Jacob Smith

i’ve been kingpin and max rank medium ship since beta/day 1 early access. there’s not enough to do. there are no large ships or new medium ships from the beta. no meaningful differences between the 4 medium ships in the game excluding snow which is a tank ship. the spawns for the one sea monster currently in the game (not even gonna get into trying to get the legendary variant to spawn which you need to craft 1/3 purple 400 hulls in the game) are abysmal pretty much getting 1 shot at it a day, ghost ship spawns are infrequent and are just a slog to fight as they don’t do any damage but take forever to whittle away (again not even talking about the variant spawning). the kingpin endgame of managing the manufacturies is a slog, as you take the same route around the map collecting 60 or so pieces of 8 depending on upgrades which takes 30-1hr depending on if you do just red isle or coast of africa or both all the while constantly fighting annoying rogues that you watch drop out of thin air into the water. there’s only 2 purple 110 weapons and 1 purple 400 hull to get from black market, all 3 are mid, not to mention the rare royal custodian 400 hull isn’t even displayed in the codex. the one purple weapon actually worth it, the scurlock long 9s, is locked behind 1000 gold skill gin which is a pain to come by. there is no player combat or ship exploration, both of which assassins creed 4 had a game from over 11 years ago. there’s only pvp in specific conditions such as the redundant cargo hunts or if a player collecting their pieces from manufacturies goes for a double or nothing(not worth in a packed lobby) and during hostile takeovers which you run out of eventually once you own all the places. the campaign/ main quest line is boring and has no meaningful character development other than unlocking a couple items to buy from scurlock and rhama at certain points. all in all just an extremely unfinished, unsatisfying game that had all the potential in the world. when season 1 drops in a week or so is going to decide if the game survives or not, as if there are no new ships (large) added, more weapons, more incentive to the kingpin endgame all of which haven’t been confirmed based on the roadmap, the game will die.