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CONTENT UPDATES SINCE LAUNCH

Hungering Deep - May 29 2018

>Bilge Rates (limited events)

>New enemy AI (Megalodon shark)

>Speaking Trumpet item to communicate with players outside your crew over longer distances

>Addition of open/closed crews

Gunpowder Skeletons - June 28 2018

>Skeletons can now carry gunpowder kegs and rush at players

Sunken Curse - July 11 2018

>Cursed mermaid statues added, require massive amount of firepower to be destroyed, drop gems which can be traded for gold

>Underwater loot added, treasure chests and skulls can be found on the seabed

Cursed Sails - July 31 2018

>Adds skeleton ship enemy AI

>Adds brigantine ship type for up to 3 players

Forsaken Shores - September 19 2018

>Devil's Roar area added to the east/southeast section of the map, features active volcanoes, falling rock, ash, lava debris, boiling water

>Row boats added to ships

>New quest type added to Merchant Alliance (Cargo Runs - reward is based on condition of goods when you turn them in)

>Cursed crews - 11 different cannonball types added, such as the groggyball

>barrels on islands can now contain more than one kind of item

Shrouded Spoils - November 28 2018

>Fog added as new environmental challenge

>customizable capstan, wheel, canons

>six new skeleton forts added, with ancient bone dust crates to be cashed in for gold

Anniversary Update - April 30 2019

>New competitive PvP mode (Arena/Sea Dogs trading company), search for treasure and battle against four other crews

>Hunter's Call trading company added, hunt, fish, and cook, new fishing rod equipment, turn in meats to Hunter's Call for gold

>Tall Tales story quests added (Shores of Gold storyline adds 9 missions, other Tall Tales to be added in the future?)

>>16530501

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>>16530497

The game is DOA trash and nothing they do can salvage it, but I appreciate your autistic efforts to catalog its failure in the event you are not a paid marketer.

Did they make it so the sailors aren't hideous mongrels yet? I mean honestly, I don't think they understand how much the game would be instantly, markedly improved, by turning all the characters into cute anime girls. I'm not kidding.

I made one of the worst mistakes of my gaming career by purchasing this shitpile.

I was kind of depressed and sick of being a cynical asshole, and I wanted to have that childhood experience of just getting a game that looked interesting without digging deep into reviews or /v/ threads about it. I thought "the E3 presentation was neat, microsoft dumped a bunch of money into this, it's not like it's gonna be indie trash so how bad could it be?"

My god. So fucking bad.

BUTT FUCKING UGLY characters that are so hideous you are compelled to avert your eyes from the character creator- and the character creator is just a randomizer, and you can change your appearance at any time so it has no permanence.

Missions consist of boring fetch quests that SOMETIMES have a handful of enemies to kill, it's literally put to shame by even mediocre MMOs.

Enemy variety is nonexistent, there's maybe four types of pirate skeletons that pop out of the ground and that's IT. Combat is tedious with two repetitive sword animations, no combos or special abilities, and controls are sluggish. Guns almost useless due to their low ammo count.

Ship control and management is autistic, you actually need to be taking it seriously and communicating with your crew to get anything done. Impossible to solo play, and you'll get wasted constantly even as a pair in a small ship designed to be controlled by two people. You need four. The only redeeming feature of the game is how seriously they took the sailing aspect, but it's one of the worst aspects when you don't have a full crew or get matched with idiots and gets BTFO by AC: Black Flag.

Even with how easy the missions are, it's more efficient to just grief other players, camping at ports and boarding their ships to steal all their stuff when they come in to finish a quest. You can just kill them and take their shit when they're 10 feet from the quest giver, and redeem it yourself even if you never started that particular quest. Victims are generally powerless to prevent this, and this behavior was encouraged by the devs because pirates are criminals.

And then after all that, there's no meaningful progression, so you're suffering through this garbage fire for no reason at all. You can't get better gear, you can't get better more fun missions, you can't get better ships or more powerful cannons, you can't claim an island as your own and make a cool base, there's no story, there is NOTHING to reward you except cosmetics. And the griefers aren't interested in your differently colored shovel or headband.

I would rather play literally anything else than try to get back into Sea of Thieves. I would rather play shit from the early 2000's with game breaking glitches and weird low budget graphics. I would rather buy Star Citizen jpegs and delude myself into thinking I'll get to fly them one day. I would rather spend my time fingering a meth whore in a redneck dive bar. It's that fucking bad.

>>16530501

>but since the Anniversary Update it seems like Rare has gone quiet a little bit.

From what I hear, content for SoT is going to slow down as production on Rare's new game is starting to ratchet up. Rumor is it's a new Conker title based on the old sequel they never got around to being able to make when MS first bought them out.

Really hope it's not true. With Rare being at the helm, I doubt it'll be full on "Oh, Heck!" - but it's still CY+ and MS at the helm so I can't see it as being anything other than completely neutered for the sake of staying PC.

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>>16530501

hi shill

fuck off shill

>>16531051

>Ship control and management is autistic, you actually need to be taking it seriously and communicating with your crew to get anything done. Impossible to solo play, and you'll get wasted constantly even as a pair in a small ship designed to be controlled by two people. You need four. The only redeeming feature of the game is how seriously they took the sailing aspect, but it's one of the worst aspects when you don't have a full crew or get matched with idiots and gets BTFO by AC: Black Flag.

I've been playing solo for a little while now. It's useless to command a galleon solo and pretty much impossible to get anything done, so the sloop is a better ship for solo players. With the single mast design of the sloop you only have to worry about the raising/lowering/angling the main sail, rather than main sail, fore sail, and mizzen sail of a galleon. The sloop has far less firepower than a galleon, considering the sloop only has two canons compared to the eight on a galleon, but the sloop's advantage is in its maneuverability. The sloop is smaller and faster compared to the other two ship types in Sea of Thieves, and the anchor takes less time to raise in a sloop, so you can use anchor turns to easily outmaneuver players on a galleon. The helm of a sloop also takes fewer revolutions to turn the ship about. Games like Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag or Assassin's Creed Rogue certainly have better content than Sea of Thieves, but when it comes to sailing, Sea of Thieves is much more in depth and less automated compared to the Assassin's Creed games. Sailing in Assassin's Creed was at its best in Assassin's Creed III but only became more streamlined with IV and on.

Even though I feel comfortable outmaneuvering galleons in a sloop, I still refuse to take a galleon on directly since I'm always outmatched in firepower and players, so I'm forced to run away. But I was able to unlock the achievement for hoarding 20 treasure chests all to myself while playing solo in a sloop, so there's that, I guess. However, the biggest problem for me is the kraken. I find it impossible to take on by myself. Kraken encounters are random but they tend to happen whenever a skull fort isn't active. The first time I came across the kraken in my sloop, I was unprepared. It was the middle of the night, the lights on my ship were out as I didn't want to attract other players, so it was pitch black. The kraken sucked me into one of its tentacles, I cut at the tentacle a few times with my sword, then I fell into the sea. However, the sea was filled with ink, so I couldn't see where I was going, I couldn't get my bearings, and somehow I was taking damage while in the water, so I died before I could get back to my sloop.

The second time I encountered the kraken, I was a little more prepared, but it still overpowered me. They say the kraken was nerfed and dealt less damage towards sloop players, but I had a tough time all by myself.

There's also the Devil's Roar region with all the volcanoes. I've received some treasure maps for islands in that area, but I don't dare to venture that way yet as I've never been there and I don't know what it's like. With all the debris and the boiling water it'd be tough for me to go back and forth around the islands there by myself. At least the rowboats were added so I don't have to swim in boiling water and take damage, but getting in and out of the rowboats seems like it eats up a lot of time and it'd be easier to go to Devil's Roar with a good crew.

>>16531615

Yeah, the remake of Conker is fucking horrible. Just emulate the 64 version.

>Totally organic thread

>>16532075

>You want to be the coolest kid on the short bus?

You'll never be that cool.

>sea of thieves is shit and was DOA

>puzzle pirates is dead and mostly populated by gambling addicts

comfy pirate MMO never ever

>>16532075

Find a game with better sailing mechanics than Sea of Thieves and I would drop Sea of Thieves. If there are no other alternatives then I'd rather hop back into Sea of Thieves and mess around with people.

I almost managed to defeat the kraken by myself last night, I think. I was putting up a decent fight, I had a ton of wood to repair my ship as necessary, stocked up on cannonballs, and I even managed to cut down a few tentacles. I saw one or two bits of kraken meat floating in the water. Then a crew in a galleon came in and someone on that crew killed me while the kraken was still active. Those people started babbling about how they wanted my sloop for some Athena faction or whatever? I wasn't sure what that was about. Something new for Pirate Legends in the game?

Oh yeah, that reminds me. A rainbow flag was added to the ship flag box inventory in Sea of Thieves last June. It came as part of some customization update. Pics related.

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