Played for 2 hours grinding OOS 45+ last night with 3 randoms (one of which was a Legend). The Legend guy said that the reason why he still wanted to do OOS was for an accommodation. No biggie. Everything was cool for the two hours we played - everyone was getting along, we were getting great loot, and just finishing up on Crooked Masts when we noticed the Legend had left the party. He was still in game though, so we tried to type to him to ask if he needed a re-invite, but he never responded nor came back to the party chat. He was still running around the boat though and adjusting the sails, so the other 3 of us continued finishing the island.
It just so happened that the Crooked Masts was our last stop anyways, so we were headed straight over the the Outpost to cash in. During the 4 minute ride over, the Legend randomly dropped from the game. We tried to message him via Xbox app to see if we needed to wait for him, but no response. We then got a random message in a bottle and the mission was for 4 more skulls on an island that was directly in front of us. We stopped to get that, but when we went to put the skulls with the other 35+ skulls from the last 2 hours, we noticed that everything was gone.
Basically, this Legend, and for no other apparent reason than to just be a griefing A$$hole to his own team because he's a Legend and has nothing better to do, sailed with us for 2 hours (stringing us along) to toss everything overboard and then leave the game.
We spent 15 minutes re-tracing the steps to rule out all possibilities including the following:
- Verified that all 35+ skulls were still present from the previous island before arriving at the Crooked Masts.
- Nobody joined our party/game during the time in which he had left.
- We all knew that even though the Legend had left the party that he never left the boat to hide anything on the island. With 35+ skulls, it would have taken him at least 5-10 minutes to move all of that on his own and we weren't at the Crooked Masts for that long.
- Searched the entire ship in all known secret spots (wall glitches, underneath other loot items, sails, etc...). Also the skulls glow so if in any obvious spot you would have seen the glow.
- Left one Seafarer's Chest on the boat at the end of the voyage and then scuttled the ship until we saw the chest spawn in the water to verify that any other unkown wall glitch spots weren't used, but the only item in the water after the scuttle was the Seafarer's chest.
- No point in going back to the Crooked masts to look in the water (the only place he could have dumped it all) because too much time had elapsed and it would have despawned.
So yeah, I will no longer be playing this game with other Pirate Legends as a level 45 across the board. There is too much risk playing with Legends who don't care about you leveling up and/or loosing a bunch of non-Athena voyage/loot because it doesn't help them progress (they never have anything to lose). I am not saying all Legend's are like this guy, but burn me once sham on you, burn me twice, shame on me. I'll limit my risk/exposure to this kind of toxicity by just not playing with Legends anymore unless we are doing an Athena.
I usually end my posts by saying "Stay Salty", but I think that goes without saying here. This guy was also reported by all 3 of us for malicious behavior/intent.