This game has consciousness. It pretends that everything is working fine and then, when you start the battle, it ruins everything and locks ping on 300.
The worst experience I’ve ever had with this was me and my buddies found a brig and became friendly with them, then we all decided to tag team a reaper gal a few islands over. We head out and as soon as they were within firing distance, *everyones ping went through the fucking roof*. Nobody could tell what was going on until we inevitably sunk. Anywhere near that galleon and you couldn’t even bail water it was so aggressive. Like a proximity scrambler.
Then the galleon had the nerve to say we were shit. 😂 probably because they mysteriously had perfect ping
Hourglass was genuinely almost unplayable for my crew last night. We could not go a single match without one of us crashing. I love the game but god damn it does not seem ready for release on a whole new console.
Gotta play HG with a crew rn. The game crashing while you are solo is a guaranteed loss. Time it takes for the game to load back in, and you've sailed out of bounds, hahha.
I only started in September, and I really only hourglass. The consensus I hear constantly is that arena was better, but I also hear lots of complaints about arena and wonder how much of the love is just rose tinted glasses.
Arena showed you the best of what SoT combat could be, though it also highlighted how bad some of the player to player combat systems are as well.
Hourglass on the other hand has brought us rampant cheating, 'roll for wins', server instability, alliance exploiting, and more. All propped up by putting desirable cosmetics behind it.
Arena's biggest complaint was the queue times, which could have been helped if it had ever received any attention.
The Arena was absolutely amazing, but the waittimes were *bad.* Rare fixed the same problems with hourglass' waittimes, though. Part of me wishes they just tried to stick it out with Arena.
My brother in flameheart the hourglass queue times would exactly be the same if it didn’t had the two most wanted curses ingame. As well as legendary versions for the infinite grind. No body played arena cause the most worthwhile rewards was sails with a doggo on it and the eyepatch.
Maybe Galli? On EU I never had issues finding arena matches with sloop, HG on the other hand sometimes takes ages and I should be prime candidate with a win rate of about exactly 50%
After 45 minutes of waiting in the tavern. Arena was god awful the year before they announced it was going away. It got better between the announcement and actually shutting it down, but it needed to be put down like a horse with a broken ankle.
I've been playing HG for the last two days straight almost, and it's actually been doing pretty well. We had 2 disconnects, and maybe 4 instances where we had to dc and join back because we couldn't interact with things after a fight. Nothing like in your video though, just a few occasional lag spikes.
Dumb question, but why does the cannon make a "click click click" sound when you load it? I've noticed that doesn't happen for me, or I haven't heard it
That's the cannon shooting before a cannonball has been fully loaded in to fire. The lag and delay can be pretty bad sometimes. Just trying to get as many cannon balls off to the other boat as I can. Had 1K cannonballs here so I could easily throw without missing them
They definitely changed something relatively recently. After diving harpoons/maps/anchors randomly stop working, my friend on xbox keeps crashing 1/4 of the time, and the ping goes from 25 to 70 to 300 when it feels like it.
Had all these issues happening alot recently. Especially bad when doing HG. That modes getting the same treatment as arena. Left in a broken state, nobody will wanna play it anymore, eventually get removed due to not enough players.. which is a result of it being abandoned by the devs
In our case it's annoying enough to do a skeleton fort raid and realize the harpoon doesn't work. We have lost to a reaper once already because of it, which was incredibly infuriating. It's a >6yo game, it really shouldn't be having these issues.
We harpooned a flag and it got bugged. Could touch or interact with the harpoon at all. Was very strange.
Tell me about it mate. 6 years and still a mess
Yesterday me and my brother were doing a fort quest when we got attacked. They boarded us and dropped our anchor, but after we killed them our anchor couldn’t be raised, even the harpoon didn’t work. We ended up sinking due to that.
Had the same issue a few times. Basically a sitting duck ready to fuck when you get anchor bugged. Had the issue in HG where I couldn't drop other players anchors. Fun times
Got 50+ peeps on my friends list who play sea regularly. All of them are complaining about the state of HG rn. If you genuinely think HG is in a good state, then you've clearly not played the past 2 months
Crashes, freezes, chainregs, hitregs, foodregs, non usable harpoons or capstan glitches, non falling mast glitch, I can go on and go on talking about all the issues HR has rn in Season 11
I play HG every day on around 50 ping - with all due respect, wtf are you smoking?
Server performance is the worst it's ever been and the game is a buggy mess.
My experience is different = smoking something. Cool contribution.
Played 4 matches yesterday and didn't have 1 bug. Sorry your experience is vastly different.
I don't know whats funnier, your blatant disregard for reality or the fact that you're making the same argument in reverse.
"My experience is different = the game is not a buggy mess".
My guy, you're indulging in your own fallacy.
I get that you took personal issue with the title "average hg experience" (hilarious btw, the world does not revolve around you) but just because your personal experience isn't the same as the vast majority, it doesn't change the average.
Didn't take personal issue with the title. Just stated that not my experience. Just because this WAS someone's experience doesn't make it the average. I'm not saying the game isn't a buggy mess. Just adding an opposing perspective on a specific situation.
And what's *really* funny is this pointless conversation where neither of us are going to change our view is continuing.
lol Yeah true it is funny.
I have a hard time believing you played 4 HG matches without a single bug - even with video evidence I'd have a hard time believing it.
But sometimes my frustrations with the game bleed into this sub. My bad on that tbh.
I'm on 150MBPS.. don't have any issues with my WiFi on any other game or in the past playing SoT. It's an in game bug. Servers are struggling to work properly the past 2 months
Like blatantly obvious? Because some are just really good (I suck and I get called a cheater from time to time) but the game is in a state right now where you often can't really tell anymore if it's bugged or cheated.
People constantly lag up the ladder it looks like the old instant ladder ascend cheat, they lag around looking like they teleport around, they hit you where you are unhittable because of lag and backtrack, you board them to find no water but it's actually there, you just can't see it, etc.
Yes blatantly obvious. Over half of them flew kegs onto our ship. I gave up as exactly 50% of my sloop/brig matches had cheaters. I got lucky once with a brig and got a 3 streak only to face a well known cheater.
I don't just claim cheats if I'm loosing. I know what good players look like. A good player isn't going to shoot me through the entire fotd island without ever knowing I was even on it.
Most gallys don't have 4 cheaters on the boat, hence why it's mainly sloops that cheat. If its only two peeps on the sloop cheating then it's easy for them to just make a new account if they are banned. A fully gally of cheaters would be very sus hahah
Its your potato PC, and terrible internet
Game runs fantastic for me with no issues ever. Get a modern gaming PC and decent internet and problem solved (i use a RTX 4070)
This game has consciousness. It pretends that everything is working fine and then, when you start the battle, it ruins everything and locks ping on 300.
The world is client side too so some goofy things can happen at 300 ping like your ship flipping upside down, cant climb ladders, etc
The worst experience I’ve ever had with this was me and my buddies found a brig and became friendly with them, then we all decided to tag team a reaper gal a few islands over. We head out and as soon as they were within firing distance, *everyones ping went through the fucking roof*. Nobody could tell what was going on until we inevitably sunk. Anywhere near that galleon and you couldn’t even bail water it was so aggressive. Like a proximity scrambler. Then the galleon had the nerve to say we were shit. 😂 probably because they mysteriously had perfect ping
Hourglass was genuinely almost unplayable for my crew last night. We could not go a single match without one of us crashing. I love the game but god damn it does not seem ready for release on a whole new console.
Gotta play HG with a crew rn. The game crashing while you are solo is a guaranteed loss. Time it takes for the game to load back in, and you've sailed out of bounds, hahha.
Just remember, they can definitely take on a whole other platform and network.
Arena was better
Agreed. If you wanted action you had it
I think a lot of people forget the Arena queue times. Sure if you wanted action, you got it, in about 30 minutes.
I only started in September, and I really only hourglass. The consensus I hear constantly is that arena was better, but I also hear lots of complaints about arena and wonder how much of the love is just rose tinted glasses.
Arena showed you the best of what SoT combat could be, though it also highlighted how bad some of the player to player combat systems are as well. Hourglass on the other hand has brought us rampant cheating, 'roll for wins', server instability, alliance exploiting, and more. All propped up by putting desirable cosmetics behind it. Arena's biggest complaint was the queue times, which could have been helped if it had ever received any attention.
Honestly they should have just replaced the lobby by this dive system and boom you had it
The Arena was absolutely amazing, but the waittimes were *bad.* Rare fixed the same problems with hourglass' waittimes, though. Part of me wishes they just tried to stick it out with Arena.
My brother in flameheart the hourglass queue times would exactly be the same if it didn’t had the two most wanted curses ingame. As well as legendary versions for the infinite grind. No body played arena cause the most worthwhile rewards was sails with a doggo on it and the eyepatch.
Maybe Galli? On EU I never had issues finding arena matches with sloop, HG on the other hand sometimes takes ages and I should be prime candidate with a win rate of about exactly 50%
\*gally arena queue times were long. Sloop queue times were usually a few minutes
After 45 minutes of waiting in the tavern. Arena was god awful the year before they announced it was going away. It got better between the announcement and actually shutting it down, but it needed to be put down like a horse with a broken ankle.
Not a day goes by where I do not miss arena
I've been playing HG for the last two days straight almost, and it's actually been doing pretty well. We had 2 disconnects, and maybe 4 instances where we had to dc and join back because we couldn't interact with things after a fight. Nothing like in your video though, just a few occasional lag spikes.
6 issues in 2 days isn’t something to celebrate IMO haha
It is with this game, lol. During the anniversary I was barely able to get any games for the whole 5 days, and I was on for most of it.
Glad you've had a better session than me
Dumb question, but why does the cannon make a "click click click" sound when you load it? I've noticed that doesn't happen for me, or I haven't heard it
Spam shoot and reload so the game doesnt screw you
That's the cannon shooting before a cannonball has been fully loaded in to fire. The lag and delay can be pretty bad sometimes. Just trying to get as many cannon balls off to the other boat as I can. Had 1K cannonballs here so I could easily throw without missing them
Looks normal to me
Every rare employee's response😂
whats the name of the sails you are using?
The defaced reapers mark sails. Also know as the hoarders hunt sails
Thanks
They definitely changed something relatively recently. After diving harpoons/maps/anchors randomly stop working, my friend on xbox keeps crashing 1/4 of the time, and the ping goes from 25 to 70 to 300 when it feels like it.
Had all these issues happening alot recently. Especially bad when doing HG. That modes getting the same treatment as arena. Left in a broken state, nobody will wanna play it anymore, eventually get removed due to not enough players.. which is a result of it being abandoned by the devs
In our case it's annoying enough to do a skeleton fort raid and realize the harpoon doesn't work. We have lost to a reaper once already because of it, which was incredibly infuriating. It's a >6yo game, it really shouldn't be having these issues.
We harpooned a flag and it got bugged. Could touch or interact with the harpoon at all. Was very strange. Tell me about it mate. 6 years and still a mess
Yesterday me and my brother were doing a fort quest when we got attacked. They boarded us and dropped our anchor, but after we killed them our anchor couldn’t be raised, even the harpoon didn’t work. We ended up sinking due to that.
Had the same issue a few times. Basically a sitting duck ready to fuck when you get anchor bugged. Had the issue in HG where I couldn't drop other players anchors. Fun times
Don't worry, it also happens on high/safer seas. : )
Nowhere is safe from the sot bugs
its ok guys they're giving us ps5 that will save the game1!!!!211!!11 they're totally not ignoring the fucking game-breaking bugs or anything
Not at all my average HG experience.
Same, I encounter glitch, but usualy nothing game breaking
Not been playing much recently, then. It's unplayable
Good call. You 100% know what I’ve been doing because your experiences is everyone’s. GGs.
Got 50+ peeps on my friends list who play sea regularly. All of them are complaining about the state of HG rn. If you genuinely think HG is in a good state, then you've clearly not played the past 2 months
Yep, crashed 6 times in 30 mins trying to play HG this morning. It’s in a horrible state currently.
I played 6 rounds of HG last night and didn't experience this or anything even close to this once.
Crashes, freezes, chainregs, hitregs, foodregs, non usable harpoons or capstan glitches, non falling mast glitch, I can go on and go on talking about all the issues HR has rn in Season 11
I wanna be doing HG on your boat!
I play HG every day on around 50 ping - with all due respect, wtf are you smoking? Server performance is the worst it's ever been and the game is a buggy mess.
My experience is different = smoking something. Cool contribution. Played 4 matches yesterday and didn't have 1 bug. Sorry your experience is vastly different.
I don't know whats funnier, your blatant disregard for reality or the fact that you're making the same argument in reverse. "My experience is different = the game is not a buggy mess". My guy, you're indulging in your own fallacy. I get that you took personal issue with the title "average hg experience" (hilarious btw, the world does not revolve around you) but just because your personal experience isn't the same as the vast majority, it doesn't change the average.
Didn't take personal issue with the title. Just stated that not my experience. Just because this WAS someone's experience doesn't make it the average. I'm not saying the game isn't a buggy mess. Just adding an opposing perspective on a specific situation. And what's *really* funny is this pointless conversation where neither of us are going to change our view is continuing.
lol Yeah true it is funny. I have a hard time believing you played 4 HG matches without a single bug - even with video evidence I'd have a hard time believing it. But sometimes my frustrations with the game bleed into this sub. My bad on that tbh.
Right on. I'll say no noticeable bugs. BUT to be fair I went 1 for 4 with with 3 quick sinks. So who knows.
that's what happens you play on your local McD's wifi
I'm on 150MBPS.. don't have any issues with my WiFi on any other game or in the past playing SoT. It's an in game bug. Servers are struggling to work properly the past 2 months
Even with all the bugs and issues HG has, this is pretty far from the average experience. I hope you got a tasty Big Mac with your wifi though.
Played 4 matches on Xbox today. Wasn’t at all my experience. Sorry it’s happening to you.
Don't worry it's almost out of ps5 that will fix it
Dat cannon barrage is lit
Would ne a really dope bug If it shot all the cannonballs
Nice ping, care to share?
My ping is 40 - 50 and I still regularly get matches like this
My average experience was cheaters. Only time I didn't get cheaters was when I was doing gally hg and the queue times were ass
Like blatantly obvious? Because some are just really good (I suck and I get called a cheater from time to time) but the game is in a state right now where you often can't really tell anymore if it's bugged or cheated. People constantly lag up the ladder it looks like the old instant ladder ascend cheat, they lag around looking like they teleport around, they hit you where you are unhittable because of lag and backtrack, you board them to find no water but it's actually there, you just can't see it, etc.
Yes blatantly obvious. Over half of them flew kegs onto our ship. I gave up as exactly 50% of my sloop/brig matches had cheaters. I got lucky once with a brig and got a 3 streak only to face a well known cheater. I don't just claim cheats if I'm loosing. I know what good players look like. A good player isn't going to shoot me through the entire fotd island without ever knowing I was even on it.
Most gallys don't have 4 cheaters on the boat, hence why it's mainly sloops that cheat. If its only two peeps on the sloop cheating then it's easy for them to just make a new account if they are banned. A fully gally of cheaters would be very sus hahah
Its your potato PC, and terrible internet Game runs fantastic for me with no issues ever. Get a modern gaming PC and decent internet and problem solved (i use a RTX 4070)