Ok, let's try this again 💀 Few things to note: Ledge hanging and traps are coming! Just at some point in the season, not today. Chest of Fortune is meant to be in the FoTD, but reports of it are spawning in Burning Blade. And no, this video didn't get released early by mistake, it was just lag.
Honestly, the mermaid thing should be a longer duration, but end the effect on death, for the people that like to hide in outposts or forts to catch people off guard, 90 seconds is absolutely useless (also 69th like, nice)
Poor ray, you believed rare would have servers up in decent time and premade a video showcasing the good of the season. Little did you know like a third to quarter of the seasons features would be disabled at launch, the server performance would be dreadful, the CoF is more buggy than ever before and even the emporium is ripping people off by not giving out items that were bought.
@@Sueddragon yeah, until they get on your boat using the grapple gun, which is a tradeoff: easier boarding, less options in combat Then they kill you once and swap weapons
@@Doomblud They still have to kill you the first time with one weapon. Being able to board, kill the enemy crew and use the armory to swap weapons to a loadout that fits the situation was a skill. Removing the armory on enemy ships lowers the skill gap which is a bad thing IMO.
@@Countdown3337 the notion that it lowers the skill gap by making a choice of weapon more permanent is insane. You should check yourself into an asylum. If anything, it increased the skill gap. You board and need to be confident in the loadout you chose before throwing yourself off your own ship. Making choices have more impact ALWAYS increases the skill gap.
All I know is it is annoying that when the thing for your voyage is on the top of the island and you don’t know the island enough to properly get up there. If I have something like that now my response is. “F climbing. I am just going to grapple up there.”
My god, okay, my girlfriend and I JUST picked the game up a couple days ago, I played it first though 3 days ago and was trying to see if I could crouch but couldn't and then my girlfriend played it last night and she crouched and I looked at her and said "How on earth did you do that, witch??" XDD So that's why xD
they added back quickswap(which is cool) and crud launch(alledgedly. Would be funny because they spent a whole update just trying to fix this shit and broke the game for a day lmao)
At the time of this video’s release all players are still getting kiwibearded. I hope you make a follow up video once you see the new mechanics in practice on the SOT servers 👍
The not being able to open an enemy armory thing is overall good direction, but it feels bad when you’re just goofing off with another crew or allianced with them and trying to help them out. Maybe there should be a timer when you board and after a minute you can open it? Or maybe have a lock picking mechanic?
It's weird wayching a Ray content update video for a content update I likely won't play, but here we are. The harpoon gun looks fun as a traversal tool and you confirmed what I expected for the dart gun. Looking forward to walking around in a barrel though when I eventually return to rhe seas.
@@captainblubber blubbbbber! Definitely not. Season 14 was the first season since 1 (when I returned to the game) that I didn't finish the pass for. I listened to some of your most recent podcast about it the other day and a lot of what you guys said resonated
I think the army lock is good cause it forces people to make choices, also it allows future weapons to be balanced around this. Like we could finally have a heavy melee weapon like a hammer come to the game
Even though I'm hyped for this season, I hate how Rare are nerfing their own new tools just because of how easy anchoring a ship is. Grapple Gun is basically useless, same with Blow Darts. Nobody would choose one of these tools (I wouldn't call them weapons) over any other weapon except for commendations. The proper way to use them would be to add a "support" weapon. But boarding and anchoring an enemy ship while having 3 "weapons" would be too much of a threat (specially for new players). Removing the access of enemy ships' armoury is also a consequence of it. Same issue in season 12, we thought we would be able to board ships by harpooning enemy ships' masts, but we're not. Boarding by walking on a harpoon's rope is basically useless as of today. Just like how the Grapple Gun works. I hate the fact that some weapons/tools can only be either "fun" or "useful", why couldn't they be both? The issue is always the same, anchoring a ship is too easy, and so they're nerfing the full potential of their own new tools before they're even fun and useful because of it. If one day they make it more difficult to anchor either by making the "anchor interaction" longer or adding a specific animation that would stop the player anchoring from moving for a short period of time (like removing hooks/hatches holding the anchor), this would open field for so many new interesting way to play, and revaluate already released tools, but I feel like we're kind of stuck for now.
4:44 I actually heavily disagree. I thin locking the armory is a great addition! Not only does it mean you have to actually think about your weapon selection, but now people cant cheese you by boarding, via harpoon or traditional means, killing you, and swapping their weapon while youre in the ferry to a combo that's more lethal. Makes you have to play more strategically--a change im more than happy to abide by.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think the grapple gun's range is too short. I feel the distance with this new tool should be extended (obviously not too much though)
I guess dmg breaks disquise, but why picking it up? It was the whole point, you sneak yourself somewhere, enemy players can pick you up and take you to their ship
I dare say and agree with my hubby that it'd be even more mischievous and hilarious to be able to lock your ammo box to only your crew! Id even pay a price similar to buying supply crates! I could hear the crying about it already, but it would further even the playing field, and increase actual weapon choice consideration/planning + less exploits like quick shooting, + increase actual pvp skills, instead of feeding cheap tricks of those who cant actually pvp, and simply depend on tricks like quickshot.
lol could you imagine how much more amplified this would be (planning and weapon choice) if you were allowed to say, pay to lock your ammo box to just your crew using it?
okay, wont lie on one thing. I think the free plunder pass is FAR Better than the premium. the amount of Ninja Themed cosmetics, like a katana cutlass skin or a kunai throwing knife, it all is uniquely well done and is a overall well connected set.
well they didnt have to release the season 3 weeks early(3 weeks left in the plunder pass before the s14 trailer) and checked for bugs @@melon_xkingttv6041
In game as im writing this, the harpoon can grapple onto any part of the sloop (except the mast) Not just the ladder However, from the water you cannot grapple onto the deck from anywhere, only the sides of the ship which will just drop you into the water again. I think it may be possible to shoot yourself from a cannon, then grapple onto the deck of the ship from above edit: the canopy cannot be grappled, and the railing Infront of the steering wheel also cannot be grappled
Maybe it's for just your ship? If you havent tested it on other ships yet, I would Edit: I just tested it, you can grapple to it, but it doesn't give you the jump. Grappling to it kinda just wastes a shot, unless the ship is stationary As for the cannon idea, I doubt they let you use the grappling hook for that specific purpose
I believe in their patch notes they say that you cannot grapple with HPG onto the deck of any ship, as the line will just snap. Furthermore, the grapple line is much shorter then the regular HP, so you have to really plan how you use it. You also can grapple onto the ship crest (at least as of today/day 1) and the inner walls, but not any kind of post, rail, or barrel. You can grapple onto a cannon and even both tables in the sloop captains room + the bird cadge, but not the captain room roof (but again you cant grapple to the top of it either) Also, it's hard to HPG someone onto the ship from the water, as when we tried, they just bounced off the ship edge, similarly to if you just grapple yourself on the outer ship hull
Good lord, the panic over the harpoon gun was and still is absurd. After having to keep my trap shut for months from insider (i 100% agree with Falcor's pitch to open up insider to not have an NDA btw to make this a less painful process and get better feedback to AVOID trash fires like the mess that was this season's launch), most of the "changes" they claimed to have made from feed back were already implemented in the testing phase before people started screaming about it. The tool might need more of a buff as it is now extremely fickle on what it wants to attach to and the limited number of shots and short range makes it a garbage traversal tool. I personally would rather have the originally pitched LONG recharge infinite shots to keep it useful longer and at least a mild buff to its range. The changes to ship attachment points were a good call though, shaking up the meta can be good, but it doesn't need to be earth-shattering.
Honestly, i feel like they did too good a job with the grapple gun, since though its technically possible to grapple onto ships, its pretty hard and the gun's range isn't too big. Honestly, pretty good update so far.
just hopped on to check the grapple gun and the fact that you lose ammo when you miss your targets and the fact that it has close to no range is so bad.
You can actually Grapple the inside of the Sloops' "railing" (the little 1 foot high wall surrounding the deck). It's hard to do, and can't be done from the water, but it's doable nonetheless.
My wife and I were playing with he new SoT toys yesterday, disguises work but your crewmates can see your name but they can also break the disguise like everyone else so you have to be careful they don't expose you while enemies are nearby. The blow dart is really good fun, it's slow to get the effect of the dart but great fun all the same. Grapple gun is great for sticky situations but I'm still not yet convinced of it's utility long term. Overall it's a good update and some fun to be had, will it help pick the game numbers up? I don't think so as a lot of these new toys rely on already understanding the existing mechanics and how best to utilise those first, then use the new toys.
i think poison dart should also add drunkeness effect, then it might be worth taking to a fight. i think the explosion dart should be a one hit kill if they dont put out the fire. besides that, i think rare did a fantastic job! I've been asking for more weapons for YEARS
I expected rare to do something like locking armories on hostile ships, because if they didn't you could just use the grapple gun to board and then switch it for other armory as soon as you get on, which is not how you supposed to use the gun, as the whole point is that you trade firepower for greater mobility.
Funny thing btw, crouching reduces the size of your hitbox! But it reduces the hitbox that are bullets affected by. So crouching might be another way to dodge bullets!
This video is really helpful getting a lot of important information, I'm so glad they changed the harpoon to have specific conditions to hook onto ships. I have some questions though Can you be able to place traps on your ship, like next to the ladder? And with the chest of fortune changes, does the fortune cosmetic set change to a different one? I wanted to get the set but didn't end up so lucky fighting the burning blade and I'm hoping I didn't completely miss out.
If I crouch and chest hide, my mouse cursor no longer locks to my main monitor while playing in fullscreen.. have to restart the whole pc to fix it so I’ll try again next week after a patch. Also I agree that now that they changed the harpoon gun, they should revert the blunderbuss because their excuse was that it was because of how op the harpoon gun was going to be but it isn’t like that anymore
I disagree about 1 shot for BB. BB should have never, and never again should be 1 shot, honestly. 1 shot is only for those who are poor at pvp and need a crutch. I also love the idea about the armory being locked, and further increase upon that by saying they should also enable to ability to pay the shipwrite to make the ammo create locked to all but your crew! THAT would be ultimate mischievous addition!
grapple gun has knocked the balance out. any half decent gally or brig crew against a good sloop crew will now highly likely board. they can now miss a board by quite abit and still board. bring back one blunder and make the sloop the quickest boat in all directions. sloops dominate the servers numbers wise..so sloop on sloop won't matter. but agaisnt larger crews who hold every other advantage possible it's a game changer
Grapple gun right now is unuseble piece of garbage which only works on galleons and people like you made it news double barrel aka piece of trash that will to on armory
Personally I don’t think the armory being locked on enemy ships is a bad thing I’d hope it’s unlocked when allianced but it means boarders need to be smart and can’t just do what everyone was saying get the grapple, then board and change weapons and then proceed to attack the crew the only thing that would make boarding impossible is if rare decides for any reason to lock the ammo that would be the worst idea and should never come to fruition or the barrels for that matter I’ve seen some people ask for
Do not bring back one shot blunderbuss please 😭 I’m begging. Sure in normal combat I didn’t mind it but with the amount of laggy, teleporting pirates on the seas it was just straight up not fun. Someone could be on the other side of the deck on moment, tp forward a bit and blow you away without you getting a chance to do anything about it. As for the enemy armory being locked i think it would have been a good change if the grapple gun was actually a good boarding tool. I think they realised that if you had something to easily board with it should have MAJOR downsides. Because if this thing allowed you to easily grapple on a ship, then you could switch it out in the enemy armory it would have been mega annoying to deal with
Small thing of note from the Release Notes: Regular Storage Crates can now be sold at the Merchants & Reaper's Bones, either filled or empty. Hopefully this does not mean we won't be seeing Karem Crates anymore, but it does help to keep empty Storage Crates from just lying around, much like the Tridents back in the day.
That’s a good thing though I wished it required them to be empty just so the people logging off would have had to to leave them ah well at least collecting storage crates can get you something Elmore or otherwise
@@Theprince034 I disagree and think the reverse: you should get more the more its filled...I mean, unless they changed the price (didnt pay attention today/yesterday) its over 5k to buy an empty crate... Its rare anyway to find left behind/left over storage anything anymore anyway since they enabled the purchase of them. Its already no longer like before supply purchases.
@@haeclark Tbf it was rare in the first place anyways but aside from that due to the economy of SoT 5k isn’t much for most players who’ve played for awhile and grinded gold and such I understand that’s not everyone and such not to mention you could get lucky and find one on an island or through skellie captains if your really lucky
@@Theprince034 pshhh Im constantly broke due to bein a solo playing captain who actually gets and upgrades ship trinkets + ship skins and clothing/weapon items and such. Plus, SoT isnt the only game I play (I cant only play 1-2 games and nothing else; thats boring) So yeah, even 5k can add up. But nah, I disagree. I used to get leftovers at least 2 out of 5 logins, if not more, before being able to buy supplies it seemed. Also, it seems like supply crates is the thing I now get the most of via captain kills, followed by reaper chests and bombs
Love the sword from the new COF rewards, but it's still killing me that there's somehow NO jacket for the Fates of Fortune set. I am NOT wearing the dress.
The things in this season would be really exciting and cool! ...if they worked properly, the cosmetics are cool but this has to be one of the shakiest launches of a season we've had
One thing i was looking forward too for the grapple gun was using em in shrines but when i tryed it in the Shrine of Hungering it didn't hook on to anything. Havent tryed to use it in the other shrines yet tho.
My thoughts on the harpoon gun, delete it entirely, revert the blunderbus to its prior damage, unlock armories again. They changed a lot just for the harpoon gun and I don’t think it was worth it or a good move at all
@@decepticonsoundwave297 it is nowhere near fun, it has close to no range, 5 ammo which of you can lose ammo when you miss your targets and in conclusion it is absolutely useless as of now
its officialy the season "dont be a sloop" cuz with the new harpoongun brig and galeon will have a breeze to board you, and boi do they have it easy when they board you already
The harpoon gun is straight up garbage, the range is nothing, and you can still harpoon onto the deck of sloops along the sides. Plus crud-launching is back due to crouching whilst getting into a cannon...
I think disabling the weapon crates on enemy ships was a good decision as with boarding with the grapple gun, it would kinda unfair to use the grapple gun for its sole use and than be able to switch it out once on an enemy ships. Making claims against blow dart being unviable in pvp is kinda of crazy considering how the season has just started and we don’t know for sure. I think it would excel at being used to shoot at crews on other ships much like the sniper, the poison dart could force people on cannons to eat twice or be shot by a sniper. Your takes are all kinda of mid, you seem like you are trying to cling onto the old days of sea of thieves. Edit: the explosion dart could be used to one shot a player since you could shoot them with dart and then shoot as it explodes. Going for water in a fight to put it out would be even more of a disadvantage for them because they would either have to jump off their ship, go down below for water and take the time to throw it on themselves, or if they are close to water walk in to it, but I feel you often don’t fight people on beaches
uhhh but there isn’t anything crazy that’s happened yet - unless you count the colossal miscalculation on Rare’s part. Why did they bring the season forward two weeks when it’s not even ready? Also the grapple gun can’t be used everywhere on the brigantine, only the galleon!
I dislike the armory change. I do disagree with your blunderbuss conclusion however. I dislike the current state of the blunder, but I also disliked the instant kill capability (this is coming from a dyed in the wool true blue double gunning tryhard) because it’s just a real buzz kill and instant death never feels good. I do think that the knock back is crazy and shouldn’t be allowed to remove sloopers from their boat entirely like it does.
The armory change is MUCH needed. Easy grapple and then they can switch to their meta load out? No, you use the boarding tool or you go with your meta load out, you shouldn’t be able to change it.
Yeah definitely one of the more sad revelations, but I do understand it would probably complicate things and let’s face it, it would be so much buggier.
I was really looking forward to traps and they cant even get that right. All that time spent telling us how awesome those features are going to be....and when it comes to season release its all busted. Rare said they would do better, would have better testing, would listen to insiders and yet still they try to bring out content and its just not fit for purpose.
Ok, let's try this again 💀
Few things to note:
Ledge hanging and traps are coming! Just at some point in the season, not today. Chest of Fortune is meant to be in the FoTD, but reports of it are spawning in Burning Blade.
And no, this video didn't get released early by mistake, it was just lag.
What a joke 😂
Crouching is in the game currently
@@Huh8ivviihihprofile pic checks out
Well now I know why I can't figure out how to hang on the ships if it's not even in the game yet makes sense
Chest hide skins can't be equipped
Honestly, the mermaid thing should be a longer duration, but end the effect on death, for the people that like to hide in outposts or forts to catch people off guard, 90 seconds is absolutely useless
(also 69th like, nice)
when you get on the boat they dont spawn
@@cyprezz_ I don't get why they can spawn when you're on an island though
@@thomas.deliot yeah true
yea at least 5 minutes on merfruit i think would be fair
Crouching for over 5 seconds and getting a backstab should instakill 🗣️
Poor ray, you believed rare would have servers up in decent time and premade a video showcasing the good of the season. Little did you know like a third to quarter of the seasons features would be disabled at launch, the server performance would be dreadful, the CoF is more buggy than ever before and even the emporium is ripping people off by not giving out items that were bought.
Me 🤡
Except the game wont start
Let them coock
It seems to be working now, at least for me
Got playstationed😂😂😂😂
@@Kelly-f7r no it was under maintenance
U have to restart your pc or consle
As of writing this: its been 7 hours..... Features promised: Removed and delayed. 9/10 update....
Only trap ahahahah
repeat it is better to wait for a good update seven hours rather than receive the update immediately with bugs and things like that let them work
@@joku02 10/10
I love that you can't use an enemy armoury
Yo outa yo mind, I hate, to the core
@@Sueddragon yeah, until they get on your boat using the grapple gun, which is a tradeoff: easier boarding, less options in combat
Then they kill you once and swap weapons
@@Doomblud They still have to kill you the first time with one weapon. Being able to board, kill the enemy crew and use the armory to swap weapons to a loadout that fits the situation was a skill. Removing the armory on enemy ships lowers the skill gap which is a bad thing IMO.
I dont
@@Countdown3337 the notion that it lowers the skill gap by making a choice of weapon more permanent is insane. You should check yourself into an asylum.
If anything, it increased the skill gap. You board and need to be confident in the loadout you chose before throwing yourself off your own ship. Making choices have more impact ALWAYS increases the skill gap.
All I know is it is annoying that when the thing for your voyage is on the top of the island and you don’t know the island enough to properly get up there. If I have something like that now my response is. “F climbing. I am just going to grapple up there.”
My god, okay, my girlfriend and I JUST picked the game up a couple days ago, I played it first though 3 days ago and was trying to see if I could crouch but couldn't and then my girlfriend played it last night and she crouched and I looked at her and said "How on earth did you do that, witch??" XDD So that's why xD
why didnt you just go to the binding area in the settings to see what button/key is set for crouch? xD
Merfruit should be buffed. Let it last until you die, then its usable
Or make it take 2 bites to eat, similar to meat, where the first bite disappears your mermaid and the second bite brings its back
@@netherwarrior6113 that would be awesome
they added back quickswap(which is cool) and crud launch(alledgedly. Would be funny because they spent a whole update just trying to fix this shit and broke the game for a day lmao)
At the time of this video’s release all players are still getting kiwibearded. I hope you make a follow up video once you see the new mechanics in practice on the SOT servers 👍
@@REVV_001 new video is planned re:delays and more
The not being able to open an enemy armory thing is overall good direction, but it feels bad when you’re just goofing off with another crew or allianced with them and trying to help them out.
Maybe there should be a timer when you board and after a minute you can open it? Or maybe have a lock picking mechanic?
It's weird wayching a Ray content update video for a content update I likely won't play, but here we are.
The harpoon gun looks fun as a traversal tool and you confirmed what I expected for the dart gun. Looking forward to walking around in a barrel though when I eventually return to rhe seas.
I see I'm not the only on a big break ;)
Yeah same here but that update pursuated me to return after months
Best game for ever
@@captainblubber blubbbbber! Definitely not. Season 14 was the first season since 1 (when I returned to the game) that I didn't finish the pass for. I listened to some of your most recent podcast about it the other day and a lot of what you guys said resonated
@@pleythru sad traps aren't making it
Wish we could pick up the chest someone is hiding in
It should make the player just a little bit slower than usual so experienced players can tell. Also cause pirates are heavy.
Wasn't this also supposed to be a feature, like the mimic dart?
I think the army lock is good cause it forces people to make choices, also it allows future weapons to be balanced around this. Like we could finally have a heavy melee weapon like a hammer come to the game
Finally the ashen chest of legends get some love
Even though I'm hyped for this season, I hate how Rare are nerfing their own new tools just because of how easy anchoring a ship is.
Grapple Gun is basically useless, same with Blow Darts. Nobody would choose one of these tools (I wouldn't call them weapons) over any other weapon except for commendations. The proper way to use them would be to add a "support" weapon. But boarding and anchoring an enemy ship while having 3 "weapons" would be too much of a threat (specially for new players). Removing the access of enemy ships' armoury is also a consequence of it. Same issue in season 12, we thought we would be able to board ships by harpooning enemy ships' masts, but we're not. Boarding by walking on a harpoon's rope is basically useless as of today. Just like how the Grapple Gun works.
I hate the fact that some weapons/tools can only be either "fun" or "useful", why couldn't they be both?
The issue is always the same, anchoring a ship is too easy, and so they're nerfing the full potential of their own new tools before they're even fun and useful because of it.
If one day they make it more difficult to anchor either by making the "anchor interaction" longer or adding a specific animation that would stop the player anchoring from moving for a short period of time (like removing hooks/hatches holding the anchor), this would open field for so many new interesting way to play, and revaluate already released tools, but I feel like we're kind of stuck for now.
4:44 I actually heavily disagree. I thin locking the armory is a great addition! Not only does it mean you have to actually think about your weapon selection, but now people cant cheese you by boarding, via harpoon or traditional means, killing you, and swapping their weapon while youre in the ferry to a combo that's more lethal.
Makes you have to play more strategically--a change im more than happy to abide by.
I agree and also think BB should never be a 1 shot kill.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think the grapple gun's range is too short. I feel the distance with this new tool should be extended (obviously not too much though)
Grapple gun right now is completly useless due to nerfs made only cuz community over reacted and will sadly probally stay this way
I guess dmg breaks disquise, but why picking it up? It was the whole point, you sneak yourself somewhere, enemy players can pick you up and take you to their ship
4:45 is a good change. And makes sense an armory should be locked and inaccessible to those without the key.
I dare say and agree with my hubby that it'd be even more mischievous and hilarious to be able to lock your ammo box to only your crew! Id even pay a price similar to buying supply crates! I could hear the crying about it already, but it would further even the playing field, and increase actual weapon choice consideration/planning + less exploits like quick shooting, + increase actual pvp skills, instead of feeding cheap tricks of those who cant actually pvp, and simply depend on tricks like quickshot.
I think the Armory Change is very good. Makes more planning to be done as to what your arsenal is when boarding.
lol could you imagine how much more amplified this would be (planning and weapon choice) if you were allowed to say, pay to lock your ammo box to just your crew using it?
Would be cool if they told us what the new commendations are and what the big grinds are so we don't need to learn from YT.
okay, wont lie on one thing. I think the free plunder pass is FAR Better than the premium. the amount of Ninja Themed cosmetics, like a katana cutlass skin or a kunai throwing knife, it all is uniquely well done and is a overall well connected set.
aren't half the things disabled for fixes?
ye but still better if there would be a bug where u get launched in the air
@@melon_xkingttv6041 Launch? that sounds like a good feature!
@@WZ-Resoul nah, just all of em
well they didnt have to release the season 3 weeks early(3 weeks left in the plunder pass before the s14 trailer) and checked for bugs
@@melon_xkingttv6041
But it hasn't even been released yet.
In game as im writing this, the harpoon can grapple onto any part of the sloop (except the mast) Not just the ladder
However, from the water you cannot grapple onto the deck from anywhere, only the sides of the ship which will just drop you into the water again. I think it may be possible to shoot yourself from a cannon, then grapple onto the deck of the ship from above
edit: the canopy cannot be grappled, and the railing Infront of the steering wheel also cannot be grappled
Maybe it's for just your ship? If you havent tested it on other ships yet, I would
Edit: I just tested it, you can grapple to it, but it doesn't give you the jump. Grappling to it kinda just wastes a shot, unless the ship is stationary
As for the cannon idea, I doubt they let you use the grappling hook for that specific purpose
I believe in their patch notes they say that you cannot grapple with HPG onto the deck of any ship, as the line will just snap. Furthermore, the grapple line is much shorter then the regular HP, so you have to really plan how you use it. You also can grapple onto the ship crest (at least as of today/day 1) and the inner walls, but not any kind of post, rail, or barrel. You can grapple onto a cannon and even both tables in the sloop captains room + the bird cadge, but not the captain room roof (but again you cant grapple to the top of it either)
Also, it's hard to HPG someone onto the ship from the water, as when we tried, they just bounced off the ship edge, similarly to if you just grapple yourself on the outer ship hull
nothing has happened today lol
ik this was scheduled in advance
Good lord, the panic over the harpoon gun was and still is absurd. After having to keep my trap shut for months from insider (i 100% agree with Falcor's pitch to open up insider to not have an NDA btw to make this a less painful process and get better feedback to AVOID trash fires like the mess that was this season's launch), most of the "changes" they claimed to have made from feed back were already implemented in the testing phase before people started screaming about it. The tool might need more of a buff as it is now extremely fickle on what it wants to attach to and the limited number of shots and short range makes it a garbage traversal tool. I personally would rather have the originally pitched LONG recharge infinite shots to keep it useful longer and at least a mild buff to its range. The changes to ship attachment points were a good call though, shaking up the meta can be good, but it doesn't need to be earth-shattering.
I agree to everything youve said
I think they should just made it actuall tool(like shovel spyglass) rather than weapon
Also, nobody mentioned this;
You can grapple down to the deck of a rival sloop from the surface of your own ship.
Honestly, i feel like they did too good a job with the grapple gun, since though its technically possible to grapple onto ships, its pretty hard and the gun's range isn't too big. Honestly, pretty good update so far.
just hopped on to check the grapple gun and the fact that you lose ammo when you miss your targets and the fact that it has close to no range is so bad.
Locking the Armoury is really annoying but wont stop angry players getting camped
You can actually Grapple the inside of the Sloops' "railing" (the little 1 foot high wall surrounding the deck). It's hard to do, and can't be done from the water, but it's doable nonetheless.
My wife and I were playing with he new SoT toys yesterday, disguises work but your crewmates can see your name but they can also break the disguise like everyone else so you have to be careful they don't expose you while enemies are nearby. The blow dart is really good fun, it's slow to get the effect of the dart but great fun all the same. Grapple gun is great for sticky situations but I'm still not yet convinced of it's utility long term. Overall it's a good update and some fun to be had, will it help pick the game numbers up? I don't think so as a lot of these new toys rely on already understanding the existing mechanics and how best to utilise those first, then use the new toys.
i think poison dart should also add drunkeness effect, then it might be worth taking to a fight. i think the explosion dart should be a one hit kill if they dont put out the fire. besides that, i think rare did a fantastic job! I've been asking for more weapons for YEARS
My crew did a fort of fortune with excusely blowpipes and graple guns. What a wild experience.
I expected rare to do something like locking armories on hostile ships, because if they didn't you could just use the grapple gun to board and then switch it for other armory as soon as you get on, which is not how you supposed to use the gun, as the whole point is that you trade firepower for greater mobility.
Well right now you trade firepower for nothing
Funny thing btw, crouching reduces the size of your hitbox! But it reduces the hitbox that are bullets affected by. So crouching might be another way to dodge bullets!
This video is really helpful getting a lot of important information, I'm so glad they changed the harpoon to have specific conditions to hook onto ships.
I have some questions though
Can you be able to place traps on your ship, like next to the ladder?
And with the chest of fortune changes, does the fortune cosmetic set change to a different one? I wanted to get the set but didn't end up so lucky fighting the burning blade and I'm hoping I didn't completely miss out.
@@drifterduckygaming4646 you should be able to based on the achievement art
You ignore what the poison dart can do in PvP in a long run fight against food consumption and ammo.
Nothing poisoned guy will kill you with sniper and blunder and heal himself unless its sword user then maybe you win cuz they have no game sense
2:35 … and everyone’s just gonna ignore this? 😂
Yes
If I crouch and chest hide, my mouse cursor no longer locks to my main monitor while playing in fullscreen.. have to restart the whole pc to fix it so I’ll try again next week after a patch. Also I agree that now that they changed the harpoon gun, they should revert the blunderbuss because their excuse was that it was because of how op the harpoon gun was going to be but it isn’t like that anymore
I disagree about 1 shot for BB. BB should have never, and never again should be 1 shot, honestly. 1 shot is only for those who are poor at pvp and need a crutch. I also love the idea about the armory being locked, and further increase upon that by saying they should also enable to ability to pay the shipwrite to make the ammo create locked to all but your crew! THAT would be ultimate mischievous addition!
I am glad about the grapple hooks sloop stuff
grapple gun has knocked the balance out. any half decent gally or brig crew against a good sloop crew will now highly likely board. they can now miss a board by quite abit and still board. bring back one blunder and make the sloop the quickest boat in all directions. sloops dominate the servers numbers wise..so sloop on sloop won't matter. but agaisnt larger crews who hold every other advantage possible it's a game changer
Grapple gun right now is unuseble piece of garbage which only works on galleons and people like you made it news double barrel aka piece of trash that will to on armory
I sunk 3 burning blades immediately with the blow dart, it's super OP for pvp lol
2:40 ‘last about 4 seconds’ got a belly laugh out of me 😂
What about the dubloons I wasted on the barrel hide😢
Personally I don’t think the armory being locked on enemy ships is a bad thing I’d hope it’s unlocked when allianced but it means boarders need to be smart and can’t just do what everyone was saying get the grapple, then board and change weapons and then proceed to attack the crew the only thing that would make boarding impossible is if rare decides for any reason to lock the ammo that would be the worst idea and should never come to fruition or the barrels for that matter I’ve seen some people ask for
I actually like the grapple gun and sword combo
Do not bring back one shot blunderbuss please 😭 I’m begging. Sure in normal combat I didn’t mind it but with the amount of laggy, teleporting pirates on the seas it was just straight up not fun. Someone could be on the other side of the deck on moment, tp forward a bit and blow you away without you getting a chance to do anything about it. As for the enemy armory being locked i think it would have been a good change if the grapple gun was actually a good boarding tool. I think they realised that if you had something to easily board with it should have MAJOR downsides. Because if this thing allowed you to easily grapple on a ship, then you could switch it out in the enemy armory it would have been mega annoying to deal with
Small thing of note from the Release Notes:
Regular Storage Crates can now be sold at the Merchants & Reaper's Bones, either filled or empty. Hopefully this does not mean we won't be seeing Karem Crates anymore, but it does help to keep empty Storage Crates from just lying around, much like the Tridents back in the day.
That’s a good thing though I wished it required them to be empty just so the people logging off would have had to to leave them ah well at least collecting storage crates can get you something Elmore or otherwise
@@Theprince034 I disagree and think the reverse: you should get more the more its filled...I mean, unless they changed the price (didnt pay attention today/yesterday) its over 5k to buy an empty crate...
Its rare anyway to find left behind/left over storage anything anymore anyway since they enabled the purchase of them. Its already no longer like before supply purchases.
@@haeclark Tbf it was rare in the first place anyways but aside from that due to the economy of SoT 5k isn’t much for most players who’ve played for awhile and grinded gold and such I understand that’s not everyone and such not to mention you could get lucky and find one on an island or through skellie captains if your really lucky
@@Theprince034 pshhh Im constantly broke due to bein a solo playing captain who actually gets and upgrades ship trinkets + ship skins and clothing/weapon items and such. Plus, SoT isnt the only game I play (I cant only play 1-2 games and nothing else; thats boring) So yeah, even 5k can add up. But nah, I disagree. I used to get leftovers at least 2 out of 5 logins, if not more, before being able to buy supplies it seemed. Also, it seems like supply crates is the thing I now get the most of via captain kills, followed by reaper chests and bombs
Haha, man that harpoon gun is the drizzling, well ya know.
The Lure dart is all right only it seems there's a chance that they just ignore it and keep chasing you
Love the sword from the new COF rewards, but it's still killing me that there's somehow NO jacket for the Fates of Fortune set. I am NOT wearing the dress.
The things in this season would be really exciting and cool!
...if they worked properly, the cosmetics are cool but this has to be one of the shakiest launches of a season we've had
One thing i was looking forward too for the grapple gun was using em in shrines but when i tryed it in the Shrine of Hungering it didn't hook on to anything. Havent tryed to use it in the other shrines yet tho.
To be fair that defeats the entire purpose of the shrine, I don’t see any problem with them being disabled in there
"sounds a bit like me actually" 💀💀💀💀💀
My thoughts on the harpoon gun, delete it entirely, revert the blunderbus to its prior damage, unlock armories again. They changed a lot just for the harpoon gun and I don’t think it was worth it or a good move at all
Dont care, it's fun
Yea agree, fun > sweaty esports balancing
@@decepticonsoundwave297 it is nowhere near fun, it has close to no range, 5 ammo which of you can lose ammo when you miss your targets and in conclusion it is absolutely useless as of now
@@decepticonsoundwave297its awful not fun its garbage weapon useless on any scenario other than jumping like idiot on island
@@Kameleeon0728 it's not supposed to be a weapon, it's a tool
If it was supposed to be weapon itd do damage
The servers aren't even up yet though
Yeah it is pretty crazy since half the tools aren’t here!
I’m gonna wait till the full thing comes out, I personally don’t see a lot to keep me in this game.
Is it just armoury or the ammo box as well?
Both
Neurtra, you can still reload, just not change weapons
its officialy the season "dont be a sloop" cuz with the new harpoongun brig and galeon will have a breeze to board you, and boi do they have it easy when they board you already
They can still only attach to ladders so it is like a brig or galleon boarding a sloop any other season
Yea about that harpoon gun is right now waste of the slot due to beign overnerfed cuz community is overreacting as always
Barrel hide still is an emote as well.
On way home, can't wait to boot it up tonight
We are going to MELT bosses this season lol. Poison Dart, Firebomb and spam Throwing Knifes
"This isn't for PvP"
Challenge accepted.
Disagree with the enemy armory thing. Boarding is now a higher risk thing
Rare has to refund the peeps who paid for the barrel hide emote in my opinion (yes I paid for it iirc last time lmao)
I don't want blunder 1 shot back. But don't think it needs to have the knock back either.
I mean its not impossible to use the blowdart for pvp.
i found it really fun for pvp. But thats because im a Maniac.
The harpoon gun is straight up garbage, the range is nothing, and you can still harpoon onto the deck of sloops along the sides. Plus crud-launching is back due to crouching whilst getting into a cannon...
Yeah with how nerfed it became I’d like to see the range extended even a bit more. I couldn’t even reach loot on a fort parked right next to it.
if you're in a chest in the water will the sharks attack you? and sirens ?
Can’t be disguised while swimming
I think disabling the weapon crates on enemy ships was a good decision as with boarding with the grapple gun, it would kinda unfair to use the grapple gun for its sole use and than be able to switch it out once on an enemy ships. Making claims against blow dart being unviable in pvp is kinda of crazy considering how the season has just started and we don’t know for sure. I think it would excel at being used to shoot at crews on other ships much like the sniper, the poison dart could force people on cannons to eat twice or be shot by a sniper. Your takes are all kinda of mid, you seem like you are trying to cling onto the old days of sea of thieves.
Edit: the explosion dart could be used to one shot a player since you could shoot them with dart and then shoot as it explodes. Going for water in a fight to put it out would be even more of a disadvantage for them because they would either have to jump off their ship, go down below for water and take the time to throw it on themselves, or if they are close to water walk in to it, but I feel you often don’t fight people on beaches
No chest of fortune in FOTD quite yet.
I’m sorry but a 3gb update for 3-4 months of waiting is just absurdly small, especially considering other games like Fortnite release 50 gig updates
Yea hower fortnite Has big player base that keeps growing sot on other hand Has barely players that quit with every barely working update
uhhh but there isn’t anything crazy that’s happened yet - unless you count the colossal miscalculation on Rare’s part. Why did they bring the season forward two weeks when it’s not even ready? Also the grapple gun can’t be used everywhere on the brigantine, only the galleon!
I dislike the armory change. I do disagree with your blunderbuss conclusion however. I dislike the current state of the blunder, but I also disliked the instant kill capability (this is coming from a dyed in the wool true blue double gunning tryhard) because it’s just a real buzz kill and instant death never feels good. I do think that the knock back is crazy and shouldn’t be allowed to remove sloopers from their boat entirely like it does.
do you remember the dark brethren world event idea you presented a year ago? still think that idea is a good idea
You’re wrong about the blender the only people who want it back to the one shot are the people who used it all the time to cheaply one shot people,
Sounds like skill and sword user issue (same thing)
The armory change is MUCH needed. Easy grapple and then they can switch to their meta load out? No, you use the boarding tool or you go with your meta load out, you shouldn’t be able to change it.
Cool story if only grapple gun wasnt trash
@@Kameleeon0728 if only you weren’t wrong? Lol.
@@johndufrene6250 guess what! i AM not.
@@Kameleeon0728 you are, you mad
i just got the chest of Fortune on the burning blade
The normal barrel hide emote is not removed i still have it
Maybe just done unequip it, just in case
A shiny it is doing wonders in PvP I don't think you have any idea on how good it is
Chest of fortune at FOTD? Huh? But i did FOTD like 4 times today, and there was only chest of legends 🤨
Rare addressed this as “unintended” as it goes for their many other things in this game 😂
Best update
Changes to weapon and weapon box are fine, i can't belive that i told this. Harpongun range is... trash
Hating on the Emporium is like 50% of your personality 😄
Where does fortune chest go now?
Fort of the Damned,
like Rare, i think you should've held off a bit before releasing this one lol
@@Classic36 I'll take that
Damn. I was hoping players could carry you in the chest lol
Yeah definitely one of the more sad revelations, but I do understand it would probably complicate things and let’s face it, it would be so much buggier.
Awesome no more double gunners like it took effort to run and shoot refill repeat
Armory, not ammo box. Also, cope, git gud, etc
I thought you didn't play this game anymore
But still no harpoon and ship lantern cosmetics......
What do you MEAN the update is crazy? The servers are still down!
@@nikolaiandersson6024 that's why it's crazy
I was really looking forward to traps and they cant even get that right. All that time spent telling us how awesome those features are going to be....and when it comes to season release its all busted. Rare said they would do better, would have better testing, would listen to insiders and yet still they try to bring out content and its just not fit for purpose.
Was? Bro the servers are up for like an hour
i really do not like season 14