Skeletal ships feedback

@atomictoyrobot

The good thing is that this skeleton galleon didn't engage you first, you must have engaged it somehow either by crashing into it or following it too closely. The skeleton galleons cannot spawn targeting sloops, you'll only get skeleton sloops targeting you. Just take better care to avoid the galleons if you see them on the seas next time.

@wolfmanbush said in Skeletal ships feedback:

@chronodusk said in Skeletal ships feedback:

@atomictoyrobot

The good thing is that this skeleton galleon didn't engage you first, you must have engaged it somehow either by crashing into it or following it too closely. The skeleton galleons cannot spawn targeting sloops, you'll only get skeleton sloops targeting you. Just take better care to avoid the galleons if you see them on the seas next time.

Galleons can spawn on sloops. I don't know if it's intended or not but it does happen I've seen it multiple times

No it doesnt. ONLY time this happens is during Fleet battles. Rare made it so, they only spawn on Brig and Galleon ships, not Sloops. IF one spawns, its a random spawn but they arent spawning on Sloops to attack, just a random spawning from the water.

Yes, the developers said in the past that skelleons shouldn't spawn on sloops, but bugs happen. I've seen it myself numerous times after they stated that. They said it's not supposed to happen anymore but something changed a few patches after that announcement. Fortunately it's a very rare occurrence.

Four strategies here.

1. Hits mean nothing if you're just hitting above the water line, unless you hit them with a ballast ball. However, a sloop doesn't put out enough damage for a ballast ball to really be worth it with the skellies repairing. Better to save those for a pesky player galleon that's been lazy about repairing their second deck holes. Hit bottom deck holes or go to another strat.

2. Sideswipe them at a speed where you can stay next to them, don't repair your damage, then keep bucketing your water onto the skelleon.

3. This doesn't work as well as it used to, and in a sloop you likely won't get far enough away to de-aggro them before they get unstuck but...use a rock or island to get them hung up while you make your escape.

4. Don't do any of the above, have a fight last forever, sink, then complain on the forums/Discord.

@atomictoyrobot

Skeleton galleons will not spawn on a sloop unless it is the event, therefore either you did that or you agitated one of the roaming ones.

If you notice you are struggling, just slam into them, hug them tight stay near and just bucket water into them. It takes some practice, but with good naval positioning and shots you can even fight them head on without any issues as a solo. I used to do the fleet events before the skeleton sloops were in the game, meaning up to 5x two galleons to fight in a row.

I watched Beardogeddon solo a skelly fleet the other day because there wasn't much happening on his server and he wanted some cannon/repair practice.

It was interesting to watch how he prioritises cannoning/bucketing/fixing, especially as he got to the final waves (all the time talking constantly and answering questions from chat), there may be a video of it somewhere, was very good.

For instance he said if you're struggling with lots of holes and are filling up quickly it's sometimes worth ignoring the tier 3 holes and concentrate on fixing up the tier 1's and bucketing in-between because the tier 3's take too long and you risk getting knocked off the fix. Lots of cool little tips, some of which I realised I knew at one point but had forgotten, very useful stuff.

@atomictoyrobot said in Skeletal ships feedback:

Excuse my language but FRICK Skeletal Galleons.

I just spent 15 minutes being aggressively assaulted by a Skeletal Galleon as a solo sloop player.

Within those 15 minutes I wasted all of my cannon balls, all of my fire bombs, all of my planks of wood, was knocked off the ship twice.

I got so heated raged quit without giving a damn about my loot.

I don't understand why Skeletal Galleons take so much work to sink especially when they are such a broken PvE experience.
Their aim is dead on, rarely do they miss a shot. They turn incredibly fast, they sail fast, they ram you with zero regard to causing damage to their ship. It's so frustrating.

I honestly don't know what to do when one is chasing me across the entire damn ocean. I hit the hull with a ton of cannon shots, which seems to do nothing. I throw fire bombs onto the deck to try and keep the skeletons off the cannons, seems to do nothing. The boat doesn't burn like a ship normally would so the fire just fizzles out. They seem to take on water at a slower speed so they take forever to sink, if by some grace of God they even do sink.

It's so frustrating as a solo player to have to deal with these boats.

They arent too bad!

I solo these things in a Brigantine so in a sloop isnt even a challenge.

Aim below water line.
Full right or left turn and you dont even need to steer, just fire and repair. Its easy!

They are tough at first but you soon learn their pattern
They basically mimic your steering inputs.

Full left or right turn, sails all the way down. No special balls needed. Down it in about 50 cbs if you arr accurate.

The sloop has a tighter turning circle so you will have more opportunity to hit and you will remain mostly in their blind spot

Doing the same in a brig, youll remain outside their firing arc almost indefinitrly in open water doing this trick. After s few barrages at least. Then you can hit them and they cant hit you.

Theres tons of ways to kill them.
I mainly choose the wheel technique (full left or right) so as a solo i dont need to steer. I can focus on repairing and firing.

Take a storage crate to shores of gold and scuttle your ship and load in tons of cannonballs like 500 or so. Practice firing from stupidly far away. Before you know it, you can hit things from very far away all from muscle memory. (For the odd occasion it drifts far away)

Those skellies wont stand a chance!
Neither will any pesky pirates when you are comfortable doing long range shots, which you cab only learn by dumb firing lots and lots of shots and getting a feel for it.