I am loving Season 17 - Had to Comment

  • SKIALDI
    Rogue

    Yarr Fellow Pirates!

    I know not everyone is fond of Season 17, but like and dislike for what Rare puts out is never going to be universal. Most players who enjoy things tend to just play and not post. For me, this is the most fun I have had since Season 13. I am back to checking islands, diving into wrecks, scooping up floating loot, and caring about treasure in ways I have not in a long while.

    For a good stretch it felt like nothing was worth it unless you raised an emissary flag and locked into the grind. Worse, some seasonal gimmicks funneled everyone into one narrow place. I've passed on he current at the time because I knew if I waited I could do it later without the server sitting on it.

    To be clear, I do not mind PvP. It is the lifeblood of the seas, and I enjoy naval battles and hand to hand. But I also have a full-time job, family, and other responsibilities. I do not get to spend all day on the game, and when I log on I want to feel like more often than not I can finish the activity I set out to do with friends and have something to show for it. Losing sometimes is fine, that is part of the fun. But spending hours on something with a ninety percent chance of having it all taken is not rewarding.

    That is why I am enjoying Season 17 so much. The world itself feels valuable again. I can play my way, pick and choose, and know I will make progress even if I lose a fight here or there. The armored keg boats and black powder barrels are fantastic. Sure, they can sink you quick if you are careless, but that is the point. I have had more fun planning naval fights this season than I can remember in years. And when I sink? I laugh it off and keep going. Treasure is everywhere right now.

    I think a lot of the criticism is about how the season does not feel brand new. To me that is fine. It feels like a world refresh, and I am loving that. Like when Blizzard did Cataclysm in WoW, it breathed new life into old things. I expect new and bigger content will come, but I do not need a revolution every season. I want variety and tools to play the game in new ways, not one "best way" everyone is forced into and expects.

    Season 17 has given me more freedom, more strategy, and more reasons to log back in. For me that is exactly what I was hoping for.

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  • Lev Ddraig
    Seafarer

    Agreed.
    They've made the basics interesting again.
    Shipwrecks are rarer, but they have enough on them to make it worth stopping for.
    The black powder kegs are a bunch of fun.
    There is a smuggler route designed to facilitate PvE and possibly PvP combat.
    It's good stuff.

  • Smuntface
    Captain
    Insider

    Giving sunken ships the chance to have a tonne of loot was a good idea.

  • PC MonkFish
    Marauder
    Insider

    I enjoy the sandbox so adding these Smuggler items to that sandbox (no matter how slight) doesn't negatively affect the game in my opinion.

    Kegs have been fun - as have the rowies.
    New loot to pick up and drop off, possibility of meeting new ships at those drop offs.

    All the new stuff will be balanced down and fit fine with the existing game world.

    A modest introduction to the Smugglers - will see what the future brings.

  • Priet Praat6806
    Marauder

    Smuggler routes would be a great addition to the game, but not like this. Smuggler loot is everywhere. It should be about spices, alcohol, tabaco, etc but instead it's about paintings and skulls.
    Smuggling means being in the dark, sneaking around. About getting assignments with great risk. About trying to avoid aithorities. It's not ther for me. Quite boring to be honest.
    And on top of that we got the black powder barrels changing the game completely and not in a good way.

  • Europa4033
    Commander
    Insider

    @priet-praat6806 said in I am loving Season 17 - Had to Comment:

    Smuggler routes would be a great addition to the game, but not like this. Smuggler loot is everywhere. It should be about spices, alcohol, tabaco, etc but instead it's about paintings and skulls.
    Smuggling means being in the dark, sneaking around. About getting assignments with great risk. About trying to avoid aithorities. It's not ther for me. Quite boring to be honest.
    And on top of that we got the black powder barrels changing the game completely and not in a good way.

    I find it odd that Flameheart has a painting the "client" wants (who is this person, what is their story, why they want this painting, what will they do with it once they get it, why should we assist them, what this will mean for Flameheart, etc. will probably never be answered), yet Reapers don't accept any smuggler loot?

  • Priet Praat6806
    Marauder

    @europa4033
    Yeah...that's another thing. Smuggler loot does not make people use flags on their ships. Reapers don't like it either. So once you have the commendations, then what's the point of doing any smuggling at all? There's a lack of synergy with most game mechaniscs. Season 17 just started and now we already consider the smuggler loot a waste of time. It will soon be another dead game element.

  • Coopers Rum
    Seafarer
    Insider

    The only thing i found is just to play the game, and stack those gold paintings somewhere on the ship, in case you're not diving you have a good chance to cash in 15-20 of them at the end of your session to get 150-200k gold. Regular paintings, bottles, siren skulls are getting thrown back into water instantly. Although having these skulls on board is extremely dangeorus, if you get a boarder who takes it from your deck and ye got at least one hole, you gotta say byebye to your ship as you wont be able to get back aboard. The use of these skulls are kinda limited, they are good just to destroy basic skeletons(which is only available during OOS bounty voyages, but who does them?), if you try to use it on FoF, skellys with kegs will keep blowing you up every single time as you are figthing close with that skull. It doesnt seem to do any damage to Ashen\Skeleton Lords, or its just too miserable to notice. So its better just not to have these.

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