So... the next update for the "adventure" mode is... 4 - 6 months away?

@katttruewalker I hope you're right, if someone can dredge up some more info, but it does mean a dry 4 months or so at least from Arena in any case for players who may not be keen.

I just hope the Arena update does bring some things to the main game that are yet to be worked out.

[EDIT] - Cheers for finding that (you were quick Katt!), but that's an older video, from before Joe said they were slowing things down. Interesting that they said THD team is working on what I guess is Shrouded, whilst the Cursed Sails team are working on the "end of year update - what will kinda be our fifth update" - doesn't he mean Arena? they are calling Arena the 5th update already.

@hynieth said in So... the next update for the "adventure" mode is... 4 - 6 months away?:

We've been verry lucky up untill now @Sshteeve
We both love huge sharks, skeleton ships and vulcanoes so the last content patches were great. (yeah I know what you like ;-) )
This content patch just isnt for us, it's for other people who love the thrill of PVP battle and want a place for that. Imagine those PVP die hards who kept killing people who tried to fight the megladon or skeleton ships just because they wanted some PVP.

This update is for them.

You're right, you're absolutely right, but for the record I HATED Cursed Sails... nearly left the game over it.
Funnily enough I haven't touched a Skeleton Ship since August and last night @LucianSanchez82 and I took one on and we left it halfway through, not for sinking - we killed 5 of them, we just timed out after an hour!

@katttruewalker said in So... the next update for the "adventure" mode is... 4 - 6 months away?:

@sshteeve

I did a quick google search of 'sea of thieves fall snails' lol, which brought up some discussion threads from the forums and then a mention of this video, there are probably other sources too, but I also would say it's possible they've rejigged the timetable or the order of content additions since, they are the developers after all ;)

I think it has changed Katt, based on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkmB1W7jSbw

Joe says at about 1:30 onwards he says "The pace we've been going, the process we've had, the weekly updates erm, there have been times when we've been introducing bugs into the game which we've had to react to and four us it's been about looking at that, assessing it and going 'what process changes can we make to ensure that we can still be delivering great content to people, but also making sure we get the time to test, we get the time to assess and also we get, erm, time to use Pioneers to give feedback'. So that when we do release updates, err, we've gone through that feedback process with Pioneers, we've also identified any bugs and fixed them so that we have much more confidence in the updates going out to our players."

This follows on later with Joe at 2:32 saying "So, what that means for updates moving forward is we want to move away from our previously established kind of weekly update process. "

Though.... this does seem to link more to weekly events and updates and not major content so who knows. But I do think Shrouded Spoils is the last major content for 2018.

@Skulliah & @KattTruewalker this was my point - Shrouded Spoils is the 4th update, Arena the 5th, so we are looking at a long wait for any more adventure changes other than Bilge Rat.
Ah well... let's all hope that Arena blows us all out of the water (pun intended)

@katttruewalker said in So... the next update for the "adventure" mode is... 4 - 6 months away?:

@sshteeve Except you just quoted something in the mega thread which mentions another update being worked on?? Around questing and such?

Joe said that was after Arena, but didn't say when

@katttruewalker said in So... the next update for the "adventure" mode is... 4 - 6 months away?:

@skulliah @Sshteeve How do you know it's way after Arena?

We don't, but at a guess it's at least 2 months after Arena based on my original post ;P
Hence my 4 months at best guesstimate!

@octopus-lime said in So... the next update for the "adventure" mode is... 4 - 6 months away?:

@sshteeve said in So... the next update for the "adventure" mode is... 4 - 6 months away?:

@hynieth said in So... the next update for the "adventure" mode is... 4 - 6 months away?:

We've been verry lucky up untill now @Sshteeve
We both love huge sharks, skeleton ships and vulcanoes so the last content patches were great. (yeah I know what you like ;-) )
This content patch just isnt for us, it's for other people who love the thrill of PVP battle and want a place for that. Imagine those PVP die hards who kept killing people who tried to fight the megladon or skeleton ships just because they wanted some PVP.

This update is for them.

You're right, you're absolutely right, but for the record I HATED Cursed Sails... nearly left the game over it.
Funnily enough I haven't touched a Skeleton Ship since August and last night @LucianSanchez82 and I took one on and we left it halfway through, not for sinking - we killed 5 of them, we just timed out after an hour!

What do you expect when you sail with that amature?

He's still lurking you know? He will come and find you!

@needsmokes said in So... the next update for the "adventure" mode is... 4 - 6 months away?:

Whatever comes, whenever it comes, it's all free still!
Not many games deliver free content anymore..
And as for Fall Snails, Perhaps Tall Sails? An even bigger ship?

I would hazard a guess, based on my Mixer post on the Megathread 2 that it would "Tall Tales" (actually @KattTruewalker worked that one out) and would fit with the 6th update which is about quests and more driven content for adventure.

@needsmokes very true and @Skulliah has just addressed this in Mega Thread Pt2.

Here is my previous post on there: https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/75705/mega-thread-the-arena-part-2/6

Joe says: "but there's also a team working on a future update that we haven't really talked about yet that's really about enhancing quests and being a bit more guided quests, guided goals, bring more lore, more story to Sea of Thieves", "We think that's going to bring some really new, really unique to adventure". This could be the Fall Snails update!

@luciansanchez82 you WERE very quiet it has to be said!
I thought all of my whining on Discord had put you off sailing!