Blunderbuss of Unfair Winds

I think it'll get reworked at some point but by removing the one blunder to cater to people that don't like getting one blundered...

They have made the blunderbuss a completely pointless gun in SoT for underdogs and players that engage in challenging combat without a one shot possibility.

The "defense" weapon is now the worst defense weapon in the game in a challenging scenario.

@venomous-sloth7 said in Blunderbuss of Unfair Winds:

I think in this case as in many it gets reworked too much. I think the change from a one shot weapon was great but aside from that they only needed to make the knock back reliable and where it blew a person straight back off the ladder with no direction control. All the changing distance and things was not necessary.

The design is a casual view of larger crew combat, which is fine but they should stop marketing it as a defense focused weapon when anyone that fights in challenging ways knows it's a buff to OP crews and a nerf to underdog crews. Even if they mess with the popcorn it won't change that.

Some people got their win condition but this makes the weapon worse for the game, doesn't make sense in the game, and certainly doesn't serve smaller crews in defense. A kill that takes more action is a sunken ship in underdog combat and it just makes it easier and easier for OP crews that just spam everyone.

@theredhead5271 said in Blunderbuss of Unfair Winds:

What's even worse is that the knockback is so inconsistent; im in the center of my sloop by the mast, i get shot off the front by the guy standing by the stairs. I point blank a guy, doesn't even move. What was a tool to repel boarders has now become a player's worst nightmare if they are knocked off their own ship.

and now 100% of solos and underdog sloops have less of a chance of recovering from having their mast down and/or anchor down while fighting spam boarding and naval pressure.

Every player in that situation needs kills, not attackers on ladders or in the water, not kinda sort low on health. Only kills allow a player to recover and that is always more difficult now.

A way to tell a bad change is when the marketing is designed to distract from what it truly is. It's a nerf to solos/sloops just so people can say that "tdmers" and "unskilled players" can't one blunder them anymore. This is a dream weapon for larger hostile crews against smaller crews, not a weapon for defense.

Every player that struggled before in tdm and relied on the blunder for defense is now in a worse situation than before the change, in a combat situation that is very very very common in SoT adventure combat.

The spam boarding is still here, the launch exploits are still here, the chain shot spam is still here, now the defending underdog just has less power to get out of it.