Sea of Thieves - From the Depths - Skeleton Ships
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Shrouded Spoils
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Shrouded Spoils adds a lot of life to the world with fog and roaming cursed ships, which are super cool, rewards for kraken as well as improvements and meg battles, a labour of love with numerous things pulled together from community feedback requests.
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There are more features to Shrouded Spoils which have not yet been mentioned.
#seaoftease - currently 3, but there will be 9...not animals, not ships..... not Companies
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....FORTS! 6 New Skellie forts active!
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Also expanded ship cosmetics, Pirate Legend commendations, explosive barrel mk2 (megakeg) rewarded from forts.
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Customisation for ship includes additions to some of the existing sets.
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Shrouded Spoils content video will be released nearer to the time to show off the collection of features, late November most likely.
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Campaign for Shrouded Spoils? There are a bunch of commendations around the new content so a light campaign with regard to story etc?
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Bilge Rats - Festival of the Damned will remain live until Shrouded Spoils releases.
Arena
Adventure is very dear to Rare and the foundation of Sea of Thieves.
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Arena is embedded in adventure world, Sea Dogs are 4th trading company so some players might want to use them as their third trading company alongside two from the main game.
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Would like to add more Trading Companies for further choices in the future, Arena is the first.
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Arena - there is still work to do before pioneers can test, there will be lots of iterations, as soon as you put a competitive lens on features in the world, it means a lot of things will need looking at including balancing mechanics etc which means a great deal of testing and tweaking with pioneers, similar to that which took place before release of game.
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Is Arena hub accessible from Adventure mode? No, to access it you need to choose from the initial menu at start of session. Tavern will be visible within the world of Sea of Thieves but not able to enter? Customisations and rewards gained via Arena will be visible and equippable in Adventure mode.
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Arena - Meg, Kraken and other emergent elements? This type of content will be part of the iteration, doesn't want it to feel unfair or results due to things out of your control but would be very cool to have these included. Needs to be tuned as to when, how often, strength of attack etc. Where the sole aim is competitive and to win also brings specific rewards, different emotions will be experienced to those in the main world.
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Arena's will include Forsaken Shore region and multiple arenas will exist within the world, if you know the world well, you'll recognise the area but other new locations/features might be added too.
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Pioneers will be testing Arena early, a rough and ready experience to start with needing plenty of feedback and work done with real players.
EDIT: Apparently I am missing that "boom booms" is the official term for Gunpowder Barrels and that Jon does not know how many people the Hot Tub can hold. 😉
General
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Dee's favourite memory was her second week when at Eurogamer and the fanfest with people at the studio and public was super amazing because of how wonderful everyone was :)
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Progress on designs for Duck Ship? Jon is modelling it personally.
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Roadmap video incoming? No. What Rare have learned is that they need a bit more control, instead of a roadmap with specific dates and targets on, to ensure adequate testing times and pioneer testing, bug fixing etc community will be informed by Dev Update videos and other announcements.
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Fall snails/Tall Tales - plans did change and this was something talked about in the summer - it will include quests, narrative, story etc and will be coming after more development time has been devoted to it as it has become quite broad and more extensive than at first expected, no release date as yet.
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Pirate Legend support - to start with, commendations specifically for legends and cosmetic rewards associated with these in PL shop with Shrouded Spoils.
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Pioneer changes, incentivisation and changes to encourage people to take part, details coming soon.
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Mouse and k/b support is something still being thought about, looking into it and is more a 'when' rather than 'if'.
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Kraken's ink is poison and gives purple flame.
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Rare have lots of jobs available - there are ways to educate yourself in terms of skills and create a portfolio which shows your accomplishments, vocational qualifications and experiences also serve to show your achievements.
Tailor your applications to the specific company you're applying to and make it unique for the post you want and show understanding and appreciation for what Rare are creating and what they do.
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