Add the ability to hire AI crewmates that you can command and make crew sizes bigger.
#AI Crewmates
fierce pike
cedar mango
I would love to be able to hire "Security" (Pirates) to help man a ship, and wouldn't mind if they would choose to board escape pods if the ship was disabled rather than wait for you to repair it or something.
Especially on the larger ships, having some AI to help out would be great, since those larger ships could realistically have crews of dozens.
south steeple
AI are broken AF and would give their human squad mate a low end aimbot, so hard pass on that.
4 man squads are already difficult to deal with as a solo player, lets not punish solo players any further.
Furthermore, those large ships already have a ton of armor and a tactical advantage over small ships, so lets not further tip the balance in the big boats favor.
fierce pike
AI are broken AF and would give their human squad mate a low end aimbot, so hard...
AI are very easy to kill, not broken, do you even play the game?
fierce pike
AI are broken AF and would give their human squad mate a low end aimbot, so hard...
having the ability to hire crewmates would only benefit solo players because they would theoretically be able to hire the amount of players they don't have
fierce pike
AI are broken AF and would give their human squad mate a low end aimbot, so hard...
Larger ships have tons of armor but are way to vulnerable to being breached
south steeple
AI are very easy to kill, not broken, do you even play the game?
so the whole aimbot thing just wooshed, or do you not understand why youre at a tactical advantage knowing exactly where someone else is?
south steeple
Larger ships have tons of armor but are way to vulnerable to being breached
just put rocket arty on them and literally kill every pod that comes close, big ships are big targets, they shouldnt be loot farms for a solo+bots.
fierce pike
just put rocket arty on them and literally kill every pod that comes close, big ...
rocket arty shouldnt be the only way to counter little turds that don't even bring in a valid ship
fierce pike
so the whole aimbot thing just wooshed, or do you not understand why youre at a ...
there is no aimbot what do you mean homie
cedar mango
I think Bearman is thinking the ai would man the guns, which I think wasn’t intended to be part of the suggestion.
Even so, the ai turrets aren’t laser accurate.
Still, when playing with less than 4 players, it’d be nice to have some Security ai dudes with Mat-49s running around the ship to help protect against boarders. They could even count towards killing security for enemy players that need it.
Further, I dislike having such tiny crews on such large ships. The Rustbucket is the most interesting to fight on board with because it’s just big enough for the crew size. The larger ships have barely a quarter of their space used most of the time, so additional crewmen wandering the ship could give us more use of the ship’s interior.
Also hiring ai pirates just sounds fun and can “fill” raids more easily.
fierce pike
I think Bearman is thinking the ai would man the guns, which I think wasn’t inte...
Exactly!
untold pike
get friends
jovial gust
can potentially see some merit in this if the ai crew mates would just replace missing party members (ie a group of 3 can only have 1 extra ai on the ship, and a group of 4 gets no ai). Very against being able to command them on where to go though, there are only like 3 places someone can breach on your ship, this would make it very overpowered. also would limit their weapons to a sten or uzi with no attachments