Are gunpowder barrels too powerful against ship?

hmm... naw. In fact I wish they were more violent against us. As tools they can be easily thwarted with only minor effort.

I'd had sloops chasing me for long periods of time, usually with more than one player on board.

(Galleons as well)

And even using a powder barrel I often find they can recover unless another source of stress is applied to the team such as boarders or cannon fire.

This actually bothers me. I feel that a barrel should spell near total destruction for a crew, even a galleon crew. Recovery should be possible, but rare. More-over I feel that the prediction of being barreled and preventing it in the first place should be the hallmark prophylactic, not simple recovery.

@nic727 said in Are gunpowder barrels too powerful against ship?:

Hi,

Let’s discuss about barrels vs ships. I think it’s frustrating when you repair the ship and for no reason, everyone blew up and we respawn without ship anymore.

Three ways to fixe that:

• Increase sound of people climbing the ladder.

There's already a really audable sound of someone leaving the watter, me and my crew often get startled when one of us is climbing on board out ship that's how audible it is. I guess you're new to the game so you'll figure it out with enough experience.

• Explosion should only make holes in the area of the explosion instead of the whole ship. For example, explosion bottom front deck should only make hole at the front of the bottom deck.

It already does, when dropped on the top deck of a galleon it will mostly make holes in the top deck and just a few below the waterline, (another good reason to always repair your top deck.

• Explosion from barrels underwater should make less holes, but move your ship.

It already has a reduced radius, it will make 4 holes regardless, that's good. Making a keg into a timed bomb by releasing it just at the right depth and sneaking on board to use the bomb/ distraction to further sow chaos takes more then just luck, it's skill.

It used to be really powerfull because it didn't cause player damage underwater. Now that was horrid because you could have 2-3 players barreling the underside of your ship and still be full health to board and disrupt you. THAT was too powerfull.

Is the original poster French? If you are and your Galleon got sunk yesterday evening by a guy with a gunpowder barrel then it was me that did it and boy did you deserve it.

@schwammlgott said in Are gunpowder barrels too powerful against ship?:

@purplemajic sagte in Are gunpowder barrels too powerful against ship?:

Any time my sloop has been kegged it only got 2-3 holes. We have never sunk because of being kegged.

Barrels ALWAYS make 4 holes in the ship...no matter how far they where away, if it's in the damage-radius there are 4 holes

not completely true. I had a keg go off (from an enemy player) sandwiched between both ships and we only took 2 holes. So unless the "4 holes" damage was split between two ships, IDK. Also had a beach skeleton keg go off and damage the ship for only 2-3 holes multiple times against our parked sloop.