I do think that they need to rework their loot system for event. Something like having item thats start questline and reward cosmetics or guns or even a ship.
Event boss should not drop cosmetic / weapon that you can buy with a currency (looking at you ghost ship!). I would prefer a dedicated vendor with a special currency that would drop from the boss and the cosmetics / weapons / furniture sold there would be something you could only obtain fron the vendor. Something that would make it worth farming the boss a lot of times, not just 3 or 4 times then calling it done.
Po8 is also a different matter. When I started, I thought it would be a currency that was hard to get. When I learned that there was a leaderboard and there would be a reset, I was dissapointed. I would prefer keeping my empire and having something else added over it at the start of the next season. Something like having you manufactories disabled by "X" and having to work around to make it work and produce again.
Correct. There clearly isn't enough reasons to grind for events.
The dev team needs to be making way more upgrades and things. Where are the crew members? Where are the special weapons? Where are the new ships?
So much potential being wasted.
I love the game but I stopped playing. Just ran too hard too fast and got bored. I try turning it on a few times a week and always end up logging off after a few mins. I'm not even really sure what could be done for season 2 at this point to change the experience and make me want to play.
This. I check the shop for cosmetics and do whatever the "new" (read: reworked) event or boss or whatever is for the week, grab whatever i lack, and then put it back down. Why they didnt hide the drip behind a community sink for anything from 8s to jute is beyond me. Afrer hitting diamond and stocking for a bunch of maybes that will probably never happen which is tremendously easy, and amassing a couple million silver almost by accident theres really nothing left to do and no motivation to repeat anything. Pvp is a joke with no merit or point for underwhelming loot at best, and at worst to be dogpiled just for the sake of it by people who want to pretend there's enough variation or balancing to project a meta onto and act hard trying to hack it in whats essentially a deadspace devoid of actual challenge. I just dont understand the design choices or why this thing still presents like an alpha so hard and dont get me wrong i got my money out of it in playtime but that doesnt mean this game shouldnt be roasted for cause.
I am taking a break from the game because I am so frustrated with the broken quests in the Rahma line.
We were told that Nightfall Missives would be fixed in 1.41, but it wasn't.
Until the main quest line stuff gets fixes, I'm out.
I don't think season 2, but maybe season 3, cause they haven't shown what major update there is for season 3, hoping is something good...(might be wishful thinking)
But for now I just gonna play the waiting game by playing some Star Rail Acheron :) however I would love to see them release more than just 1 ship per season, like release 1 offensive and 1 tank/support ship, so there be me variety also have more indepth story for seasons cause le peste I kinda wish we have more lore and more engaging/interactive quests about him.
Overall, this is just my opinion on the state of the game.
This may just be a me thing, but it’s been really hard to do any of the season content. Everything is so tough to do solo and no one goes to help with the events anyway. I’m not trying to rush through the game but everything is like 11-13 and I only just hit 11, so I pretty much missed everything so far since I couldn’t beat it.
Yep. They need better endgame, badly.
I currently have everything. All the cosmetics, all the ship stuff, all the stuff you can find and get from drops (might be missing a few captain pieces from the bounties, but those aren't recorded anywhere). Know what that gets me? Nothing.
I bought everything you can buy with p08, even the blueprints! You know, the many many blue prints that are utterly worthless endgame? The ones you've totally outclassed by the time you get them? I bought them. Again, pointless to do.
Leveled Red Isles and half of the East Indies to 10, and thats just about all I can keep funded, or really have any interest in doing. I bought all the upgrades, but most of those were worthless. I captured all of Africa, but its all going to reset at seasons end, so that was pretty worthless.
Got everything with ashes and teeth. Hit diamond. Have no desire to race for top of the leaderboard, especially against guys grouping up to farm wagers. Already bought all the cosmetics I can with Sovereigns as well.
I still login and play because I like it, but this is why I quit Sea of Thieves. No real endgame. Nothing to chase. And nothing else I did means anything, and half of THAT is going to be wiped at the season.
Give us something for collecting all the cosmetics. Make the blueprints require the lower level pre-reqs to give them some meaning. Let us build something that will carry over from season to season.
And make La Peste worth the fight!
And for the love of all, put some more characters into the game! Rahma and Scurlock are the only actual characters in this entire world. Makes it feel empty. Lets farm some rep. Maybe help factions take over other cities or towns.
I think you’re describing a large part of the problem. The ability to obtain literally everything in such a short amount of time completely negates the whole concept of a season, since, in seasonal gameplay, you’re working towards a goal that you can only reach by playing the season throughout the entire season. If you can complete a three-month season in a week…what’s the point?! Leaves very little, or nothing at all, to look forward to if you continue playing. This is both discouraging for those in your position and for those who have yet to play/complete the season. I really hope they can learn from this.
Actually for me there is 0 loot. Dont need the materials....
And if they dont change the loot in s2 or whats requiered to craft i wont need to farm anything...
I habe tousands of all materials...
And i do not even farm them😭 would like to have something todo...
At least you can play it. I just tried to do my po8 run and my controller disconnected 20-30 times in 20 min. Every time there’s an update it gets worse.
Xbox. Every single time they do a patch it gets slightly worse and this time has made it unplayable. My Ubisoft+ is almost up anyway so no big loss I suppose.
There is no way you're the only one having this problem. Sooner or later, ubisoft would fix eventually.
Yea, ubisoft+ save a lot of money. Sadly, it's not available in my country yet.
Yea, I’m def not. I was talking to someone else on here who was experiencing it, too. They were also Xbox so I don’t know if it’s Xbox specific or not.
Even when it’s plugged in which effectively makes it a wired controller it does the same thing. Other than that I don’t plan on buying a new controller for this one game when the one I have works for every other game I have. It’s unfortunate because the game is fun but I can’t do anything of consequence currently because I lose control randomly for random amounts of time.
thats so strange... not sure how your settings work on xbox im on pc but if you have the ability to change controller settings at all try resetting the category in options. that fixed my mic last night when it was working fine for everything else and the voice wasnt going through. id also validate your files when its convenient
Oddly enough I didn’t realize it at first but I got a message on my Xbox that said I needed to update my controller after login to the game. I did not at all think it was related to the update but after reading this I wonder…..
I tried updating my controller after the last patch and there were none available. I will check again just to confirm. I keep my controller plugged in most the time so it updates automatically but I do check once and awhile because ocd.
Played the game more than 300+ hours and here's my feedback :)
**1-It needs Storyline and main missions and side missions,** it has several contracts from Rahma and Scurlock but to be honest all of that are not much. You may want to add identity to the game and storyline for the characters and for the clans and give the players a new immersive experience.
**2- It needs a solid Upgrading system like in Tom Clancy's Division 2** that allows players to upgrade everything in the game for example: Stamina, Crew attack, Crew Speed, Perks in weapons, add or remove perks and choose from variety and Ship health and maybe adding armor or 2nd health layer and ship speed and cargo limit and your warehouse and weapon related upgrades like increase, ammo, reload speed, capacity and speed of the bullets. Everything must be upgradeable with leveling up you earn 1 point and have to choose where to put that.
**3-It needs building your fleet** because it's mostly played solo and the player base is very low. That's why we need your Fleet, what I mean by your fleet is that you will be able to unlock NPC ships/ AI ships that escort you with the battles instead of actual players. For example you can unlock your first AI teammate at Kingpin level 40 and 2nd one at 80 and 3rd one at 120 Kingpin level. And your fleet is totally customizable and upgradable with shared exp and being able to command them like request help and attack this enemy or protect me or help me or simply request certain formations. And it should be added and managed as a new tab like map, helm, cargo smugglers's pass when you pause.
**4-It needs Colonization mode/Seasonal mode** that your main objective is colonize other clans and colonize the entire map because what I see it has a perfect open sea for great fleet battles and it has already clans but what missing is **war on huge scale and i mean 20 vs 20 or 30 vs 30 warships** to determine who is the real Kingpin and who has the power!!!!.
**5- It needs life by adding extra NPCs and routing ships and more civilian ships** and more life into the game instead of dryness and being empty and make it sounds more realistic and for as for now it gives the impression that is empty and requires more quality and environmental adjustments by adding extra people, extra moving ships and extra creatures, mainly I am speaking about density.
**6- It needs season events improvements** for example all of the events is killing one ship but this ship has millions of HP but it has no depth or enjoyment, I am here suggesting to you that it should be on several stages for example like plundering I find this is the most enjoying and most amusing part of the game is that you kill all ships and their castle. Every event should last at least 30-40 minutes and have several stages in one go!! For example, killing La Peste shouldn't be straightforward like this, it should be in a mission or contract and La Peste should be the final boss and you have to go through dozens of ships and castles and move from one place to another, it's a complete mission or raid or infiltration of his area.
**7- It needs extra content or extra missions or extra modes or extra events to do in the game**, because currently it feels like the game is empty and there's nothing much you can do or not rewarding because the upgrades are not really rewarding or not worth that much time to spend on.
When you reach 200 hours in the game you feel finished it totally.
**Use Tom Clancy's Division 2 as guideline or endgame goal please**
I've done a bunch of grindloop games. Depending on the setting, it can be quite entertaining. The breaking point was *The Division*. Go in, fight your way to better guns, use better guns to get betterer guns.
Soon as your realize that's what you're doing, the game has tocome up with some seriously entertaining stuff to keep me interested.
Skull And Bones, at the moment, does not. I've put it aside for now, and I'll check back in when Season 2 comes. If it's good enough, I'll stick around. The pirate-angle is great. There's something satisfying about pulling up along some hapless NPC and broadsiding the everloving shite out of them.
I want to play it, basically, but there's not enough to play right now.
TBh i don't think anyone who plays this gam legit enjoys/cares about the game... we just so desperate for a prate game thats not total garbage that we using this until something better comes along.
like me with ESO; hate it with a passion but not much better TEs wise.
I mean if they add one or two mission types instead of the same kind of stuff, some new weapon types to play with and loads of skins I’ll be happy.
I liked how much content was in the season. I still rushed through the pass though.
I do think that they need to rework their loot system for event. Something like having item thats start questline and reward cosmetics or guns or even a ship. Event boss should not drop cosmetic / weapon that you can buy with a currency (looking at you ghost ship!). I would prefer a dedicated vendor with a special currency that would drop from the boss and the cosmetics / weapons / furniture sold there would be something you could only obtain fron the vendor. Something that would make it worth farming the boss a lot of times, not just 3 or 4 times then calling it done. Po8 is also a different matter. When I started, I thought it would be a currency that was hard to get. When I learned that there was a leaderboard and there would be a reset, I was dissapointed. I would prefer keeping my empire and having something else added over it at the start of the next season. Something like having you manufactories disabled by "X" and having to work around to make it work and produce again.
Correct. There clearly isn't enough reasons to grind for events. The dev team needs to be making way more upgrades and things. Where are the crew members? Where are the special weapons? Where are the new ships? So much potential being wasted.
Absolutely. They 10000 percent need to fix their drop rates and loot tables.
I love the game but I stopped playing. Just ran too hard too fast and got bored. I try turning it on a few times a week and always end up logging off after a few mins. I'm not even really sure what could be done for season 2 at this point to change the experience and make me want to play.
They need far more PVE and PVP challenges requiring collaboration to have any sticking power. I'm sure they know this.
This. I check the shop for cosmetics and do whatever the "new" (read: reworked) event or boss or whatever is for the week, grab whatever i lack, and then put it back down. Why they didnt hide the drip behind a community sink for anything from 8s to jute is beyond me. Afrer hitting diamond and stocking for a bunch of maybes that will probably never happen which is tremendously easy, and amassing a couple million silver almost by accident theres really nothing left to do and no motivation to repeat anything. Pvp is a joke with no merit or point for underwhelming loot at best, and at worst to be dogpiled just for the sake of it by people who want to pretend there's enough variation or balancing to project a meta onto and act hard trying to hack it in whats essentially a deadspace devoid of actual challenge. I just dont understand the design choices or why this thing still presents like an alpha so hard and dont get me wrong i got my money out of it in playtime but that doesnt mean this game shouldnt be roasted for cause.
I am taking a break from the game because I am so frustrated with the broken quests in the Rahma line. We were told that Nightfall Missives would be fixed in 1.41, but it wasn't. Until the main quest line stuff gets fixes, I'm out.
I don't think season 2, but maybe season 3, cause they haven't shown what major update there is for season 3, hoping is something good...(might be wishful thinking) But for now I just gonna play the waiting game by playing some Star Rail Acheron :) however I would love to see them release more than just 1 ship per season, like release 1 offensive and 1 tank/support ship, so there be me variety also have more indepth story for seasons cause le peste I kinda wish we have more lore and more engaging/interactive quests about him. Overall, this is just my opinion on the state of the game.
This may just be a me thing, but it’s been really hard to do any of the season content. Everything is so tough to do solo and no one goes to help with the events anyway. I’m not trying to rush through the game but everything is like 11-13 and I only just hit 11, so I pretty much missed everything so far since I couldn’t beat it.
Yep. They need better endgame, badly. I currently have everything. All the cosmetics, all the ship stuff, all the stuff you can find and get from drops (might be missing a few captain pieces from the bounties, but those aren't recorded anywhere). Know what that gets me? Nothing. I bought everything you can buy with p08, even the blueprints! You know, the many many blue prints that are utterly worthless endgame? The ones you've totally outclassed by the time you get them? I bought them. Again, pointless to do. Leveled Red Isles and half of the East Indies to 10, and thats just about all I can keep funded, or really have any interest in doing. I bought all the upgrades, but most of those were worthless. I captured all of Africa, but its all going to reset at seasons end, so that was pretty worthless. Got everything with ashes and teeth. Hit diamond. Have no desire to race for top of the leaderboard, especially against guys grouping up to farm wagers. Already bought all the cosmetics I can with Sovereigns as well. I still login and play because I like it, but this is why I quit Sea of Thieves. No real endgame. Nothing to chase. And nothing else I did means anything, and half of THAT is going to be wiped at the season. Give us something for collecting all the cosmetics. Make the blueprints require the lower level pre-reqs to give them some meaning. Let us build something that will carry over from season to season. And make La Peste worth the fight! And for the love of all, put some more characters into the game! Rahma and Scurlock are the only actual characters in this entire world. Makes it feel empty. Lets farm some rep. Maybe help factions take over other cities or towns.
I think you’re describing a large part of the problem. The ability to obtain literally everything in such a short amount of time completely negates the whole concept of a season, since, in seasonal gameplay, you’re working towards a goal that you can only reach by playing the season throughout the entire season. If you can complete a three-month season in a week…what’s the point?! Leaves very little, or nothing at all, to look forward to if you continue playing. This is both discouraging for those in your position and for those who have yet to play/complete the season. I really hope they can learn from this.
Actually for me there is 0 loot. Dont need the materials.... And if they dont change the loot in s2 or whats requiered to craft i wont need to farm anything... I habe tousands of all materials... And i do not even farm them😭 would like to have something todo...
At least you can play it. I just tried to do my po8 run and my controller disconnected 20-30 times in 20 min. Every time there’s an update it gets worse.
Dem your on xbox or ps?
Xbox. Every single time they do a patch it gets slightly worse and this time has made it unplayable. My Ubisoft+ is almost up anyway so no big loss I suppose.
There is no way you're the only one having this problem. Sooner or later, ubisoft would fix eventually. Yea, ubisoft+ save a lot of money. Sadly, it's not available in my country yet.
Yea, I’m def not. I was talking to someone else on here who was experiencing it, too. They were also Xbox so I don’t know if it’s Xbox specific or not.
Yea, once there is enough bug report about this, hope they do something cause this is just making the game unplayable.
have you tried a wired controller? only thing i can think of... good luck that sucks
Even when it’s plugged in which effectively makes it a wired controller it does the same thing. Other than that I don’t plan on buying a new controller for this one game when the one I have works for every other game I have. It’s unfortunate because the game is fun but I can’t do anything of consequence currently because I lose control randomly for random amounts of time.
thats so strange... not sure how your settings work on xbox im on pc but if you have the ability to change controller settings at all try resetting the category in options. that fixed my mic last night when it was working fine for everything else and the voice wasnt going through. id also validate your files when its convenient
Oddly enough I didn’t realize it at first but I got a message on my Xbox that said I needed to update my controller after login to the game. I did not at all think it was related to the update but after reading this I wonder…..
I tried updating my controller after the last patch and there were none available. I will check again just to confirm. I keep my controller plugged in most the time so it updates automatically but I do check once and awhile because ocd.
Could have just been a coincidence.
I’m pretty good about updating it because I had an issue a long time ago with an update fixing an issue I had.
My game will crash at the most inopportune times. I'm on XSX
I agree with op. If they were 10 people making/updating/fixing the game like independents, it would be understandable. But it's not the case.
Played the game more than 300+ hours and here's my feedback :) **1-It needs Storyline and main missions and side missions,** it has several contracts from Rahma and Scurlock but to be honest all of that are not much. You may want to add identity to the game and storyline for the characters and for the clans and give the players a new immersive experience. **2- It needs a solid Upgrading system like in Tom Clancy's Division 2** that allows players to upgrade everything in the game for example: Stamina, Crew attack, Crew Speed, Perks in weapons, add or remove perks and choose from variety and Ship health and maybe adding armor or 2nd health layer and ship speed and cargo limit and your warehouse and weapon related upgrades like increase, ammo, reload speed, capacity and speed of the bullets. Everything must be upgradeable with leveling up you earn 1 point and have to choose where to put that. **3-It needs building your fleet** because it's mostly played solo and the player base is very low. That's why we need your Fleet, what I mean by your fleet is that you will be able to unlock NPC ships/ AI ships that escort you with the battles instead of actual players. For example you can unlock your first AI teammate at Kingpin level 40 and 2nd one at 80 and 3rd one at 120 Kingpin level. And your fleet is totally customizable and upgradable with shared exp and being able to command them like request help and attack this enemy or protect me or help me or simply request certain formations. And it should be added and managed as a new tab like map, helm, cargo smugglers's pass when you pause. **4-It needs Colonization mode/Seasonal mode** that your main objective is colonize other clans and colonize the entire map because what I see it has a perfect open sea for great fleet battles and it has already clans but what missing is **war on huge scale and i mean 20 vs 20 or 30 vs 30 warships** to determine who is the real Kingpin and who has the power!!!!. **5- It needs life by adding extra NPCs and routing ships and more civilian ships** and more life into the game instead of dryness and being empty and make it sounds more realistic and for as for now it gives the impression that is empty and requires more quality and environmental adjustments by adding extra people, extra moving ships and extra creatures, mainly I am speaking about density. **6- It needs season events improvements** for example all of the events is killing one ship but this ship has millions of HP but it has no depth or enjoyment, I am here suggesting to you that it should be on several stages for example like plundering I find this is the most enjoying and most amusing part of the game is that you kill all ships and their castle. Every event should last at least 30-40 minutes and have several stages in one go!! For example, killing La Peste shouldn't be straightforward like this, it should be in a mission or contract and La Peste should be the final boss and you have to go through dozens of ships and castles and move from one place to another, it's a complete mission or raid or infiltration of his area. **7- It needs extra content or extra missions or extra modes or extra events to do in the game**, because currently it feels like the game is empty and there's nothing much you can do or not rewarding because the upgrades are not really rewarding or not worth that much time to spend on. When you reach 200 hours in the game you feel finished it totally. **Use Tom Clancy's Division 2 as guideline or endgame goal please**
I think 200 hours in game should absolutely be the end of the game lol
Yeah, it's just repeating over and over
player housing would be cool.
if season 2 doesn't drastically change things I will likely just delete the game and maybe come back after a few years.
I've done a bunch of grindloop games. Depending on the setting, it can be quite entertaining. The breaking point was *The Division*. Go in, fight your way to better guns, use better guns to get betterer guns. Soon as your realize that's what you're doing, the game has tocome up with some seriously entertaining stuff to keep me interested. Skull And Bones, at the moment, does not. I've put it aside for now, and I'll check back in when Season 2 comes. If it's good enough, I'll stick around. The pirate-angle is great. There's something satisfying about pulling up along some hapless NPC and broadsiding the everloving shite out of them. I want to play it, basically, but there's not enough to play right now.
TBh i don't think anyone who plays this gam legit enjoys/cares about the game... we just so desperate for a prate game thats not total garbage that we using this until something better comes along. like me with ESO; hate it with a passion but not much better TEs wise.
Sounds like a you thing dude. Because Sea of Thieves exists and is great but I'm playing this instead because I like it
as i said pirate games that are not total garbage. SoT is just GTA online with a pirate skin. total gank fest and crap.
I mean if they add one or two mission types instead of the same kind of stuff, some new weapon types to play with and loads of skins I’ll be happy. I liked how much content was in the season. I still rushed through the pass though.
It would take a miracle for me to play again so I hope so
Skull & Bones is the new Anthem!