Has Adventure mode Switched to Easy Mode?

@crafek It is not just you. Rare is reacting to the repeated posts from players complaining about one thing or another. But like reviews of products, people usually are not motivated to share when they are content or pleased with something. Maybe most players do want the game toned down and I'm here in the minority. It feels like I am walking through the world in god-mode now. Nothing in the environment is a challenge, and most every player bouncing around in Adventure Mode just avoid one another. In fact, many players are indignant that I would dare interrupt their voyage with PvP rather than going to Arena (which I hate BTW).

@kobra4killz said in Has Adventure mode Switched to Easy Mode?:

@dislex-fx said in Has Adventure mode Switched to Easy Mode?:

Everything in the game has become easy. It's ridiculous and I'm watching one of my favorite games become less and less of what it was.

Heck, our clan got someone to Pirate Legend in 8 days.

Also, after the "double gunning" "fix", swords are pathetic and almost ALL actual cutlass duels are gone. Sea of Thieves is basically a First Person Shooter now.

I doubt you did the Hunters rep in 8 Days nice story though.

What? You don’t have to do hunters to get to PL.

@kobra4killz said in Has Adventure mode Switched to Easy Mode?:

Or you are looting an island and they spawn back after 10 minutes and sink your ship anchored.

That statement communicates so much more than you probably realize.

EDIT: Sorry about the tone there. It was a reaction to the previous posts. It was unnecessary for me to belittle what you are saying.

To respond in a more mature way, the difficulty forced players to learn the world. “We need to approach from this side to avoid the cannons. And we will park on the west side close to shore to be safe from cannonballs. We’ll keep the anchor up and the sails raised in case any other ships approach.” Why did they even bother creating volcanoes if they are just going to make them safe to ignore? They should be a reason to stock up on planks, grab a rowboat just in case, and be prepared to drop sails if the earth begins to shake. Instead, this is the second time they have nerfed them. They will be merely cosmetic soon.

@crafek said

Megalodons are now easier to avoid, no more EoR skellies, Skellie island cannons are now Stormtrooper levels of bad, and maybe so do the Volcanic rocks.

They were already this way. Are you saying they are even worse now?

[I just want to eliminate the argument of Powder Kegs and players. Players will always make things "harder" no matter how little or much threats there are in the sea]

Obviously you've hedged your argument with this statement. And... isn't this how it should be? If everything is hard, then adding in players just makes it frustrating. The way I see it is like this: if getting loot is easier, then players are more likely to have loot to steal.

@wildbloodoz said in Has Adventure mode Switched to Easy Mode?:

@crafek said

Megalodons are now easier to avoid, no more EoR skellies, Skellie island cannons are now Stormtrooper levels of bad, and maybe so do the Volcanic rocks.

They were already this way. Are you saying they are even worse now?

Yes. The recent patch notes stated a lot of things were nerfed even further. Most of the things they toned down had already been dialed back at least once over the last year.

The thing I'm most sad about is that they nerfed the roar again. I love it because of the extreme difficulty, especially when I'm solo. Back when they first nerfed it, I literally didn't even care when volcanoes erupted, and it sounds like they brought it back down to that level. Maybe they should rename it to the devils meow for reals...

Players should no longer complain about the PvE being too hard. I hope this allows PvP encounters to be more rewarding also, because we now have more and easier ways to build up a stockpile of loot.

@blazedrake100 said
The thing I'm most sad about is that they nerfed the roar again. I love it because of the extreme difficulty, especially when I'm solo.

Their wording was interesting: "Volcanoes encountered in the Devil’s Roar do not hit ships as often".

This suggests to me that the game auto-targets your ship, which is stupid anyway. It should always be completely random. If they auto-aim but with a bit less frequency, it isn't so bad, so long as they keep the eruption frequency the same.

I hope it also encourages more ships to go there. I spend most of the game in that region because of the higher rewards. I do not see other ships very often in that area.

I’m anti leveling. Like I get it on NES Rpg’s. It made sense you can’t fight a “Dragon” at level 1.

I get it for WOW....but when they start putting it in FPS Shooters and everything else it’s stupid. It separates the player base and I don’t like that.

That and I worked in the Game Biz at the time it started spreading and the reality is leveling was never implemented to make the game
“Better” it was implemented for player retention.

How do I get this human to keep playing my game when the competition releases their game 2 months after mine?

....levels

No idea what Rare are doing making the game even easier. The NPC’s were already very simple to defeat with no AI.

@blazedrake100 sagte in Has Adventure mode Switched to Easy Mode?:

Maybe they should rename it to the devils meow for reals...

This is funny, mate. Devils Meow... I'd go further: Devils Purr.

@goedecke-michel
Yeah, I mean, back when everyone called it the meow, it was hopefully worse, but I haven't gotten on to check since the update.

@wildbloodoz
The auto aim was to make it difficult without having to render as many rocks. To balance out no auto aim, there'd need to be way more rocks shot out of the volcanoes. And yes, twice the rewards should have an extreme challenge.

Yes, it has all become easier..
Probably needed too due to the lack of people willing to engage in quests and missions and not simply logging in to steal of someone elses in the name of pirating.. Nothing wrong with that of course,, but you need players to quest and find treasure, or no one has any..
What happened to all those players that used to quest like crazy and have ships full of booty? All either maxed out on levels and see no point in doing anything to earn more gold that they no longer need, or in the case of most players on my friends lists, Simply left our shores due to something not being implemented that makes a huge difference to their overall experience of this game..
Year two has been very poor in comparison to year one..
And now they are doing what they said they woulf never do again and announce monthly updates to gameplay.. I'm sure they never wanted a set road map to follow ever again.. Too much grog being drunk!!

I am guessing someone is reporting feedback from the community forums in a way that is not accurately reflecting the desires of the larger player population. It is a skill. If they are simply recording the overall themes and volume of discussions ("aimbot EoR skeletons are too hard", "too many cursed cannonballs", "bloodthirsty PvPers") then they are not gaining an accurate picture of things. Most players do not come here to share their satisfaction with things, so that already creates a bias in the data. That bias must be acknowledged when interpreting things. It is one thing to be responsive to what players want, but it is another to be overly sensitive to feedback.

When a few players come here to say their three hours of gametime was wrecked by a crew of PvP players or a skeleton ship, that is not necessarily an indication of an issue. For three hours they were not bothered by anything. Also, if you are looking for evidence of a particular problem when you review the numbers, you may have already biased your conclusion in one of many ways (e.g., confirmation bias). Being overly sensitive to the overall themes of feedback means a few persistent posters can create a distorted picture of things. This is why I have taken time to respond to calls for PvE servers. Not doing so risks Rare mistaking the poster's demand as something we all want.

Three hours of work sinking to the bottom of the sea after a skeleton ship attacks a crew is not a reason to react by toning down skeleton ships. Being sunk with hours of loot and no supplies only shows that the crew ignored (or were unaware of) a valid threat. One that the crew should learn to deal with or avoid next time. Each time they tone these things down it removes another element of danger from the game. Accurate cannons on land can be dealt with by learning safer approaches, asking yourself if you are pointed in a direction that will make the situation worse if you are knocked off the boat, and not crowding together in one spot on deck. Or you can just nerf things based on a handful of complaints in long but repetitive threads, assuming most players are not bright enough to adapt. But then the game suffers because it becomes this beige, vague, non-challenging thing that simply doesn't displease most people as they pay it very little notice.

@vac(a)-hombre Yes, in a variety of places there have been complaints about the difficulty and/or frequency of the Kraken, megalodons, frequency of curses from skeletons ships, the difficulty dealing with EoR skeletons, skeletons with gunpowder, inability to take down red mermaids when playing solo, trouble dealing with volcanoes, you name it. I want to believe they are basing this decisions on more than posts around the web.

The ease we feel in dealing with a threat is not a justification to weaken it further. Why even have them then? I'd argue it is reason to recognize threats like megalodons and Krakens are too predictable and that they need to be strengthened. I am sure there are players interested in sailing around a Bob Ross painting while enjoying some elevator music and a couple of egg white sandwiches with their tepid tea (I realize I might be laying it on a bit thick here). I hope there are more of them than people like me.