Hourglass NEEDS to be fixed from reducing match times because you're chasing your opponent around for 30 minutes or because new player gets matched with skelly and ghost curse users who they stand no chance against. There are so many things that could make HG better such as skill-based matchmaking that compares not just you sotf or your gof rep but your total rep, just because you have low gof or sotf rep doesn't mean that you are not a skilled individual for instance earlier today I fought someone with over 75 reapers bones reputation but in a lvl 20 sotf battle. There are also many ways to reduce match time such as a sudden death or something. There are so many ways to improve HG and many people are unhappy with the way it is now that it needs a definite change ASAP.
HG needs to be fixed
Hourglass NEEDS to be fixed from reducing match times because you're chasing your opponent around for 30 minutes
So you rather Wait longer? Frankly, if you cant catch a runner...you are doing something wrong. Think more outside the box. Trap them. Out play them
because new player gets matched with skelly and ghost curse users who they stand no chance against.
I dont have the curse. Im still at lvl 45 on Reapers, I fought against Skeleton curse players. Won.
The idea that curses shows "Skill" is by far the silliest thing I hear players say. What if you lose to someone who doesnt wear it? What excuse?There are so many things that could make HG better such as skill-based matchmaking
In SoT, there is no Skill. You Win or Lose. Even the best will lose against a first timer because they did something unexpected or got Lucky.
What you want it seems is a Comp Hourglass matching. Nobody wants that. If they ever do add that, there be far worse people playing than runners. Trolls, Alt Accounts, players who lose just to lower there "skill" ranking.What do you people do when you come across a ship without using Hourglass to find them, and Lose. Im curious, are the complaints the same?
@burnbacon said in HG needs to be fixed:
Hourglass NEEDS to be fixed from reducing match times because you're chasing your opponent around for 30 minutes
So you rather Wait longer? Frankly, if you cant catch a runner...you are doing something wrong. Think more outside the box. Trap them. Out play them
because new player gets matched with skelly and ghost curse users who they stand no chance against.
I dont have the curse. Im still at lvl 45 on Reapers, I fought against Skeleton curse players. Won.
The idea that curses shows "Skill" is by far the silliest thing I hear players say. What if you lose to someone who doesnt wear it? What excuse?There are so many things that could make HG better such as skill-based matchmaking
In SoT, there is no Skill. You Win or Lose. Even the best will lose against a first timer because they did something unexpected or got Lucky.
What you want it seems is a Comp Hourglass matching. Nobody wants that. If they ever do add that, there be far worse people playing than runners. Trolls, Alt Accounts, players who lose just to lower there "skill" ranking.What do you people do when you come across a ship without using Hourglass to find them, and Lose. Im curious, are the complaints the same?
whoops my bad I'm still new to the forums but I promise that there is skill in this game. even if the skill is simply not making mistakes. Also, it's hard to catch people sometimes, I usually dive which means that I end up wherever if there is nothing there it can be a little tricky, but no one should just run the whole game in a mode where voluntarily engage in PVP they signed up for pvp so they should pvp a shrinking circle would help with that. If also beaten skeleton curse players but that doesn't mean that all skeleton curse users are created equal some are much sweatier than others and when they have sea dog cosmetics and obsidian skelly curse things tend to go pretty badly for me idk about you but I'm a pretty average player. and I know for a fact that rep for either side should never go down or I would literally never get any curse lol.
@sharkfire75, the current player base for Hourglass (HG) likely isn't large enough to justify significant investments beyond basic bug fixes. Implementing skill-based matchmaking would be ineffective due to the low HG player count.
To make HG more appealing, focus on encouraging participation. Introducing time-limited quests or rewards triggered after sinking an opponent in HG could drive more players to try it, gradually increasing the player base and allowing for more advanced improvements down the line.
For me it's time, I don't have hours to waste chasing someone that doesn't want to fight or coming up with a strategy to catch them. People can say you aren't doing something right all they want or runners aren't the problem, but they can't argue if someone's running and you don't have chains or already used your chains catching runners still takes time, I don't want to spend what little time I get to play chasing people who clearly have more time then me and no intention of fighting.... And people that say that are also probably runners 😂
I mean just why are you running the only pure PvP piece of content if you don't want to PvP... The mind boggles. I'm fed up of match's that take an hour, I'm fed up of throwing a match because I've got to log off even if I was on streak, I'm fed up of any reckless hail marry strategy just to get the match to end one way or another
@rotten-rocko Exactly, I always find it funny when people say "you're doing something wrong if you can't catch runners." Those are probably people who don't have much time in HG/ and or facing runners, because it is sooo easy to run from people in a never changing circle. Having both curses myself, the amount of times I have had to chase runners is ridiculous and it is one of the top reasons I do not play solo sloop HG nearly as much anymore because like you said, I'm fed up with matches taking an hour trying to chase people down who know they can't win at naval, so they can possibly win by playing for time.
