Do You Want Ship Wakes?

I want wakes!

These boats really need to..... Wake up... xD

http://albums.modelbrouwers.nl/coppermine/albums/userpics/10282/Batavia_01.jpg

You do know that galleons leave only minimal wakes right? As a Sailing ship doesnt have a propellor to churn the water into a nice foamy wake.

I've been Sailing for over 30 years and tho there is a slight wake you picture is of a huge motorised navy ship and not a sailing ship like a Galleon Sloop or Brigantine.

Besides since it's dynamic water I dont know how easy it is to code wakes for these ships.

I am bothered by the lack of wakes.

As for ease of code? Simulating it can be expensive and eat up a lot of development time, but simple texture based systems could be done without a big overhaul of the system. It shouldn't be that difficult.

I would also like to see plumes of water from keg explosions. Seems like a keg in a few inches of water has it's explosion completely muffled out.

its a cool idea, but really has no function. I would rather them adding something that will add effect to the game

No one wants the ability to turn their heads in the game.

Everyone wants ship wakes.

Go figure...this is where the world stands.

@dcr-lt-kanada Upboated!

@dcr-lt-kanada said in Do You Want Ship Wakes?:

@aod-fluid what do you mean?

I posted a thread about a week ago saying that I wish we could hold the ALT key, or some other key or button and get the ability to move the mouse to turn our heads. This would be nice for running legendary quests when you have 20 skeletons behind you. Would also be good now with the powder skeletons chasing you as well. I was told something with an actual use would be a "waste of time to implement" ... where are those people when we are discussing boat wake?

@dcr-lt-kanada said in Do You Want Ship Wakes?:

@aod-fluid I can understand that. There are some games that have that feature or even a instant turn around. But in a game where the core experience is sailing some people might just be more interested in more mechanics to it. I don't hear many people talking about being able to look behind you. But time will tell who knows my friend.

When I posted it, I did so as a level 10 Athena. The number of times that people say "Don't look behind you." while you are doing an Athena's voyage borders on ridiculous. Just being able to hold ALT (or a button on the controller) and look left/right/up/down would be handy in those situations. It is a Quality-of-Life feature...that kind of features Rare always talks about.

I don't want to hijack your thread though... I do think the idea of ship wake is cool, but I also see them having plenty of other things that need to be implemented or fixed first. Same with the suggestion I made for that matter.

I was just dumbfounded that something you actually use was bashed by so many while something like wakes behind boats was being accepted pretty well. Definitely not bashing your idea, so don't take that the wrong way. They are both improvements. :D

@hynieth I agree that galleons in real life don't really make wakes. But we're talking about calm sea! In sea of thieves its more like sailing in the middle of the atlantic and wakes WOULD appear in real life as well in such big waves!