Fort of Fortune - PvE'ers take your chance

@reapinglegion

Crewmates are seeing posts on reddit and facebook and what not about PvE'ers complaining about PvP at the Fort and how its just not worth even trying since they aren't going to get anything.

I want them to be willing to try and be willing to learn. Its one of the best ways to learn PvP in the game and figure things out. They got nothing to lose and can be the attacker for a change.

Some PvE'ers don't like to PvP because of how they feel about attacking other players doing quests. Well this is a fort and this is a contested fort. Lots of PvP. They could engage freely without any hang ups or worries.

I don't want them to be scared to try and learn. They might sink but hey I've been actually sinking as well. Its hard to keep a boat afloat when being attacking by fort cannons and 2 other ships.

They might sink 20, 30, or even 50 times but eventually they will get better and learn things about the game.

Just make sure to use emissaries so that you maximize your profits when you storm the beaches.

Everything will be fine.

These things are wild. They are like the old days of just having forts except amplified. Massive loot and you aren't stuck at the fort of the damned. It's out in the open, plenty of visibility, much easier to defend and you don't have to spend time activating it. All this did was take everything good about FOTD and made it even better.

You have nothing to lose and everything to gain so get out there and sink me then mock the holy heck outta me for missing my shots.

Also this event can hit get you to level 5 athena from just 1 event. That's a huge opportunity for those that still are grinding it.

@goldseeker-gar said in Fort of Fortune - PvE'ers take your chance:

@xultanis-dragon it's just recycled content sadly Rare just sprinkled a little bit of existing content into one event. Once everybody gets thier 10 done for commendation s it'll fall off like the other world events.

Possible but I believe this will be just like how it was in the beginning hopefully. Granted I would have liked it to be more on a timer respawn instead of a place holder really, or maybe I'm just getting really lucky?? Who knows.

However, if they keep releasing cosmetics where the the prices are in the millions then the FoF will be the best place to earn money which would mean that players will keep trying to go to it.

The past events really had no incentive outside the commendation, you could get that kind of loot doing anything else entirely. FoTD was no different, only benefit was the Athena you could get at the end. At most you could get around 60k to 70k in loot. Not really worth the possible loss and having to deal with other players when you could just do vaults or something else and make the same amount of gold.

However, this fort has about 100k in loot. They are all high tier. You don't have to activate this one and so far the forts that it spawns on are the easy forts. Which is good also.

If Rare pumps out more cosmetics at the millions then the life span of this FoF will keep going.

@weedstar-deluxe said in Fort of Fortune - PvE'ers take your chance:

how long does the fort take if nobody appears? (i heard it takes pretty long)when the ashenlords first came out it was awfull doin them solo ,sniper like no tomorrow .the normal forts are perfect,do rare realize its not fun when raids taking longer? in a pvp setting. idk where is the fun doin a long repetitive raid , just to get interrupt? i guess its the adventure where you dont know what happen.....

Depends on crew size.

On a Galleon me and my crew can knock one out in about 30mins. On a brig its closer to 40mins.

Haven't tried it on a sloop yet.

@goldseeker-gar

One ashen vault does not pay out 100k and of course if you spam it you can get the same about thats true of if you spam anything.

Still the number 1 way to get a large about of loot will be the FoF.

This is how the game was back in the day.

Forts gave the most gold in one sitting however you could just do anything else in the world and get the same amount eventually. Especially since most of the time forts were contested hot zones. I usually spend 3 to 4 hours on a single fort sometimes 5 to 6. Few times I spent 8 hours fighting over a single fort.

The 10k or 12k I got from the forts was definitely not worth the time spent but its not only about the time spent its about the fact that I was king of the hill and I'm taking my haul with me.

The FoF gives off the same feeling I had when the game first came out. Hell even last night my crewmates were on a brig fighting off like 3 ships at a single time. Again multiship battles.

You might think the event is "cookie cutter" and nothing new, just a rehash of old stuff, however this fort isn't about the PvE portion, its about the contested PvP that happens. There is an event that everyone is fighting over. CONSISTENTLY.

As long as Rare keeps releasing cosmetics that cost millions then players will continue to fight over this thing.

I'm not gonna lie, this is the most fun I have had in a very long time. I don't have to spend hours hunting for ships. I just go do an event and see ships off in the horizon. Sometimes I see even multiple ships. Sink one ship and suddenly another one shows up. I've even sank a bunch of times lol. Granted I was frustrated when I sank but thats part of losing. Build a bridge and get over it.

Even after sinking a lot of those ships will try and try again.

Rare did really good going back to how the game used to be.

I also want to point out that with the new FoF, at least in my experience, it doesn't seem that PvE players are being targetted as much anymore. If ships are fighting with me for a few hours they obviously aren't going out hunting on the server. So theres that saving grace for players wanting to complete stuff.

My crew and I finally completed it last night! It was an all out slap fight! We had to fight 2 sloops a brig and Galleon. Took about 2 hours and it was on the edge of the seat the entire time, and we came out victorious with 2 cannonballs and 3 boards to our name, But the turn in was so epic! So much fun.

@dr-orchamedes

That turn in at the end after you sank the whole server 3 times over is a really good feeling lol.

Repeating talking over comms "I got repairs!!" - "WE GOT BOARDERS!!" - "CANNONS LEFT SIDE!!" - "WE ARE OVER ROTATING SOMEONE GET THAT WHEEL!!!"

Seriously I am having so much fun with the new Fort lol.

@xultanis-dragon

right!? It was so satisfying after what felt like a rugby match lol!

I keep finding FoF items at forts, I think server merges, while people fighting, and moves forts away from people.
I like going to forts for supplies, and few times I had found insane amounts of items left at fort.
One time it was a content of whole FoF (including chest of legends) neatly stacked outside the FoF door. Not sure what is going on with this. I have hard time believing somebody would finish FoF and just leave everything behind.
Anybody else had seen that ?

Yet to try one. Only logged in once on season 2 so far, made it to level 13, got myself a barrel and got off again. Flameheart was around the entire time I did that.

Finding it too much of a challenge to log into the game right now.
Recently finished off all my tall tales and that has made me HATE the game for making me do something so tedious and repetitive over and over.

@grumpyw01f said in Fort of Fortune - PvE'ers take your chance:

@xultanis-dragon I've been absolutely LOVING the battles at the FoF. The first day I got a bad taste in my mouth because a crew ran away with the key for two hours (though that's still nostalgic) but that hasn't happened again since.
The FoF has some great Year One vibes. The only problem is when I load into a game for a voyage and I get a FoF, instantly I've got to drop everything, ping my friends and get going lol.

NO KIDDING!! "Hey lets try to work on something this time." - Yeah sure.

We get on a server, get supplies, put up a flag.......BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM.

We all turn to the FoF like Batman looking at the bat signal in Batman Returns.

"It calls us" - "We must go and lay waste" "Its the precious" - Well guess we dropping our plans and doing this instead lol.

However, dropping everything and heading for the fort was how it used to be in year one. Man I missed this feeling for SO long. Get that rush of holding down the fort and looking all around you as other players are closing in and your mind starts racing planning out the battle plan. THIS IS SO GOOD!!

Some of my crewmates don't like how long the fights draw out for but only because we are all currently doing stuff in real life but they are still loving it and so am I.

@mrmalfor said in Fort of Fortune - PvE'ers take your chance:

@kommodoreyenser sagte in Fort of Fortune - PvE'ers take your chance:

The biggest competition to the fort right now (gold-wise) unfortunately is the new merchant commodities combined with lost shipment voyages. This is especially true for solos. I can get a dagger tooth or galleon's spawn in a solo brig and make about 200k+ in an hour:

You go to start at dagger tooth and buy the cloth and spices, throw down a lost shipment (cycle until leads back towards galleon's)

Finish the voyage and throw down a second from galleon's (cycle until leads down towards ancient spire), stop to buy more cloth, spices, and tea

Finish the voyage and stop at ancient spire, sell all the cloth, buy spices and tea. Sail to Morrow's.

Sell all the spices at Morrow's and buy tea. Sail to Dagger and sell all the tea.

who, who play a game in this calculated way? i must be very depressiv to play games in this way, only to be effectiv.
the reason to play a game is to have fun and enjoy the game, not to be a productive, effective capitalism man.

Some players have fun playing efficiently. There are people who have fun winning, some who have fun participating. Others having fun with seeing how coordinated everyone is.

Like those military groups that play siege and go ham with the communication "south entrance, BREACH" "12 o'clock laying down cover fire!!"

Some players have fun getting things done.

Also not going to lie. Playing with inefficient crews is mind numbingly boring. Taking HOURS to do a simple quest that should take 30mins. Yeah no

One was up forever in my server tonight with a galleon at it. I finished what I was doing, sold some flags at reapers, and figured I'd close up shop taking my chances against the galleon.

Turns out it's 2 new players on a galleon. I strike a peace deal as killing new players isn't my thing when not provoked. They get a skelly galleon aggro'd on them and I take that out for them then start helping with the end of the fort (they were on the first main boss when I showed up)

They decided to break our gentleman's agreement and sink my ship with kegs while I'm fighting the boss for them.

I come back and make that galleon look like a chunk of swiss cheese used as a silencer on a blunderbuss and watched them become shark food while holding out a banana.

by the end of that ordeal the entire server had shown up and sent me straight to Hell. I did not get to pass go or collect 200 dollars. One way ticket.

A tasty loss

So three of us heard and saw the FOF cloud arrive in the sky so we went and completed the Fort. Bit of a grind, but a nice pile of loot upon completion. Job done!!
But what amazed me the most, was we had just previously spent 4 hours trying to complete a regular skull Fort whilst fighting off 3 other ships constantly. It was just ship after ship coming in to fight non stop, followed by hunting down campers each and every time.
I couldn't believe we had the FOF to ourselves after a session like that!

Will I go out of my way to complete another? Probably 😁

I liked fighting for the fort but just like arena, it really does show everything wrong with this game's pvp. The hit reg alone is so bad at times like I genuinely wonder if Rare just gave up on fixing it since we haven't seen any fixes or improvements for a long while now. It's whatever though, people will lose interest in this fort and it'll die out just like FotD did after a month

Use these to get your 20 flags

I'm turning in 4-10 a fight even when you don't get an ultimate win you can still get some version of one.

also this makes bringing in random athena flags for your reaper commendation way faster. WAY easier than turning these unicorns in on random servers before

Today I sold 7 flags, got an ancient skelly, was sneaky enough to get the commendation credit for finishing it and I didn't get any of the loot, still productive

other times I'll sell the loot before the boss spawns just to lock in some gold. Even before the boss wave there are still plenty of high value skulls and maybe a rage chest or 2 depending on rng of the digs

Anyone can win these and anyone can lose them I'm seeing skilled pvp brigs and galleons go down just like everyone else because of the towers and kegs and mass chaos of having so many crews around.

Come on in the water is fine

@cptphteven

Its not suppose to be about the PvE portion of the fort. Its suppose to be the PvP portion. Players coming in to attack it.

Sad part is that its not as rare as I would have liked it, its really easy to find and we did like 2 or 3 other events and it pops. Could have been a little less frequent.