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The Bucket is kinda neat for a certain aesthetic. But i've realized that SoT really lacks in regards of good cosmetics. Yes, we have a lot of them. No, 90% of them look bad in their full set and terrible outside of it. Shoutout to stuff like the Party Boat set, DA set, and merchant set. There is stuff in there that looks genuenly nice in a lot of custom outfits.
Raise of hands. WHO....actually watches videos? Open pc, start a random twitch video doing it and Mute. hell! I cheated, I streamed myself and watched myself and played.....EASY!
I never understand why they put out drops like this, usually twitch drops are unique or cool, something that makes you want to go out of your way to watch people to earn the drops, not what they did
Theyre not ALL Bad. But the influx of Eastern Winds really gets me.... Anything other than that Im a happy pirate. For example: rascal seadog set was top notch for me! I Really like em! And the seasoned tankard, that is the basic tankard we see in the taverns and the new bucket whit iron hoops. Anything piratey! But no more Eastern Widns Rare PELASE!
For myself, it was nothing to watch Phuzzy on my 2nd screen while I did other things. The time was going to pass anyways. The thing that irks me, is when a player posted the differences between season 12 and 13 numbers, j'Otoro (the one who handles the sea of thieves twitter account) blocked the poster, as well as anyone else who posts those differences. They don't engage with their community anymore, and that's a huge issue.
twitch drops themselves are stupid since they cause people to watch streamers not for the content itself but for some external feature in order to artificially inflate numbers. funny that streamers where complaining about drop farmers since it basically means your content is so boring people would rather just farm the drops on someone who isn't even playing the game and leave. I suspect the only reason Rare is doing this with the latest drop is to inflate watch time on twitch something which has been going down for awhile, their is a reason they don't make the bonus twitch drop based on watch time on twitch anymore.
It's really a case of you don't have to do it and there is no really big issue with how long it takes. Twitch drops have always artificially inflated channels and that's the point. I would like some cool login bonuses and voyages tho
In truth, has SoT/Rare handled anything well since, perhaps, A Pirates Life? That sounds harsh, but thinking back and considering the current state of the game....
I’d like to see a world event that has you man a skeleton fort or phantom fort. Or an item that allows you to have a limited spawn point on an island. The forts would be best used in hg matchmaking, and all the people who spawn camp would have a rewarding tdm experience, while being kept off the others ship to keep the fort or spawn item. Naval gets so boring after six years. I have sunk ships in other ways just to avoid it, and I’m sure newer players would appreciate more options for combat and protecting their treasure hoard.
8/10 the game is pretty fun like the Jurassic World final fight and the opening fight for the game are probably my favorite parts of the game but also some parts are really hard and frustrating like the masters of the universe level
Everyone has an opinion if this season is a failure or not. All I can say is, after the first weekend it came out (when people exploited it to no end) I rarely see anyone doing it now. To add insult to injury, there's currently a bug where if the crew of the Burning Blade log out, the ship despawns and those attacking it, get nothing for their efforts. If you can, check out the numbers they reported for season 12's community day to season 13, cannons fired, fish burnt, etc. and you'll see how those numbers are almost slashed in half (the person who showed this on Twitter got blocked from the Sea of Thieves Twitter by the way). Everyday there's a new post on their forums from people begging them to change how hourglass works (it's weird how you can win by not participating or dealing damage to your opponent, while Arena rewarded those who participated). Not being transparent with your playerbase also hurts. "Folks, we know X is an issue, and we're hearing you and working on it." Also, how can you report someone for "drug/alcohol use", when there's grog in the game? All in all, season 13 was about Flameheart's return while getting to sail on his bug-infested ship where you can yoink a chest of fortune without even firing a single cannonball at it. Season 14 is coming in 4 weeks, and is looking to bring.......sneaks/hiding/tucks/grapple gun into the game. No new content, no new lore, frankly I don't know what season 14 is even about at this point.
The only thing I don't like about the burning blade is that the people who attack you can come back and infinite amount of times. Had a duo sloop attack for 3 hours on end which was like 20 sinks and they eventually got me and trash talked. With all the fighting I was only able to do like 3 camps. Huge waste of time
The game is going to maintain lower and lower player counts as long as they continue to embrace PvP. They gave us "safer seas", which brought me back. But quickly left again when I realized it wasn't an online experience and my gameplay was severely hindered by low reward. The ship combat is terrible. A single person running a whole ship, terrible design. I'd rather skull and bones ship combat. No one wants to spend an hour every game session farming food and canon balls just to play the rest of the game. My canon balls, food and wood need to be saved regardless if I lose my ship or not. Biggest frustration with these games. No one wants to spend three hours getting treasure just to be ganked by a squad who only plays the game grouped. You can argue just to get a group and it'll be fine, but most players just want to go into the game and play, only grouping for major in game events. The game is completely balanced for PvP. Which has an extremely large learning curve. Bad game design. No one cares to play this game set aside the few people like yourself who've determined they enjoy it's mechanics. It's impossible for this game to be bigger...impossible. which is a shame, there's only two pirate games to play right now, skull and bones gets a lot of things right, this game gets alot more right (this is the better game IMO, even if ship combat is much more fun in SnB.) With games get too much wrong to reach a broad audience, and they will die sooner rather than later. The fact it went to PS is testament to this fact
Your so close to being right here!! They are actually catering to no players at the moment. Think about it, they removed quickswap (a tool catered to pvp) and nerfed blunder. They haven't addressed hitreg for a long while now, no updates for hg mechanics since it launched leaving it extremely sweaty and dead to new players, and now ban important pvp content creators from their game. I love the pvp in this game and find almost everything else boring. BB was not imo a pvp addition to this game at all. At most you could call it a pvpve mechanic catered to new players. Season before this they added 2 new weapons which did nothing for the pvp meta and more for the pve meta. season 11 was diving which is super pve and season before that was guilds. Most of the updates in sot are exclusively pve however, they never land well with the general playerbase. You even say that it sucks to supp up which, if the devs ever touched the pvp in this game, would have addressed a long fucking time ago. Saying this game has balanced pvp and calling that bad design is so mind boggling to me like do you want it to be broken??? more people play with a crew than not mate your the odd one out here. The can't cater to everyone yk, especially the ones that refuse to get friends lol.
@Gibbon862 nah you're right about most people crewing up, the only people who play the game are pvpers. They want this game to survive? They want this game to be a long lasting game? They need to utterly kill off pvp. You can disagree with that all you want. New players come in, get excited about pirate simulation and sailing and collecting loot, then they meet a sweaty pvp crew who can't find fights anymore, the loose three hours of progress, log off, come back two years later too see if it's changed then log off again when they find out it hasn't. I did not say the pvp was balanced I said the game was balanced to be a PvP game, when they need to focus it as a PvE game. They can decide to do right by you. They are allowed to listen to players like you. But this game will die as a result of catering to pvp the way it does, never reaching a 16th of the playerbase it could have. Game has a ton of potential. I respect what they have immensely, and enjoy my sessions until I'm forced to PvP. Then I lose hours of progress, load back in and see that I have to restock on everything and spend thirty minutes recuperating from a PvP loss. Loss in PvP is fine, but only a miniscule amount of players enjoy being punished for thirty minutes for one death
For me it was when they changed the blunderbuss that I stopped playing. I just don't find it very fun anymore because half the time because of SOT lag someone who on my screen is on the bowl can know me off their boat at the helm. So Instead of complaining on Twitter I just went to other games.
Season 13 is 3 things to me 1 the great return of the lore 2 the death of hourglass and 3 the potential beginning of the end of this game with lore this is something that should have happened years ago hourglass so many bad changes have been announced or added during this season and the end of the game? Rare have showen themselfs to be untrustworthy ontop of being awful people (not all the devs just some of the bigger names) with cheaters there statement was bullshit complete bullshit to the point that gta online at its worst state would be a better game to play there continued lack of listening as well? They need to do better fast or this is the start of the end
There is plenty to do in sot imo. I've been wanting a new world event that operates normally like a skelly fort or skelly fleet for a very long time, but I do think that there is plenty of content. The main problems with the game are definitely bugs, cheaters, hit reg, lag, and general QoL things. If all of these were fixed people would not be so easily turned off from the game. However, I do think that the bigger problem is with the core game loop. Most of my sessions are boring and I barely see any other ships, and the ones that I do see are either total noobs or crazy sweats. It is rare to get a good fight with somebody where you feel accomplished. These equal fights are also not so bad to lose because at least you were able to fight well. The huge skill ceiling in SoT is a big turn away for new players, but the complexity and huge amount of content is not necessarily so daunting because it is an adventure game, and every session should feel like a choose your own ADVENTURE! there needs to be stakes and motivation and thrill and excitement. In my opinion almost all of this comes from player interaction, which is very difficult when you never see other players and the QoL problems are so bad that the pvp sucks. Overall, my favorite part of the game are the wacky adventures and situations and stories you can find yourself in and the game should focus on cultivating those in ways that don't necessarily involve adding more "content."
it is a really good game but also a cash grab you need to pay for an expansion pack which is kinda dumb after all the game is 60 bucks already edit: and since the newest update it’s been very buggy
They have free dlc characters coming later but nothing else paid so far…. However I would be someone interested in a expansion pack for some new worlds
I want them to add new modes to hourglass. Imagine you could team up with other boats and go 2v2, or a whole ass battle royale, both of which giving a ton of rep! Or just add an arena style mode with factions! There is so much you could do with a faction war concept that they just won’t do!
PS5 launch had almost no long-term effect on the game's playercount because most of the new players saw how absolutely broken the game is and obviously wanted no part in that. Bugs are for sure the main thing killing this game right now.
sot is a 10 year project, 6 have passed. in 6 years it has always been talked about, it won't die peacefully, the videos you see are just clickbait, more than 60k plsyers play daily
Rare and it's PVE overlords always cry about Arena being dead and needing to stay buried, but I think that Arena was actually really healthy for the game. It gave the casuals a good eco-system to thrive in on adventure mode, while the PVP lords got their fill. Now, without Arena, PVP players either hunt down anyone they see for sport (causing many to quit), or they are trying to make HG work, but Rare refuses to do anything with it, or they just quit for good. The new players from PS5 got introduced with no PVP mode (HG isn't a mode as I've been told numerous times by dinguses on the forums) to practice and learn in, so they get bonked and just quit. All in all, this is the perfect time for Arena to come back, but we know it never will, which is why I think SoT will continue to decline because those wanting only PVP don't want to chase runners in HG or spend an eternity restocking their ship only to get sunk again, and those wanting to PVE are going to be chased down relentlessly by all the bored PVPers.
The Burning Blade is awesome, but it isn't even in the wheelhouse of potential content for solo/casual players. Every time I take it over solo and do the 8 rituals and try and turn it in, I get server hoppers bonking me. I've only managed to turn in an 8 stack once and I would consider myself a bit above an average player in terms of time invested into the game. I would say most people are going to shy away from the Blade because it's not meant for solo or duos, unless they are sweats/streamers. I'm still glad Rare introduced it, but it boils down to the fact that most of the casual players have now gone through 2 seasons with nothing new for them to do. Rare needs to bring multiple new things to each season instead of focusing on one thing that can make or break the season in it's entirety.
Its one of my least played seasons yet im struggling to finish the season pass partly due to my, busy work schedule but I just havent really been interested in this season.
BB was just like the siren skull, it was great for about 2 days and now no one fights over it anymore. Add to that the frustration of the game running like crap AND hackers? I havent played since the weekend 13 came out, and i know im not the only one.
I've no idea what the future holds for SoT, but I have noticed over the past year the once ubiquitous faces of the franchise are rarely (pun intended) if ever visible -- Mike C and Joe N in particular. I think there's something to this. Is it tied to a game that was once heavily lore-informed to now having its lore relegated to second-class citizenry? Perhaps. Seems as if Mike C is no longer as involved in the narrative/lore aspect of the game. Is this why the narrative aspect of FH's return was mostly non-existent? No cut scenes. Not even a SoT short cinematic was put out by Rare showing at least to some degree how exactly FH came back -- both in recap form and in specifics that account for the time between Stitcher Jim, Sea of the Damned, etc, and the actual, physical return. Instead, we get a steady dose of a very congenial if not at times overly animated presenter whose prime focus is selling the Emporium and a seemingly nice dev who's putting on a semi-tough-guy-punk-rock-act talking about the health of the game -- and the solutions discussed by him more often than not serve to further break the game when they come online (which isn't his fault, btw). There appears to be a general disconnect in the game, both internally and among the playerbase, and ultimately between Rare and its playerbase. And I have a feeling Season 14 will bring about even more discord.
