I hate the game

The biggest problem is a boss I've never met before. I have no idea about the mechanics of the boss, and I lost both the cargo and the crew because I only have one try? This is bullshit.
Of all the punishments I've suffered in the game, this was the worst. I'm just an average player, I don't have time to farm 24/7. I just want to relax and get some reward for the time I put into the game, and not something else, but this is not fun. If I want to experience punishment, I'll join the army.
I'm not saying that punishment is not needed in the game, but not like this.

is it the boss that abducts your crew from kingsmarch?

theres a glitch in that fight (or was last season havn't met him yet)
the part to the due north of the arena is rarely struck by waves.
he used to crush my dreams before i learned that,.

when he puts those blocades up and starts summonig waves from offscreen
head due north. check youtube for that bossfight. better players than
me will explain it.

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FalkenRaiding#1068 wrote:

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

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FalkenRaiding#1068 wrote:

Step away from the computer mate (not just this game, but all of them).
If dying to something so simple, and loosing something so irrelevant, makes you THIS angry.. well.. time for some tea and a book

That is hours upon hours of farming lost in an instant. Anyone would be upset. Moreover, these kinds of overly punishing mechanics have no place in Softcore. They shouldn't even exist.

Counter argument: if you struggle with pirates, maybe don't invest time with Kingsmarch, or lower you expectations? This is the equivalent of loosing your s**t 'cus you died in a Blueprint you spend time/coins/revils on, or loosing your sanctum run on 4th layer, or bricking literally ANYTHING in the game with risk/reward.

If you engage with content you can't do, change your playstyle to match your abilities, instead of asking for the game to change for everyone else.

Bullshit. OP is absolutely right and this shit should not happen. As he said, he farmed gold for weeks in hopes of some reward and because of shitty rng he lost all effort put into this in a blink of an eye. This is just stupid design and should be removed, there is no reason not to. If you lose fight you should for example still be able to pay ransom afterwards, maybe more than it was in first place, but definitely you should not lose your weeks lasting effort.

I already solved this, anyone could have


I say what i understand to be true.
argue or relent. I do not live in your fantasy.

consoider matt good

did you see this? or did he? blind.

i've killed the pirate boss plenty of times. i would say hes is in fact one of the easiest bosses. and i m playing trumelee. he barely has any bs mechanics except his waves can fuck you up IF theyre at a certain angle but even then theres way to mitigate em (move more lol).

but that said. the punishment simply is too harsh.

theres a reason people play softcore.

theres a reason people dont play heist.

theres a reason people dont like the 10% death penalty

this is reflected with OP's experience.

op probably put a lot of good in only to lose it all. perhaps OP also had some well rolled hirelings that were cheap and max tiered.

to get 6 of t5s needs perhaps at least 100kish gold? for a poor player that is a freaking lot!

if ggg likes pissing its player base and making them ragequit. definitely please include more mechanics like this.

i for one fucking hate it. i still dont engage in heist coz of it lol.

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exsea#1724 wrote:

i still dont engage in heist coz of it lol.

not sure if u even wanne know, lol.
But there is a big difference between heist and maps for example. in maps you actually need to scale the loot so you have to take risks, while in Heist the loot that matters doesn't scale with rarity/quant. Only the alarm level raises faster if you run them white, so you cannot open as much chests on your way to the target. Therefore, you don't have to take any risks with mods. Just scour any rare contract.
Of course you shouldn't play Heist with a glass canon build. Damage doesn't really matter that much in Heist anyway.
It is much easier to run Heist than maps, imo. The threshold for being save in Heist is much lower from my experience, than the threshold for being tanky in maps.

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exsea#1724 wrote:

theres a reason people play softcore.

Because it’s the core mode and other options don’t exist outside of Hardcore. Just because a game is softcore, where your character doesn’t permanently die like in Hardcore, doesn’t mean the developers designed it to be consequence-free. Softcore is not some magical candyland where every cloud is fluffy, every encounter is harmless, and nothing ever goes wrong.

Honestly, the idea that softcore shouldn’t have any consequences, that it should just be the mildest, most forgiving rollercoaster ride imaginable, is a pretty strange expectation. Where that even comes from, I’m not sure. In reality, even softcore games are built with consequences in mind. Poor decisions matter, mistakes cost you, and the tension of risk is still part of the design. It is what makes success feel earned. Expecting otherwise says more about the player than the game. It is the kind of thinking that reflects an unhealthy relationship with the game and even the hobby as a whole.

Softcore does not eliminate risk. It just gives you a little more room to recover and that is exactly the point.

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Strickl3r#3809 wrote:

not sure if u even wanne know, lol.
But there is a big difference between heist and maps for example. in maps you actually need to scale the loot so you have to take risks, while in Heist the loot that matters doesn't scale with rarity/quant. Only the alarm level raises faster if you run them white, so you cannot open as much chests on your way to the target. Therefore, you don't have to take any risks with mods. Just scour any rare contract.
Of course you shouldn't play Heist with a glass canon build. Damage doesn't really matter that much in Heist anyway.
It is much easier to run Heist than maps, imo. The threshold for being save in Heist is much lower from my experience, than the threshold for being tanky in maps.

wow to be honest i didnt know that. thanks for the info.

not too keen on having items taken away from me if i fail. i rather just not run the content.

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VoidWhisperer42#5989 wrote:

Softcore does not eliminate risk. It just gives you a little more room to recover and that is exactly the point.

i agree to an extent. tho my point stems primarily from the fact that players dont like it when games get too punishing. eating a portal is what most softcore players accept. having only one chance with the stakes so high is not what many like. we already lose time and effort. this game has huge damage spikes and sometimes things happen so fast that you need to watch a replay to actually even know what killed you. if i wanted more deliberate game play the game needs to be more rogue like/lite and balanced accordingly. poe as it is, simply is not.

Nothing in a pirate encounter is ever so fast you cant react. In fact, he's so telegraphed that the mere fact he died in that encounter should raise eyebrows.

Cannon? Dont stand in AoE
Waves? Move around a little
Charge attack? He basically yells at you to get behind him as he charges the dash

It's a novelty encounter, really. If you have the resources to send a big millions shipment to Kalguur, you should have a character capable of securing your crew.

gauntlet hillock on marauder is 100x harder than the ship boss.