The future of pets - Fix teleport, whistle to call, animations and more

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    Pets have arrived at Sea Of Thieves and it's time to look forward and how to improve them.
    Some of these things were pointed out in Insider, but it is good to do it here.

    Fix Teleport
    Eliminate those fading transitions and that the pet really makes an animation from one place to another on the ship.
    This will enrich the immersion and will make pets feel more alive.

    Whistle to call
    Sometimes we need our pets or we do not find them (partly because of teleport), whistling them to get close would be a good addition.

    React to the environment
    was the ship damaged? a skeleton ship appeared? the pet must react to those things.

    More animations
    This is very broad, but some examples:

    • dig for food while waiting on the island
    • fly around the ship
    • climbing stairs (part of the animations when solving the teleport)

    Hopefully the team in charge of pets can work on this for the next update.

    Thanks 😉.

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  • this really needs to do it into the game. specially the fix teleport. I don't like how pets just teleport to get onto the front of the wheel, like, suddenly you see a parrot appear in front of you... really? above everything about pets, this has to be fixed asap.

    Also, i mentioned it many many times, but as simple as it sounds: parrots could whistle along when we play shanties, specially with the drums! (I made a post on this a few days ago)

  • Idk... for such a Hype they created and the time they took to finally include the pets in-game... it just seems kind of poor. Pets could feel more alive... maybe have some minigames with the pet, whistle to come to you, and im pretty sure we could find more activities to do with them...
    Btw why the birds puke when eating worms?

    Yehaaa!!
    Spread the curse in the seaas!!

  • They already react to some things, my parrot was freaking out when fireballs from a volcano were landing around us. But yeah, definitely fine tune it more and more, and definitely fix the teleport thing.

  • It would be cool:

    • Pets shaking when they get wet (storm, coming out of the water, bucket).
    • Pets affected by cursed cannon balls.
    • In some way, interactions between them when 2 or more are in the same crew, like dancing and cheering up.

    Some things need polishing as well, like the HUD for taking the pet out of the cage.

  • They already said that the teleport thing would require too much ressources, manpower and time for them to "fix". They decided that it wasn't worth it right now and wanted to spend those ressources on other, more important things.

  • @fractal-pitch dijo en The future of pets - Fix teleport, whistle to call, animations and more:

    They already said that the teleport thing would require too much ressources, manpower and time for them to "fix". They decided that it wasn't worth it right now

    They will fix this once they get all the incomes from our purchases.

  • @guilleont a dit dans The future of pets - Fix teleport, whistle to call, animations and more :

    @fractal-pitch dijo en The future of pets - Fix teleport, whistle to call, animations and more:

    They already said that the teleport thing would require too much ressources, manpower and time for them to "fix". They decided that it wasn't worth it right now

    They will fix this once they get all the incomes from our purchases.

    I'd like that but I don't think they'll do it any time soon sadly.

  • @fractal-pitch well... It's not that bad IMO. If it's going to take ages, I prefer them to focus in new content and features. But who knows? Maybe they can hire new devs!

  • @guilleont a dit dans The future of pets - Fix teleport, whistle to call, animations and more :

    @fractal-pitch well... It's not that bad IMO. If it's going to take ages, I prefer them to focus in new content and features. But who knows? Maybe they can hire new devs!

    We can always hope !
    But I'm like you, I prefer to have new content and features than the pets doing an animation when going to a hangout spot by themselves. And I'm sure that a lot of people who won't pay for pets would think the same :)

  • We really don't know how they handle resources in Rare. Teleport should be a priority, we are talking about payment cosmetics.

  • Hiring more people doesn't magically solve problems. Pets are always going to teleport in some cases or else they will just get stuck and become unusable. The best they can do is minimize the chance of it happening.

  • @quietrobot Well I paid for it and it doesn't bother me that much. That would be cool but that won't bring anything interesting to the game, so no I don't want them to focus all of their different teams entirely on this and delay other content.
    If the team working on pets focus on this, we won't get anything in the emporium or other features with pets for quite a long time.

    I'm more bothered by the fact that we can't interact with them more or that some options are missing.

  • Right now the game is becoming more bugged with every update: performance issues overall.

    More devs means more people working and more features released in less time. One team can focus on bugs, while others focus on new pets, TT, cosmetics and hell... Fixing combat?

    I love the people that go "I support Rare but ain't gonna spend a penny"... It's an oxymoron XD.

  • @quietrobot said in The future of pets - Fix teleport, whistle to call, animations and more:

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    Pets have arrived at Sea Of Thieves and it's time to look forward and how to improve them.
    Some of these things were pointed out in Insider, but it is good to do it here.

    Fix Teleport
    Eliminate those fading transitions and that the pet really makes an animation from one place to another on the ship.
    This will enrich the immersion and will make pets feel more alive.

    Whistle to call
    Sometimes we need our pets or we do not find them (partly because of teleport), whistling them to get close would be a good addition.

    React to the environment
    was the ship damaged? a skeleton ship appeared? the pet must react to those things.

    More animations
    This is very broad, but some examples:

    • dig for food while waiting on the island
    • fly around the ship
    • climbing stairs (part of the animations when solving the teleport)

    Hopefully the team in charge of pets can work on this for the next update.

    Thanks 😉.

    How about having your pets mounted on your shoulder, in classic piratical fashion? Please add this to your post! :3

    I would love to swashbuckle with my trusty monkey companion cheering me on, on my shoulder! 8D

  • @guilleont Yes, I didn't mean that, there are many things to fix like combat.
    But there is a team for pets, we have to thank them for the incredible work and ask them if they can improve the pets, at least look for a solution to the teleport on the ship.

    @sweltering-nick Yeah! I thought about adding it, but technically it couldn't be done. Maybe for the use of hats and modeling?

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