Ok so over the past few days i have been doing level 40 Gold Hoaders Quests and only seem to be getting Castaway's and Seafarer's Chests, yesterday i played in total of about 6-10 hours and did not receive 1 Captain's Chest the whole day not even at any shipwrecks, even when doing an Island that contains 4-6 X's still no Captains Chests, am i the only one that has noticed this or W*F is going on as i'm confused as hell.
Where have the Captain's Chests gone?
@tripphazzardtv
I think they randomized the probability what chest you get and the probability of getting a captain's chest is real low nowadays.
That's an awful game design in my opinion. You should get higher chests at the end of a long voyages and for real hard to find treasures on big islands or if a lot of skeletons are around on the island, maybe a captain skeleton could guard that treasure too, but not give you a skull if he dies.
The whole voyage concept of doing a voyage with more maps in a row doesn't makes any sense if you don't get better treasure at the end. It's really frustrating if you get a castaway chest after a long voyage ends.@barnacle-remson Yeah i mean yesterday me and friend did a 3 part Voyage with a total of about 13 Maps and did not get 1 good chest from it, even the "Message in a Bottle" Quests are giving bad loot, and i have also noticed you can dig up a Castaway Chest and then get swarmed by about 6 Aimbot Skeleton's which pretty much strip your health when the shoot you it makes not sense which is why i am confused at what Rare has done to the game as it seems to have only been like this since the maintenance this week.
@tripphazzardtv interesting.
I've been doing 45s. Normal haul is 80% marauders and captains. Exact balance seems to swing but it's generally in favour of captains.
Yesterday, though, it was all about the castaways and seafarers. Only one cursed chest. Bad day.
Edit: to clarify. I dont think it's the patch because wednesday was business as usual. I'm guessing I just got screwed by rng but I'll see how it plays out over the weekend.
@santevia yeah this is what i am thinking, its just gone really weird over the last few days, but i think on Wednesday i had 1 captains chest and since then none and i get a lot of voyages done as i play about 6-8 hours a day maybe more.
@onyx-wartooth see i don't have a problem with Villanous skulls i did a few OOS Quests and ended up with about 8 after a full Voyage but the Captain's chest is what has taken a turn for worse especially for me
@barnacle-remson I did not know that, is there any specific reason for this? Or am I just being a scrub on the forums and missing some unspoken rule?
I was thinking they upped the drop rates of things, even random stuff on islands.
Yesterday I got about 30 chests, about 12 were captains, found 3 villainous skulls just laying around, 3 message in a bottles on one ship. Basically everywhere I went there was something also just laying there.
So either I just got extremely lucky or they did something. Was a good night nonetheless.
Edit: even found a chest of sorrow just randomly on an island (those are fun solo lol)
@barnacle-remson it's still an interesting data point because legendary only give legendary chests at the end. The rest are Muggle chests so the variation should also be represented there.
I'll be playing on and off most of the weekend so I'll keep an eye on it.
@tripphazzardtv I did a few hours last night and while doing some Order of Souls voyages, I came across a few randomly placed Captain's chests in bushes, caves and that island with the broken/burnt down town place with the small cemetery. I have had some that were few and far between but lately they have been randomly placed on islands.
Notice the same thing. Yesterday I did a 30+ hoarders, 2 riddles, 2 maps with 4 dig spots out of the 2 of them. Seafarers and Castaway chest where super dominated. Found 1 Captains chest on the last dig. Really diminishes the enjoyment, and than to get jump by skeletons for a low end reward seems flawed. Also doing a single riddle quest that only yields a Castaways or Seafarers chest is a b****r.
Maybe related, but I've noticed that in the same time period, all my merchants quests have been pretty lackluster in terms of requested goods versus my previous experience. A lot of asking for the cheaper pigs/chickens/snakes.
I completely agree that when you have a long riddle on a huge island, or wave after wave of skeletons, it feels like that should somehow be representative of the value of the prize at the end of the mission.
Only at rank 30 for the Gold hoarders currently but i do indeed notice a trend in only getting Castaway or Seafarers chests from voyages of my current rank. However it seems recently if i am to partake in a lower ranked Pirates voyage the rewards dug up seem to give many Marauders and Captains chests as rewards.
I have however noticed that a few islands had nearly a guaranteed Captains chest or higher spawn on them no voyage needed (looking at you extensive cave systems of Devils Ridge)
Seems fine. Looks like RNG was trolling me
Here's something though. I play with someone who's almost exactly the same level as me. When we play, we get this. If I join up with randos, my quests drop castaways and other assorted uselessness.
I wonder if there's some level averaging going on, to prevent people boosting others too hard. It would certainly explain why people think level 49-50 is so hard (it's not, it takes approx 30 captains or equivalent)
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