r/holdfastgame

I haven't been able to play Holdfast for 7 months because my Game Pass on Xbox isn't working, so I can't play online, and it's extremely frustrating to watch you guys happily playing holdfast. A little sympathy would be enough, but if anyone has had the same problem and solved it, I would be very grateful if they could help me further. Thank you in advance and have a nice summer holiday.

I have 3 points as a daily Age of Sail player.

So lately I've been playing games where players camp their ships in their base after spawning, abusing that they can damage your ship but you can't damage them back. Can recently spawned ships have like a timer before they lose invincibility? I mean I guess some 30 secs so they can reorganize themselves before getting back into the fight would be enough. Their problem if they don't spawn back.

Can we get friendly fire on ships back? I feel it's kinda pointless to disguise ships when allies can shoot you without repercussions, it would be nice to have it be a gamble; firing at a ship that has your enemies flags and finding out it was your teammates all along. Just like before.

I think carpenters should have friendly fire on their bombs, I feel it was preferable to have them being able to damage their own ship doing good damage. Made players more conscious about the value of using their bombs correctly, maybe having the bomb hurt friendly players could nerf the huge explosion in a way when boarding an enemy ship.

specifically when you have a sword equipped

I played 6 back to back American Revolution matches where Britain lost every single one because there was always an imbalance of Americans versus the British. Literally 50 Brits vs 81 Yankees with the remainder in spectator mode trying to join the American side every game, or not joining the British cause it seemed pointless to try. I know it's Independence Day for the U.S. and hopefully everything will be back to normal tomorrow, but playing consistent one sided matches killed my appetite for the game today.

Holdfast is the greatest game (conceptually) to come out of the last decade but it needs some serious polish on consoles and in general

there are no sound fx when riding in boats (water splashing etc)

there are no particle fx on the water where boats are moving through or when on foot crossing rivers/ puddles or when players fall dead

there is no blood fx or gibbing

melee is stiffer than Washingtons false teeth. You should at the very least be able to attack from block since you can already block from attack

melee attacks are way too slow in wind up and recovery

Performance isn't justified by the visual quality

I know it's an indie game but I also believe the devs are up to the task of improving the core features/mechanics and visuals/performance

just bought this game last night off of Steam's summer sale, hilarious experience so far. Saw medics running around playing the "I AM A SURGEON" then getting destroyed by a cannonball

I thought there were new maps available for July 4th but I don't see any public servers at all in the Server Browser.