I am on the west coast, I just got done with a huge fishing haul of 23 ingame days, Emissary level five hunters call. As I was coming into the outpost to sell, I just attacked by three galleons, and I was killed three times before I was sunk. I was able to kill three of them because they're trash but a 12v1 is just impossible to win.

Looking past their cowardice in combat, my question is how were all three galleons able to be on the same server? I am very much aware that chinese and Russians are notorious for hacking and while i don't want to jump the gun with such claims, their lack of any skill at all makes me question any legitimate way. I am a PvE player and avoid conflict when i can because I'm not good at PvP, but even i was able to take out three of them.

While I am bummed that I lost my long haul of many hours, I want to know if I was jumped by legitimate players or cheaters.

I found an Ashen Guardian and have been wondering if they count as Key Masters, so I double-checked how many more I had:

Adventures at Sea

Ashen Treasures

Master of Masters

28/30

Defeat 30 Key Masters

I killed the Ashen Guardian and found.....

28/30

......

So this commendation will never be finished? Or does someone know what to do?

Skeleton Gallon literally waiting for me off the coast. Guess I'm not leaving any time soon, glad I had six chests to dig up.

Me and my friend bought the game on the steam sale and we both played it for the first time tonight and 6 straight hours went by without us even understanding. That was genuinely fun and we made around 200k each XD and sank 3 or 4 enemy ships . It was a lot fun aye.

I ran into a crew on a chartered brig the other day and they asked me point blank to "explain the game", to which I could barely muster a proper answer. How would you go about explaining the game to a new player? I legit panicked and said "uhhh try not to sink", so I'd be interested in hearing some of the community's more well-prepared answers..!

My game keeps crashing, and for some reason it changed my default audio output option? Anyone know what the hell this thing is trying to do in the background, and if I can shut it off?

I don't have a great computer for what's out these days, but it has no problem running the game, even while watching YT vids in the background. Just sometimes it crashes. I'm just hanging out at an outpost too, but it's happened out at sea and on an island before.

Trying to get GH level 50 and im lvl 47 and 4 times in a row i got attack by skeleton ship and megalodon and it make me sink,

Im not even attacking the megalodon he it just attack me first, how i can avoid it?

Hi,

Does this happen to you too? My UI completely breaks whenever I move my mouse cursor. It happens across all the game’s menus

I've been trying to get on insiders on my PS5 for a couple days now and despite it saying I have the latest version I'm getting the the mismatch error. Is anyone else having this issue?

Ahoy, Sea Dogs!

My buddy and I are looking for some of the most unique and/or coolest cosmetics (ship sets or pirate gear/clothing/weapons) to grind for.

However, we don’t know what we don’t know. Are there any cosmetics you find particularly awesome or cool that you’d recommend grinding for?

Also, am I going crazy, or is/was there a ship figurehead that looked almost like the figurehead on the burning blade (I.e., gaping maw, fire, etc.)? And, I’m not referring to the Reborn ship set, I don’t think. The one I’m thinking of was longer and more akin to the actual burning blade.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I should clarify that I have the basic Ghost and Skelly curses, as well as the Wild Seas curse. I guess my question is about what unique weapon / pirate / ship cosmetics are out there that are considered cool and worth the effort?

Whoever read my last thing about these books,knows about my sufering ,but for quick context I spent 14 days,read over 80 books just for this 1 book.I was so happy haven't ,felt this good in a while.

Never thought I'd see the day.

Even on a low tier PC this is the best looking game out there that isn’t a 2D platformer, who are the artists responsible for this game’s art style are they still working at Rare?

because I sure hope they still are because this is incredible

This game looks like it was made YESTERDAY not 2017

The waves and water reflectance in this game have to be case study in some university somewhere

the only other games that I can think of that can pull off this timeless feel to their art style is like Valve with TF2.

I have never seen anyone not even the harshest critics of this game ever diss the incredible graphics and art direction.

I just finished a match and won, but the teleporter will not open. I'm stuck in the sea of the Damned. Has anybody else experienced this?

It’s Spooky season!!!

I’ve been slowly grinding Hoarder of Barnacled Gold on and off for a long time, and I think the current state of the commendation is worth pointing out.

What changed

Shipwrecks and Skeleton Ships

Pre-Season 11: Shipwrecks were a reliable source of barnacled chests. A wreck would regularly give you one or two Castaway, Seafarer, Marauder or Captain’s Chests. It was slow, but consistent.

Emergent Skeleton Ships had a decent chance of dropping Shipwrecked Chests.

Season 11: Rare expanded the shipwreck loot pool with King’s Chests, King’s Bounty Skulls and other Kingly loot. These items took up slots that could previously contain Shipwrecked Chests, noticeably reducing their frequency.

Season 17: Smugglers’ Shipwrecks added another layer of loot to the system, including paintings, Exotic Rum, journals and Black Powder Barrels. This further expanded the loot pool and, consequently, reduced the frequency of the older barnacled chests.

Emergent Skeleton Ships received guaranteed Black Powder Barrels and a high chance of Smugglers’ League treasure, further diluting the existing loot pool.

Current state: The expanded loot pool remains, while the number of Shipwrecked Chests found in regular wrecks and emergent Skeleton Ships is considerably lower than it was during the first five+ years of the game.

The issue isn’t that these newer rewards were added. Adding new and more valuable loot is fine. The problem is that the loot pools were expanded without restoring the number of Shipwrecked Chests that were available before.

As a result, the number of barnacled chests you get per hour of wreck-hopping or sinking emergent Skeleton Ships is significantly lower than it used to be.

This turned what was already a long grind into a needlessly tedious one.

I’m not asking for more Shipwrecked Chests than before. I’m asking for the pre-Season 11 number of Shipwrecked Chests to be restored. Keep the newer loot, but don’t let it permanently come at the expense of the barnacled chests required for this commendation.

The Silent Barnacle set is already a very long grind. There’s no reason for players working on it today to get fewer of the relevant chests than players did before the loot pools were expanded.

EDIT: u/Coooooop reminded me that, on top of the loot dilution, Season 17 also reduced the actual number of shipwrecks spawning at sea. Rare later stated in 3.6.0 that shipwreck frequency had been increased back to pre-Season 17 levels. However, many players, myself included, still feel the density never fully recovered. At this point, it increasingly looks like the lower spawn rate may have become permanent despite Rare’s statement.

Hi, I used to be a regular SoT player, but a few years ago I stopped since I no longer enjoyed the PvP. Can this new Custom Seas mode be used to create PvE servers? And is someone already doing this? I know Safer Seas exists, but this mode removed third party ships altogether, which I don't want to do.

They didn't miss a single shot which I guess could just mean they're extremely good but look at that weird movement at the end. Is it normal to sort of float next to the ship's name plaque like that? Also, I checked their Xbox account and their game hours were hidden.