Patch 9.93 - Bucentaure, acceleration rework and many other things

[312_JS]

Fantastic job on the sail animations!

I went to look for the change when the patch was deployed but didn't notice anything, would you please elaborate? Cheers.

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

I just found out that the double shot perk is limited to a certain number of balls. I want to propose that it shall be unlimited like the other shots. I guess the limit was set to balance the possible damage that can be inflicted. Therefore my suggestion is to limit the range of double shot to 100m, which is somehow historical, I always wondered in the game why the range is so big, so that double shot can only be used when you are broadside to broadside with your enemy.

 

That is how it was historically used and how it should be used in the game.

 

Double shot was the main choice during trials for a reason, no matter the range.

[maturin]

I went to look for the change when the patch was deployed but didn't notice anything, would you please elaborate? Cheers.

You don't notice the sails swaying, rippling and swaying in certain situations?

 

 

It looks great when sails should be luffing. Might be slightly overdone when they are full, as it gives the impression of rather light, flukey winds.

[312_JS]

You don't notice the sails swaying, rippling and swaying in certain situations?

 

 

It looks great when sails should be luffing. Might be slightly overdone when they are full, as it gives the impression of rather light, flukey winds.

I did now. Cheers.

[Pad Seayew]

I did now. Cheers.

I just noticed that today! Beautiful work. Devs!! Perfect

[Pelennor]

Honest questions to all those ppl who complained and are now rejoicing about Determined Defender:

Seems fair, let's go for honest answers

do you run with fleet ships?

No, I sail Renomee 100% of the time, fleets slows you, defensive tags are OP enougth... an other issue to discuss and solve...

do you run in a gank group?

At DD release, yeah, cuz I thought that perk forbid 1v1 action. It's not ! It just make it different. Now I have adapted, and rake, and rake and rake again, I prefer to play alone, or with 2 or 3 friends max, I avoid larger group as fights are, to me, not interesting

do you run gold boarding perks?

Not since DD patch. Now, I rake ppl to death. DD has kill boarding, as a solo player, I don't want to take the risk to expose my fir renomee to 4th+ rate boardside without knowing if I can board or get the yellow "DD lol, gtfo"

do you cap traders?

Yeah, that's tasty !

about how long did it seriously take you to gank a newb's ship before DD was nerfed? 5 minutes? 7 minutes?

I don't, I fight mostly traders, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st. But my fights are way longer than that ! I wonder how you manage to get boarded in 5 mins. I have already encontered newbies who make the mistake of being stopped upwind, but I guess ppl are learning from mistakes... not?

 

and what now can a player do when facing a gank fleet alone? or even facing one enemy alone who runs fleet ships and gold boarding upgrades? They cannot sail away to escape, because sails always get wrecked within 1 minute of facing 3+ enemy, and then the Area Control kicks in.

It has started with serious questions, now you talk about specific situations. What you describe depends of the spawn position. It seems that your scenario is catastrophic: or the target was afk or did stupid moves during tag, or the attacker had really faster ships than the target, the fact he can't escape don't chock me. To conclude, we still have to talk about defensive tag

 

Now, why would devs listen to a select few wwwwaaayyyyy OP gankers crying about this perk who ruin this game for newbs? Please, for the love of God, stop catering this game to these 1 shot 1 kill wot lovers. Kanay had it right...30% is the least you should've lowered it to.

Well, it's funny because, to me, DD is a "wot like" arbitrary perk. I now understand you are not comfortable and/or interested with PvP, you may want to try PvE servers?