Met my first griefers!

[mpcgannon]

These two were pros vs the two of us. They were repairing our ship just to continue killing us. My partner wanted to beat them at their own game but we weren't good enough. He finally scuttled.

Reflections:

I think the partner and I should have waited on the ferry together and spawned back in at the same time to either pincer attack or try and stack on one another.

I got tunnel vision on the blunderbuss. They were killing us with it; I figured fight fire with fire. But I NEVER use that thing. I would have been WAY better off with the pistol.

We were just generally out matched and tried too long before scuttling.

Any advice for some noobs?

[Keyrala]

If you recognize them as better players and you want to win, then don't play fire vs fire. Try to do something else instead as they will beat you by experience.
Waiting to spawn together was a good strategy, not many people bothers doing that.

The shotgun has been nerfed really bad so it can't oneshot anymore, if you have good food you can eat before they hit you to make sure you heal to avoid the second tap then you can keep eating to heal while they reload and have chances to fight back.

You guys shouldn't have scuttled tho, as you lose nothing and you only get better the more you try, swap weapons etc. If you're really good with throwing knifes you can delete people really fast as that's the fastest weapon in the game so far, you kill with 2 throwable knives. So maybe if you guys keep trying that every time you respawn you will eventually get a lucky double tap and get rid of one of them and get some momentum.
Once they off your ship the best you could do is sail away to reset the fight or escape.

[Friedrich Bär]

that behavior is actually bannable if you can record them and send a ticket to rare

[Mountain King]

Originally posted by Friedrich Bär:

that behavior is actually bannable if you can record them and send a ticket to rare

Don't let this guy ruin you, OP. You have the right response to this situation: wanting to get better at the game to win fights in the future. Don't turn into a sore loser who reports people because you refused to use the scuttle option, we can see you are better than that. Keep practicing and find which weapons you like using, it's just all about practice.

[Crystal Sharrd]

Originally posted by Mountain King:

Originally posted by Friedrich Bär:

that behavior is actually bannable if you can record them and send a ticket to rare

Don't let this guy ruin you, OP. You have the right response to this situation: wanting to get better at the game to win fights in the future. Don't turn into a sore loser who reports people because you refused to use the scuttle option, we can see you are better than that. Keep practicing and find which weapons you like using, it's just all about practice.

If the griefers were violating the Terms of Service, they deserve to be reported. It's not being a sore loser if the other side was breaking the rules.

[mpcgannon]

We gave it the good ol' college try and the point was to get better. I think I would have been more frustrated if the scuttle option wasn't available but we tried until our patience got the best of us.

So are knives best for below deck, close encounter sloop fights?

[Fail]

Originally posted by mpcgannon:

So are knives best for below deck, close encounter sloop fights?

Any weapons will do as long as they're not blowpipes or double-barrelled pistols

Most people won't bother to change weapons depending on the deck they're fighting on as that wastes precious time

[Raft]

Originally posted by Mountain King:

Originally posted by Friedrich Bär:

that behavior is actually bannable if you can record them and send a ticket to rare

Don't let this guy ruin you, OP. You have the right response to this situation: wanting to get better at the game to win fights in the future. Don't turn into a sore loser who reports people because you refused to use the scuttle option, we can see you are better than that. Keep practicing and find which weapons you like using, it's just all about practice.

If it's a ping issue and a 1v4 where u're at a huge disadvantage, it's logical if as a casual player u cannot overcome the enemy.

Pirates are allowed to kill and sink other pirates.

Pirates are NOT allowed to kill and NOT sink pirates in order to harass them by killing them repeatedly. This is bannable.

I've reported many players who have done this. They will be banned at least temporarily, if not permanently.

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Anyway, sometimes I think they should increase the health of the typical skeletons/phantoms - so that killing those will become better practice for killing pirates.

[Friedrich Bär]

Originally posted by Mountain King:

Originally posted by Friedrich Bär:

that behavior is actually bannable if you can record them and send a ticket to rare

Don't let this guy ruin you, OP. You have the right response to this situation: wanting to get better at the game to win fights in the future. Don't turn into a sore loser who reports people because you refused to use the scuttle option, we can see you are better than that. Keep practicing and find which weapons you like using, it's just all about practice.

you're probably one of those guys that will gank on new players too and tdm them until they ragequit and wonder why all new players are gone or non-existent
sure not giving up will "improve" your skills but if you keep getting 1-tapped blunder or double gunned, what are you supposed to "improve" from?
that behavior IS considered griefing by RARE and thus is bannable if you're caught on tape and reported

[Keyrala]

You'll rarely find those moments where people wants to just deathmatch and not sink your ship when you're not around. So maybe take that as a good opportunity to improve with your friend, reporting won't remove them from the map instantly so you will have to confront them or scuttle.
You will rarely find a friendly crew that will help you practice "TDM" as they call it here, as nobody wants to do anything here unless it generates gold. So you gotta use those so called "griefers" as practice to get better at defending yourself against other "griefers".

Just remember giving up won't make you a better player, but trying to keep a cool head during unfair situations makes you an actual gamer.

[mpcgannon]

For the record we did try our butts off.
Changing weapons on the ferry
Trying to use the ship as cover
Jumping overboard

But these two set up on the stairs next to the ammo box. And with both blasting, it was near instant death. Accessing barrels meant death. Blocking with a sword doesn't stop shotgun to the face. The few times we made any forward progress was when we divided their attention. But then it was a literal skill issue.

I appreciate all the responses. Ultimately, I'd like to be able to handle situations like this so practice is my prescription.

[Keyrala]

I been in a 3 vs 1 when i was new. I ended up kicking them out of my ship, this was before the solo sloop respawn buff and before they removed the ability to revive your teammates on an enemy ship and the shotgun used to one shot and they could do the weapon swap bugs.

All i had to do is spawn, hit them afew times before dying, eventually they ran out of food and i had no more food either so they had no way to heal.

Once i manged to kill one of them the others were easy to get rid of.

tl;dr just deplete everyone's food and be patient you will get a good snowball eventually.

[Crystal Sharrd]

Originally posted by Keyrala:

You'll rarely find those moments where people wants to just deathmatch and not sink your ship when you're not around. So maybe take that as a good opportunity to improve with your friend, reporting won't remove them from the map instantly so you will have to confront them or scuttle.
You will rarely find a friendly crew that will help you practice "TDM" as they call it here, as nobody wants to do anything here unless it generates gold. So you gotta use those so called "griefers" as practice to get better at defending yourself against other "griefers".

Just remember giving up won't make you a better player, but trying to keep a cool head during unfair situations makes you an actual gamer.

Isn't that what the Hourglass is for?

[Keyrala]

No, hourglass is only to sink the ship as soon as possible.

[GGiuliano93]

Originally posted by Mountain King:

Originally posted by Friedrich Bär:

that behavior is actually bannable if you can record them and send a ticket to rare

Don't let this guy ruin you, OP. You have the right response to this situation: wanting to get better at the game to win fights in the future. Don't turn into a sore loser who reports people because you refused to use the scuttle option, we can see you are better than that. Keep practicing and find which weapons you like using, it's just all about practice.

Here's the griefer lmao

[iSurvivedRKelly]

Originally posted by Friedrich Bär:

that behavior is actually bannable if you can record them and send a ticket to rare

True, though some foul mouthed people kinda deserve it. My crew and i done it once to this kid who kept jumping in the water just to go past our boat at a safe distance when we were chasing his ship and yell the n word.
He just kept yelling the n word over voice chat repeatedly, so we made a decision as a team to jump on board his ship and kill him as many times as possible.