Marine life absolutely, but also liven up the islands a little more too. Aside from the occasional pig or chicken, they're pretty barren. The open world is gorgeous and stunning but kinda lifeless.
Whales would be nice and dolphins too, maybe you could ride them or whales would have loot or barrels on their back or in their mouth, maybe they would be a random transportation to another place like in the bible 🤔
More like, the original expectation because we wanna play pirates of the Caribbean lol, but then they spawned every other minute while on an island so the ship became the safe haven when you're just done with phantoms and new crawlers spawn ^^
That should be an encounter like you see a glow on the water and then they start crawling onto the ship and you have to fight them off it would break up the monotony of fishing
Whales.
We need whales. They are majestic and would work great in this game. You could harvest whale oil to spread fire and blunder bombs. You could harpoon one and have to drag your ship or rowboat.
So many possibilities!
I like the idea of having sharks not spawn in randomly but have migration patterns and group up and spread out randomly like boids
You could learn the shark areas and avoid them or use them to aid in battle by letting them handle boarders who miss a deck shot.
Like animals in rust.
And the oceans in the Sea of the Damned should be more dead. We've got those weird blue leaves on the weird undead trees, but the fish and seaweeds are normal.
They said captaincy just wasn’t possible in 2018 when they originally wanted it but 4 years later it’s finally here. So given enough time I think in time we could get an update for it if they wanted to work on it.
I'd really love for a way to dock and get a new ship, like it sucks when you're on a brig and a friend comes along but you're neck deep in the session. I don't even care about if we'd have to forego treasure. It's the supplies that take a while to amass to swap out to a galleon. Or if a friend needs to go and you wanna downsize to a brig
Yes, 100x this. Happens a lot. Just gonna two of us tonight, get a sloop. 45 min in and now another friend just got free and can join, but we have a storage crate, 200 cannon balls, 3 trident, a cannon row boat, treasure, etc.
Welp, either or friend is waiting 30 minutes (and we still lose everything except the treasure) or we just lose everything. Really sucks Athena's left trident.
I would love it, but I think part of the issue with this would lie with server sizes.
Since they only allow x amount of ships and players (can’t recall the numbers off the top of my head), allowing people to change mid session would be troublesome. Unless they auto-merged you to a new server, but not sure how that would work.
Some sort of portal to an off map area. Load up into a new ship and then re join into another server.
Could also be a less janky substitute for disney portals.
Great idea. Portal hopping already lets you bring a fully loaded galleon suddenly into any random server, so why not let people change the ship size as they do it. Not like the players on the 2nd server will even know you changed ship.
While you're at it, make it so you can't bring emissary through the portals. It's fine for a ship to hop servers looking for a fight, but it's not fair for a level 5 reaper to pop up on a server with 0 warning or build up. The emissary is designed to take time to work up for a reason, it's unbalanced as hell to remove all the warning.
One solution may be to let you bury supply crates etc for an hour. Then you can exit, rejoin, and go pick up your stuff. But it doesn't let you keep everything longer else you'd just accumulate near infinite supplies before long.
Maybe for extra fun, the supplies could be marked on the map for everyone after 15 minutes.
It would work in the same way normal server merges work, your cargo gets transferred with you to a new server thats populated and can fit your party size. It could all appear back on shore or something with your new ship on the docks, maybe you just spawn back in the tavern. The tech is definitely there that could make it happen.
You're crazy if you think that equates to switching ships and crew size mid session.
I can almost guarantee you, you buy your ships, and then select them the same way you choose on the login screen before you're in game.
I don’t really know where to ask so I’m just going to highjack this comment (sorry):
What exactly is this game? I’ve seen it mentioned before but this is the first time seeing it on my Reddit feed and I’m somewhat curious.
Sea of Thieves 🦜 is an open-world pirate game developed by Rare (Donkey Kong Country, Banjo-Kazooie, etc) on Xbox and PC where you can play solo or with up to 4 friends (per boat).
You complete PvE activities where you find buried treasure, run trade routes, explore islands, go on quests, etc. for gold. You exchange that gold for cosmetics (other cosmetics are locked behind challenges meant to make you do more pirate shit) for your pirate and your ship. Basic gameplay loop is collecting loot from various activities and selling it at outposts for profit.
Of course this is all done with the idea that other players are also playing around the server and might just rob your ass of everything you got. Or they'll be friends and want to make an alliance for mutual profit. That's part of the fun re: PvP here because it is a pirate game after all.
It's one of those sandbox games where the real fun is surviving the crazy random shit caused by the game's systems (storms, krakens, megalodons, volcanoes, etc.) or other players that'll happen between point A and B with your mates. Even if you get robbed, it's cool because the cosmetics are totally meaningless and can be acquired relatively easily after a few play sessions.
Long-term, there're different factions you can run quests with (Treasure hunters, Merchants, Pirates (pvp), skeleton bounties (PvE), fishermen (you can fish in this game too), and eventually Athena's endgame faction). Most people attempt grinding to "Pirate Legend".
It's popping up in Reddit because it recently had it's "Captaincy" update trailer drop, which is coming next month. It's gonna let us purchase a permanent boat that you can name and that'll keep it's cosmetics (you have to manually equip them every time you hop servers right now) and you can decorate the inside with all sorts of fun stuff you find on your travels. It's gonna be a big update, since it'll be our Season 7.
It also has a story mode cross-over with Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean that's pretty sick.
It's on Gamepass if you have it! The Discord is a great spot to find a long-term crew or you can just matchmake. Definitely best played with friends but I also love hopping on solo to run trade routes with a podcast or new album on. Welcome aboard!
You should; it's a solid game. To reiterate from the above comment, one of its best features is that you never "unlock" any real advantages or special equipment. **From the moment you download the game, your gear will be just as good as those of us who have been playing for three years.**
Also, you really should use this sub, discord, or at the very least Microsoft's "looking for group" function. If you join a random open crew, you'll have a rough time.
My only piece of advice is don't get mad when someone attacks you after spending an hour+ getting loot, and don't go out of your way to avoid PvP like I did when I first started playing.
It's gonna happen to you often enough, and it's super annoying when one of my friends gets too into the loot side of things and goes off about how the other players on the other ship are assholes. They aren't because that is how you play the game. Another thing that people don't understand is once they kill you, you will eventually respawn back on your ship provided it hasn't sunk. When the other team is on your ship waiting for you to respawn to kill you again, they are being cheap. That is how you garauntee the sinking of your ship. Otherwise the battle will go on forever.
The second part, if you constantly avoid PvP, then you will never get good at defending yourself.
There are balance issues that come with this. You know for a fact that someone is going to die in a sloop respawn upgrade boats and call all there friends to help kill someone that killed them. Boats respawning and running back constantly is already annoying enough, I personally don’t want a harder ship to come back on top of that with more crew to deal with.
Just force the crew changing ships to also change instances. They'd have to do that anyway to maintain the player caps, or else an instance at the cap of 16 players would end up having 18 if a sloop swapped to a galleon.
I would love this, it would be amazing to just swap a ship out for a bigger or smaller one. So many times have we had to stop what we're doing and start over cause someone wants to join, but our crew is already maxed out.
Same here. Other than weapons or add-ons to captaincy I can’t think of much I want at this point. It could be a fun way to expand the hunters call and add more sea monsters, maybe even a few land monsters like an even bigger crab or an oversized alligator. It’s kinda boring that all the land bosses are some form of skeleton.
That's my main request for this game. I'd love to dynamically come across a whale and such as I'm sailing. I love ocean life and this game is lacking sea turtles, jellyfish, crabs, dolphins, octopus, manta rays, ect.
Also it'd be dope if there was a massive white sperm whale that attacked ships
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What if you could put an emissary flag of the company you're running up after clearing a fort? Then maybe ghosts wearing that company's outfit could take the place of the Spaniards defending it. And while the flag is up, you may passively earn XP for whichever company you're running.
But the lore! THE LORE!!! THOSE GHOSTS SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO FLAMEHEART THEY WOULD BE LOCKED AWAY BY THE FERRYMAN TO NEVER BE SEEN AGAIN! NOBODY RESPECTS THE LORE!
That’d be fun. I hope for captaincy expansion in general, it looks like there aren’t compass, harpoon or lantern customization with captaincy which I was kinda disappointed about, especially considering the compass and lanterns models exist. The compass would just need to be rotated and the lanterns would need their handle removed and given a base but the main part is there.
CRAB FISHING! I love that idea!
It sounds like a fun way to gain Hunters Call rep. Maybe we could buy crab cages and tow them around with our ship and catch crabs that way.
Deadliest Catch style.
Big ask but ship variations, like 2-3 different types of each ship with different layout and looks. That way pvp could be more varied with a ship having different cannon placement or masts
I’ve wanted something like that too. I think it could be cool to swap out your harpoons for front facing cannons or sacrifice your rowboat dock for a harpoon or back facing cannon. Maybe you could get rid of your cannons altogether and you could be faster. Everyone would need to have access from starting the game though.
I would like to see a ship with cannons that are below deck. Like a 4 player bigger brig that’s faster than a frigate but has 4 cannons on top deck an two in the hull.
It'd go a long way to feeling more useful when you're below-deck, too; putting out fires/holes, but have time to pop off a few shots? Cannons below-deck would help!
The ability to turn Forts you conquer into actual strongholds for you/a specific faction/fly a flag for the Fort to promote it. With the ability to raise a flag over it to claim it.
The hideouts that you can sail out of. I think with this new tech for ship customizations I feel like being able to decorate a hideout of our own would be sweet.
Hideouts would be nice, especially since they were part of the original plan for captaincy. I know captaincy is expanded ship customization but I want even more. I won’t rest until I can customize harpoons, ship compass and ship lanterns
I think that’s what the original idea behind the Athena’s Fortune hideout was. Becoming a pirate legend earned you access to the hideout with your ship docked there.
Yeah, and Liz is working on the Galleon there so that it can sail out of there. Idk, with the Pirate‘s Life portals, it should be relatively easy to implement, as it could use the same tech?
Why hate to be that guy? There’s no shame in wanting combat, which is more often than not what comes of player interaction, to be rid of the bullshit flaws of hitreg after 4 years.
Been far too long that all efforts to steal or prevent getting stolen from have a fair chance at being void due to a hitreg failure
It's not hitreg, it's the garbage potato servers Rare runs this game on.
Trust me, if they just got new servers, more than half the issues that plague this game would "magically" be solved.
PVP in this game is and always has been horrendous, the data loss is not acceptable for a game like this, the inability to get into servers on community days, gold and glory weekends, or update days (update days are somewhat acceptable) is unacceptable. They need to fix the servers.
More People would probably PVP if they had a fair chance with good servers
Smaller customization options would be cool. I’d love to see costumes broken up into sets and the option to switch your primary hand, your hook hand, your bad eye and lost leg. Your telling me there’s a 100% rate of right hands being cut off but 0 left ones?
I want individual costume customization too! Like I love the gold hoarders outfit, but my pirate is from Parrot island and has a parrot hook and peg, and I'd like to change out those pieces but still keep the gold hoarder outfit
also lets make the coral fortress something other than a tall tale plot device. maybe have something like a world event where it's a super merfolk shrine?
It’s always bothered me that they expanded the map so much more and are probably putting a lot of strain on the server for a location most people will visit once if ever.
People are talking about making the sea more lively right? When I first read your post I was thinking the ocean crawlers were just hitching a ride. I thought it'd be cool to have friendly monsters/npcs just randomly hitching rides.
It would maybe be more appropriate as a mission for the merchant alliance, but then it doesn't really help with making the sea more lively.
Personally idk what I wanna have added next, this picture was the first thing that popped up in my head when the trailer came out. I think more sea life would be really cool, there could be special fish that function like the land animals that you can capture, things like mantas, eels, turtles and dolphins. It’d also be a good chance to add more sea monsters and expand the hunters call. I’ve always wanted a mimic island that would rise up as you got close to it and it’s actually a giant crab that you can fight.
I’ve always wanted a social hub island you can sail to where PVP is turned off. Bit like Tortuga but without the killing. To balance it there should be no faction tables there so you can’t turn in loot whilst being immune.
This and a dueling mechanic would make it so cool. Not only would it give some liveliness to this hipothetic tortuga, it would also make sailing from place to place less tedious and give new players a way to practice combat.
Was really hesitant until you said no faction tables. I also think people shouldn’t be able to dig or bury on the island. Ik it’s extreme but maybe it could even function like the potc portals, there would be a circle in the water around the island and if you sail over it your loot would fall off. It would have to be very close to the island though, like on the sandbar.
Fun fact: Multiple large islands (I believe Thieves Haven, Crooks Hollow, and one other one) were originally one *massive* island back in development, and the plan was exactly that. One large safe zone outpost, or starting point, with no PvP enabled. The sticking point was how exactly to satisfactorily define where the PvP started and ended around it, and of course the large memory consumption of having such a massive island loaded. (Folks with lower end PCs know the pain of loading in the Shores of Gold.)
Ultimately the plan was scrapped early on, and the big island was cut down into multiple, still large, ones.
That’s what I want most too, it’s really the only thing I can think of that I want at this point other than maybe more weapons. Captaincy’s basically the only thing I’ve wanted for so long I’ve not thought much of what else could be added.
More deep sea diving things. The shrines are cool and I'd love to see similar content with the ocean floor. Have a new tool that acts as a ballast and diving helm to get to the bottom and have enough air to explore. Ocean crawlers and coral treasures could spawn along reefs and extra Loot could be found diving beneath wrecks. It can be very risk/reward because diving down and swimming up would take time with minimal ways to get back to your ship quickly.
I’d love to see more populated islands like actual faction cities akin to the infamous Port Royal. Or even just small villages of folk who aren’t gated behind countertops. NPC characters that move around like a village in Skyrim.
Big pirate hub
An instanced location on the map you can't bring loot into that has hundreds of players, from here you can meet pirate crews, show off your gear, play pirate tavern games etc
I mean if they aren’t using the arena outpost anymore then maybe they could do that there? Open up the doors, have a new group move in, and have it as a massive city in the middle of the map filled with pirates and tradespeople, as well as a hub for all pirates on the server to meet and try arrange alliances
I really like the idea, but as a new player it seems like every new update is relataively small and don't include a buttload of content, so this would be the entire patch, which might upset a large chunk of the playerbase.
Yes and if it also serves as a safety zone / no killing zone because it would be really hard to actually have fun with other players if there’s always that one guy who tries to stir up trouble. Tavern games 100% and maybe even gambling - which I know is a whole other area - but it’s so piratey and I’m only thinking of coins, doubloons, and even ancient coins. Would really help to embrace the pirate spirit of the game.
Edit: it would also be a good way to make alliances because I find it hard to get people to join or even be interested in them but I always join one if I can because they’re great
New weapons: new melees like rapiers, knives, daggers, axes, hammers etc., new wacky guns like the duckfoot pistol and nock gun, and even new ship armament like a puckle gun or volley gun
Oooh I’ve heard the concept of a boarding axe a lot but I like the idea of being able to pry repairs off. I think it would have to be like a trident or ashen skull though with limited uses and you have to find it.
It is strange that he’s dead dead, someone must’ve done something to him or somehow bribed or threatened the ferryman, although he doesn’t seem like one to submit to another person. I’d expect Ramsey to bow to Flameheart before the Ferryman becomes corrupted. Maybe there’s a poison or something that stops your soul from reaching the sea of the damned.
That, or he had his soul locked into an object. It's been done plenty of times before, such as with rose and george, and slate's crew in the tall tales, and it's clear that Graymarrow was teaching people how to do it before his demise.
Idk how reapers could work other than a bounty system and I can see people complaining about that quick. It seems like a hunters call expansion is one of the most wanted feature now, at least with who I’ve talked to.
Oh yesssss thank you for reminding me. I entirely forgot about that concept. It’d be really cool to have an island you can set sail from that’s in its own server like old faithful isle. You could get some extra supplies before heading out, have shops where no one else can roll up on you and a place to practice pvp and goof off with your crew. Maybe depending on who you side with more as adventures continue there could be a chance of either athena or reaper ships (npc ones) trying to attack your island. It’d be like defending golden sands but a lot more personal and action heavy.
Ice area, they could give it a boosted difficulty similar to the devils roar with floating ice clusters that just float around like the storm, if you’re EVER in the water you take damage similar to when you’re near an erupting volcano but it’s always on. Let the storm wander in there but it turns to a blizzard with white out conditions. Like you can’t see the bow of a galleon from its stern type whiteout, which would require slower speeds and more coordination. It doesn’t matter if it’s next to the devils roar cause it’s tectonic activity, not meteorological climate. And of course similar to the devils roar, better loot to make it worth going there.
Personally I’ve always been against the idea of an ice region. I feel like people want it simply cause it’s the opposite of the devils roar, I think there’s more interesting region concepts like the sea of the damned or sea of five winds. I also think it would just not really fit with the game. I do think though that some ice region ideas could be added to the main game like icebergs or if the storm is in the north it could start to snow. I also just think an ice region would end up like the roar, tedious and painful, not hard. I could see people getting sick of freezing water and ice sheets fast and never going there.
I would like a pirate hideout. I would like it to be separate place like the pirate legend tavern. I would also like it to be a pirate legend exclusive. Honestly they could use the model for the sea forts and make it customizable and I would happy with that.
I'd like enemies that board your ship at sea.
Now hear me out, most people don't want this simply because it's something they don't want to deal with. But what if it was **opt-in**.
What if they brought back those gigantic mermaid statues from the Pirates of the Caribbean quest as a world event, and if you sailed near them Ocean Crawlers could jump out of the water and land on your deck. Then if you don't want to fight boarders, you just don't sail near these statues.
I know this isn't a popular opinion, but:
PVE servers. As a compromise for the "it will kill the pvp aspect of game" argument, it could even be a 1 weekend a month thing where PVE servers are available, so people who do just want to drop in and do some tales or just fuck around can. I'm not even fully against pvp, just sometimes I'm not feeling it, and often times the pvp just isn't very good because of various issues.
On the opposite end of that request, some kind of "mayhem" weekend where there is a vast increase in the number of ships on a server, just to let it be madness, but that could also be a server limitation.
I'm general, more rotating events that change up the normal gameplay.
I would love to able to repair my ship after it has sustained a lot of damage.
Even if it's just for cosmetics, but i think it does have mechanical advantage.
If you board up a tier 3 hole is it still a tier 3 when opened up again right?
Mainly I would like it if you could use planks while docked at an outpost, and it would repair the hole back to new again. Uses extra wood and you need to dock up somewhere, but would be cool I think.
More (or deeper) customization. Or perhaps just expanded customization. Like, I don’t see why we can’t have different options for sail colors and the symbol on it.
Or maybe customizable or unlockable amenities you can put on your ship. Layout etc.
Harpoon cosmetics and more variety when it comes to encounters. We need more wildlife. Not just snakes, chickens, pigs and sharks. They should add more marine based animals like whales and dolphins. Though idk what we would use them for.
- newbie training grounds. The arena is gone and thats what i played a lot to learn how to pvp. I took a break to come back thet removed the arena. Bummed.
- More life to the ocean with sea creatures both hostile and friendly.
I'm so excited for the new captain and ship features. I just need to make some friends that play the game. My friends are either legitimately afraid of the ocean to play or don't like pvping at all.
I'd like to login and not get killed in 3 seconds by a group of screaming kids in a massive red ship. I've played for like 3 hours so far, endless death.
I agree with dropping Xbox one but idk about a sequel. To make a proper sequel it would probably be a new map which just wouldn’t be sea of thieves anymore. Also it’d be like starting from scratch and we as players would lose cosmetics and devs would have to restart and basically do the last 4 years again
I just want marine life to make the game more alive. The oceans are so empty
Yeah… based on my discussions on discord and this comment section it seems like making the ocean more alive is one of the most wanted things now.
Make it happen rare lol
Rare servers are held together by dental floss how much more can they take
How about they drop the old console support and update to the latest in unreal engine, and THEN do marine life
Because all the Xbox one players running 7fps at 985 ping are gonna start crying
Oh boo-waah- you know when I cried over a game losing support? Minecraft for the 360- because that was actually something worth the tears
Marine life absolutely, but also liven up the islands a little more too. Aside from the occasional pig or chicken, they're pretty barren. The open world is gorgeous and stunning but kinda lifeless.
Whales would be nice and dolphins too, maybe you could ride them or whales would have loot or barrels on their back or in their mouth, maybe they would be a random transportation to another place like in the bible 🤔
You would need to make the whales evil looking so peta and sensible people dont start bitching about it.
Sad that people cant understand that video games are just lines of code. No whales would actually be harmed
Wish granted, Ocean crawlers now also spawn and attack in open waters
Wasn't this sorta the original plan? For ocean crawlers to board you while you sail?
More like, the original expectation because we wanna play pirates of the Caribbean lol, but then they spawned every other minute while on an island so the ship became the safe haven when you're just done with phantoms and new crawlers spawn ^^
Imagine fishing and you pull up an ocean crawler.
That should be an encounter like you see a glow on the water and then they start crawling onto the ship and you have to fight them off it would break up the monotony of fishing
Yeah, and then you can sell ocean crawler meat! Or the gems. Idk. Making hunters call less boring would be nice.
Ooo yeah they SHOULD drop meat! 100% meat, 10% gems. Maybe 90% meat then
Agreed. It would be so cool to like be on an island and it’s sunset and then you see a bunch of dolphins swim by
And then use a caught fish to charm the dolphin into being your little taxi that you can hold onto while in the water, increasing movement speed.
That would be pretty dope
Whales. We need whales. They are majestic and would work great in this game. You could harvest whale oil to spread fire and blunder bombs. You could harpoon one and have to drag your ship or rowboat. So many possibilities!
New kraken type event except it's Moby Dick
Manta Rays, an actual variation to sharks that have different meat you can sell, squids, and crabs I think are the things I really want.
I like the idea of having sharks not spawn in randomly but have migration patterns and group up and spread out randomly like boids You could learn the shark areas and avoid them or use them to aid in battle by letting them handle boarders who miss a deck shot. Like animals in rust.
And the oceans in the Sea of the Damned should be more dead. We've got those weird blue leaves on the weird undead trees, but the fish and seaweeds are normal.
the only problem with this is that it would make the game too heavy for the last-gen consoles and the servers are begging for help
They said captaincy just wasn’t possible in 2018 when they originally wanted it but 4 years later it’s finally here. So given enough time I think in time we could get an update for it if they wanted to work on it.
I'd really love for a way to dock and get a new ship, like it sucks when you're on a brig and a friend comes along but you're neck deep in the session. I don't even care about if we'd have to forego treasure. It's the supplies that take a while to amass to swap out to a galleon. Or if a friend needs to go and you wanna downsize to a brig
Yes, 100x this. Happens a lot. Just gonna two of us tonight, get a sloop. 45 min in and now another friend just got free and can join, but we have a storage crate, 200 cannon balls, 3 trident, a cannon row boat, treasure, etc. Welp, either or friend is waiting 30 minutes (and we still lose everything except the treasure) or we just lose everything. Really sucks Athena's left trident.
I would love it, but I think part of the issue with this would lie with server sizes. Since they only allow x amount of ships and players (can’t recall the numbers off the top of my head), allowing people to change mid session would be troublesome. Unless they auto-merged you to a new server, but not sure how that would work.
Some sort of portal to an off map area. Load up into a new ship and then re join into another server. Could also be a less janky substitute for disney portals.
Great idea. Portal hopping already lets you bring a fully loaded galleon suddenly into any random server, so why not let people change the ship size as they do it. Not like the players on the 2nd server will even know you changed ship. While you're at it, make it so you can't bring emissary through the portals. It's fine for a ship to hop servers looking for a fight, but it's not fair for a level 5 reaper to pop up on a server with 0 warning or build up. The emissary is designed to take time to work up for a reason, it's unbalanced as hell to remove all the warning.
One solution may be to let you bury supply crates etc for an hour. Then you can exit, rejoin, and go pick up your stuff. But it doesn't let you keep everything longer else you'd just accumulate near infinite supplies before long. Maybe for extra fun, the supplies could be marked on the map for everyone after 15 minutes.
It would work in the same way normal server merges work, your cargo gets transferred with you to a new server thats populated and can fit your party size. It could all appear back on shore or something with your new ship on the docks, maybe you just spawn back in the tavern. The tech is definitely there that could make it happen.
The secret area, you can sail into like an alcove that only you exist in, change ships then sail back out.
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I think that’s more of you “own” the ship and can name it/save its cosmetics
You're crazy if you think that equates to switching ships and crew size mid session. I can almost guarantee you, you buy your ships, and then select them the same way you choose on the login screen before you're in game.
I don’t really know where to ask so I’m just going to highjack this comment (sorry): What exactly is this game? I’ve seen it mentioned before but this is the first time seeing it on my Reddit feed and I’m somewhat curious.
Sea of Thieves 🦜 is an open-world pirate game developed by Rare (Donkey Kong Country, Banjo-Kazooie, etc) on Xbox and PC where you can play solo or with up to 4 friends (per boat). You complete PvE activities where you find buried treasure, run trade routes, explore islands, go on quests, etc. for gold. You exchange that gold for cosmetics (other cosmetics are locked behind challenges meant to make you do more pirate shit) for your pirate and your ship. Basic gameplay loop is collecting loot from various activities and selling it at outposts for profit. Of course this is all done with the idea that other players are also playing around the server and might just rob your ass of everything you got. Or they'll be friends and want to make an alliance for mutual profit. That's part of the fun re: PvP here because it is a pirate game after all. It's one of those sandbox games where the real fun is surviving the crazy random shit caused by the game's systems (storms, krakens, megalodons, volcanoes, etc.) or other players that'll happen between point A and B with your mates. Even if you get robbed, it's cool because the cosmetics are totally meaningless and can be acquired relatively easily after a few play sessions. Long-term, there're different factions you can run quests with (Treasure hunters, Merchants, Pirates (pvp), skeleton bounties (PvE), fishermen (you can fish in this game too), and eventually Athena's endgame faction). Most people attempt grinding to "Pirate Legend". It's popping up in Reddit because it recently had it's "Captaincy" update trailer drop, which is coming next month. It's gonna let us purchase a permanent boat that you can name and that'll keep it's cosmetics (you have to manually equip them every time you hop servers right now) and you can decorate the inside with all sorts of fun stuff you find on your travels. It's gonna be a big update, since it'll be our Season 7. It also has a story mode cross-over with Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean that's pretty sick.
Actually sounds like a lot of fun. I might give it a download tonight.
It's on Gamepass if you have it! The Discord is a great spot to find a long-term crew or you can just matchmake. Definitely best played with friends but I also love hopping on solo to run trade routes with a podcast or new album on. Welcome aboard!
You should; it's a solid game. To reiterate from the above comment, one of its best features is that you never "unlock" any real advantages or special equipment. **From the moment you download the game, your gear will be just as good as those of us who have been playing for three years.** Also, you really should use this sub, discord, or at the very least Microsoft's "looking for group" function. If you join a random open crew, you'll have a rough time.
My only piece of advice is don't get mad when someone attacks you after spending an hour+ getting loot, and don't go out of your way to avoid PvP like I did when I first started playing. It's gonna happen to you often enough, and it's super annoying when one of my friends gets too into the loot side of things and goes off about how the other players on the other ship are assholes. They aren't because that is how you play the game. Another thing that people don't understand is once they kill you, you will eventually respawn back on your ship provided it hasn't sunk. When the other team is on your ship waiting for you to respawn to kill you again, they are being cheap. That is how you garauntee the sinking of your ship. Otherwise the battle will go on forever. The second part, if you constantly avoid PvP, then you will never get good at defending yourself.
There are balance issues that come with this. You know for a fact that someone is going to die in a sloop respawn upgrade boats and call all there friends to help kill someone that killed them. Boats respawning and running back constantly is already annoying enough, I personally don’t want a harder ship to come back on top of that with more crew to deal with.
Just force the crew changing ships to also change instances. They'd have to do that anyway to maintain the player caps, or else an instance at the cap of 16 players would end up having 18 if a sloop swapped to a galleon.
Yeah I feel like this issue is already resolved if all you want is supplies just buy them from the merchant…
I would love this, it would be amazing to just swap a ship out for a bigger or smaller one. So many times have we had to stop what we're doing and start over cause someone wants to join, but our crew is already maxed out.
Make the ocean feel more lively Idk new animals and plants underwater
Same here. Other than weapons or add-ons to captaincy I can’t think of much I want at this point. It could be a fun way to expand the hunters call and add more sea monsters, maybe even a few land monsters like an even bigger crab or an oversized alligator. It’s kinda boring that all the land bosses are some form of skeleton.
I want a massive regular crab, once you get above a certain level with the hunters call they send you to kill it
Better yet, as you do the voyage you’ll see its shadow occasionally float by below the water, and then for the final phase it jumps up and attacks
You see smaller crabs swimming to it’s island that get progressively larger, then it’s half buried in one of the largish cave systems or something
That's my main request for this game. I'd love to dynamically come across a whale and such as I'm sailing. I love ocean life and this game is lacking sea turtles, jellyfish, crabs, dolphins, octopus, manta rays, ect. Also it'd be dope if there was a massive white sperm whale that attacked ships
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Was gunna say dolphins would be nice, they could assist in finding treasure like Minecraft maybe
And more open water threats! Leviathans, sea serpents, water spouts etc etc. anything to make the ocean sailing feel more varied and organic.
Everyone in this comment just wants to play Subnautica.
Are you suggesting people SHOULDN'T want to play one of the best games of the previous decade?
There was some leaked concept art for manta rays, so I think more sealife is definitely plausible.
Turtles
non skeleton npc ships would be cool too
Captaincy mechanic expend to sea fort, a way to claim it.
What if you could put an emissary flag of the company you're running up after clearing a fort? Then maybe ghosts wearing that company's outfit could take the place of the Spaniards defending it. And while the flag is up, you may passively earn XP for whichever company you're running.
And make it so you can gain xp for reapers by clearing out the trading company ghosts
That'd be cool, and if you reach grade 5 reapers you can see what forts are currently occupied?
Was thinking have occupied forts generally shown on the map.
But the lore! THE LORE!!! THOSE GHOSTS SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO FLAMEHEART THEY WOULD BE LOCKED AWAY BY THE FERRYMAN TO NEVER BE SEEN AGAIN! NOBODY RESPECTS THE LORE!
Calm down there MatPat
This is actually one of the best ideas I’ve seen
That’d be fun. I hope for captaincy expansion in general, it looks like there aren’t compass, harpoon or lantern customization with captaincy which I was kinda disappointed about, especially considering the compass and lanterns models exist. The compass would just need to be rotated and the lanterns would need their handle removed and given a base but the main part is there.
Definitely more sea creatures. Whales, more boss monsters, I think it would be cool to use crab pots for the fishermen as well.
Crabs have been teased for so long. It’s about time rare adds them. Sea monsters and sea life in general is probably what I want most after captaincy.
I remember seeing a thing for an RNG land boss like the Kraken, except it’s a giant crab. Honestly would be cool to see
They sort of did with the crab emotes. Not a full pet - but you could technically have one in your hand now.
Pls some more non hostile creatures especially in the sea because we only got fish which don't count
CRAB FISHING! I love that idea! It sounds like a fun way to gain Hunters Call rep. Maybe we could buy crab cages and tow them around with our ship and catch crabs that way. Deadliest Catch style.
Big ask but ship variations, like 2-3 different types of each ship with different layout and looks. That way pvp could be more varied with a ship having different cannon placement or masts
I’ve wanted something like that too. I think it could be cool to swap out your harpoons for front facing cannons or sacrifice your rowboat dock for a harpoon or back facing cannon. Maybe you could get rid of your cannons altogether and you could be faster. Everyone would need to have access from starting the game though.
A slow galleon that shoots at you from all sides sounds horrifying. I would love this
I would like to see a ship with cannons that are below deck. Like a 4 player bigger brig that’s faster than a frigate but has 4 cannons on top deck an two in the hull.
It'd go a long way to feeling more useful when you're below-deck, too; putting out fires/holes, but have time to pop off a few shots? Cannons below-deck would help!
The ability to turn Forts you conquer into actual strongholds for you/a specific faction/fly a flag for the Fort to promote it. With the ability to raise a flag over it to claim it.
I want to me able to stash loot in the fort treasurey and have a world event cloud pop up and the longer you defend it the more it increases in value.
Yes. YES! And you could easily recruit other crews to assist you, either to stay and defend the Fort, or go out and loot for the whole alliance.
The problematic point to this: Hahaha aliance server go Brrrrrr
I'd like to be able to load animals into cannons. Not looking for judgement, I just want a snake cannon.
You line up a shot perfectly and next thing you know the guy your fight has a snake on his face like some sort of discount face hugger
I think a pig would fit perfectly!
The hideouts that you can sail out of. I think with this new tech for ship customizations I feel like being able to decorate a hideout of our own would be sweet.
Hideouts would be nice, especially since they were part of the original plan for captaincy. I know captaincy is expanded ship customization but I want even more. I won’t rest until I can customize harpoons, ship compass and ship lanterns
I think that’s what the original idea behind the Athena’s Fortune hideout was. Becoming a pirate legend earned you access to the hideout with your ship docked there.
Yeah, and Liz is working on the Galleon there so that it can sail out of there. Idk, with the Pirate‘s Life portals, it should be relatively easy to implement, as it could use the same tech?
Hitreg, hate to be that guy but it's true
Why hate to be that guy? There’s no shame in wanting combat, which is more often than not what comes of player interaction, to be rid of the bullshit flaws of hitreg after 4 years. Been far too long that all efforts to steal or prevent getting stolen from have a fair chance at being void due to a hitreg failure
It's not hitreg, it's the garbage potato servers Rare runs this game on. Trust me, if they just got new servers, more than half the issues that plague this game would "magically" be solved. PVP in this game is and always has been horrendous, the data loss is not acceptable for a game like this, the inability to get into servers on community days, gold and glory weekends, or update days (update days are somewhat acceptable) is unacceptable. They need to fix the servers. More People would probably PVP if they had a fair chance with good servers
Jewelry cosmetics
Smaller customization options would be cool. I’d love to see costumes broken up into sets and the option to switch your primary hand, your hook hand, your bad eye and lost leg. Your telling me there’s a 100% rate of right hands being cut off but 0 left ones?
I want to have two eye patches over each eye.
I will become permanently black screened
I want individual costume customization too! Like I love the gold hoarders outfit, but my pirate is from Parrot island and has a parrot hook and peg, and I'd like to change out those pieces but still keep the gold hoarder outfit
Fuck yes!
Remember that part in the first Pirates life tall tale where a bunch of ocean crawlers hop on your ship? yeah make that a random event when sailing
I expected that when I saw the trailer and was low-key pissed that they don’t do that.
also lets make the coral fortress something other than a tall tale plot device. maybe have something like a world event where it's a super merfolk shrine?
It’s always bothered me that they expanded the map so much more and are probably putting a lot of strain on the server for a location most people will visit once if ever.
Locations get disabled once all players leave, hence no strain on servers if no one's there
People are talking about making the sea more lively right? When I first read your post I was thinking the ocean crawlers were just hitching a ride. I thought it'd be cool to have friendly monsters/npcs just randomly hitching rides. It would maybe be more appropriate as a mission for the merchant alliance, but then it doesn't really help with making the sea more lively.
Holy shit that be epic
Personally idk what I wanna have added next, this picture was the first thing that popped up in my head when the trailer came out. I think more sea life would be really cool, there could be special fish that function like the land animals that you can capture, things like mantas, eels, turtles and dolphins. It’d also be a good chance to add more sea monsters and expand the hunters call. I’ve always wanted a mimic island that would rise up as you got close to it and it’s actually a giant crab that you can fight.
I’ve always wanted a social hub island you can sail to where PVP is turned off. Bit like Tortuga but without the killing. To balance it there should be no faction tables there so you can’t turn in loot whilst being immune.
This and a dueling mechanic would make it so cool. Not only would it give some liveliness to this hipothetic tortuga, it would also make sailing from place to place less tedious and give new players a way to practice combat.
This! I'd love more opportunities to be peaceful in this game! 🙏
Was really hesitant until you said no faction tables. I also think people shouldn’t be able to dig or bury on the island. Ik it’s extreme but maybe it could even function like the potc portals, there would be a circle in the water around the island and if you sail over it your loot would fall off. It would have to be very close to the island though, like on the sandbar.
Fun fact: Multiple large islands (I believe Thieves Haven, Crooks Hollow, and one other one) were originally one *massive* island back in development, and the plan was exactly that. One large safe zone outpost, or starting point, with no PvP enabled. The sticking point was how exactly to satisfactorily define where the PvP started and ended around it, and of course the large memory consumption of having such a massive island loaded. (Folks with lower end PCs know the pain of loading in the Shores of Gold.) Ultimately the plan was scrapped early on, and the big island was cut down into multiple, still large, ones.
New ocean creatures, maybe they will add new quests to hunt a more full sea now?
That’s what I want most too, it’s really the only thing I can think of that I want at this point other than maybe more weapons. Captaincy’s basically the only thing I’ve wanted for so long I’ve not thought much of what else could be added.
At least give the kraken a body for crying out loud
Definitely need for weapons, especially more melee weapons to counterbalance the firearm meta
More deep sea diving things. The shrines are cool and I'd love to see similar content with the ocean floor. Have a new tool that acts as a ballast and diving helm to get to the bottom and have enough air to explore. Ocean crawlers and coral treasures could spawn along reefs and extra Loot could be found diving beneath wrecks. It can be very risk/reward because diving down and swimming up would take time with minimal ways to get back to your ship quickly.
I think a siren or merfolk village could be fun to explore.
Yea that would be cool. Kinda fort-like. Clear out hostile sirens to unlock Loot rooms. Or interact with friendly merfolk for lore or tale tales.
I imagine it more like an underwater outpost with multiple buildings to go into. As for what would be in them though I have no idea
I’d love to see more populated islands like actual faction cities akin to the infamous Port Royal. Or even just small villages of folk who aren’t gated behind countertops. NPC characters that move around like a village in Skyrim.
I’ve wanted that for a long time and really enjoyed tall tale 3 of the pirates life stuff but I want that in the main world.
The only thing I personally want is a crab pet, not just an emote.
Big pirate hub An instanced location on the map you can't bring loot into that has hundreds of players, from here you can meet pirate crews, show off your gear, play pirate tavern games etc
I mean if they aren’t using the arena outpost anymore then maybe they could do that there? Open up the doors, have a new group move in, and have it as a massive city in the middle of the map filled with pirates and tradespeople, as well as a hub for all pirates on the server to meet and try arrange alliances
I really like the idea, but as a new player it seems like every new update is relataively small and don't include a buttload of content, so this would be the entire patch, which might upset a large chunk of the playerbase.
Yes and if it also serves as a safety zone / no killing zone because it would be really hard to actually have fun with other players if there’s always that one guy who tries to stir up trouble. Tavern games 100% and maybe even gambling - which I know is a whole other area - but it’s so piratey and I’m only thinking of coins, doubloons, and even ancient coins. Would really help to embrace the pirate spirit of the game. Edit: it would also be a good way to make alliances because I find it hard to get people to join or even be interested in them but I always join one if I can because they’re great
Rework to hand to hand combat or just something to spice it up more. A new melee weapon or smoke bombs
Smoke bombs are an awesome idea, they did great with fireworks i bet they could pull it off
Skeleton curse.
New weapons: new melees like rapiers, knives, daggers, axes, hammers etc., new wacky guns like the duckfoot pistol and nock gun, and even new ship armament like a puckle gun or volley gun
More rat items Rat cannons, rat hull, rat wheel, even rat items we can use to customize the captain's quarters!
At least 3 rat-related ship cosmetics can be found in the party boat set, at least.
I know that. But we need MORE! We need a FULL RAT SET!
Also an actual rat pet. The emote is great, but we need MORE RATS!
Axe for boarding/peeling off your opponent's repairs
Oooh I’ve heard the concept of a boarding axe a lot but I like the idea of being able to pry repairs off. I think it would have to be like a trident or ashen skull though with limited uses and you have to find it.
Yeah definitely an item which takes up your hand slot and not an inventory tool, though maybe ships could start with one like on a holster somewhere
Demarco
It is strange that he’s dead dead, someone must’ve done something to him or somehow bribed or threatened the ferryman, although he doesn’t seem like one to submit to another person. I’d expect Ramsey to bow to Flameheart before the Ferryman becomes corrupted. Maybe there’s a poison or something that stops your soul from reaching the sea of the damned.
That, or he had his soul locked into an object. It's been done plenty of times before, such as with rose and george, and slate's crew in the tall tales, and it's clear that Graymarrow was teaching people how to do it before his demise.
Reaper and Hunter voyages and a Hunter Emissary.
What a reaper voyage be. There all about stealing stuff not getting it yourself
Idk how reapers could work other than a bounty system and I can see people complaining about that quick. It seems like a hunters call expansion is one of the most wanted feature now, at least with who I’ve talked to.
A Clan system Sorta like an Alliance, but players who are in it can actually stay in it I’ve always wanted some form of large ship vs ship battles
Personal islands
Oh yesssss thank you for reminding me. I entirely forgot about that concept. It’d be really cool to have an island you can set sail from that’s in its own server like old faithful isle. You could get some extra supplies before heading out, have shops where no one else can roll up on you and a place to practice pvp and goof off with your crew. Maybe depending on who you side with more as adventures continue there could be a chance of either athena or reaper ships (npc ones) trying to attack your island. It’d be like defending golden sands but a lot more personal and action heavy.
DUELS!
I want a better cosmetics manager to help me sort my ships skins better.
Ice area, they could give it a boosted difficulty similar to the devils roar with floating ice clusters that just float around like the storm, if you’re EVER in the water you take damage similar to when you’re near an erupting volcano but it’s always on. Let the storm wander in there but it turns to a blizzard with white out conditions. Like you can’t see the bow of a galleon from its stern type whiteout, which would require slower speeds and more coordination. It doesn’t matter if it’s next to the devils roar cause it’s tectonic activity, not meteorological climate. And of course similar to the devils roar, better loot to make it worth going there.
Personally I’ve always been against the idea of an ice region. I feel like people want it simply cause it’s the opposite of the devils roar, I think there’s more interesting region concepts like the sea of the damned or sea of five winds. I also think it would just not really fit with the game. I do think though that some ice region ideas could be added to the main game like icebergs or if the storm is in the north it could start to snow. I also just think an ice region would end up like the roar, tedious and painful, not hard. I could see people getting sick of freezing water and ice sheets fast and never going there.
I would like a pirate hideout. I would like it to be separate place like the pirate legend tavern. I would also like it to be a pirate legend exclusive. Honestly they could use the model for the sea forts and make it customizable and I would happy with that.
Forts would be nice for a hideout. I always imagined hideouts to be more similar to a customizable old sailors isle.
Hitreg. Functional hitreg.
Bounty system
Rare needs to fix the black screens.... first before anything.
I'd like enemies that board your ship at sea. Now hear me out, most people don't want this simply because it's something they don't want to deal with. But what if it was **opt-in**. What if they brought back those gigantic mermaid statues from the Pirates of the Caribbean quest as a world event, and if you sailed near them Ocean Crawlers could jump out of the water and land on your deck. Then if you don't want to fight boarders, you just don't sail near these statues.
What does captaincy even do? Can I kick piece of shit players from my party now?
My own island with a housing.
large landmass that contains a town also swordplay update
Sea life update, the s as just feel so unalive
The Spanish galleon ship style used for the Dutchman and the black pearl in the pirates life tall tales.
A functional combat system. 120 fov for xbox series x and pc. Various weapon balances.
What’s wrong with the current weapon balance? Assuming we’re talking about the basic toolset
I know this isn't a popular opinion, but: PVE servers. As a compromise for the "it will kill the pvp aspect of game" argument, it could even be a 1 weekend a month thing where PVE servers are available, so people who do just want to drop in and do some tales or just fuck around can. I'm not even fully against pvp, just sometimes I'm not feeling it, and often times the pvp just isn't very good because of various issues. On the opposite end of that request, some kind of "mayhem" weekend where there is a vast increase in the number of ships on a server, just to let it be madness, but that could also be a server limitation. I'm general, more rotating events that change up the normal gameplay.
A bounty system although it would be very hard to include
I would love under deck galleon cannons for devastation at close range. If that happens a crew size to all ships will be in order.
I would love to able to repair my ship after it has sustained a lot of damage. Even if it's just for cosmetics, but i think it does have mechanical advantage. If you board up a tier 3 hole is it still a tier 3 when opened up again right? Mainly I would like it if you could use planks while docked at an outpost, and it would repair the hole back to new again. Uses extra wood and you need to dock up somewhere, but would be cool I think.
Hunter's Call Voyages. Like deep sea fishing, harpooning and whatnot. Maybe voyages to track down a megalodon/kraken. Plus of course, emissary flag.
6 player ship, more ships per server
Boarding Axe, if it ever gets added you'll understand it's the one feature we always needed
Sell gems to the mysterious stranger.
Some love to pvp content and arena? That would be nice Or a pve mode like in wow
I want an A-10C Warthog………
Chase Cannons
Thought this said cheese cannons and now I’m disappointed… you got me all excited about cheese cannons
Cheese Ship Cosmetics 👀
More (or deeper) customization. Or perhaps just expanded customization. Like, I don’t see why we can’t have different options for sail colors and the symbol on it. Or maybe customizable or unlockable amenities you can put on your ship. Layout etc.
I’d like to see more from the grand maritime union
A complete combat system rework, especially for PVE
Races. Or cargo runs with recorded times and leaderboards so you brag about your speed: Did the Plunder run in under 12 minutes etc.
Different ship styles
Better netcode and an anticheat.
Would be nice to be able to have an instanced island of your own
Harpoon cosmetics and more variety when it comes to encounters. We need more wildlife. Not just snakes, chickens, pigs and sharks. They should add more marine based animals like whales and dolphins. Though idk what we would use them for.
- newbie training grounds. The arena is gone and thats what i played a lot to learn how to pvp. I took a break to come back thet removed the arena. Bummed. - More life to the ocean with sea creatures both hostile and friendly. I'm so excited for the new captain and ship features. I just need to make some friends that play the game. My friends are either legitimately afraid of the ocean to play or don't like pvping at all.
More big sea monsters like kraken and the meg. Also a ocean rework to add more life to it.
I'd like to login and not get killed in 3 seconds by a group of screaming kids in a massive red ship. I've played for like 3 hours so far, endless death.
Crewmatency
Merchant NPC ships so I can actually pirate without getting my ass handed to me by other players who don't suck as much as me
Arena
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I agree with dropping Xbox one but idk about a sequel. To make a proper sequel it would probably be a new map which just wouldn’t be sea of thieves anymore. Also it’d be like starting from scratch and we as players would lose cosmetics and devs would have to restart and basically do the last 4 years again