It's like everything Sea of Thieves. The game is better than ever for new players in terms of amount of content. Almost too much content. It's overwhelming if you're starting now and have a completionist mindset. There is a long history of the kraken getting "broken" or "stuck" and prevent world event rotation. The big problem with the kraken is unlike other world events it would not despawn. It had to grab a ship in order to spawn. After spawning then it would despawn if you sailed out of it and left it alone. Or you could just finish it easy enough. So multiple problems with this biggest being it would destroy world events on the server when/if the kraken was bugged that season. Similar to megs the kraken has spawning rules like obstructions, islands etc so the potential spawn area gets more limited as more had been added to the seas. So they adjusted some stuff to where you started to get kraken closer and closer to islands. Another huge problem is not being able to play captaincy on safer seas which is just a commendation grind. Well milestones are just a 2nd tier of commendations. Makes literally ZERO sense we can't play captaincy on safer seas other than "God forbid we let them sell fast! And gain ZERO reputation". Anyway I get 2-3 krakens maybe per season now when it used to be 15-20. So I am VERY thankful for this change even though it makes it a tad harder to tell when you are the only ship on the server. I've killed 235 krakens since the addition of captaincy. I imagine there are a few people who have killed more krakens than I have as how little I play per season now but I would think I am in the top 20 for krakens defeated? I am kind of over it. Always get grabbed when I just want to get somewhere quick. At least now they can drop hunters call loot but that's rare. Kraken and megs should have a higher chance of dropping hunters call loot to make them feel worth it IMO.
But yea add this to the list of older stuff that needs updating to be easier to complete. Like change the commendation/achievement for selling supply crates "on time". Just remove the on time component. Make it just sell the crates PERIOD. You had to be on a voyage for them before and those voyages came from messages in a bottle. Easiest way to obtain them was check barrels at outposts for bottle voyages and keep server hopping till you find some. Well when they did the bottle update to add kingly treasure they removed bottle quests from barrels. Now the useless smugglers bottles have taken over the seas.
The new reapers forts finally added a way for people to work on gift commendations which was long overdue.
I would HATE it if the kraken was stronger. They already added the slap which didn't exist when the game came out. They thankfully removed the annoyance where they made it so the kraken would wrap around your access point to get bellow and repair or bail.
I think a potential solution to the commendation problem at least. They added a normal? Meg hunt voyage, I haven't completed one so I don't know if the megs are just your typical meg or if there's anything special about them. However they could add a kraken voyage maybe? Then that encounter could be a bit more scripted and add some more difficulty to the encounter than the emergent spawn?
