A PVE option please.

Ah no s**t? You know it's a pirate game do you? Have you ever played dayz or altis life? You can loose everything (4-30h) work in 1 min. This game is a cakewalk for me. Yhea it's frustrating but the fear of loosing it all and trying your hardest to stay alive is what makes this game so great for me. And no they stated that they will never implement something like this, not even safezones.

@gotwhity66 I would. Last time some guys we chased were at the outpost before us. We ankered shot us directly to the traders and took their loot. This would just cause people running into a safe zone all the time they about to loose.

@gotwhity66 They will never implement safe zones, they said so.

You think what you want.

But I'm talking to the devteam, not the players who do not want to change anything.

@natachamarie30 Yhea i would change everything about the game except what you want. And gladly the dev team is on my side here. Don't get your hopes high, they will never implement a pve server zone or anything in this regard, as stated by the devs themself.

Ah yes ! Do not be pretentious and so sure of yourself.

@natachamarie30 I don't know what you'r refering to but if you think pve only or safezones will ever be an option you'r wrong. In an interview with the devs they said they will never do this. So sorry that you'll still get robbed in the future. Happy questing. Try not to get sunk next time.

@natachamarie30 And if you don't want to talk to the players don't post in the forum, go to the support and submit your ideas there.

Well he will lose players. It may not be what Microsoft envisions.

@natachamarie30 a lot of these negative comments though they are worded poorly are correct. It’s very easy to avoid combat. The game isn’t going to hold your hand or reward you without risk. Everyone deals with that risk and you aren’t special.

There are countless tips and tricks on how to avoid combat try that.

@joda1123 said in A PVE option please.:

@natachamarie30 In an interview with the devs they said they will never do this.

Sometimes the devs of a game may not want to do something but, due to the overwhelming request of their community, they will do something. They're not so narrow-minded to stick by something (anything) to such an extent that it drives the majority of their player base away from their game. A smart team will adapt and bend when it's necessary to prolong the life and success of their title while trying to maintain the core components and concept of it as well.

@sajakain18 as soon safezones are implemented i will stop playing, and a lot of other players will too.

@joda1123

Bye Bye ^^

@joda1123 said in A PVE option please.:

@sajakain18 as soon safezones are implemented i will stop playing, and a lot of other players will too.

Here's the thing. In this genre more people enjoy the PvE aspect of the game. With this title, it's the lore of being a pirate, looking for treasure, killing skeletons along the way, and enjoying themselves in that aspect. Only a percentage of the player base plays solely for the PvP aspect.

You are, without a doubt, correct. You and others will leave if they implement safe zones but it won't be a large percentage of the players.

@sajakain18 so what do you think also represents the pirate life? Yes other pirates and ships. If people enjoy the pirate life so much then they would also enjoy the pvp, because it's part of it, else no point in being a pirate. And trust me I love PvE and PvP and this game has the greatest mix of all other games in my opinion.

@crazyerchris thank you

@sajakain18 trust me, i can garantee that not even 30% enjoy the PvE more than PvP. It's the mix that makes this game special.

Since this is one of Microsoft's big tenpole titles this year, if they see the player base becoming toxic and they start bleeding players, I'm sure they WILL tell rare to do something that isn't in their game plan. Its not like that is unprecedented in the game development world.
I also wouldn't be surprised at all if like Tomb Raider, that we see ps4 and switch versions by the holidays to increase the player base and bring in more money, IF Sony can get their heads out of their @$$e$ and allow crossplay.

i hope they sort it out so there is pvp as well as pve cause some people want to fully explore the game for what it is without getting some scummy people come along and sink you just for the hard work you have done and drive away please do something about this!!!

In my opinion, there should be an option to "Flag" for PvP. Other games have done this and they have proved to cater both to the PvE AND the PvP players. Still giving this game a chance but Skull & Bones sounds like a more viable option even though I really do like the art style of SoT.

Chiming in against safe zones. Do not want. I have finally run into my first "outpost camper/griefer" after playing for several days and it was actually a really fun encounter that turned a ho-hum tromp to collect chickens into a game event that my co-pirate and I were still talking about this morning. Sure it ads an element of stress to carrying cargo, but without it you are just carrying cargo.

In our altercation we did laps around the outpost with them chasing us and dropped off a few of our items. Once they realized what was up there were pirates in town fighting as 3 of them left the ship to try and catch me dropping my crates. I sold my crate, they killed me, and I respawned on our sloop after a brief exodus to the ferryman. Now with both of us on the sloop and 3 of 4 of the raiders on the island trying to stop a deposit, we simply sank the galleon. After that there were a few skirmishes on the island, a chicken was hidden, and another chicken was floating around. But when it was all said and done the quest was complete and we had a BLAST. Pirates from the offending team and our team exchanged tag information and we will fight again soon, or maybe be on the same crew. Who knows.

What I do know, is that I dont think a game designer could have scripted an event that was more fun and strange than that encounter. Human intelligence beats programmed AI every time.

Keep our outposts wild!

@crazyerchris said in A PVE option please.:

@gareeet Microsoft will never allow a first party title to leave their system. Halo, Forza, Gears of War, etc

Yeah, there is that...they already have very few exclusives as it is.

Doesn't matter to us since we have both options available for us here, but didn't Microsoft also fund Rise of the Tomb Raider development as a limited exclusive release? If they smell selling a million more copies and sustaining a good player base, that might be a win in their book over exclusivity.

Use the spyglass. If you are not smart enough to gather intel before pulling up then you deserve to lose your things.

@joda1123 said in A PVE option please.:

@sajakain18 trust me, i can garantee that not even 30% enjoy the PvE more than PvP. It's the mix that makes this game special.

You can't guarantee that because you A) don't know how many continue to play this game at this current time and B) don't know how many of those enjoy one aspect over the other. You can't give a guaranteed percentage. All you can give is your best guess (and, frankly, without any insider information it's not even close to an educated guess let alone an accurate one).

What I can give you, though, is roughly 14 years of this type of game experience across several titles and themes. In every single one of them, PvP was the minority. It was a side factor that was optional for those that enjoyed it. PvE was the primary drive of the game.

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Joe Neate (Executive Producer) said this:
"Our focus for launch is on delivering a great initial experience, and as we move beyond launch we will be assessing and reacting to player feedback across all areas of the game."

If this is true, I think we'll see safe zones eventually implemented into the game. PvP will still be active outside of outposts and those who enjoy the PvE aspect will have an assurance that there are places they can go and not get killed.

Ok so while I respect that you may want a PVE version of this game. I feel it is not fair on the community of this game to spend time and resources doing that.

Since day 1 Rare has been completely transparent that this is a PVP open World shared game.

For them to spend time and resources to make a separate server side and balance out a PVE only mode isn't fair.

That time should be spent on making the existing game expand. As was the original road map.

I don't understand why people have either A) purchased the game knowing full well it's a PVP title. Or B) obtained gamepass to play the game knowing its a PVP title. Even the release description tells you what the game is.

Would people ask Bethesda to make Fallout 4 have a PVP only mode? Why is it ok for a developer to cater for Singleplayer PVE fans with other games. But not ok for a developer to cater for PVP players specifically in a design of a game?

I'm sorry, but why did you purchase the game when there was no indication that the game was any different than what we have??

The game is great the way it is. Made for the people that love it how it is.