So I have recently tried a lot of Dark Sea exploration, to see if hecate essences were truly made easier to find as it was literally broken before…
And I found that not only is it not easier to find, it is ten times harder simply because of how dark sea is right now, the weather in the dark sea is so taxing on the server that you often get stuck with your ship, moves that cast anything moving or have you move going at a truly abyssmal pace.. I have checked multiple times if this isn’t by any chance something on my end or the server’s but no, this happened everytime I went.
This isn’t all of the issues, as some of you might be aware there is more, such as:
General vfx clutter from the weather, mainly the weird transperent clouds
The spawn rate of everything related to weather being upped by like 5 times, waves (not really much of an issue by themselves), tornados and whatever the hell the wave spawning tornado is meant to be
Atlantean ships spawning exclusively 30 meters infront of you
The entire feature of being able to take some of your crew with you being useless for the following reasons:
Pathfinding sucks ass
They have a tendency to kill themselves (either by ignoring your commands and attacking
something or falling to their deaths)
Even leveled up they are pretty much useless as support
They are incapable of coming back to your ship because they just get stuck on the bottom of the ship and then later ignore the command alltogether
I don’t understand why these weather changes were pushed to the dark sea when it is too much for the server, I don’t understand why finding a hecate has to be so difficult because from what I know it is a small purple cloud that cannot be sensed, which combined with the average dark sea island (hell forget average all of them in the later layers are like that) is just a ridiculous expectation…
When it is literally easier to go and make a new file, transfer everything on that file AND leveling everything back up than finding a hecate, at that point why even put it in the game other than spite? Like hell, even the magic reset you can buy from the shop is priced at an insane 2000 Robux just to deter most people from actually buying it…
but yeah the dark sea has become significantly harder due to how bugs like atlantean ships, megastructure, and rifts not showing up have been fixed, so it’s harder to find islands, which makes gathering dark sealed chests manually become infeasible. I’m just glad fleets allow us to get dark sealed chests passively, even if it might be a bit overtuned.
Honestly the current state of the dark sea really sucks because not only is it hard to see but giant krakens spawn in every 20 seconds and if your not constantly sensing your ship will take damage from them.
The amount of dark sealed chests you get from these big islands aren’t really worth it either. Personally they should scale with the amount of players tbh. Also I know vetex is again this but personally I think having the dark sea being a separate server could help greatly and the range between layers is also ridiculous
jk this is valid and its lowk unfair that weapons can be switched easily and fighting styles even easier but anyone using any amount of magic has to venture to the ends of the earth (literally) to get a lil hecate essence
not to mention that even sensing won’t help you because 1 it is very unreliable and 2 they can spawn literally directly under you, and if you’ve ever faught a kraken before… then you know how much damage they can deal if you are caught in the MIDDLE of them
To add on to the list of issues I’ve literally never seen a single giant white eyes ever since full release, and also yeah can 100% agree that the tornado spawning is WAY too frequent right now and I also can’t see anything. Also the audio just fully breaks because a million things with their volume cranked to 11 are spawned in alongside the loud ass rain and unreasonably loud sounds of your own ship that for some reason can’t be reduced by any volume slider other than Roblox’s main one, which doesn’t resolve the issue. So after prolonged Dark Sea runs audio is only playing in one ear half the time and you’re developing fucking tinnitus, which isn’t a joke by the way my ears have been ringing lately. There was also the time where returning from a long expedition looking for athena pages the game froze so bad transitioning back into the bronze sea that I thought my internet gave out. My ping was at about 20,000 for a solid 2 minutes and it unfroze with me literally stuck inside the bottom of my brig where I nearly drowned but figured out I could sit in the seat in the captain’s quarters to get out.
This stupid ahh main character from random japanese comic literally dont appear on my radar. I literally lose to this mofo not because its hard but rather it simply buggy.
The thing is option to change your magic was never supposed to exist, people simply couldn’t keep up with balance team constantly nerfing/buffing stuff and thus we got acrimoncy, hecate essence and paid reset
While this is true, it doesn’t and never will justify it being bad.
I dunno why people keep bringing up that it was never meant to be part of the game like that actually supports it being bad somehow.
What was or wasn’t originally planned is completely useless information in this context.
What matters is what is and can be and how it can be improved.
The PvP toggle was never supposed to exist.
It does and the game is far better for it.
The dark sea being moved to a separate server instance OR EVEN a sea system is honestly paramount at this point, because roblox simply CANNOT handle it. What’s it going to be like when we’re actually going to i3 and beyond to farm the dark sea?
Side note, dark sealed chests are not it. We’ve got to get higher tiers of dark sealeds at some point because bringing them back to the ship will only get harder and harder with bigger and bigger islands.
