Ok so something creepy happened while i was in ds

my theory is that the one update with the deckhand overhaul (not sure whether it was before, after or during ds update) also kinda overhauled the ghosts because something with the deckhands being able to attack or something

actually nvm thats a stupid argument

ok new argument
deckhands having the ability to attack now (and any already recruited deckhands get rolled once so people dont get merciful deckhands) → that somehow applied to ds ghosts

Coming back to this, I don’t think that’s how it works
Otherwise it’d be way too laggy

Yeah… I do agree.
But as I’ve stated on many occasions, this is a product of Vetex, meaning such functionalities could occur.

yeah this is just a bugged ghost. on occasion deckhands in cities can spawn in as functional NPCs with health bars and moves, i believe this is the same thing but for ghosts in the dark sea

How are you able to reverse your boat?

hold/press s while at the helm
has been in the game since full release

sometimes it bugs and keeps going backwards after youve let go of the button

it was added after full release.

wait what

If I remember correctly, you could get the “???” Boss bar from a Dark sea ghost if you attack it immediately after it spawns before the full release update that is. Maybe it is related to something like that? Like maybe when the ghost spawn the storms in the dark sea damaged it which caused it to break and do that.

Or ig it’s from island getting unloaded after the ghost spawned, resulting in it breaking.

Seems like the right time to bring this back