Sea of Thieves

erkifino · 21-01-2018 12:52pm

Anyone on this? Any significant updates or changes?

gmg678 · 22-01-2018 9:13am

brav wrote: »

So I know this is primarily made for co op play, but it does have support for solo.
Is there any gameplay video out there showing this? I can't seem to find any showing the small ship for 1 or 2 players.

https://www.seaofthieves.com/game#can-i-play-the-game-solo

Can I play the game solo?
Absolutely, but be prepared for a challenge! At launch we have large ships designed for collaborative crews of four, and smaller ships designed for one or two players.

Yes you can play solo, in crews of two and crews of 4.If you go onto the SOT youtube channel, there is videos explaining it all.

brav · 22-01-2018 1:39pm

gmg678 wrote: »

Yes you can play solo, in crews of two and crews of 4.If you go onto the SOT youtube channel, there is videos explaining it all.

Ya I saw the dev video saying it would be in the game and how it would look, but haven't seen someone play in that mode yet in the betas, so I was wondering if this because it is not in there yet or else just not practical or fun

erkifino · 22-01-2018 3:48pm

brav wrote: »

Ya I saw the dev video saying it would be in the game and how it would look, but haven't seen someone play in that mode yet in the betas, so I was wondering if this because it is not in there yet or else just not practical or fun

NDA wouldn't let anyone stream or release details but a big part of the game is the team element. The NDA will be lifted soon so keep an eye out, but solo is relaxing.

Fingleberries · 22-01-2018 7:55pm

erkifino wrote: »

NDA wouldn't let anyone stream or release details but a big part of the game is the team element. The NDA will be lifted soon so keep an eye out, but solo is relaxing.

Roll on the NDA-Free beta (24-29 Jan). Streams, YouTube and News Sites will be crammed with info and almost all questions will be answered.

Rare will be keeping some interesting goodies back for the full game, however.

erkifino · 22-01-2018 9:28pm

I only got in at the last technical test. Reading back over the last year of development it's interesting to see how it evolved.

I am hoping for more goodies though.

ZiabR · 23-01-2018 10:31am

Sea of Thieves or Skull and Bones? Which will have the most meat to keep you going back for more.

How are you finding Sea of Thieves for content? Is there enough to do or will this game become boring fast? I might hold off buying until the reviews hit.

Fingleberries · 23-01-2018 3:04pm

ZiabR wrote: »

Sea of Thieves or Skull and Bones? Which will have the most meat to keep you going back for more.

How are you finding Sea of Thieves for content? Is there enough to do or will this game become boring fast? I might hold off buying until the reviews hit.

Skull and Bones seems, from what I have seen, to be like the Pirate ships section of Assassins Creed 4 carved out into it's own game.

Sea of Thieves will hopefully tip its hand this week with some details of the depth to the game - there is plenty of exploring to do, but it could get old quickly if there is just a lot of the same old quests and riddles ad nauseum, even if there are three factors. Also a lot will depend on how they handle camping (don't bother doing a quest, just hang out at the payoff location and ambush anyone who arrives with loot).

erkifino · 23-01-2018 3:20pm

Hadn't heard of skull and bones. Looks intriguing. I must really play black flag...

Lord Spence · 23-01-2018 3:29pm

Sea of Thieves available from launch on xbox game pass

https://majornelson.com/2018/01/23/xbox-game-pass-expands-to-include-new-releases-from-microsoft-studios/

ZiabR · 23-01-2018 3:43pm

Lord Spence wrote: »

Sea of Thieves available from launch on xbox game pass

https://majornelson.com/2018/01/23/xbox-game-pass-expands-to-include-new-releases-from-microsoft-studios/

That is mental. Seems they are going to make a habit of this. Does this make the games pass move worth while... hmm

Mickeroo · 23-01-2018 3:54pm

I can't see the tweet but according to reddit the next halo/Gears/Forza will do the same. That's brilliant, hopefully includes their PC versions too.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 23-01-2018 4:28pm

ZiabR wrote: »

That is mental. Seems they are going to make a habit of this. Does this make the games pass move worth while... hmm

whats game pass per year? 120?

that's only the price of 2 games at the end of the day.

ZiabR · 23-01-2018 4:29pm

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

whats game pass per year? 120?

that's only the price of 2 games at the end of the day.

Thats what I have been thinking. Really seems worth it now we get new releases.

maximoose · 23-01-2018 4:41pm

Wow, cancelling my preorder so

CatInABox · 23-01-2018 5:07pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

I can't see the tweet but according to reddit the next halo/Gears/Forza will do the same. That's brilliant, hopefully includes their PC versions too.

It doesn't look like it so far, but from what Phil Spencer was saying, it seems likely to come sooner rather than later.

Xbox Game Pass is also limited to the Xbox games console right now, and PC gamers can’t access a range of games that are cross-platform and available as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Play Anywhere initiative. “I have been on public record saying I want people to play the games they play on the devices they want to play them on,” says Spencer. “So stay tuned. We’re not announcing anything today other than our biggest games will launch on retail date into Game Pass, but I like your thinking.”

The Verge has what he was saying here.

Mickeroo · 23-01-2018 7:25pm

Good they're planning on it but don't see why they wouldn't push it straight away. I'm pretty sure if you subscribe on pc all you get is recore at the moment.

CatInABox · 24-01-2018 11:33am

Mickeroo wrote: »

Good they're planning on it but don't see why they wouldn't push it straight away. I'm pretty sure if you subscribe on pc all you get is recore at the moment.

Huh, turns out that if it's play anywhere and in the games pass, then it'll be on available on PC too. That's handy. Can't remember if they've already committed to having all their new releases as Play Anywhere.

https://twitter.com/aarongreenberg/status/955924123816927232

This may actually be handy for me now, being back in Ireland means I have more space to set up my PC again.

FAILSAFE 00 · 25-01-2018 1:55am

Having some laugh with the lads playing this game. We have been laughing for ages.

To describe the situation below we pursue another ship. We fire our cannons. Lookout calls a collision. We run to the top of the ship and board their ship killing the pair of them.

I drop the anchor and search their ship for a gold chest. I find and lift the chest and off with me into the water. Next issue is 3 sharks chasing me as I wait for my ship. In a small window of opportunity I grab the ladder and get back on board with the stolen treasure.

What you don't see next is the guys respawn and take control of their ship and pursue us but we are going so quick we eventually lose them and sell their gold chest at an outpost

* Another highlight was all us getting blind drunk and suddenly we are attacked by a guy in the bar. We try to return fire but we are wasted and he kills most of us as we are disorientated and puking on each other lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5lzJTzaaLQ

ZiabR · 25-01-2018 9:45am

The water has me drooling. I have not seen water look so real. The Sea behaves like it should. Amazing stuff.

Mickeroo · 25-01-2018 10:32am

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

I love how if you drink too much you can vomit all over your friends

Just like college.

ZiabR · 25-01-2018 12:29pm

Seems alot of people are not happy with how the launch of this Beta was handled. From reading, I find it hard not to agree with the general consensus. The amount of people that have had issues, many of them still not being able to play the game is worrying.

Before you jump down my throat, let me point out that this was one of the MAJOR games at E3 and it is an in-house Microsoft game. If there was ever a game that they needed to go right, it would be Sea of Thieves.

Communication from the devs has been very very poor, Twitter is overloaded with people having problems and none of them are being addressed. You would expect that with a closed beta as big as this Microsoft would have people working on this and supporting it via social media all night long. Instead the devs openly posted on Twitter that they were off to bed for the night while thousands of paying customers were left in the dark. Madness.

The issues may well be minor but when you are working on a product as big as this and you are presenting it to your customers for the first time, you need to make sure everything is on point and working. Also, for this to be Microsoft’s first big exclusive (not timed) you would expect that there would be particular emphasis on getting it right and supporting the future player base.

It looks great, and a lot of fun but it’s not working for me and a number of my xbox live friends.

We are not off to a good start

Mickeroo · 25-01-2018 12:41pm

Did you try adding it through the Xbox Insider Hub? It wouldn't launch for me until I did that even though I already had had alpha access.

gmg678 · 25-01-2018 12:44pm

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

While in game playing solo i got the message "Server status : Server will shut down in 21 minutes"

Whats that about does anyone know?

They announced they were doing an update that would take 30-45mins and that it would kick you out.
that could be it.

ZiabR · 25-01-2018 12:51pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Did you try adding it through the Xbox Insider Hub? It wouldn't launch for me until I did that even though I already had had alpha access.

Yes, don't have it on the insider hub because the game was pre-ordered.

Adventagious · 25-01-2018 1:21pm

FAILSAFE 00 wrote: »

Having some laugh with the lads playing this game. We have been laughing for ages.

To describe the situation below we pursue another ship. We fire our cannons. Lookout calls a collision. We run to the top of the ship and board their ship killing the pair of them.

I drop the anchor and search their ship for a gold chest. I find and lift the chest and off with me into the water. Next issue is 3 sharks chasing me as I wait for my ship. In a small window of opportunity I grab the ladder and get back on board with the stolen treasure.

What you don't see next is the guys respawn and take control of their ship and pursue us but we are going so quick we eventually lose them and sell their gold chest at an outpost

* Another highlight was all us getting blind drunk and suddenly we are attacked by a guy in the bar. We try to return fire but we are wasted and he kills most of us as we are disorientated and puking on each other lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5lzJTzaaLQ

Hah! I'm glad i got to see you boarding and murdering those guys, i was below deck patching up holes and missed it. Still feel bad about trying to abandon the ship when i thought it was sinking!

Love the crunch and little soundtrack sting when you get a good cannon shot on target, very satisfying.

Getting drunk and trying to fight that guy in the bar was also pretty damn funny. Great laugh overall and would definitely play again.

Very sympathetic to the people not able to get access though, did last night's patch help?

ZiabR · 25-01-2018 2:15pm

Shame we couldn't join you last night Adventagious. Is the squad size 4 or 6? Still not working today.

tony1980 · 25-01-2018 2:23pm

It’s 4 for a big Ship, 2 for a Medium and 1 for a Small Ship.

ZiabR · 25-01-2018 2:33pm

tony1980 wrote: »

It’s 4 for a big Ship, 2 for a Medium and 1 for a Small Ship.

Thanks Canto. And how does the game determine which ship? If you are in a party of 4 does the game just spawn a big ship?

Does the big ship not have a massive advantage over the smaller ones?

Korvanica · 25-01-2018 2:34pm

Anyone know what the Update changed ? if anything?

ZiabR · 25-01-2018 2:46pm

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Its made up of 4, 2 and 1 man servers so 4v4 2v2 1v1

But in Failsafes video above, he is in a 4 man ship and they ram a 2 man ship. So it does seem like the servers are mixed. I imagine that the smaller ships are faster to help them get away from a 4 man crew.

FAILSAFE 00 · 25-01-2018 3:14pm

Adventagious wrote: »

Hah! I'm glad i got to see you boarding and murdering those guys, i was below deck patching up holes and missed it. Still feel bad about trying to abandon the ship when i thought it was sinking!

Love the crunch and little soundtrack sting when you get a good cannon shot on target, very satisfying.

Getting drunk and trying to fight that guy in the bar was also pretty damn funny. Great laugh overall and would definitely play again.

Very sympathetic to the people not able to get access though, did last night's patch help?

You kept us afloat for much of last night

Constantly below deck patching up the damage.

I think the time you bailed from the ship it was just at the tipping point of destruction but we just got it back (sweat emoji) lol

Adventagious · 25-01-2018 3:21pm

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Oh. Good spot. Wasn't aware of that. Could someone clarify? Sucks for the solo guys if so.

Servers seem mixed as well as cross platform.

While playing as a 4 man on xbox with PC players we've come across 1 and 2 person ships.

ZiabR · 25-01-2018 3:26pm

Adventagious wrote: »

Servers seem mixed as well as cross platform.

While playing as a 4 man on xbox with PC players we've come across 1 and 2 person ships.

If I can get it working, I will try join you tonight.

Adventagious · 25-01-2018 4:01pm

ZiabR wrote: »

If I can get it working, I will try join you tonight.

Unfortunately wont be on this evening i think but whenever you spot me online just fire a message my way.

erkifino · 25-01-2018 4:43pm

A two man ship must be somewhat quicker no? Can't imagine 2 people have much of a chance versus 4 other than to scarper.

FAILSAFE 00 · 25-01-2018 5:32pm

erkifino wrote: »

A two man ship must be somewhat quicker no? Can't imagine 2 people have much of a chance versus 4 other than to scarper.

Yes. Faster and more maneuverable.

EagererBeaver · 25-01-2018 5:50pm

Is there a way to get on to the beta still if I sign up for Game Pass now?

Korvanica · 25-01-2018 5:53pm

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Is there a way to get on to the beta still if I sign up for Game Pass now?

AFAIK at this stage its only a full PreOrder that gets you in.

Max Mafioso · 25-01-2018 8:33pm

Ive tried playing solo but I cannot get onto a server

ZiabR · 26-01-2018 11:46am

What is the official release date for this game? I presume there will be an open Beta.

Mickeroo · 26-01-2018 11:50am

ZiabR wrote: »

What is the official release date for this game? I presume there will be an open Beta.

I think it's the 20th of March or something?

Korvanica · 26-01-2018 12:29pm

Managed to get 13 chests at once last night. Was pretty fun and a bit worrying when heading for the Outpost. Constantly scanning the horizon and ready to run like **** at first sight of a sail.

Fingleberries · 26-01-2018 2:06pm

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

I love how if you drink too much you can vomit all over your friends

You can scoop it up in your bucket and toss it over someone as a weapon.

Fingleberries · 26-01-2018 2:10pm

Max Mafioso wrote: »

Ive tried playing solo but I cannot get onto a server

Solo is solid, very peaceful sailing the seas but nerve wracking because no one is watching your back. You have to survive by being sneaky.

There's no shame in running like hell from any shops you come across

Fingleberries · 26-01-2018 2:24pm

ZiabR wrote: »

Seems alot of people are not happy with how the launch of this Beta was handled. From reading, I find it hard not to agree with the general consensus. The amount of people that have had issues, many of them still not being able to play the game is worrying.

Before you jump down my throat, let me point out that this was one of the MAJOR games at E3 and it is an in-house Microsoft game. If there was ever a game that they needed to go right, it would be Sea of Thieves.

Communication from the devs has been very very poor, Twitter is overloaded with people having problems and none of them are being addressed. You would expect that with a closed beta as big as this Microsoft would have people working on this and supporting it via social media all night long. Instead the devs openly posted on Twitter that they were off to bed for the night while thousands of paying customers were left in the dark. Madness.

The issues may well be minor but when you are working on a product as big as this and you are presenting it to your customers for the first time, you need to make sure everything is on point and working. Also, for this to be Microsoft’s first big exclusive (not timed) you would expect that there would be particular emphasis on getting it right and supporting the future player base.

It looks great, and a lot of fun but it’s not working for me and a number of my xbox live friends.

We are not off to a good start

Beta is a key part of that comment. It's not a demo or a trial and it's not the final game. But bloody close to it though.

They are using this beta for stress testing server scalability - there are loads of more people on these sessions than there were on the Technical Alpha.

How are you and your friends getting the Beta? Pre-order bonus, black dog pack or were you in the alpha? The technical alpha just updated to the latest build and went smoothly enough - one or two 'click retry' messages across the games I've been trying to join.

The things they learn and fix here will make the launch smoother.

If they have these issues at launch then we can throw the book at them.

The experience so far is a load of craic. You can be riddling and plundering the high seas and suddenly stop to notice how breath taking the environment is - on the X especially - sunsets and suddenly you can see islands or ships lights on the horizon. Friend or foe? Run and hide or is it a new target?

Great potential - I hope they have a few more missions or surprises up their sleeves for launch to keep it fresh.

erkifino · 26-01-2018 3:05pm

Korvanica wrote: »

Managed to get 13 chests at once last night. Was pretty fun and a bit worrying when heading for the Outpost. Constantly scanning the horizon and ready to run like **** at first sight of a sail.

Not just sails on the horizon. Some people stay out of sight on the island near where you sell the gold. They shoot you while you attempt to sell and steal it from you.

GottaGetGatt · 26-01-2018 9:37pm

What's the max amount of players you can have in a squad or whatever?

tony1980 · 26-01-2018 9:41pm

GottaGetGatt wrote: »

What's the max amount of players you can have in a squad or whatever?

Four Players is the max

erkifino · 26-01-2018 11:01pm

Playing randomers is pretty crap. A lot of people quitting. Also got locked in the brig for no reason. After 5 mins I had to quit. What's the point of the brig? To get trolled by your own crew.

Sea of Thieves

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