Will Flameheart Return? Or has Rare abandoned him all together?

  • I like so many have wondered when we will get the 3rd flameheart tall tale. With the development of the “Pirates Life” tall tales, it makes sense why Flameheart was cast aside. The problem is that there is no evidence that Flameheart will get a new tall tale. Yes we got 2 new world events from him but all Flameheart lore has apparently come to an end.

    @rare-employee Is this true? Has Flameheart been forgotten?

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  • False! He can’t be forgotten when he literally shouting across the waves saying about your supplies must be dwindling by now!

    I’m sure one day he will make a grand return to the scene however his story is still progressing but slowly as in the Dark Berthen tall tale, one of the journal talks about Wonda confesses his love toward him, only to have her heart broken and laughed at by Flameheart himself.

  • After months and months ( and one full year? )
    of lagg accumulation I must say I really do not want Flameheart in the game if the lagg is not fixed again.
    I do not want to have the feeling Flameheart is an epic fight just because of the lagg. :(

  • His story will return at some point I'm sure.

  • Return? The loudmouth never left! 🙉

  • @odyssee-mit-tee said in Will Flameheart Return? Or has Rare abandoned him all together?:

    After months and months ( and one full year? )
    of lagg accumulation I must say I really do not want Flameheart in the game if the lagg is not fixed again.
    I do not want to have the feeling Flameheart is an epic fight just because of the lagg. :(

    Lag is a problem on your end, and on your hardware, not on the servers.

  • Flameheart is in the minds of Rare employees. If you’ve watched the recent podcast they released, you’d be aware that they discussed him. (And if you haven’t, it’s worth a watch. It does seem a month later than they thought, though.) They said they’ve been planning through Season 7 at this point, and it would be shocking if none of that had Flameheart.

  • I don't want to go into too much detail due to spoilers but, if you pay attention to journals and conversations during the A Pirate's Life Tall Tales, it's quite obvious they are still building to something with Flameheart. He may not be front and center, but the lore is definitely moving forward.

  • Nope. He’s gone forever. The developers probably lost his story on a post-it note under a table somewhere. Sorry.
    It’s not like video games are time consuming to produce or that they just wrapped up a massive project that enriched the entire game world. They simply got distracted and forgot it. Shame.

  • @mostexpendable don’t be so defeatist. We don’t know for sure that Flameheart’s story has been abandoned.

  • @gundy-the-shark Pretty sure they were being sarcastic.

  • @mferr11 hey, I appreciated that he cared enough to check.

  • @blam320 sagte in Will Flameheart Return? Or has Rare abandoned him all together?:

    Lag is a problem on your end, and on your hardware, not on the servers.

    Would you like it if I had said HITREC instead of lagg? ; )
    Oh em gee!
    I play this game since 6 months after release and my hardware has stayed the same.
    My computer is quite fast too.

    SoThieves is lagging in itself and it got worse and worse for a long time, slowly but surely.

    Skeletons hitting you without animation.
    Shooting you with a pistole from a distance that formerly only a Sniper could.
    In general Skellies attacking you SOOOOO quickly compared to before it is just insane.

    When this game was still fresh, they walked into your face and Skellies would only attack you after like 1,5 seconds after standing still.
    But now they stand in your face for like 0,5 seconds and the first attack comes.
    Which really annoys me - especially on Skeletongalleons and the like.

    I liked boarding them and having a look around on a super stylish and cool haunted Ship that I would like to sail myself.
    THIS is the level of customization that I want!
    Not just another coloration to whip over the same old grid & layout.

    .
    Back to the hitrec/lagg.
    The Skeleton Lords too are partially affected by it. Although normal Skeletons much more.
    My experience fighting them in early release stages differs greatly from the current state.
    Ironically they feel easier to kill because of the accumulated ingame lagg.

    Except for the Ashenlord who's attacks are designed to home in on you much more.
    Flameheart himself would also be a Skellylord probably?
    At this point he is such an anticipated "last boss villain" type of character - it will be very hard to bring him in so that most players will be satisfied.

    Like the fairly unexpected rematch against the Goldhoarder. Epic du~de.
    But ultimately - I really want the game-lagg gone.
    Feels just better.

  • @coffeelight5545
    After reading the newest Champion of Souls comic, it seems that Flameheart is coming soon.
    In the comic, Arthur Pendragon refers to Flameheart as "the greatest threat to the Sea of Thieves" Which sounds like he might be coming back into the spotlight. And the comic takes place right before Heart of Fire, so it's not like the Dark Brethren was more of a threat at the time.
    I hope we get Flameheart before the Cap'n

  • @grumpyw01f

    I hope so. The new video Rare released looks like it’s expanding on the Pirates Life tall tales instead of the Flameheart tall tales.

    I understand why that is. Most people complete the tall tales and then forget them. Personally I feel Rare should dedicate one month to a tall tale similar to the monthly events and give a single cosmetic from the particular cosmetics that can be awarded from each tall tale such as the “Magpies Capstan”

    Rare seems more interested in creating world events and or area’s with different events. It’s understandable but I wish they would finish Flameheart. I hope if we ever get a 4th set of tall tales that they are all released at once or ready to go and released in one to three month segments

  • @odyssee-mit-tee said in Will Flameheart Return? Or has Rare abandoned him all together?:

    @blam320 sagte in Will Flameheart Return? Or has Rare abandoned him all together?:

    Lag is a problem on your end, and on your hardware, not on the servers.

    Would you like it if I had said HITREC instead of lagg? ; )
    Oh em gee!
    I play this game since 6 months after release and my hardware has stayed the same.
    My computer is quite fast too.

    SoThieves is lagging in itself and it got worse and worse for a long time, slowly but surely.

    Skeletons hitting you without animation.
    Shooting you with a pistole from a distance that formerly only a Sniper could.
    In general Skellies attacking you SOOOOO quickly compared to before it is just insane.

    When this game was still fresh, they walked into your face and Skellies would only attack you after like 1,5 seconds after standing still.
    But now they stand in your face for like 0,5 seconds and the first attack comes.
    Which really annoys me - especially on Skeletongalleons and the like.

    I liked boarding them and having a look around on a super stylish and cool haunted Ship that I would like to sail myself.
    THIS is the level of customization that I want!
    Not just another coloration to whip over the same old grid & layout.

    .
    Back to the hitrec/lagg.
    The Skeleton Lords too are partially affected by it. Although normal Skeletons much more.
    My experience fighting them in early release stages differs greatly from the current state.
    Ironically they feel easier to kill because of the accumulated ingame lagg.

    Except for the Ashenlord who's attacks are designed to home in on you much more.
    Flameheart himself would also be a Skellylord probably?
    At this point he is such an anticipated "last boss villain" type of character - it will be very hard to bring him in so that most players will be satisfied.

    Like the fairly unexpected rematch against the Goldhoarder. Epic du~de.
    But ultimately - I really want the game-lagg gone.
    Feels just better.

    I've been playing literally since Day 1, with the same hardware the whole time. I've had ZERO lag issues. So once again, any "lag" you're experiencing is on your end. The only other thing I can think of is server latency or connection issues.

    Even still, don't be dishonest and just label everything "lagg." That's not even how you use or spell "lag" to begin with.

  • Could be worse

    You could be a George R.R. Martin fan.

  • @blam320
    Since day1? Hmh. I wrote lag wrong? Oh sorry. ;)

    If you played since the first day though you must know what I mean.
    There is a form of lag in the game that has slowly accumulated and gotten worse.

    OR I am indeed wrong and Rare has just slowly but surely buffed the speed of Skeletons, which is just so horrible.
    They are just rotten remains of former clearheaded Pirates so they should be more sluggish.
    Your own Zombie won't be as nimble as yourself.

    I wish Rare would nerf the Skeletons attack speed again. The current Skeletons are annoying.
    I remember a time in which I cleared fort-wave after fort-wave without catching even a single attack on myself.

    But now they attack as unpredictable and quick it is just annoying.
    Sometimes even without animation. And I see it happening in streams of Pace22 aka Pace_X too.
    So it is definitely not just me.

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