Raft OP

[MEg]

we can't place c4 in rafts door or anithing... please make this possible or this "bases" are invulnerable... (making it with metal).

[Sharla Smith]

A couple of Rocket Launchers DESTROY rafts.

[di eshor ribly]

Uhhh, the raft is also made of wood. If you can get under the raft you can whack it to death with a hatchet or pickaxe really quickly. Not everything needs C4 you know.

[MEg]

if a guy make it with metal u can't enter dude...

[di eshor ribly]

The walls, foundations, and all can be metal, but the raft itself is wood. Swim under it and hit. Unless they completely enclose the raft with building parts (which just makes the raft a big shield), it's still just a wood raft.

[MEg]

that make no sense, c4 explodes under water but u can't explode a raft "base"...

[MEg]

Uhmmm that make sense @di eshor ribly

[di eshor ribly]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=527540372

Here's my raft, note it's made of metal. I'm on a pve server so i'm not too worried about it being attacked, but the underside is just wood. I destroyed another raft a tribemate made that no one needed in ten seconds with a blue pickaxe. You really don't need C4 or rockets unless you want to eventually destroy the raft while blowing up it's walls and foundations.

[di eshor ribly]

Here, I logged on for this shot.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=531353293

That is the underside of my metal raft. Note how that wooden part doesnt look very metal. That's because it's wood. Very easily broken with just tools. Hit the soft underbelly!

[Ember-Phoenix]

Originally posted by di eshor ribly:

Here, I logged on for this shot.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=531353293

That is the underside of my metal raft. Note how that wooden part doesnt look very metal. That's because it's wood. Very easily broken with just tools. Hit the soft underbelly!

yep that's how I destroy metal rafts. Wooden underbellies.

[nail]

All you guys saying just hit the underside...I understand the OP's frustration. I made a raft where I built down from it and enclosed the bottom with floors and spike walls. You can't melee the raft at all, I've tried.

HOWEVER!

From raiding other boat bases on the open seas, I've discovered something. Use grenades on them, and the splash damage will go through the walls and damage the wood raft. I discovered this after lobbing around 3/4 grenades or so on the roof of a stone raft base, and the splash damage just destroyed the raft. At least I assume that's what happened...all structures were removed (including loot crates, booo) and the raft was just left there naked. I think the destruct system from explosions is a little buggy, hence why the structures went but not the raft.

Haven't tried this in single player, but I would bet you could just spam under ten grenades at a metal raft base and it would be fubared.

[MEg]

well c4 we need can place in all places anyway... for me it's a bug

[=]H[= Tennessee]

Y'all do realize you can fully enclose them in metal right?

[Dano]

Originally posted by =H= Tennessee88:

Y'all do realize you can fully enclose them in metal right?

Splash damage still works. 2 good rockets will take it out

[I Hate it Here]

If anything rafts are underpowered... Hur dur you can build a giant metal base but it's all for naught if some guy with a hatchet chops the wooden base.

That weakness alone deters anyone from building a base on a raft. I have my base on a raft, but I fear everyday somebody will come and troll me with a hatchet.

Suggestion: Raft health should increase by a proportion of the platforms and foundations you've put on it. So if you have 10k HP worth of foundations, the raft should adopt a chunk of that HP to be its own. This way we don't have some super fortified base sitting on a weak foundation. It also means the more foundations you destroy, the weaker the raft base gets (so base rafts will be weaker than rafts that have been built upon)

[nail]

Originally posted by Awesomesauce:

If anything rafts are underpowered... Hur dur you can build a giant metal base but it's all for naught if some guy with a hatchet chops the wooden base.

That weakness alone deters anyone from building a base on a raft. I have my base on a raft, but I fear everyday somebody will come and troll me with a hatchet.

Suggestion: Raft health should increase by a proportion of the platforms and foundations you've put on it. So if you have 10k HP worth of foundations, the raft should adopt a chunk of that HP to be its own. This way we don't have some super fortified base sitting on a weak foundation. It also means the more foundations you destroy, the weaker the raft base gets (so base rafts will be weaker than rafts that have been built upon)

Or just build round the raft to shield it. Totally possible, I've done it.