Jack Brickman
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Me and one of my buddies ended up getting two randoms who seemed horribly incompetent. They were at some random island that they didn't have a mission for and there was a skull cloud in the sky, so we just took the ship and booked it. They stayed on the island for a time before teleporting back, and then the one guy kept trying to drop the anchor and the other kept slashing at me with his sword while I was on the wheel.
We got to the skull fort and there were two other galleons there already and a third off in the distance heading that way as well. We ended up somehow fending off all three despite having planks on our ship when we got there to do repairs (although we grabbed some from the island).
That was one of the most tense video game battles I've been in. There was almost zero margin for error there. If we had been hit below the water line at any point early on, we would have lost our ship. Instead, the other ships impossibly kept hitting us either above the line or missed entirely.
Sadly, I was without my typical explosive barrel stockpile, but I still managed to stealthily dive into the water and grab onto the ladder on the other side of an enemy ship as it passed. I waited on the ladder for about a minute or so to give my ship time to get some distance so the enemy pirates would let their guard down. I could hear them talking shit about my ship's crew, not knowing that my ship was just playing bait.
One of their guys announced he was going to the crow's nest. I made my move and climbed up behind him. I shot him in the back for a one shot kill. Now, there's no kill cam or kill ticker in this game, so all he knew was that he died and not how. He assumed he was sniped, and I could hear him complaining about aimbot.
I took that opportunity to check out the ship below me. The sails were angled perfectly to allow me to jump down from the crow's nest to the upper deck behind the guy steering their ship. I dropped down behind him and fed him my shotgun. The third guy was manning their cannons. I walked up behind him and gave him the same death. Their last guy was at the very front of the ship looking through his spyglass, and he died just like the rest.
I took out their entire four man crew in about a minute without any of them knowing how they died. Then I dropped the anchor on their ship (I had no way of destroying it and didn't want to crash it into the skull isle, as I didn't want them to be there) and then fired myself out of their cannon onto the island to make my getaway.
I got back on their ship a couple of minutes later and they were all recovering. I heard them trying to figure out why they weren't moving. It took them about twenty seconds to figure out their anchor was down.
We ended up somehow scaring off the other three ships long enough to beat the boss of the skull fort, grab the three most valuable items, and make our escape to an outpost to sell our booty.
Now that was fucking fun. And those no mic randoms somehow pulled through and did just enough to help us stay alive.
We got to the skull fort and there were two other galleons there already and a third off in the distance heading that way as well. We ended up somehow fending off all three despite having planks on our ship when we got there to do repairs (although we grabbed some from the island).
That was one of the most tense video game battles I've been in. There was almost zero margin for error there. If we had been hit below the water line at any point early on, we would have lost our ship. Instead, the other ships impossibly kept hitting us either above the line or missed entirely.
Sadly, I was without my typical explosive barrel stockpile, but I still managed to stealthily dive into the water and grab onto the ladder on the other side of an enemy ship as it passed. I waited on the ladder for about a minute or so to give my ship time to get some distance so the enemy pirates would let their guard down. I could hear them talking shit about my ship's crew, not knowing that my ship was just playing bait.
One of their guys announced he was going to the crow's nest. I made my move and climbed up behind him. I shot him in the back for a one shot kill. Now, there's no kill cam or kill ticker in this game, so all he knew was that he died and not how. He assumed he was sniped, and I could hear him complaining about aimbot.
I took that opportunity to check out the ship below me. The sails were angled perfectly to allow me to jump down from the crow's nest to the upper deck behind the guy steering their ship. I dropped down behind him and fed him my shotgun. The third guy was manning their cannons. I walked up behind him and gave him the same death. Their last guy was at the very front of the ship looking through his spyglass, and he died just like the rest.
I took out their entire four man crew in about a minute without any of them knowing how they died. Then I dropped the anchor on their ship (I had no way of destroying it and didn't want to crash it into the skull isle, as I didn't want them to be there) and then fired myself out of their cannon onto the island to make my getaway.
I got back on their ship a couple of minutes later and they were all recovering. I heard them trying to figure out why they weren't moving. It took them about twenty seconds to figure out their anchor was down.
We ended up somehow scaring off the other three ships long enough to beat the boss of the skull fort, grab the three most valuable items, and make our escape to an outpost to sell our booty.
Now that was fucking fun. And those no mic randoms somehow pulled through and did just enough to help us stay alive.