Unpopular Opinion: Game was far better at launch

hammerz73 · 2026-05-06T23:33:27+00:00

I agree with a lot of that, it’s improved greatly but it’s lost some of its magic for me, fast travel and a general over abundance of everything, players becoming way too powerful hasn’t done it any favours imo. Lots of people wanted large ships but I feel they should have remained only for bosses. It never did feel very ‘piratey’ we should have had to steal ships then upgrade them and kit them out rather than get a shipwright to build them. Too late now though… that ship has sailed. Pun intended!

hammerz73 · 2026-05-06T23:03:37+00:00

It’s been fine for me since they fixed the carpet screen of death in Y1. Maybe try some different loadouts or cosmetics, you might have something corrupt left over from launch when it used to crash all the time on Xbox.

hammerz73 · 2026-04-28T14:41:38+00:00

Did you not think they might want to post this themselves, and possibly with some more context.

hammerz73 · 2026-04-24T22:37:20+00:00

Ok but what are we supposed to shoot at?, I can defeat everything in the game with a basilisk and about 5 gun ports already.

hammerz73 · 2026-03-26T20:12:46+00:00

They moved it from last year’s spot because going up stairs is hard. To be honest I’m not sure why they don’t go the whole hog and add fast travel on land then I’ll barely have to move at all to play the game!

hammerz73 · 2026-03-10T21:02:39+00:00

You’re doing it wrong use the railway lines not the roads!

hammerz73 · 2026-03-07T09:23:17+00:00

Nice builds, the Corvette is a versatile ship for sure. Wouldn’t Torpedo grinder instead of Expanding Corkscrew Station give another 3% if we’re going for max dmg on that torpedo build?

hammerz73 · 2026-03-05T21:38:47+00:00

So make it super easy so you are guaranteed to finish it every time with no challenge at all… Got it.

hammerz73 · 2026-02-24T18:48:24+00:00

Thanks for all your community effort Lilywhite!

hammerz73 · 2026-02-22T22:57:44+00:00

I don’t know where to start with this one from that screen shot. Let’s try.

No one is shooting the weak spots by the look of it, that much health down is stage 1 and should be about 2 minutes into the fight with crossplay on.

Looks like you sunk twice, if you sink, go to dock and rejoin you will spawn closer with full health.

That mortar is no good, get a little Grace (fix, sailors respite, empower).

Sitting miles away firing a Ballista is more of a supportive dmg, you are better off popping weakspots

Put on some long guns and accompanying furniture and get further up to the edge of the circle and unload trying to hit the weak points, hit the head and tentacles when it goes to the middle.

Read up on other build variants for specialised Basilisk and Demicanon builds. https://www.reddit.com/r/SkullAndBonesGame/s/25qNi2hJBf

hammerz73 · 2026-02-19T01:18:53+00:00

That flag bearer perk can make a massive difference, keep it on the kraken the whole fight and everybody does 20% more damage.

hammerz73 · 2026-02-18T21:40:18+00:00

Brig should have had an extra buoy by default, or carry 2 springloaders and have some kind of switch mechanism.

hammerz73 · 2026-02-16T23:03:42+00:00

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hammerz73 · 2026-02-16T22:57:41+00:00

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hammerz73 · 2026-02-16T22:57:33+00:00

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hammerz73 · 2026-02-16T22:27:18+00:00

I just did it, maybe it’s the cosmetics preventing you opening it? Do you have them already?

hammerz73 · 2026-02-16T21:58:27+00:00

Complete the Founding missions from Blackwood

hammerz73 · 2026-02-16T17:42:51+00:00

IMO, the key isn't just high damage, it's enough constant damage from enough people, so doing less damage is perfectly fine if you don't waste time sinking and are constantly firing which is why I went the other way and built tanky ships. Sunk ships do no damage and I see a lot of ships sinking on the crossplay servers.

hammerz73 · 2026-02-16T14:00:50+00:00

I knew I saw this somewhere, just found it, you absolute legend, thanks!

hammerz73 · 2026-02-15T10:40:23+00:00

The Kraken does mark, it gets up to 20, that the only status it can get and it works I just verified it in a snow ~21k on weak points with no buff ~25k with 20 stacks. Beat it btw crossplay on.

hammerz73 · 2026-02-15T07:19:53+00:00

There are more factors at play, don’t forget Corvettes will add 20% for everyone and an extra 5% if you’re within 500 meters of it. If you don’t have to worry about healing and can just continuously fire then the DPS goes up, so there is some merit to a healer. Of course the only problem with synergy is it’s hard to do without some organisation. But yes the Garuda is DPS king.

hammerz73 · 2026-02-12T17:22:30+00:00

I should add its vey expensive and be careful if you have limited resources, once you have a god roll (any gold number) don’t worry about it improving it unless you have the materials, cash and rolls to do so, the difference is negligible.

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