I love a lot of the ideas here except for a couple. 1. Im not sure how fun the slowdown mechanics would be to actually interact with. A lot of people who play video games find slowdown mechanics to just be an awful and incredibly harsh downside especially if the slowdown affects every action the player performs. Whilst i would like them being implemented in some form it would need to be heavily balanced. Because you can have fights become real snowballs/rolls where the first person to take damage and bucket loses and finds it impossible to make a comeback. 2. I honestly think that instead of being a voyage you embark on it should be some form of world event. Where a giant viking helmet pops up over a random portal entrance letting players enter if they can get to it. However it would close when the nordic server fills up with other players. This world event wouldnt impede other world events from spawning either, allowing a server to continue as usual. This would all be in the hopes of increasing the chances of players being pitted against eachother instead of having a hard player fall off like hourglass. Overall great video mate. Vikings were also huge on trading with a huge reach worldwide. It was probably more prominent than raiding in their economy and far far more prominent than any conquering that they may have done. I could totally see them finding a way into the Sea of Thieves. Hell you could even pass the Sea of Thieves off as something legendary in their culture akin to Vinland. TLDR: Harsh slowdown is unfun, and it should be a portal related world event instead. Great video, mate! Sorry for the long ass response.
The map literally cannot be extended they said that. We will have to wait for the next gen update before we see a new region. Also the game will not survive Season 15.
I feel like it would be cool if maybe instead of adding onto the map maybe each time you loaded in a server you could check the map for what extra region is on that server. Essentially at the start up of a server a random region from a list will appear and be opened up through the shroud like the devil’s roar but the devil’s roar and the other extra regions will be inaccessible on that server allowing for new regions to be added and more explanation but will keep the server stability relatively alright. Imagine a map without the devil’s roar as it has been overtaken by the shroud but instead while the East is blocked off the South could have a swamp region but in the a different server in the West past the shores of plenty is the sea of the seven winds from the art book and in the North you could have the ice region.
thats actually genius... but the server would have to update every quest accordingly so they dont lead you to islands not currently on the map. but this way Rare could essentially add an infinite amount of new regions!
If they added an ice region it would make sense if it were a seasonal location, or through the "story arches" though truly open ended tall tale activations/alternative mode(s)
One way it would make sense to have an ice area being in the sea of thieves would he the use of magic. Theres plenty of magic so it would be a lore kind of way to have it added
I really hope they will add it on christmas but even if they will probably there will be 20+ emporium things. I just think that during newest Flameheart and Pirate Lord battle they freed some ancient spirit of cold from the ice age that would create a new region with icebergs new enemies like frozen skeletons that served it then and it sees Flameheart and Pirate Lord battles as pathetic and he would want to freeze the whole sea to claim it for himself OR he would get just a new faction called Frozen Cultists and he would get some tragic backstory like that he was spirit helping the ancients but they became scared of its power so they trapped him under the devil roar because heat would weaken him so naturally he seeks vengeance now and we could OR make him good or probably just a new villain( i prefer the first option) and he would summon his own frozen skeletons (frozen skeletons that were Ancients that worshipped him) krakens( he could enslave a kraken or just maybe this one better that he got one kraken as a pet that he gave him that ice magic and its stronger now) megalodons( something similar to krakens) i kinda took everything that is in this comment from my own mind.
I agree that the ice region needs to be in a diffrent server. Just one nitpick: Dont use the portals, they are boring. Maybe a strong current somewhere, a hole in the water that is a tunnel, something. Personal Favourite would be a Reverse Mountain... But that would mean a One Piece collab lol
Also a fun idea could be that the ice region is just outside the Sea of Thieves, so you have privateers hired by the government that are esssentially player ships as in can be chained has limited speed and whatnot but are controlled by ai that learns from you...
that second idea sounds nice but there is one big problem it would have to make it so we would be allowed to use the portals with loot on our ship wich is not possible so either u would need npc in there to sell or change the whole how portals work because when u try to use a portal with loot now all ur loot drops into the water at where u entered the portal
