Flaws and all, I'm still having fun with the game (Gamepass ftw!). Playing with a buddy sailing the seas is as good as it gets. We wasted about 3 hours just doing random sh*t and even getting robbed was fun. These f*cks sunk our ship at a fort raid and I snuck on their ship pulled up anchor and killed one of their guys. We stole their ship but they respawned on it and killed us. Meanwhile, our 3rd man had snuck and hid on the fort and got 2 chests...we sailed back after dying and chased them off and redeemed both chests for about $1500 gold. Not a huge haul but damn it was fun...the previous few hours we had been robbed and spawn killed by another crew which was both fun and not.
I think the game is fun playing once or twice a week. I played Destiny 2 similarly...didn't really want to play every day. I wish there was more stuff to find while exploring the islands tho. I have found random chests/messages in a bottle with map, etc. but not enough of that. Finding a map in a bottle with X marks the spot(s) and going to get that treasure is really fun. I do think the game would have been great with a story mode attached like Destiny. Having pvp in the primary/only mode is both a blessing and a curse....there is no other mode to go to if you are bored (i.e. pvp vs. pve). Another thing that would have been cool is mini games (the only thing good about the shared area in Cod:WWII)....card games, bowling with coconuts, basketball with coconuts (anything with coconuts is cool). I think outposts should have been "safe zones"...i.e. once you are at an outpost, no pvp allowed.
I'm interested to see what the next content is going to be and if it will really expand on what we have now. Also, since this isn't solely a pve game, not sure what they can release that will keep people coming back? This game is largely a "make your own story" game so they just need to add more stuff to do if they can. Would be cool if they could add pve raid zones where you all fight some giant sea monsters and/or some other AI events (pirate fleets, larger forts/islands, etc). They should have brought me on as a designer...I have lots of ideas
. The idea has huge potential...just not sure if Rare really tapped it.