sea of thieves year in review

On the one hand, you could probably spend close to a dozen hours having fun sailing around without ever realizing there is a proper campaign to follow (like I did). Many of them begin with vague instructions and crude drawings that require you to solve riddles and go on actual scavenger hunts across a variety of islands. As you rank up with each company, you’ll gain new titles to display above your character, more lucrative and exciting Voyages to undertake, and new outfits to purchase. Thank you to everyone who sailed the Sea of Thieves in 2019 – we hope you enjoyed finding out your statistics and embarking on all the adventures that went with them.

The ultimate pirate fantasy can be different for everyone. If it sounds like that could get old, you’re right, and it’s the biggest factor that takes the wind out of Sea of Thieves’ sails after a while.Instead, almost everything you unlock is purely cosmetic. Every facet of the game exists to facilitate hostile interaction between crews. Everyone is on even ground except for how good they are at the game. If your ship sinks, you only lose the treasure and supplies you gathered. It makes for exciting adventures full of player-driven intrigue, but not great storytelling.Sea of Thieves’ unusual approach to progression also means that there are no skills or equipment you can earn that will change the way you play. I don’t remember any of the merchants’ names and they only exist to sell cosmetics and issue voyage missions. You earn titles, commendations, and gold to spend on cosmetics.

Battles rarely play out the same way in Sea of Thieves. These satisfying moments are common and invigorating, kicked up even further when enemy ships are replaced by enormous beasts like the ship-swallowing Megalodon.Unfortunately, while navigating the intricacies of captaining a ship with a full crew is an endlessly complex and complicated puzzle to solve thanks to the cooperation required, melee and gun-based combat is about as bland and simplistic as you can get. 5 months ago. AI controlled skeleton ships can be found on the open sea, if you sink them, they drop booty. It would likely only come up in extreme edge cases where skills vastly differed. But leveling criticisms at the game because your playing it wrong and want to have your own way supported are not valid criticisms. If you can reconcile yourself with what the game is, which is a game about piracy, you will have a wonderful time. Alternatively you may choose to take on the heavy skeleton ships identified by a ship shaped cloud overhead. While many of these cosmetics are cool, I never had any interest in spending money here given how many the options can be unlocked naturally for free simply by playing.Sea of Thieves is designed around the idea of resetting mostly from square one each time you play, so it usually doesn’t take long to get back into the thick of things when you start a new session. All of the supplies you accumulated last time, the row boat you found, the storage chests you saved – all of it’s gone.While the smallest ship can be controlled by a single person, it loses much of what makes the sailing so fun in the process because instead of working together to wrestle the waves you’re running around the deck like a headless pirate scrambling to not crash. This is a distinct disadvantage in some cases, though it didn’t ruin my experience.In my opinion, Sea of Thieves was always a great game, if a bit bare bones. The freedom is liberating once you’re let loose, but it’s as if Sea of Thieves expects you to start running full speed without teaching you how to walk properly yet.All of the other side content – such as the dungeon-like Strongholds that have all players competing to clear out a Skeleton Fortress to nab the treasures within, the various encounters at sea like the skeleton ships that rise up out of the ocean to attack, or just organic run-ins with other hostile players – were complete mysteries to me until my friend explicitly explained things. In this video, Jon from Rare, gives us a brief recap of the past year in Sea of Thieves. They vary in function, like as a grog ball that makes the enemy crew drunk, to a ball that prevents them from turning the wheel.You can use a harpoon to latch on to an enemy ship (or environment for some nifty maneuvers). Nothing beats the thrill and satisfaction of each person owning their role separately, allowing you to come together and act as one unit. Though you have a much better time with a coordinated team, even if its just one other person on a sloop, which is how I personally prefer to play. ... Sea of Thieves Review. The sense of realism when raising and lowering sails, firing cannons manually from the side of a ship, and literally digging up buried treasure often leads to memorable moments such as trading canon shots while strafing an island as your crewmate grabs a treasure chest before you narrowly avoid getting rammed by enemy ships by dropping your anchor to spin around with a tight turn, almost like an aquatic drift.