Patch Notes Discussion - 1.1.1

@ecljpse said in Patch Notes Discussion - 1.1.1:

Washed up items are baaaccckk!!! Woooooo! I am way too excited about this!

Yes indeed, I love this is back in game again. Can't wait to start beach combing again.

"Players can no longer be voted into the brig before fully spawning onto the server."

This isn't really a direct fix to that exploit but it should be good enough to prevent it from happening.

Anyone else having a issue with snakes? When I get bitten and I'm just about to come back to normal it's like I get bitten again by a snake even though there is no snake near me.

@x-riddler-x said in Patch Notes Discussion - 1.1.1:

Hey look another patch with no mention of CROSSPLAY!

Rare yet again continuing to ignore a heated debate and concerns of their community. Like how they even took away the mega thread. Nice to see how much they care about the mega thread topics.

Yeah Heated as in It stays as is and that's end of story?

You do realize Crossplay is a Microsoft thing that they are pushing for all their game titles to get more people playing their Xbox games, even if it's only on PC right?

@lefaux2 said in Patch Notes Discussion - 1.1.1:

@fantome-of-blue said in Patch Notes Discussion - 1.1.1:

How do you mean? My graphics look fine, and I'm running at extra mode.

Since launch the graphic fidelity has been reduced step by step.
I didn't play todays release yet, but yesterday night palm trees from a distance were just blobs.
Ships seen at a distance display their sails being down, even though their not (tested with a friendly crew).
Skeletons from a distance are just disconnected triangles.

Graphics got worse two times by now and reading "improved framerate" makes me nervous :)

Just finished playing for a bit.
I can confirm that it all looks much worse at a distance.
Also they seem to have doubled down on the seafog.

But hey! At least xbox and potato pc users can have better framerates!

Yess washed up items!! Now to wait for weekly events next week

Also, what's the deal with skellingtons attacking you when you are in the middle of asking Merrick why he hasn't got any skellingtons around him?

@clumsy-george said in Patch Notes Discussion - 1.1.1:

Oh, i'm so glad that the messages in a bottle on shores have reappeared...This way i can travel in my favorite mode: " Let Coincidence decide how my adventure unfolds"...
i don't mind buying a quest but sometimes i just want to sail and roam around ...
And if a message in a bottle seems to be a trinket instead then that's double the fun...

There is a little thing i can't understand...Back in the day we were shouting, even crying to make Crossplay possible...Mr Teddy, became our last hope and was crowned King when he and his great team succeeded in the Crossplay option. Now i see many people asking and sometimes demanding to destroy the Crossplay option...
And they are not all Xbox players who ask for this , also PC players seem to be asking this...Appart from the cheater who may have destroyed a session for some people, i don't see why we must sheer for the disability of Crossplay...
Many of my SOT Friends play by PC and i would feel gutted if there would be a wall between us meaning i could never play with them again....

But maybe i have missed the megathread about the deletion of Crossplay and the reason behind for such a drastic question...

Cross play is great for some, but for some xbox players, they struggle to keep up with mouse and keyboard in shooters.
And for All pc players with a decent rig, you are basically forced to have medium graphics settings, even though you set them on ultra, cos xbox can't render anywhere near as well as a decent pc can and view distance etc can give players an edge over others.

It's a tough balance really, I mean for the social aspect I can see the value - I certainly wish my battlefield key for ps4 could be used on my pc, and this game has that with the whole pc/xbox play anywhere. (though I suspect that's a different thing entirely and some game with it don't have cross-ply)
But if I played against pc players on my ps4 battlefield, I'd get annihilated. Controllers are objectively worse for shooters than mouse and keyboard.
Objectively. As in there have been tests and stuff, before any console players who consider themselves to be real gun slingers get up in arms.

Long story short, the biggest drawbacks (gfx downgrade to meet lowest common denominator, mismatch in controls) can be greater than the benefits (being able to play with your pc/console mates together) for some.

Personally only the graphics thing peeves me right off, especially since I played beta and my screenshots from then look better than the game does now (and that g*****n draw distance man... I tell you...)

@clumsy-george said in Patch Notes Discussion - 1.1.1:

@mcdoll
Well Mr McDoll, i thank you for a clear explenation about why people would choose for the seperation between PC and Xbox...
For me personally, i don't mind if a PC player is faster than me...Hey , at my age ,an Xbox player with the blessed age of 3 years old is already faster than me...It simply doesn't kill my fun nor joy that i have by sailing around...
But i understand now that the more serious gamer can have drawbacks or whatever better word could be suited here...
Thanks for explaining,Sir.

No worries!
And tbh I'm in the same boat as you and I play on pc.
At the end of the day I'm just bummed that the graphics keep getting lowered and yet the patch notes say "improvements to framerate" etc.
Also, it really doesn't matter whether someone is playing on controller or kb+m, combat is pretty janky and incredibly laggy anyway, so it's always gonna be a crapshoot!

what happens to the hungering deep content next week? does it just become entirely rewardless? I want Merricks song in my playable song list all the time.