I've seen a fair few people comment that they disagree because the number of ships should increase on the server. I completely agree, these are concepts I'd like to see if Rare did fix that issue!
Sadly for the, to upgrade the servers and add more player cap, they would need to remove old xbox from the current game because it can barely run with how big the game has got
@@TheSkreeBat I would like to disagree, I have an original xbox one and I've had zero problems with the game running, I've had problems with my connection (my internet kinda sucks) but that's about it.
@@TheSkreeBat this is not true, server size can not be effected by your trashy console, it’s the regions that would be the issue, all the cool looking places would lag out Xbox players
That would be really cool in my opinion, and maybe old boot fort could be in the sea of the damned as if that and fort of the damned swapped almost. Idk just a thought
It mostly a tech issue. They game in its current state simply couldn't handle it. You would need in increase server pop to at least 8 prob 9-10. RIP hit reg. Something like this would also require killing Xbox one which it inevitable but I'd say its at least a year off.
@@blastermanr6359 6 ships a server is quite a depressing experience and that’s if you’re lucky with a full server, they seriously need to increase server size before anything else at this point. I’m sick of being put into empty servers with only 2-3 ships, server hopping isn’t the best either, it’s just horrible.
@@blastermanr6359 it not the game, the current hardware of the Xbox one prolly can’t handle it. That’s why they are cutting support later this year. They did say the games hard to code with, but they can still add expansions and increase the server size.
It would honestly be a huge waste of the devs time to really do that, they would probably have to spend at least a year making it, only for it to be relevant for a quarter of the time, and cause massive issues to implement. But we can dream at least right?
"Like Pirates Of The Carribean" "God i love those films " well ray you got both of the things you wanted sea of the damned and a pirates of the carribean crossover
I’m not sure if you bring this up (I’ve just started watching the video) but I really feel a region in the map called Uncharted Waters or something, where because of the Shroud, you can only enter through one small passageway, and none of the islands are on the map. You have to find them yourselves and when you do, they get added to your map. It’d give a drive for exploration and would make it a lot scarier
The sea of five winds is my favorite concept. If they added the Singapore ships seen ins at worlds end would be so cool! This would go for a greatest update yet!
@@AShinyRay yes. I was thinking a new ship customization feature called ‘sails types’ they would only change the look of sails and have there own skins too.
I would love to see an Outpost only pirate legends can spawn at and get to. It will be like shipwreck cove from Pirates of the Caribbean and have a cave entrance where you sail your ship through a tunnel
I´ve coined this idea for a jungle/swamp region where in some parts you even have to just use a rowboat to navigate through very narrow rivers, much like the swamp from the Pirated of the Carribbean. The unique treasure there could perhaps be a skull with a snake inside of it that you have to play music to in order to calm the snake down and make it dance so that it doesn´t bite you while carrying it. The cursed chest could also drain your health slowly when carrying it, meaning you´d have to take breaks and eat a lot of the food (which of course wouldn´t be scarce in this region). I think this could just be a really small portion of the map, as it would be a much more dense area of the size of a few bigger islands.
imagine, the sea of the dead, you can only enter if all your crew are legendary pirates, and you have to sink your ship to get in with a ghost ship, new events to do, new islands to explore, and if you die you respawn in the normal world, fights would be amazing there, all or nothing
I love the idea of having to sink your ship while it is equiped in a specific way, to be able to enter the sea of the dead, similar to how fort of the dammed works
i would like for it to be like a ritual, u need like 1 captain skull of the damned for each crewmate that wants to enter the sea of the damned and you all go to a certain island, place the skulls on a ritual table and then sacrifice your souls to the sea of the damned. you would spawn with your ship and all the crewmates who performed the ritual with the same loot and emmisary as you had, but with a spectral texture.
Requiring a crew of PLs would be a bad idea. The game is based around not gating significant gameplay content behind progression, and it would lead people to wanting to exclude non PL players from their crew. What if you, a PL, want to play with your friend in the sea of the damned, and he's not PL?
I feel like two of these regions could come with a "ship curse" that adds effects to the ship's overall appearance. The sea of the damned could have a ghost curse for the ship that would add that weird phasing effect lots of ghost stuff have, and make the ship bright green no matter what is on it. The phasing effect will not be present on the main deck, the helm decks on sloops and galleons, and the lower decks, as not to impair vision. This means the sails, the hull livery, the wheel, capstan, and cannons will be effected. And for captained ships, a new captain's room customizations, which would be for example: Chair of the Damned, Table of the Damned. They would look identical to the run down looking customizations, like the Bilge Rat and Silent Barnacle stuff, except of course with the signature bright green and phasing effect. They would be unlocked similar to Scorched Forsaken ashes stuff, where they can be purchased after doing "Sea of the Damned" voyages. The frozen biome could be paired with the glacial curse, which basically just adds icicles and a kind of shiny effect to some parts. For Galleons, this would make the lower decks look all icy and covered in snow, as if the ship had been derelict in the wastes for years. Captain's stuff would be similar to the Legendary set in appearance, with a different color scheme and icicles hanging off them and such. Once again, obtainable by completing Frozen voyages. On the topic of ship curses, I feel an "Ashen Curse" for the ship could exist, that basically made the furniture below decks (like the cooker and grog barrel) have a more hot design, and adding some red-hot glows from between the planks, similar to the Ashen Dragon hull. This curse wouldn't affect anything else though, because there is already ashen-related customizations for everything else. I just feel this would be a good way to max out the ashen ship designs and make them complete.
I like that idea. For one it gives a bit more reason to reach PL. A possible solution for the population issues would be to turn it into a separate server. Rather than sharing the overworld. Entering or leaving must be done with a crew vote, like voyages. And when you load through you are put into a new server, and removed from your old one, freeing up the slot.
The sea of five winds is where the maiden voyage island “old sailors isle” is. It would have to be pushed left and sort of squished. Love the vids man!!
(I'm on phone sorry for typos) My concept for the game would be a dead sea. A very small area in the map with near barren islands apart from several high difficulty skeleton forts, a huge increase in roaming skeleton ships here as well as the new bone reef. These events will catch your ship as you sail through the dead sea and hold you in place until you can make it free. The bone reef is a massive pile of bones at the bottom of the ocean (possibly an ancient gravesite or some kind of wild cursed city) it will punch holes in your ship and hordes of skeletons will crawl through. This update would also include skeletons being able to board ships from skele vessels. To battle the bone reef you would need to go under your ship and fight off the skeleton torsos sticking out and grabbing onto your ship. Which allows you to escape. But if you want to fight off the reef and destroy it. You have to kill every skeleton that's moving on it. Where it will break apart and release loads of skeleton loot. Some of which is obtainable without destroying the reef because it's sticking out and can be grabbed. Bone sharks and skeletal krakens will also appear to make an incredibly difficult region to survive. And a broken reef will drop one extremely valuable cursed chest that makes skeletons spawn on your ship until you can sell it. The lore behind it would be these skeleton chests draw other undead to them causing these massive pile ups. They were dropped into the sea to stop them but it was hopeless.
An potential idea I had the other day was have a rotation of biomes that come in an out of the shroud. The three original zones would always be active, but every set period (e.g. a month) the additional one would get swallowed by the shroud again. So one month the Devils Roar is available, the next month the frozen wastes, the next the sea of stones, etc.
I've always had a bit of a filled out view of what the world would look like. There are four concepts I had major ideas for: Wild Sea: The existing southern block of Devil's Shroud is where all of the largest monster sightings have been. The original Hungering One came from down there, and the Pirate Lord claims to have seen a kraken larger than any other lurking in that section of fog, in one of his journals on Old Sailor's Isle. As such, I think that area of open sea would be best filled with more open spaces and stronger emergent encounters. Perhaps the stronghold for the region could move around on a large creature, a crab or turtle being the most likely. If the region was to have an outpost, I think it should be in the southern border since it would accentuate the way that corner of the map has no easy access, which gives the Reaper's Hideout more attention. In style, this outpost would mirror the stronghold, but not move - perhaps a dead crustacean shell. Islands would be tall but weathered, and the storm here would show exactly why with its increased intensity. That bit of water you pass through on the Maiden Voyage tall tale would remain covered in the Shroud. Skeleton Infested Waters: Initially I thought this might be south of the above region, though it would fit to the west of it as well. Regardless, the concept was the same - a new area of the Shroud pulled back, and one of the various higher ranking skeletons had a solid portion of their forces rush in to take it first, before the fog closed behind them. After that, the skeletons built up every island into a stronghold-like structure, though only a few are able to become active. Unique structures, such as dry docks for skeleton ships (some loaded with crews and active cannons), trench-like defences, and floating mines could be seen throughout the region, and all of the strongholds can be supported by the increased skeleton ship threat, as on the stronghold spawning a skeleton ship will rise and circle it, hostile to any crew nearby. A larger stronghold structure, with twice the rewards or more, would be the centerpiece, and world events of the region would be unaffected by the rest of the map's events. If there was any outpost here, it would be small and heavily defended, featuring defended cannons and features of a captured stronghold island, albeit with repaired walls and with the inner structures torn down. Permanent Fog: Part transitional region west of the shores of plenty, part fully fleshed-out region, this is a solid challenge to any seasoned pirate, as the fog within the region does not ever yield from its thickest, and the islands on the map shift from their actual positions. Predictably, the rocks and islands of the regions are decorated with the bones of the creatures and crews (as well as their ships) who could not navigate the waters, murky above and below. The outpost for the region is one of the few islands high enough to rise above the abnormally tall fog, and the stronghold has less of a defined cloud and more of a show of flashes of light in the nearby area, when viewed from within the region, though its cloud shows above the fog from outside the region. The islands are quite varied, some near the edges with ancient ruins on them, others with massively varied natural structures and shapes to them that feel like each island might've been pulled from somewhere far away, like every journey through the fog takes you much further than your ever-changing map might show. One might be large and flat, another raised far above the surface but otherwise be mid-sized, another barely an island as much as a twisting ramp up a rock spire, and yet another a stepped area of land. Ice Region: The much-requested stretch of icy waters don't fit into the Sea of Thieves' tropical theme and location, but cordoned off behind the region of permanent fog and the Devil's Shroud, this one is insulated against those tropics. Drifting icebergs, rocks with less of a solid impact that leave you stuck in your own crater, and islands rich with caves both dug and formed through their coating of ice are hallmarks of the region. The stronghold particularly takes advantage of these caves and has no surface, instead being a massive twisting cave system around the structure in a central cavern with a roof of ice, though that doesn't stop the openings to the sea from having cannon emplacements. _By the way, while the Frozen Horizon set wasn't in the lore at all, being that it was themed around the time of year and an Emporium set, the Frostbite set _*_is_*_ a set that fits into the lore, skeleton script and all. It just doesn't have its update yet._ As you can tell, none of these have definite names and I have no concrete concept for a northern map expansion, but I think there's some decent ideas in here. Been thinking of that northern area being an area of much larger islands with deep jungles and ruins, like your own listed concept here. Of course, the Devil's Roar would see a buff with the volcanic eruptions being less common but very, very powerful, as well as very choreographed with a buildup of earthquakes, lava flows and boiling water, so it becomes less annoying, and the smaller islands having their own threats instead of the stupidly long-range oceanic volcanoes. On top of this, the ability to spawn at any of the more challenging regions' outposts by changing a setting would allow for vastly increased ship counts as one of the primary reasons for ships was, alongside the hardware issues which will be moved far ahead as XBox One support is cut, that only 6 outposts could spawn ships at a time. The Reaper's Hideout could possibly count as one of these outposts as well, though only if no ships are nearby and no players on the island.
The Sea of Curiosities makes me thing of a continental map. Think of it as a large island with rivers where you have to be careful with the ship, many ruins, outposts and lakes, and roads in the middle. And having rowboats or maybe carts/chariots to travel around. Imagine sailing around the giant island and meeting a galleon on the shore, or running inland to escape, or a fight over boarding a ship from both sides.
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I think it would be cool to have a town space with different things to do. That way players could cooperate more and have more interactions. Maybe have an event where you have to defend it
Like a pirate hub (Tortuga) where you can comunicate with the rest of the pirates at the sea. If you sail there your ship gets peaceball effect and kegs will despawn if carried on the ship this way trolls wont be able to ruin it. This way it will be more natural to form either alliance or challenge other crews to a duel. Like the pirate meeting in the movies.
I think the Sea of Five winds is a fantastic idea. I'd totally go there every session. The concept art you showed us gives me some Studio Ghibli vibes!
Ive always fixaded myself on the idea of more marine life to hunt other than sharks. For the asian region youve thought up, I think spider crabs would be an awesome addition to the shallow waters you have to traverse. If spider crabs were all over the seas, it would make adventuring under the water feel more challenging and thus making it feel like more of an accomplishment when you reach the cave at the end of the 800 mile long empty water tunnel
An ice region is something I really want. The gameplay would be different there because of the icebergs that wouldn't show on maps and move around slowly, and the region would give so much variety to the map. It doesn't even have to be full of snow, just a colder climate and a less saturated color scheme with new vegetation and animals, and the occasional icebergs; it doesn't really make a lot of sense to go from a tropical sea with palm trees to a cold area with snow in such a short time. Not sure if it's ever going to happen because of the small server size, but I would still really like it. And making the servers even 7-8 ships would probably be enough.
as much as I adore the idea of a map expansion, I don't think we will get any soon. Or at least a horizontal expansion. They could do something underwater, but with a traditional expansion would just make the map to big. There are only 5 or so ships per server and its easy enough to go a while without seeing anyone. I think it was recently lowered for hardware limitations, and if that's true, they wouldn't be able to just up the number to 8 or something. They would probably need to overhaul the servers or overhaul server migration before they do a map expansion, to make sure the seas don't seem empty
It would be cool if when you go to play there would be an option to select witch server you want to go on for example you could select the one we have right now and the sea of the dammed would be a diferent server and then the sea of sand and other new areas mentoned in this video would all be together in another server/map so that way 3 out of 5 people wouldnt be in a different area and you would not have a dead server also combined with more people on a server at once for example 8 instead of 5 this would be realy nice.
With the Season 3 Pirates Life expanding the map into larger empty outer ring it would be nice to fill that empty space up. Though another idea, is when in the main menu setting up for an adventure you can choose themed maps, like have a Viking themed server or an Asian themed server or that desert themed, it would have all the same enemies and monsters and all that, (Would take a while to convert all the telltales into the other map types), and loot would pretty much still be available but maybe given a texture change to fit the area?
Sea of Thieves concept response Each concept are all great ideas, but putting them into the game would maybe counter-act lore and make some plot holes, if these could be tweaked they would make great additions: Sea of The Damned: maybe moving Snake Island and Castaway Isle half a box closer to Fort of The Damned and making a new outpost on one of Snake Island's Islands but separating them a bit to allow for 2/3s of it to stay normal. This along with maybe the sword statue from the concept art and the atmosphere around the biome being more like the fort's smog would top off a fun new biome. The new Sea of The Damned would not be big enough for a new voyage type so maybe it would be less feasible than other concepts. Sea of Five Winds: I doubt people would be ok if an Oriental biome came out of now because of how badly it would fit into lore, so maybe spin it on its head, make it mermaid themed, and maybe under water. This would be super cool and immerse the mermaids into the game more rather than ‘touch this blue thing, you spawn on your ships deck.’ If a mermaid outpost were to happen under water, it would have to be enchanted with something to stop drowning, as no one wants to die buying clothes. It would have all the features of a normal outpost with the inclusion of duke, and a tall tale to play through his search for the silver blade and pick up where he left off. Also, with the Asian inspired clothing maybe that would come on a Chinese festival/new year as rare have done that before. Frozen Fangs: This is a massive concept and i think while it would leave players in awe over a new ice biome in the game, it would flop like the devils roar because the rest of the map just have an abundance more loot. This would need to match the shores of plenty/ancient Ilses in size if people were to keep coming back. New mechanics could be added to this area that would make holding a lantern up or using campfires to keep warm and not freeze, if you forget this though, you will start freezing which means slowing down and taking small tick damage if not thawed out by friends or something comes along and hits you. Again, old world themes like vikings would be out of place, so maybe cave paintings of ancients dressed in winter gear fighting this mysterious abominable snowman/yeti creature with spears and Viking like hatchets. I would LOVE Viking ship cosmetics in SoT, painted sails and Norse mythology figureheads would be a great addition for completing an ice commendation from the bulge rats or maybe an iceberg only trading company like hand in 50 yeti skulls or explore all 10 islands. The Sea of Stone: Although I do believe the ancients were nomadic, I would like to dive into their culture and heritage by exploring jungles and temples, maybe in days to come a revamp of crooks hollow to see this or a new island that has an ancient temple secured by traps, parkour, and puzzles to be done by you and your crew to find something deep inside. The island geography would have to be full of cliffs, caves, twists and turns to really get the most out of it. The Sea of Curiosities: I like what you did here to try tie in Islamic trade culture during the same time frame as when (I imagine) SoT is set, but I just don’t think it would fit into the game world. I can see a jungle, ice biome, underwater biome, but I definitely cannot see a desert coming to the sea. I and most others would love to see new content added to the game map wise but it’s too big as is with 5/6 ships on the map, Rare needs to cut down on map size, or increase server size if more were to be added to the game so servers didn’t seem dead all the time. Feel free to let me know what you think (anyone, not just shinyray). Otherwise great video keep up the good work
I think something would be for the sea of the damned is that your ship spawns in and then the sea is the size of one map portion from the overworld. The Ferryman could also hunt you down to sink your ship and send you back to the overworld. The upside is that any loot on your ship is ghostly and worth more but if you fail to sell it, all your loot upon returning to the real world, washes up on an island somewhere randomly. This would prompt reapers to steal your stuff before sinking your ship in order to secure it for themselves and once sunk your emissary is of course automatically lost (you won't be needing it where you're going) Additionally getting lost in the sea of the damned sends you back, so don't go into the water in open seas. Finally, your ship only goes to the sea of the damned as long as A) It is sunk and B) There is at least one crewman in the sea of the damned to man it (others can of course, try to die to join them) I think the main reason they don't want to add anything is because it's tough to get people interested in the Devil's Roar. I myself don't usually go there, and maybe they just need to prompt more quests, like if I'm taking one from the gold hoarders, perhaps the valuables are slightly worth more overall or maybe the only quests for that guy are devil's roar. In any case, if more interest is shown in the Devil's Roar, you might get more attention for another map. The other problem simply being that the map is large as is and you'd have to condense it and reduce the overall amount of open water. Too much sea to travel on makes player interaction null. You could go forever without seeing anyone if there are 9 regions. The only appropriate way to fix that would be to have The Shores of Plenty, The Ancient Isles and The Wilds in every map and then tie two or three of these (including Devil's Roar in this set) to randomly be selected for a server. Basically: SoP, AI, and the Wilds spawn in, then select two or three from the remaining 6. Alternatively, you'd increase number of players per server but hardware blah blah blah blah blah. Which frankly needs updating anyways.
I would love to have the sea of curiosity added with some greek/Mediterranean isles like Santorini or Skiros. And it would be completely appropriate to Sea of thieves because the Mediterranean sea was infested w/ pirates 😁👍👍
Another cool mechanic for the Frozen Wastes would be an Ice Ram. Sheets of Ice over the surface of the water would require an Ice Ram that players would have to get out of their ship to repair periodically, or risk speed loss and ship damage. It would also be cool if stagnant water would freeze in the ship, requiring a few firebombs or holding a lantern by it for a while.
Say instead of adding a more powerful firebomb They could add an ‘oil bomb’ Which of thrown at a ship would spread oil over an area making any fires much bigger and harder to put out Players could splash water on the oil to get it off their ship It could also spread in water and allow a patch of fire to be on the oceans surface for a short time , letting people set traps for ships and get even more creative
They could get around the server limitations by putting the new map completely separate from the normal map. So when you start playing you choose which map you want to play on. The second map could be for example the Sea of the Damned, and it'd be like any other server on its own, but on this other map. And they could only make it accessible to Pirate Legends so that being PL actually means something haha
if rare where to add a ice region I think they should also add a axe weapon which can be thrown at your enemys insta killing players and doing a lot of damage to higher tier skeletons. it can also work like a sword for close range. the twist is that the throwing axe has a medium short range and you have to pick up the axe after throwing it or get another one from a ammo crate
New enemy types would be nice, also One Piece (Anime) Collaboration would be perfect for this game, some Cosmetics maybe.. as the actual One Piece Games aren't even Pirate Games..
The shroud is always changing and being pulled back. Because of this, I think the different fan made regions should have a rotation every few days. This way, the lack of players per server wouldn’t be an issue as the 3 main regions would stay but the Devils Roar would rotate out every few days to be replaced by another special region. So there would always be 4 regions but the 4th one rotates to be another region.
And every day it is a new player voted area. but the areas would not be gone when they are voted out they just pop up in some other voting menu. Also for each day of the week or on special times of the year for example Chrismas would be the snow area for a week. Holloween would be the sea of the dead. But with the player voted content there is a menu for what area you want added and it would be a voting system with four areas or to keep the current one for a week but next week when it is voting time the option to keep it is not there and you need to chose a new area. This would stop grinders or somebody like that from keeping the area that gives them the most loot. Damn i just wrote a tda about sea of thieves.
@@monke7914 ok but if you want to play in a specific region, you will still have to server hop if the on you get put on does not have the one you wish to play in active.
Maybe you could make a deal with the Ferry man so you can take his place for some time and explore Sea of the dammed and he can come back to life and explore the Sea of Thieves for some time....or you could get quests from him to retrive lost item of the dead characters from the Sea. He would spawn a skele looking sloop for you and give you time to get the items like with the packages in the tradeing faction if you wouldnt get the items in time you die and respawn on the Ferry
Why can’t the ships just have triangular sails too😩. Idc if they don’t affect anything and are just for looks it would make galleons look soooo much better
So many sick ideas in this video - really hope the devs are this creative moving forward. I think the keyword for successful SoT updates moving forward is “variety”. People are getting tired of seeing the same two biome types with slight variation for hours on end.
I would like an ice biome to the north of the shores of plenty, with snow instead of rain, ice bergs floating around and an emphasis on bonfires to keep warm. The sea of five winds to the west of the ancient isles and south west of the shores of plenty, more Asian style buildings with more dense vegetation on islands and more animals that are unique to that region. A map expansion that isn’t really a new region. Like in the deep water in the Ancient isles and Shores of Plenty there would be huge Merfolk ruins. Like with Atlantis type structures and big statues (like merfolk versions of the statues at the shores of gold) underwater caverns. Basically the sea of thieves version of Atlantis. But map expansions probably aren’t coming for a while due to the current server sizes and the problems with expanding it. But I can still dream
I think with the recent Pirate's Life Tall Tales, I do think that the Sea of the Damned may be the more possible next expansion to the game. With chapters 1 and 3 being mostly in the SotD, the developers would already have a good grasp of what to put in. I can see what they can put in. They can have islands with long-forgotten towns like in chapter 1 or lively (in a dead way) towns as outposts like in chapter 3. It would most likely be true that the SotD would be on a different map but now with the portals for the PLTT it could be possible. Perhaps those could open up for a limited time to venture into the SotD but can leave any time they want. And I can see all sorts of new enemies that would appear such as those hooded figures from Ferry of the Damned(seen in PLTT 1) trying to guard or send players back to the world of the living. I could go on and on with this but it would be amazing if we could explore it more.
Fantastic ideas with the regions. Not sure about the 'upgrading food' or 'food with additional buffs,' but newly outfitted skeletons based on their biome, perhaps new skeleton lords...and I would definitely throw in the Grand Maritime Union as 'living' enemies scattered throughout.
Only way I could think to implement something like this now and keep the ship count Rare wants would be to have the shroud cycle through these regions. for example in a one month period these regions are only accessible on days: The Frozen Wastes: 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 ,29 Sea of Curiosities: 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30 Sea of Stone: 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31 Sea of Five Winds: 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 *since the shroud doesn't affect the Sea of the Damned, maybe it's only accessible the week of the full moon irl? idk.
Personally, being an older gamer and having watched other games go from alpha to server shut down and calling it quits, I don't think a lot of "mechanical" styled play and game-changing features should be implemented at once and some of it not at all when a lot of it is already pretty much covered and it's just extra and not necessary. Flavor is one thing, too much is another. The first major issue is definitely the overall structure of the game with how servers work, limited player/ship count and the functionality of the server merge. Adding more to the map really needs to make sense to the actual linear part of the game, since at it's heart, it does have a story and that's what creates the major part of enjoyable events as well as focal points for the PvP aspect of the game to be centered around. An ice/northern biome that is majorly wanted, excellent, I too, personally would love a sea of moving ice and glaciers that are just as deadly as any volcano in the Devil's Roar. New wildlife, sure, slowly, but sure. They can cut back on some of the other wild life to keep the server population of spawned bits within the ratio. New weapons of all shapes and kinds? It's a nice thought but honestly... that's what the first nails in the coffin sound like. Try stuff in beta or via the insider program, see how it reviews, then consider putting it in. But a lot of changes all at once is what ruins a game and takes it away from the core concepts that have you playing already. That's just my thoughts on it from my experience anyway. I look forward to each and every update with a positive outlook because so far I think they're finally hitting their stride and heading in the right direction and I hope the wind holds in Rare's sails for as long as possible, as I love the Sea of Thieves, being one of my favorite games of all times and I'm not a long time player or returning player.
I always thought they could do the sea of the damned as a world event where you sail into a mirror of the sea of thieves with randomly spawning spawning islands each time you enter and if you sink there you get sent back to the real world but to add some danger if you don’t get out by the time the world event ends you can either choose to stay and wait for the next event or scuttle your ship
Itd be cool if in order to get to the Sea of the Damned, youd have to sail through a foggy graveyard of ships, with increased chances of being Krakened or Megd. Maybe throw in chances of whirlpools spawning, sucking your ship in and requiring careful steering to get out. Maybe if you fall prey to the whirlpool, your ship spawns in and underwater area. Where you have to lift a curse in a timeframe to resurface and not drown.
The game needs stability work for hitreg and to AT LEAST reintroduce that 6th ship to severs. Expansion of the map, even the tiniest in the form of using Tribute Peak or the Sea of the Damned, is an absolutely ridiculous thought right now with how sparse the servers can be. I also get that these kind of videos get mad views so I get it lol. Opt-in/out sloop-only servers might help considering how many solo sloopers I've seen the last few months but I got ridiculed for suggesting that. I guess people like dicking on newbies. Then again, maybe Rare wants to discourage PvP. I wouldn't put it past 'em at this point.
great video! Personally I would say if an expansion were to only have one outpost it'd probably be The Frozen Wastes. Being hazardous will generally mean fewer people will bother to sail there so having a single outpost isn't a huge problem. Five Winds, Stone, and Curiosity would all probably need 2 outposts a piece do work comfortably, since otherwise people would all be smashing into each other, though that depends on how close they are to other area's outposts.
Ngl, I kinda want bigger ships with bigger crews for more intense ship to ship and even boarding parties. Imagine 6-8 man crews on Man-O-Wars battling it out with constant cannon fire, holes everywhere, large boarding parties. I can see this being hectic, but with some washing able to be really fun
im thinking an atlantis type area with big peices of coral, whirlpools, some cool mermaid stuff, lots of ancient buildings, lots of ship ruins. it would be like the wilds and the ancient isles mixed with some mermaid stuff included, giving a better chance to include sirens and sunken treasure while still fitting a sea of thieves esque kind of thing so that its not too crazy
What I think would be really cool would be like a huge cloud wall that separates the rest of the map to the sea of the dammed... How great would it be if you were getting chased and you dipped into the sea of the dammed that was a really eirey and spooky place :)
For the Frozen wastes, I was hoping for more iced over waters, some sort of ship ram that can be added to better prevail against the ice. As for the Sea of the damned, they could add some sort of hidden way to access it, similarly to Pirates of the Caribbean where they either tip the boat or go over a worlds end.
I would like an ice area where ships can break through some ice chunks maybe, and a jungle swamp area would be cool too. Just more areas in general would be cool. What I'm looking forward to is a more built up town area. Like in the tall tale area for pirates life!
I know a ice region is the most popular but man I would live an Asian pirate region, Asian pirates looked so cool in pirates of the Caribbean and there could be unique merchant missions as well because of tea and spices
I never understood people’s argument that a region like an ice region “wouldn’t make sense in a tropical setting”. We’re sailing on a sea of Krakens, Megalodons, Skeleton ships coming from the bottom of the sea, Fire breathing ashen lords, Cannonballs that can put everyone on your ship to sleep and ghost ships. Rare clearly hasn’t worried if anything makes “sense”. Who cares if it makes sense, it’s fun!
I like the sea of five winds the most and hope it comes to the game eventually. It reminds me of the shores of plenty but just better and different feeling going around, as you have islands that can be extremely vertical instead of just a generally flat area that you can navigate in a few minutes. I feel like the sea of stone is a better ancient isles. The ice one is a refreshing opposite to devils roar and the sea of the damned seems like it should be like a limited time map like Halloween exclusive or during certain days certain sea of the damned islands appear and disappear later.
I look forward to maybe a mermaid underwater area or the sea of the damned, it sucks that due to the engine though they can’t add those kind of things, maybe they’ll make a second game but it’s the exact same just built on a different engine and can have more stuff
What they really need is an ocean update. They should add coral reefs which you can spear fish at, and add whales. The whales would be like real life whaling, where you would have to hit them with your harpoon to stun them then once you kill them, they could drop whale fat, whale fin, and a bottle of whale oil. The oil would be like a crate from merchant missions, but it would be a big jug you hold that you sell to the hunters call. They also should add a musket as a new weapon. It would do a little less damage than the eye of reach, and have a bayonet that you can dash attack with, but no swing.
Something I'd love to see is that to get to the Sea of the Damned, you have to fight a Ghostly ship and have it drag your ship down to the Sea of the Damned, basically losing on purpose
I love the idea of regions based on Asia, South America, and the Middle East. Pirating was a worldwide phenomenon, not restricted to the Caribbean, and that leaves an almost endless source for inspiration. In addition to those regions mentioned in the video, I'd like to see junks and xebecs added to the game in all three sizes. I had an idea for one more region. The floral, fauna, architecture, and mythology would be based on the continent and civilizations of central Africa. The major distinction from other regions would be that there is a greater proportion of land to water. There would be large areas of jungle crisscrossed with channels and rivers and occasional bays, inlets, mangroves, lagoons, and large lakes. Since more time might be spent on land excursions, there would be a lot of places to hide ships.
This game has so much potential i just wish the studio was bigger, imagine if in a few years SoT 2 comes out and (my personal pipe dream) is it has a whole story line (campaign) tying into the lore and a multiplayer section like how it is now but a giant map like the one from the video (especially with an ice zone etc) and they made it a 15-20 ship server it would be amazing!!! Theres so much rare can do and has done I'm just excited for the future of this game whatever direction it goes in
I’ve always thought an orange should be in the game. It could cure poison because it prevents scurvy in real life, but it shouldn’t replace much health.
i think the sea of the damned is not scrapped, but they had other things first. Like the harpoon, they were in the unity alpha, and on some videos, I have seen places, which is similar to the concept art. So I think they will add it, and I think it will be tight to tall tale.
I had an idea for a new region based off the 3rd pirates life TT. Basically Florida lol, one huge landmass with some short navigable rivers (big enough for 2 ships to pass each other) with some large lakes big enough to battle in. Put one outpost on the coast and one further inland. Adding a fair few rivers and lakes to split the land into map sized chunks (so it’s not like finding an X on thieves haven), just a thought I had spitballing with my crew one day
If they were to ever add an Icy region having like a Santa Claus type captain during the holiday seasons. Where you could sink his ship and get some cool loot or rewards would actually be really cool
I've seen a fair few people comment that they disagree because the number of ships should increase on the server. I completely agree, these are concepts I'd like to see if Rare did fix that issue!
Im wayyy to late but congrats on 3k
@@JakaW1 thanks buddy! Much appreciated!
Sadly for the, to upgrade the servers and add more player cap, they would need to remove old xbox from the current game because it can barely run with how big the game has got
@@TheSkreeBat I would like to disagree, I have an original xbox one and I've had zero problems with the game running, I've had problems with my connection (my internet kinda sucks) but that's about it.
@@TheSkreeBat this is not true, server size can not be effected by your trashy console, it’s the regions that would be the issue, all the cool looking places would lag out Xbox players
If there was a sea of the damned, it would be cool if it was like a ghostly mirror of the already current world
I would like that. Imagine if all the Islands got Fort of the Damned treatment!
That would be really cool in my opinion, and maybe old boot fort could be in the sea of the damned as if that and fort of the damned swapped almost. Idk just a thought
@@mi5c450 fort of the damned could be a cross over point?
Ooh interesting point
Mabye like you like scuttle your ship and it sinks to the Sea of the Dammed with you in it.
I dont really get why a lot of people are against the idea of new regions being added, I think it would be the perfect addition to the game rn
I think it would have to include new mechanics, tools and more ships per server. If that happens then I think it will be very popular!
It mostly a tech issue. They game in its current state simply couldn't handle it. You would need in increase server pop to at least 8 prob 9-10. RIP hit reg. Something like this would also require killing Xbox one which it inevitable but I'd say its at least a year off.
@@blastermanr6359 6 ships a server is quite a depressing experience and that’s if you’re lucky with a full server, they seriously need to increase server size before anything else at this point. I’m sick of being put into empty servers with only 2-3 ships, server hopping isn’t the best either, it’s just horrible.
@@franko8408 yeah. It doesn't hurt me as much as I tend to play solo a lot and you don't pvp solo unless you have to. But I feel the pain.
@@blastermanr6359 it not the game, the current hardware of the Xbox one prolly can’t handle it. That’s why they are cutting support later this year. They did say the games hard to code with, but they can still add expansions and increase the server size.
Definitely the ice expansion needs to exist top left of the map
Hey, they could put it east of the roar for all I care!
@@AShinyRay lol 😂
It would honestly be a huge waste of the devs time to really do that, they would probably have to spend at least a year making it, only for it to be relevant for a quarter of the time, and cause massive issues to implement. But we can dream at least right?
It shouldnt exist at all and is a very bad idea because sot is a tropical area so it doesnt fit
@The Whole Game tropical places have volcanoes
"Like Pirates Of The Carribean" "God i love those films " well ray you got both of the things you wanted sea of the damned and a pirates of the carribean crossover
Looks like I did!
I’m not sure if you bring this up (I’ve just started watching the video) but I really feel a region in the map called Uncharted Waters or something, where because of the Shroud, you can only enter through one small passageway, and none of the islands are on the map. You have to find them yourselves and when you do, they get added to your map. It’d give a drive for exploration and would make it a lot scarier
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE DEVLS ROAR? WHAT? CAN'T STAND THE HEAT?
Cook my chicken for me, Flamefart!
Flameheart.. You spend most of your time now in the main map, you're the one to talk
Our supplies are dwindling by now
Please, we hear enough of your nonsense in the game, don't bring it to youtube. Maybe appear for an actual fight, ya tash talking head.
Rare's biggest concern is making new items for the store.
Reskins*
@@mongraphic5102 same things you already got*
naw they were too busy begging Disney to let them use their assets
@@bobograndman Disney went to them lol
Facts
I didn't know how bad I wanted these until now😅🤣
Same here! Ice region needs to be a thing!!! All of them do!
The sea of five winds is my favorite concept. If they added the Singapore ships seen ins at worlds end would be so cool! This would go for a greatest update yet!
Maybe we get some Junks with it too?
@@AShinyRay yes. I was thinking a new ship customization feature called ‘sails types’ they would only change the look of sails and have there own skins too.
Maybe the outpost could be a huge junk like that of Zhang he
I would want Indian and Chiniese/Korean type ships which would be really cool!!!
I would love to see an Outpost only pirate legends can spawn at and get to. It will be like shipwreck cove from Pirates of the Caribbean and have a cave entrance where you sail your ship through a tunnel
I´ve coined this idea for a jungle/swamp region where in some parts you even have to just use a rowboat to navigate through very narrow rivers, much like the swamp from the Pirated of the Carribbean. The unique treasure there could perhaps be a skull with a snake inside of it that you have to play music to in order to calm the snake down and make it dance so that it doesn´t bite you while carrying it. The cursed chest could also drain your health slowly when carrying it, meaning you´d have to take breaks and eat a lot of the food (which of course wouldn´t be scarce in this region). I think this could just be a really small portion of the map, as it would be a much more dense area of the size of a few bigger islands.
Would be great to add potion mixing in this idea. Swamps, mangrove trees, potions, alligators, etc would make a sick region.
if they extend the map it will kill the game the map is so big for 5 ships in a server if they extended the map you would never see a ship
That's why we need more ships per server!
I can never find a ship
@@AgentStone5 put up the reapers mark and they will come
@@kreigpinson4368 I’m not a pvp person
@@kreigpinson4368 or everyone just runs from you. Past couple times everyone just runs from my friend and I even though we’re on a sloop.
imagine, the sea of the dead, you can only enter if all your crew are legendary pirates, and you have to sink your ship to get in with a ghost ship, new events to do, new islands to explore, and if you die you respawn in the normal world, fights would be amazing there, all or nothing
I like this idea! Maybe even sink it as there's the green flash like in PotC!
I love the idea of having to sink your ship while it is equiped in a specific way, to be able to enter the sea of the dead, similar to how fort of the dammed works
i would like for it to be like a ritual, u need like 1 captain skull of the damned for each crewmate that wants to enter the sea of the damned and you all go to a certain island, place the skulls on a ritual table and then sacrifice your souls to the sea of the damned. you would spawn with your ship and all the crewmates who performed the ritual with the same loot and emmisary as you had, but with a spectral texture.
Requiring a crew of PLs would be a bad idea. The game is based around not gating significant gameplay content behind progression, and it would lead people to wanting to exclude non PL players from their crew. What if you, a PL, want to play with your friend in the sea of the damned, and he's not PL?
@@Arkalius80 Then u help ur friend get PL and go together. PL endgame is trash atm, this idea would make it very cool.
I feel like two of these regions could come with a "ship curse" that adds effects to the ship's overall appearance. The sea of the damned could have a ghost curse for the ship that would add that weird phasing effect lots of ghost stuff have, and make the ship bright green no matter what is on it. The phasing effect will not be present on the main deck, the helm decks on sloops and galleons, and the lower decks, as not to impair vision. This means the sails, the hull livery, the wheel, capstan, and cannons will be effected. And for captained ships, a new captain's room customizations, which would be for example: Chair of the Damned, Table of the Damned. They would look identical to the run down looking customizations, like the Bilge Rat and Silent Barnacle stuff, except of course with the signature bright green and phasing effect. They would be unlocked similar to Scorched Forsaken ashes stuff, where they can be purchased after doing "Sea of the Damned" voyages.
The frozen biome could be paired with the glacial curse, which basically just adds icicles and a kind of shiny effect to some parts. For Galleons, this would make the lower decks look all icy and covered in snow, as if the ship had been derelict in the wastes for years. Captain's stuff would be similar to the Legendary set in appearance, with a different color scheme and icicles hanging off them and such. Once again, obtainable by completing Frozen voyages.
On the topic of ship curses, I feel an "Ashen Curse" for the ship could exist, that basically made the furniture below decks (like the cooker and grog barrel) have a more hot design, and adding some red-hot glows from between the planks, similar to the Ashen Dragon hull. This curse wouldn't affect anything else though, because there is already ashen-related customizations for everything else. I just feel this would be a good way to max out the ashen ship designs and make them complete.
We need the sea of the damned and it should be only available to pirate legends thru the hideout
Hmm almost like a Pirate Legend playground!
I like that idea. For one it gives a bit more reason to reach PL.
A possible solution for the population issues would be to turn it into a separate server. Rather than sharing the overworld. Entering or leaving must be done with a crew vote, like voyages. And when you load through you are put into a new server, and removed from your old one, freeing up the slot.
The sea of five winds is where the maiden voyage island “old sailors isle” is. It would have to be pushed left and sort of squished. Love the vids man!!
stop i saw you on my recommended this morning and now im addicted i love these ideas
Thanks! There's more to come too
@@AShinyRay can’t wait honestly these give me so many cool ideas and stuff it makes me want to create my own game or book or something lol
Same
the sea of the damned looks sick
I think it's the most likely due to the most development int the art book!
(I'm on phone sorry for typos) My concept for the game would be a dead sea. A very small area in the map with near barren islands apart from several high difficulty skeleton forts, a huge increase in roaming skeleton ships here as well as the new bone reef. These events will catch your ship as you sail through the dead sea and hold you in place until you can make it free. The bone reef is a massive pile of bones at the bottom of the ocean (possibly an ancient gravesite or some kind of wild cursed city) it will punch holes in your ship and hordes of skeletons will crawl through. This update would also include skeletons being able to board ships from skele vessels. To battle the bone reef you would need to go under your ship and fight off the skeleton torsos sticking out and grabbing onto your ship. Which allows you to escape. But if you want to fight off the reef and destroy it. You have to kill every skeleton that's moving on it. Where it will break apart and release loads of skeleton loot. Some of which is obtainable without destroying the reef because it's sticking out and can be grabbed. Bone sharks and skeletal krakens will also appear to make an incredibly difficult region to survive. And a broken reef will drop one extremely valuable cursed chest that makes skeletons spawn on your ship until you can sell it. The lore behind it would be these skeleton chests draw other undead to them causing these massive pile ups. They were dropped into the sea to stop them but it was hopeless.
Damb that sounds intense! Such a dark idea but think it could work as Sea of Thieves is quite dark in areas!!!
@@AShinyRay I just want pve to be hard for those who want to seek put the challenge ;-;
That is an awesome concept man.
An potential idea I had the other day was have a rotation of biomes that come in an out of the shroud. The three original zones would always be active, but every set period (e.g. a month) the additional one would get swallowed by the shroud again. So one month the Devils Roar is available, the next month the frozen wastes, the next the sea of stones, etc.
YES!!
If you do the Aztec tall tale you get a skelly curse but only at night
That is legit genius
With a full moon mind you
We honestly could see this curse added in a few days 🤞
I've always had a bit of a filled out view of what the world would look like. There are four concepts I had major ideas for:
Wild Sea: The existing southern block of Devil's Shroud is where all of the largest monster sightings have been. The original Hungering One came from down there, and the Pirate Lord claims to have seen a kraken larger than any other lurking in that section of fog, in one of his journals on Old Sailor's Isle. As such, I think that area of open sea would be best filled with more open spaces and stronger emergent encounters. Perhaps the stronghold for the region could move around on a large creature, a crab or turtle being the most likely. If the region was to have an outpost, I think it should be in the southern border since it would accentuate the way that corner of the map has no easy access, which gives the Reaper's Hideout more attention. In style, this outpost would mirror the stronghold, but not move - perhaps a dead crustacean shell. Islands would be tall but weathered, and the storm here would show exactly why with its increased intensity. That bit of water you pass through on the Maiden Voyage tall tale would remain covered in the Shroud.
Skeleton Infested Waters: Initially I thought this might be south of the above region, though it would fit to the west of it as well. Regardless, the concept was the same - a new area of the Shroud pulled back, and one of the various higher ranking skeletons had a solid portion of their forces rush in to take it first, before the fog closed behind them. After that, the skeletons built up every island into a stronghold-like structure, though only a few are able to become active. Unique structures, such as dry docks for skeleton ships (some loaded with crews and active cannons), trench-like defences, and floating mines could be seen throughout the region, and all of the strongholds can be supported by the increased skeleton ship threat, as on the stronghold spawning a skeleton ship will rise and circle it, hostile to any crew nearby. A larger stronghold structure, with twice the rewards or more, would be the centerpiece, and world events of the region would be unaffected by the rest of the map's events. If there was any outpost here, it would be small and heavily defended, featuring defended cannons and features of a captured stronghold island, albeit with repaired walls and with the inner structures torn down.
Permanent Fog: Part transitional region west of the shores of plenty, part fully fleshed-out region, this is a solid challenge to any seasoned pirate, as the fog within the region does not ever yield from its thickest, and the islands on the map shift from their actual positions. Predictably, the rocks and islands of the regions are decorated with the bones of the creatures and crews (as well as their ships) who could not navigate the waters, murky above and below. The outpost for the region is one of the few islands high enough to rise above the abnormally tall fog, and the stronghold has less of a defined cloud and more of a show of flashes of light in the nearby area, when viewed from within the region, though its cloud shows above the fog from outside the region. The islands are quite varied, some near the edges with ancient ruins on them, others with massively varied natural structures and shapes to them that feel like each island might've been pulled from somewhere far away, like every journey through the fog takes you much further than your ever-changing map might show. One might be large and flat, another raised far above the surface but otherwise be mid-sized, another barely an island as much as a twisting ramp up a rock spire, and yet another a stepped area of land.
Ice Region: The much-requested stretch of icy waters don't fit into the Sea of Thieves' tropical theme and location, but cordoned off behind the region of permanent fog and the Devil's Shroud, this one is insulated against those tropics. Drifting icebergs, rocks with less of a solid impact that leave you stuck in your own crater, and islands rich with caves both dug and formed through their coating of ice are hallmarks of the region. The stronghold particularly takes advantage of these caves and has no surface, instead being a massive twisting cave system around the structure in a central cavern with a roof of ice, though that doesn't stop the openings to the sea from having cannon emplacements.
_By the way, while the Frozen Horizon set wasn't in the lore at all, being that it was themed around the time of year and an Emporium set, the Frostbite set _*_is_*_ a set that fits into the lore, skeleton script and all. It just doesn't have its update yet._
As you can tell, none of these have definite names and I have no concrete concept for a northern map expansion, but I think there's some decent ideas in here. Been thinking of that northern area being an area of much larger islands with deep jungles and ruins, like your own listed concept here.
Of course, the Devil's Roar would see a buff with the volcanic eruptions being less common but very, very powerful, as well as very choreographed with a buildup of earthquakes, lava flows and boiling water, so it becomes less annoying, and the smaller islands having their own threats instead of the stupidly long-range oceanic volcanoes. On top of this, the ability to spawn at any of the more challenging regions' outposts by changing a setting would allow for vastly increased ship counts as one of the primary reasons for ships was, alongside the hardware issues which will be moved far ahead as XBox One support is cut, that only 6 outposts could spawn ships at a time. The Reaper's Hideout could possibly count as one of these outposts as well, though only if no ships are nearby and no players on the island.
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The Sea of Curiosities makes me thing of a continental map. Think of it as a large island with rivers where you have to be careful with the ship, many ruins, outposts and lakes, and roads in the middle. And having rowboats or maybe carts/chariots to travel around. Imagine sailing around the giant island and meeting a galleon on the shore, or running inland to escape, or a fight over boarding a ship from both sides.
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I just want new sea animals, sharks and fish ain't cutting it, its a whole ocean yet it feels so devoid of life.
I think it would be cool to have a town space with different things to do. That way players could cooperate more and have more interactions. Maybe have an event where you have to defend it
Like a pirate hub (Tortuga) where you can comunicate with the rest of the pirates at the sea. If you sail there your ship gets peaceball effect and kegs will despawn if carried on the ship this way trolls wont be able to ruin it. This way it will be more natural to form either alliance or challenge other crews to a duel.
Like the pirate meeting in the movies.
I think the Sea of Five winds is a fantastic idea. I'd totally go there every session. The concept art you showed us gives me some Studio Ghibli vibes!
Ive always fixaded myself on the idea of more marine life to hunt other than sharks. For the asian region youve thought up, I think spider crabs would be an awesome addition to the shallow waters you have to traverse. If spider crabs were all over the seas, it would make adventuring under the water feel more challenging and thus making it feel like more of an accomplishment when you reach the cave at the end of the 800 mile long empty water tunnel
Wanted to say thank you for taking your time to read all the comments through and respond♡
An ice region is something I really want. The gameplay would be different there because of the icebergs that wouldn't show on maps and move around slowly, and the region would give so much variety to the map. It doesn't even have to be full of snow, just a colder climate and a less saturated color scheme with new vegetation and animals, and the occasional icebergs; it doesn't really make a lot of sense to go from a tropical sea with palm trees to a cold area with snow in such a short time. Not sure if it's ever going to happen because of the small server size, but I would still really like it. And making the servers even 7-8 ships would probably be enough.
I agree. Possibly make it a tundra like Norway in the summer!
as much as I adore the idea of a map expansion, I don't think we will get any soon. Or at least a horizontal expansion. They could do something underwater, but with a traditional expansion would just make the map to big. There are only 5 or so ships per server and its easy enough to go a while without seeing anyone. I think it was recently lowered for hardware limitations, and if that's true, they wouldn't be able to just up the number to 8 or something. They would probably need to overhaul the servers or overhaul server migration before they do a map expansion, to make sure the seas don't seem empty
I know it's a small thing but anyone who adds chapters to their videos makes me happy.
It would be cool if when you go to play there would be an option to select witch server you want to go on for example you could select the one we have right now and the sea of the dammed would be a diferent server and then the sea of sand and other new areas mentoned in this video would all be together in another server/map so that way 3 out of 5 people wouldnt be in a different area and you would not have a dead server also combined with more people on a server at once for example 8 instead of 5 this would be realy nice.
The one to the south doesn't work, as we have been there already in the maiden voyage. I really would love to see the Sea of the Damned though!
I forgot about that! Maybe leave a space for that passage?
Well I guess we just learned it was more south than that as the shroud has been pulled back there to reveal nothing as of now
The idea of different fruit on different regions is genius
Yo ho yo ho. A pirates life for me
With the Season 3 Pirates Life expanding the map into larger empty outer ring it would be nice to fill that empty space up.
Though another idea, is when in the main menu setting up for an adventure you can choose themed maps, like have a Viking themed server or an Asian themed server or that desert themed, it would have all the same enemies and monsters and all that, (Would take a while to convert all the telltales into the other map types), and loot would pretty much still be available but maybe given a texture change to fit the area?
Sea of Thieves concept response
Each concept are all great ideas, but putting them into the game would maybe counter-act lore and make some plot holes, if these could be tweaked they would make great additions:
Sea of The Damned: maybe moving Snake Island and Castaway Isle half a box closer to Fort of The Damned and making a new outpost on one of Snake Island's Islands but separating them a bit to allow for 2/3s of it to stay normal. This along with maybe the sword statue from the concept art and the atmosphere around the biome being more like the fort's smog would top off a fun new biome. The new Sea of The Damned would not be big enough for a new voyage type so maybe it would be less feasible than other concepts.
Sea of Five Winds: I doubt people would be ok if an Oriental biome came out of now because of how badly it would fit into lore, so maybe spin it on its head, make it mermaid themed, and maybe under water. This would be super cool and immerse the mermaids into the game more rather than ‘touch this blue thing, you spawn on your ships deck.’ If a mermaid outpost were to happen under water, it would have to be enchanted with something to stop drowning, as no one wants to die buying clothes. It would have all the features of a normal outpost with the inclusion of duke, and a tall tale to play through his search for the silver blade and pick up where he left off. Also, with the Asian inspired clothing maybe that would come on a Chinese festival/new year as rare have done that before.
Frozen Fangs: This is a massive concept and i think while it would leave players in awe over a new ice biome in the game, it would flop like the devils roar because the rest of the map just have an abundance more loot. This would need to match the shores of plenty/ancient Ilses in size if people were to keep coming back. New mechanics could be added to this area that would make holding a lantern up or using campfires to keep warm and not freeze, if you forget this though, you will start freezing which means slowing down and taking small tick damage if not thawed out by friends or something comes along and hits you. Again, old world themes like vikings would be out of place, so maybe cave paintings of ancients dressed in winter gear fighting this mysterious abominable snowman/yeti creature with spears and Viking like hatchets. I would LOVE Viking ship cosmetics in SoT, painted sails and Norse mythology figureheads would be a great addition for completing an ice commendation from the bulge rats or maybe an iceberg only trading company like hand in 50 yeti skulls or explore all 10 islands.
The Sea of Stone: Although I do believe the ancients were nomadic, I would like to dive into their culture and heritage by exploring jungles and temples, maybe in days to come a revamp of crooks hollow to see this or a new island that has an ancient temple secured by traps, parkour, and puzzles to be done by you and your crew to find something deep inside. The island geography would have to be full of cliffs, caves, twists and turns to really get the most out of it.
The Sea of Curiosities: I like what you did here to try tie in Islamic trade culture during the same time frame as when (I imagine) SoT is set, but I just don’t think it would fit into the game world. I can see a jungle, ice biome, underwater biome, but I definitely cannot see a desert coming to the sea.
I and most others would love to see new content added to the game map wise but it’s too big as is with 5/6 ships on the map, Rare needs to cut down on map size, or increase server size if more were to be added to the game so servers didn’t seem dead all the time. Feel free to let me know what you think (anyone, not just shinyray). Otherwise great video keep up the good work
Thanks for such a detailed response and review, I very much love these comments. Thank you for taking the time to critique the ideas!
I think something would be for the sea of the damned is that your ship spawns in and then the sea is the size of one map portion from the overworld.
The Ferryman could also hunt you down to sink your ship and send you back to the overworld.
The upside is that any loot on your ship is ghostly and worth more but if you fail to sell it, all your loot upon returning to the real world, washes up on an island somewhere randomly. This would prompt reapers to steal your stuff before sinking your ship in order to secure it for themselves and once sunk your emissary is of course automatically lost (you won't be needing it where you're going)
Additionally getting lost in the sea of the damned sends you back, so don't go into the water in open seas.
Finally, your ship only goes to the sea of the damned as long as A) It is sunk and B) There is at least one crewman in the sea of the damned to man it (others can of course, try to die to join them)
I think the main reason they don't want to add anything is because it's tough to get people interested in the Devil's Roar. I myself don't usually go there, and maybe they just need to prompt more quests, like if I'm taking one from the gold hoarders, perhaps the valuables are slightly worth more overall or maybe the only quests for that guy are devil's roar. In any case, if more interest is shown in the Devil's Roar, you might get more attention for another map.
The other problem simply being that the map is large as is and you'd have to condense it and reduce the overall amount of open water. Too much sea to travel on makes player interaction null. You could go forever without seeing anyone if there are 9 regions. The only appropriate way to fix that would be to have The Shores of Plenty, The Ancient Isles and The Wilds in every map and then tie two or three of these (including Devil's Roar in this set) to randomly be selected for a server.
Basically: SoP, AI, and the Wilds spawn in, then select two or three from the remaining 6.
Alternatively, you'd increase number of players per server but hardware blah blah blah blah blah. Which frankly needs updating anyways.
Well we can’t have anything in the bottom of the map because that’s where old sailors isle is and would mess up the tutorial
I would love to have the sea of curiosity added with some greek/Mediterranean isles like Santorini or Skiros. And it would be completely appropriate to Sea of thieves because the Mediterranean sea was infested w/ pirates 😁👍👍
Another cool mechanic for the Frozen Wastes would be an Ice Ram. Sheets of Ice over the surface of the water would require an Ice Ram that players would have to get out of their ship to repair periodically, or risk speed loss and ship damage. It would also be cool if stagnant water would freeze in the ship, requiring a few firebombs or holding a lantern by it for a while.
Say instead of adding a more powerful firebomb
They could add an ‘oil bomb’
Which of thrown at a ship would spread oil over an area making any fires much bigger and harder to put out
Players could splash water on the oil to get it off their ship
It could also spread in water and allow a patch of fire to be on the oceans surface for a short time , letting people set traps for ships and get even more creative
southeast asian biome would be amazing. i really hope rare finds a great way to expand the map
Same here!
They could get around the server limitations by putting the new map completely separate from the normal map. So when you start playing you choose which map you want to play on. The second map could be for example the Sea of the Damned, and it'd be like any other server on its own, but on this other map. And they could only make it accessible to Pirate Legends so that being PL actually means something haha
so like ark with each map being sperate
the best thing of having new regions are the new fish in each region, i wanna see some of them in the game
Yes! And more animals to hunt!
Just wishing I wake up to see that Rare added all 5 in one go
Great job mate as always!!
Thanks mate! 💚💚
if rare where to add a ice region I think they should also add a axe weapon which can be thrown at your enemys insta killing players and doing a lot of damage to higher tier skeletons. it can also work like a sword for close range. the twist is that the throwing axe has a medium short range and you have to pick up the axe after throwing it or get another one from a ammo crate
New enemy types would be nice, also One Piece (Anime) Collaboration would be perfect for this game, some Cosmetics maybe.. as the actual One Piece Games aren't even Pirate Games..
The shroud is always changing and being pulled back. Because of this, I think the different fan made regions should have a rotation every few days. This way, the lack of players per server wouldn’t be an issue as the 3 main regions would stay but the Devils Roar would rotate out every few days to be replaced by another special region. So there would always be 4 regions but the 4th one rotates to be another region.
Thats an amazing idea! Maybe the server is constantly ebbing and flowing and depending on which server you get, a new region could be available!
And every day it is a new player voted area. but the areas would not be gone when they are voted out they just pop up in some other voting menu. Also for each day of the week or on special times of the year for example Chrismas would be the snow area for a week. Holloween would be the sea of the dead. But with the player voted content there is a menu for what area you want added and it would be a voting system with four areas or to keep the current one for a week but next week when it is voting time the option to keep it is not there and you need to chose a new area. This would stop grinders or somebody like that from keeping the area that gives them the most loot.
Damn i just wrote a tda about sea of thieves.
But then you would have to server hop to find the one you want.
@@tankythemagnorite9855 no it would switch like every day or week for all servers
@@monke7914 ok but if you want to play in a specific region, you will still have to server hop if the on you get put on does not have the one you wish to play in active.
Great video mate, i really want an ice like biome to explore. And the idea about the durian fruit is perfect for you, instead of eating grubbies.
Thanks mate! Durian fruit during boarding equals OP!
Maybe you could make a deal with the Ferry man so you can take his place for some time and explore Sea of the dammed and he can come back to life and explore the Sea of Thieves for some time....or you could get quests from him to retrive lost item of the dead characters from the Sea. He would spawn a skele looking sloop for you and give you time to get the items like with the packages in the tradeing faction if you wouldnt get the items in time you die and respawn on the Ferry
Why can’t the ships just have triangular sails too😩. Idc if they don’t affect anything and are just for looks it would make galleons look soooo much better
Well boys, sea of the damned has finally come!
So many sick ideas in this video - really hope the devs are this creative moving forward. I think the keyword for successful SoT updates moving forward is “variety”. People are getting tired of seeing the same two biome types with slight variation for hours on end.
Hopefully! The ideas could be better developed but don't think any of them are too hard to implement!
loved this take on the game man thank you so much for tell us all about it .
I would like an ice biome to the north of the shores of plenty, with snow instead of rain, ice bergs floating around and an emphasis on bonfires to keep warm.
The sea of five winds to the west of the ancient isles and south west of the shores of plenty, more Asian style buildings with more dense vegetation on islands and more animals that are unique to that region.
A map expansion that isn’t really a new region. Like in the deep water in the Ancient isles and Shores of Plenty there would be huge Merfolk ruins. Like with Atlantis type structures and big statues (like merfolk versions of the statues at the shores of gold) underwater caverns. Basically the sea of thieves version of Atlantis.
But map expansions probably aren’t coming for a while due to the current server sizes and the problems with expanding it. But I can still dream
I have one that I think would be really cool as a crossover, skull island. Just imagine the crazy stuff they could do with one large, hostile island
I think with the recent Pirate's Life Tall Tales, I do think that the Sea of the Damned may be the more possible next expansion to the game. With chapters 1 and 3 being mostly in the SotD, the developers would already have a good grasp of what to put in. I can see what they can put in. They can have islands with long-forgotten towns like in chapter 1 or lively (in a dead way) towns as outposts like in chapter 3.
It would most likely be true that the SotD would be on a different map but now with the portals for the PLTT it could be possible. Perhaps those could open up for a limited time to venture into the SotD but can leave any time they want.
And I can see all sorts of new enemies that would appear such as those hooded figures from Ferry of the Damned(seen in PLTT 1) trying to guard or send players back to the world of the living. I could go on and on with this but it would be amazing if we could explore it more.
a map expansion would probably help inproving the player limit
So interesting seeing how some of these ideas have come to exist in some form or another in the game today
Fantastic ideas with the regions. Not sure about the 'upgrading food' or 'food with additional buffs,' but newly outfitted skeletons based on their biome, perhaps new skeleton lords...and I would definitely throw in the Grand Maritime Union as 'living' enemies scattered throughout.
NOW THIS IS EPIC , keep up the good work
Thanks very much!!!
These areas plus twenty four ships would be AMAZING! But as you said the servers are already running a fine line.
Maybe in Sea of Thieves 2? ;)
We can only hope! 24 ships would mean 3 ships per region! More than enough!
Only way I could think to implement something like this now and keep the ship count Rare wants would be to have the shroud cycle through these regions.
for example in a one month period these regions are only accessible on days:
The Frozen Wastes: 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 ,29
Sea of Curiosities: 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30
Sea of Stone: 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31
Sea of Five Winds: 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28
*since the shroud doesn't affect the Sea of the Damned, maybe it's only accessible the week of the full moon irl? idk.
Personally, being an older gamer and having watched other games go from alpha to server shut down and calling it quits, I don't think a lot of "mechanical" styled play and game-changing features should be implemented at once and some of it not at all when a lot of it is already pretty much covered and it's just extra and not necessary. Flavor is one thing, too much is another. The first major issue is definitely the overall structure of the game with how servers work, limited player/ship count and the functionality of the server merge. Adding more to the map really needs to make sense to the actual linear part of the game, since at it's heart, it does have a story and that's what creates the major part of enjoyable events as well as focal points for the PvP aspect of the game to be centered around. An ice/northern biome that is majorly wanted, excellent, I too, personally would love a sea of moving ice and glaciers that are just as deadly as any volcano in the Devil's Roar. New wildlife, sure, slowly, but sure. They can cut back on some of the other wild life to keep the server population of spawned bits within the ratio. New weapons of all shapes and kinds? It's a nice thought but honestly... that's what the first nails in the coffin sound like. Try stuff in beta or via the insider program, see how it reviews, then consider putting it in. But a lot of changes all at once is what ruins a game and takes it away from the core concepts that have you playing already. That's just my thoughts on it from my experience anyway. I look forward to each and every update with a positive outlook because so far I think they're finally hitting their stride and heading in the right direction and I hope the wind holds in Rare's sails for as long as possible, as I love the Sea of Thieves, being one of my favorite games of all times and I'm not a long time player or returning player.
I just want a cool big island with some sort of swamp or river or bayou just so you can sail through it with your sloop
MORE! MORE CONCEPT!!!
Love the video btw :)
Thanks dude! I'll have to start rolling them out!
I always thought they could do the sea of the damned as a world event where you sail into a mirror of the sea of thieves with randomly spawning spawning islands each time you enter and if you sink there you get sent back to the real world but to add some danger if you don’t get out by the time the world event ends you can either choose to stay and wait for the next event or scuttle your ship
Itd be cool if in order to get to the Sea of the Damned, youd have to sail through a foggy graveyard of ships, with increased chances of being Krakened or Megd. Maybe throw in chances of whirlpools spawning, sucking your ship in and requiring careful steering to get out. Maybe if you fall prey to the whirlpool, your ship spawns in and underwater area. Where you have to lift a curse in a timeframe to resurface and not drown.
Loving the videos, nice to see a diffrent concept
Thanks dude, more to come!
The game needs stability work for hitreg and to AT LEAST reintroduce that 6th ship to severs. Expansion of the map, even the tiniest in the form of using Tribute Peak or the Sea of the Damned, is an absolutely ridiculous thought right now with how sparse the servers can be. I also get that these kind of videos get mad views so I get it lol.
Opt-in/out sloop-only servers might help considering how many solo sloopers I've seen the last few months but I got ridiculed for suggesting that. I guess people like dicking on newbies.
Then again, maybe Rare wants to discourage PvP. I wouldn't put it past 'em at this point.
great video! Personally I would say if an expansion were to only have one outpost it'd probably be The Frozen Wastes. Being hazardous will generally mean fewer people will bother to sail there so having a single outpost isn't a huge problem. Five Winds, Stone, and Curiosity would all probably need 2 outposts a piece do work comfortably, since otherwise people would all be smashing into each other, though that depends on how close they are to other area's outposts.
Ngl, I kinda want bigger ships with bigger crews for more intense ship to ship and even boarding parties. Imagine 6-8 man crews on Man-O-Wars battling it out with constant cannon fire, holes everywhere, large boarding parties. I can see this being hectic, but with some washing able to be really fun
Your second idea is pretty sick I love it that is now in my new update list
We need a jungle region. Ice biome wouldn’t make sense.
@T. O. I hate the roar. So boring and depressing
Not sure if you do if you dont, you should start streaming on Twitch. Or TH-cam. Love the vids bro
I can't stream with my current set up but will be doing it in the future!
@@AShinyRay great!
This is probably the best idea for sea of thieves I have ever seen
i can already tell this is gonna be good.
Well, was it?
im thinking an atlantis type area with big peices of coral, whirlpools, some cool mermaid stuff, lots of ancient buildings, lots of ship ruins. it would be like the wilds and the ancient isles mixed with some mermaid stuff included, giving a better chance to include sirens and sunken treasure while still fitting a sea of thieves esque kind of thing so that its not too crazy
What I think would be really cool would be like a huge cloud wall that separates the rest of the map to the sea of the dammed... How great would it be if you were getting chased and you dipped into the sea of the dammed that was a really eirey and spooky place :)
For the Frozen wastes, I was hoping for more iced over waters, some sort of ship ram that can be added to better prevail against the ice.
As for the Sea of the damned, they could add some sort of hidden way to access it, similarly to Pirates of the Caribbean where they either tip the boat or go over a worlds end.
I would like an ice area where ships can break through some ice chunks maybe, and a jungle swamp area would be cool too.
Just more areas in general would be cool. What I'm looking forward to is a more built up town area. Like in the tall tale area for pirates life!
I know a ice region is the most popular but man I would live an Asian pirate region, Asian pirates looked so cool in pirates of the Caribbean and there could be unique merchant missions as well because of tea and spices
I never understood people’s argument that a region like an ice region “wouldn’t make sense in a tropical setting”. We’re sailing on a sea of Krakens, Megalodons, Skeleton ships coming from the bottom of the sea, Fire breathing ashen lords, Cannonballs that can put everyone on your ship to sleep and ghost ships. Rare clearly hasn’t worried if anything makes “sense”. Who cares if it makes sense, it’s fun!
I like the sea of five winds the most and hope it comes to the game eventually. It reminds me of the shores of plenty but just better and different feeling going around, as you have islands that can be extremely vertical instead of just a generally flat area that you can navigate in a few minutes. I feel like the sea of stone is a better ancient isles. The ice one is a refreshing opposite to devils roar and the sea of the damned seems like it should be like a limited time map like Halloween exclusive or during certain days certain sea of the damned islands appear and disappear later.
As I said, Sea of Five Winds is my favourite and would possibly be the most refreshing!
This would be pretty cool
Indeed it would be!
I look forward to maybe a mermaid underwater area or the sea of the damned, it sucks that due to the engine though they can’t add those kind of things, maybe they’ll make a second game but it’s the exact same just built on a different engine and can have more stuff
What they really need is an ocean update. They should add coral reefs which you can spear fish at, and add whales. The whales would be like real life whaling, where you would have to hit them with your harpoon to stun them then once you kill them, they could drop whale fat, whale fin, and a bottle of whale oil. The oil would be like a crate from merchant missions, but it would be a big jug you hold that you sell to the hunters call. They also should add a musket as a new weapon. It would do a little less damage than the eye of reach, and have a bayonet that you can dash attack with, but no swing.
Something I'd love to see is that to get to the Sea of the Damned, you have to fight a Ghostly ship and have it drag your ship down to the Sea of the Damned, basically losing on purpose
I want to see a cold area with Vikings as new bad npcs that will use traditional Viking ships
I love the idea of regions based on Asia, South America, and the Middle East. Pirating was a worldwide phenomenon, not restricted to the Caribbean, and that leaves an almost endless source for inspiration. In addition to those regions mentioned in the video, I'd like to see junks and xebecs added to the game in all three sizes. I had an idea for one more region. The floral, fauna, architecture, and mythology would be based on the continent and civilizations of central Africa. The major distinction from other regions would be that there is a greater proportion of land to water. There would be large areas of jungle crisscrossed with channels and rivers and occasional bays, inlets, mangroves, lagoons, and large lakes. Since more time might be spent on land excursions, there would be a lot of places to hide ships.
I just want Cuba in SOT
This game has so much potential i just wish the studio was bigger, imagine if in a few years SoT 2 comes out and (my personal pipe dream) is it has a whole story line (campaign) tying into the lore and a multiplayer section like how it is now but a giant map like the one from the video (especially with an ice zone etc) and they made it a 15-20 ship server it would be amazing!!! Theres so much rare can do and has done I'm just excited for the future of this game whatever direction it goes in
I think you are the best sea of thieves TH-cam I find but I am new on the sea of thieves TH-camr scene. 🙂
I’ve always thought an orange should be in the game. It could cure poison because it prevents scurvy in real life, but it shouldn’t replace much health.
i think the sea of the damned is not scrapped, but they had other things first. Like the harpoon, they were in the unity alpha, and on some videos, I have seen places, which is similar to the concept art. So I think they will add it, and I think it will be tight to tall tale.
We can only hope! Maybe it will just be a Tall Tale thing like the Shores of Gold!
Even if, I would love to see it. Especially if we need to flip our ship. Like in Pirates of the Caribbean
@@AShinyRay And thank you for making these videos. You are one of my favourite SoT TH-camr
With the icy region they could add option for ice breaking rams you could choose to equip
I had an idea for a new region based off the 3rd pirates life TT. Basically Florida lol, one huge landmass with some short navigable rivers (big enough for 2 ships to pass each other) with some large lakes big enough to battle in. Put one outpost on the coast and one further inland. Adding a fair few rivers and lakes to split the land into map sized chunks (so it’s not like finding an X on thieves haven), just a thought I had spitballing with my crew one day
If they were to ever add an Icy region having like a Santa Claus type captain during the holiday seasons. Where you could sink his ship and get some cool loot or rewards would actually be really cool