@commissarpunk said in New Player not having fun :/:
New player to the game and im trying my best to enjoy this I really am but i try to join any ship get voted off or they leave, constant outpost camping, racist people over Voice comms,
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Open Crew is indeed "hit or miss" for sure, but that is part and parcel with a random grouping option in just about every online game. You never know what you're going to be coming into. Get a bad crew, move on. Get a mixed bag, deal with it or move on. Get a great crew, enjoy it and maybe add some friends to play with in the future.
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Outpost camping is normally pretty rare, honestly. Been playing since launch and can count on two hands when I've encountered this. It can happen, but is not an optimal play style even for PvP focused players. More often if someone is at an Outpost it means they spawned in, are cashing out, or are gathering supplies/voyages for their journey.
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This kind of behavior is grounds for banning and/or restrictions. If you encounter it report those players. If you are in a situation where even encountering it could be a problem (like your young child is around and you want to shield them from this) then select to Mute Other Crews in your options for that session. You can't control others, but you do have tools to deal with it.
buggy people jumping about every where when i try to do solo
Being solo doesn't make people just magically appear around you. People jumping about in battle situations when they do encounter other players is a tactic (and honestly not even that great of one since we don't have locational hit damage, and you don't jumper higher than your center mass anyways, so just aim center mass on these folks and hit them basically all the time as they aren't actually clearing their hotbox from that space).
seriously how is anyone new ever supposed to even start on this game?
The same as everyone else does with an open sandbox game, without the skills needed to properly deal with most situations and putting in the time to learn the game and get better at it. You'll get better at handling your Ship, yourself, using the environment, using your tools. Each session, as a result, means you keep getting better as you go. You'll still lose sometimes, but the amount it happens will recede quickly over time. If you can't handle an occasional loss then that is a personal problem that you could consider trying to work on (you don't have to, but it will reduce your enjoyment of this kind of game).
game seriously is unfun which is a shame because the concept i think is amazing
This is not true, because if the concept was amazing for you then it would be a fun game. Maybe you mean the theme (a pirate adventure game), which is the most superficial facet of the whole concept at large (an open world, sandbox, PvPvE, online, pirate adventure game - that is the concept). The concept actually includes some of the things you seem to not like about it based on your critiques.
It is possible that this game isn't for you, but only you can decide that for yourself. For me, I see merit in the whole experience and the things I dislike all boil down to things I have to deal with if I want to engage with other people (sometimes people aren't great, sometimes people are vile, that is just life). But this game provides me all the tools and control to counter every last bit of that. Otherwise, win or lose, I'm going to have a unique adventure every time I hop on and that is solid.
Hope you manage to find the joy in the game, and barring that I hope you're able to gracefully move on to something that better suites your tastes in gaming. Gaming writ large is for everyone (in that there are all sorts of types of games out there that some should be appealing and enjoyable to just about anyone), but not every individual game is for everyone (because no game can hit all notes equally for all the different player desires, so they pick a focus and build to that on an individual level).