Can’t judge it yet since it still mostly unfinished but I can say that it quite repetitive when it come to grinding dark sealed chests
About giant kraken, you can easily sail past it unless it decided to grab your ship
For random generated islands, it well thought-out but the main problem is most of islands is insanely tall that it straight up not worth it to go up and grab dark sealed chests
I think the idea of replacing Dark sealed with Dark treasure chests on random-generated islands is good idea so that it actually worth it to go to tall islands and keep dark sealed chests exclusively to atlantean ships and Siren nests is better idea too
For waterpoisoning,I want Water poisoning to get revamped by adding Bar indication that show it being filling in overtime when you stay in dark sea.
when bar is filled up, you will get waterpoisoning like usual and can be cleared off by using soap or bath in captain quarter.
You can also stay in shelter to decrease waterpoisoning from filling up gradually and using soap or bath will remove waterpoisoning from filling up instantly
Dark Sea is boring but at least I appreciate the effort that went into making things such as randomly generated islands etc.
I believe that there are 2 major things that make the Dark Sea feel less satisfying:
The atmosphere is lacking. We have the rain and slight purple filter, that is about it. There needs to be more random events to make DS feel scarier/more immersive such as your ship candles going out, unexplainable sightings or strange noises etc…
Loot is not that good anymore. Fleet tasks are vastly more rewarding than the Dark Sea now. It takes too much time for too little loot. We were promised an area that keeps intensifying in danger making you stay on a time schedule to get as much loot without dying. Instead you sail around getting chests until you get bored and then stare at your screen as you sail back to the War Seas without any real dangers (only mild annoyances).
The state of the Dark Sea right now is justifiably boring because the entire concept has so much potential that you could make it into its own game. So many things that can be added but they’d otherwise take away dev time needed to refine the rest of the game. Many features will, hopefully, get added in new Dark Sea specific updates, fingers crossed.