We all have big wishes for Sea of Thieves features and fixes, but what are the small-ish quality of life features that you want to see added to the game in 2025?
(Sorry, FoV increase is not happening, so don't even bother wishing for that!)
In no particular order, here are my five biggest wishes:
Slimline Voyage Banners
Ever since slimline island banners were added, we've begged for this. It just seems daft that we haven't gotten this yet. It's just so annoying finishing a voyage and having your health/ammo covered by the black bars.
I get that it's supposed to be an epic end to an adventure - but almost seven years into the game, that novelty has long worn off and, for most players, the bars are just an unneccessary obstruction to more important information.
Hide/Minimise Selling Notifications
This has become a problem since loot is more and more abundant on the seas. But it's not uncommon to sell a modest pile of loot and have those notifications pop-up on screen for minutes after, covering things like your cannon interactions.
Please, Rare, let us turn off these loot-sold notifications or simply minimise them to the Notification feed on the top left.
Mic Testing In-Game
Oh, Sea of Thieves, this is probably my biggest pet peeve since day one of the game - there's no way to set your mic in-game and no way to test it's working (without another player). Being a Microsoft game, it's possibly mandated that they use the Windows Default Communication Device setting - my theory is it's to do with Xbox Live privacy settings applying to that. But I still wish there was a way to check in-game, on your own, that your mic works correctly.
I suggested years ago that there should be a parrot in every tavern that you can talk to and it would repeat back your audio in short clips. I still think that would be the most SoT thing ever and highly useful/prevent a lot of frustration.
More Options For Controller Binds/Fix The Secondary Prompt Issue
Simply put: we are fast running out of binds on controller and it puts controller players at a massive disadvantage when it comes to quickly equiping items/weapons/tools.
A shift-modifier system, as used by other games, would probably be the most elegant solution to adding a lot more button binds.
I bundled in the "Secondary Prompt" with this because it's part of the restricted binds problem and affects every controller player (my worst nightmare in game is a deck full of crates, because I cannot switch weapons around them!).
I would be so ecstatic if Rare sort these out in the next year!
Buy Treasure Chests
This is probably my biggest "it would just be nice" wish - being able to buy a treasure chest from the Merchant Alliance to store small loot items in. It's not a big deal and, sure, you can find them almost anywhere but the same could be said for a humble storage crate.
