"No Sharks" Mode Please

[alicia7tommy]

Can we have a mode where there are NO sharks? I wish I could just play and not have to worry about all the killer sharks trying to eat my flesh.

[JiffyPopKids]

Originally posted by cwkohl2012:

To turn shark mode off, press ALT F4.

LOL.

But yeah I sort of agree with the OP. The sharks take whatever fun there is in the game out of it and throw it in the garbage. if I could actually go underwater and have fun without the threat of my game ending, (Which IRL a shark does not often come this close to the beach) that would b great! Yeah shark repelent could work, but I honestly don't wanna craft an item to make the game easier.

[Eternal]

Sharks, poisonous fishes, poisonous bushes, poisonous snakes... So i adapted.. never in water period. Kill snakes first on island, and cary with me 6 crates with all i need including pipi drinks ... I can only survive 1 hour in like 6 months... Rest there is nms, astroneer, factorio peaceful mode... This is life i guess...

[frillen]

Originally posted by JiffyPopKids:

Originally posted by cwkohl2012:

To turn shark mode off, press ALT F4.

LOL.

But yeah I sort of agree with the OP. The sharks take whatever fun there is in the game out of it and throw it in the garbage. if I could actually go underwater and have fun without the threat of my game ending, (Which IRL a shark does not often come this close to the beach) that would b great! Yeah shark repelent could work, but I honestly don't wanna craft an item to make the game easier.

Let me tell you a little story Jiffy :)

My main character(savegame) has broken bones for the past 42 days and has such a low HP that his watch is beeping once in a while, he cannot take a hit from a shark or anything else dangerous without dying, so I backed up this savegame and started a fresh to do some experiments.
Within the first day I had a base with smoker, solar still, shelter and some basic tools.
Before the end of day 2 I had killed 3 sharks, crafted a loom, tanning rack, 4 farming plots with pipi.
In a couple more days I had gathered more pipi from other islands and made a decent raft with sail and rudder + killed a few more sharks.
I now had a few picks and a decent amount of antidote, some of them I made into shark repellent, and from here on the experiment really began...
I began to sail between islands loaded with smoked shark meat, picks, shark repellent, antidote, 2 waterskins and a torch.
I built a quick shelter and a solar still on an island, consumed a shark repellent early in the morning and jumped in the water, emptied all wrecks of loot and mined all clay, I didn't care if I got poisoned because I know it doesn't stack or hurt you more if you already are poisoned, so I waited until my HP had lost a few bars before I used an antidote, and within a few hours all the lost HP was recovered.
I did this for 3 or 4 days and then started to ferry it all back to my home island and when I was done I looked at several stacks of loot crates full of stuff and huge piles of sticks, logs and clay, I had more than enough clay to build a decent house and then it suddenly struck me...

I had removed or minimized just about all dangers so there was nothing that stopped me from racing through the game - I was now at a point where I didn't really need anything more, and looking back I realized that I didn't even had fun, well at first yes, but knowing that nothing really bad could happen to me made me just grind away.
I wasn't much more than roughly 10 days into this savegame and I suddenly felt bored because nothing challenged me, I didn't even bother building a house - I just left the game with a feeling of having sort of wasted a day on this playthrough.

You see the point is:
Without any danger/challenge that will make you be more cautious and slow you down, the quicker you will burn yourself out in a game :)

[Crackatau]

No sharks, no challenge, no fun..... Boring! Easy as that.

[JiffyPopKids]

yeah but, the sharks are not a challange they are just annoying.

[Crackatau]

Originally posted by JiffyPopKids:

yeah but, the sharks are not a challange they are just annoying.

Well, the game would certainly be more fun without any "annoying" things, wouldn't It? Nothing to care about at all. Just like....laying on the beach, kinda......... BOOOOOORING

[JiffyPopKids]

Originally posted by Crackatau:

Originally posted by JiffyPopKids:

yeah but, the sharks are not a challange they are just annoying.

Well, the game would certainly be more fun without any "annoying" things, wouldn't It? Nothing to care about at all. Just like....laying on the beach, kinda......... BOOOOOORING

That's already how it is now. a lay on the beach and drink coconuts simulator and it's still BOOOOOOORING with or without sharks.

[frillen]

Originally posted by JiffyPopKids:

yeah but, the sharks are not a challange they are just annoying.

So if you fx are caught out at a deep wreck by a tiger shark and know you probably won't make it back to the beach without the shark attacking you, then you don't feel challenged, but rather annoyed?
It is possible to see challenges in just about any survival games as annoying, problem is with such an attitude, you will likely find most survival games boring and not have fun for long :)

While I kinda agree that basic survival is way too easy in Stranded Deep and sharks being too predictable(easy to kill), they are still the main factor and without them there wouldn't be a Stranded Deep as we know it.

You often talk about the good old days of Stranded Deep and how great it was back then, but sharks were present back then too and sometimes in greater numbers + You had far less effective weapons to fight them with(pocket knife, axe or machete)

[JiffyPopKids]

Originally posted by frillen:

You often talk about the good old days of Stranded Deep and how great it was back then, but sharks were present back then too and sometimes in greater numbers + You had far less effective weapons to fight them with(pocket knife, axe or machete)

And yeah, the good old days of Stranded Deep were good because it was actually fun? It was a challange to kill the sharks not a sit on my raft and fire a few spears. The addition of all these new items just made the sharks more annyoing than fun. (For me anyway. I'm not speaking for anyone other than myself guys, Don't know why you think I'm not) It's like that one itch you have on your back that you can't reach but you could grab a pencil and it would be gone. but if you're to bothered to grab that pencil (or in other words kill the shark) the itch is still there annoying you and annoying you until it finally goes away a few minutes later. (Hours later in the game)

TLDR: The sharks currenty in this game make it annoying for me.

To improve them I could suggest make them easier to kill, a bigger threat, or differient sizes. Bigger ones did more damage and smaller ones you could stick on a spear like a fish or crab.

[frillen]

Originally posted by JiffyPopKids:

Originally posted by frillen:

You often talk about the good old days of Stranded Deep and how great it was back then, but sharks were present back then too and sometimes in greater numbers + You had far less effective weapons to fight them with(pocket knife, axe or machete)

And yeah, the good old days of Stranded Deep were good because it was actually fun? It was a challange to kill the sharks not a sit on my raft and fire a few spears. The addition of all these new items just made the sharks more annyoing than fun. (For me anyway. I'm not speaking for anyone other than myself guys, Don't know why you think I'm not) It's like that one itch you have on your back that you can't reach but you could grab a pencil and it would be gone. but if you're to bothered to grab that pencil (or in other words kill the shark) the itch is still there annoying you and annoying you until it finally goes away a few minutes later. (Hours later in the game)

TLDR: The sharks currenty in this game make it annoying for me.

To improve them I could suggest make them easier to kill, a bigger threat, or differient sizes. Bigger ones did more damage and smaller ones you could stick on a spear like a fish or crab.

So you think that removing them would make the game more fun?
No one is forcing you to use ranged weapons when dealing with them, we have the freedom to play the way we like, set some rules for your gameplay, fight the sharks the way you like to fight them - A lot of oldtimers do this and are actually having fun with it :)

In my opinion the old days was only good because the game was new and in some ways groundbreaking.
The only thing I see as a backstep is the loss of the infinite procedural world, just about anything else was worse back then, and yes even the islands back then while having different shapes, they were still more or less flat beaches with a few rocks, trees and such, they weren't really that different from each other.
And while they constantly remove things which I also don't understand either, the overall graphics, sound and game experience has improved quite a bit, if you don't believe me just fire it up in exp 0.04H2 and see for yourself :)

[fluxtorrent]

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[City Builder]

I'll never understand why some people feel the need to impose what they find fun on others and how some folks can find fun and excitement in things that they can not.

Yes, I'd like to see a mod with passive sharks. I personally don't find them to be fun or exciting but rather repetitive and boring and would just assume turn them off and find my fun in finding resources and building objects and buildings.

Has anybody since April found a passive shark mod?

[Death]

My 2 cents on the subject is that I think the sharks are cool and add much needed threat, but my issue is how quickly they respawn. You can't kill one and search a wreck before another one shows up and it just becomes more of nuisance than anything.

[Cosmo]

Originally posted by fri.:

I look for sharks, I track down sharks, I hunt sharks, I kill sharks, and I collect them.

I prefer stamps to poor Sharks Dolphins myself, the postman brings me a new one every time he goes past my island on his bicycle.



Cosmo and Fred

[kit-kat]

Originally posted by Caius:

yeah....especially the snakes. If they would do a Stranded Deep set in a jungle I would probably die of hearth attack the moment I step foot on a anaconda...+_+

You should check out Green Hell. ;)