Official Thread Sea of Thieves
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They are currently the only way I've found to get gold to buy stuff like clothing, items. Also they do level level you up with the map vendor.
Trade them for gold. You can buy better items. Better quests (that pay more gold). Clothing.
Exploding ones can be used offensively.
Who knows what the final game will have, but watching videos the game's premise is:
- Explore small islands, find chests
- Fight skeletons
- Fight against other boats (MP), and sink their ships, kill them and steal their chests
- Cash in chests at small stores and get gold or more treasure maps
Is there anything else in the game? Most of these videos show empty seas and repetitive looking small islands.
The ship battles look fun, but the rest of game looks pretty bland. Awesome looking water effects though.
- Explore small islands, find chests
- Fight skeletons
- Fight against other boats (MP), and sink their ships, kill them and steal their chests
- Cash in chests at small stores and get gold or more treasure maps
Is there anything else in the game? Most of these videos show empty seas and repetitive looking small islands.
The ship battles look fun, but the rest of game looks pretty bland. Awesome looking water effects though.
That is pretty much it. Just fetch quest after fetch quest. They did say there would be beasts added to the world, like a kraken.
The economy system is silly, you do all these fetch quest to amass gold which you spend on cosmetics that you can't even see. I think ship cosmetics will be a thing at launch, but still a rather bland economy system.
Similar thing with progression...what do you actually progress and what does that progression get you outside of gold and cosmetics you can't see?
Exploration doesn't seem to be a big part of the game.
Ship combat isn't balanced between the 3 ship types.
Griefing is going to be a massive problem.
It simply lacks depth and diversity.
LOL. It isn't a compliment.
It is a shame really, SOT is a cool concept with good boating and decent sea combat, but the execution of the stuff you do is the most bland and uninteresting way possible. The quest structure is boring and tedious. The world or characters whom loot you plunder seemingly have no lore.
The world also seems extremely tame.
You know it’s a real beta, right? This is meant to test the servers and make sure everything is working. Tip of the iceberg for content.
They have yet to show anything that implies depth or diversity, though. It has been the same stuff we have seen from announcement to Alpha To Beta.
Their progression trailer shows nothing that adds depth or even anything worth progressing to. We know there are only 3 vendors and we know their quest set up is the same and just swap chests for skulls or livestock.
None of the articles, videos, or comments I have seen about this game show it to be anything different than the beta.
If you have videos showing this stuff then please post them, I would love to see them and see something to make this a day one buy.
I think a lot of people miss this fact. Outside of the specific mission set up for this particular experience, this is literally the same beta I was playing like or four months ago. This is actually a legitimate test server beta. There are a lot of Game systems that weren't shown off as I'm guessing they want there to be new stuff for people to see when they actually buy the game.
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This was all known already. The Kraken, other maps, and ship customization are all things the devs have stated already.
This is a small portion of the game. I mean, the Beta is still just 7.4 GB. I would imagine that the full game will be a lot more than that. I mean, it'll probably still be fetch quests, but we know that some of those will be finding and catching animals, as well as other mission types. Personally, I'm just hoping to get a lot more out of the NPCs and to get some port towns that feel "alive".
Some of the things they have discovered while data mining:
https://www.vg247.com/2018/01/29/se...s-ship-customisation-kraken-new-weapons-more/
Some of the things they have discovered while data mining:
https://www.vg247.com/2018/01/29/se...s-ship-customisation-kraken-new-weapons-more/
I’m hoping to see more depth as well but my point is the beta isn’t supposed to reveal all that. If the game is shallow on release, by all means blast away.
Ironically the thing most people are worried about will be the thing easiest to implement. Gameplay, visual and controls...and getting it to work together in harmony is the hardest part.