Bugs make the game impossible to recommend to anyone

@burnbacon said in Bugs make the game impossible to recommend to anyone:

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@burnbacon this is so subtle that I almost thought you are being serious.

The thing about this game is some people can't stand the condition of the experience and some people do fine. Bugs show up differently for different people and people are impacted differently by the bugs/performance issues.

That's why I have always and will always only recommend one thing about this game, "try it out if you're interested in the game and see how it works for you, see how your experiences are in the game"

I believe strongly that my baggage should not discourage others from trying something like this to see how their experience is.

It might run alright for them, they might enjoy far more than they dislike, it might be a very different experience for them.

In my own experience the game has been struggling quite a bit but I still know people that play all the time that do mostly fine, just a hiccup here or there.

@wolfmanbush it's a sensible position, but "if you are interested" is something that is normally applied to gameplay, themes, overall experience. The amount of bugs per hour that you can tolerate usually isn't considered, unless we are talking about retro gems or early access, which in both cases, you can expect to get eventually fixed.

SoT didn't move one bit from where it was in season 7 in this aspect, if anything, it, arguably, seems to have gotten even worse as of late?

@remakoro said in Bugs make the game impossible to recommend to anyone:

@wolfmanbush it's a sensible position, but "if you are interested" is something that is normally applied to gameplay, themes, overall experience. The amount of bugs per hour that you can tolerate usually isn't considered, unless we are talking about retro gems or early access, which in both cases, you can expect to get eventually fixed.

SoT didn't move one bit from where it was in season 7 in this aspect, if anything, it, arguably, seems to have gotten even worse as of late?

My gauge has been Season 7 worst and season 9 best SoT.

Factoring in more than just bugs/performance but also health of the overall organic experience.

Season 7 was a buggy mess but beyond that it was implemented in a way that lead a lot of veteran players to bounce, and even more after that after they nerf'd Captaincy big time 10 months into it. They hadn't done much to improve risk/reward, just the worst season at that point imo.

8, 9, and 10 were alright to good, bugs but at least the game was overall seeing improvements in the environment.

11 is just a mess in my experience and imo. I find that very unfortunate because 11 could have easily been the best season imo. It's a bugfest, an exploitfest, things are just not improving this season in my experience. Ranges from stuff that just makes the experience feel far too nerf'd and excessively cheesed up to serious access type of issues.

but like I said there are still players, including veteran players, that are still diggin' where the game is at.

I genuinely think people should just try it out, don't adopt how others feel about the game just let the organic experience influence how a person feels about the game. If it's awesome, that makes sense, if it's not awesome, that makes sense too.

I also think people should factor in direction of season 12 and 13. The game might continue to be a buggy mess with crashes (hopefully not) but direction-wise they are adding some stuff that should at the very least should be fun to play with for a while. So if this season ain't it check out season 12 and 13, give them a go, see how they work out.

Not a bug but no third person no play no say

@metal-ravage I don’t wanna done all that six years ago

@da-german420 said in Bugs make the game impossible to recommend to anyone:

the game right now is a pure bugfest, but honestly sot wasnt never stable the game cant handle more then 2 playerships in a battle fps drops ,laggy and it seems they never solved this issue instead they drop update after update they created a mess....

I think part of what got us here is that some people act as if it's always been in bad shape.

I've played through it all, all the lows, I never took weeks or months off the game, so I've personally seen and played through every major widespread issue for years.

It's very different now than it once was. It hasn't always been a mess. Issues, sure, but a mess is different than just having issues to work through.

In the past crashing and disconnects might last a weekend, maybe a week tops. We are on a couple + months now.

The game has shifted from a "wait a week or till the next monthly patch" situation to "wait a season or longer and it might be multiple seasons" situation for fixes.

Megs have been bugged almost all season, skelly ships a big chunk of the season, some of the features haven't worked well since they were released.

The game had some lag, hit reg issues, random issues pop up in the past but it was never unplayable or anything like where it ended up currently.

I think people calling the live service game broken the entire time played a part in where it ended up. It makes the feedback areas unreliable over time.

A couple of months of crashes that lead to boats being stuck in a dive which then leads to a lost session and needing to use work arounds to access the captained ship again, etc, is a severity of bugs that has not lasted long in the past.

Game had bugs and issues as any live service game has, it wasn't always in a severe state of bugs like it is now (for many people in quite a few different scenarios).

@mrflomflim This has NOTHING to do with the beta.

All of these bugs have been in-game for months, the beta has only been this past week.

The problems are constant and consistent.

I spammed my bucket for a solid 8 seconds before my pirate actually scooped up water last night.

I spent 45 minutes quitting and restarting the game just to get both my mouse and keyboard to work.

The previous night I disconnected 5 times in 30 minutes.

Don't try to act like this has anything to do with the beta because A LOT of the issues Sea of Thieves faces have been present for months and even years.

at least on play station they can use the excuse that "oh its still in beta" lol this games been in beta for 7 years

@soulstinger2k20 im noticing this too. might start blocking all the people on here who are super condacending and dismissive. ive always heard how bad the xbox community was but being my first in the xbox space is showing how truely bad it is. ironically everyone can openly bad mouth the game, developers, players everywhere but any kind of commenting on steam is disabled because we are the toxic ones..... reality check ppl.