It's the little things... that make SoT seem rushed.

Yep. Hence my anger at such a high grade developers doing such sloppy work. The game might score a generous 3/10 rating for quality of life. I also hate the 'switch to item to store it' deal with barrels. The fact that between changing weapons and picking up ammo, the game will assume you want to change weapon before assuming you want ammo.

Realisticly i'm obviously going to take a second to focus on changing weapon, whereas i'd rather just sweep up some ammo.

Also the way ships render on the horizon. They are far more distinct than equally solid objects such as trees and rocks. Could arue its a design choice, but I don't feel like it is.

@inbred-chimera said in It's the little things... that make SoT seem rushed.:

Also the way ships render on the horizon. They are far more distinct than equally solid objects such as trees and rocks. Could arue its a design choice, but I don't feel like it is.

I noticed this as well and it bothers me, they stand out against everything else, they contrast the environments. It's like they have some artificial outline around them that just sticks out.

@lewanderous said in It's the little things... that make SoT seem rushed.:

I'm a stickler for details. And I can't help but notice a lot of little details that make me feel SoT was indeed rushed out the door.

For example (but I'm sure not exhaustive):

• The 'Royal Sovereign Jackets' with an 's'. Instead of the singular Jacket.
• Scurvy Isley - Isley isn't a word. Is this supposed to be Isle?
• The figureheads seem to basically change colour, rather than be anything different when upgraded. This isn't so much a lack of attention to detail, but strikes of laziness. I mean, the golden lion figurehead only changes the eye colour...
• There's no way to unequip an item in the clothing chest. Once equipped, you either need to equip something else in it's place or unequip everything. E.g. a belt - don't want it? Take off everything.
• Some NPC's require a Y button press to talk to, others require an X. Handing in items to quest givers is X, but speaking to them is Y. Speaking to the Tavern owner is Y, but speaking to shop keepers is X....?
• Moving along pages of shop items when talking to a shop keeper is done using the triggers... but when perusing your own inventory in the chests it uses the bumper...?
• No way to view cosmetic items on your pirate before buying, a pretty basic quality of life mechanic...

I could go on.

Again, these are minor but reflect a sense of rushedness and lack of time to polish.

Still adore the foundation of the game though and can't wait to see it build.

Amen. Tired of people defending blatant laziness and lack of Quality Control.

@nyadc85 It make pirate - like behaivour like ambushed early impossile. Just spin in the crows nest and look for blakc shadows sticking out. Granted at great distance it can be tough, but even at long range the shadows are distinct.

Another thing I just thought of is the lights... sometimes they just have no other function but to give away your position. I'd like to see a thick fog in the game where you can either go dark and risk hitting land or light up to see but also be seen. As it stands light have no real function.

@inbred-chimera The level of detail rendering was added before beta to accommodate more system specs, yet it affects all settings. Sad I agree, but the reasoning.

I do agree, they definitely were rushed to get that game out, but the game was under development for several years maybe rushed is a bit odd.

Anyway missing content doesnt bother my as much as many small bugs, crashes and inconsistencies.

@inbred-chimera gun mechanics are garbage too. try shooting a gun mid-ads, or fire a zoomed snipe shot where you release the ads immediately after the bullet leaves the rifle.

@matzor yeah me too i really enjoy it, hopefully they get their horse back on track.

Just a couple of things to add

When jumping onto the ships ladder (only play with Sloop, not sure about galleon) you go down the ladder and then back up even if you hold W to go up.
Resetting the striker on the flintlock pistol. If you fired without ADS then the striker does not move forward after firing however if you do ADS and fire then the striker goes forward to which you character pulls it back.

I'm sure there is more.

@chickabumpbump They are all people from RARE, as in, in-house.

@tumtumhero no one cares.

As a longtime game developer myself, I can understand the Kraken and don't think the community is being fair here. Games are always smoke and mirrors to some extent.

But here are my "wow, that's really rushed/sloppy craftsmanship" entries.

Terrible

The "More" key for the radial inventory menu...

... Is HARDCODED to "F" on PC. What blatant laziness. This is alpha prototype kind of code quality.

No matter what your radial menu keys are, it's F to get to the second page.

The radial menu will also bring up the windows default cursor. If you move that out of your screen (multi screen systems), the game loses focus.

Keypad Enter and Return map to the same function, and can't be mapped independently. What gives?

The key mapping menu has different options IN THE GAME than it has in the MENUS. As in, all the options are there, except for example the Inventory hotkeys. You can only map these while playing.

The menu settings also frequently don't show the correct mapings.

No simple throwing of items. Just dropping. WoW generation MMO tech style. Wow.

No hit feedback on players - the pain twitch is so detached from the rest, as is the death animation... It's really hard to tell you killed someone until 750ms into their death animation.

The barrels. Just like Half Life's lazy crates, there is barrels everywhere.

Everything is static geometry. Is this 1998? When I shoot at a table, I expect at least the dishes to move.

The economy is out of whack, a bucket or a tankard costing thousands of gold pieces... Yeah right. Zero suspension of disbelief.

Rare spent two years on their ship asset, still the audio sources on the halyards get stuck every couple of minutes and keep playing their clicky squeaky pulley sounds.

AND DON'T GET ME STARTED on the ridiculous dialogue with the npcs. That's game jam level dialog quality.

At least during 4 years someone on the team could have realized that their "Sloop" is more of a Cog, and shouldn't be called Sloop without the fore-and-aft rigging that pretty much defines a sloop.