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Had a thought while watching this, (i don’t know everything so there my be features that deny this as a possibility) but I think that Cap’n is either The Pirate Lord himself, Pendragon pre blackwych or just another person in the hideout.
The way I see it the reason you'd go to port Merrick over any other port is because it's the best port in the game. Not because of any mechanical differences but because of layout. With a lot of verticality, closed hallways and arches, and tight turns as well as back doors this means that multiple crews may be using the port at once, and without being aware of each other. Which isn't really too possible with any other outpost in the game. Furthermore if you're getting chased, and want to get all the treasure off your boat quickly. Port Merrick is the best outpost in the game because Sovereigns are on a raised position, you can harpoon your loot and you only have three entrances to worry about, meaning you can defend your loot much more easily. Additionally with the height of the structures in port Merrick you can use it as a line-of-sight break with enemy ships, allowing you to employ dastardly schemes, and for the sly pirates you can use the underground waterways, and tight corridors to open up opportunity to board, tuck, and steal from larger crews. The whole point of Port Merrick is that it does everything any other port does but it's better at it.
FR its so lifeless itd be cool to see maybe island npcs travelling there sometimes like say deadshot charlotte was walking around the port and youd turn the crates in there instead of lone cove
One issue I find is that because of the much larger size, golden sands just seems so empty now. Especially with the docks, where the entire area is populated only by the merchant and the shipwright. With all the new efforts made to make the sea seem more alive, having such a desolate port is sad
The only way in which golden sands feels empty is a lack of strolling npcs and townsfolk. Everything else is great. I think you get that “empty” feeling because the trading companies are now more spread out.
you cant expect ports to have a massive purpose besides tall tale spots and the castaway. theres nothing needed there. except what that cat is doing going near the pl door
@@pizzabeast2498 I like little incentives like some commodities and merchant loot selling better at certain outposts, but the game needs more than that. There should be a unique reason to go to every outpost, not just certain Tall Tales and commendations. Maybe a way to choose which outpost you spawn at, and then provide a unique buff to your pirate or ship based on which outpost you represent. Maybe something like this will be included if they add guilds? Like you can choose an outpost as a Guild Sponsor that provides something special.
@@benjamingiddens6758 that means falcores pc is shitty, and the clip of the xbox gameplay is now that I remember from a short I saw about goldens sands renovation, so he probably just made it laggier
I love Port Merrick. It looks absolutely amazing but it needs more NPCs in it. It feels like a ghost town. Bringing in dice and board games would be cool too. You could hang out and play for hours without even leaving the tavern. Aside from that, changing ship types mid-session really needs to happen. Being locked into whatever ship size you initially choose is a pain if someone has to leave or if someone else wants to join. That flexibility will make casual sessions much easier.
I can think of only one reason to actually go there outside of "it looks pretty" that isn't mentioned in this video. From my understanding, Port Merrick has cannons stationed around the perimeter. It is the only outpost in the game aside from Reapers where you can defend yourself from incoming players while away from your ship. So, its only extra benefit is the addition of more self-defense.
1:44 I have a 2nd gen Xbox (I think? It’s pretty old at least, got it second hand about 7 years ago), and it struggles at times in SoT, but I don’t think I’ve ever had my performance drop *that* low, like dear lord.
I am an Xbox One player and have no problems whatsoever with the quality at Port Merrick or anywhere else. I think it depends on what kind of internet you have
Do you play on TV? If yes, then there is the problem, well, not a problem, but a native TV has a refresh rate of 30hz. Which means you are only ever seeing 30fps no matter how much FPS your game punches out. Also TV's have a resampled frame setting that fills in the blanks between frame drops, which although makes frames seem smoother, can also cause a lot of artifacts and image ghosting. If you plug the Xbox One into a 2k moniter, none of these things take a effect, and you see the game as it actually looks.
Rip pendragon He may have been an enemy to us reapers But he didn't deserve to be practically forgotten If/when he comes back, and he decides to join the reapers bones or flameheart I wouldn't blame him I'm going to be poring out some grog at the hideout for that poor fellow
@@Motolmang maybe the Dark Brethren considering they could pick him up in the Sea of The Damned and they are also outcasts or people who've been wronged.
I just wanna say as a player using an OG Xbox One the gameplay is really smooth, I have never encountered whatever that footage you showed was XD. Ive played it on PC as well and I honestly couldn't see a difference, the one thing I have noticed is my Xbox has quicker loading times.
2:30 I complete agree I feel there should have been a reason to come to golden sands over every outpost I hear people say they should add ai bots around to fill up the outposts and make them guard the outpost from reapers/skell ships and stuff but with the fps drops I dont feel this is the move anymore but one thing that might make it feel special is add natural spawning rowboats one for a rowboat you can choose and two more resources but I feel they can find a better and more creative solution to golden sands feeling empty/ more annoying sell spot
Problem is, right now, there is actually LESS reason to go to one of these outposts simply because them being large makes it harder to sell (unless you're a captain). I always just go to sanctuary when I'm in the area because of how close the traders are to the shore. It's a double edged sword though, because if people don't go to Golden Sands, then you don't need to worry about getting attacked there, you know?
i’m guessing there’s going to eventually be a new chapter of tall tales focused around port merrick essentially a new campaign leading up to a boss fight hopefully against flameheart
I honestly love fishing here. Also they can't really drop support for the Xbox One because the One S and One X run this game fine. Never had lag problems, only texture bugs.
i think maybe make port merrick a safe haven where you cant sell there, and when in the vicinity of it you cant attack. so it could act as a social hub for the map where pirates can meet and drink at the tavern and just have a social meeting. or make a spat launch mode where you launch into port merrick and there is like 30 people or so on it and that acts as a looking for crew area to find people to play with
5:59 I don’t really think the cat from the Christmas teasers is Trouble. In the “Tales from the Sea of Thieves” book, Trouble is described as having bald patches on their fur, as well as a single greyed out eye. The cat here seemingly has all of its fur and no gray eye. I could always be wrong though
I have the battlefield 1 military green xbox one thats 7 years old. Port merrick makes my frames semi low but the main thing is my textures won't load at times, lag spikes, and sometimes I can't even see what's in my inventory. I absolutely LOVE Port merricks design, but my xbox can't handle the the whole game at most times. Mr Falcore when I heard you said you run at 200 normally makes me salivate. Anyways love the videos falcore, keep making them! Love you!❤
I play on the original Xbox one, one that was a part of the initial lineup when they were first released and I can say that there is no where in the game that gives me fps that low. I get really fuzzy textures from time to time but my fps stays pretty stable the entire time.
Also id just like to say, I doubt port merrick is truly finished in general, as the merchant area is still surrounded with supplies for construction, and even still has a bag of peanuts, so I imagine the merchant area and dock in general will be added to even in a purely cosmetic way
Golden Sands looks AMAZING, but personally, I avoid Golden Sands as much as possible since it's way too big, and I'm constantly looking over my shoulder when I do. You never know when someone is going to pull up and take you out.
Man, I hope they introduce moving NPCs that would load ships and maybe let you escort these ships across to other Outposts. Marking you like a Reaper chest.
An ability to change you’re ship size mid came would be so useful because many time I play with my friends more people get on and wanna join after a bit
Seriously, this is the first gen I was able to hop in right away and every developer is now holding onto the past instead of moving forward..... (Started a family, ect, ect) Last gen I was almost immediately left in the dust. Missed out on some awesome stuff. Now I can jump right in and most of the shit to play is being held back by devs trying squeak a few extra bucks from last gen still. Fun.
As an Xbox one player, who’s Xbox one is shitty already, Port Merrick runs just fine, not a single bit of lag at all anywhere in Sea of Thieves, even in tall tales. I’d have to say there sure was some PC bias when showing the Xbox one part of the video.
Ok hear me out... Heists!!! Imagine the reapers giving you quests to steal from the other trading companies. Think: The order of souls have catacombs. Let the player walk in for this quest and steal as many skulls as they can within a time limit. Maybe add parkour. The gold hoarders have a bank for crying out loud! I want to take those chests! Maybe make it relate to that top secret door you mentioned. It would just be so awesome to steal from everyone, even the npcs
Sounds a bit over the top , but imagine if they add a bigger battle ship so it’s a standalone type of game where multiple players can join and take on the Cap’n. Mano o war springs to mind That’s what the ship build could turn into. Wouldn’t be a ship you could just sail but would be awesome as a standalone Tall Tale against the Cap’n and would bring the community together for one big badass battle.
I've sort of fallen off playing SoT as much lately. Which is sad because I'm just barely short of 1k hours. But the one thing that does keep pulling me back is the Golden Sands updates. I put so many hours into saving Golden Sands. I played even when I wasn't feeling up to it to ensure it got rebuilt. Seeing it turn into Port Merrick has made me proud. I may be semi-retired as a pirate, but I'll have always made that mark on the game.
It would be nice if port merrick became some sort of lobby for the game. You log in and look for a crew there. Let hundreds of players run around and crash the servers.
Its nice that they don’t wanna leave old gen behind, but they need to if we were ever to recieve anything like more map expansions and increased player caps in servers so player interaction dont die out. But anyway, heres hoping.
That would be cool if the cap’n is actually scouting the new fort This might mean we will get new tall tails with the cap’n For all we know he’s a good guy and a bad guy
You can slap a new nameplate on it, but it'll still be Golden Sands to me. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to plan my vacation to Constantinople, assuming I can get a direct flight from New Amsterdam.
6:05 you must be standing somewhere different, the paw prints dont come close to that direction. and its a big given, the Port will become a new Tall Tale or adventure area.
i agree with dropping support of the oldest console in the line. sucks for the people who stilll enjoy it at 15 frames per session. but its good for the landscape of the game
Another thought..."Ports" are typically gateway cities/towns and PM is on the far western edge...possible entry point for GMU or whoever is backing the Sovereigns?
I think it would b really cool if we could completely customize our ship from bow to stern like u said with size like if u wanted a chandelier in the captain's quarters but have a small ship u still could
Definitely time to drop the OG XBox. The devs have on numerous occasions mentioned having to juggle memory and other requirements so that the features they want to implement still work on that platform, but working, and being playable are two very different things.
I have an almost 6 year old xbox one, and idk if I’m used to it but I’ve never had fps this bad in port Merrick although I haven’t been there much. Even so the performance on Xbox is atrocious with me getting black screened for longer periods of time then most other platforms, it puts me and other xbox players at a major disadvantage and it can get frustrating a lot which has driven me away from the game before I’ve even hit pirate legend
There's no reason why the frame rate drops that much, the textures aren't in 4k, it's a stylized world which dramatically increases frame rate. The lights can cause problems, and the camera needs to have occlusion culling switched on, which only renders game objects in the line of view and only gameobjects you can see. I am a game developer myself.
6:03 "You will notice the pawprints are heading for the smuggler's lair underneath Golden Sands." Why do you think that? The stairs to the Smuggler's Lair are on the opposite side of the room. Are there other pawprints that I'm not seeing? 🤔 If anything, they look like they are going upstairs or out the window. I tried following the pawprints out there and didn't see anything.
Honestly the world feels empty because there is no section of the map where you can meet people, and be safe. Meaning anything that can bring you value at the outpost is severly hindered due to every player being scared of other players.
What is the dry dock is going to have a new ship class slowly being built in it, and eventully when that ship is complete we can have it as our very own. maybe it could even be, oh i don't know, THE MAN-O'-WAR?
I love Port Merrick but it does feel very empty. I think all it really needs are some NPCs walking around, and one or two small mini games, and I think it would vastly improve it. I do think a more social aspect would be very welcome.
I play SoT on the original xbox 1 and I can promise you that port marick is not that laggy, I have been there several times including 1 time with a crew from a different ship and the performance didn't drop what so ever. So I have no clue why it looks like that. In all fairness I do have lag issues occasionally but it's an Australian server thing which makes the game struggle, but I have never lagged that extremely and I've been playing for years and have sunk over 1000 hours into the game.
One thing I’m a little concerned about is, with the statute and the wooden trimmed picture of Merric, we have two things other than the name showing their respect to him, so WHY is there a NEW golden trimmed one in the light house, as well as what is the room at the top of the Tavern
Despite this game having some of the most complex wave systems ever, it's interesting you run better out on the seas compared to islands and outposts. But this can probably be explained by the huge amount of assets involved. Hopefully it can be fixed in the future with LOD improvements and optimizations to assets and textures
Yeah, if there is no way to optimize the game and limit the rendering of the environment for the old Xbox, it will be hard to play on it. But this is also the other side of the promise that games will be available for all the consoles, it was not promised that all games will run smoothly on it. Still, if they do not want to give a bad taste about it, they should enable a low-spec profile for the game in such areas.
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Had a thought while watching this, (i don’t know everything so there my be features that deny this as a possibility) but I think that Cap’n is either The Pirate Lord himself, Pendragon pre blackwych or just another person in the hideout.
The way I see it the reason you'd go to port Merrick over any other port is because it's the best port in the game. Not because of any mechanical differences but because of layout. With a lot of verticality, closed hallways and arches, and tight turns as well as back doors this means that multiple crews may be using the port at once, and without being aware of each other. Which isn't really too possible with any other outpost in the game.
Furthermore if you're getting chased, and want to get all the treasure off your boat quickly. Port Merrick is the best outpost in the game because Sovereigns are on a raised position, you can harpoon your loot and you only have three entrances to worry about, meaning you can defend your loot much more easily.
Additionally with the height of the structures in port Merrick you can use it as a line-of-sight break with enemy ships, allowing you to employ dastardly schemes, and for the sly pirates you can use the underground waterways, and tight corridors to open up opportunity to board, tuck, and steal from larger crews.
The whole point of Port Merrick is that it does everything any other port does but it's better at it.
It's not laggy on my Xbox1
No lagging on Xbox one. R u on drugs lol
I don't know if it's too much for SOT, but some walking or sitting NPC's would be really good in a island like this imo.
FR its so lifeless itd be cool to see maybe island npcs travelling there sometimes like say deadshot charlotte was walking around the port and youd turn the crates in there instead of lone cove
@@melissalamfalusi8208 its not lifeless though. also lone cove isnt anything special
I mean they did something like it for a pirates life
In the port town in the pirates life tall tale captains of the damned that has npcs walking around which proves they can do it
At least the taverns could do with some NPCs, seems weird to not have a bustling tavern in a pirate game.
One issue I find is that because of the much larger size, golden sands just seems so empty now. Especially with the docks, where the entire area is populated only by the merchant and the shipwright. With all the new efforts made to make the sea seem more alive, having such a desolate port is sad
its not empty nor does it feel that way
@@pizzabeast2498 yeah it is and does
@@pizzabeast2498 no offense but it does :/
The only way in which golden sands feels empty is a lack of strolling npcs and townsfolk. Everything else is great. I think you get that “empty” feeling because the trading companies are now more spread out.
@JustWingIt yeah cause it's not as compact there's alot more empty spacd
"It just makes sense"
“LIES”
“Oh no”
Always felt the same way. The new port is really cool and all, but like... that's it.
Hopefully we get confirmation of something big soon.
you cant expect ports to have a massive purpose besides tall tale spots and the castaway. theres nothing needed there. except what that cat is doing going near the pl door
@@pizzabeast2498 I like little incentives like some commodities and merchant loot selling better at certain outposts, but the game needs more than that. There should be a unique reason to go to every outpost, not just certain Tall Tales and commendations. Maybe a way to choose which outpost you spawn at, and then provide a unique buff to your pirate or ship based on which outpost you represent. Maybe something like this will be included if they add guilds? Like you can choose an outpost as a Guild Sponsor that provides something special.
As an Xbox player when I go there there’s no lag it’s smooth gameplay idk what Xbox you were using but props to ur editing skills
yeah i run og xbox one and it runs fine
@@themutesiren5542 probably just pc bias
i play on PC (not even the greatest) and I haven't really seen drops there either?
@@benjamingiddens6758 that means falcores pc is shitty, and the clip of the xbox gameplay is now that I remember from a short I saw about goldens sands renovation, so he probably just made it laggier
@Waffle Bot Not trying to throw shade at falcore but i have the og xbox one and play on it everyday and its not like this soooooo just saying
I love Port Merrick. It looks absolutely amazing but it needs more NPCs in it. It feels like a ghost town.
Bringing in dice and board games would be cool too. You could hang out and play for hours without even leaving the tavern.
Aside from that, changing ship types mid-session really needs to happen. Being locked into whatever ship size you initially choose is a pain if someone has to leave or if someone else wants to join. That flexibility will make casual sessions much easier.
the changing ship sizes thing would make sense, as forcing players to enter a dry dock would counter the power of changing ships mid fight.
I got a feeling Port Merrick will most likely have something exclusive involving guilds
Shh
I saw these footprints yesterday and instantly thought “I wonder when Falcore’s gonna mention this”.
I can think of only one reason to actually go there outside of "it looks pretty" that isn't mentioned in this video. From my understanding, Port Merrick has cannons stationed around the perimeter. It is the only outpost in the game aside from Reapers where you can defend yourself from incoming players while away from your ship. So, its only extra benefit is the addition of more self-defense.
1:44
I have a 2nd gen Xbox (I think? It’s pretty old at least, got it second hand about 7 years ago), and it struggles at times in SoT, but I don’t think I’ve ever had my performance drop *that* low, like dear lord.
I am an Xbox One player and have no problems whatsoever with the quality at Port Merrick or anywhere else. I think it depends on what kind of internet you have
Do you play on TV? If yes, then there is the problem, well, not a problem, but a native TV has a refresh rate of 30hz. Which means you are only ever seeing 30fps no matter how much FPS your game punches out. Also TV's have a resampled frame setting that fills in the blanks between frame drops, which although makes frames seem smoother, can also cause a lot of artifacts and image ghosting. If you plug the Xbox One into a 2k moniter, none of these things take a effect, and you see the game as it actually looks.
Rip pendragon
He may have been an enemy to us reapers
But he didn't deserve to be practically forgotten
If/when he comes back, and he decides to join the reapers bones or flameheart
I wouldn't blame him
I'm going to be poring out some grog at the hideout for that poor fellow
i expect him to join the brotherhood and the cap'n tbh and not reapers
@@Motolmang true
@@Motolmang maybe the Dark Brethren considering they could pick him up in the Sea of The Damned and they are also outcasts or people who've been wronged.
Funny enough, Golden Sands was my very first spawn in the game; I'm very happy to see it turn into an actual fort
I just wanna say as a player using an OG Xbox One the gameplay is really smooth, I have never encountered whatever that footage you showed was XD. Ive played it on PC as well and I honestly couldn't see a difference, the one thing I have noticed is my Xbox has quicker loading times.
I mean... The extra cooking pans in the tavern have been nice! :D But I also hope they add more features to the outpost soon.
I hope that port Merrick Will be principal toward the guild system coming in the future
What System? Are you Breaking NDA?!
@@infinitypirates9173 nope the guild have been teased back in December
@@infinitypirates9173 bruh you didn't see the orb stream did you
@@infinitypirates9173 and it makes sense,port Merrick should be the only place to make guilds, because it's the biggest port
@@infinitypirates9173 Are you implying he knows something thats in insider? THEREFORE YOUR BREAKING NDA
2:30 I complete agree I feel there should have been a reason to come to golden sands over every outpost I hear people say they should add ai bots around to fill up the outposts and make them guard the outpost from reapers/skell ships and stuff but with the fps drops I dont feel this is the move anymore but one thing that might make it feel special is add natural spawning rowboats one for a rowboat you can choose and two more resources but I feel they can find a better and more creative solution to golden sands feeling empty/ more annoying sell spot
Problem is, right now, there is actually LESS reason to go to one of these outposts simply because them being large makes it harder to sell (unless you're a captain).
I always just go to sanctuary when I'm in the area because of how close the traders are to the shore. It's a double edged sword though, because if people don't go to Golden Sands, then you don't need to worry about getting attacked there, you know?
“Yes, because I’m insane”
i’m guessing there’s going to eventually be a new chapter of tall tales focused around port merrick essentially a new campaign leading up to a boss fight hopefully against flameheart
Oh i saw the cat paws and thought how cute it was. Now even small cute things are deep lore 😂
I honestly love fishing here.
Also they can't really drop support for the Xbox One because the One S and One X run this game fine. Never had lag problems, only texture bugs.
i think maybe make port merrick a safe haven where you cant sell there, and when in the vicinity of it you cant attack. so it could act as a social hub for the map where pirates can meet and drink at the tavern and just have a social meeting. or make a spat launch mode where you launch into port merrick and there is like 30 people or so on it and that acts as a looking for crew area to find people to play with
5:59 I don’t really think the cat from the Christmas teasers is Trouble. In the “Tales from the Sea of Thieves” book, Trouble is described as having bald patches on their fur, as well as a single greyed out eye. The cat here seemingly has all of its fur and no gray eye. I could always be wrong though
Id say there is one decent reason to stop at Port Merrick compare to other outposts, it has a decent few cannons along the walls to fend off pirate.
I have the battlefield 1 military green xbox one thats 7 years old. Port merrick makes my frames semi low but the main thing is my textures won't load at times, lag spikes, and sometimes I can't even see what's in my inventory. I absolutely LOVE Port merricks design, but my xbox can't handle the the whole game at most times. Mr Falcore when I heard you said you run at 200 normally makes me salivate. Anyways love the videos falcore, keep making them! Love you!❤
I play on the original Xbox one, one that was a part of the initial lineup when they were first released and I can say that there is no where in the game that gives me fps that low. I get really fuzzy textures from time to time but my fps stays pretty stable the entire time.
It's for ship building and ship repairs, not docking... Propably an opportunity to customize ships a lot more in the future
My launch date xbox one doesn’t run that slowly there, nor does my Series S see slowdowns there.
The Sea of Thieves world evolution is the living definition of "LET THEM COOK 🔥🔥🔥"
"It's just an aesthetic, there's no reason" your just described the entirety of Sea of Thieves
Also id just like to say, I doubt port merrick is truly finished in general, as the merchant area is still surrounded with supplies for construction, and even still has a bag of peanuts, so I imagine the merchant area and dock in general will be added to even in a purely cosmetic way
The stupid Bell joke really got me 😄
Golden Sands looks AMAZING, but personally, I avoid Golden Sands as much as possible since it's way too big, and I'm constantly looking over my shoulder when I do. You never know when someone is going to pull up and take you out.
Man, I hope they introduce moving NPCs that would load ships and maybe let you escort these ships across to other Outposts. Marking you like a Reaper chest.
nice idea. Would be nice to see just regular NPC ships. Not just skelis
@@snazwonk2066 right!
An ability to change you’re ship size mid came would be so useful because many time I play with my friends more people get on and wanna join after a bit
A drydock is for building, repairing and launching ships. It wouldn't make sense if you could dock there.
Captain had a cat. A cat who lured junior
I feel like Belle had a larger part in saving the outpost than Merrick did, just my opinion though.
And she got that body ody ahh!
Man I had a bigger impact on saving the outpost. Meeric just stood there and drank all the rum i delivered
@@Lurch-11 😂😂😂 fax cuz she lowky fine af
Need more NPCs to talk to at Port Merrick
Seriously, this is the first gen I was able to hop in right away and every developer is now holding onto the past instead of moving forward.....
(Started a family, ect, ect)
Last gen I was almost immediately left in the dust. Missed out on some awesome stuff. Now I can jump right in and most of the shit to play is being held back by devs trying squeak a few extra bucks from last gen still.
Fun.
I hope the new tall tales will start at port merrick, since it'll actually put it to some use.
By far my favourite Sot artisan. Thus being a sandbox game you need to have someone to guide your imagination for the fun.
As an Xbox one player, who’s Xbox one is shitty already, Port Merrick runs just fine, not a single bit of lag at all anywhere in Sea of Thieves, even in tall tales.
I’d have to say there sure was some PC bias when showing the Xbox one part of the video.
“What purpose does port merrick serve!”
My ashen commendation hunting ass after completing a mermaids hideaway ashen winds raid:
Ok hear me out...
Heists!!!
Imagine the reapers giving you quests to steal from the other trading companies. Think: The order of souls have catacombs. Let the player walk in for this quest and steal as many skulls as they can within a time limit. Maybe add parkour. The gold hoarders have a bank for crying out loud! I want to take those chests! Maybe make it relate to that top secret door you mentioned. It would just be so awesome to steal from everyone, even the npcs
Sounds a bit over the top , but imagine if they add a bigger battle ship so it’s a standalone type of game where multiple players can join and take on the Cap’n.
Mano o war springs to mind
That’s what the ship build could turn into.
Wouldn’t be a ship you could just sail but would be awesome as a standalone Tall Tale against the Cap’n and would bring the community together for one big badass battle.
you forgot the cannons
probaly need to defend the port next season
I've sort of fallen off playing SoT as much lately. Which is sad because I'm just barely short of 1k hours. But the one thing that does keep pulling me back is the Golden Sands updates.
I put so many hours into saving Golden Sands. I played even when I wasn't feeling up to it to ensure it got rebuilt. Seeing it turn into Port Merrick has made me proud. I may be semi-retired as a pirate, but I'll have always made that mark on the game.
Port Merrick is great to cook more than one meat at a time without having to go to a sea fort.
Honestly, I'd like to see more ports in the game, if they ever introduce a new area anyway.
That OG Xbox experience is me
Also, screw you for thinking everyone is in a position to upgrade
Entitlement must be nice
It would be nice if port merrick became some sort of lobby for the game. You log in and look for a crew there. Let hundreds of players run around and crash the servers.
One of the more obscure doors has a window that looks like meridias beacon.
They might be building a ship to get revenge against the reapers
4:36 the moment where the rope texture loaded properly
Ive been waiting years to see what the dang room above all the taverns is for lol
I believe the Supports in the dry dock could be the start of the works of the man-o-war ship
The new port is sooo beautiful idk why
It’s the Morningstar crews cat!!!!! Also I think the ship that there building will make a reason to come to port merick
I have been waiting for the time when Golden sands will get a Tall tale or new adventure for itself
Technically Golden Sands *did* get an adventure dedicated to it. Lost Sands is the reason this entire renovation happened!
@@samboi123 yes but the adventure wasnt lasting so it s now untrue
@@luckyplayer963 it being limited-time doesn’t falsify the fact that it had one
Its nice that they don’t wanna leave old gen behind, but they need to if we were ever to recieve anything like more map expansions and increased player caps in servers so player interaction dont die out. But anyway, heres hoping.
Yep being feeling that lag lately, I’ve had the original Xbox one for almost 7 years now.
That would be cool if the cap’n is actually scouting the new fort
This might mean we will get new tall tails with the cap’n
For all we know he’s a good guy and a bad guy
You can slap a new nameplate on it, but it'll still be Golden Sands to me.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to plan my vacation to Constantinople, assuming I can get a direct flight from New Amsterdam.
I personally have no problems with frame rate for xbox series x
6:05
you must be standing somewhere different, the paw prints dont come close to that direction.
and its a big given, the Port will become a new Tall Tale or adventure area.
* laughs in insider *
No, no, no, the best part of Port Merrick is the 3 slot stovetop.
There is a new room behind a wall past the barrels at 6:06 that is for the next adventure
I would love it if you could change your ship size there!
Im gonna call it rn, in the future the reapers will attack again and destroy merricks statue
It's become the new Daggertooth for new players.
i agree with dropping support of the oldest console in the line. sucks for the people who stilll enjoy it at 15 frames per session. but its good for the landscape of the game
Rare should cut old consoles and give old console players who went to the new gen a cosmetic or gold or something
Another thought..."Ports" are typically gateway cities/towns and PM is on the far western edge...possible entry point for GMU or whoever is backing the Sovereigns?
I think it would b really cool if we could completely customize our ship from bow to stern like u said with size like if u wanted a chandelier in the captain's quarters but have a small ship u still could
I saw the desk yesterday and like oh something going on here lol I remember the rat and the cat from your theories I'm glad you mentioned that desk
Never ending story theme at end of vid class
Definitely time to drop the OG XBox. The devs have on numerous occasions mentioned having to juggle memory and other requirements so that the features they want to implement still work on that platform, but working, and being playable are two very different things.
I have an almost 6 year old xbox one, and idk if I’m used to it but I’ve never had fps this bad in port Merrick although I haven’t been there much. Even so the performance on Xbox is atrocious with me getting black screened for longer periods of time then most other platforms, it puts me and other xbox players at a major disadvantage and it can get frustrating a lot which has driven me away from the game before I’ve even hit pirate legend
the console did come out in 2013 what did you expect
Cat names trouble? I mean Captain Hook had a cat named Rum.. that's gotta be it
There's no reason why the frame rate drops that much, the textures aren't in 4k, it's a stylized world which dramatically increases frame rate. The lights can cause problems, and the camera needs to have occlusion culling switched on, which only renders game objects in the line of view and only gameobjects you can see. I am a game developer myself.
It might be a new boat that's being constructed. Potentially for a quest or a tall tale, a metal ship or something like ot maybe
6:03 "You will notice the pawprints are heading for the smuggler's lair underneath Golden Sands."
Why do you think that? The stairs to the Smuggler's Lair are on the opposite side of the room. Are there other pawprints that I'm not seeing? 🤔
If anything, they look like they are going upstairs or out the window. I tried following the pawprints out there and didn't see anything.
I put a reapers bounty in the tavern cellar and it was a blast too
Honestly the world feels empty because there is no section of the map where you can meet people, and be safe. Meaning anything that can bring you value at the outpost is severly hindered due to every player being scared of other players.
This also happens if another crew are close by. My Xbox One needs an upgrade
What is the dry dock is going to have a new ship class slowly being built in it, and eventully when that ship is complete we can have it as our very own. maybe it could even be, oh i don't know, THE MAN-O'-WAR?
I love Port Merrick but it does feel very empty. I think all it really needs are some NPCs walking around, and one or two small mini games, and I think it would vastly improve it. I do think a more social aspect would be very welcome.
The dry dock is so in future updates you can upgrade your ship using planks to the man of war
Has their been any mention of man o war? I know players have wanted it for ages but can it be done?
The man o war isn't going to happen. The game just can't handle it. Also that idea would suck
I'm afraid that the dry dock might be teasing the man of war. I hope not
I play SoT on the original xbox 1 and I can promise you that port marick is not that laggy, I have been there several times including 1 time with a crew from a different ship and the performance didn't drop what so ever. So I have no clue why it looks like that. In all fairness I do have lag issues occasionally but it's an Australian server thing which makes the game struggle, but I have never lagged that extremely and I've been playing for years and have sunk over 1000 hours into the game.
Actually, I play on a first release Xbox one and really don’t have a problem with exploring Port Merrick.
Yeah it looks great, but unless I spawn in there, I avoid it like the plague.
One thing I’m a little concerned about is, with the statute and the wooden trimmed picture of Merric, we have two things other than the name showing their respect to him, so WHY is there a NEW golden trimmed one in the light house, as well as what is the room at the top of the Tavern
I thought it was dog paw prints and the keys for a Pirates life 2.
That performance on OG Xbox looks like some of the beta test videos 🤣 when they had barely people lol
Despite this game having some of the most complex wave systems ever, it's interesting you run better out on the seas compared to islands and outposts. But this can probably be explained by the huge amount of assets involved. Hopefully it can be fixed in the future with LOD improvements and optimizations to assets and textures
Yeah, if there is no way to optimize the game and limit the rendering of the environment for the old Xbox, it will be hard to play on it.
But this is also the other side of the promise that games will be available for all the consoles, it was not promised that all games will run smoothly on it. Still, if they do not want to give a bad taste about it, they should enable a low-spec profile for the game in such areas.