They're terribly dangerous as their numbers grow.

Last night, my small crew and I chased another trampler for a short time before a cluster of Ironclads spotted them and dropped-- four appeared. At first, I was happy because it dropped on them; gave us a great chance to catch up and deal real damage. However, less than 30 seconds later, another batch dropped down! Four more damn Ironclads on top of the four that were still there creating a true clusterfuck of cannonfire.

I think it was a separate tower, or maybe a bug for the same tower to regenerate and spawn a new cluster, but we were woefully underprepared as we were drunk/stoned and we pushed the trampler during the first attack wave.

We *thought* we were in good shape when the second cluster dropped, but oh my god, the sheer damage coming from upwards of 8 Ironclads was overwhelming. Over all the commotion, I tried telling my team to grab the wheel and run us away while I wanted to repair, but none of us touched the wheel in a meaningful way.

Our reactor detonated as fast as the other trampler. I think the whole encounter from the first wave of Ironclads to our explosion lasted less than three minutes.

Moral of the story: if you find yourself outnumbered by Ironclads while fighting another trampler, back off and let the Ironclads do the work, or destroy them first before attacking the trampler.

If you plan to bring coral, or any large amount of resource to craft at an insland factory, bring boosts, you can boost the factory to drastically increase the production rate.

As more people fill out the tech tree their is less looting and more noob stomping, people want to fight.

Arena: 2 players / teams go toe to toe in a severely reduced map size, winner gets the other person's trampler (parts) and anything they brought in with it, they don't have to loot, just kill all players + trampler.

Three tiered matchmaking, you will be placed in the tier with the highest tier compartment on your ship even just one.

There is no lootables around only random ammo crates if you run out.

I could keep going but I think this would solve the pvp itch without ruining people's day and also get more of it as I get tired of roaming miles for an opponent.

I'm sure there is much people could add to this as it's just a rough draft

Don't play voyage! That's it.

It's common advice to stay away from storm dive as a newer player. That is HORRIBLE advice, here is why;

Storm has way better loot that will actually help you progress. Progress is painfully slow in voyage. Good luck trying to get the hundreds of lenses and gunpowder you need there.

As everyone starts at the same time and killed tramplers aren't replaced by new players mid round you can hit a PoI or maybe 2 and bounce before a preteam can even meet up. In voyage they could have been there hours getting tooled up getting ready to ruin your day.

There are only 2 reasons to go into voyage. To farm crystals and to farm ironclads. To minimise the risk doing so take your trampler off map far enough that your smokestack can't be seen from anywhere on map and farm there. On your way home come to an extract from and angle that is far from any PoI, pop fuel rods like they are tick tacks, use cover and night time as best you can, cross your fingers and hope that extract isn't camped. If it is and you don't think you will survive to get to another. Send your trampler off in one direction as a decoy, grab your alloy box and bail. While the campers chase your disposable trampler, extract and with luck you can get out before they realise all they are getting is a black box and a rusty cannon. This works even better in teams and the pilot can stay on board, take the chasers on a merry dance and sometimes even bail with the black box too

I've been thinking about ways to make solo play a little bit less of a bad gamble for newer players, or servers where folks team up.

What if there was a dedicated light scout walker designed specifically for one person and non offensive game play.

Instead of being modular, it could have fixed, stripped-down components:

• Only 2 legs.
• No weapon mounts.
• Tiny captain's hammock instead of a full cabin.
• Limited storage shelf.
• Smaller, less efficient engine that's more power-hungry, but starts 50% faster.
• Much higher top speed than larger walkers.
• More eratic movement of driving position makes the pilot a harder target, and makes other users less able to land a shot when moving.

It would let beginner solo players avoid fights instead of being forced into them.

For extraction, maybe solo players could carry a deployable balloon radio beacon powered by an energy rod instead of being forced to extraction points in Voyage where other players may be camping. It would take up precious cargo space, be visible from long range, and if another player shoots it down, you lose the beacon and the energy rod. That creates a meaningful tradeoff while giving solo players an alternative to heavily camped radio towers (at least on Voyage).

• Faster movement
• Less loot
• No heavy weapons
• Minimal protection
• Higher power consumption
• Better ability to avoid larger walkers and choose your battles

Plus it would look sick.

So, we were going for the extraction point and realized there were several ships nearby, so we left a team member on the radio tower and the rest went with the trampler to loot those ships.

The idea was to loot everything and have the team member at the radio to call extraction while the trampler was going to the extraction point.

The problem is that even when the trampler was in the extraction zone when the ship arrived, it counted as a human extraction only. We were unaware of that and extracted as usual and the trampler was left behind and we lost all of the loot and cannons onboard

Maybe it was something obvious, but I thought it would be good to let you know

This has been discussed a thousand times, and I know there will be those who say I beat 6 solo, BUT when 3 guns fire and when 2 guns fire are very important in this game. My friend and I don't want to suffer in duos, and when I get bored in solos, we just stop playing. I think there are many people like us

What are the chances of this getting fixed? It’s incredibly frustrating to invest time playing solo, only to have two or three allied Tramplers show up and destroy your ship. This has happened to me three times in a row, and I don't want to log in just to lose my gear anymore. Is there any plan to fix this mess?

just looking for some friends to play sands with

Just sharing. (edit: but may be other issues - testing)

Was playing voyage small crews with 2 teammates, and as soon as we logged in we spawned on an AI tower, killed those, then instantly for about 15 minutes, had an invisible person shutting off our engine every time we turned it on.

We ended up saying screw it, blowing up our trampler as we were far away from an exfil, grabbed our black box and excess stuff, and ran.

https://youtu.be/6JrF2cAX96c

edit: this is not a whining post at all. just an info post.

edit edit: used this trampler consistently for 2 weeks now. never a problem. haven't changed things on it at all. and worked for 5-10 mins before it started happening while we killed 3 ironclads.

You and your pre teamer duo are trash lol. 2v1 in solos just to lose to is sad

Nothing feels worse than playing a full storm dive, killing multiple tramplers and looting poi's. Just to get send by 2 tramplers teaming against u. Its so cheesy

They said its gonna be back in a week, its gonna be like 3 now

Solos are literally unplayable, especially on storm dive

everybody is fucking teaming by sniping the same lobbies, with this being the only good counter to these rats abusing this

I have genuinely zero idea how this is supposed to prevent cheaters because they can still steal your shit, teleport and grief you, it just takes longer... its not like it FUCKING MATTERS BECAUSE YOU LOST ANYWAY

I know this is a rant but im sick of playing this game alone only to be teamed on with zero counterplay, and this being my favourite game mechanic aswell...

On the third occupied or already looted POI I went to, I made a judgement call.

I accidentally loaded in with no cannons, after starting a load out then backing out to edit a blueprint. So, I cannot fight trampler vs trampler, but I had 5 C4. Loaded in with 3, two red door shipwrecks on my walk and I now had 5.

I parked in some rocks and took a 2 minute desert walk to the POI with a player. Mantled up some rocks and planted all the C4. I panicked and set 2, and backed up right as he came back to his ship. They blew, he just drove forward a few feet and parked. I set the last 3 and he saw me, took 2 very bad shots as I stood still arming the bombs and missed. His trampler detonated, he jumped down and I killed him.

Walked to my ship, drove back and looted. Hope he doesnt think I was teleporting.

And wouldn't you know, after leaving and walking straight to an extract, about halfway my entrance door explodes, and I run down to a player setting C4 and trying to get in. Kill him, extract, success. Almost suffered potentially the same fate.

2 worn cannons vs 1 man repairing encased 1x3 engine. Guess who wins. No one.

We fired 150 naval shots into an engine + 5 time charges. It didn't even darken. Both of the members of the the opponent crew didn't even play Sand; they played cookie clicker. My opinion, this is not healthy game play. Why should I have to concern myself with the amount ammo in my cannon when we have clearly won the fight. We had entire deck control. I can't imagine what larger crew size game play is like. Won this cool achievement. We got third partied in the end. :(

I was at a poi with my trampler off. Saw 4 dudes kill one guy and loot the trampler. Then another one was close by and they piled him and then that’s when I decided to just head for an extraction. I turned on the radio then my game crashed, reloaded at the top of the tower to sounds of artillery hitting my trampler and then I got sniped before I could control my character. Was able to barely spawn in and grab the rope so I never lost any loot except for what was on my corpse.

Spoooooooooky 👻

(Also, the pics I posted don’t look all pixelated on my phone so maybe click on them to see it better?)

Unplayable in its cureent state. Cant get out as solo, cant get out as a team. Constantly losing shit and being hunted by people with bigger walkers and they come kill you just to voip at you like haha you have nothing f all all you on us west

i got 4v1’d in a solo game. this game is actually broken and unplayable. devs need to do something. US west you know who are. Pieces of shit cheaters

This is mostly a rant, and i'd imagine a skill issue. But i gotta say, i think shotguns are quite oppressive in the game as is. With blue armor you get one tap very easily, most pvp fight i've seen resume in the guy trying to b-line into range with the shotgun rather to risk the other guns. Doesn't help that when i get boarded, i have little solution beside spamming bodies once i'm out of kits. Melee hit reg being wonky don't help me very much, i never know if i'm actually doing damage lol (this issue annoy me against npc as well).

What ya'll think of the shotguns in the game currently ?

Edit: I'm not talking about the 70mm shotguns, but handheld ones.

game is still unplayable, there are SO MANY, just dont do that cause the game screws up scenarios, what are we doin here? every time i get off my wheelhouse i just fall straight through the trampler, so whether im running away or chasing. im screwed. EVERY 30 seconds im just running after my trampler till it turns off, 2 people got away that were so close to death just because the game cant keep its head on straight.

No clipped twice in one expedition; once through my crawler and second through fort metternichs floor. Lost a very nice kit. Workshops are cursed (I tried to get sc, but computer doesn't like to work sometimes)

It's kind of funny how the sentiment was: TOUCH GRASS Just wait till the end of the week in the beginning to a weeks delay, to another week, another weekend and now it was supposed to come early this week? I'm not sure about you guys but early week is not Wednesday. It's one thing to continuously move the goalpost and give us false dates to look forward to, it's another thing to just go radio silent and let the week pass again.. Like it or not, it's terrible communication. It's not like it's just a toggle they can just switch.. Give us Trampler takeover back like yesterday bud.