To the underwhelmed: What would you have Rare build next?

@surveyorpete as I am forced to take a break from this great game, against my will, I miss it dreadfully. The game has everything it already needs for me, but a few things that don’t effect content is what I’m looking for. I’d like a bit of dueling with fellow shipmates or even a few more emotes like the bowing one in the beta? I believe. All in all I like how the game is, but do know I haven’t tried the new bilge rat event yet.

@weststormborn

I’d like a bit of dueling with fellow shipmates or even a few more emotes like the bowing one in the beta.

They are not unreasonable suggestions. But my point is: If you were to get both of those, would it keep you from wanting more? And if they were to be provided, many others would complain Rare were wasting their time on trivialities and not focusing on providing "real content".

I really want to hear about some mind-blowingly amazing idea, of such richness and depth, that it would keep the naysayers quiet for a while.

@surveyorpete ah alright. Then it would be making voyages more dynamic with a bit more effort to getting treasure then a few fetch quests. Like how @D3ADST1CK is talking about. It’s the enrichment of the game that would make most naysayers say no more. But, there will be the whiners playing as naysayers to give useless complaints

I would really love for them to add new forms of life in the npc world, so as in, more npc people that actually interact accordingly to the environment and whatever it is they’re doing. Rather than just being planted in one spot with some read through dialogue. That reminds me of old single player games I used to play years ago. Along with this, more complex AI threats. I played RDR2. Got into a fist fight with an npc, it felt real, and challenging. Whacking away at skeletons here on SoT is not challenging, just bland and tedious. Oh, and more animal life would also be great.

Do something to bring more life to a server. Player interaction is definitely far less frequent than it used to be in the early days. I really don’t know what has to be done to fix that, whether it’s make the servers more capable of handling more players, or make some kind of engaging server activity along the lines of a skull fort. The skeleton ships obviously didn’t hit the mark.

And of course, add pets. I still don’t understand why that was “PuT oN tHe BaCkbUrnEr”. Lol. That was put aside for what? I’m not even gonna go there. These are just a few things I can think of, I won’t suggest anything else in fear of upsetting the people with low standards here on the forums.

@cptn-quickdickn

surveyorpete come on now, we’ve both been on the forums long enough to of heard a ton of great ideas by now. Ones that you know would add AAA-esk depth, rather than a lantern light changing feature. One like the joker chest idea, or giant roaming turtle island.

I have indeed read of a number of ideas: big and small. And we have had a number of releases: big and small.

My frustration is, no matter what Rare delivers, it is never enough for some people. Many people wanted something special for Halloween, and Rare delivered. But already people are complaining it was too little, or too light-weight.

If you got wild boars, or cute crabs, or the Joker Chest (whatever that is) or a giant roaming turtle island, someone will be complaining that is it not enough. They will still want more.

I don't pretend the game is perfect, and I have my own ideas about what could be changed or improved. But I look forward to every content update, and trust Rare will constantly make the game richer and more varied. I guess my wish is that people would enjoy what they have, and stop complaining that Rare is not delivering. At least, not delivering, what they want.

@emerald-hyper

if more players leave the more likely the servers be all quiet in certain time zones

I do wish someone at Rare would put this to bed. I would like to see a "Behind the Scenes" video that explains how servers are managed.

I cannot believe that someone, once, decided that we need 12, (or 64, or 128) servers in each region, and that is forever the number we are stuck with – regardless of how many players are online at any one time.

This argument that "When I sail, I never see another ship. Therefore the game is dying." cannot be valid. Surely, the number of servers is not static but they are spun up and down to meet demand. Surely.

Please, Rare. Can you have someone explain this?

Fix combat:

1. fix the sword
2. polish the guns
3. make Ai smarter.
4. take away skeletons guns
5. give skeletons new weapons that are dodge-able.
6. add headshot mult.
7. nerf barrel bombs
8. increase timer to patch holes.
9. Add a means to pull planks(from enemy ships only)
10. add crouching

All of these changes other than smarter Ai and new weapons should be trivial to implement.

Add PvP matchmaking: this could be an old fashion Queue of for a match style or a much better option is a new port that you sail to and sign your crew up for a match. They could add multiple different modes later, but i think the first mode should be a simple crew death-match(last crew sailing wins).

Make rewards activity/resource based: It's hard to give a damn about cosmetics(even when they add something I like) when I can just buy it with all the gold/doubloons I already have.

1. PvP arena score for unique rewards
2. give exp/drops for killing certain enemies that we can use to get certain gear(colect skeleton bones for bonecrusher gear, kill kraken for kraken gear, etc.)
3. Let us interact/gather from the world(pick flowers for dyes, catch snakes for poison, fish for food, pick bananas, harvest coral and other stuff for... stuff, etc.)

These are the 3 main fixes I want to see.

Left click to raise your tankard.

Seriously, this should have been in at launch.

@betsill no offense but only one or two of those features sound ok. The rest of them sound like you need to get better at pvp and pve most combat in the game is easy if you learn the meta of both players and Ai.

@calicojack1120 I'm way above average at PvP and PvE is trivial. My changes to PvE are to make it more fun, but go ahead and just say i'm bad because you don't understand the reason behind my proposed changes...

@betsill its not fun if there is no challenges i dont completely disagree and im not trying to call you out i just want to make sure that your not proposing changes just so its easier for you thats all

It would satisfy me if people stopped shutting down good suggestions for Rare and stopped acting like the game is a complete game, since it is not.

P.S. the irony of your post is that everything you mentioned happen to be things people have been asking for a long time XD

More dynamic voyages, there has been absolutely nothing in this regard added to the game, the core mechanism of gaining reputation and income is exactly the same for someone who has played for hundreds of hours as it is for someone who's been playing for five minutes, that is, go here, get that, bring it back... Oh, you're a higher level? Let me copy and paste some skeletons for you.

The biggest addition to the game was Foresaken shores, a whole new area, with nothing new to do there, just the exact same thing as we've always been doing, only more annoying. The second biggest was skeleton ships, at first exciting but quickly a chore stretched out for weeks with the same old copy paste mentality as before.

Rare have approached content in the wrong way since the beginning, instead of making these flashy, but ultimately hollow additions we've seen so far they could have just focused on creating new and exciting ways of gaining rep and loot, you play this game for a day and you've seen almost all its got to offer. Which is a real shame, because the bones of the game are great, there just isn't much flesh.

@calicojack1120 I'm certainly not wanting to make the game easier. I very much like hard games and actively seek out games that are said to be difficult. When fighting skeletons with guns, you just take dmg then eat a banana. That's your only option. It's not fun because their is no interaction. in games with health regen that's ok, but not in a game like SoT. I would much rather take 3/4 of my health from a fireball or something that i can dodge than 1/4 my HP something i can't. I'm sure you've had the same thing happen where you run out of bananas and there is nothing you can do, but die because the skeletons don't miss(unless RNG likes you). I want a challenge not: "If-then" game-play.
My PvP changes are to make weapons feel better to use and fight against, make cannons more powerful/the primary weapon for ship to ship combat, and make barrel bombs not the best option in almost every PvP encounter.

@betsill ok i just see a lot of people complain that the game is too hard (mainly in pvp) and want it too change but i do see where your coming from especially if you play solo, with more people it does become easier which i think was rare's intention but i do agree with the cannons or something else that makes ships more viable in combat because right now there is two options play the "who runs out of resources sooner" or who can get on the other crew's ship and best them in pvp i would like that too change sorry if i offended you lol

@solestone563412 said in To the underwhelmed: What would you have Rare build next?:

I am one of those who has been generally underwhelmed by most of what Rare has done since launch.

With that said, I agree with your post. It is silly and juvenile for people to complain about this latest Halloween special. *

Juvenile is a good way to describe someone who is satisfied with a few different lamp colours and a skeletons thrones mk II event, the complaints against these events are warranted.

People paid full price for a game that has a few hours worth of content (if that), they've hung around in hopes that maybe something special would be added but haven't really been rewarded with much. The time they've spent on new areas and one dimensional events would have been much better spent creating more interesting content in the form of better voyages and stories along the way, this game has very little that you can actually do when you boil it down.

This last update revealed a lot about the Captain of the Ferry of the Damned.

His role in our characters life and death.

This is how Rare introduces new things into the game, including lore.
They won't just post patch notes

The lights are cool too.

@solestone563412 That...doesn’t work as an analogy. Rare aren’t our parents, they’re developers developing a product for us the consumers. If we’re not satisfied, we let them know and they try to fix it, that’s how a business works.

They marketed adding lantern colours and face paint as a Halloween event, it’s not. I understand Rare struggling to keep up with player demands but that’s what happens when you release an incomplete game and make people pay full price for it.

@surveyorpete knifes I would love sorry for the yoda frazing

@bern-dimaii No company can justify purchasing an incomplete game for full price and state that down the line it will be “the greatest game of all time”.

Yes, this game is a big stepping stone for Microsoft and Rare because of the crossplay, but promises and dedication alone are not enough to keep many of us happy.

As it stands sea of thieves has potential, but that’s about it. This is coming from a pirate legend btw, I have bothered to play long enough to achieve endgame. Still working on Athena’s though, but I hate those with a passion. It’s a spit in the face to the players that worked to endgame to offer them to do the exact same thing. They’ve been doing all this time.

I wouldn't mind seeing some additions and improvements to the combat system.
The additions would include dodging and ducking. This way players can potentially dodge gunfire/explosions if they time it right. Ducking could produce a stealth effect on land (maybe your gamertag would disappear like it does when submerged underwater) allowing you to potentially sneak away from pvp-ers or skellys.
Improvements include the response time for sword input commands because I find there is a noticeable delay between my controller input and the in-game sword slash. Do other console players notice this? What about PC players?
I also find that the skeletons can walk through my character. For example, they walk past my sword and disappear from my screen but they are still able to inflict damage. It's like they're standing exactly where my character is standing. I find it annoying.