OMG! Why can’t these be real challenges in the game with achievements and commendations? We desperately need incentive to defeat the megalodon again!
The Hungering Deep: Community Challenge
- Fight the Megalodon at night and in a storm. check !!!
There is talk here of the Meg being removed post THD event... I thought that the actual AI threat would remain, just that Merrick would be happy to move on and perhaps give us some sweet weekly quests with his Bilge Rat brothers?!...
I'll be gutted if it's gone after the event given that I have only managed to take it down once. The servers were dead on Friday AND Saturday!
@sshteeve said in The Hungering Deep: Community Challenge:
There is talk here of the Meg being removed post THD event... I thought that the actual AI threat would remain, just that Merrick would be happy to move on and perhaps give us some sweet weekly quests with his Bilge Rat brothers?!...
I'll be gutted if it's gone after the event given that I have only managed to take it down once. The servers were dead on Friday AND Saturday!
They gonna pull a madden and remove it. Then! Reskin it and add it again at a later date and call it new content. I'd put money on dat.
@capt-lazybeard said in The Hungering Deep: Community Challenge:
@pikaaroon did you know you were playing with a youtuber that day? I saw this moment in zylbrads video
Nope, haha voice sounded a little familiar to me but didn't connect the dots. We had zylbrads mate, Todd, stowaway on our galleon for a little while.
Was a hilarious and fun session with them all.
It was only afterwards when someone pointed out the Deckhand sails in the video that I realised.
Beardageddon has now Solo killed the Megalodon on a sloop, using no TNT kept a chicken alive and was naked,. This can be seen on his twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/beardageddon and its here at youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBydkZpWl7E
EPIC!
@droopy-piles said in The Hungering Deep: Community Challenge:
Beardageddon has now Solo killed the Megalodon on a sloop, using no TNT kept a chicken alive and was naked,. This can be seen on his twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/beardageddon and its here at youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBydkZpWl7E
EPIC!
That man is a legend!
@cpt-deadlydaley I already started my own creative challenge. I created a captain’s log over on my blog to write about the travels of Awake Willy aboard the Seasick Raven. http://talesbytheunexpected.be/unexpected-tales/awake-willies-captains-log-its-stirring-at-the-sea/
@tartansnake-8 said in The Hungering Deep: Community Challenge:
@cpt-deadlydaley - Wish this was posted last week as I would’ve taken more clips. I know I’ve completed 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 13 15 16 & 17, but not sure if I have images or footage of them all.
Post proof or it didn't happen, especially if you are going to try and claim number 11 ;)
@mc-rossco said in The Hungering Deep: Community Challenge:
@tartansnake-8 said in The Hungering Deep: Community Challenge:
@cpt-deadlydaley - Wish this was posted last week as I would’ve taken more clips. I know I’ve completed 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 13 15 16 & 17, but not sure if I have images or footage of them all.
Post proof or it didn't happen, especially if you are going to try and claim number 11 ;)
You can see Beardageddons proof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBydkZpWl7E :D
Nice idea...really is. I'd settle for just being able to help my friend just experience the Meg encounter.
When we the tried last night on a sloop, the only other ship that seemed willing to help was a galleon anchored at Shark Bait Cove. We exchanged pleasantries using the features provided by Rare..."Sail with us", "We're Friendly", etc. and we agreed to proceed. Carried the shanty to the summons spot and were communicating tactics for fighting the Meg when the galleon crew set off a gunpowder keg under our hull and killed us with cannon fire.
To my fellow 'Pirates" on the Galleon...way to represent. My friend still hasn't been able to experience the PVE content that Rare created for all to experience in THD. What a fantastic way to build "trust" in the community, especially when the game demands cooperation amongst crews. Extremely saddened by the state of player conduct I've experienced in this game to date. I'm sure my friend is equally impressed as well.
Best of luck with the community challenge!
@clumsy-george said in The Hungering Deep: Community Challenge:
Wow, if someone is able to do all 24 missions then you should make a new title to give to him or her...Something like Pirate Rambo or something alike...No , all serious now, this will take a lot of time ,skill and even luck to accomplish all these missions...
Very curious to the first pirate's name who can pull this one off...Title Suggestion:
Megalodon Mastery@cpt-deadlydaley What does Beardageddon win for being the first to solo kill the Megalodon? :P
@mc-rossco - I'll wait till the event is over and combine my footage into one video, rather than post multiple times.
Not sure I have footage of me taking the Meg down alone but there was a few witnesses on Devils Ridge.
@stubbierbell598 it is not being removed and is going to be a permanent AI threat in the game after this coming tuesday when the weekly events and content start releasing
- 11 and 13 completed together, best fight of my life
@cpt-deadlydaley
Number 10 has been done but I think this is the first video proof!
@pikaaroon said in The Hungering Deep: Community Challenge:
@capt-lazybeard said in The Hungering Deep: Community Challenge:
@pikaaroon did you know you were playing with a youtuber that day? I saw this moment in zylbrads video
Nope, haha voice sounded a little familiar to me but didn't connect the dots. We had zylbrads mate, Todd, stowaway on our galleon for a little while.
Was a hilarious and fun session with them all.
It was only afterwards when someone pointed out the Deckhand sails in the video that I realised.
He didn't regognise you either, I spent the whole video wondering how he didn't know who you are.
I posted this in the mega-thread but I'm going to post it here in case people don't want to wade through 222 posts.
A lot of people have been asking for Meg to give some kind of reward so that there is incentive to fight her multiple times. I agree that this is something that would extend the replay value of future events (big content updates + weekly events).
A lot of people have also suggested that this be implemented by Meg dropping rewards once you defeat her. This is where I disagree. I think the community event idea suggested on reddit where rewards are given to everyone based on their participation once the community has reached a certain threshold is a much better way to extend the livelihood of the event while also maintaining the community driven "alliance" gameplay that Rare focused on for HD. If Meg simply drops rewards then all we have is a mobile Stronghold.
I like strongholds, and I like fighting other people for them, but we already have that. For the weekly events and the live campaigns that come with bigger "DLC", reward the community as a whole. This will give replay value and incentivise working together. Then, once the AI threats or new content is added as a permanent fixture to the game and the event itself is over, change the rewards to be a way to progress to pirate legend.
@cpt-deadlydaley said in The Hungering Deep: Community Challenge:
Ahoy pirates!
We're one week through The Hungering Deep and we've had a blast watching you take to the seas to tackle the mighty Megalodon. We've seen some epic triumphs and bitter defeats and it all got us thinking about what else we would like to see!
I present to you:
The Hungering Deep: Community Challenge
Here's the deal.
We've compiled a list of 24 actions, some of them challenging some of them trivial. Your goal is to complete as many of them as possible - and we'd love to see video and screenshots of you achieving them.
As this is a Community Challenge, presented to you by the Community team, there will be no in-game rewards for taking part in this, but we'd like to fully encourage pirates to take us up on our cries of "step up!"
Anyway, I will stop blabbering, I have grog to attend to. Have a look through the list and take on the toothiest challenge to ever be.
Gameplay Challenges
- Have at least one member of your crew continue to play Merrick’s shanty after the Megalodon is summoned and until it is defeated.
- Vomit on the Megalodon – from your mouth, not a bucket!
- Raise a full tankard to the Megalodon as it comes in for an attack.
- Make an offering of a banana or cannonball to the Megalodon.
- Defeat the Megalodon with 4 or more ships present in the encounter.
- Get a killing blow on the Megalodon with an explosive barrel.
- Get a killing blow on the Megalodon with a cutlass.
- Get a killing blow on the Megalodon while airborne.
- Get a killing blow on the Megalodon as it attempts to bite the ship.
- Fight the Megalodon at night and in a storm.
- Fight the Megalodon alone (1 player) after having another crew help with the summon. Bonus points if your pirate is wearing as few clothes as possible while doing this!
- Defeat the Megalodon using only explosive barrels to cause it damage.
- Bring a chicken to the Megalodon battle and make sure it survives the entire encounter while keeping it on the top deck, excluding the crow’s nest.
- Complete the Megalodon encounter with at least one Chest of Sorrows on board.
- Fire yourself out of a cannon during the Megalodon encounter and land on another ship.
- Megalodon in the middle – get an image of the Megalodon in between two ships.
- Lend a helping hand to a ship already fighting the Megalodon and fill their supply barrels with 20 of each resource.
Lore Challenges
18. Share a tankard with Teri.
19. Play a shanty in front of Tina.
20. Sit with Merrick at his camp site.
21. Bring Merrick at least 10 chickens and 5 pigsCreative Challenges
- Recreate scenes from a certain popular shark movie.
- Recreate a film poster of the Megalodon
- Create a short film around Merrick.
Pass.
Let The Hungering one go
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