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SEASON 12 UPDATE:
Well, after hundreds of hours it's time to uninstall. My wife and I were death-spiraling a brig, she was getting red x after red x on the cannons, masts down, anchorballed, on fire, no chance. They somehow stayed afloat. Suddenly all three come to board us. One survives a blunder to the face at the top of the ladder and gets on. He's impossible to kill. Blundered over and over. Won't take damage. We have no holes, no damage, but he one shots us and we get black screened for 5 minutes, then respawn across the map.
Therefore, in parting, I have some good alternative names for this absolute fockjub of a game:
Sea of Griefers
Sea of Hackers
Sea of Spawncampers
Sea of Exploits
Sea of Glitches
Sea of Incompetent Devs
Sea of Utterly Pathetic FPS Mechanics
Sea of Toxic Boarding Meta
Sea of Hold a Button for Five Seconds to Pick Up a Fish Off The Skillet
Sea of I DON'T WANT TO SIT DOWN OR PLACE A TRINKET!
Sea of Literally Four Different Buttons to Exit Different Menus
Sea of Picking Up ONE. FARKING. THING. AT. A. TIME.
Sea of Carry 10 Cannonballs, but Only 5 Bullets
Sea of Repetitive Bosses
Sea of Hitreg
Sea of Bought and Paid For Streamers
Sea of "Git Gud" Sweats
Sea of Insufferable Servers
Sea of Lag in 2024
Sea of Infinite (X)beard Errors
Sea of Lifeless Ports
Sea of Useless Quarter of the Map Due to...
Sea of Homing Missile Volcanos and...
Sea of Exploding Surfaces Wherever You Step?! (Fecking Hull, Devs, tell me you hate your players without TELLING me you hate your players! Worst map design EVER!)
The upvotes on this review should be taken seriously by Rare. Your game is BORKED.
Many hours in, now on season 12, and even with easy anti cheat the hacking is insufferable. Invisibility hacks will allow trolls to board your ship (even when you have both ladders covered), one shot you in the back, anchor you, and then spawncamp you. This last crew never even sunk our ship. They didn't even care about our treasure. They just stayed on it and killed us over and over and over again. We could shoot them in the face point blank, they'd spam "roll on deck laughing" and kill us from across the ship with a one-shot-blunder. We didn't want to scuttle because we'd spent hours getting loot. Seriously... aimbots, esp hacks, and zero damage hacks are utterly horrid. The hardcore player base is like, "Oh these hacks don't exist!" YES THEY DO! Just google them! They'll come up as the first result! And somehow Rare can't combat this??? They are widely known and rampant in your game!
Hacking is destroying this game. The toxic players destroy this game. The horrible hitreg destroys this game. How can such an otherwise fantastic game be so, so, SO BAD?
Those who know this game know that firing cannonballs (IN A PIRATE GAME) is absolutely worthless. It's literally a noob move. One crewmate can bucket out water faster than you can fire a cannon. Fighting a ship with more than one player? They will NEVER sink if somebody is bucketing. So what's the meta?
Step 1: Shoot yourself out of a cannon.
Step 2: Climb the ladder (invisibility/shoot through wall with aimbot/ancient no sound exploit optional)
Step 3: Set fire to the ship (optional).
Step 4: Camp the spawn points until the other crew gives up.
Yep.... you never have to even fire a cannonball. Nice farging pirate game.
Naval battles could be amazing, and for those other players who enjoy naval, it's been some of the most fun I've had in a game. I don't even care about losing in an intense naval fight. And when I'm full of holes and they board me and kill me, I'll scuttle for them, because they won like a real freaking pirate.The naval combat is AMAZING! So much strategy involved! Ammunition management, aim trajectory, sail height and angle, speed... it is A FREAKING MASTERPIECE! But (again) hackers or sweats won't even shoot a cannon. They'll simply fire over on a cannon (which is utterly stupid), board you, and anchor your ship, then kill you over and over until you choose to scuttle. They know where you're going to respawn. They have no interest in firing a shot and getting water in your ship. They simply rely on piss poor fps shooting mechanics, hacks, and respawn exploits to wear you down until you finally scuttle and quit. It's horrific game design, and it's no wonder this game attracts such a scummy player base.
When I convinced my son to play with us for a little while, who is Diamond in both Apex and Fortnite, he played a few days and couldn't stand it. He said, "I'd rather play a game where the shots register."
One way Rare could fix the utterly stupid and intensely toxic boarding issue? Retractable ladders. Simply make the ladders a breakable/repairable object like masts, wheels, or capstans, and so people actually have to shoot some cannonballs to lower ladders or ram to board. As it stands, this is a ridiculous design. And something MUST be done about the spawn camping. The "scuttle to a different sea" seems like an idiotic and utterly lazy solution. This issue alone, more than any other issue, ruins this game and makes people quit. It's simply. Not. Fun. For a game with such awful FPS mechanics, CANNONBALLS should be the meta. It's a PIRATE game!
Dear Rare, you make money from selling cosmetics, right? So you need your player base to keep playing, right? Maybe fix the spawn camping issue so people don't abandon your game so quickly. I've asked PS5 friends to play SoT with me, and ALREADY some have replied that they hated it because the community is toxic. That. Is. A. Problem. My kids used to play with me. Then we got boarded, camped, and trolled over and over again. Now they don't want to play it, and I'm out, too.
"_____beard" and graphics card errors. I have a 3080. My wife has a 3070. HOW are we being booted for graphics cards errors almost daily?! How are we getting network errors? Flip a coin as to how you're going to lose the loot you spent hours acquiring: hackers on one side, ____beard on the other.
Final words: DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY OR TIME ON THIS GAME. The Devs would rather spend time making fancy trailer videos for Instagram than fixing age-old bugs, combating hackers, addressing the horrid hitreg, using decent servers, and a litany of other pathetic issues.
SEASON 11 INITIAL REVIEW: Let's start with this. This game is AMAZINGLY fun to play with family. I play with my wife and son and this have an absolute blast... UNTIL you run into literally any other of the utterly toxic players. Horrible community simply harasses you until you leave the game. There are very obvious cheating issues happening as my son and I have been DDOS'd while playing. It's ridiculous that "safer seas" penalizes you for wishing not to play with the horrible community. But it looks like I'll have to stick with the nerfed "safer seas" version to keep my router safe from DDOS attacks and avoid the absolute arseholes who take joy in trolling new players. New PS5 players are going to hate this game because the toxic arsewipes that sweat this game already have plenty of worthless gold, and they're ONLY there to grief you.
It's not worth playing, even with safer seas, as the game removes captained ships which means you can't sell to Sovereigns at the port, you have to run each piece of loot half a mile to sell it which makes this game tedious beyond imagination. If Rare simply let you have captained ships in Safer Seas mode, I'd absolutely LOVE it. Why not allow us to play this masterpiece of a game without the cheating, sweaty, toxic PVP elements?