Official Sea of Thieves Developer Update: October 10th 2018

Xbox Live Gold required to play on Xbox One (sold separately).

[gabe]

It would be really cool if you guys added a snowy part of the world where the water has broken ice and the islands are covered in snow.

[Church]

100% Agree Executive Producer Joe Neate, good move on changing how builds are pushed!

[Spandex]

Honestly these are the best devs I have seen/heard of, they really show how much they are trying to make their community happy and entertained

[killzone]

I love the forsaken shores event, but please add that new shanty.

[Cjoudan]

We need other things to spend our gold on. Besides cosmetics. Let us gamble, buy supplies, gives pets, or what if we could buy a house on an outpost to decorate with trophies and loot!?!

[TheElviz]

That last statement Sea of Thieves community and devs feel like family

[jettyswagger]

That thumbnails is saying “Joe, it’s time for an intervention”

[bone]

Awww love you guys! Group hug! This game is bloody amazing

[oldmantv]

Great game, with a great game team behind it. Thank you

[Tyronius]

I agree with Mhu Lavaka. The CORE Sea of Thieves players are all Pirate Legend or very near to Pirate Legend. More 'End game' content needs to be added for Pirate Legends else they will go elsewhere. A number of my friends have reached Pirate Legend level 10 and no longer play the game. There needs to be more ways to level up Athena rep and there needs to be more content beyond that to keep Pirate Legends invested in the game.

[ShadowFox-nspk]

Absolutely love the game, I’m bloody close to gettin pirate Legend, just two suggestions:
1. Pets, which I’m aware there’s been rumors of them since day 1, but come on, it’s been months! And solo sailing gets quite boring and it’ll add some fun, other then playing the same shanty for 5 minutes on the way to the Devils Roar from golden sands outpost
2. A way to change character model, I’ve met a lot of people who picked the first character they found and now hate there character, a few even restarting, or there’s people who thought they were choosing say a male, but in reality a female, but couldn’t tell due to preview clothes.

Just some suggestions, still an amazing game and can’t wait for more updates and everything else!

[paddycannon]

probably the best game ever made in my opinion

[SkewToob]

Idea: An armory on the Ferry of the Damned. If I'm getting griefed, it'd be nice to be able to switch to a blunderbuss (or whatever your preferred weapon is for close combat) to give myself a fighting chance. (If, for instance, I have the eye of reach on at the time of griefing.)

[OriginalSparkstar]

I have a few suggestions for the game I think would make it a bit more balanced and more interesting
1. make some outposts safe zones, if you want new players to come and stay you need to make sure they wont be killed and looted after their first quest right at the outpost a lot of plays camp out posts to PK other players for their loot that will push people away if they get PKed right after they first mission. Safe zones can be marked with water buoys around the islands there are made safe zones.
2. Add shipwrights and special customizations like armored plates or even custom ships. Adding custom ships with custom names will increase playability in turn increasing sells and players and armored plating for ships increases options they wanna buy and play for increasing playability even more.
3. Customizable characters pregen characters are nice for getting into the game quickly in theory but in practice it will usually take longer as looking through the pregenerated characters to find one you like can take longer them simply making one from scratch.
4. Leveling systems and perks. Going around and doing quests are fine and increasing your rep with the guilds(?) is good but why not add a player leveling system? Increasing your pirates level to increase your repair speed, strength, breath, ect.
5. Quest saving system. When you start a quest or find a message in a bottle if you get kicked from the game due to internet problems or power outage that's it you lost that quest no matter how close you were to completing it. A way to save your progress with quests or save items on your ship or in a bank or similar housing would be great. The trick is to make the banking islands away from outposts so players can't abuse the system and alt-F4 and relogin at a outpost to get to a bank and sell their items. Also make the bank islands a safe zone so PKers cant camp and steal players loot.
6. Permanent crews. Like many games players will make clicks. Why not make it where you can create a sort of guild aka a crew. Under a single captain or a group of leaders a captain and his mates. The captain would be the Guild owner and the mates would act as crew admins. Each crew could make their own flag and sails and have multiple ships in a fleet(though there maybe balance issues)
7. Buyable Islands or forts. For the more Hardcore players a base is a must have make a NPC where you can buy an island for a few million gold that the player can customize with buildings and NPCs. Maybe be able to create an outpost and safe zone for their crew members or something similar.

That's all I got for now tell me what you think

[mattk]

Love and respect the transparency between the devs and players! You've been knocking it out of the park, Rare...can't wait to see what will be on the horizon!

[HealsCreations]

Happy to see progress being made with SOT and how testing is done. Happy to know new content is planned for the coming year.

[Starrapter]

Thanks for making the trip out to New York Comic Con. You guys did a fantastic job with the panel. It was very interesting hearing about the connections with the game and tie in novels. You also made the panel very entertaining with the live reading of the novel, plus the 4 guys singing the song. Please come back to New York Comic Con next year!

[saffy]

personally, i’d like more ships, then maybe secondary voyage types for gold hoarders (collecting taxes?) and order of souls (player bounties?)

[BrianHuis]

Despite a rocky launch you guys show the determination and dedication many companies do not have. You'll always have my support and I wish you all the best over at Rare!

[SRMWorkshop]

So glad you used the pioneers this update, it was a big improvement.