what the hell has happened to these weapons since the new patch, skeletons with these are now fairly deadly in a pack, equally they can fire through objects and still hurt you, i was trying to shoot them from behind a large rock but still got peppered, equally shooting from the sloop hiding behind the wood i got damaged
nonsense...
i dont mind the damage increase but shooting through things is stupid
anyone else noticed?
@sefer-noctis said in Pistol and Bluderbuss buff?:
Yes, there are a lot of threads complaining about this situation. I do agree that the skeletons that use ranged attacks have far to high accuracy, hopefully this is something Rare will change as well as adding reduced damage for cover.
shouldn't be any damage behind cover really, especially behind a 6ft thick rock, even a 50 calibre would have difficulty with a 6ft thick rock
I don't mind shotgun skeletons but pistol ones in a group are ruthless they just murder you on sight and you can't do anything other than rush and attempt to kill a few or sit there in a sniper fight with them.
I also cannot stand getting a big group of metal skeletons nowhere near water or a gun reload box. It's downright sadistic having to go back and forth to the ship for water and bullets just to down the piles of c**p.
I also cannot stand getting a big group of metal skeletons nowhere near water or a gun reload box. It's downright sadistic having to go back and forth to the ship for water and bullets just to down the piles of c**p.
and to top it all off you end up getting a basic skull worth 23gold!
@kenneth-mcgrew said in Pistol and Bluderbuss buff?:
I also cannot stand getting a big group of metal skeletons nowhere near water or a gun reload box. It's downright sadistic having to go back and forth to the ship for water and bullets just to down the piles of c**p.
and to top it all off you end up getting a basic skull worth 23gold!
Yeah it's an unbelievable waste of time =(
@buckshot-matt said in Pistol and Bluderbuss buff?:
Well, other than bullets going through stuff, I think getting ganged up on by skeletons with pistols is going to have a bad outcome, unless you're wearing a bullet proof vest.
Really? i bought my tea set and picnic run along with some Barry white music, your saying once i have a bullet proof vest they will sit and have cucumber sandwiches with me?
@kenneth-mcgrew said in Pistol and Bluderbuss buff?:
@buckshot-matt said in Pistol and Bluderbuss buff?:
Well, other than bullets going through stuff, I think getting ganged up on by skeletons with pistols is going to have a bad outcome, unless you're wearing a bullet proof vest.
Really? i bought my tea set and picnic run along with some Barry white music, your saying once i have a bullet proof vest they will sit and have cucumber sandwiches with me?
Umm, no. Not at all. What I'm saying is that if you had a bullet proof vest, you might not take as much damage from the skeleton pistols. Got it?
@blam320 said in Pistol and Bluderbuss buff?:
Blunderbuss just got nerfed because so many people were complaining of being one-shot.
I would buff the Eye of Reach instead, and make it relevant outside of Kraken fights.
The Eye of the Reach is plenty good now with the buff to it's damage. Apart from it's INCREDIBLY misleading reloading animation, it's the best weapon.
What the game needs is more than 2 weapons being able to be equipped at the same time, and them fixing the scoped sensitivity for PC and increasing max sensitivity for xbox users.
@lenny2k3 said in Pistol and Bluderbuss buff?:
@blam320 said in Pistol and Bluderbuss buff?:
Blunderbuss just got nerfed because so many people were complaining of being one-shot.
I would buff the Eye of Reach instead, and make it relevant outside of Kraken fights.
The Eye of the Reach is plenty good now with the buff to it's damage. Apart from it's INCREDIBLY misleading reloading animation, it's the best weapon.
What the game needs is more than 2 weapons being able to be equipped at the same time, and them fixing the sensitivity scoped sensitivity for PC and increaseing max sensitivity for xbox users.
Didn't know the Eye got buffed. Go-to ranged option for me will probably still be the pistol, as I prefer midrange.
@kenneth-mcgrew I just wish they'd make the AI smarter, and less accurate. Idk if they thought it would make it take more skill, but there's no skill involved when fighting literal aim bots. Jumping, strafing, sprinting in zig zags, they won't miss. And they just get tankier, and tankier, and tankier as you progress your level. It's tolerable when they die in 3 hits but when it takes 9+ and all of them have pistols, there's nothing you can do but die 17 times while slowly widdling the wave down 1 by 1 unless you're fortunate enough to be in a spot where you can use cannons. With a group this isn't too bad but it is unbelievably solo unfriendly. I just hit 40 OoS and it takes upwards of 30-45 mins to kill 4 captains. unless I'm lucky enough to be in a cannon spot, or just don't get pistol/blunderbus rounds. And I use all the mechanics necessary, lantern on shadows, water on golds, avoid water on seaweeds.
I usually solo this game, and when I come across a group of skeletons, it's pretty much a continuous cycle of dying and running out of bananas. But I have started using a tactic that works great against groups of skeletons that are tough to beat. I lure them to the beach and blast the beach with cannons from my sloop. I've cleaned out several groups of skeletons blasting the beaches.
@sefer-noctis said in Pistol and Bluderbuss buff?:
Yes, there are a lot of threads complaining about this situation. I do agree that the skeletons that use ranged attacks have far to high accuracy, hopefully this is something Rare will change as well as adding reduced damage for cover.
Actually, they just have infinite ammo... I don't think skeletons should get to have infinite ammo... xD
@blg-strong-dad said in Pistol and Bluderbuss buff?:
@kenneth-mcgrew I just wish they'd make the AI smarter, and less accurate. Idk if they thought it would make it take more skill, but there's no skill involved when fighting literal aim bots. Jumping, strafing, sprinting in zig zags, they won't miss. And they just get tankier, and tankier, and tankier as you progress your level. It's tolerable when they die in 3 hits but when it takes 9+ and all of them have pistols, there's nothing you can do but die 17 times while slowly widdling the wave down 1 by 1 unless you're fortunate enough to be in a spot where you can use cannons. With a group this isn't too bad but it is unbelievably solo unfriendly. I just hit 40 OoS and it takes upwards of 30-45 mins to kill 4 captains. unless I'm lucky enough to be in a cannon spot, or just don't get pistol/blunderbus rounds. And I use all the mechanics necessary, lantern on shadows, water on golds, avoid water on seaweeds.
i havent upgraded from level 20 for this very reason, pointless.. more efficient to farm level 20 missions.
on a side note skeletons can now teleport behind you and attack you from afar with a sword, its like a lag fest rubber banding effect but the skeletons are doing it, like what the hell is going on?
i also played with a crew last night and this guy could insta kill any skeleton with one swipe of his sword
while i was hacking away for 9 swipes + on the same skeletons... whats going on there then?? he left when i questioned it.
@sweltering-nick said in Pistol and Bluderbuss buff?:
@sefer-noctis said in Pistol and Bluderbuss buff?:
Yes, there are a lot of threads complaining about this situation. I do agree that the skeletons that use ranged attacks have far to high accuracy, hopefully this is something Rare will change as well as adding reduced damage for cover.
Actually, they just have infinite ammo... I don't think skeletons should get to have infinite ammo... xD
yeah if they were just as they was now and had 5 shots like us it would be great
