I’m starting to crash out. Has anyone else had any good experience with the Dark Sea as of late?
I tried doing a run into the Dark Sea, and I got to the 1 insanity range. Here’s my review of the expedition:
The travel time was far too long without anything interesting.
I received water poisoning on 3 different occasions within 15-20 minutes.
I saw two islands, then I saw 5 instances of the same big trees in water spawn.
The kraken spawned on top of me, I couldn’t hit it, and the water dealt 50 or so damage per tick after I got carried away by a wave, where I henceforth died.
The Dark Sea is a mess of spamming waves and tornadoes. I even ran into the infamous shadow-tornado, which is nigh invisible.
The islands are too unrewarding for potentially wasting more than 1k ship health due to waves hitting it constantly.
The latency feels far too increased in The Dark Sea, I can press the toggle sail button, then wait approximately3 seconds for them to actually toggle. The toggling happens near instantly in the War Seas. EDIT: This occurred in a DE (Germany) server, I live in Denmark, my country is literally connected to the country this server is running on.
The Dark Seas feels like a chore rather than an expedition, especially when the mushroom trees spawn far too often, basically replacing actual islands with actual content, even if minimal.
idk thats my problem or or if everyone has encountered something like this before. I explored dark sea(insanity3-5 area) about three consecutive days. every island i meet are foresrt in water. or volcano. if i meet 10 island there must be 6 of them are forest 2of them are volcano and 1 of them are siren. and the result was that I couldn’t find anything at all. I was just wasting my time.
The issue with the Dark Sea is it is supposed to be a test of endurance.
Instead, it remains a constant test of patience.
Getting tossed around like a midget at a circus by every wave in a 3 mile radius for my crime of being rained on and having to tediously wash my body off with soap or just die because apparently big ass completely fine looking trees dont die to the rain but I do cause I am apparently a sponge for poison is never fun.
Tornadoes with a huge aoe that prevents me from touching an island are never fun.
Being harassed by the ENDLESS STREAM OF KRAKENS is never fun.
The Dark Sea needs changes to test the player in meaningful ways that test what you can handle, using a mixture of all your learned skills up to this point to ensure your survival, and further beyond, your escape. Its said to be this hellscape of endless death and chaos, but its really more just “fuck i need to take a bath and swim back to my boat” and thats just really annoying.
I think its because they are to busy recycling moves from other bosses that the Premade bosses seem like they are Either just lag inducing or AOE based. but i Agree AO is not Seemingly AO anymore
hey if you wanna doom then go for it but i love this game and think more can come from it than what you seem to think, and im gonna keep havin faith in it
Agreed, it just feels too populated now, it’s a place where everything is just destruction upon destruction, the island frequency should be so high especially when it seems like it’s higher than the War Seas.
we need more events to make it feel more intense and dangerous, not tornado spam or the very shit atlantean brig AI. this is a fiction game so vetex can practically make anything happen because hurr durr magic energy or chaos.
island generation needs to be unique, every single island is the same boring very tall rock with grass thinner than a sheet of paper, and also the occassional level 500 atlantean with really poor AI
the way you get sealed chests suck, you climb the tall rock loot the chests go back to your boat repeat for 30 minutes for some loot you can buy on marketplace for less than 10k
incredibly laggy, im pretty sure the rain effect you constantly have is outdated
not enough mechanics that make it hard, water poisoning is just a bottleneck that only lets people with brigs go into insanity 1
forced to use dark sea specific builds, i personally dont like this. you are either forced to A: fucking rawdog it like an absolute beast and endure the insanity effects B: use warding armor C: afk on a claimed island for golden petals
the loot is actually dogshit, the only thing worth it in the dark sea is omen armor and thats about it. powerful and armoreds are common af now as is every other dark sea scroll.
speaking of the omen its not even a boss fight, its a big fucking patience test, it deserves to get reworked to be an actual challenging hard difficult boss that can be fought normally, it shouldnt even be an oversized kraken with 90k hp im sorry. (fight normally as in you dont need a 800 range build to kill it)
this might be a bug? i ran into nothing but weather and volcanoes, and at some point spawning completely halted. bummer since i was only one far reaches animal away from completing the area but oh well
Dark sea needs new content, like way more
I hope the next dark sea update will add more than just dragons and satyrs, i wanna see awesome stuff like new armor sets and weapons
