After almost 1000 hours at sea, still never seen a Shrouded Ghost. Wondered how many pirates have actually seen one?
Who's actually seen a Shrouded Ghost?
@sideshowz1ggy coming up on 6k hours, not even a glimpse of the damn thing.
I also think this is highly impacted with the amount of issues over the years with meg spawns/despawns etc
@thegingrprince knew someone must have. But good to hear from someone who actually has. Tonight's the night for me hopefully.
An unusual amount in season 11.
With what has gone on with the box of secrets it's not something I have much confidence in anymore.
I've hunted megs a very long time, they pop up here and there, I've never seen entirely different friend groups get 2,3,4 different ghosts in a season before. Not even when megs were far more common years ago.
Could be a fluke season but with direction of the game and how the box of secrets was treated in recent seasons, it's not something I like to see as someone that values the hunt.
I got it, along with a few friends about a month ago. That took about 1300-1400 hours? Everyone I was playing with at the time had significantly less time than I had, it’s just RNG.
@reverend-toast said in Who's actually seen a Shrouded Ghost?:
I have over 3500 hours in game and I have killed an emergent one once.
Hours is pretty irrelevant in a ghost hunt, it's all about play style and overall encounters.
Lots of people have 3k+ hours in the game but play in a way that will encounter minimal megs, especially with all the meg spawn bugs that have existed over the years.
I have some of the worst rng I've ever seen (which is cool because I would do it even if I never encountered one)
I have nearly 7k confirmed meg encounters and well over 10k encounters if someone were to accept unconfirmed encounters
2 shrouded ghosts
100% organic play, I have no idea how the alliance servers do with their hunts, I only pay attention to organic play. Everyone gathered round taking out every meg that spawns is gonna be very different than a random organic server.
@sideshowz1ggy said in Who's actually seen a Shrouded Ghost?:
I try to keep away from islands as long as not one need to go to and in open sea. Encountered quite a few megs just not the Shrouded yet.
Do you enjoy the journey?
The most important thing is enjoying how you spend your time. A shrouded ghost is just a cool thing in an adventure environment. Maybe it'll happen and maybe it won't but if you don't enjoy the hunt it'll just start to get frustrating and discouraging.
I do because I love it. I love studying the environment, figuring out all the patterns, optimizing, strategizing, I love the chess of it all, the risk, factoring in pvp threats. Planning ahead and having back up plans.
Do what you love, that's the reward. You still have a chance while sailing around doing whatever you enjoy doing.
@sideshowz1ggy I have during the event where the added it to the game for a short time before removing it out side that one time it's not real
@wolfmanbush Yeah organic is the way I get most of my Megs. The one time I did see the Shrouded Ghost was when there were multiple ships circling the Fort of the Damned. I didn't realize they had different music for the encounter, so we thought another player was playing music through their mic at first till the guy piloting my ship yelled "ITS THE SHROUDED GHOST!!!" and everyone dropped what they were doing to get credit for the kill.
Its amazing how something can just bring people together 😛
@reverend-toast said in Who's actually seen a Shrouded Ghost?:
@wolfmanbush Yeah organic is the way I get most of my Megs. The one time I did see the Shrouded Ghost was when there were multiple ships circling the Fort of the Damned. I didn't realize they had different music for the encounter, so we thought another player was playing music through their mic at first till the guy piloting my ship yelled "ITS THE SHROUDED GHOST!!!" and everyone dropped what they were doing to get credit for the kill.
Its amazing how something can just bring people together 😛
I LOVE the clips where everyone stops fighting and focus on the shrouded
Especially now that megs will just avoid conflict and despawn if they spawn on other people that leave/sink.
My favorites are when it stops combat and when solos have an encounter and get the kill.
Such an awesome part of what this game has been.
@sideshowz1ggy the thing is, with how rare it actually is and with the amount of issues the ai spawns in general have and have had who knows maybe it has actually become something that is not obtainable.
While i have alot of trust in rare in general to me the their observational skills in issues like this is really REALLY bad.
It took over a year for them to even acknowledge meg spawning issues after the introduction of sea forts.
Lets see the issues AI has and has had over the years:
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high amount of shark spawns, this has happened multiple times over the years and is ongoing currently with them claiming multiple times it has been fixed
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skeleton ships spawning obnoxiously often, recently fixed again, also happened multiple times already
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skeleton ships not repairing, also has been going on for quite some time now
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megs not being able to attack/despawning upon attack also going on for quite some time
And like this there have been more and currently too many for me to even remember.
If at some point i would hear them say:
“Hey players, upon further investigation the only way to run into a shrouded ghost is to be at location xyz, with at least one player on your team that has less then x amount of time played, this was unintended and has been adjusted”
I would not even be like “how?!?!”, i would honestly be like, “Yep that makes sense for this game to be that broken on something like this”
The game is complicated and i have a feeling that the developers are dealing with an insane amount of technical debt causing issues similar to this.
As a software engineer myself, i would love to have a look in their source code and see what they are actually dealing with.
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@wolfmanbush I am actually a little okay when the Meg that was on another boat that sinks despawns... mostly cuz there was a bunch of times I would be solo slooping and sinking a Galleon that spawned a Meg, and the Meg kept behaving like it was a Galleon Meg hitting my poor sloop, causing 5 holes per bite... and biting every half rotation 😛
@wolfmanbush
Yes!
The box of secrets was something really cool and unique to stumble upon because it was actually rare. Shame it had no title to go along with it.(I was a lucky one to find one of those things when I went to the ROAR a total of 10 times in my 3.6k hours played lol).
I quit not too long ago but saw the recent event with the box of secrets. Was a bit ridiculous people hoarding like 20 of them on their ships for photo ops.
I know it's ''just a game'' but it definitely lost its magic when you give it to everyone... Same for the shrouded ghost to be honest to some degree if people played the meg adventure, you had to kill it.That's the nature of things when a company wants everyone to win a participation medal, it tears away that magic factor.
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