Kingpin PVE ONLY Endgame! - Guide, Tips & Tricks for YOU! - Skull and Bones

[@saucyyben]

Pro tip. If you are doing a delivery for say white skull rum you don’t always need to carry it on your ship. If you deliver to open water you need to have it on your ship but if you deliver to another fast travel point the rum will be available in your warehouse to do the delivery once you arrive.

[@mattt233]

Do you still get attacked if you don't have it with you?

[@Zorken77]

@@mattt233 Yes

[@mattt233]

@@Zorken77 ok. But at least then I don't have to worry about losing the cargo if I get sunk. That's a good tip. Thanks.

[@bertay-bm7kn]

Literally tip of the day 👌 been doing this since day 1 and before they nerfed the rouge spawns, this was a god send. Still amazing if your lower level

[@bertay-bm7kn]

Rogues too 😂

[@gordardell2264]

I run a snow with full mortar/bombard spec with crew attack heal. I do PvP and have fended off multiple players while farming for businesses. It’s also really strong for forts. It’s a great solo setup. Brace is your friend….USE it. The ship preforms better as you get overwhelmed (or so it appears) lol. I never run from a fight and love being surrounded

[@MrDSmith]

Great content. I’m in the Discord but I’ll share this tip here for your channel views. When you’re out and about doing your PVE grind, and a ship scopes you, charge up that twin winch ballista and shoot the little red beacon on the crows nest. Aside from stopping the call for reinforcements, It does deadly damage to masts as well. I’ve crippled some ships in 1 shot and finished them off with a ram in my Brig. Since I got the twin winch ballista, I’ve been practicing with it and it’s a deadly tool when you are comfortable, and accurate with it. Handy for the Oceans Apart and From The Deep missions.

[@mattt233]

How do you charge it?

[@MrDSmith]

@@mattt233 while you are holding your aiming button (LT on Xbox) you can hold down your fire button (RT on Xbox) and you will begin to charge the shot and zoom into a closer ADS. Simply let go of your fire button and the charge shot will fly with the hounds of hell tethered to it. lol. It’s quick and does monster damage when hitting weakpoints.

[@Chankill]

Great video. As someone who’s been playing games since the mid 80’s I got to say I highly recommend this game. This has huge potential to be one of the best games. However, I hope they can work out some of the bugs and also keep the content coming in game. Thanks for sharing

[@abdullahsaud9795]

For the cargo delivery, you don’t have to transport the shipment in your ship once you go their it will be in your inventory

[@kaido6237]

It's nice to read a comment section that's positive and not a bunch of crybabys just comparing this game to black flag🤦

[@bloodwitchamelia4581]

Just found your channel, decided to watch this despite being a kingpin since the 13th (Early access) and I didn't even know that the upgrades were resetting in 90 days not 7! Now I feel like a very silly lady for not upgrading the perks! Thank you.

[@Hahah878]

Ive noticed the chance thing means for every 5 u do u might get +1 Side note best thing to do when doing deliver check the map before u accept them because ste annes has the same as the other one so if u got one close to ste annes fast travel there also leave all your stuff back home and just drop a pin on the map where the location is inless its in middle of ocean

[@Senior-tr4le]

This video helped steer me to your discord which is always packed with cool players to group up with. Good sht!

[@KOS762]

Very helpful video for new players. Thank you

[@aceplaysgamesnetwork9566]

11:02 I’m just a little bit into the video but the way the chances of getting additional products is each time it cycles it has a 20% chance to get a second one or whatever your chances are. But if you look at larger runs you can get super lucky and have the rng hit more often and you can also get unlucky with the rng. Also on the cargo runs you don’t need to load the contraband on the ship at least until they patch it. The reason why I don’t take multiple deliveries at once is because each mission has a set of enemies and I find it’s much harder to fight two or three different types of enemies at once. It doesn’t take me that long to make a run and I farm ingredients and xp on each run.

[@pandysquatch]

Great tips! Helps with the grind of this game!

[@wgitelman]

i also noticed that you don’t need to take your goods with you to deliver points where you can dock, leave them in your warehouse and then just approach the npc to complete the delivery

[@CJ_Sheppard]

Thank you for all the good information. Love the game, but have never enjoyed PVP, in any game. Don't get to play that often, and don't want to spend what I do get, on fighting people for something, if I don't have to.

[@ShinseiReishiki]

Great vid. Been waiting for this one :P The sybmols for the rogue hunts denote what faction they are. Factions are basically what weapon archetype they fit into. E.g. Wyverns, third symbol, use fire weapons. Doesn't have anything to do with difficulty unless you struggle against a specific weapon.

[@dravon4712]

With the Supply Deal (Roving) don’t go up to them and talk to them, first you’ll spend silver and get only 105 sugar cane (or whatever it offers) but if you kill one of the ships, you get all of your materials from the quests plus more! For me I would get 105 sugar cane from quest, plus 180 sugar cane for killing one ship, making 285 sugar cane. If I have quest for sugar, poppy, berries I would get 285 of each

[@Hutchanaut]

Thanks for the video. Another tip for PvE Kingpin activities... When doing Co-Op **DON'T ACCEPT RANDOM INVITES FROM OTHER PLAYERS** because only one person can get the Distillery if you join a party.

[@kingragnar3415]

just want to mention, if your not really good in battle be careful picking up so many delivery contracts on refined goods, each contract will spawn 2 pirate ships. so if you pick up 4 at once, 8 pirates will spawn to attack and may get over whelming, i stick with 2 for a challenge go for 3 so im battling 4-6 ships at a time. the reason i mention if you dont pay attention you can get surrounded and loose track of when to brace and your brace will deplete extremely quick. you can always pick up your loot and get rid of contracts if it gets too much, have fun though soon i may see yous in pvp ;)

[@BeardifulBill]

Ive gotten all of the locations in Red Isle, almost all of them solo hostile take overs in one night. I feel like i just got lucky. I only had one with another player, and i lost, but other than that, no other players.

[@AgentGeo]

Another tip i got yesterday and used was to NOT put the rum or opium in your ships cargo. Instead accept the contract and sail to the drop off point (mark it on your map as it will not show up since you do not have the item(s) on the ship). Once you disembark at the drop off point, access your cargo and transfer the rum/opium to your ship then deliver it. That way the extra cargo won't weigh the ship down and if you get sunk you wont lose the contraband. Worked yesterday (Feb 19th), not sure if that was patched or not.

[@alexcornnut]

That works for delivery to a land location. Delivering to the convoy you gotta have it on board. I didn't include that because I thought it might confuse people.

[@gho5tspartan26yt]

10:50 yeah it’s vague but it’s only the 20% total and not adding it. Same in last category with the production %

[@dallashulse8684]

Great video! Great info. Thanks

[@jeffreyeverett7348]

Great vid how often do the legendary heists spawn .i played the game for 6 hrs and not one spawn.l mainly play solo. Thanks

[@mrsims4515]

I pray so you can get your blessings so you can do this full-time I love the game I love your help

[@protocore4034]

Nice video!! Very usefull tips I have à quick question I haven't captured any manufactories yet and was wondering do you loose them after a certain time or do they get stolen from you and u then have to retake and re inject silver into them to upgrade again?

[@alexcornnut]

Once you own them. They are yours till end of the season.

[@protocore4034]

@@alexcornnut thanks

[@norske_ow3440]

@@alexcornnutdoes that mean when you join a server, it can potentially not have any available?

[@FoxNamedFinn]

@@norske_ow3440 No no it's not that kind of ownership, everyone can own everything, it's just the act of actually capturing it especially in hostile takeovers

[@wgitelman]

i hit the colonial shipment and got a pretty sweet hull armor drop

[@MainerdLoyd]

Great tutorial but you forgot to ad in how to fund your factories. You can do this with rum!!! In that first group of upgrades you learn gold rum at the seventh investment. John Scurlock will buy rum for 100 silver each. However it takes two white rum to make gold rum and John will buy that for 250 silver. The beauty of this is you make 100 rum with 100 sugar cane. This should net you about 130 rum if the bonuses are correct. Now when you run that 130 rum you'll make 65 gold rum and you should get your 30% bonus again which would be 19 making a total of 84 gold rum which John will buy for 21,000 silver pieces. I haven't checked Johns gin prices yet but I'm going to do that in a day or two. edit; You get the same prices for gin. So do those supply missions as often as you can and keep your distillery and laboratory making you huge amounts of silver to feed your manufacturers. The woman kingpin in the East Indies does the same thing with opium but you need to upgrade the first group to 15 to get that black opium. I like this method instead of trying to find a good price for commodities. They really need to let us see how much things sell for without having it in our cargo hold since we only have a limited number of slots. I just sail by most vendors since you can't check their prices.

[@BubbaSvensson]

You can check on map 2nd level of max zoomed out what is in demand, then check your warehouse what you have excess amount of and take them out and go to those places and sell. :) But yes, I think rum is a sufficient way since you need to PvE to get the materials, and before factories are way high level up you don't really have time to PvE

[@MainerdLoyd]

@@BubbaSvensson That doesn't really work that well. Item list shows high demand but have neutral prices most of the time when you check. It would be nice if on the way to a mission you could check the prices to see if it's worth your time.

[@BubbaSvensson]

@@MainerdLoyd oh OK, only used it once in a while so didn't know about that. Maybe it's a bug showing the old stock prices or something before the store update :(

[@redicanprime1181]

This game is turning out to be a lot better than what people are saying. What a hype train

[@AgentGeo]

I have no problem killing the boss on the Legendary Heist, but the game never really tells you what to do after you pickup the loot (at least i never saw it). Regardless i tried this 5 times yesterday and kept getting one shot by the NPC ships...no joke i was at full health each time level 10 Brig. Extremely annoying.

[@mattt233]

Do you have to control all the manufacturers in the region to have "control" for that perk?

[@alexcornnut]

Yes

[@mattt233]

​@@alexcornnutgotcha. Thanks.

[@FILOdeathlord]

Great video but I think you might of missed a huge bonus in the empire management tab (trade route upgrade) I got many areas knocking on the 100 an hour door and they are lvl 6.

[@Siphr0dias]

Very helpful! Thank you. :)

[@Mario-eb2oo]

is there a daily cap for pieces of eight and is a lot of activiti time gated?

[@heezawk3611]

I know this is a PVE guide but you should also do the Takeovers because sometimes there are no players that want to do it but if a player joins up, just quit that and go on to the next. That’s how I got all the locations in the red isle

[@SenecaRaccoon]

i managed to snag 3 ports before someone finally showed up on the 4th. turns out it was a highly contested spot.

[@heezawk3611]

@@SenecaRaccoonwhich port

[@kohl4life]

​@SenecaRaccoon I did the same thing as both of you. just kept looking around. I had one left never vrs anyone yet. and I let the location go 2 times. 3rd time someone was there. I said whatever I'm doing it anyways. I did 80% damage before the player showed up. I won the location. I got all of them.

[@SenecaRaccoon]

directly west of first home port. please dont ask me to remember the names... ;) @@heezawk3611

[@gordardell2264]

I did the same but eventually I ran into the same duo in back to back to back takeovers. It became a game at that point. I had a tanked out snow and the other 2 were 9/7 ship levels. (Brig and pada). Went 3-0 against them with 1 death and a comeback (sea rez) in the middle one (100% to 99%) Me: 4 bombard/mortar/crew heal and tried to kite them and everything else around while doing brace, boardings and such for any extra need heals

[@blakehachinsky9463]

So your discord is only racing games? I was hoping to join up for skull and bones groups

[@alexcornnut]

Unfortunately that ship has sailed. We played skull & bones hardcore for a few months and then everyone lost interest

[@HrMartinStrand]

Hey man.. I am in abit of a situation where eventho you do explain it here quite well, i am still unsure where i should spend my figure of eight to either open a new area or to just upgrade red isle area for more figure of eight. if you have the time and you wouldnt mind.... i would appreciate some help from you :) let me know

[@gho5tspartan26yt]

9:39 thank god, I’m in too deep on upgrades😂

[@kevb3399]

Cornnut, u goy any info on more ship releases and the other half of the map?

[@alexcornnut]

No information has been released that I can find on that subject.

[@kevb3399]

Thanks any ways! Hopefully something with Philipe le peste?

[@corvas667]

5:17 those are not difficulty icons, they are the icons for the different factions

[@mattt233]

Have you compared the Mons Meg Bombard to the Balista? The Mons Meg is designated as a siege weapon so I was wondering if you compared the 2.

[@AgentGeo]

i struggled with that too. I found that only certain ships in that big group will allow the transfer. So i suggest you check them individually. They are very annoying that way. BUT if you attack them and sink one it is being reported that you get a stupid amount of sugar cane or poppies...like triple the amount.

[@mattt233]

@AgentGeo I'm sorry but what does that have to do with the Mons Meg? I'm just a bit confused at your reply.

[@AgentGeo]

@@mattt233 LOL. Sorry about that. I think i replied to the wrong comment. been a week already.

[@SuneHaycock-lf1ic]

Hi! Thank for the video! Just bought the game, and it is good but very buggy... Have you noticed anything about the upgrade on the timeline for supplyruns? First you get 2 min. Then next is 3 min, thats make 20 min, but im getting 19 min which doesnt add up now matter if it was 2 and then 3 without stacking.. Jist a buggy buggy game really, and starting to get bored afyer allready 13 days.. lol..

[@jannislavantsiotis1954]

if you kill the supply ships it will give you a lot more dog

[@MusicFreak0426]

I’ve had it where a teammate griefs by killing themselves after the heist and no one gets the location as it ends the mission. Being preferential to PvE, to all of you fellas apprehensive just give the takeovers a shot if no one joins it. If someone does, just don’t go. Otherwise, loving the video so far.

[@Kingggmann]

Why would someone do that

[@norske_ow3440]

@@Kingggmanncause a lot of children think it’s funny to fk over other people

[@PeterMuldervonTrox]

Great tips !

[@8539-v1j]

Love the game but it needs a balance fix I did a white rum run had about 7 rank 11 come at me as I sailed great that was fun my next run I had nothing attack me when I got to drop off outpost there was 21 tier 11 waiting for me no fun

[@xxUncleBuckxx]

So when you get the location from the heist can you lose that to a hostile takeover? or do you have it for the season?

[@captainembers4521]

you keep the location for the duration of the season

[@xxUncleBuckxx]

@@captainembers4521 How does this work if you are grouped with a friend do you both get that location? Same question for Hostile takeovers?

[@JedediahCyrus]

I'm pretty sure you and everyone that takes part of the legendary heist gains that location. The manufactories are "local", but the only contested part of them are the hostile takeovers. So basically multiple people can have it acquired on THEIR account, but only have to fight over gaining a new one during a takeover.@@xxUncleBuckxx

[@MainerdLoyd]

@@xxUncleBuckxx Yes all three that participated get the location. One of you will be given the deed and the other two escort the carrier to St. Anne's. If no one else joins then you do it solo and the same rules apply. Plus there's a chance that you will earn a very decent hull armor rated at 400 doing the coop mission.

[@captainembers4521]

@@xxUncleBuckxx ive only done hostile takeovers to get my locations and only twice did i not get first place in the event. but from those 2 failed attempts it did not give me the location

[@devilghostface8798]

Where do you get that cost from ?

[@HatredLLC]

Anyone know what the numbers are next to name when looking at the lobby?

[@alexcornnut]

That is your infamy level

[@gho5tspartan26yt]

I can’t figure out how to do supply runs. I bring it there and it doesn’t let me.

[@jacksonmullen2218]

For the opium in the ships floating? If one ship doesn't let u go to the next. One of them will let you

[@gho5tspartan26yt]

@@jacksonmullen2218 no the ones for manufactories

[@KOS762]

Great Video, is it still worth playing now after 3 months? I am currently playing a pirate game from over a decade ago: It's called "Pirates of the Burning Seas", it's free and has tons of ships. This game reminds me of that same game, but just a much smaller version, with much better graphics. The economy, where players building ships and parts for other players, is EPIC. This is how it all works in POTBS. So this looks like something I could get into. The Snow for example was a level 12 ship of 50 levels total. Maybe they will introduce new ships as the game develops. If they need ideas for such things. considering POTBS is free.... They could just download it and see for themselves.

[@Ray-h6s]

Them roving supply mission I don't understand when I got there it wouldn't let me to and thing do I attack them?

[@gordardell2264]

No you slowly pull up to them and interact. One of the fleet will do the exchange for 1 quest, find the other(s) to complete all. Sometimes if they were in combat it’s harder as they become occupied. Help kill the attacker or let them reset

[@gordardell2264]

You can kill them but imo it’s not really worth it and gives other players who arrive the wrong impression. Like you are there to make their day hell lol. My advice is if they are sitting nicely in formation, find your trade-in boats…if they are moving around, either help and let them reset or come back in 10 or so

[@AgentGeo]

i struggled with that too. I found that only certain ships in that big group will allow the transfer. So i suggest you check them individually. They are very annoying that way. BUT if you attack them and sink one it is being reported that you get a stupid amount of sugar cane or poppies...like triple the amount.

[@gordardell2264]

Now, especially with helm death mark gone, you CAN kill them and get free resources. More for higher levels but it’s an option.

[@Ray-h6s]

@@AgentGeo it says aquire the items wen I go to them?

[@AidynCompton]

1st of love the game. I am a PVE player more than PVP. Just looking for some people to hang with while playing or do some PVP events.

[@玉藻前]

Willin to help on Megalodon?

[@KainsTorment]

Hi is this a typical thumbstick game or can I remap movement to the D-Pad? And probably attack or fire to X?

[@alexcornnut]

No idea bro, i play on Keyboard and mouse. . .

[@Uhaneole]

There is options to completely customize game pad in the settings menu

[@davecorbett0507]

Can multiple people own the locations at the same time? Or can people takeover your locations?

[@gandalfthegreet]

Everyone on the server can own the same location

[@alexcornnut]

Everyone will eventually own every location. So yes multiple people can own the same location. Once you own it, it won't be contested for you ever again.

[@chiefkikyerass7188]

Bro..im kingpin 12 and still cant find the ROYAL ARMOR..what am i missing?

[@JaydenXprod]

just keep doing colonial shipment and the other public event. it’s not 100% but the rate that the boss drops it is decent

[@gandalfthegreet]

You dont need to board it atall the amount of them i have in my warehouse is silly 😂

[@BunnyNL]

Royal custodian is mid. Buy the black prince armor, trust

[@Punk2k11]

For those who just reach king pin royal custodian is a free upgrade lol why not go for it takes 5 mins to complete got mine by boarding the smallest ship for the first time I think the drop rate is a little to high lmao.

[@ICanFixThat9369]

How to join discord?

[@saucyyben]

I accepted a double or nothing challenge on my way back from grabbing gold. I started getting attacked by 4 rival players and ended up getting sunk twice. I finally got back the gold chest and delivered it for a whopping $16k gold!! I think every time the gold chest gets dropped and picked up it doubles. Not sure but I only started with 600 gold

[@alexcornnut]

HOLY CRAP. I need to test this

[@saucyyben]

@@alexcornnutso I joined a double or nothing event and ended up getting the chest but only secured 80 some gold. If there is a multiplier it may only work for the person who started it

[@alexcornnut]

@@saucyyben we tested it and it didn't work. We rotated it with 6 people rotating the chest & kills

[@saucyyben]

Dang that’s upsetting. I doubt one of the people I was goin against was carrying that much gold so I wonder if my game glitched. Pretty lucky glitch tho I’d say

[@JaydenXprod]

helm wagers never work for me and idk why, accepted a helm wager with 6412 and only got 1400

[@alexcornnut]

It only doubles the amount in your cargo at the time you accept the double or nothing

[@JaydenXprod]

@@alexcornnut i had 6412 in my cargo. same thing happened to me yesterday i had around 5500 in my cargo and got 90 i was fkn pissed

[@dvlsdeathly6102]

Man i have factorys level 9 running, i cannot keep up whit silver. They need to buff silver rewards... Are you sure about the helm upgrades? I cant find the message on their Twitter

[@loveloonngTIMe]

Rogue Hunt that is not the level that is the faction that is you are attacking, But love the Video

[@alexcornnut]

Very TRUE! Good insight. I cant believe I made that mistake.

[@loveloonngTIMe]

No Worry, keep up the Great Videos@@alexcornnut

[@DOCmookTV]

I love the true grinders.... I have 84hrs streamed already and hate the exploit players... the free trial account sounds like a plan tho so might look in to that but I love trashing the exploit players that don't have any real experience or skill

[@lordwintertown8284]

G'day, Well thanks for these tips for I dare not try PvP due to my poxy confidence & horrendous australian internet.. Ahh this game just feels so much like AC:IV BF & AC:V R naval battles all over again especially in storms. Now to do some hiests I guess. Now I wonder if this comment will get automatically deleted hmm...

[@alexcornnut]

I don't know why it would get deleted

[@lordwintertown8284]

@alexcornnut Nothing of your fault but youtube just keeps deleting a lot of peoples comments after 23 seconds which is incredibly annoying (I'm surprised this worked first go as prior to this I posted a comment to another CC seven times to the point I reached out to them on discord). BTW your tips have already been a boon to my late game play loop having done a few PvE hiests & unlocked new locations.

[@yshomatsu]

There's so much I hate about this game and really I just need to stop myself from comparing it because I'm still having fun. Sure I wish there was more freedom with being your character and moving around/ character combat and so on. But you spend so much time sailing and the boat combat is fun. I'll never be a big pvper so I'm mostly just taking my time and enjoying myself while waiting for helldivers 2 to load (wish my friends that love helldivers would try skull and bones so I'd have someone to sail with lol)

[@richardshepherd8120]

Can I join your Discord?

[@alexcornnut]

Yep it's open to anyone. I will say the skull & bones portion of it has long passed. We all went hard for about 2 months and then quit.

[@mrsims4515]

I can't afford to play the Discord but I do need friends

[@alexcornnut]

You can't afford to play on the discord? It's free my dude

[@mrsims4515]

Is that the same thing as being subscribe to your Channel kind of new to the KZbin thing

[@alexcornnut]

@@mrsims4515 being a subscriber to the channel just helps support me. Anyone can join the discord

[@fettersmd]

Dar-da-nells is how it is pronounced.

[@michaeldillinger1549]

That takes to long. It's quicker and easier to do the hostile takeover. Yes it's pvp but I did all mine by myself. If someone joins and you don't want to do pvp back out. Once someone has that location they can not join again

[@alexcornnut]

I literally say that in the video. I fully agree

[@pale_rider_4122]

Alex please excuse my ignorance but I have no idea what you are talking about

[@alexcornnut]

I guess you need to play the game?

[@Response1980]

Love the game if you don’t go play fortnight 😂😂😂

[@bjornefellhanded9708]

I cant imagine how painful this game must have been having to collect all your pieces of eight manually. Sweet mother of yuck lol. The new systems have it where you can allocate ships to automate it and the funding time is much longer (manufactory level dependent) as well so everything just ticks away happily.

[@alexcornnut]

It was definitely. . . Tedious The end game gameplay loop was really stale unfortunately

[@Kempi1]

Supply Deals you take the mission kill the ship and you get way more for no cost. Just one ship kill is needed to stock up fully. I did one kill got 570 canes and 285 berries.

[@ShodTube]

discord invite pls

[@ShodTube]

oops just found it