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Originally Posted by searage
There is a bug/feature where sometimes when you get a ship down to negative health, it wants you to board it. You'll know when this happens because a) no amount of shooting the ship will make it sink, and b) there will be a bunch of vertical green circles along the edge of the deck for you to shoot grapping hooks at. These are very small and hard to see unless you're close, but they are there. If you shoot the grapping hooks at each of the circles and hit them, you can press Control to swing over to the other ship for some sword fighting.
I don't know what happens after that. Since I'm perputually sailing alone, I just skip that ship and move along to a new ship. There are too many weird pathing bugs fighting on decks, not being able to get back to your ship issues, client restarts, etc. I've never successfully captured a ship in this fasion, so I just stopped bothering with it.
No idea what makes the game decide between sinking the ship and making you board it. Anyone else know?
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I'm having the same issue, once I see the green circles I figure it's a loss. As a general rule I kill the crew before I sink the ship anyway so I can have their loot. The one time I did actually get my grappling hook to stay and allow me to swing over I had to exit the game because I couldn't get off the ship afterwards to get back on my own or even into the water.
Of all the ships I have sunk I've only had maybe a half dozen of these problem ships.
I saw an interesting ship last night, it had to be a dev having some fun. It was a Navy ship with red sails, level 24 (level 27 is the largest I've encountered so far) and it was running speedy circles around me. Just around and around until I finally hit my power boost and went elsewhere.
For those trying to sink those tiny ships, don't bother with them. Head for the big ships, you get way more reputation points and at this point in the game they don't fire back a whole lot so why not take advantage of it? If you're still sailing in a sloupe, pony up the gold for a frigate or galleon so you can have some broadsides and more cargo room.
Has anyone been able to successfully board another pirate's ship as a crew member?