tucking

@simplelyricc said in tucking:

@daringclarky said in tucking:

@simplelyricc said in tucking:

@daringclarky said in tucking:

Regularly check your ship for tucking pirates.
Its not hard.

Hiding is fun.
Being stupid and not checking and then being surprised at a key moment is also quite fun.

Ive been both the victim and perpetrator and i like it very much.
I would not like this to change.
If anything, the game would be less fun.
You’re effectively asking for the removal of content, because you lost to it.

how is it removal of content, thats like saying asking for the DG exploit to be removed is asking for "removal of content" if you think about it this is an exploit aswell.

You want to stop tucking yes?
So how would that be done? Removing stealth of course.

So probably have gamer tags exposed through the ship or something like that. What you are wanting will remove stealth.

Last i checked, stealth is a feature and a strategy.
Ergo...removal of content.

pfft exploit.
The only thing thats being exploited is your play style.
News flash though, its not all about you buddy.

Different players have different play styles.
One of them is stealth.

Wow look at that, your idea directly conflicts with somebody elses play style and thats why not everybody is happy about it.

Hmm...

the thing is, i love full on ship PvP, i can't remember in pirate lore or even in the SoT trailer, there being anything about people hiding behind a map table for an hour, i'm not saying remove stealth, i'm saying remove tucking, there is a difference

Check the spots where people hide.
The fact you know these locations should make this even easier for you.

Its not as if every sloop or brigantine or galleon has different layouts to ships in the same class.

The fact you know where they hide gives you a huge advantage.
You can even pretend you dont know they’re hiding there and then just randomly run over and dispatch them.

Checking is a form of preparation.
Its just like stockong up the ship.

Whenever you leave the ship for a long time you should always check.

@simplelyricc losing is never fun. If it were then no one would try to win. Take it as a lesson and adapt my friend.

full proof way to combat tucking:

1. Keep recent players on Xbox companion app open either on phone or computer.

2. refresh after each death or arrival at new island.

3. if a new name populates in the app, and there are no boats around, look for either a mermaid or row boat.

4. keep in mind if a tucker is on ur ship mermaid will not appear.

5. if u think u have a tucker, kill ur avatar upon returning from ferry, immediately refresh ur Xbox app, if ur name list refreshes with a name less than a minute ago. proceed to clear ur boat for Tucker's.

6. to scare the Tucker's out of hiding, call out their name in either chat or voice to flush them out of their spot.

@simplelyricc How to counter tucking? Always be aware of your surroundings. If you are at an island, and you see another ship not too far away - Check your ship.
If you were in a battle with another ship - check your ship after you finished the fight (assuming you won the battle of course.)

@simplelyricc If they were on the island, then you should have seen a mermaid.

@simplelyricc

The solution is simply to check your ship for intruders. If you don't mind PvP and believe you are good at it, you should be more than capable of sending them to the ferry. Tucking is easy to counter.

@simplelyricc Read my other comment. When you come to an island, it is a good idea to keep an eye out for mermaids.

@simplelyricc ...but isn't that kind of the essence of being a seabound marauder and pirate? This is exactly the type of things I would imagine pirate of old doing to get the drop on an unsuspecting victim? Also, tucking in itself doesn't do much but to make the player a little smaller than previously, they were already doing this technique before the tuck emotes were unveiled, right?

Personally, I despise the tucking playstyle. (Mostly because I have a short attention span and would lose interest and hop off the victim's ship to go watch grass grow...) It takes a certain type of player and victim. I have never been tucked on. (Pics or it didn't happen pirinjas... )
I know all the good spots on my sloop. I don't understand how y'all keep getting caught by these guys. There are audio cues. There are things you are doing that make you vulnerable. It sounds like (tl;dr) they ambushed you and didn't tuck to me. Either way, you got outplayed. 🤷🏽‍♀️🧜🏽‍♀️

You're a bad player if a tucking player is successful. The only exception to this rule is if they are tucked away in the crow's nest and you're on a solo Sloop (which means you will very rarely go up there since you're too busy maintaining everything else on your ship).

Just having decent eyesight and memory of your ship should instantly spot any players hiding inside of your ship. Also, don't pile all your loot together in one spot below deck to make it easy to hide-inside the loot. Do multiple piles and keep them very stacked so it is impossible to hide inside of one of them without a chest being moved slightly.

@ultmateragnarok said in tucking:

@jusey1z

If I ever suspect someone to be on my ship, I'll search it with a blunderbuss

Ah, yes! The "I'm getting me mallet!" moment. I love doing those. Usually when I see a player ship on the horizon or have a feeling, that's what I do. I usually run sword + pistol for normal PvE gameplay and I'll swap the sword for Blunder the moment I see any other player activity, and I just always think of that quote when I do...

I find this to be such a non-issue, this game isn't some stealth game. Their is no hiding, and for those who actually fall for these hiding spots should honestly feel ashamed. Hiding in this game is like playing hide and seek with a toddler. Ask yourself this question about every popular hiding spot in this game, would a toddler hide there? I mean hiding in this game has you going behind a barrel or chair.

When it comes to Sea of Thieves, their is so many giveaways of a players presence. You have mermaids that will always be present when you are off ship. This is the number one method to know if a player is there. It is also stupidly easy to sweep a ship of players, because their is only so many spots to check.

@nabberwar I don't even try it anymore not worth the effort it was fun at the start of the game when nobody checked the less obvious spots, since it got popular everyone just sweeps the ship and it isn't like those hiding spots are more than being behind a curtain with your shoes sticking out. ;)

@simplelyricc said in tucking:

i'm fine with people taking my loot if they earned it, hiding on an island for half an hour and then 3rd partying isn't my idea of being good. Its not strategy if you are just copying a popular streamer.

The term “3rd party” is used heavily since Pubg and fortnite. It’s such a blanket excuse term. In a shared world where pirates all exist in it. The world is there for the taking by all present. You lost this fight to a person existing in the world.

3rd party frustrates me when I hear it. What a player must wait for two players or groups to finish fighting before they engage? No you strike while the opponent is weakened or being distracted.

Art of War - Sunzi
Good ready material

Happens, but I love finding a tucker and not acknowledging them first. Move the loot to a rowboat and using cannons to hide the sound, drop the rowboat as the ship sails...away.

Use rowboat to deliver. Clever tucker, but they always pick the same spots and dress in black. Big eyesore and easy to pick out.

Posts like this are one of the reasons that tucking is so fun lol

Use a lantern and check very carefully through the ship and use blunder bombs to expose people in the range of the bomb(also swing your sword through the ship and non keg treasure) tucking is easy for both sides as long as you know what your doing

@simplelyricc said in tucking:

@daringclarky said in tucking:

@simplelyricc said in tucking:

@daringclarky said in tucking:

Regularly check your ship for tucking pirates.
Its not hard.

Hiding is fun.
Being stupid and not checking and then being surprised at a key moment is also quite fun.

Ive been both the victim and perpetrator and i like it very much.
I would not like this to change.
If anything, the game would be less fun.
You’re effectively asking for the removal of content, because you lost to it.

how is it removal of content, thats like saying asking for the DG exploit to be removed is asking for "removal of content" if you think about it this is an exploit aswell.

You want to stop tucking yes?
So how would that be done? Removing stealth of course.

So probably have gamer tags exposed through the ship or something like that. What you are wanting will remove stealth.

Last i checked, stealth is a feature and a strategy.
Ergo...removal of content.

pfft exploit.
The only thing thats being exploited is your play style.
News flash though, its not all about you buddy.

Different players have different play styles.
One of them is stealth.

Wow look at that, your idea directly conflicts with somebody elses play style and thats why not everybody is happy about it.

Hmm...

the thing is, i love full on ship PvP, i can't remember in pirate lore or even in the SoT trailer, there being anything about people hiding behind a map table for an hour, i'm not saying remove stealth, i'm saying remove tucking, there is a difference

and what is the difference between stealth and tucking (also they made an update with features that were helping with tucking such as removing gametag when using emote, new emotes, ect