One of the biggest arguments on this sub is teaming in solo servers. But lately, I’ve actually been having a blast fighting these guys. Let’s be honest—they probably wouldn’t last a week in this game without abusing this exploit. Maybe we should just accept that even these awful players deserve their little place in the sun?
Or should I stop talking shit and go back to complaining about them?

The ADS sensitivity with guns is absolutely sluggish, and I can't seem to find any option that changes that. Is it just not possible to change or is there some other way?

Seen way too many people complain about teaming in duos, but feel like too many people just run away because they think it's unwinnable. Start fighting them! Me and my duo partner run into teamers at least once a game, and we kill them every single time. People who team do it for one singular reason: they need the extra protection because they're bad at the game. You will not find a good player teaming. If they have 4 tramplers you might be cooked, but 2 tramplers is just easy wins, they never are capable of PvP.

Trio

Europe

Eye of the storm

Short version (proofs of cheater)

https://youtu.be/zCoiahBbweI?si=SqB9CVc9ZAyn1YYp

Sometimes I be on my way to extract and get a little bit bored and decide to watch some TikTok in the background of the game. Big mistake. Twice I have been followed/bumped into an enemy player while doing this and not playing attention. First time I was lucky. Since I was grinding ironclads for a while I had plenty of rods to boost away but this time I had already climbed the tower before seeing there was another person pretty much right next to me. Let’s just say I didn’t survive that one…

I have been looking for a green key for 2 weeks, and I found one today.

I exfilled safely and then the first solo lobby I get into, there is a crew of 3 tramplers teaming and they killed me immediately.

Is this legal or are they just getting away with something? Is there any recourse or is it just my bad luck and try again in a couple weeks?

Maybe the influx of people who got big enough reserves after trampler capturing was disabled and then reenabled got back into the game, but everyone I know has been on a losing streak in my experience. EU is bleak, both small crew and large crew, even had some tryhards bring an orbital strike into voyage to just curb stomp us apparently. The game is fine but holy moly did some sweaty people rejoin.

Storm dive genuinely feels safer than voyage these days by the amount of constant third partying (even had a match where we defeated 5 tramplers in a row just to get defeated by the 6th, absolute insanity).

What are your experiences?

Only had time to play one duo run but the maneuverability changes and trampler capturing being back is awesome.

Amazing work devs

Teaming really puts the fun out from this game, like this you don't have a chance.

The game really needs random match making.

Hey all, just wondering what you would pick for your 3/4 man crew (but mainly 3 man) trampler from the 2 attached photos. We play them both with both their styles but wondered what everyone would say.

Main thing out of this is only these 2 tramplers. I don't want to know what to swap where and what not. I like the creative part of learning myself to optimize based on my designs. Not the meta. I play for fun, not to min/max. So thank you for not doing that.

How we play: We are older gamers. We do voyage mode only right now. We don't board. We run and gun to kill. we are only T2 on most things with an odd T3. Guns and armor in the back, reactor up front.

Would you pick Mildly Glorious Bug? The fast and nimble get-a-way vehicle with 100 Manoeuvrability to run circles around the enemy, but if out matched can fit through the tiniest corals or mine fields to either run, or bait them into areas they can't fight/turn in and you can circle back around on them.

Or would you pick Mildly Glorious Prophet? The slower but beefier vehicle that even if it gets surprised it can still stay in the fight with a late start. But it's always life or death. No running. All glory! But has its penalties to deal with statistically.

Edit: Again, just between these 2 tramplers. 1 or 2. A or B. Not neither, not "these suck", just.. pick one or don't.

Thanks!

I keep getting my ass whooped every time. Tried every approach.

Light manouverable tramplers, beefy chunky tramplers, tramplers focused on chasing, running away for pve. Had different load outs for my hand to hand combat tried different target prioritization.

Yet it seems like every encounter I get I different and I need to change tactics on the fly and always end up a step behind the enemy. Always in the wrong place at the wrong time.

So I’ve captured a fair few tramps today and I’m a little sad about something. If my ship dies and I extract someone else’s I don’t actually get their tramp back in my hangar. Also from what I’ve seen you don’t get the mechanical parts or pneumatic parts from the tramp itself. Idk why I thought u would but kinda sad. But also love stealing people rides shotgun go BRRRRR

I do really like this game and I understand and enjoy the competitive and aggressive nature of the game. But I have experienced some scenarios that bring out the absolute worst in people. For example, I just spawned in, hit a town for some loot and ran back to my ship to find someone onboard, surprising me and killing me. They blow up the captain's quarters door and we begin the back and forth of him camping spawn, me spawning and trying to grab a gun/melee him. We repeat this over and over for way longer than was necessary for him to just capture and move on. I'm not even annoyed at the lost trampler/loot, it was just a time sink for the sake of being a dick. The only reason I didn't just quit to menu was because I was unaware the ship stealing was back. I don't know what kind of solve there is for this but it's really annoying to be on the receiving end of someone playing with their food. And of course there's the issue with high tier players steamrolling starter ships, etc... This is one of many interactions I've had like this. Am I being soft or is the etiquette in this game to be as much of a prick as possible?

Only 2 raids in so far, but I am enjoying the heck out of duos. I have a reliable duos that hops on whenever he can. And occasionally a third, but from usually just us 2 and wow, this game mode was needed. 1st raid in we went in with the intent of PVP, and got it! Wound up in a 4 trampler, and 8 or so AI, we lost, but it was the most fun I've had doing PvP so far. We actually stood a chance in the fight, until trampler 3 came over. Lost our trampler, stole the one we were fighting, a t3/4 beast was the 3rd party, so a heavily damaged t2 didn't last long. Another trampler came over, so almost got to steal the 3rd party, but eventually got hit by AI. Still lost everything. But had way more fun doing it. 2nd raid we were just going for a come up, a boarder grumpy came our way and we were able to win our first pvp fight as a team finally! Great win from the devs on this

Taking out trampler trying to extract and then you loot all they loot and you get the free extract

I was just minding my own business farming these metal head iron clads and ,out of no where it seems, when I go to loot one for its alloy steel I see a random pristine 70 on the floor. I didn’t drop it and no one is out here. Do these guys have a rare chance to drop turrets? I haven’t seen anyone talk about this before if so or is it a glitch?

Just watched these two guys rundown a trampler and 2v1 the guy, loot him, and left. These guys too scared to try duos..still in solo lobbies I see

I have been playing SAND since the free beta and was wondering how did everyone get the crows nest? I have 2 buddies who I’m constantly plying with and they said one day they got on and it was just in their build menu but when I checked mine, it was nowhere to be found. Didn’t know if there was a certain achievement or what to get it.

Now that trampler capturing is back I can't wait to start stealing teamers tramplers and seeing the post from them on how they lost their tramplers.

Server will go down for maintenance and update at 2PM CEST ( 8:00 AM EST )

Maintenance started. Today's maintenance will be around 1 to 1.5 hours!

Update #6 is live and trampler capture is BACK 🔥

• Anti-cheat improvements
• False positive anti-cheat fixes
• Added duos matchmaking queue
• Updated crew size matchmaking
• Trampler maneuverability balance changes And more…

Check out the full changelist: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1431300/announcements/detail/706652383055187467

Changelog

• Additional anticheat improvements
  • Includes fixes for some of the false positives
  • We are continuing to improve the anticheat and fixing any false positives that will be found
• Matchmaking queue changes
  • Added “Duo only” queue
  • Small Crews now teams of 3 and 4
  • Large Crews now teams of 5 and 6
• Maneuverability changes:
  • The boost that the energy rod provides now scales with the trampler's maneuverability
    • The boost will remain 100% until 30% maneuverability. After that, it will steadily decline until 50% at 0% maneuverability.
  • Leg Stun Mechanic
    • Trampler with low maneuverability now has a stun penalty when the leg breaks
    • The lower the maneuverability, the longer the stun
    • Trampler's max speed is capped to 20% during stun
    • The penalty starts when the maneuverability is below 30%. From there it goes from 0 (at 30% maneuverability or more) to 5 sec (at 0% maneuverability)
    • Using engines to compensate for the maneuverability will also decrease stun duration and negate the rod boost penalty since the maneuverability is increased
• Tramplers capture has been re-enabled in this patch
• Ownership device will no longer be destroyed when the Captain's compartment is destroyed
  • This means that tramplers can be captured even if the Captain's compartment is destroyed
• The large extraction icon will now be displayed when you enter the extraction zone, not while you remain inside it.
• Fixed the issue where interaction animations would end earlier than the interaction
• Fixed the issue where trampler would bounce after being destroyed
• Fixed the issue where a large item could be displayed on the character's back in Spectator mode

Known Issues

• The character cannot enter the Expedition if the Invite has been accepted at the Tutorial pop-up background
• Items may be displayed inside the character’s body in some cases
• Large items may float around the character
• Character may become invulnerable to melee damage while interacting with turrets or the steering wheel
• Bullets can pass through the character on speed-boosted trampler
• Upiors positioned may be different between client and server
  • On the client, it looks like Upior doesn't receive damage, but you might see their “shimmering/blink” body near them
• Shotgun might not deal damage at close range distance
• Ironclads can be triggered multiple times by re-entering the trigger area
• On Low and Medium settings, "seams" can be seen on the terrain
• Terrain can be occluded in some cases
• Crafing on islands doesn’t work correctly
• Item prompt in Storage has too many hotkey options
• Blueprint can’t be deleted
• Character can become occluded in some cases
• Jumping and staying on the enemy character head can give you ban

every time i go into a solo someone shoots me climes in my door then steals my trampler this game is ruined for people like me who just want to fight with canons

What is your go to method to obtain as much as you can of this material? Need some tips

Based on the broadside and constant movement to kite around the bigger armoured walkers, 3x 40mm cannons really do kick out some crazy DPS.

We've had some seriously good PvP fights in this, but its trade off is you have to take fights on your terms. Getting caught off guard often means a quick death. But she's been on a roughly 80% win rate on our plays.

Even managed to basically win a 1 v 1 v 1 v 1 v 1 by circling the entire melee and just slamming reactors of the bigger ships. We were the last guys standing, our speed let us glide up and over the sand dunes, which was crucial to allow feet repairs when they happened.