Why PLAYERS ARE MAD right now - NEW UPDATE - Sea of Thieves 

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I just miss multiple ship battles like they once had in Sea Dogs Arena.

the aggravation has ALWAYS been the one shot , the cycle has always been, you get one tapped, you sigh, you go through the ferry doors, you get one tapped in the back by a spawn point camper. you sigh harder, you go through the ferry doors , you get one tapped in the back again , you swear, you go through the ferry doors , you get one tapped again, the enemy gamer words you and laughs, you close the game down. saying one taps have never been the aggravating factor is pure unfiltered cope.

I hate hand to hand pvp, naval combat is beautiful but the second someone hops on my ship its game over

As someone who primarily uses sword/blunderbuss, I think these blunderbuss changes just make sense. Having a one shot button, while nice, honestly didn’t feel right for the kind of game SoT is. I think trading some of that damage for additional knockback is fine

Blunderbus no longer 1 shotting is probably the best decision rareware coulda made.

Thank the lord almighty that the blunderbuss does not one shot anymore, the game has needed that for a looooooong time

How about submarining now? Come out of hour glass and you can’t see the other boat cause you’re below the waterline

I've always used the Blunder as a defensive tool on the ladder anyways. So long as it stops boarders from getting on my ship, I'm perfectly fine with the change. I'm also sick to death with getting one-blunderred, especially when getting spawn camped, so i think this update has been nothing but a positive win.

It’ll be funny how blunder users will probably try to stay above deck instead of running below now. In my opinion, the change will be fine. The game has survived worse, I wouldn’t be surprised if the knockback is reduced. One blunders are incredibly inconsistent anyway.

I’m just ready for a new meta to come in. It’s been an absolute snooze fest with the same two guns dominating the PvP space.

I personally don't mind the balance change as something that I found frustrating with the blunder and why I stopped using it personally was it never seemed to knock the opponents off my ship; even if my nose was firmly planted in their behind. I turned to blunder bombs as they are just simply more efficient on keeping borders off. I do agree though that they need to focus more on the game's stability, the more they neglect it, the worse it will keep getting until the game will be actually unplayable. Which sadly for some folks that is the case already what with the multitudes of crashes.

As we’re talking opinions, some of us are not here for the PVP and this new blunder will be great for skeleton hoards.

I’ve played this game for years. I love the pvp aspect of the game, but the issue I’ve always had was the ability for people to sit on a ladder on bigger crews while I’m all by myself trying to get on. The new knockback is something I can see being an issue still, but at least I won’t immediately be sent to the ferry. Additionally, sweaty players are able to kill people the second they spawn with a one shot blunder, something I’ve always found unfair. I am guilty of using this technique. Making players switch to another gun to kill the person makes it harder for them to kill upon the immediacy of spawning, and two, potentially gives a chance for someone to dodge and heal back up. Even though hit reg is always in the game, it has gotten significantly better so the problem of missing the sniper, while it will be an issue, is going to only get better. Ultimately, I believe it will shake up the weapon meta and force people to explore more because it is currently impossible to win a fight unless you have a blunder in your inventory; a meta I have known since I started playing four years ago. I can’t ever be a less experienced player again; so, from my viewpoint, this is a great change. However, I’d love to hear opinions from others who haven’t had the game as long as I have.

I think this is a FANTASTIC change. I can count on one hand the times I've felt like getting oneshot by the blunder had anything to do with skill, and I find it infinitely more frustrating to get instakilled rather than just knocked off a ship. Most of the time in boarding situations the anchor is down before shots are fired so the water is an opportunity to heal, use throwables and play the ladder game - and when I do have to find a merm, even at its most elusive it feels quicker than the ferry. I think it's much healthier for pvp to have the only way to oneshot a player is to direct hit them with a cannonball, and now the blunder has a more specialized role rather than just being meta for offense and defense and everything in between. It's also a shadow buff to double barrel pistol as it now ties with blunder for max damage, so now you've got a choice between range and precision or CQC and boarding utility if you want max damage. AND ALSO, now I feel like there is actual room for skill expression with the blunder as shooting a knocked player out of the air actually does take skill and good aim as opposed to just pressing up against a pirate and sticking a gun up their @ss. Not to mention outside of the obvious necessity of a counter to the grapple hook, it also means if you run grapple+blunder you're meaningfully sacrificing damage in not having a secondary gun to finish people off. Getting grappled out of nowhere and instakilled would have actually made me quit the game for good.

I dunno how y'all can say the hitreg made blundy a non-problem and you can just respawn after getting blundy'd when I regularly get blundy'd by troll crews and then respawn-camped on my ship. It was every single boarding crew for me, consistently getting me one-shot, and my attempts to retaliate similarly were never no matter how many times I tried. I welcome this change and am happy that I can actually participate in PvP for more than 0.29 seconds.

The blunderbuss will still be good for double gunning since you can skeet others more effectively.

Thank you falcore for pointing out that the bugs and glitches and crashes have been around from the beginning and are getting worse, I keep trying to let them know but I don’t feel listened to because im not a RU-vidr or twich streamer it’s been very frustrating so I’m really glad you point this out 👍🏼

As someone who uses the blunderbuss alot, I'm very happy with this. I use it both offensive and defensive. But while I will no longer be able to 1 shot someone, they also won't be able to do that to me anymore. Defending on my sloop will be easier instead of timing it perfectly.

1:24 this is even worse when you hear cannon shots fired and your boat taking damage

Someone mentioned that doublegunning is being hit even harder because of hitreg. Before, if your eye of reach hits but doesnt deal damage, you could still get the kill with a blunder. Now you can't, so if your first gun doesn't damage, you're cooked, especially against larger crews.

One of my favorite videos of yours 💚

i feel like this change was to make the double pistol have a more distinct place in the game? From what I understand there was no reason to use it because the range and damage of the blunder was just... better. I also feel like it may be more unclear how the harpoon gun will change things until it is actually out. Your point about being upset that they have not fixed bugs before making weapon meta changes doesn't make sense. From what I understand there are different teams within Rare working on different things so why would all other development stop until bugs are fixed? Also, opinions literally can be changed? That is the point of having a conversation about something you do not agree with

The taste of blunder tears is sweet.

Servers definitely make blunders worse, and I have no idea how I feel about the knockback. However, I know for certain I will never be okay with the blunder being able to one shot at full health. Giving or receiving, for me, it makes the death feel cheated, and I feel like that regardless of how avoidable it was. Not even massive server desynchs make me feel cheated in the same way that a one shot weapon does.

The biggest bug me and my friends have been running into is when we come out from a dive (either pvp or raid or whatever) when we re emerge, our ship is put realllllly low into the water, like the water will clip over the boat and submerge you randomly on top deck. We dealt with this on a galleon and brigantine, and the only way I know how to fix it is by crashing into islands, but that doesn't even always work.

One blunders were always inconsistent anyway. Especially with hit reg. The knock back buff is cool. You really couldn't knock people off ladders before.

Saying that most people dislike the blunderbuss due to the knock-back and not the one-shot is actually insane. I have never even ONCE heard someone complain about knock-back in six years of playing. You know what I have consistently heard complaints about? Boarding a ship to get one-shot because three players were all ladder guarding with a blunderbuss, sword fighting for someone to just suddenly swap to a blunderbuss and one-shot you, being spawn camped on a ship thanks to the blunderbuss one-shot. But yeah complain about a far more balanced weapon in the throwing knives (heads up: you can easily cancel out those "giant hit-boxes" with a sword block) instead of the single most complained about weapon since launch. I swear SoT partners always have opinions that make them sound like they don't talk to any of the average players.

I'm just saying. They could have just removed a pellet from the current blunder and it would have solved all problems and gotten way less backlash

So, supposedly, the grappling gun is going to function like the Harpoon on players. This change is absolutely needed for this to work. Why? Imagine being across a Galleon deck, getting sucked over to someone, and then immediately getting one-shot the moment you land. No one can argue that this should be allowed (Not directed at you, Captain. Awesome video)

i don't really know how people are this comfortable with the knockback change. i mean, it's going to be REALLY annoying. i can imagine the new "defensive" blunderbuss being used to keep you off of your *own* ship once a boarder gets on, and while not being instakilled is sort of nice, i'd rather die than be trapped in mermaid hell, especially with how buggy the game is currently. honestly, i just wish rare would do something the game actually needs, like bug fixing, server performance, and cheating, but yk why do that when they can ignore almost all feedback.

2:43 honestly this clip its really hard after losing a 3 hour+ long Devils Roar stack, including my first ever BoWS, to rubber banding made me re-evaluate my entire stance on the game & got me to the point of uninstalling it for the foreseeable future

It's about damn time, way too many free kills have been handed out due to it's ridiculous damage. They didn't have to make boarding louder or remove quick swap, these were both steps taken to avoid the actual problem--blunderbus' damage output. Frankly it should probably do 85 damage or have a longer reload time to actually balance it.

The most fun I had in Sea of Thieves was during the Alpha version in from December 2016 to its closure. You guys was so much fun to play with and I still remembering coming a cross Captain Falcore with his crew looking for some treasure. We all had a little chat a bit of a laugh and went our ways. If I remember right my crew give you some help and vis versa.

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Best case scenario would be to make the harpoon gun only have 1 shot before needing a resupply to balance out the constant knock back

My main complaint with this game since the beginning has been the 1-tap kills with the blunderbuss. It trivializes a lot of close fighting and leaves no variety in boarding. I'm happy to hear that they'll be attempting to address it

I think the buffed knock back on the blundy has just made it more effective as a offensive weapon.

This has been desperately needed for years, the blunderbuss was always supposed to be defensive, not meta offense.

I actually find it refreshing to have an anti-boarding weapon. Sure we have blunder bombs, but throwing knives and eye of reach are more than capable of damage output.

I for one like the change. I find it most frustrating when someone boards and i miss the sound cue so the first i know if it is I'm dead. At least this way i have some chance. I also suspect they're trying to avoid the "harpoon someone to you then one blunder" meta

they need to lock the armoury on enemy ships so that if you want to use harpoon and blunder combo you are stuck with that until you return to your ship

They either needed to nerf the damage/leave the knockback as is. Or leave the damage/remove the knockback Not take the damage off and buff the knockback that just relocates the problem. My issue was always the gun having the low skill of knockback if they missed the shot well. Like a fail safe if you miss your shot. Blunder has always been a ZZZ weapon for me.

Only things i want fixed are latency issues, easier finding of cross plat friends via an actual searchbar, more selections in the pirate emporium and base game, easier targeting with guns (half the time if feels like i miss because the bullet either goes within an inch of their hitbox or goes through them again due to latency), fix the stupid hitboxes of enemies and expecially players, fix the glitches eith just about every kind of interaction button, and make it where you can swimm onto a ledge eithout having to have a platform under your feet just to "walk" out of the water. If im trying to get out of the water, i sjoukdnt have to not go for the rock thats dipped below the waters edge but wont let me swim over and climb on top, just to circle around the whole island looking for a patch of sand

Changes on Blunder is actually good, people just talk like everyone likes and plays the game just for the boarding PVP, but it seems to me that everyone forgets those that play for naval PVP, so having a blunder that has good knock-back and don't kill you in one shot is very good for naval combat: silightly less annoying spawn-camping and less people on your ship... now, if they add the grapple gun like it's in the videos, than, goodbye naval PVP... I can imagine battles starting with the whole crew from a ship boarding the other at the same time, killing everyone and then, someone returns to ship to fire cannons while the rest just spawn camps... I also believe it is for the best to add more stuff that promotes the naval PVP, specially if they are adding the Grapple gun.

I have feel like the brazers at the top of skeleton camps might be contributing to all the lag issues (not relating to the burning blade because I'm experincing all the same issues whether or not ir's active), I say this because I've been looking at them with my spyglass from GREAT distances and like, it's a legit fully rendered brazer flame, from extreme distances, no way that doesn't affect the game in a way

Even though I see all the clips of this bugs and errors, me and my friend have never had this kind of problem, we all have Sea of thieves on the PC Xbox app and play and live in Spain so not sure if those problems are only in specific servers or what

Hand to hand PVP is my total weakness, all the jumping and bouncing around like crack addicts really kills the piratey vibe for me. Naval is where it’s at. Sinking someone because your crew is better with your ship is satisfying, it’s a lot less satisfying to be spawn point camped with a blunder into infinity while *Rolls on deck Laughing* appears on your screen en-masse. Glad they changed this. Now all we need is a cooldown on jumping and then hand to hand won’t be a total killer on my space bar just to stay alive.

i cant eveb play cuz when i try to launch the game it says theres an error

I think this change is fantastic. There are A LOT of players that have been getting by on that one-shot crutch.

Excited for the change. I feel like there will be now specific loadout for different scenarios rather than Blundy snipe for everything

I hate the spawn campers and people with blundies just keeping me off the ship at all times. I can't defend, I can't play, I can't do anything to fight them back when they are on MY ship and on MY territory and it's frustrating too much and I'm happy to see something being done about it. Honestly great changes, but hopefully they've fixed up the issues or will soon cause those sync issues look damn awful and I wanna get back to playing the game once again.

Obligatory reminder that the Sloop should be 1,5% times the speed faster against the wind than all other ships. *_And for the Blundie:_* It was unreliable anyway. The oneshot mechanic was something for successful silent boarding or people with barely any lag. Won't miss it cause it never happened that much anyway.

I would like to see the knife onehit after you charged the knife attack 2 sec. A sound should indicate the full charge for attacker and victem. We need a sneaky weapon

Now watch, pro snipers come in masses 🤣

It would be cool if they add a throwable that makes your ship slippery. As a good defense against boarding

Then theres me: HOOORAAAAY! NO MORE ONE TAPS!!! HALLELUJAH!!! PRAISE RARE!

That outro song is *chefs' kiss*

I've always said that what really needs to happen is just make the Blunderbuss a lot slower to pull out and aim, because in my opinion the REAL frustration was when you'd walk up and sword slash a totally oblivious player in the back exactly one before they whip around and blunder you in the face in half a second. It should be a defensive weapon that requires you to be READY for defending, not the "oh shoot someone's on my boat, quick just murder them" weapon

I thought it would be weird to come back to the game without knowing what's actually happening nowadays, but holy hell, desyncs, lags, bad hit reg, it's like I'm coming back home

I think it's a great change. You shouldn't be deckshotting and then wiping a crew with a blunderbuss.

What I always hated about that game is them saying "we have the best damn servers in the world with azure" while since the release I always had a struggle to find a proper server in W-Eu that has less than 90 ms ping while the average always been 118. That ping is the one I usually have on any other game when I'm playing on a E-US and 45 in my region. I'm not even gonna talk on the rubberbanding, the horrendous lag spikes between 400 to 700+ ms, the bad netcode, the massive rollbacks and so on...

This is needed, my friend and i refuse to play open seas because we constantly get one shot by the blundy, and then get spawn camped. The knockback will be nice to send boarders flying off my sloop and leave me alone.

I'm fine with the blunder being nerfed. On the rare occasion you get boarded by a hacker, they can't camp your hitbox prior to the respawn and instantly one shot you again.

1 shot blunderbuss is toxic, anyone can bully anyone with that especially the cheaters. If cheaters can't 1 hit someone that is good enough.

I'd say it's much better like this. The 1 fear of double gunners is a sword spammer. Now you double gunners could use the blunderbuss to knock back someone with a sword to then finish them off with your sniper.

No more Braindead Blunder laddercamper standing behind a fruitcrate abusing this stupid oneshot mechanic.

so instead of getting 1 shot, and spawn camped to continuously get 1 shot till they get bored or i scuttle and hope server now ima get thrown off my own ship, and constantly thrown off because itll be funny to see me struggle to get back on my own ship honestly just make it so body parts do more/less damage. Headshots double, legs do 25% but slow you for a 1 and chest do the normal damage they always been doing.

The swords literally about to be SO broken.

As a player who never relied on the cheapness of the blunder one shot I am not upset about this at all… in fact I’ve refused to use the blunder most of the time because it’s so cheap and overpowered it’s not fun.

I haven't had too many network problems with the game, but I do play on a hardwired connection. One of my friends who plays on wifi deals with the most egregious desync ever in any game he's played, so I can't say the problem doesn't exist.

One shot was always my biggest frustration. I’ll get launched from my ship just fine but getting one hit killed just sucks.

should increase the weapon slots. 4 or 5.

The lagging you showed at around 02:50 is what I've had for years, since the release, no matter what console, monitor or PC. Always and only on my account for some reason, no matter what WiFi or place I was at´. had me killed millions of times from players and PVE.

The harpoon gun would be good if reloading it takes a long time or that it only has one shot till u need to reload on an ammo box

I know it’s not optimal but sword pistol is the most pirate feeling to me so I choose to play how I like

I’m gonna be honest, the blunderbuss just being *better* in all scenarios (not just 1 shots, also it’s easier kill confirmation after a snipe) I’ve always found the weapon meta being extremely boring, now I feel like ill be able to use other guns and not be at a stupid disadvantage and that’s a welcome change

The stuttering is actually likely caused by easy anti cheat. I saw how the elden ring community released a mod that let people pvp without it and it nearly completely removed the stuttering and desync. easy anti cheat is basically vetting all the inputs and movements and "correcting" irregularities. They need a new way of doing this because it's ruining the game more than cheaters were.

I think also giving the blunderbuss' shooter a bit of physical recoil would be fun, not nearly as much as the receiving end, but still enough to distance two players.

Alright let’s just put it bluntly; the blunderbuss has until now been a cheap af weapon. It takes nothing to run up and oneshot at point blank. Now with this change not only will you need to think more when you use it, it’ll also make swords serve more of a purpose.

I remember loving this game, but the lack of progress towards making it stable and playable again killed it for me.

i think this is one of the best changes theyve made, we'll see if the knockback becomes a problem.

I’m entirely unsure how people are capable of getting 1 shots off blunderbusses but when I AM LITERALLY UP THE GUY’s FACE AND SIGHTS AIMED DOWN, I still don’t get the 1 shot… increasing the spread is a really bad idea for the servers when they are severely inconsistent as is, and getting even 80% health down from anything more than 1 inch from another player’s face…

thank you for the representation of the line being the hitbox of throwing knives, very helpful 👍

You know what I’d fancy seeing work, is if they removed the ability to loot ammo on enemy ships, which would eliminate the one shot spawn camping and almost force players hands into having swash buckling sword fights on the decks. Or even just be able to allow players a bit of breathing space when the enemy returns to re arm, I dunno. It’s an incredibly frustrating game going up against sweaty MKB players when playing on console, though it says controllers only I swear half these elites we find are fudging it some how lol still enjoy the game in small windows of time, but blood pressure can’t take more than an hour per day 😂

This change seems like a bandaid way to deal with blunderbuss hit reg

Well question of a boarding situation in season 14. You're Launch on cannon for boarding but too high and then shoot with hapoon gun to board other ship. What happen if you miss the harpoon shot and hit player and not the ship , did he get grab and fly with you out of the ship like a normal harpoon ?

What people see is the big problem with the game: Blunderbuss won't be one-hit killing folks anymore and it's getting better knockback. (A fair point to make, to be clear) The real problem with the game: The game is broken and cheaters run rampant, so whether or not you can have fun in a session is decided by a figurative roll of the dice. I hope these problems are resolved within my lifetime. I really do

imho, one shot kills have always been a bummer in every game i've ever played, for the reason that it takes you completely out of the flow of the game. I agree, that the server issues are a bit part of me getting frustrated when getting oneshotted - but there is still the spawnkilling aspect... So i strongly believe the blunderbuss should be able to knock someone off your ships ladder, but not to instantly kill them. Pretty sure it's more fun that way and still leave the blunderbuss with a lot of purpose.

Sort of related, but when the harpoon gun is released. Let’s all collectively agree that we shouldn’t use it during our hourglass because let’s be honest it’s gonna make things lot harder for everybody

Every update my server stability gets worse. My ship is constantly rocking under the water and basically ignoring water physics and rubberbanding often

Tribute peak is the biggest Island in the game

So happy they're finally nerfing the blunder buss, still feel like 80 would have been more appropriate seeing as a sniper rifle is 70. Spawn camping is so toxic right now

I'm happy with the change (and i usualy double gun sniper/blunder) , since the game dont have critical hits like, hiting the enemy betwen the eyes with a sniper shot,, i don't think that any gun should insta kill. Anothes change that i would made, is taking out the slow that sword cuts do when you get hit, thats anoying AF, the damage is ok, but the slow is so irritating... ps: trowing knives hitbox are broken.

I know sea of thieves insn't supposed to be a realistic game but still i think that if u get hit by a blunderbuss irl at very close range it will be very powerful that this kills u instantly so the oneshot is realistic but u may die instantly but u don't get knocked back 25 meters away so what i think the devs should do is to bring back the blunderbuss one tap but completly remove any knockback from blunderbuss just like a pistol or sniper shot u just get shot and take damage u don't get knockbacked if u want to knowback people u Either use a sword or blunderbombs

It is an unfun buff. It is 38 times more easy to knock someone off, than it is to one blunder. It will be a race who will blow someone off the ship first and from further distance. Also looking for mermaid feels worse than visiting ferry. Less skill + less fun = bad change

cant we all just sign a petition for rare to ignore a content update and focous souly on fixing the bugs and problems before we get a content season?

I think the change is good. I hate getting one blundered, and yes it may be a skill issue. But the knockback change isnt that drastic cuz the lower deck exists. Ladder guarding will be almost the same too, because you either get one shot or knocked off the ladder anyways except if they miss the shot. This change isnt a problem, its just different, and we have to get used to it. (and I know you probably know this too, but in the video you dont sound like it)

I hate the blunder, I'm a flintlock and sword guy. But I'm more scared of the increased knockback and damage spread. I think it's gonna be terrible for solo sloopers. If a player gets in your boat and they have a blunder then your never getti back on your boat .

I am SO glad rare decided to nerf the blunder bust. It's too good.