I kinda like them due to the new resource to find gp barrels easily, but they are a pain. I think they shouldn’t be allowed to run, they should have to walk because they’re holding a damn barrel. We can’t sprint holding a chest, why can a skeleton?!

@goedecke-michel Yeah... there's a distinctive "thwomp" sound that happens when they pull the kegs out of the ground.

@the-tonkinese Glad you enjoy them as much as I do. :)

@bran-the-ent sagte in Powder Keg Skeletons:

@galactic-geek They currently make a different sound when they come up. That's what I listen for. If I hear that, I start running to put distance between me and them.

Me, I love them.

Never noticed, thanks for telling

@bran-the-ent so when on an athena every few seconds you need to run from a barrel or stop looking at your map for one second ? yeah that's fun thats real fun they might be useful but they are damned annoying when almost every spawn on an athena every 10 or seconds after you defeat one lot another lot spawns yeah thats fun or even more fun you get 4 people on the island doing chests and 4 lots of spawn at once YEAH that's fun so much fun being had there

I enjoy the chaos that is PK skellies.

Normal skellies are only moderately fun and challengin...unless packed with pistols and sech.

Whenever a powder keg skelly pops, I MUST run and that just adds to the funny.
I also enjoy the idea of trying to use them for MY porpoises.
Guide them along the beach and into the fray of a 3-skelly captain battle and then FLABOOM!

One sesh....I had 3 PK Skellies all pop from the single spot at the same time.
I shouted to my crew after I had lured them into an open area, "watch this!!"; and then sent 'em to their 'deaths'.....it was a larger island but the explosion was seen from e'ry location.

I would say though, that not every body on my crew agrees with me. They'd express their frustrations as well. In fact, the only consistent deaths in the game right now are from rando PK skellies.

ROFL.

@the-tonkinese Ah, their launch. Okay. I don't agree that it should be lowered. I find them useful, but... okay.

Totally agree that wat too many spawn at one time and over and over. I have seen 3-4 spawn together over and over with groups of others before you can kill them all. Have 3-4 spawning every dig of a shovel. Have seen 6 and more up at one time.

I like @Galactic-Geek’s and @Starship42’s ideas as tweaks to make the encounters better. Skeletons should have to grab gunpowder powders scuttled around. I do like the idea of a some cursed gunpowder barrel extending legs to run towards you.

Skeletons should also start with 5 shots and have to go to ammo boxes. Use swords until they can reload from an ammo box. They should have random number of bananas and have to find them in barrels. Players and skeletons could compete for the bananas.

@grindtony45 I disagree.

I'm not a fan of skellies coming out of the ground with a powder keg. Imo, it would be better if there were random kegs laying around in certain places, and skellies came out of the ground empty handed, and then had to pick them up, and then run toward you.

@bran-the-ent for the high spawn rates yes for the gun powder skellies since their launch yes

@nefnoj said in Powder Keg Skeletons:

@galactic-geek said in Powder Keg Skeletons:

They should make it so that the gunpowder skeletons take considerably longer to rise up out of the ground, giving you a chance to attack or run away. In this way, they wouldn't be so annoying, but could still surprise you from a nearby bush, for example, where you didn't see them claw their way out of the ground.

I like this solution. Gunpowder barrels are big, so logically would take a while to get out of the ground. Additionally, it could give sword/blunderbuss users a chance to kill them without dying. Maybe make it so that if you kill them while they're partially under the sand, you have to use your shovel to dig the barrels up, without them being volatile until they're completely exposed.

Great ideas mates, I approve!

@the-tonkinese Since launch? Of the game?

@crimsonraziel Sure they are fun, but its not fun when you blow up 5 barrels and 3 more immediately spawn.

@steveboddy yeah this is a bit of a problem the spawn rate especially on Athena has been reported complained about since launch

the only way for rare to address this is if a streamer makes it known then maybe rare will listen as it's been near a year and nothing got done done

@cstrap exactly. I have no issues with them existing. Theyre useful and give the game a bit more depth.

There's just way too many of them.

@ram2k14 they are for sure useful during order of soul quests, but for literally anything else in the game it’s just annoying. Yeah, I agree they are easy to deal with and avoid, but I don’t want to deal with them as frequently as I do. That’s just my opinion though.

Don’t get me wrong - I LOVE the addition of barrel skeletons. I think they are great! I just think they spawn way too often.

@grindtony45 sagte in Powder Keg Skeletons:

Spawnrate of barrel skeletons needs to be tuned down.

People saying, free barrels yea.
I been doing athena voyages last week, its common to spawn 3-4 barrel skeletons at once and they spawnrate is like EVERY MINUTE !

NO! Don't tune them down. They are the fun part of these voyages.

Spawnrate of barrel skeletons needs to be tuned down.

People saying, free barrels yea.
I been doing athena voyages last week, its common to spawn 3-4 barrel skeletons at once and they spawnrate is like EVERY MINUTE !

I like the bombers, they are fun.

But seriously, they spawn at a ridiculous rate! Had to fight at the top of a peak last night and if ran them down the peak they respawned on the climb back up. If suicided they respawned on way back up

Suicided one time and found two bombers waiting st the ship..

Took forever and atleast 20 deaths to kill the four skele bosses purely because of the bombers. It just got boring and repetitive.

They are fun and great addition to the game but seriously that spawn rate couldn’t have been intended?

Another issue is that you need a ranged gun to defeat them, and your ammo is limited.
IMHO, the keg skellies should be glass cannons. 1 or 2 shots should defeat them. Its ridiculous that they sometimes need 3 or even 4 (body) shots to defeat.

@ram2k14 that should have said sprint. not spring.. he he..

@cstrap actually I find them quite useful. All I do is run away turn and fire.. and they are eliminated quite easily. In order of soul missions especially in devils roar.. you don't even have to fire most of the time.. you just run around and place yourself between them and a geyser and they blow themselves up. Or run to the water let them gather and kill a bunch with one shot. Maybe set your spring button to something other than the thumb stick to make it easier to run away.

I do agree that the gunpowder skeletons spawn way too often. Being sent to the ferry, or taking massive damage every few minutes is, without question, definitely not fun. Not to mention how it prolongs the voyages to ridiculous lengths - what should only take about 5 minutes ends up taking 20...