Fishing game is infuriating

[Sililos]

There is just no way to tell where the bobber is going to go!
I cant get past 13 and need 50! 50!? And it gets HARDER even when you miss? Really REALLY stupid design. (Granted, all the minigames are total cancer on what is otherwise, an enjoyable game)

There needs to be some sort of marker to give us some idea of where its going to land, like EVERY other game that uses a minigame like this.

Just remember dev, people who spend money on free idle games (like me) dont spend when we are pissed off by stuff like this!

[Sea Emp]

Think the bobber has a fixed throw rate relative to the red gauge. You either do enough and remember the pattern as an indicator or make one yourself.

[(ง ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ)งBonesMcSpook]

Personally I think it needs to be more accurate. The bar does not line up with the same % of water it will land travel over.

I've gotten 43, its possible but it could use some tweaking for accuracy for sure.
You kind of get a feel for it, but it feels really tricky to go max power and not reach the very end, feels weird how much power you can get at like 1-2 bars and still barely move too.

EDIT: Most of the time I do fail before I get over 10. But when you get a good combo going its actually easier because there's so many more fish to hit. And I find that by the time the squid starts showing up, you can almost always go full power or almost full power and hit it or the yellow fish.

Honestly, you just eventually get the feel for certain spots like the very end and the center, everything else feels hard to hit.

[haelsemikiro]

Wait wait...what requires a fishing score of 50? I remember there being a quest from the whale that said 50, but I also remember that being cumulative game score, not needing to be done in a single minigame

[Sililos]

Originally posted by haelsemikiro:

Wait wait...what requires a fishing score of 50? I remember there being a quest from the whale that said 50, but I also remember that being cumulative game score, not needing to be done in a single minigame

That would make sense too me it being cumulative, but in my game at least, its been stuck at 13, my highest score and never passed it despite pumping many attempts in.

*Edit* Ok it appears to only be 'stuck' at 13 on my main character, one of my alts at least has it acting cumulative.

[RAD-82]

Originally posted by Sililos:

Ok it appears to only be 'stuck' at 13 on my main character, one of my alts at least has it acting cumulative.

You should probably forfeit the quest from the codex and get the quest again to see if that fixes it.

[Hering]

Please. Do something about the fishing minigame and the whale quest. Let me grind a total score of 10000, let me buy a bigger bobber, let me buy a "complete quest" token. With gems if you want, I don't care. Just make this quest possible to complete for people without first-person-shooter reflexes. I've been trying for about two months, using all my minigame tries on it, dont stand a chance. Never even seen that damned whale.

[Apoc]

Trying it daily for a couple days/weeks made me so good I got the whale with most of my characters, sometimes even two in the same 5 tries of one day. Now if I try again without training daily I'm awful at it again. It's one of the hardest minigame, at least quest wise, but you'll get a lucky try here and there where multiples fishes will spawn close to each other so you can catch more than once at a time or make it harder to miss.

One good tip is to take it slow, there is no time limit. Be sure to check the pattern of the fish when they start moving to time it where they will move into your line and not away from it if you miss the perfect spot. Also make sure they will move where you land and not stop right before it and lose your progress/combo.

[Hering]

I wouldn't have complained if I didn't already try all that for weeks...