Players need more activities while sailing to their next destination. Fishing is a start, but dueling with your own crew members would also be super cool! Post your ideas for how this might work! I will add the most popular ones to the original post.
IDEA 1: Duelist Hat / Cursed Hat
This is a hat available to all players from the clothing chest that would have the following text:
"BEWARE: As long as this hat is equipped, your own crew members will be able to attack you!"
Details:
- If you want to duel, you NEED to opt in by wearing the hat. This ensures griefers can't ruin another player's experience who does not want to duel.
- The hat would be very visually obvious, so you can easily tell if one of your crew members wants to fight.
IDEA 2: Dueling Emote (Thanks to @QTRmaster-Zeta for the idea!)
Add an emote, similar to the "make friends" emote, that requires both players using it at the same time to initiate a duel.
Details:
- Once agreed upon, players receive an on-screen notification "The duel is about to begin..." Once 5 seconds is up, a horn sounds for the 2 players, letting them know they can attack one another.
- A dueling flag is dropped at the area the duel was agreed upon. If one player wanders off too far from the flag, he will receive a notification "You have forfeited the duel..."
- Once lethal damage is dealt, players could drop to their knees and perform some type of "Beg for Mercy" emote instead of going to the Ferry.
- The duel has a short time limit (say, 3 minutes) to prevent players from always being in "duel mode" and to encourage combat. If time runs out, players receive a notification "The duel was a draw..."
- If you win the duel, a victorious trumpet sounds. If you lose the duel, a losing trumpet sounds.
- Names ideas for emote: Beckon, Challenge, Fight, Duel
- Animation ideas: Pirate runs finger across his throat, Pirate makes a "come get some" gesture with his hand
IDEA 3: Unarmed Combat
Unarmed combat needs to come to Sea of Thieves! Not only would this be awesome for dueling or a way to initiate a duel, but I think it would just add a lot to the game in general! Here's how I think it should work:
Details:
- It's possible to put your weapons away by pressing the B button. Instead of right/left trigger doing nothing at this time, they should bring up your fists. When your fists are up, hitting Y at anytime will switch back to your normal weapons.
- Fists do very little damage, and are more of a last resort type of attack.
- Right trigger throws your right fist, left trigger throws your left fist.
- You can't block, and you have no charge attack like the sword lunge.
- Fists give players that use two guns a (weak) attack option when they run out of ammo.
- Fists would be a hilarious way to win a PvP fight and create some great player stories!
- An alternate control scheme could be that right trigger alternates between left and right punches, and left trigger performs a weak kick that bypasses blocking and knocks the opponent back.
