Official Sea of Thieves Developer Update: November 14th 2018

Great! Any hints at the release of the Shrouded spoils trailer?

I wonder if the Bilge Rats have a letter of recommendation for the Sea Dogs?...

@nunoazuldimeter
In regard to the merchant alliance comment I just have to say, "as it should go down!" Easily not my favorite!

@rich223820 said in Official Sea of Thieves Developer Update: November 14th 2018:

I wonder if the Bilge Rats have a letter of recommendation for the Sea Dogs?...

I will recommend you to the business end of my Cutlass, good sir.

In all seriousness not sure how I would feel about that... if the new faction needs to be ground out to level 50 I guess it would all depend how the experience gain in the later levels per match played works out. I guess I dont really see any issue with that being another letter type you can purchase... they just need to add more things to purchase with doubloons to really force players to pick and choose going forward. I know I for one am sitting on about 500 doubloons and i still need to earn the ones for cargo runs... blah I fall asleep just thinking about it...

So glad quests are coming...this is huge if it is going to be what I think it will be!

@grievous32 said in Official Sea of Thieves Developer Update: November 14th 2018:

I hope they'll change the Skeleton Forts to something less repetitive than this wave system...

Anyway, everything here sound really cool !

I always found the waves relaxing after hours long all out war with other players to finally take control of the Stronghold... sadly that doesnt happen anymore and you are right, the waves by themselves are a bit of a snooze fest now.

@musicmee I am really suprised at how the new information (for me at least I sadly didn't have the time to watch the stream about the arena) changed my view from unsure about the new game mode to "ok I can actually LIKE a full "PvP mode" " :D

The progression was a scare for me before watching this video since I was scared that the balance to get to pl would change too drasticially but making it so you HAVE to play adventure to lvl up at least 2 fractions with the sea dog fraction to get to pl is a very good solution for the arena not feeling like a "complete waste" (meaning only for cosmetic and no rep) but still not have the adventure mode beeing side crushed by the arena.
When I read about the "shared progression" I thought that the 3 fractions would increase in the arena itself too along with the sea dogs and that was actually my worry, but thankfully I was wrong :D
I like (and actually sort of suspected) the transferable/usable cosmetics in both modes since they try to not make it a fully different mode but try to "include" it in the adventure mode (still hope for making the arena accessible through the adventure mode like for example the pl hideout as an instance and not only having it as a selection in the main menu -.-)

And...and PETS!!!!!! Finally I can spend my sweet sweet money (or gaming time) to get the pets I want....meaning all of them but oh well no damage done there ;)

@musicmee aye thanks for the update mate I hope we get pets soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@musicmee wait does joe still have an invisible cursed canon ball in his hands?

@grievous32 said in Official Sea of Thieves Developer Update: November 14th 2018:

@wkd1337 I think the most relaxing thing in Sea of Thieves is to listen to the sound of the waves or the rain or the sound of the thunder when you're close to the storm.

Oh, if we are talking most relaxing... I would say the gong sound when the enemy ship has been sunk. Which, ironically, is also the most aggravating noise when it's your ship making the sound... not that ever happens to me anymore...

I made a thread about the Skeleton Forts and I hope Rare will take inspiration from these ideas to create something a lot better. But I know this would take a lot of time because it would need to create new AI for each boss, new Skeleton Fort's skin, etc.

I would have bet money we were getting a Captain Flameheart-themed stronghold in the DR... oh well... maybe something like that will show up eventually.

So first we get Shrouded Spoils, then we get The Arena, and after that we get some new quest system.
Future looks new & interesting!

@grievous32
I feel ya but part of me wants them to stay the same... at least always have one the same as it easily was the best part of the game when it came out and has sentimental value, lol.

I’m super excited. I don’t care how buggy it is at first, this all sounds so substantial (finally!!) and I haven’t even had a chance to actually watch the video yet. Hope to see the game thriving again once everything comes out!

Ship battles with pets? Yes. Yes. YES!

I am very curious and even excited to see what all lies beyond the fog around Shrouded Spoils.

There is absolutely nothing though in this video that confirms the game is in a healthy place or that everything is incredible. The truth lies on the sea when sailing and the fact that MODES ARE COMING.

There is also a lot of hypocrisy going on. The forums have always been full of fans and the inner circle shouting down ideas of rewarding players for PvP. Yet the arena will award players for just that in a condensed PvP path that counts towards becoming a Pirate Legend. It is a testament to how soon some forget and even praise all that is wrong right before their eyes.

@x-crowheart-x said in Official Sea of Thieves Developer Update: November 14th 2018:

I am very curious and even excited to see what all lies beyond the fog around Shrouded Spoils.

There is absolutely nothing though in this video that confirms the game is in a healthy place or that everything is incredible. The truth lies on the sea when sailing and the fact that MODES ARE COMING.

The end is nigh!

There is also a lot of hypocrisy going on. The forums have always been full of fans and the inner circle shouting down ideas of rewarding players for PvP. Yet the arena will award players for just that in a condensed PvP path that counts towards becoming a Pirate Legend. It is a testament to how soon some forget and even praise all that is wrong right before their eyes.

Or maybe you were all just wrong, the whole time.

@grievous32
Lol... u are 100% correct... just need that one, lol.

So will skelly ship waves events still be a thing?

@shikia-caeleaum said in Official Sea of Thieves Developer Update: November 14th 2018:

The progression was a scare for me before watching this video since I was scared that the balance to get to pl would change too drasticially but making it so you HAVE to play adventure to lvl up at least 2 fractions with the sea dog fraction to get to pl is a very good solution for the arena not feeling like a "complete waste" (meaning only for cosmetic and no rep) but still not have the adventure mode beeing side crushed by the arena.
When I read about the "shared progression" I thought that the 3 fractions would increase in the arena itself too along with the sea dogs and that was actually my worry, but thankfully I was wrong :D

I wanted to speculate on this topic right here. I'm pretty sure that when you turn in items even during the Arena that correlate with the other factions in that mode (chests, gunpowder, skulls, etc) you are going to earn experience for those factions (gold hoarder, merchant alliance, order of souls). Joe Neate already stated they were intending on you to earn gold when you turn the items in, so I imagine you will receive the experience as well.

I imagine the experience gained in the Sea Dogs faction will be earned in another way... similar to how experience is gained at the end of a match in, let's say for example- Call of Duty Black Ops 4. This is how I would like to see this done, anyway. If you were to turn in loot that normally correlates to the other factions and gain experience for Sea Dogs that would seem weird.

@wkd1337 how is experience gained at the end of call of duty black ops 4? So I can better understand what you mean by speculating on the topic.