Hello sailors,
I'm opening this thread after testing in insiders the season eight and also a couple of hours of grind in the official release.
That was not a secret, everybody knew that supplies would be a real topic of debate before the official release.
Rare staff did a great job with cursed balls in my opinion, which are rare to find and also precious now.
But now let's talk about regular supplies (canon balls, blunderbombs and firebombs)
We talked a lot with other players, experienced or not, new or old, and supplies in this gamemode are pretty much okay, it is part of the adventure and it depends on how you want to prepare for battle. But blunderbombs should be nerfed (since a long time) on their behavior with ships physics and impacts on the hull.
- At hight MMR or even lower, fights are turning in a weird way because when somebody starts to fire some blunder bombs, everybody knows how powerfull it is and will do the same.
- For those who doesn't know : depending on the speed, maneuver and salis placement the blunderbombs will completely spin the ship. If you shoot it to the front, the ship will nose dive in your cannons, and conversely be ejected of the fight if you aim for the rear of the hull. Adding the fact that it is dealing damage throught the surfaces, bumping sailors in the water, canceling interaction with objects..
In arena mode, it was not a big deal, we had not much blunderbombs (15 if I remember correctly), often we were keeping them for dangerous situations or for the endgame to create an opportunity. But now we can have 100, 200, 300 blunderbombs easily.
I'm not saying that blunderbombs should be caped, but maybe reworked/nerfed on their physics.
Two days ago, we have been spammed so much with blunders, that we were in broadsight while moving backwards, at the same speed of the enemy ship with two sails. It ended after 2 long minutes. It was hilarious, but let's be honnest this should not happen.
Please give some visibility to the thread if you agree with that.
In all cases, thanks Rare for this amazing update