Can't find fish to harpoon

[chriscalvat]

the only fish I could find to harpoon was during the tutorial since then even when buying tips and going to the location I have not been able to find any fish, and since I can't afford to hire a crew member I can't do deep line fishing either is this a bug or am I just very unlucky at finding fish?

[meredith999]

Oprindeligt skrevet af SuperNoobsauce:

I'm done with my reaching out to bring awareness to devs screwing us for money on an unfinished game. Everyone is passionate to either support or degrade a dev company or game. I don't feel like it was unjustified. Anyone can look at the forum chat and see this game is garbage but hats off to Britto and his fan boys for keeping the game alive.
wow its called updates untill they come out with the updates uve got to find away past the bug some people are just so perfect they think they need a perfect game on lunch NO GAME IS PERFECT ON LAUNCH JUST LIKE FALLOUT 76 AND i still play that game

[+ΜΛNÐÖ+]

After about 36 hours of play time i'm just now finding out you can harpoon tuna!

Harpoon groups are pretty hard to find but they are out there. Hard enough that i don't really see the point behind doing it unless you just need to break it up a bit. But harpooning tuna? With the way the groups move around on the surface now its nearly impossible to hit one...and even when you do its so much less efficient then just dropping deeplines...

[Roth]

guys, there is also the time of the day to factor in... the tuna and sword fish prefer late afternoon to evening, so from 15:00 to 20:00, thats when you find loads, and yes the tutorial area is a great place to figure those patterns out

[Emenems]

So... Yes, you can harpoon tuna (around seal island). The key is to aim largely above the fish. I made around 50k with 5 or 6 tunas

[teampenner]

I found that when I travel around for hours upon hours looking for crab I see lots of surface swords and every other fish and lobster.
When looking for tuna and sword I see lots of crab.
Lobster everywhere also until I am rigged with lobster pots.
Seems the game likes to play with us also.
I like the idea of trying to map with new, old, and older tips. Gonna incorporate this in my next strategy.

[StormSurge]

Oprindeligt skrevet af cbnnr:

I have deliberately gone around looking for fish to harpoon. So I know they are out there but so far I have found 1 shoal of swordfish and 2 of tuna and each time they have 5 fish in them. The only exception was the starting tutorial. Can I suggest the minimum size is increased a little to make it worthwhile when you do find some. I know I can deepline and do but this shouldnt be the answer.

Are you seeing any birds? I can them as usual but still not seeing them. The last update was supposed to fix that but I have yet to see any birds actually flying around.

[McGum]

1. get a tip for 3 days. 2. go there search araund that point (1000m in my case) if you found them mark that location. 3 harpoon them. 4. go in to the map set a point fast travel there close map and open map fast travel back to new mark the fish should respawn. 5. repeat point 3 and 4. (I'm testing how far I can go) i startet with 3 tuna and they respawnt, snipt 11.5k kg got boring because only the 3 tuna respawnt a spot of 6-9 tuna would be nice

[SkyDriver]

Flocks of seagulls are supposed to have something to do with it. Typically (irl) when large game fish are at the surface, they're feeding on small bait fish that stay at the top, littering the water with bits and pieces that attract groups of seagulls. I have found a good many spots to harpoon that way, however maybe 1 out of 5 flocks I spot have anything nearby. I kinda think they're randomly flying around, except when they spot a school of tuna/swordfish. When the school goes away, they go back to squacking and flying around aimlessly until they find the next school.

[rickmcdole]

The only swordfish or tuna I have ever seen on the surface were in the tutorial, and one time when traveling to pull longlines. I went straight to deeplining after the tutorial and have gone a long way since then-many millions in cash. I didn't find the progression hard at all, probably too easy. However, I really feel like I missed harpooning, it was fun in the tutorial. I tried to go back and do it, bought the Full Throttle and went out after swordfish and tuna both. After a 2-3 hours of total (real) time searching: zero. I have had tips as recent as 3 days, followed other boats that looked like they were rigged for harpooning, driven under and through flocks of seagulls a bunch of times, and nothing. I truly don't get how anyone has any measure of success harpooning.

[The Rooster]

i don't know why you can't have deep line rigging and harpoon rigging equiped at the same time, its a stick with a rope attached, can't have both? why not??

[meredith999]

Oprindeligt skrevet af The Rooster:

i don't know why you can't have deep line rigging and harpoon rigging equiped at the same time, its a stick with a rope attached, can't have both? why not??

i agree

[GDMT]

Just switch to Deepline and problem solved. Trust me

[76561198183875966]

I am having the same problem with NOT finding fish to Harpoon after completing the Tutorial. So started new career without tutorial borrow the 10k from bank and got me a deepline rig and a crew member. Started the deepline tutorial. Found a swordfish tip from bar got there sonar showed swordfish and never got a bite. After 72 hours lost rig, but had saved game first. So started over, still no bites waitng the 18 - 24 hours to recover the rig which I ca NOT do. There is not position keepinng my boat keeps drifting before I can get crew member selected and when I can get the deepline in recovery position I have gotten all kinds of reason why I can NOT recovery ie no bite, bouy is red, it takes 2 people to recover...etc. I have yet to recover a deepline, the tutorial is stuck on leave port area. It has never said anything about deploying the deepline or anything. I finally readed the wiki info which was not much help on solving the difficulties I was having. I saw a group of swordfish within harpoon range but It would not let me harpoon them even though my ship is capable to do so. Hitting the swordfish with the harpoon is very difficult. In my 1st tutorial it took me over 20 tries to get my 1st swordfish. I wanted more for the money and I did harpoon six more and the line broke every tine I teied to land it. This game has great potential to be a lot of fun, but currently it leaves a awful lot to be desired. White compass letters/numbers on light blue sky which you can't see. Compass should be black during the day & white at night. The tiny white cursor on the map, it should be a darker color so blind people can find it.

[Mraska]

Start a new game without tutorial and buy deepline upgrate immidiately.
I had same problems, i almost quit the game because there was zero fish to harpoon.