Kraken Instakill

@archangel-timmy said in Kraken Instakill:

That does nothing. You need to attack the tentacle that is shorter and closest to your boat, as that is the "head" of the tentacle around your boat.

It will dive and come back a few times and sometime land on your deck. That is your target and will unwrap within 30 seconds.

Also, I have had it wrap on all ships, there should be a way to get out.

Except in cases where all 4 crewmates were below deck, and can't get out to actually DO this thing you are suggesting.

Therefore, attacking the tentacle directly should do SOMETHING to balance this out, wouldn't you agree? Like at the very least, the tentacle should, after taking a certain amount of damage, convulse in pain, creating an opening for a few seconds and allow the crew to get out from below deck?

Just a thought...

@archangel-timmy said in Kraken Instakill:

@sweltering-nick unless something has changed, I haven't had it completely wrap over the opening on any ship.

Galleon allowed us to walk half way up the steps and jump to the top deck the opposite direction.

Brig has never come close to blocking.

Sloop you can maneuver out to the ladder from below deck to get around.

it doesn't happen on sloop.

Though a tentacle wrapping the opening to the lower deck whilst i was down there has happens to me EVERY time i encounter kraken with Brigantine, really annoying, and several times with galleon. :P

That scenario where all 4 crewmates are below deck when the tentacle wraps over the opening happened to me ONCE with galleon. Feelsbadman. xD

Though all the other times there's usualy 2-3 people trapped below deck, because they either had to repair, bail water, or get more cannonballs to shoot the tentacles... So i've actually been very lucky to not have the 4-crew trap scenario happen MORE than once, tbvh. : /

And your luck is freakishly good for the tantacle to never wrap around the openings to begin with... Spooky. O_O

@nabberwar said in Kraken Instakill:

@sweltering-nick

Except in cases where all 4 crewmates were below deck, and can't get out to actually DO this thing you are suggesting.

If this is the case, then you have 4 individuals who can patch a hole immediately as it opens. I think the grapple breaks after a certain time limit. Its quite easy just to have someone patch holes right after they open up, if quick enough hardly any water gets in.

Either way players should adapt and not let 4 people get caught below deck to begin with. Its rather easy to keep only one or two below deck and just swap when someone needs to reload on supplies.

The grapple doesn't break unless someone is shooting the nearest tentacles with cannonballs...

Which means even if we do get stuck, and start "insta repairing", the repairs themselves arent really instant, they take a few seconds... And in those seconds, you gain a little water.

You have no way to actually throw water out of your ship, 'cus kraken tentacle blocks the only opening... Throwing the water at the kraken tentacle in question, causes the bucketed water to re-fill the ship.

So at total, you can only hold 4 buckets worth of water, but it doesn't matter... You are trapped below deck, until you eventually sink... which could take 5 hours, or a minute.

The only thing that can save you, is a different crew... And let's be honest, that's not a realistic expectation. :P

As for not having 4 people below deck, that's not really an option, if your bilgerat cant repair fast enough, he asks for help, in which case you need 2 people bucketing and 2 people repairing, or 3 people bucketing and the bilgerat repairing.

Now, what happened to me, was the bilgerat repairing, and 3 people bucketing... kraken in a storm and all that... What specifically happened was that, mostly, there was always 1 person on the top deck, but as we cycled our buckets, for a split second all 4 of us were below deck... With the guy in front of me who was a milisecond from getting back upstairs not quite understanding why he's blocked from leaving, and then the VISUAL tentacle appears, and now it makes sense for him, me too.

You don't always have a choice mate, that's the thing about bad game design, the reason it's bad game design is because it takes the players power over themselves, away from them... Forcing them into situations they can't really do anything about.

Now if we had forced 1 person to be on top deck at all times, we would've sunk from having too many holes. We didn't have a choice but to have everyone on try-not-to-sink duty. xD

Im fine with the tentacle blocking our exit, as long as we can DO something about it, that way, it just increases the difficulty instead of the game just randomly deciding that you lose, based on some unseen RNG wheel of fate, lol. xD

That being said, i lost some treasure, but didn't particularly mind it... It felt Pirate's Life-y enough for me to have a chuckle. But that doesn't mean it's not a problem that needs to be fixed...