Sea of Thieves

13-02-2018 5:09pm

Good to see some questions and concerns answered. Definitely piqued my interest now. Could be a good dip in and out kind of game. Perfectly suited for Game Pass.

FAILSAFE 00 · 13-02-2018 8:26pm

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

Fingleberries · 14-02-2018 8:27am

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

On the subject of open beta, I asked Corden for the reason behind updates to the beta. He replied "keep it installed".

There is talk of an open beta, probably as a last minute check of the servers, etc.

Also, Rare have talked about how they don't need to go through the usual certification process to release Sea of Thieves, so they can push out builds when they like. The Alpha installed became the closed Beta, which will likely become the open Beta which the full one (like predownload, although you'd only be able to play it if you buy it other game pass then).

A great bonus and a way or MS to get a load of new game pass subs would be if they held an open beta and anyone who plays the beta gets a one month Game Pass. (pure speculation that last paragraph, but one can dream).

ZiabR · 14-02-2018 9:38am

Fingleberries wrote: »

A great bonus and a way or MS to get a load of new game pass subs would be if they held an open beta and anyone who plays the beta gets a one month Game Pass. (pure speculation that last paragraph, but one can dream).

I cant see this ever happening. MS are already heavily subsidising games within the Game Pass. You can imagine there were a few eyebrows raised within Rare when MS told them, their game would be playable for €9.99. I think it is a very bold but clever move from MS. I had the game pre-ordered, which I cancelled.

I have a 1 month free pass for Game Pass and I bought the discounted 6 month pass. I can see myself maintaining the game pass well into the future.

CatInABox · 14-02-2018 10:00am

ZiabR wrote: »

I cant see this ever happening. MS are already heavily subsidising games within the Game Pass. You can imagine there were a few eyebrows raised within Rare when MS told them, their game would be playable for €9.99. I think it is a very bold but clever move from MS. I had the game pre-ordered, which I cancelled.

I have a 1 month free pass for Game Pass and I bought the discounted 6 month pass. I can see myself maintaining the game pass well into the future.

Yeah, I don't think Rare will mind too much, it's pretty clear that Microsoft are all in on the "Service Games", of which Seas of Thieves is one.

Fingleberries · 14-02-2018 12:27pm

True. Putting it in Game Pass is like getting subscription fee for the game without actually getting a subscription fee for the game (and the Stock Market like the recurring revenue model). I know I was on the fence about Game Pass, but Sea of Thieves announcement got me to buy a six month sub without blinking.

MiskyBoyy · 14-02-2018 8:15pm

Sea of Thieves is back for beta users this weekend!

FAILSAFE 00 · 14-02-2018 8:53pm

Feb 16th - 18th.

Starts Friday at 10am.

It is still a closed beta so players that had access to the previous beta will have access.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_LURB3IXYY

ZiabR · 15-02-2018 9:41am

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Sea of Thieves is back for beta users this weekend!

I will be on for sure but not expecting it to be an overly enjoyable experience.

Major Nelson and King Phil are both saying on twitter "not to expect the game to run well this weekend"

ZiabR · 16-02-2018 9:12am

Details on the Kraken were leaked. Looks immense. I would think you are going to have to team up if you stand any chance of killing it.

Details here:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-02-15-sea-of-thieves-kraken-leaks

Also a really clever NPC/Quest system they have put into the game can be found in this video.

ZiabR · 16-02-2018 11:15am

Scale Test is now live to anyone that was involved with the Closed Beta. They have added ALOT of new features including picking a Pirate and also running a 4 man ship with a smaller crew if you desire to do so.

Mickeroo · 16-02-2018 11:26am

Can you have a three man crew now? Found it quite annoying you had no choice but to match make with a randomer before.

ZiabR · 16-02-2018 11:35am

Mickeroo wrote: »

Can you have a three man crew now? Found it quite annoying you had no choice but to match make with a randomer before.

Yes you can run with a 4 man (Recommended) or a 3 man crew.

The choice is yours.

You can also do the same with the Sloop. You can purposely pick a 2 man crew or a 1 man crew now.

Also, the Kraken has been spotted... It has been added to the Scale Test. From what I can gather, we have access to ALOT of the final release game now.

There are vendors selling weapons now that you can interact with etc.

MARKone84 · 20-02-2018 3:30pm

Just wondering if Boards.ie have a Discord channel for SOT on the PC??

I don't have the game (yet) and just wondering if there is anyone on here to crew up with when i do finally get the game. In March I believe?

Thanks guys!

Korvanica · 20-02-2018 5:30pm

MARKone84 wrote: »

Just wondering if Boards.ie have a Discord channel for SOT on the PC??

I don't have the game (yet) and just wondering if there is anyone on here to crew up with when i do finally get the game. In March I believe?

Thanks guys!

Add me as a friend on the Xbox app : Korvanica

MARKone84 · 20-02-2018 5:38pm

Thanks Korvanika, I will add you when i get home this evening!

Mickeroo · 20-02-2018 5:46pm

Just so you know there's full cross play with console for this so you can just add people on xbox through the xbox app and play that way. It's not as handy to use as discord but I think there'll be a lot more people playing this on xbox than PC.

Korvanica · 20-02-2018 5:50pm

Another Scale test incoming. Dates not confirmed yet though.

MARKone84 · 20-02-2018 5:52pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Just so you know there's full cross play with console for this so you can just add people on xbox through the xbox app and play that way. It's not as handy to use as discord but I think there'll be a lot more people playing this on xbox than PC.

Great, thanks for the heads up on this, looking forward to getting it down now!! Cheers.

ZiabR · 21-02-2018 9:53am

Korvanica wrote: »

Another Scale test incoming. Dates not confirmed yet though.

Going to give all further scale/beta tests a miss now until launch. I want to game to feel fresh for the 20th March.

Lord Spence · 21-02-2018 12:44pm

Played for about 30mins last weekend and man I was bored, I know 30mins isnt long enough to judge a game but from what i did I landed in a game with 3 strangers and proceeded to swim across water and sold treasure then back on the boat again sailed somewhere else and did the same thing again, at this point I turned off and played pubg! maybe I am missing something

Max Mafioso · 21-02-2018 1:05pm

Lord Spence wrote: »

Played for about 30mins last weekend and man I was bored, I know 30mins isnt long enough to judge a game but from what i did I landed in a game with 3 strangers and proceeded to swim across water and sold treasure then back on the boat again sailed somewhere else and did the same thing again, at this point I turned off and played pubg! maybe I am missing something

Yes you are, the sea battles, boarding another ship and stealing their booty.
I love getting shot out of the cannon too

Land on the other boat, drop their anchor so they stop while your crew rams them

MARKone84 · 21-02-2018 1:17pm

Lord Spence wrote: »

Played for about 30mins last weekend and man I was bored, I know 30mins isnt long enough to judge a game but from what i did I landed in a game with 3 strangers and proceeded to swim across water and sold treasure then back on the boat again sailed somewhere else and did the same thing again, at this point I turned off and played pubg! maybe I am missing something

I can understand why that can seem boring, while PUBG should be accompanied with a can of Redbull (pardon the pun), SOT is accompanied by a glass of red wine. It's a slow mover but I need that considering how much PUBG i've been playing.. The PvP battles look great.. I'm stoked about getting on it. Hopefully I'll see some of you guys on here on the Sea in March!

erkifino · 23-02-2018 5:05pm

Thought I'd squeeze in a quick game... Another 8.5gig update... Guess I won't be playing this weekend.

24-02-2018 11:02am

Anyone in the dashboard preview should be able to play this weekend. Under insider content in the preview app.

Sgt Pepper 64 · 10-03-2018 11:10am

final beta released free

[Xbox One/PC] Sea of Thieves Final Beta - Microsoft Store

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/p/sea-of-thieves-closed-beta/c21hp72qsm7l?tduid=$8068c8810c3f5410e8a56ee4ee47001b$$266696$$1018132$$1445988830$$$&wa=wsignin1.0

Canis Lupus · 10-03-2018 2:06pm

Played all day today. Pretty game but man where has the hype from this game come from? It's awful, as dull as dishwater as my mother might say. I'm glad I got the beta in because I'd have been sick if I'd paid money for this.

Techniques07 · 10-03-2018 6:21pm

Ah it's a bit of craic if you play with friends, it's something new that you can have a laugh playing as it's not too serious. It'll be well worth the price of one months game pass, I'm sure after that I'll have had enough and moved on.

dunworth1 · 10-03-2018 9:17pm

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Played all day today. Pretty game but man where has the hype from this game come from? It's awful, as dull as dishwater as my mother might say. I'm glad I got the beta in because I'd have been sick if I'd paid money for this.

are you playing alone or with a group?

I really don't understand the dull as a dishwasher comment

Canis Lupus · 11-03-2018 4:21am

Mates. We all got drunk, had a good laugh for a an hour then it just became tedious, repetitive and I think worst of all, pointless once the novelty wore off. I personally found that doing what frankly felt like work just for some cosmetic change to not be motivation for playing the game and the PvE experience isn't interesting enough to make up for this. The PvP I had hopes for but it felt quite flat, no real urgency and I didn't feel any sense of achievement sinking a ship or killing another player. We killed, we died and the group consensus was meh. Especially when you have a battle going on and one person is basically just holding a mouse button attaching a plank to a leak and then carrying buckets of water up steps. Thrilling stuff.

Perhaps there's hope for it but right now I'm not buying in.

Oh and the xbox app on PC can go suck my balls. I've never had such unnecessary levels of confusion and frustration simply trying to start a game with friends although that's not the games fault really but it definitely soured the experience.

erkifino · 11-03-2018 10:49am

I didn't want to be to critical as it wasn't the full game. It is a different kind of game not a lot of shooting or blowing stuff up. All the online games seem to have the same modes and with a defined time on matches.

I think it's trying to be a more social game, talk to your friends about life and other stuff. You get to be online with friends in other games but with adrenaline pumping and trying to strategise to 'win' it's not really that 'social'.

I can't see much rage quitting happening. For some it mightn't have the dopamine hit that PUBG has when you kill someone or finish 2nd.

I'm not liking what I've seen so far. It's okay. Most of my friends don't game so I do my socialising more traditionally. But when your friends are scattered across the globe it's grand to have a slow paced game ye can play together.

I'm finally playing through Black Flag and enjoying it but I do game on my own mostly. Billy no mates :pac:

Mickeroo · 16-03-2018 11:37am

Achievements are out: https://www.seaofthieves.com/news/sea-of-thieves-achievements

The commendation ones look ridiculously grindy.

maximoose · 16-03-2018 11:44am

Haha, like that they are all in riddles and there's some nice achievement art in there too.

1000 chests/skulls/etc can feck off though

Max Mafioso · 19-03-2018 3:39pm

Apparently if you set your country to New Zealand, you can download it since its technically the 20th there.
I've a few friends who have done this now, I'm in no rush myself

amadablam · 19-03-2018 9:20pm

Max Mafioso wrote: »

Apparently if you set your country to New Zealand, you can download it since its technically the 20th there.
I've a few friends who have done this now, I'm in no rush myself

Yeah if you have games pass, you can Download it from the NZ region free to play today under your subscription

super_furry · 19-03-2018 9:21pm

I still don't really know what this game is, or if I should bother with it as someone who will be playing alone for the most part.

Always Be Closing · 19-03-2018 11:15pm

Anyone gonna be playing on PC?

Fuzzy Logic · 20-03-2018 9:14am

Always Be Closing wrote: »

Anyone gonna be playing on PC?

Yeah just downloaded it courtesy of the Gamepass

ShadowHearth · 20-03-2018 5:28pm

So did people here played it? Any good?

Is it viable as solo game? Is there some sort of matchmaking?

Mickeroo · 20-03-2018 5:30pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

So did people here played it? Any good?

Is it viable as solo game? Is there some sort of matchmaking?

Going by the beta there is matchmaking and you can play solo if you want, though you are more prone to getting robbed by other players then!

You have game pass don't you? You can play it for free straight away you know.

Mr_Man2121 · 20-03-2018 5:35pm

super_furry wrote: »

I still don't really know what this game is, or if I should bother with it as someone who will be playing alone for the most part.

I played both during the beta (alone and with friends) and I enjoyed them both equally.

Mickeroo · 20-03-2018 6:16pm

Looking forward to playing when I get home but a bit concerned from reddit that the beta was essentially the full game.

maximoose · 20-03-2018 6:19pm

Same, looking forward to giving it a go tonight but the concerns about the content don't seem to have gone away.

Servers are struggling a bit too it seems.

ShadowHearth · 20-03-2018 6:37pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Going by the beta there is matchmaking and you can play solo if you want, though you are more prone to getting robbed by other players then!

You have game pass don't you? You can play it for free straight away you know.

I dont have pass yet, but I would sub to it. Not something I was looking to play, but for a tenner its grand to try.

amadablam · 20-03-2018 6:41pm

maximoose wrote: »

Same, looking forward to giving it a go tonight but the concerns about the content don't seem to have gone away.

Servers are struggling a bit too it seems.

Match making is taking an age at times and you get kicked for inactivity pretty fast (pop to the fridge for a sprite) which isn't a problem but when you have to wait for match making each time, it's tiresome.

Also, even with the voice chat selected to headphones only, it's a bit of a pain listening to people talking ****e all the time. Anyone know how to stop this?

I'd say it would be great fun with your own crew and chatting then.

Should we set up a match making group.?

TitianGerm · 20-03-2018 6:57pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I dont have pass yet, but I would sub to it. Not something I was looking to play, but for a tenner its grand to try.

You only got a One recently didn't you? Was there not a 30 day trial in the box with your One S?

Akrasia · 20-03-2018 10:26pm

Sea of thieves is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later (kiwibeard)

Mickeroo · 20-03-2018 10:28pm

Akrasia wrote: »

Sea of thieves is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later (kiwibeard)

Same.

Akrasia · 20-03-2018 10:30pm

They've suspended allowing new players to join the game (according to their twitter)

Buttros · 20-03-2018 10:35pm

Akrasia wrote: »

Sea of thieves is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later (kiwibeard)

Same but from Laverderbeard ðŸ˜‚

Sea of Thieves

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