Yeah, I’m up for that.

Three weeks of fun incoming...

1.37gig patch is now live. Be warned, I had to boot the game to get it to pop.

It might well for some peeps, but I had to force mine.

Gonna take a quick look at the Brigantine now, doubt I’ll get on tonight.

Edit: Well, it’s a cracking wee ship. So excited for this.

Spoilers. Fucks sake Grem. Ruined everything.

Catling Gannon?

Well. This is immense...and insanely difficult. Reckon you're going to have to have an Armada of ships to get the job done.

Me and Sparkles boarded a Brigantine and set sail for the battle. How hard could this be? Skelly ship appears to the port side from beneath the waves (it's an amazing sight) and we open fire as it come along side.
Completely failing (of course) to notice that a second Skelly ship has also emerged from the depths to our starboard.
They hit us with cursed cannonballs that make you dance for about twenty seconds and there's fuck all you can do to avoid them. They even affect you if you're below decks. We're the meat in a Skelly sandwich and we sink like a stone.

So then we head for Golden Sands outpost to start the quest properly and we form an alliance with another Brigantine. Lovely peeps. Two guys from Texas and an English girl. They've just suffered the same fate as us, so we use the new alliance system and jump into a party with them.
The spoils of battle may well be shared in an alliance, but that's about it. Stupidly, friendly fire is still on, and there's no option to spawn on an alliance ship if you're dead or in the water. That's a glaring omission given the nature of what lies ahead.

There then follows a three hour battle where we manage to sink seven Skelly ships while dying and sinking and re-sailing back to the battle repeatedly. The fecking Megalodon even showed up at one point and attacked us while we were battling the Skelly ships. Utter chaos!
As long as one person was still alive in the water, the battle doesn't reset.
Eventually that came down to me floating about waiting for our alliance comrades to return in a new ship...and I got eaten by a fucking shark and the battle resets. FUCKSTICKS.

We came so close. Seven of eight Skelly ships sunk, and just the final named Skelly captain on the one remaining ship, and a fucking shark spawns and fucks us over.
Has to be said, the cursed cannonballs are a rancid thing imo. So annoying when you're sinking fast and your entire crew is stuck dancing like twats and there's nothing you can do to save your ship.
But yes, this is seriously awesome, and you are absolutely going to have to form alliances with as many ships as possible to get the job done. This really does make The Hungering Deep look like a walk in the park.

great times

g.man

Jesus, that sounds tough.

That would be awesome

Goober, Boozy and I spent best part of three hours sailing around the map and not a fecking sniff of a Skelly ship.

I've never seen the kraken or meg in game, and barely ever any human pirates. to be honest i'm starting to suspect this whole thing is one massive ruse at my expense...

bad_hair_day wrote:

Goober, Boozy and I spent best part of three hours sailing around the map and not a fecking sniff of a Skelly ship.

The Skelly hanging outside the bar on every outpost has a note underneath him that tells you where to go for the battle.

Rumours abound on the official forums that you may have to face as many as 10 ships to complete the battle, but we had the named Captain spawn on what was definitely ship number 8 last night. Whatever the truth, it's a lot of fucking ships.
You'll need to be in an alliance, and you'll need to have all the supplies you can carry. Even then, you'll probably have to restock multiple times from the barrels that spawn in the sea around the battle. It's fucking hardcore stuff, but it's a hell of a lot of fun.

g.man wrote:

Kraken is currently disabled, but here you go peeps, the Megalodon will attack the Skelly ships too.

Brilliant. Anyone try to board a Skellie ship last night? Also, getting into the water with TNT to try and sink them that way? Might be a way to avoid the boogie-balls.