I've been PvPing since Alpha and decided to make a guide on how to do a death spiral to help sink enemy crews! Watch LIVE: / blurbs Discord: / discord Twitter: / blurbstv Instagram: / blurbsttv
I feel like part of this video needs to be directed into counterplaying the death spiral. Turtling is great, where nobody goes above deck except to just dump a bucket. That way you can count shots until the next reload and stay healthy so that you don't get killed or knocked off. Most of the time you have more wood than they have cannons, you can outlast them with good enough food stock. When you are the target of a death spiral you can straighten the wheel so that you're not disoriented in a dead spin. Youll be able to hear where the enemy ship is at all times to know from what direction you're going to be hit. Take pop shots on the cannons when you know they are in you broadside. The absolute worst thing is to get boarded. That's hard to fight against.
unfortunately, if your mast is down, its highly likely you've already been boarded. For players with the skill set, boarding ships is way more effective than any other strategy; especially if the victim isn't as experienced in player pvp.
First step to counter the spiral is to start spinning at the rate that they're circling so that you're only presenting one side and cannot apply constant pressure with your cannon(s).
Basically, chainshotting or anchoring is the most important move in naval combat, and then it takes a lot of micromanaging the wheel with half-sails (more for bigger ships) to get a good circle. Keeping that pressure is so important, so you have to do half and half while watching out for them to board in desperation. Doing a curve with half-sails (going opposite direction from them) makes Flameheart so much easier as well. I have a feel for the turning now that I've been doing Flameheart a bunch, but it was important to REALLY stress chainshotting and blunderbombing (hardly use them over firebomb, when these vids seem to show it's much more important for disorienting enemies)
If ever in Devil's roar grab the Shroudbreaker "shores of gold tall tale" that way if you are ever ovverwhelmed by a Galleon you can slip off the map as a defense. But only in the Northern East part of the map of course. Sometimes I get morons to follow me and they sink.
I usually play duo-sloop and I'm the helmsman. Everytime we approach another ship with the intention to fight, I assume my cannoneer is going to hit the chain shot(s) so I start raising sails to half before it's actually needed. Then once their masts are down we are already circling and shooting the enemy in the cleanest way possible.
Dang, nice. Being preemptive seems to be much more important than people realize. And I didn't realize how important chainshots are, until it wrecked me multiple times last night. I usually solo sloop or have friends that are pretty green, and it's sooo much hassle needing to micromanage both for myself, but half sails really helps. I need to get much better with the face to face combat as well, which I just saw Blurbs has vids for.
Thanks for the video man. I'm a semi competent solo PVPer and this is by far my weakest link. I find myself either sailing right past them, or making a J shape, landing shots, and going for a solo board. I appreciate you keeping it real and letting us know that you have to make micro adjustments. You solo slooper streamers look like you always nail it first time!
Same! I think he had a vid saying to avoid boarding for the most part, but I think we just need to wait for some good chaos with firebombs and mast down to go for the anchor? But mast down and anchoring are critical and primary moves to get started. My problem is how rare they are vs my accuracy with them (much better with cannonballs), so I save them too long. Doing Flameheart has massively helped me improve my microturns and learn to go half-sails often in a curve.
Blurbs, TY a ton for all of your Sea Of Thieves vids! you're one of the only people making Tuts that aren't a giant jumble of tips, just 1 topic per video most of the time and its perfect! keep it up.👍🏽👍🏽
I'm not an expert, but I see two good possibilities: 1) countercircling and violently counterfiring, this is sort of how real shootouts work too, you're trying to overwhelm them with gun fire 2) boarding so they have to get off the cannons Apart from that there's a few small tricks, like blunderbombing their gunner, setting the deck on fire where the gun is, using peaceballs, etc. But when shit starts flying, you want a simple plan: man every gun and shoot back harder, or board.
Isn't it better to just stay in their blindspot though? Since they can have a moment of ''fuck it'' and just start shooting back with the cannons possibly shooting you off the ship?
me watching this as always playing with 3 or more crew ahahah we just go take sails down and park behind them so they cant shoot back at us at all and well you have to include the fact that someone boards and usually with that the fights over big ship fights in sea of thieves are usually easy i for example win way more than lose but thats because thats what i most do but it nice to always watch ways to do stuff even when i dont play sloop and yes anchoring enemy galleon and then shooting from the front or back is way more effective on galleons 1. the ancor takes so long to raise and you always have someone boarding so you can just shoot couple cannon at the anchor when they rise it or you can blunderbomb them
Nah don't need to spiral once their stopped. Drop anchor in front of their ship so they can't shoot. Use a chainshot anchor ball then weary ball in that order. Send a crewman over to keep dead and use firebombs while you cannon the hell out the front end.
I feel the best way to win any engagement is to secure the navy victory before daring to attempt boarding. I'm practically brand new to the game but I've crushed now 3 enemy ships without a loss so far because my crew and I always smash them to pieces in the navy game while the enemy commits practically their entire crew to a premature boarding. Mind you, we haven't been shooting at sloops, and of these three engagements have been defensive. The enemy chose to engage when they did and they were punished for it even still. They use boarding when they don't have other options. Meanwhile, I use boarding as the final killing blow when the ship is already riddled with holes.
This is the problem with super bucketing, because a death spiral is impossible if you are solo slopping against a duo because they can just bail faster than water comes in even with every hole possible, unless you have cc's
Great vid. I hope more people see it. Could you do a vid showing other techniques for naval? In particular, for the galleon? I've been solo queuing open crew galleon arena on console, using a controller that has a soft RB now, and with crap internet.... If you can make the vid arena-centric and include tips like NEVER using the anchor when you're on a crew of only 3, and your ship is in a nice turn on an anchored enemy galleon, but then your crew mate decides to drop our anchor for shots while the wheel's fully turnt, and now WE'RE sideways in THEIR broad... Anyways, if you make that, I can guarantee it'll get a few more views... cuz I'll spam it in chat....
How about.....a vid on how the aiming works....? Still struggling with this one since crosshairs arw fully removed and I don't have the option to add any...
Honestly, I kinda learned the microturning from Flameheart fights, but I never remember to chainshot and aren't good with them. 😐 I also didn't realize how much more effective blunders are than fire to stop a recovery.
Great, but it's all pretty obvious. - what you forgot to add is that the advantage of moving around at all times is that the opponent will have a much harder time boarding Your ship and immobilizing You.
This is literally how I win my solo sloop arena games. I grab the chest and keep it in the crows, Wait for someone to try to get fresh for it, chain them out, commence circle of death, and then dumpster mast and upper deck with cannon balls. GGez
I just started playing Sea of Thieves earlier this week and it's a lot of fun, even though I get killed in many pvp encounters hah. But your videos are awesome man. They've helped me and have saved my ass a few times bc of what I learned watching your vids. I'll definitely make use of these tips. Thanks man 👌👌
Biggest tip i think every player should spend time learning is knowing where your ship is without being on the wheel. Practice this by going to a smallish island turn the wheel to go aroujd the island run on the island to the other side and try to catch your boat. Or even making it so your ship permenently spirals a small island will help your ability to control the situation in sea combat
Bro the game has barely any hackers cause it's not like an FPS or competitive game. I've played for 3 years and have only come across 2 potential hackers.
I just did this last night against a galleon. Just wanted a quick battle before heading off for the night, so pummeled their ship until I ran out of ammunition. I then sailed up to them and voice chat surrendered, giving them my meager loot on board. All in the name of a good battle and sportsmanship, they were a very new crew and only a few more shots away from being sunk. I helped them repair, gave them all my supplies, then volunteered for pirate execution. Turned their losing and frustrating battle into a good finish for both crews. :)
My crew was logging off for the night after a few vault runs and had our rank 5 Gold Hoarders flag. Shortly before leaving we found a reaper ship nearby and just gave them our flag before going. They were so confused when a gallion rolled up to them "hey, want a flag?"
I read the title wrong. I though it said how to escape a death spiral. As stands this video is useless cause I cannot hit them with a chain shot/anchor ball in the first place.
Great videos. I've played for years now, but I never really solo slooped. Recently I just tried getting better at PvP and solo slooping is perfect for that, even though it's really unforgiving. These videos help
Hey blurbs your videos are so short and helpful! Could you make a guide on gathering tons of supplies? I always seem to have trouble getting as much as some other people do even when playing for a long time
Hit small islands, stock up from all barrels and you'll quickly find a storage crate somewhere. Once you have a storage crate, take it with you to more small islands and/or big ones, and then you can clean the entire island of supplies with one trip. Also keep an eye out for barrels in the water, stop your ship within harpoon range and harpoon the barrels to get the supplies. Have your storage crate right next to the harpoons for fast emptying your inventory into it. Do that and you'll be heavily stocked up in no time.
Also if you're passing an island and your ship has a clear path in front of it, empty your inventory and use your ships cannons to fire yourself at the island. Pick up as many supplies as you can, take the mermaid back and empty your inventory again. If you do this for every island you pass, you'll quickly rack up supplies. Don't forget to completely loot the outpost you spawn at as well.
Thanks, now I know what its called, "Death Spiral", how cool. 0:45 That sounds gives me a mini heart attack everytime. I felt like my ship is about to sink. These are really good tips guys, try to solo for good practice. The sail maintenance is the key.
Your tutorial videos are great, even as an deeply experienced player there are still little tips and tricks to learn. I never really thought about firebombs as useful tactic in combat, it is true that you need to keep them busy!
See now I want a tutorial on how to set the boat to circle around an island. It'd be handy to basically just set the boat into auto pilot while you do things.
@@obolikus apologies... I've been using Reddit a lot and thought you were replying to me, then realised it is RU-vid so following whose talking about what gets more complex - realise now you're replying to the original comment, not mine I just forget it sorts automatically by the first replies posted, no matter whos replying to who. Of course I wasn't tagged, so I should have noticed.
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