New hourglass changes are amazing!!

  • Europa4033
    Commander
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    Did my first hourglass of Season 19 this evening with friends. It was incredible!!!

    • The crate that spawned on our ship, had plenty of supplies for an amazing fight.
    • It was awesome that every fight we encountered, had flags.
    • The visual red boundary was fantastic. No more checking the map to see where we are in relation to the border while in a dynamic fight.
    • The timing of when the circle was shrinking, felt perfect.
    • The ease and quickness of queueing up again, was so smooth. Everyone voted "yes", we were already underwater, already had our flag, and new supplies popped up. Removing that long splash screen with the sad trombone music was nice.
    • The few losses we had didn't feel bad at all because of the quick turn-around.

    The time saved from not having to buy/loot supplies at an outpost...get them to the ship...raise flag...raise anchor...vote on HG...vote to dive...drop sails...head out to sea, all this tedium is removed, and you're left to concentrate on the main objective. HUGE W in my crew's opinion tonight Rare. Kinda wish these changes took place years ago, but we're grateful for what we experienced tonight, win or lose. The team behind this did an outstanding job.

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  • ShadowFox327533
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    @europa4033
    One of the best seasons yet.

    Aside from reapers rising

    It's bold of Rare to be putting Kraken stuff on the Plunder Pass though.

  • BurnBacon
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    Players now have bigger reason to board the ship, hunting for that crate. So i ditch it after placing everything in barrels.

    Win/Lose, I often still see the flags left behind in open waters.

    Only good thing I like is the "ReQueing" after awards.

    I still feel the need to go out into the world, find a few Bone callers, curses (thanks Garrisons) just so i can listen to the "Stop! Using those things! Coward!" xD

    But also, I make a straight line for the Middle of the Field and drop anchor, my farm losing has doubled thanks to the quickness of rejoining fights.

  • HiradC
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    Other than im still getting the bug when harpooned i can't pull out weapons it has landed really well, made hg more accessible to the masses. Hard to tell as it has been double rep whether the queues will remain good but fingers crossed.

  • Fry9889
    Commander
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    Absolutely. Hourglass has felt much much better with these changes. Supplies are decent, but the instant requeue is the best thing. Plus the shrinking circle stopping the runners is tremendous. I did have a few fights where they mustn't have got the message and they tried the running thing. One particular fight I took great joy in locking them down while the circle shrunk around them. Perhaps they were just going for the final circle deed.

    I still have a small problem with with the double demast situation with the shrinking circle. I've both won and lost due to do it, which isn't great either way.

    The only other thing I think we need is more rewards between 200-1000. It's a long way, but some incremental rewards every 10-20 levels or so would really feeling rewarding.

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