one pops up can take quite a bit from a crew's available session time and they may not be in the mood to waste their supplies at fort # 501 for example.

On the bright side, hardly anybody bothers with me while I am ferrying Reaper Bounties to the Reaper's Bones (still have some to go) when the new event is active.

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@tehstepford said in Well, You're Getting What You Asked For....:

we shouldnt need monthly 'content updates' if the game features solid gameplay and the most annoying QoL issues are addressed. games like CS had people packing 24/7 dust servers for years on end without clamouring for 'more content'.

SoT has been sold as a Games as a Service though; new content is expected.

i bought it as an online muliplayer game. i never really expected monthly content updates any more than i expected them for quake or rust or whatever. imo if you need to regularly add gimmicks and whatnot to the game, the gameplay must be lacking.

You're getting more than you bought it for then I guess; still doesn't change that it was sold as a GaaS. Stopping with new content would cause issues, certainly for a next game they might want to sell as one. They can change the frequency though, or skip a month once and again in favour of QoL and bug fixes.

Lacking gameplay was one of the complaints at launch IIRC. I have enjoyed the game since just right after launch, enjoyed the once-in-the-three-months big updates as well as the bilge rat ones who some labelled as repetitive. But I don't think I would have paid full price if it would be just the game as at launch.

Then again I bought it for the PvE to do alone or with others with the added risk of losing what you find.

at launch, the game clearly lacked content. but i think SoT is now at a point that yet more fotm clouds in the skies arent what is needed. for whatever reason all these things they add dont really seem to keep people engaged, and i can only conclude its down to the gameplay somehow. its surely not the repetition, cos there is nothing more repetitive than a CS 24/7 dust server, yet those kept people engaged for years.
im thinking everyone gets bored simply because everything has gotten so easy.

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@tehstepford said in Well, You're Getting What You Asked For....:

we shouldnt need monthly 'content updates' if the game features solid gameplay and the most annoying QoL issues are addressed. games like CS had people packing 24/7 dust servers for years on end without clamouring for 'more content'.

SoT has been sold as a Games as a Service though; new content is expected.

i bought it as an online muliplayer game. i never really expected monthly content updates any more than i expected them for quake or rust or whatever. imo if you need to regularly add gimmicks and whatnot to the game, the gameplay must be lacking.

You're getting more than you bought it for then I guess; still doesn't change that it was sold as a GaaS. Stopping with new content would cause issues, certainly for a next game they might want to sell as one. They can change the frequency though, or skip a month once and again in favour of QoL and bug fixes.

Lacking gameplay was one of the complaints at launch IIRC. I have enjoyed the game since just right after launch, enjoyed the once-in-the-three-months big updates as well as the bilge rat ones who some labelled as repetitive. But I don't think I would have paid full price if it would be just the game as at launch.

Then again I bought it for the PvE to do alone or with others with the added risk of losing what you find.

@galactic-geek

Not a fan of these monthly events and have never felt bothered to ever do one of them, as I have more than enough ship skins, cosmetics and loot to last me a lifetime. So this will not entice me to play.
And as for the QOL patches, time will tell I guess. A few months ago we had one of these updates to prepare for the steam launch and it caused more problems than it fixed.

Im afraid I need actual content to keep me playing nowadays as I have played everything several times over, (excluding last few updates which haven't interested me) as it is more of the same and in the same format of complete x50 etc etc, and that has finally become tiresome for me to even begin thinking about working on.

Had a feeling 2020 would see a big demise of this game, and even though its sales were vast a few months ago, its hemorrhaging players at 25% a month since,

More of the same monotonous updates won't help that.

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@tehstepford said in Well, You're Getting What You Asked For....:

we shouldnt need monthly 'content updates' if the game features solid gameplay and the most annoying QoL issues are addressed. games like CS had people packing 24/7 dust servers for years on end without clamouring for 'more content'.

SoT has been sold as a Games as a Service though; new content is expected.

i bought it as an online muliplayer game. i never really expected monthly content updates any more than i expected them for quake or rust or whatever. imo if you need to regularly add gimmicks and whatnot to the game, the gameplay must be lacking.

@Galactic-Geek

I'm torn to be honest. Personally I want more content, but there's also a lot of stuff to fix, and it just keeps getting worser. Last night I encountered a shipwreck, without a ship! Just a bunch of planks/fruits/loot floating. Some above the water (in the air), some slightly under, but static nonetheless.

Something else worries me more than bugs and lack of updates though. Some of the bigger names in the gaming industry are getting new seasons and expansions very soon. This is DEFINITELY not a good time for a "silent" patch. Fire must be fought with fire!

@galactic-geek Every other month would be enough for me personally, but I guess that is different for each person with playtime taken into account. I used to play every day but over the past month or so that has reduced to a couple times a week.

I still have plenty of commendations to work on to keep me going.