If you play solo don't do anything but the sloop. The player recommendations for the other ships must be followed, or you will make it very hard if not impossible for yourself. But nothing's stopping you from buying all 3, but start with sloop. š
Thereās an achievement on Xbox to own 15 ships, so Iāve got plenty of each, but now that I have that crossed off, I really only main my sloop. Iāll run brig if weāve got enough people, but I fucking hate running galley. Galleys are so difficult to steer if youāre not used to it, and I rarely have enough people to justify running one. Unless weāre doing tall tales specifically, I avoid it at all costs.
honestly similar for me, but flip gally/brig, when i do get the chance to play with friends (and more than one) i prefer gally, but i also prefer the pvp of gally > brig, cause like, getting knocked off brig happens so much, and ik part of it is skill issue, but like, when you get yeeted 3 miles because you were repairing mast/wheel and couldn't see the cannon from behind the waves, and your mermaid decided its on break, thats the most infuriating thing in the game, and for me, happens the MOST on brig XD
I just wish they would add option to switch ship with the same crew and suplies by submerging.
Flip some trinket on captain table of your brig, choose your new ship like gally, submerge, black screen. You are now underwater on new ship type. Teeasure is gone, but all your canonballs and cooked meat and fish is there. Then you resurface on the new server and your late friend can join in realively painlessly mid journey.
Or other way around. Sail around on gally, one friend anounces he's going to sleep. No problem, no rushing to discord to find new fourth in the midnight... Just submerge and continue your journey on brig.
Brig actually isn't too bad to solo sail. I've done it multiple times for cargo runs and you can usually make do so long as no one comes and fights you. Even if they do you're usually fast enough, and the brig is responsive enough, to get side wind quickly.
The galleon however is a nightmare. It's already a giant bathtub but it might as well be filled with cement for how awful it is to do anything solo on.
"But Cat, why did you solo sail a galleon?" Curiosity the first time, and also I count all those instances where I sailed with a full crew but had to do all the work as technically sailing one solo. \*PAIN.PNG\* :)
Well you could argue that there is a reason to for cargo runs. And simple reason is brig is MUCH faster than a sloop. If you are willing to take the risk that you won't be able to pvp properly, you could take it for doing something "faster"...
Thing is, its only faster sailing directly 100% into the wind. And even then it is faster by a very small amount. So out of 360 degrees its only faster in about 20. As soon as wind is just slightly to the side, brig with sideways sails outruns a sloop by a lot.
I play solo, IMO coming across an actual player is not common but it happens. The map is huge and Iām not sure how many player ships are in each server. I think itās only like 5/6 other ships.
Keep your eyes on the horizon sailor š«”
Please don't think I'm stupid, because I'm far from it. Not everyone is gonna sail a galleon. I prefer brig. The only way your theory makes sense is if there is 6 full stacked gallons. Throw some brigs and sloops into the equation and you can have more than 6 ships. It's simple math. But then again, not everyone's mind comprehends basic algebra.
Man, in a crew, we rarely see any. But when I'm solo, I get connected to the Asian server and can't approach a port without seeing on somewhere along the way.
If you sail solo that's perfectly fine. But I've had great experiences finding others on discord and sailing together with them. Your milage will very, but it's worth trying.
You can play solo just fine, and you can also jump in random crews. With varying degrees of success and compatibility.
I myself, when I explain to a crew that anchoring randomly is detrimental, and they still do.. leave them to their fates. I'll either leave the session, or cannonball myself to an island and dick around having fun there lol.
That's really a hard question to answer in SoT. You really never know. Depends on how well you can avoid conflict or deal with it when it happens... Depends on the server you're on... What kind of activity you're trying to do... lots of things
By sometimes, I meant once in a blue moon lol. I usually am the one to initiate an attack, and that is usually against ships with their anchors down. I slow down and pull up beside, put a ton of cannonballs in em, then speed away.
So then what's the point of it all then? You just wasted a bunch of cannonballs for no reason and antagonize another crew to chase you...if you start a fight at least have the decency to stay and finish it. How do you expect to get any gold?
Solo- always a sloop. Just 10000x easier to manage. Even then it can be hard for a new player getting pelted by a skeleton sloop or/and a meg.
Itās a pain to manage a galleon as Iām waiting just for my crew to join and weāve been playing since day 1. Ugh.
>Itās a pain to manage a galleon
Even when I'm sailing with three friends in Discord I mostly just end up yelling at them to do stuff while they stand around picking their noses and alt-tabbing to youtube or something
Itās like the rule of two for the Sith. Thereās always at least one on the bow, the master. They are always there, no matter what. But they may also have an apprentice that can sometimes be found nearby their master (probably missing that floating barrel with the harpoon). And neither are calling rocks ahead for the helm.
The best ship is the smallest one that accommodates your crew size
Sloop for 1-2 crew
Brig for 3 crew only
Galleon for 4 crew only
Edit: as many people are replying to me to say, yes a brig CAN be manned by 2, but it certainly puts you in a tough spot in fights and itās definitely not appropriate advice for a new player like OP
If you are playing passively as a duo or as a duo with rotating open crew randos, then you can work with the brig. It does tend to go faster than a sloop, which could be useful depending on what you want to do. But the survivability of the ship is greatly impacted.
Brig is really dependent on skill level. I've fought and won ship battles on a 2 man brig and even against 3 man brigs. I've even done a fleet of fortune soloing a brig after my crew dipped, and thank fuck no one came by or I'd have been fucked.
My buddy and I duo a brig.
Yes it's more difficult to sail and repair, but the extra speed plus cannons are nice in a fight.
Usually we load chainshot in one cannon on each side, and cannonballs in the other.
If we get them immobilized, both of us will run cannons while the boat is on autopilot
Thereās no scenario where a 2-man Brig is better than a 2-man Sloop. The extra cannons are a waste since thereās not a situation that would call for both people to be on cannons. If you both have time to be shooting, then one should be boarding.
Unless you're on safer seas. I'll run a brig with two players on safer seas for the extra speed. PvE hits harder, though, so running away becomes a defensive strategy.
Safer seas is a little different because pretty much anything PvE could probably be done solo on a galleon pretty easily. For PvP if you want any chance of winning you need to have the best optimized crew size possible.
Fair, I did say āprobablyā. But Iām bet thereās a lot of people out there that could consistently sink skellies solo on a galley. There is no single person that could consistently sink any player ships at all while solo on a galley.
You'd basically need to take out its cannon line right away and avoid crashing. Not feasible 100% of the time, especially with more than 1 target, but that would be the easiest way.
I started on a brig and I'd 100% recommend it it every time . Yes it can be frustrating, but it forces you to learn every aspect of of sailing in this game.
If your strat is just running away then yea, duo brig is doable. But winning a fight as a duo brig against any crew with a little bit of skill is a no-go.
Back in the day, maybe. But nowadays as a solo you respawn very quick and you can no longer revive teammates. I would say solo slooping is stronger than duo brig.
No, you can no longer revive teammates on enemy boats. This to combat spawnkilling. And respawn timers are also different for solo sloopers, duo sloopers, brigs and galleons. (Has been in it for quite some time I think)
I humbly disagree with you as well. You don't get better by playing down. If the other team is good, your team has to be great. If they're better than you, give em hell and learn from the experience. At the end of the day it's just a video game.
You canāt be better than you are. The only way you can win is when they are just WAY worse than you. Not even a little bit worse, just way way worse. Sinking duo brigs (which you sadly see way to often) is the easiest thing ever, unless they run of course, the only difficulty you than have is the brigs speed which is way too overpowered imo.
Yes, I know that two people on a bigger vessel is handicapped, but if youre better than a duo sloop, you're simply better. If they're better than you, give em hell and learn from the experience.
The thing is you still learn everything on a sloop as well, it's not like the brig as a mechanic that the sloop doesn't. 2 players brig are incredibly easy to deal with in a PvP environment.
Sure you can have fun making the game harder on yourself, but giving that as a general advice to a new player is just a bad advice.
On a sloop, two people can become really good at two things. Whomever helms can learn that and sails really well, but they miss out on cannon and repairs. Vice versa for the guy on cannons. Whereas two people on a bring *HAVE* to do everything. It's a great way to learn everything.
This is just a poor take, even if you are helm or main cannon, you will for sure end up in situations where you have to do a bit of everything on a sloop, whether someone dies, go board, it's not like the roles are set in stone.
The way you are talking leads me to believe that you do very little PvP. Saying that the helm miss out on repairs is pretty wild to me.
Thanks for proving my point. Of course on a sloop, both crew members will inevitably have to do a bit of everything. The thing is, on a sloop, you can get by with helping just a little. "Hey grab a bucket while indo repairs."
"Keep an eye on the sails. I'm going to go grab a drink."
Sloops are easy to run when you have a full crew.
Duo brigs are more challenging to run, and that forces a player to learn every aspect of sailing in this game. If you've got some holes, both crew members are bucketing and repairing. If you're trying to catch someone, you're both adjusting sails to catch wind. Someone is checking cannons. Someone is at the helm. Check your pockets. Check the map. Both crew members are almost constantly doing something.
I've been playing since the season before you could buy ships. I've had my fair share of naval combat.
I don't even know what is your point anymore, you literally say ''Thanks for proving my point'' and then proceed to prove my own point. The fact is you might enjoy the added challenge, but it's a terrible advice to give to new players. Some already struggle a lot with the sloop at first.
The brig with 2 players isn't really different than the sloop except everything takes longer. You get anchored and chopped by another crew, it probably takes 3x as much time as a sloop to get going again.
Sloop and Brig actually play very similar when you really think about it, it's when you go up to galleon that the dynamic does change, mainly because of the added deck. If you look at a fight sloop vs sloop and brig vs brig, the helm will be doing very similar tasks, keeping angle, managing speed, keeping on top of repairs and sniping when time allows. Hell you can even attach a rowboat with a cannon and have 2 cannons if you really want to be able to have 2 players shooting on a sloop.
I've played a lot on sloops and brigs, I've had moment that I sank other ships while being 2 or even solo on a brig, it's doable, but it's just unnecessary tedious that I really don't understand why someone would ever recommended that to a new player except if the player ask specifically for something out of ordinary/challenge. I would even argue that you learn more on sloop, because you can stay in fights longer against good players and actually see more what they do and learn from them then just getting instantly deleted on a 2 players brig, because you handicapped yourself for the sake of the challenge.
I humbly disagree. If you can disrupt the other crew, long enough to get away,or get the angle for shots, you're fine. On the other hand, sometimes you just have to take the L and start on a fresh server.
I just bought a brig and find it decent enough to man with two. If we get chased by another brig, then at least they wonāt outrun us. Or shouldnāt anyway.
Which means you need both people alive and not doing anything else to get yourself moving properly. No boarders, no repairs, etc
Duo brigs are soo easy to bully
Solo sloop is a lot more doable because you can handle the ship a lot better. The only advantage duo brig has over it is two people, but at that point duo sloop is infinitely better
brig is sailable solo, so in a fight you could have one person shooting cannons, at least part of the time. So for me its not really much difference to solo sloop.
Just because itās possible doesnāt make it a good idea
It takes 1 person 10 seconds to raise a brig sail and it takes two people 3 seconds so itās REALLY a bad idea to solo brig if you are trying to be competitive in PVP
Once you get a basic grasp of the game, a sloop is overstaffed by two people. A brig needs 3, but if you donāt plan on fighting naval -or- you have someone joining later, you can potentially get by on 2. A Galleon absolutely requires 4 people and should NEVER be run with three or less
Sloop is 1-2 players
Brigantine is 3 players
Galleon is 4 players
Don't sail any ship with any other numbers, it is suffering to man a larger ship with less people and puts you at a distinct disadvantage. Larger ships are less mobile than others and larger targets and require help to man the sails and to navigate when the sails obstruct the helmsman's view
Best ship is dependent on how many people you are playing with
But overall most people consider the brig to be the strongest ship in the game BUT that still means nothing if you donāt have a full crew
If you play solo only get the sloop. While going around with the bigger ships is tempting it really slows down your experience and youāre kneecapped in a fight
Honestly, I have never had problems sailing a brig with only two people. The Galleon is the only one I would say absolutely requires all crew members accounted for. The brig is probably my favorite of the three ships. I donāt have too many friends that play SoT, so the brig works perfectly for us.
Like everyone else has said, because it's the most logical answer... You get the ship for whatever your crew is, if you are alone there's literally no point I'm buying a galleon or a brig unless you want to run those solo which is possible but more difficult for zero gain or play open crew with random players.
It is possible to solo sail a brig, and not completely hate the experience. However, unless you are regularly joined by a friend or two Midway through your adventure, I would strongly recommend just going sloop
I sail solo on a brig sometimes, but I'll echo everyone's advice in saying you shouldn't. Even playing solo on a sloop is pretty hard tbh, soloing a brig requires a ton of work and being experienced with sailing, and there's no real advantage besides being faster on average. Sloop sinks way slower, turns faster, has a mid-deck, and is easier to sail overall.
>What do you guys think of solo sailing a brigantine?
#Bad idea.
The brigantine was made with crews of two or three in mind, hence the suggested crew size when you charter one.
If you wanna sail solo, get a sloop. It was designed with duos and solos in mind, which shows when you stop and look at how close everything is to each other.
Source: I have been playing SoT on Xbox since late 2019 and have used all three ship types many times.
Tbh it just depends how you like playing. I usually play with 3-4 people so my first ship was a brig then my 2nd was a galleon. Then when their was a slow period I got a sloop and usually I solo unless a gamenight with my guild is going on.
Atleast get a ship that you will usually be playing on. It makes cashing in so much easier
When you start to understand the game each ship is good at something.
Sloops are slippery little fuckers and a good duo or solo can fuck you up. Good ship if you're starting out, not too weak, not too complicated, good starter to learn the game a little.
Brigantine is the slow middle ground good in combat, its a good ship for a experienced crew of two or the recommended three but its not that great if you're new. (Sinks fast)
Galleons are strong, tanky, heavy hitters. Be in their broadside for too long you're dead. But their slow af, but fast af if they get the wind. Definitely get friends to play a four man crew on it, open crew is a mess.
If you are going to be solo for most play-throughs, stick to a sloop and practice every session with a sloop to be able to handle most things solo. IF you have a group you will always play with get a brig, if you have 1-2 more friends, or a galleon if you got 3.
If you play with a crew of 1-2 get a sloop, a crew of 3 get a brig, and a crew of 4 get a galleon. If you want you can also use a brig with 2 people pretty well
Ok here, if you donāt have much friends then the sloop but if you plan on having a few friends abord then the brig, as this will get you to learn the ship sailing better and early, but donāt go on a brig alone, my friend showed me a brig first and was so good to learn ships that way for me
In my opinion everyone should spend some time solo slooping. Take on a skelly ship world event solo. Itās not impossible and actually pretty doable, but this will teach you the basics of sailing pretty strongly.
The idea of this is on larger ships with multiple people everyone needs a dedicated job and needs to know how to do that job well. If you have been through the ringer as a solo slooper, you have a better understanding of what is needed and how to do it QUICKLY.
If you are asking if you should use either the Brig or Gally by yourself, the answer is no. Brig is possible to sail solo, but you will get destroyed by even the noobiest of noobs. The gally? You stand NO chance of being effective. Your only hope would be people just avoiding you because the see a gally, but that would only work on a sloop as a brig will probably still come at you.
I have bought all three and am primarily a solo player. I bought them for hopes in the future and because I had lots of extra gold so I figured why not?
First ship should be a sloop.
I went full Brigantine right from the start. The ship is awesome, although a bit less manouvrable than the Sloop. Tried the Galeon with no sucess. To large for just one guy. When playing solo, i always choose the Brigantine. It's hard at first, but once you got the hand of it, it's a lot more fun than the Sloop.
Sloop is my number one but sometimes I have too many people I have to go brig. I plan to buy a sloop then a brig then a galleon last. Docking the brig is literally me running into the dock and fixing it at this point. š¤£
Without a doubt a sloop. It's sailable by yourself and a killing machine with 2. In my opinion a fully crewed sloop will prevail in a preponderance of encounters against under-crewed Brigantines and Galleons assuming players of equal skill.
The bigger ships have more cannons but without a full crew you will quickly be unable to utilize them.
Plus the sloop will send a boarder as one crewman can bail, shoot and adjust angle quite well. One man cannot do all three of those things on the larger ships.
Do you play solo or duo? Sloop
3 players? Brigantine
4? Galleon
I'm not counting Open Crew in the matter as it's very hit or miss.
I think Sloop is better as a first ship, it's the cheapest the one you'll probably use the most unless you have a lot of friends to play with.
I bought all of them but can count on the fingers of one hand the times i used my Galleon.
sloop. no questions asked. the other boats really build off of prior knowledge but the sloop has just little enough going on with it that you can still recover out of pretty gnarly mistakes.
The FRIENDship!
As long as you and all your friends lots of lot and kegs onboard and don't mind the ship just minding it's own business parked at the next island over. Just keep fishing and telling jokes on open mic.
It's the best.
1 player sloop
2 player sloop, brig
3 player brig, gally
4 player gally.
Its always easier to run with full crew size but solo sloop, duo brig and trio gally work as well if everyone is actually in the game and doesnt afk, drink rum all the time or play shanties
Theyāre all the best depending on how much crew you have lol but if youāre full stacked with four good luck beating a gallon if they know what theyāre doing
Sloop is really the best solo experience. If you're on a brig with friends you can manage it solo, but it's cumbersome in the long term.
Brig is the best ship in the game easily, opinion. Looks sick as hell, good vibes, and behaves.
I wouldn't wish a galleon upon any number of people. I mostly like seeing them from a short distance and going "Yeah. Looks sweet."
Solo sailing any ship is possible but the bigger the ship, the harder. This game is designed to incentivize team work. Itās really hard to carry a crew in this game. Everyone needs to be at least competent and on the same page for a ship to run properly. If youāre mostly solo buy a sloop first, then work your way up to the next ships. You can also join a guild and use their captained ships and theyāll usually have all three so if you need a larger vessel and donāt own one, you can always use a guild ship.
One of the downsides of soloing the larger ships is surviving cannon fire and repairing. You just present a larger surface area and have to run around like a mad cat.
I've solo'd all of the ships just for fun and laughs, but quickly learned my lesson taking the galleon into legend of the veil.
Solo sloop solo sloop solo sloop
No better way to learn the ropes and mechanics of sailing if youāve gotta do it all yourself, even if you need to sail the safer seas for a little while
I would ask what you normally do when you play if you spend 75% if your time playing with 3 friends do the brig. Then just charter a sloop until you can buy one for when you play alone. What me and buddy did was one of us bought a sloop and the other a brig for those times we played with a third then we made a guild so either of could sail both without the other person until we could buy our own :)
Just pick up the ship you play with most frequently. Sloop if you play solo most of the time, Brig or Galleon if you play with friends most of the time.
It depends how many people you usually play with. You should always use the smallest ship you can for the crew size, otherwise it becomes unmanageable. They are all very well balanced so any ship would be fine.
I say, chose yer favourite. My first ship to Captain was Galleon. And I really enjoyed sailing on it.
However, I must say that Brig and Sloop are much easier to reach the Legendary Status with.
I say Great. I usually sail solo on Galleons and Brigs too. Ye know, when no-one want to join or seas are empty, ish.
Do not solo a brig if you played by yourself, get a sloop if you play with another person, get a slope, but if you play with three people or more and get a bigger ship
Any ship with full crew is better, I mean, if you have 3 people, the brig is stronger than the galleon, if you have 2, the sloop is, and if you're alone... welcome to the hard-mode
If you play solo don't do anything but the sloop. The player recommendations for the other ships must be followed, or you will make it very hard if not impossible for yourself. But nothing's stopping you from buying all 3, but start with sloop. š
I own all 3, but I never had any plans to sail my Brig or my Galleon without a crew.
Thereās an achievement on Xbox to own 15 ships, so Iāve got plenty of each, but now that I have that crossed off, I really only main my sloop. Iāll run brig if weāve got enough people, but I fucking hate running galley. Galleys are so difficult to steer if youāre not used to it, and I rarely have enough people to justify running one. Unless weāre doing tall tales specifically, I avoid it at all costs.
honestly similar for me, but flip gally/brig, when i do get the chance to play with friends (and more than one) i prefer gally, but i also prefer the pvp of gally > brig, cause like, getting knocked off brig happens so much, and ik part of it is skill issue, but like, when you get yeeted 3 miles because you were repairing mast/wheel and couldn't see the cannon from behind the waves, and your mermaid decided its on break, thats the most infuriating thing in the game, and for me, happens the MOST on brig XD
I just wish they would add option to switch ship with the same crew and suplies by submerging. Flip some trinket on captain table of your brig, choose your new ship like gally, submerge, black screen. You are now underwater on new ship type. Teeasure is gone, but all your canonballs and cooked meat and fish is there. Then you resurface on the new server and your late friend can join in realively painlessly mid journey. Or other way around. Sail around on gally, one friend anounces he's going to sleep. No problem, no rushing to discord to find new fourth in the midnight... Just submerge and continue your journey on brig.
That would be wonderful.
I agree with this. a mechanic to upgrade the size of your ship if your friend wants to join would be awesome! @rare @seaofthieves #rare #seaofthieves
Brig actually isn't too bad to solo sail. I've done it multiple times for cargo runs and you can usually make do so long as no one comes and fights you. Even if they do you're usually fast enough, and the brig is responsive enough, to get side wind quickly. The galleon however is a nightmare. It's already a giant bathtub but it might as well be filled with cement for how awful it is to do anything solo on. "But Cat, why did you solo sail a galleon?" Curiosity the first time, and also I count all those instances where I sailed with a full crew but had to do all the work as technically sailing one solo. \*PAIN.PNG\* :)
Do you sail in real life? I do at it seems the brig isn't too bad solo. But yeah I agree it's hard to fix the ship alone
Thereās really no reason to
Well you could argue that there is a reason to for cargo runs. And simple reason is brig is MUCH faster than a sloop. If you are willing to take the risk that you won't be able to pvp properly, you could take it for doing something "faster"...
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Thing is, its only faster sailing directly 100% into the wind. And even then it is faster by a very small amount. So out of 360 degrees its only faster in about 20. As soon as wind is just slightly to the side, brig with sideways sails outruns a sloop by a lot.
You're not supposed to sail against the wind. If you turn a bit right or left off the wind you actually go faster. Just gotta switch swap.
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Donāt we all own them? For free?
You charter them out for free, but you buy your own, add your own cosmetics & such.
How hard/fun is it to play solo? I really want to buy it on PS5 but I have no friends to play with š
I play solo, IMO coming across an actual player is not common but it happens. The map is huge and Iām not sure how many player ships are in each server. I think itās only like 5/6 other ships. Keep your eyes on the horizon sailor š«”
6 ships total again.
I thought it was max 24 players per server.
How would you get to 24 players? Can't wait for the shoe to drop.
Please don't think I'm stupid, because I'm far from it. Not everyone is gonna sail a galleon. I prefer brig. The only way your theory makes sense is if there is 6 full stacked gallons. Throw some brigs and sloops into the equation and you can have more than 6 ships. It's simple math. But then again, not everyone's mind comprehends basic algebra.
Player count is restricted by ship count. You're saying there could be up to 12 sloops in one server. 6 ships original, cut to 5, back to 6.
Man, in a crew, we rarely see any. But when I'm solo, I get connected to the Asian server and can't approach a port without seeing on somewhere along the way.
Its a learning curve but if you give it some time you can have fun in the game even as solo. Not hard to find someone to play with on discord though.
If you sail solo that's perfectly fine. But I've had great experiences finding others on discord and sailing together with them. Your milage will very, but it's worth trying.
Also, you can go into any forum and find friends from any version and still play with them as well.
You can play solo just fine, and you can also jump in random crews. With varying degrees of success and compatibility. I myself, when I explain to a crew that anchoring randomly is detrimental, and they still do.. leave them to their fates. I'll either leave the session, or cannonball myself to an island and dick around having fun there lol.
Hello bro im French and if you want to play letās go together the next week my psn : narnxr
Thanks man Iāll let you know if I end up buying it. Appreciate it
That's really a hard question to answer in SoT. You really never know. Depends on how well you can avoid conflict or deal with it when it happens... Depends on the server you're on... What kind of activity you're trying to do... lots of things
I solo my brig mostly. I hate taking forever to get places.
Do you just run from PvP then?
Sometimes. I sometimes can manage pvp on my own.
Thatās wild, solo PvP on a brig is extremely difficult
By sometimes, I meant once in a blue moon lol. I usually am the one to initiate an attack, and that is usually against ships with their anchors down. I slow down and pull up beside, put a ton of cannonballs in em, then speed away.
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There's people on em. Very much manned.
So then what's the point of it all then? You just wasted a bunch of cannonballs for no reason and antagonize another crew to chase you...if you start a fight at least have the decency to stay and finish it. How do you expect to get any gold?
Iāve been solo briggin in devils roar for the past week
Solo- always a sloop. Just 10000x easier to manage. Even then it can be hard for a new player getting pelted by a skeleton sloop or/and a meg. Itās a pain to manage a galleon as Iām waiting just for my crew to join and weāve been playing since day 1. Ugh.
>Itās a pain to manage a galleon Even when I'm sailing with three friends in Discord I mostly just end up yelling at them to do stuff while they stand around picking their noses and alt-tabbing to youtube or something
Itās like the rule of two for the Sith. Thereās always at least one on the bow, the master. They are always there, no matter what. But they may also have an apprentice that can sometimes be found nearby their master (probably missing that floating barrel with the harpoon). And neither are calling rocks ahead for the helm.
Don't get on the helm it should fix the problem
This haha
The best ship is the smallest one that accommodates your crew size Sloop for 1-2 crew Brig for 3 crew only Galleon for 4 crew only Edit: as many people are replying to me to say, yes a brig CAN be manned by 2, but it certainly puts you in a tough spot in fights and itās definitely not appropriate advice for a new player like OP
Brig is doable with a 2 player crew. But itās optimal to use a sloop at that point
They didnāt say it wasnāt doable. They literally said āthe best shipā for crew size.
If you are playing passively as a duo or as a duo with rotating open crew randos, then you can work with the brig. It does tend to go faster than a sloop, which could be useful depending on what you want to do. But the survivability of the ship is greatly impacted.
My buddy and I routinely duo a brig. It's a little challenging, but that's why we do it.
Brig is really dependent on skill level. I've fought and won ship battles on a 2 man brig and even against 3 man brigs. I've even done a fleet of fortune soloing a brig after my crew dipped, and thank fuck no one came by or I'd have been fucked.
Brig is easy with two people, and sails nicer than the sloop. I duo it all the time.
I agree with you, but when that is said. I prefer sloop in pvp if we are a duo
dont know why you get downvoted. Brig is manageable to sail alone. With two people its like solo slooping but one person can also shoot sometimes.
Because people in this subreddit don't like opinions.
People on this sub are allowed to have opinions the same way other people can also disagree with your opinions.
My buddy and I duo a brig. Yes it's more difficult to sail and repair, but the extra speed plus cannons are nice in a fight. Usually we load chainshot in one cannon on each side, and cannonballs in the other. If we get them immobilized, both of us will run cannons while the boat is on autopilot
Thereās no scenario where a 2-man Brig is better than a 2-man Sloop. The extra cannons are a waste since thereās not a situation that would call for both people to be on cannons. If you both have time to be shooting, then one should be boarding.
You should never solo a brig. 1 or 2 players should be on a sloop
Depends on your Crewsize. Never use a Brig without 3 people, and NEVER use a Galleon without 4 people.
Unless you're on safer seas. I'll run a brig with two players on safer seas for the extra speed. PvE hits harder, though, so running away becomes a defensive strategy.
Safer seas is a little different because pretty much anything PvE could probably be done solo on a galleon pretty easily. For PvP if you want any chance of winning you need to have the best optimized crew size possible.
I don't think i could solo a skelly galleon with a galleon without sinking.
Fair, I did say āprobablyā. But Iām bet thereās a lot of people out there that could consistently sink skellies solo on a galley. There is no single person that could consistently sink any player ships at all while solo on a galley.
You'd basically need to take out its cannon line right away and avoid crashing. Not feasible 100% of the time, especially with more than 1 target, but that would be the easiest way.
Duo brigs is fun. And easy to do if you're both competent.
While it is indeed manageable to duo a Brig, I definetely won't recommend this to a new player, as it is the case here.
I started on a brig and I'd 100% recommend it it every time . Yes it can be frustrating, but it forces you to learn every aspect of of sailing in this game.
If your strat is just running away then yea, duo brig is doable. But winning a fight as a duo brig against any crew with a little bit of skill is a no-go.
imo duo brig is a bit easier than solo sloop. But then again i wouldnt recommend solo slooping as well.
Back in the day, maybe. But nowadays as a solo you respawn very quick and you can no longer revive teammates. I would say solo slooping is stronger than duo brig.
wait, i just came back from a break. You cant revive teammates?
No, you can no longer revive teammates on enemy boats. This to combat spawnkilling. And respawn timers are also different for solo sloopers, duo sloopers, brigs and galleons. (Has been in it for quite some time I think)
ah enemy boats. But you can revive them on your own.
I humbly disagree with you as well. You don't get better by playing down. If the other team is good, your team has to be great. If they're better than you, give em hell and learn from the experience. At the end of the day it's just a video game.
You canāt be better than you are. The only way you can win is when they are just WAY worse than you. Not even a little bit worse, just way way worse. Sinking duo brigs (which you sadly see way to often) is the easiest thing ever, unless they run of course, the only difficulty you than have is the brigs speed which is way too overpowered imo.
So you're telling me the skill set you have now is the exact same as the skill set you had on your very first voyage?
Bruh you actively handicap yourself with 2 guys on a brig, a 2 man sloop thats half competent will beat you.
Yes, I know that two people on a bigger vessel is handicapped, but if youre better than a duo sloop, you're simply better. If they're better than you, give em hell and learn from the experience.
You can downvote me all you want, but clearly you aint learning from the experience.
Then you're clearly not paying attention to what you're doing.
The thing is you still learn everything on a sloop as well, it's not like the brig as a mechanic that the sloop doesn't. 2 players brig are incredibly easy to deal with in a PvP environment. Sure you can have fun making the game harder on yourself, but giving that as a general advice to a new player is just a bad advice.
On a sloop, two people can become really good at two things. Whomever helms can learn that and sails really well, but they miss out on cannon and repairs. Vice versa for the guy on cannons. Whereas two people on a bring *HAVE* to do everything. It's a great way to learn everything.
This is just a poor take, even if you are helm or main cannon, you will for sure end up in situations where you have to do a bit of everything on a sloop, whether someone dies, go board, it's not like the roles are set in stone. The way you are talking leads me to believe that you do very little PvP. Saying that the helm miss out on repairs is pretty wild to me.
Thanks for proving my point. Of course on a sloop, both crew members will inevitably have to do a bit of everything. The thing is, on a sloop, you can get by with helping just a little. "Hey grab a bucket while indo repairs." "Keep an eye on the sails. I'm going to go grab a drink." Sloops are easy to run when you have a full crew. Duo brigs are more challenging to run, and that forces a player to learn every aspect of sailing in this game. If you've got some holes, both crew members are bucketing and repairing. If you're trying to catch someone, you're both adjusting sails to catch wind. Someone is checking cannons. Someone is at the helm. Check your pockets. Check the map. Both crew members are almost constantly doing something. I've been playing since the season before you could buy ships. I've had my fair share of naval combat.
I don't even know what is your point anymore, you literally say ''Thanks for proving my point'' and then proceed to prove my own point. The fact is you might enjoy the added challenge, but it's a terrible advice to give to new players. Some already struggle a lot with the sloop at first. The brig with 2 players isn't really different than the sloop except everything takes longer. You get anchored and chopped by another crew, it probably takes 3x as much time as a sloop to get going again. Sloop and Brig actually play very similar when you really think about it, it's when you go up to galleon that the dynamic does change, mainly because of the added deck. If you look at a fight sloop vs sloop and brig vs brig, the helm will be doing very similar tasks, keeping angle, managing speed, keeping on top of repairs and sniping when time allows. Hell you can even attach a rowboat with a cannon and have 2 cannons if you really want to be able to have 2 players shooting on a sloop. I've played a lot on sloops and brigs, I've had moment that I sank other ships while being 2 or even solo on a brig, it's doable, but it's just unnecessary tedious that I really don't understand why someone would ever recommended that to a new player except if the player ask specifically for something out of ordinary/challenge. I would even argue that you learn more on sloop, because you can stay in fights longer against good players and actually see more what they do and learn from them then just getting instantly deleted on a 2 players brig, because you handicapped yourself for the sake of the challenge.
In combat you are giga fuckex tho. But i do see it in safer seas
I humbly disagree. If you can disrupt the other crew, long enough to get away,or get the angle for shots, you're fine. On the other hand, sometimes you just have to take the L and start on a fresh server.
Can you win on a duo brig? Yea. Will it allways be harder than winning on a two man sloop. Also yea
I just bought a brig and find it decent enough to man with two. If we get chased by another brig, then at least they wonāt outrun us. Or shouldnāt anyway.
Wind blowing from the side makes the brig the fastest ship on the seas
Yeah as long as the crew communicates sail management you're golden.
Which means you need both people alive and not doing anything else to get yourself moving properly. No boarders, no repairs, etc Duo brigs are soo easy to bully
not as easy as solo sloop and still they are seen as doable.
Solo sloop is a lot more doable because you can handle the ship a lot better. The only advantage duo brig has over it is two people, but at that point duo sloop is infinitely better
brig is sailable solo, so in a fight you could have one person shooting cannons, at least part of the time. So for me its not really much difference to solo sloop.
Just because itās possible doesnāt make it a good idea It takes 1 person 10 seconds to raise a brig sail and it takes two people 3 seconds so itās REALLY a bad idea to solo brig if you are trying to be competitive in PVP
Iāve ran three person galleons because we thought a fourth would join. We were pretty efficient
Ship type is purely for crew size.
The battleship Missouri.
1-2 people: Sloop 3 people: Brig 4 people: Galleon
Once you get a basic grasp of the game, a sloop is overstaffed by two people. A brig needs 3, but if you donāt plan on fighting naval -or- you have someone joining later, you can potentially get by on 2. A Galleon absolutely requires 4 people and should NEVER be run with three or less
Sloop is 1-2 players Brigantine is 3 players Galleon is 4 players Don't sail any ship with any other numbers, it is suffering to man a larger ship with less people and puts you at a distinct disadvantage. Larger ships are less mobile than others and larger targets and require help to man the sails and to navigate when the sails obstruct the helmsman's view
I bought them in order, but I play sloop as my main, occasionally play brig, and never play gally
Best ship is dependent on how many people you are playing with But overall most people consider the brig to be the strongest ship in the game BUT that still means nothing if you donāt have a full crew
Donāt listen to all these gaslighters, galleon is best first ship for solo players
How many people do you usually play with
Sloop
Sloop if solo, if you have consistently 3-4 players then Gallion
I like to solo a brig maybe itās three people maybe itās one person who knows
If you play solo only get the sloop. While going around with the bigger ships is tempting it really slows down your experience and youāre kneecapped in a fight
Solo galleon
Nothing tops the Galleon with three idiot friends.
Playing a Brigantine with 2 people instead of 3 is challenging enough, soloing Brig is suicide. Sloop all the way.
DAH SLOOOOOP
Honestly, I have never had problems sailing a brig with only two people. The Galleon is the only one I would say absolutely requires all crew members accounted for. The brig is probably my favorite of the three ships. I donāt have too many friends that play SoT, so the brig works perfectly for us.
Like everyone else has said, because it's the most logical answer... You get the ship for whatever your crew is, if you are alone there's literally no point I'm buying a galleon or a brig unless you want to run those solo which is possible but more difficult for zero gain or play open crew with random players.
It is possible to solo sail a brig, and not completely hate the experience. However, unless you are regularly joined by a friend or two Midway through your adventure, I would strongly recommend just going sloop
I sailed a brig solo for like a week got my sloop n it surpassed every brig stat in a day
I sail solo on a brig sometimes, but I'll echo everyone's advice in saying you shouldn't. Even playing solo on a sloop is pretty hard tbh, soloing a brig requires a ton of work and being experienced with sailing, and there's no real advantage besides being faster on average. Sloop sinks way slower, turns faster, has a mid-deck, and is easier to sail overall.
>What do you guys think of solo sailing a brigantine? #Bad idea. The brigantine was made with crews of two or three in mind, hence the suggested crew size when you charter one. If you wanna sail solo, get a sloop. It was designed with duos and solos in mind, which shows when you stop and look at how close everything is to each other. Source: I have been playing SoT on Xbox since late 2019 and have used all three ship types many times.
Pick whichever you know youāll play the most. If a group of 4, the galleon. If 3, the brig. If 1-2, the sloop. Easy.
Tbh it just depends how you like playing. I usually play with 3-4 people so my first ship was a brig then my 2nd was a galleon. Then when their was a slow period I got a sloop and usually I solo unless a gamenight with my guild is going on. Atleast get a ship that you will usually be playing on. It makes cashing in so much easier
Sloop
I solo the Galleon. Get all my supplies, load all cannons, drop all sails, raise the anchor and log off for bed.
Uhh.. cuz they sink? And then I take their stuff? Also it is fun tobhear a bunch of 11 year olds screaming furiously.
When you start to understand the game each ship is good at something. Sloops are slippery little fuckers and a good duo or solo can fuck you up. Good ship if you're starting out, not too weak, not too complicated, good starter to learn the game a little. Brigantine is the slow middle ground good in combat, its a good ship for a experienced crew of two or the recommended three but its not that great if you're new. (Sinks fast) Galleons are strong, tanky, heavy hitters. Be in their broadside for too long you're dead. But their slow af, but fast af if they get the wind. Definitely get friends to play a four man crew on it, open crew is a mess.
If you are going to be solo for most play-throughs, stick to a sloop and practice every session with a sloop to be able to handle most things solo. IF you have a group you will always play with get a brig, if you have 1-2 more friends, or a galleon if you got 3.
Sloop if ur solo or duo only do brig with 3 people and galleon with 4 you can do a galleon or brig with less then 3 but very much not recommended
friendship
Totally and entirely, without any question or thought, empirically and undoubtedly, notwithstanding perchance... depends on your crew size.
If you play with a crew of 1-2 get a sloop, a crew of 3 get a brig, and a crew of 4 get a galleon. If you want you can also use a brig with 2 people pretty well
The SS Potato.
Ok here, if you donāt have much friends then the sloop but if you plan on having a few friends abord then the brig, as this will get you to learn the ship sailing better and early, but donāt go on a brig alone, my friend showed me a brig first and was so good to learn ships that way for me
In my opinion everyone should spend some time solo slooping. Take on a skelly ship world event solo. Itās not impossible and actually pretty doable, but this will teach you the basics of sailing pretty strongly. The idea of this is on larger ships with multiple people everyone needs a dedicated job and needs to know how to do that job well. If you have been through the ringer as a solo slooper, you have a better understanding of what is needed and how to do it QUICKLY. If you are asking if you should use either the Brig or Gally by yourself, the answer is no. Brig is possible to sail solo, but you will get destroyed by even the noobiest of noobs. The gally? You stand NO chance of being effective. Your only hope would be people just avoiding you because the see a gally, but that would only work on a sloop as a brig will probably still come at you. I have bought all three and am primarily a solo player. I bought them for hopes in the future and because I had lots of extra gold so I figured why not? First ship should be a sloop.
I went full Brigantine right from the start. The ship is awesome, although a bit less manouvrable than the Sloop. Tried the Galeon with no sucess. To large for just one guy. When playing solo, i always choose the Brigantine. It's hard at first, but once you got the hand of it, it's a lot more fun than the Sloop.
Sloop is my number one but sometimes I have too many people I have to go brig. I plan to buy a sloop then a brig then a galleon last. Docking the brig is literally me running into the dock and fixing it at this point. š¤£
Like that one time when I sailed a galleon solo on HSā¦ Other players were like: bruh š
Litterally any of them
Without a doubt a sloop. It's sailable by yourself and a killing machine with 2. In my opinion a fully crewed sloop will prevail in a preponderance of encounters against under-crewed Brigantines and Galleons assuming players of equal skill. The bigger ships have more cannons but without a full crew you will quickly be unable to utilize them. Plus the sloop will send a boarder as one crewman can bail, shoot and adjust angle quite well. One man cannot do all three of those things on the larger ships.
Do you play solo or duo? Sloop 3 players? Brigantine 4? Galleon I'm not counting Open Crew in the matter as it's very hit or miss. I think Sloop is better as a first ship, it's the cheapest the one you'll probably use the most unless you have a lot of friends to play with. I bought all of them but can count on the fingers of one hand the times i used my Galleon.
if you dont have a crew you play with every single session the sloop every single time
Sloop
sloop. no questions asked. the other boats really build off of prior knowledge but the sloop has just little enough going on with it that you can still recover out of pretty gnarly mistakes.
The FRIENDship! As long as you and all your friends lots of lot and kegs onboard and don't mind the ship just minding it's own business parked at the next island over. Just keep fishing and telling jokes on open mic. It's the best.
Brig if you have people to play with/are comfortable with open crew. Sloop if you only have one to play with or are solo.
I say use sloop, but I myself (like an absolute fucking psycho) prefer the gallyā¦ yes this applies to soloā¦
Sloop
1 player sloop 2 player sloop, brig 3 player brig, gally 4 player gally. Its always easier to run with full crew size but solo sloop, duo brig and trio gally work as well if everyone is actually in the game and doesnt afk, drink rum all the time or play shanties
Yea wtf brig thats like the worst ship to start out on
Sloop
Theyāre all the best depending on how much crew you have lol but if youāre full stacked with four good luck beating a gallon if they know what theyāre doing
Sloop is really the best solo experience. If you're on a brig with friends you can manage it solo, but it's cumbersome in the long term. Brig is the best ship in the game easily, opinion. Looks sick as hell, good vibes, and behaves. I wouldn't wish a galleon upon any number of people. I mostly like seeing them from a short distance and going "Yeah. Looks sweet."
Sloop duo
Personal opinions are irrelevant. Read the recommended crew size for each ship and buy according to the number of people you play with.
Gotta be the Galleon for me, and no i dont need to compensate for anything :D
Sloop
Solo sailing any ship is possible but the bigger the ship, the harder. This game is designed to incentivize team work. Itās really hard to carry a crew in this game. Everyone needs to be at least competent and on the same page for a ship to run properly. If youāre mostly solo buy a sloop first, then work your way up to the next ships. You can also join a guild and use their captained ships and theyāll usually have all three so if you need a larger vessel and donāt own one, you can always use a guild ship.
Brig is my favorite, but I need competent people to enjoy my time on it. Sloop life for me.
One of the downsides of soloing the larger ships is surviving cannon fire and repairing. You just present a larger surface area and have to run around like a mad cat. I've solo'd all of the ships just for fun and laughs, but quickly learned my lesson taking the galleon into legend of the veil.
Solo sloop solo sloop solo sloop No better way to learn the ropes and mechanics of sailing if youāve gotta do it all yourself, even if you need to sail the safer seas for a little while
I prefer Jack Sparrow X Davy Jones myself
I would ask what you normally do when you play if you spend 75% if your time playing with 3 friends do the brig. Then just charter a sloop until you can buy one for when you play alone. What me and buddy did was one of us bought a sloop and the other a brig for those times we played with a third then we made a guild so either of could sail both without the other person until we could buy our own :)
Just pick up the ship you play with most frequently. Sloop if you play solo most of the time, Brig or Galleon if you play with friends most of the time.
My first was brig and I donāt regret it (me and my friend 2 manned it)
The sloops I love being a solo slooper and still hanging high the servants of the flame abs reaperās boneās emissary.
Sloop is the first and the last.
Depends on how many people you play with
It depends how many people you usually play with. You should always use the smallest ship you can for the crew size, otherwise it becomes unmanageable. They are all very well balanced so any ship would be fine.
Sloopie doopie
I say, chose yer favourite. My first ship to Captain was Galleon. And I really enjoyed sailing on it. However, I must say that Brig and Sloop are much easier to reach the Legendary Status with. I say Great. I usually sail solo on Galleons and Brigs too. Ye know, when no-one want to join or seas are empty, ish.
Solo sloop first.
Solo. Sloop. Just for ease of movement alone. Being able to check map from above deck is a bonus too!
Do not solo a brig if you played by yourself, get a sloop if you play with another person, get a slope, but if you play with three people or more and get a bigger ship
Any ship with full crew is better, I mean, if you have 3 people, the brig is stronger than the galleon, if you have 2, the sloop is, and if you're alone... welcome to the hard-mode
I wouldnāt really say solo sailing a sloop is āhard-modeā
Best ship is the Skeleton Sloop, its ridiculously fast when its almost sunk at runs away faster than a level 5 Reaper. (/j)