So in the trailers we see there is a hideout.
Like a stop off point to upgrade/change areas of ship and the crew etc, we also see you can walk around
Do you think they would implement that for groups? Like seeing the other captains who you are “friendly with” to interact or trade pieces?
To be honest, the devs haven't said anything (to my knowledge) about any sort of common "hub" area being shared by multiple pirates, whether in the form of random encounters or simply a situation of "all pirates in a particular "gang" have a common hideout."
We know that the current plan is for your hideout to be "the only island that you fully explore on foot," but that doesn't necessarily preclude some sort of shared group on-land environment. It's something that I've seen mentioned by quite a few folks, though, so I imagine the devs are at least aware of it. Whether or not it's something that can be (or even should be) implemented is, of course, another matter entirely.
Like Flawbringer says it hasn't been confirmed however there was mention of a social hub in the past, that could however that doesn't mean that the hideout would be shareable between a party for example, it could just mean that that's the location where you can access other social options.
We'll have to wait and see but for me I'd just be curious how they'd implement the customisation of your ship etc as it looked like there was only one dock if that makes any sense.
One thing I would like to know more about is how they plan on running it. Is it going to be dedicated servers or are we going to get essentially "For Honor" with Pirate ships? Yes I know that its got different rules and targets etc however what worries me is how long they took to fix a lot of the bugs in the game and how long it took for fans to get dedicated servers so much so that a lot of the player base had initially left. Here's hoping that quite a few other bits will be available and I would like a video explaining a bit more on how its going to be made so that an established player is not going to be sent against a newbie with just basics.
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