I can't do it. I can't recommend the game, not with all of the problems it STILL has in Season 7.

Let me be clear that I want to love this game, I really do. And I try so hard with it. But the game STILL has problems on problems that just never seem to be properly fixed or addressed.

Combat for one thing. I can sneak up on a guy, get five sword slashes on him, and he turns and gets me in two. There's no valid explanation. I can then drop four blunderbombs on him with two point-blank blunderbuss shots and he isn't even phased, but he hits me with one pistol shot? Instant KO. All of this while he's spawn-camping my boat. All of this just tonight, not even talking about all the nonsense like this that happens all the time in all my time playing.

How about your boat despawning with no warning because the game thinks you are "stuck?" This one isn't even hard to fix. If my boat was stuck, don't you think I would've scuttled it? The thing that has no other use unless you are being spawncamped because of the combat?

The cheaters that just fly in the air and nuke your boat with airstrikes?

Quests constantly breaking and screwing up your game?

Randomly dropping to 20 FPS for no decidable reason that has seemingly no fix?

Or what about the other myriad of things that just break for no reason? My friend wanted to use the new Captaincy feature, and it just wouldn't let him. He had to sit at the menu trying to buy a new ship for TWENTY minutes before it finally let him. No fault of his own, the game just didn't like his face that day.

Rare removing content that wasn't time-limited for... some reason?

Or how about being a 40$ game with microtransactions? Granted, you can earn the coins without spending money, but that is both slow and based mostly in randomness. Still an unforgivable sin. Not to mention the Battle Pass.

Content that forces you to work with other players that actively try and murder you?

Ship combat is pretty braindead for smaller ships. Just try and outlast the other. Fights with Galleons is awesome, and there is a good amount of strategy. But mostly it's small ships being destroyed by bigger ships instantly, or smaller ships plinking away at smaller ships until one of them makes too many mistakes or runs out of supplies. Or getting spawncamped until scuttling. None of these are particularly fun.

The list goes on ad nauseam.

I've had some great moments in this game, and I wish I could say they outnumbered all the bad ones. But they don't.

The game just has too many flaws that have gone unaddressed for too long. Want to go on a high-seas adventure with your pals? Too bad, you'll get destroyed by sweats that exist to eat the happiness of others. Want to go kill people and be sweaty? The game doesn't let you because of the atrocious mechanics and bugs. It's a lose-lose.

I wish I could recommend this, but not until at the very least SOME of this is fixed.

I can't do it. I can't recommend the game, not with all of the problems it STILL has in Season 7. Let me be clear that I want to love this game, I really do. And I try so hard with it. But the game STILL has problems on problems that just never seem to be properly fixed or addressed. Combat for one thing. I can sneak up on a guy, get five sword slashes on him, and he turns and gets me in two. There's no valid explanation. I can then drop four blunderbombs on him with two point-blank blunderbuss shots and he isn't even phased, but he hits me with one pistol shot? Instant KO. All of this while he's spawn-camping my boat. All of this just tonight, not even talking about all the nonsense like this that happens all the time in all my time playing. How about your boat despawning with no warning because the game thinks you are "stuck?" This one isn't even hard to fix. If my boat was stuck, don't you think I would've scuttled it? The thing that has no other use unless you are being spawncamped because of the combat? The cheaters that just fly in the air and nuke your boat with airstrikes? Quests constantly breaking and screwing up your game? Randomly dropping to 20 FPS for no decidable reason that has seemingly no fix? Or what about the other myriad of things that just break for no reason? My friend wanted to use the new Captaincy feature, and it just wouldn't let him. He had to sit at the menu trying to buy a new ship for TWENTY minutes before it finally let him. No fault of his own, the game just didn't like his face that day. Rare removing content that wasn't time-limited for... some reason? Or how about being a 40$ game with microtransactions? Granted, you can earn the coins without spending money, but that is both slow and based mostly in randomness. Still an unforgivable sin. Not to mention the Battle Pass. Content that forces you to work with other players that actively try and murder you? Ship combat is pretty braindead for smaller ships. Just try and outlast the other. Fights with Galleons is awesome, and there is a good amount of strategy. But mostly it's small ships being destroyed by bigger ships instantly, or smaller ships plinking away at smaller ships until one of them makes too many mistakes or runs out of supplies. Or getting spawncamped until scuttling. None of these are particularly fun. The list goes on ad nauseam. I've had some great moments in this game, and I wish I could say they outnumbered all the bad ones. But they don't. The game just has too many flaws that have gone unaddressed for too long. Want to go on a high-seas adventure with your pals? Too bad, you'll get destroyed by sweats that exist to eat the happiness of others. Want to go kill people and be sweaty? The game doesn't let you because of the atrocious mechanics and bugs. It's a lose-lose. I wish I could recommend this, but not until at the very least SOME of this is fixed.