What were you doing before bug occurred: Having a high notoriety stat and joining the game at all.
Steps to reproduce: Above statement.
F9 Logs ( press f9 to view them in-game): Nothing there, this feels more like an oversight.
Immediately upon joining the game several heavy navy ships spawn in, all with majors or even commanders on them. If I get remotely close to any of these ships, they will jump off and swim towards me forever, unless they are killed, they will not stop ever and they seem to just keep spawning as long as my notoriety stays high.
You might not be able to see them at a glance, but in the far distance, that’s a whole ship of navy crew chasing me… without the ship.
If I don’t get near the ship and just run away, they just keep following me until they abandon ship anyways, it does not end even when I reset my notoriety.
Being endlessly swarmed by NPCs with twice my health, twice my damage output, and no reward at all for killing them is not fun.
(the reward is the least of my problems with this issue)
Tl;Dr : The navy currently acts like unrelenting bloodthirsty demons and that is not ok.
The ships spawn the second I join.
If I clear notoriety, I still have to fight through them, instantly gaining it back.
and I’m really not interested in paying over a thousand galleons every single time I join a server to not get chased by multiple NPCs all well over my stats.
the grand navy is a bit broken rn. Not the same bug but very similar. The grand navy tries to attack me even though i have positive reputation. after this comment, im going to make a post on it but whenever a grand navy spots you from their ship and you’re on an island, they will jump off and chase u regardless of rep. They will attack and no dmg and i cant deal dmg to them either.
Dont mess with the grand navy, ruthless. They will swim kilometres just to arrest u even though u cant be arrested.
damn, when I first took the picture I could still see them in the distance, picture quality messed it up.
Regardless, that’s still a bunch of soldiers chasing me, I’m not insane I swear.
Not sure what changed but now when I kill them it seems they just… never come back?
Its still a bug (I think) but I prefer this well over alerting the hoard.
yes, clearing my bounty would make this entire problem vanish for me.
however, doesn’t that kinda sorta not at all fix the problem of the game being an endless chase sequence for negative rep players?
. i have made a post but it seems that no one saw it: 