PvP TIPS and TRICKS - NEW GRAPPLE GUN in Sea of Thieves

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try using it with sword. The sheer amount of panick after the first grab will be enagh to get you close enagh for a few swing or have a dagger and trhow them with it as they are so close its impossible to miss with a decent aim. Have i emntiond you can grable off them from the ship even whein they are behind the ship so you can lock them off from the death spin? It has many uses and obviusly many cons but thats why is so balanced and so dam fun to use it with gp barrels :P.

Grapple gun NEEDS 2 of the following (all 3 would be nice):

-Longer range
-Faster Reload
-Infinite ammo (why does this thing have limited ammo??? The sword lung can be used unlimited times, but not the grapple? tf?)

If they don't at least implement 2 of these, this thing will be a dead meme before next season.

They aren't making it a pick up item, they are selling skins for it.

It could be totally useful if you are fighting a gally who is REALLY good at ladder guarding (boarding people in naval is not about killing them but keeping them busy so its not too bad to just run a sword with it if you are a sword lord).

yeah it swaps slow? tell that to my qs :3

The only thing that i do not like is that they nerfed the blunderbuss beacause of it, no more satisfying 1 hits 😢

The way they implemented it makes it feel like a tool to mess with your crew. The range is just too short to be used for island traversal, and it's extremely clunky with not a whole lot of use in a PvP situation. I could see it used to get into more interesting spots for sneak plays, but again, the range hinders that quite a but

I myself am okay with the things this tool provides, both range and reload speed are very fair, but there is one little thing I would like to add for it. And it is that if you pull something or someone to your location, you can still turn around while you are grappling things. It would be great for better stacking treasure onto your ship, as well as more fun to throw players off the ships and cliffs.

I mean yeah you can pull people off the ship, but why not just blunder bomb or bonecaller them to get them off gaurding, or shooting them with an actual gun, or having your cannoneer aiming near wheel

In short, it is useless and doesn't do anything that can't be done without it or the impact is so minimal. It is also too clunky and awkward to use (like the rest of the new guns) so you can't even combo it with any other weapon or item since the switch speed on that thing is awful. No decent player is going to trade their weapon (any weapon) for a mediocre (at best) tool. Also Island combat is kind of irrelevant in this game and still the grapple is so slow and the range is so minimal, you are going to get killed while trying to "use" the movement it provides.

If you want to be considered then the following changes must be made:
- Longer range
- Faster projectile speed (basically should function like a ship harpoon)
- Faster travel speed
- Being able to switch the weapon as soon as you are done grappling
- Being able to grapple anywhere including the sloop and brig

I also want to point out that not being able to use the weapons locker on enemy ship is a big factor. Having one actual weapon on you is a huge disadvantage. Grapple gun needs to be at least good and consistant at being able to board enemy ships/grapple people, otherwise no one is going to use it.

Also Galleon pvp is completely dead, there are no decent crews on galleons (hourglass or adventure) and only noobs, maybe a streamer boat once in a while but that is it. PvP community is already almost dead and new updates do nothing to revive interest in this game.

I feel like it's more for pve than pvp

It should have been a second ammo type for sniper idk why they dont do this same with fire buckshots for blunder

When they 1st talked about grapple gun, i thought it was going to be an item like the trident. It never occured to me (until in insider) that it took a weapon slot. seems kinda dumb /shrug

they removed swapping weapons on enemy boats the same season they add a weapon that does no damage and is only really used for movement......coooool

i remember in old quick swap meta the sword was basically like that where you had a movement advantage (somewhat) but sacrificed range, but even then you still had a useful weapon.

Would be cool if they made it do like 5 damage to enemy players (like how the ship grapple does damage to pve enemies) then at least it wouldn't be a waste of space with no range and extreme limitations at the only thing its good at

Honestly, I think the grapple and blowpipe should have been the same weapon. I remember seeing in the forums the idea for a crossbow type weapon that could be loaded with different ammo types, including harpoons or throwables. That would have meant you have a utility weapon that can still deal damage, ontop of a regular weapon. Now we have a utility weapon and a pure movement weapon that feels kinda meh.

It's awesome for zipping around on the BB distracting the crew while another crewmate sneakily boards and wipes the skeletons

I think it should just be part of your non-weapon equipment. It's more of a utility tool than a viable weapon.

Honestly I think the best fix would be to allow it to grapple more stuff. I think that trade off would be worth it as it guarantees a board but makes you lose the weapon slot

Losing a weapon slot for the grapple gun is a fair trade off i think.

Personally I think it's trash

give up you're terrible

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