Arg, all spawn trappers must die!!! Anyone else have this happen? Me and a friend were on a voyage with a sloop, we spotted another sloop leaving the outpost. We decided to leave him be, figured he didn't have any treasure anyway since he was leaving an outpost. We had several maps to follow so we began our search. I went up to the crows nest to keep an eye on our friend. We reached our first destination, my crew mate swam ashore to search for the chest, while I stayed on the ship and kept look out. I watched as the other sloop sailed to a different island off in the distance. We collected our treasure and sailed on to the next island, we stuck to the same routine and finished our voyage. At one point I lost visual on the small sloop so we headed to an outpost only to find him again sailing to the same outpost. He spotted us and turned around, being the pirates we are we gave chase. Three chests on board with full supplies, his treasure was gonna be ours. We battled for a while before we finally sank him, upon circling the wreckage two chests floated to the surface. My friend swam out to fetch them only to be attacked by the other crew and ultimately was eaten by a shark. I began to fire on the other crew, however one of them snuck onboard and killed me. Long story I know, but the point is that everytime we spawned in we would be instantly killed again. After being spawned trapped for a sixth time my friend backed out of the lobby, I tried a few more times but was unsuccessful, so I followed and we went to a new lobby......
I have noticed that when someone spawns in they are a skeleton for a split second before the character renders in, I haven't been able to check, but when you are in skeleton form can you be killed? It seemed like as soon as the "white screen of torture" went away I would die again. Didnt have anytime to pull out a weapon and defend myself. So I guess the real question is does my skeleton appear on the ship before the white screen drops? It seemed like they knew exactly where I would be when I spawned in. Anyone else have this issue? And is it gonna be something that will be addressed? Spawn trapping kills the game experience, IMO.
White Screen of Torture/Spawn Traps
With the current system spawn camping like that is required to maintain control of the enemy ship. Especially if you went after them and they are angry.
A few options you guys had that can be used next time to prevent this. Wait in the Ferry of the Damned until both you and your friend's doors open, go through at the same time so perhaps one of you can spawn properly and kill him or go into your menu and scuttle your ship from the ferry of the damned so you can spawn on a new one. If you're ship and treasure is gone, you can prevent them from sailing your ship to a port to cash in your loot if you get rid of your ship all together!
I honestly would love more spawning options in the game. It would be great if these options were made obvious on the ferry of the damned, maybe have a map table on deck in there where you can select your spawn position and type. Either being on an island with a new ship, or on your current ship if it hasn't been sunk. Would be great if this map also showed the location of these points in real time.
I'm not sure if you can be attacked when on the white screen, as I have refused to ever spawn camp any ship. In my experience I have sadly been in your shoes and sheer determination is what made me refuse to scuttle the ship I spent half an hour storing supplies on.
It's what I put down to personal honour code, and yes pirates did have these themselves. A set of rules etc.
Personally I won't kill someone if they surrender, it's not sporting or fair to do so.
