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@@Random51620 This is true but they already detect exploits like this with ancient sleletons and getting more than 3. They could also counter with a money gain limit
@@kingoftwilight13 Thing is, it can be. We have dice rolling, we have knife throwing and target boards, we have a stage to play music on. Just that nobody wants to do those things because most of the player base can't be near each other without trying to start a fight
I wish Rare would have an in game poll box at the taverns, where once a year they can do a questionnaire that lasts a month and gives a cosmetic reward. Then they could see what player's are actually interested in seeing for that year. Example questions could be 1. Do you want more PVP or PVE content? 2. Do you mainly play on a sloop, brig, or galleon? etc. Getting data through questionnaires would probably give the devs an actual course to sail towards for that year, but instead we've been getting unasked for tools and weapons and chest emotes we can hide in....
@@Xograchas somebody who played Runescape from 2008, OSRS's polls only made the game worse to me. Most players don't put much thought into what they're voting for and are easily swayed by nonsense memes like "the sailing skill" and "ice zone"
@@bobmcbob49 that's a hot take. I still play OSRS to this day and the polls are amazing because you get to see actual devs caring about the game by getting monthly feedback and actually implementing it. Not hiding behind videos where they always say "we're sorry, we'll do better, and then they never once have." I will agree that lots of people vote blindly, but it still is better than what the Rare devs do, which is barely anything when it comes to communicating back and forth with the players.
I once saw a guy using a cheat to make his ship fly in circles while playing a SpongeBob theme yelling we gotta get SpongeBob back not really ruining anything but within the faction wars it's pretty bad
@@Servantoflaughter And that is what Rare has to change. The factionwar. Everyone knows it. But also many are in denial of it. There are players like me who played since year 1. We did not amassed as much gold as Pace did for example, but we still are pretty loaded. And now we can only spend it on *RECOLORS we not WANT?* Bro. The disrespect. The not being valued. The uselessness of the pirate dream -> the treasure, completely devalued. Rare must do it, they have to it! -> Spend gold & doubloons for allegiance. And then people will return to the game. Cause tons of people want golden bones, I promise. Not so sure about the urin phantom though. 😏 But Rare isn't even trying to get those back that stopped. Holy hell I even have the game DEINSTALLED currently. 😑 That is not good! I should be sweating buckets and shiver like an addict for not playing SoT. But here I am... totally fine.
@@LawfulBasedYou say that like it's a bad thing, as though you want Rare to add lootboxes and an in-game economy with real money to hook the gambling addicts. I've never supported the idea that a game should be playable forever through continual content updates (except for MMOs, which SoT is not). All games should have a point where you get tired of it and move on to something else, and that's okay. As we have seen over and over again, "games as a service" is unsustainable outside of the MMO model, developers should stop trying to prove otherwise, and players should stop expecting game updates to be made in pursuit of that goal.
You know what boggles my mind? The player base is cut in half, and yet performance only gets worse. It's almost like the servers feed on the life force and wasted hours of players, and are now starving...
This shouldn’t boggle your mind. Servers consistently try and place you with at least 3-4 other ships. There is a cooldown timer for getting merged, but I’ve been getting merged constantly recently, because player count is down. The performance issues come from them adding more and more content, to a shaky foundation and abysmal netcode. The servers have been starving since day 1, and instead of feeding them, the devs keep having them run laps on a treadmill. Eventually their legs will give out.
I'm still convinced that Safer Seas are gobbling up a lot of server resources. Traditional private servers would've maintained a better ratio of players to server resources.
@@numpy979 I don't care about that, just that from everything I know about server hosting, the minimum amount of resources to have a single player on a server are far greater than the additional resources required to accommodate more players after the first one.
I respect the idea of adding a new ship, faction or area on the map, but I feel like those changes wouldn't fully address what the game truly needs. Instead, I'd love to see features that deepen the community and strategy, like customizable guild hubs (maybe in captured forts) where you could gather your crew and stash supplies, ceasefire zones for different crews to gather and socialize, multi-ship battles in Hourglass mode, and guild wars. These additions would bring a fresh layer of collaboration and competition to the game.
How about bears, cougars, and wild boar for Hunter’s Call, (something that fights back and is already in the paintings and constellations). Giant crab attacks and Moby Dick world event. New Fort for Reaper’s.
Have you seen the servers? If you want that they need to put it in safer seas or get way better servers which isn't gona happen according to the last 6 years
@@meerbonbon1233 I think a lot of people are choosing Safer Seas (including myself) to play through quests uninterrupted by random gamers. Maybe that's why the main game seems empty.
@adny02 you do realize that it's an online multi-player game not a loot stacking simulator and it lives from risk vs reward if you can't see that you are missing 90% of the fun of the game. You are right that you never find anyone but that is because the new diving mechanic and hg either take up space on servers of people just dive-sell-dive-sell and a way to fix this is bigger servers however the backend if so shit that this will never happen
Map expansion wouldn't hurt player interactions since there are none. 90% of of my sessions I see no other players. This game has only managed to reduce ships per server since its release.
At the end of the day, most of the endgame veteran players play because of interactions with other people, whether they be good or bad. The only thing I can see that would fix SoT is to increase server stability and more ships + players per server. But, Rare seems to just not care about veterans or long term player retention, which is why they’re in this mess in the first place
this is a valid concern, and my only solution is them perhaps adding a new game mode. like opposite of safer seas, like a smaller map with only 6-8 islands and even higher rewards than in high seas. mabe even double the value of loot if stolen wen you chose your experience it would be more or less hard/normal/easy but a whole new game mode is a hard ask too but if it brings enough people back to play along with expanding normal mode (Hight Seas) then mabe would be worth it
I really like the idea of Sea of Thieves. Visually it's awesome. How tactile it is in having to physically lower sails, steer your ship, bucket the water is great. There really is a solid game here, but man do i think it has a MAJOR direction and game design issue. Pirate and Sailing is all about adventure yet we have been stuck on the same 7 islands for how many years now? And they dont want to expand the map because youd run into even less players but why didn't they just make each section a new instance you sail into without a loading screen and that section in itself has 6 other ships. Then they could quilt together a huge map this way. This is a pirate game...where you barely pirate. Why aren't there merchant npc ships going from port to port to loot? Why cant i attack towns? The only pirating you really do is against other players and most of the time you never run into them. Everyone says the game is best when you interact with others but you rarely get a chance to do it. Why aren't the towns giant hubs full of pirates, why arent the taverns bustling with crews forming. The game feels like an empty amusement park 90% of the time. The end game grind is for cosmetics you can hardly ever see because its 1st person, that alone kills some drive. Then on top of that, they make the best cosmetics store bought so they essentially strip away the carrot on a stick from grinding for stuff. Gold only gets you so much and players stock pile millions of it because theres nothing to spend it on. I think this game just needs a Sea of Thieves 2. I think ships should have npc crews tied in to make you feel more like a captain/ you have to spend gold to keep them employed and fed. You should be able to customize your ship better fine tune what you have, more firepower/speed and tons of visual cosmetics to make your ship actually -yours-. Servers should be dynamic by zone with layering similar to wow and the world itself needs more life injected into it so you can actually feel like a pirate. This of course is all thrown out the window if the game engine itself cant even manage 6 players on a map. Imagine Sea of Thieves had a child with Sid Meyers Pirates.
I would love to change ship time on the fly. I sucks when you’re a couple hours into a long session and a friend wants to join. Now you have to lose all progress to get a bigger ship.
The flip side to that is you spend hours voyaging solo, when another solo rolls up and tries to pirate you. You win the fight. Defeated solo grabs 2 or 3 friends, changes ships, and takes you out. That's what Rare has been against since day 1.
@@Stillhere18So just to clarify, you're fine with swapping servers to change ships, even though swapping servers means you lose the loot on your ship? If framed like that, then here are the things that such a system could probably safely allow you to carry over onto your new ship: -Ship supplies -Emissary flag rank -Voyage progress (I don't know if that works for multi-stage voyages, but I've had message-in-a-bottle voyages carry over when swapping servers) Are those the sorts of things you want to keep when swapping to other ships?
I haven’t played this game in two years and don’t even know what’s new. But I have some ideas that would bring me back. 1. More wildlife and more Npc’s to make the world feel more alive. 2. A area with a bigger isle density and secret hideouts that are customisable. 3. Outpost are boring, why not add more houses and Npc’s with unique quests to customise your home. Or maybe a Pirate island with a city. 4. Option to buy an island and bild your own fortress through the new quests with the added Npc’s. 5. The game is boring when there is nothing to grind, so why not add something that it’s worth grinding for. If the player sees what he has achieved through the grind it’s more fun playing. But I know the servers probably couldn’t handle that.😅
Bro, this is Microsoft. OF COURSE SERVERS WILL handle it but they don't give a f**k about it. Your ideas super good but i think it would be better to customise your ship instead of a house, because you take more time in sea
While frigate would be cool, I think I’d want like customization options instead, namely you could change your hull to be thinner which gives you more speed but maybe you have less cannons or smth, or you can add triangle sails that don’t need to be turned but either you can’t catch wind any other way (you can’t turn them) or they just take a lot longer to turn / raise for a speed boost. Same with cannon placement, I want ships that have cannons on lower decks
Or unique ships for each trading company... Trading company bases in each direction.. Venture into enemy territory when you are part of a certain company, co-operation, Ai ships for each region, Ai crew, fleets, strategy, commanders, KINGS, QUEENS, ENDBOSSES, WHAAAHH
Frigate should be 3-4 crew, gives more flexibility when crew members come and go. Especially if it's selling point is speed over fire-power, with fewer canons it can get away with a smaller crew. Add a solo only ship and you've got all bases covered: 1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4 and 4.
@@CaptFatroll depends on how much more maneuverable it is. I never said that though, I said flexibility when crew members come and go. Being stuck with a Galleon when you lose crew members basically ends the game, or when you start with 3 and gain 1. The point is make a boat that can be crewed comfortably with 3 or 4 people. 2 masts so it goes down easier than a Galleon, but packs more of a punch than a Brig.
They need to do a SoT 2.0 where it’s strictly for next gen and pc. Redo the engine/clinet and keep it working. Then set it up for the next few years to add things easily.
I would say they need to add a cold biome at the opposite side of the map that works almost exactly like the devils roar (treasure worth more, and dangerous ocean), but all the frozen loot you get will be sold at a higher price to the devils roar and vice versa causing people to get a lot of loot in the ice area, and then going on a large voyage to the devils roar to sell then doing the same thing there
@ I am just giving an idea that would allow the game to add a lot of new content Say they have a hunters call update and you can now hunt animals on islands in the ice biome you would hunt like a yeti It could also be like a seasonal event where the storm gets turned into a winter storm, and snow goes everywhere with wintery rewards Plus they already have an outfit set made for the snow, and it would add a diversity in play style I don’t know if it would be added, but please tell me your reasons why it shouldn’t, I am not against you I just am curious on why
@ an ice biome doesn’t make sense granted neither did the roar but it makes more sense then an ice biome pirates are tropical therefore an ice biome wouldn’t make sense
Honestly a sea of the damned would be an incredible addition to the game. And I’m not talking one island or a couple of forts or even a tall tale. A true second way to play. Something along the lines of when you go through the portal, you enter the sea of the damned. Where the islands are reverted to their days of the ancients. Phantom skeletons, ancient forts, new types of sea monsters, and cosmetics galore. Not to mention an interesting catch. Loot in the sea of the ancients would be worth 4 times as much as the loot in the sea of thieves. But the only way to sell it, would be to go back through the portal from where you came. Although an ice region would be cool with frozen skeletons, giant frost bird monsters to hunt as they fly low along the sea spray in cannon range. Frosted loot, cursed treasures that frost up your wheel, cannons and rigging to make it harder to sail with time, and a possible region War with the devils roar and the Frosty region starting to grow and fight for dominance over the sea. And possibly a frosty skeleton lord to lead this charge against Flameheart
Ice zone this, ice zone that, I want a swamp zone that we can traverse in varying amounts with different ship types. Some open areas and some areas that you are navigating through cypress trees in a rowie. Add alligators and or a giant gator world event, some birds like spoon bills, and flamingos, cat fish as a catchall fish
But by new area to "explore" I think we mean "A new area with new creatures, new secrets, new treasures, new other threats inside the new area. Heck I would settle for just a refresh of our current ocean. Basically make the islands less boring. Have things to discover on the islands. Maybe a new currency type like diamonds, or "jewels" that you need to find and those are used exclusively to buy new item types like potions or a new ship or something.
Or… and hear me out here, maybe put the SEA back into Sea of Thieves…. Typhoons, Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Rouge Waves and WHIRLPOOLS!!! Half the fun is sailing. Give us something to actually SAIL on damn it!
I played a lot of the game with friends in 2024, and the core gameplay loop is still strong; we've had a blast hanging out, fighting other pirates, befriending others, going on misadventures and counting gold. What the game does good it still delivers, and even if 2024 wasn't a golden year for the game it still has enough gas in the tank for a good time. What really needs to happen are the bug fixes. We keep getting Rare'd with disconnects, lag, faulty textures, and other problems. Before adding new features the game needs stability. As for new features, I want to see out of those in this video new ships. Maybe change up sailing characteristics, like a Barque with triangular sails on the mizzen mast making it even better in a crosswind, or a real Ship of the Line with a large frigate for 5-6 player crews.
Bro, stability has never been anything they focus on. And Anything more than a four man crew is never gonna happen The servers would crash, Used to be able to have at least two or three stacked ships on One sea without the whole entire server laging out lol Their server performances is very bad And it also has been stated that is going to be a ten year service we are six years in It, it was a monumental feat We even got the burning blade And that shit killed server performance
The thing i would like the most in SOT is the possibility to buy houses on random/useless islands and decorate them / upgrade them like to get a dock for example.
New ship types is a MUST. We need a ship bigger than the sloop but smaller than a brig for a duo crew kinda like a schooner maybe, still only 2 cannons but faster?. My crew is fully able to duo crew a brig but you're at way bigger disadvantage than a duo sloop. Make cosmetics actually mean something.
If they make a new ship that has two cannons they need to put a third cannon on the brig, Instead of a bigger ship we need a smaller one a Strictly one man ship, Something that can fly under the radar
I think getting the dark bretheren as a faction along side a part of the sea of the damned would be really cool, would fit story wise (the dark bretheren are known to traverse the sotd) and could include some fun new enemies or mechanics specific to that world. Also the idea with the frig and the solo ship would be so cool, but I think if even we'll see one of those things.
Me personally? I wanna see EAC removed and replaced by another, better, more functioning anti-cheat. EAC simply is useless, and the effort to bypass it is minimal. I wanna be able to play Hourglass again without risk of running into cheaters. UPDATE: Scratch that. I want Rare to actively maintain and update EAC. The software itself isn’t the problem, it’s the fact that Rare overestimates its abilities and (probably) hasn’t done much if anything to update/maintain/encrypt it since its inclusion.
The thing is, EAC isnt useless but the way rare has it implemented is, fortnite uses EAC and I almost never ever run into any cheaters, why? Because they very frequently change up files and actually try to actively stop cheaters and issuing hardware bans they also have extremely encrypted files that makes it even harder for people to make cheats. Now of course, they still do slip by but atleast epic takes them seriously even threatning with lawsuits to people who develops cheats, now what does rare tho? I don't think they do much but add EAC hoping it would solve everything without doing anything I feel like because there is no way this amount of cheaters would get by if they tried remotely to stop them.
I’m pretty surprised people aren’t mentioning AI ships with faction specific loot, so you can properly plunder loot (casually). like you know, a pirate
Personally, in between these big updates I would like them to do small quality of life and changes to what we already have. New crates that give throwables, being able to buy 2 random curse balls as captain, legend of the veil style quests for every faction that gives you a new curse for that faction, a legend of the veil style quest that combineds vaults lost shipmate and skeleton bountys into one, world event changes( better loot and new ritual skulls), old voyages returning permanently and the most controversial one opening up safer seas even more but based on were your at in high seas( still keep it at only one ship).
My friend thought it would be cool if they did a One Piece collab. Where you can eat Devil Fruits, and it gives permanent buffs and debuffs (you cant swim) to your player until you die.
Thanks Falcore!! My guild crew’s biggest asks are: 1. Guild hideout/hub that can be customized and shared in map by guild members only (perhaps a house on each outpost that would be accessed with a key, similar to entering Athena den). This also means guild social improvements like boards for announcements and notes/chats. Decorating areas so that everyone can see your play style. 2. This is less likely: Map Expansion/Investment from Microsoft to actually update servers so you can add more crews to a larger server. Imagine having to off-board a crew and row through a jungle river, (only to be ambushed of course). The lore is great and all, but it’s one and done. We need to explore and see things together. No more out of world tall tales. They have done an awesome job adding fun tools as of late. We love every tool (other than the sneaky treasure chests, we think you should be able to carry someone unknowingly). TLDR: Keep focused on sea of thieves being full of live pirate interactions with plenty of tools to use and areas to showcase and explore (together or against one another). Keep the seas dangerous and mysterious!
Definitely agree we need all those. A cool tall tail imo would be with the kids movie Sea Beasts really cool movie and fits the narrative so well for sea of thieves
I personally wish Glitterbeard could be easier to do, me and my girlfriend play together, but it doesn't help to ask and sail looking for other players. Most of the time they shoot at us and 98% of the ones I find don't want to. For example, there could be some kind of voyage/, or that you can Q up and end up with the right number of players in a kind of "seafer" sea zone, but also that you end up back to the menu when you are done. Kind of like a dungeon. It's just a suggestion, but it's something I really want. At least something like that.
My 2 cents - I thoroughly enjoyed my early times around the forsaken shores time, but coming back to it I don't want a million weapons and massively changed world that I have to re-learn. The relative simplicity of the world is what's appealing, and falling into the trap where only active veterans know the full breadth of weapons/tools etc is a dangerous one. I log back in occasionally or watch videos and some of the simple magic is gone. Totally agree, new areas, new ships, new factions sounds great.
Guild. Wars. That's what it needs imagine a map with 4 guilds keeping 4 different ports and they fight for new islands everyday until the end of a week or something the guild with the most islands gets more rewards
I think they should add two new areas with two new outposts each, the often-requested Ice Zone, and an East Asian-piracy themed zone (lot of interesting history there). I also once saw a great concept for a mermaid trading company. New ships could be the real solo ship, an Asian Junk, and maybe a 5 or 6 player frigate to mix it up
Would it be fun if you can actually hide your ship under water by diving as a in game feature? Also perhaps there should be some sort of way to save things.
Idk what the game is missing tbh. I love the game but I can’t stomach playing it for more than half an hour recently. It’s just like boring I guess. They add new content and since I’m solo I never get to genuinely experience it. Or I do and it gets boring very fast. Skeleton camps! Great addition, they don’t make me come back to play more. The game just needs more. More fixes for bugs, more voyages, more factions, more areas, more ships, more ways for players to safely interact, more weapons, we need more. They add stuff but it’s never enough to keep me interested for a prolonged timeframe. Burning blade is really cool. Good luck doing it without a galleon crew. Hourglass is cool. Good luck grinding to level 200 for some glowing bones. It’s just repetitive and despite the fact that really anything can happen on the seas, it all feels the same.
In addition to the obvious wants I’d also like to see random encounters. Like picture some giant crab or some sort of creature that is emergent, but never has a marker on a map. You’ll just randomly go to mermaids hideaway and Crab Lord is there and drops fort level loot.
I hope this game survives and is well I finally got my skeleton first grind done so I am excited to find the next big thing for me to do I think a good change would be adding AI help on Captain ships for example if your level 100 servants or guardians you get access to the basic skeleton and basic ghost think of it like the burning blade world event except on your captain ship add a tactical wheel for controlling AI and this would be a fun way to help expand the world
I completely disagree. Progression, not leading to gameplay advantages (aside from you naturally just becoming a better player), is one of the things I enjoy the most about this game. There are no gun upgrades, no better armor etc. It’s great imo.
It's not a bad idea have more areas in different regions server based that u can dive to. But the question is, can the game handle it? I wish they had a guild hideout. You can instance to and challenge newcomers or tdm or ship battle practice. Have worldy guild events like taking over certain outposts and parking your ship inside while defending.
We need a ice region! I was just telling my friend yesterday where all the islands can be located on the map, theres so many empty spaces on the top of the map
How about more in-depth ship customisation, to piggyback of the idea of ship variants, imagine being on a brig for example and being able to change not only the sail design but type, different deck layouts, cannon orientations. Etc... This would allow so much more individuality to each ship as well as give fights aboard ships that new and refreshing feel it needs ( it might just be me but fighting on the same 3 deck types get kinda boring ). This though, would certainly keep players entertained either practicing movement when they'd unlock new decks for themselves or going out to sea and seeing what others have created to gain inspiration.
They need to worry about their shit servers, always freezing and crashing and taking 20 minutes to find a server and getting stuck in the diving screen and weapons just dealing zero damage also your ship just taking damage in open waters the game just sucks
Sea of thieves has become one of my favorite games ever over the years. I hope Rare has something up their sleeve to bring back the player base. I really hope the Sea of Thieves doesn’t continue to lose its player base…
Make the map bigger with more islands with more unique designs and allow double the amount of people for each boat so I can enjoy time with more friends on any ship I want and allow me to join friends sever with my own ship new enemy’s new world events \elements and more curses and a new guild that about helping others and working together and earn reputation for team work I don’t care what anyone says this all needs to be added
Intro: I think we’re being a little harsh. Season 11 & 12 are great. Knives, bone callers, diving to voyages, horn of fair winds, scattershot, kings loot, shipwrecks and emergent skeleton captains being good again! Etc. Season 13 started strong and kinda fizzled, but its content is still relevant to the game. I at least play the game significantly different than I did in 2023, and I have more fun. Season 14 is the only bad one imo, with crouching and maybe disguises being the only things I found useful. I’d happily give up everything else from season 14 for 10 fewer ping. Main vid: I don’t want a new area or new ship type. The ships are fine as is, although I do love that the burning blade means you don’t need a bilge. I don’t want a new area either, because of the strain it will put on game performance. These are normal things to want, but I don’t think the people that ask for them are thinking through the oppurtunity cost and consequences. I do want a new faction, a return of the old story content (I joined in season 9, I never got to play a single adventure), and frankly Arena back (again, never got to play it). But what I really want, is more loot from story content, and more forms of player interaction. The story content of the game is great. But getting the cosmetic rewards requires doing tedious journals, and awards little to no treasure for your trouble. Every tall tale should feature some significant loot. Even if it’s just an orb of secrets. And the rewards should focus on emersion with the story, not grinding. But what I want most, is more player interaction. At present, it’s just troll, sink, and/or alliance. But there should be more. I should be able to earn Athena rep by escorting a swabbie ship so they can sell safely (whether that’s sailing alongside them, or tucking and making fart noises on the hot mic). I should get an increased chance of rare fish if I’m fishing in the same waters as another crew. Things like that. Something that incentivizes and rewards players for actually spending time together and collaborating, rather than just alliencing and leaving each other alone, or sinking everyone. These can also be PvP oriented, guild wars, multi-ship hourglass fights, etc. Oh, and I want guild hideouts (rather than a new area to explore). Somewhere to sink money into cosmetics, custom tavern and TDM practice arenas, see your ships side by side, custom instrumental shanties! There’s a LOT they could do. This game has all the mechanics, islands, and PvE it needs. It needs more diverse player interaction, and more story content.
for me i was thinking like new areas that they can do to make the world bigger like idk a desert more like area or like a frozen area with ice or heck even sky areas like peterpan ill take at this point cuz that would be cool. or they can add more like actual under water areas to explore that isnt a puzzle like under water islands. but for weapons they can add alot more like axes, bows, spears or any new guns as well. and defintly new enemies to face besides jsut skeletons all the time like maybe other types of creatures possibly.
Cool things I think will help the game: - new Faction: either dark brethrem or something like the ashes ( like grace at morrows peak ) -new Area: ice would be cool but but we need something unexpected but still cool - new tall tales - new types of loot -new world event (like really NEW, not just another skelly ship or fort) - private servers where multiple crews can play on ( maybe even without being able to earn money on those servers) -new Outpost to hype up the players that are actively playing the game rn ( seadogs tavern would be great as an outpost) PS: DO NOT BRING HITBOXES INTO THE GAME RARE I CAN FEEL THAT YOURE THINKING ABOUT IT!!!
yeah more map would be crazy, maybe more open world. Buidling bases or harbors or anything if you look at 3th person pirate games. Now you have little islands with small docks and ship. Where are the shipyards, the people etc etc
im with you, i havent played in a month cause the game got empty real quick, a month before that i thought it was a good idea to become an insider for something to do but did not help at all
Sad the playerbase is supposedly dwindling but really no other game offers this experience. What I'd like: fix stability, buff db pistol, add a solo ship, give us a way to boost treasure from world events with higher difficulty, let me HG for merchants/etc., increase distinction cap, multiboat hg, queued tdm game type, move shrines to safer seas if they are affecting server stability.
Idea, new map. New shroud breaker that you travel into the red sea and come out in a new map/server. 4 New regions factions mobs and all. Tortuga, ice islands/icebergs, bigger towns.
Tbh, i don't care about new ships, new bioms etc. I just would like to see a whole season just for quality of life changes. Store away unused cosmetic/weapon skins or just select favorits so you don't have to search for your facorite weapon skins, make the ships more unique (add harpoon skins or lantern skins locked behind completely new commandations), invest money in new and better servers (even if we have to drop the old gen people) so that there even is a possibility for new bioms because the server wouldn't handle any new rn.. make the option to select outfits (tucker outfit etc), make some of the extremely ennoying commendations easier (add gifts to some World Events or even make a voyage dedicatet for them.. same for bottle quest commandations like deliver food crates or wood crates..) Fix more exploits like funny launch, silent boards etc.. etc... There are so so so so many things (even if they are just minimal) they could change to make the sailing expirience so much more enjoyable
Hear me out-with the teasers of the glowing-eyes shark statues this came to mind. This is a new world event- The map goes slightly foggy around one of the islands that has a shark statue. If that happens the player must go to the statue and interact with it in the recpective color (same as FotD except it's with new colored mermaid gems, 2 per statue, one for each eye) Once that step is complete the fog goes away and the player has to wait for the same world event to happen again... Eventually all shark statues will have had the event happen and a new world event takes place: some place on the map, marked by fog again, the players have to fight waves of Megalodons, with up to 3 Megs at once. If the player survives all waves, the fog goes really dense and it summons the Shrouded Ghost. 5x more health, 2x the speed of a regular Meg and still incredibly rare! It would be perfect to have some more lore for the Megs, the SG is no longer a tale but stays super rare due to the many steps needed to make the event happen. Thoughts?
We could very well model the ship concepts and send them to the developers so they see something positive coming from the community rather than hate. It would be motivating for them as well. I'm talking about the Cutter for instance: She has one cannon facing forward on the bow of the ship, a speedy little boat and even one man can man her but the max would be two. Then we also have the Junk concept, an Asian vessel with a canon on the bow and a pair of cannons on both port and starboard. Max 3 player would man the Junk. Schooner (2 pairs of cannons in the hull 2 mast fast-medium-sized cargo ship) Fluty Barquentine are all larger vessels than the Sloop but smaller than the Brigantine, but they have other stats, like varying numbers of cannons and distinct designs. Then the large ladies like the ones that are much larger than the Galleon and her sister the Barquentine Frigate would have a better turning radius the Carrack is just a an 8 player ship a scaled up Galleon Man O War concept would be a truly huge ship that could support a crew up to 8 players and more with 16 cannons in total 8 canons on one side + mortars
4:40 good idea lets do that✨✨✨ make the dutchman skin actually look like the actual dutchman would make me and others VERY happy same with the pearl and I’m curious with the other ships too but damn yes optional ship costumes would be great, keep same crew size but different build and keep skin compatibility 👌👌👌 btw “the pirates of the Caribbean skins” should look more like their respective ships, but maybe acurate scale no crewsize differences keep 4 max, do the same like burning blade did idk🤣 size doesn’t really matter but accurate looks would be loved by all I’m sure
i was thinking, add steering wheel support, ships, extra crew members, larger dingy with sails. elite AI, skelly ships with more sniper skellies on deck, and skelly squads, or platoons that would flank maneuver to create a crossfire, support each other and use strategy to hold down hard mode reaper skelly fort would pose a challenge for a whole alliance, with intelligent strategic/tactical skelly AI brain commanding elite reaper skellies with strategy, adding more intensity, realism, challenge, and fun. skelly vs ghost action?
Well , you just wanted them add like the worst shit Bro if they made the skeleton ships more aggressive and more advanced than what they are no one that is new would want to play the game after they met one of those ships, Especially if it's like in a galleon or brig The skeleton fleat is a teared Event depending on what ship you're in It's going to be harder if you're in a bigger ship, Also it makes no sense for the skeletons and Ghost to fight their both on flame hearts side
I am really, really new to the game (10-20 hours) and I am not even lying when I tell you that the reason I got to this game was that guy on TikTok who always goes to ships to check for cheaters (I think he calls himself John Anticheat or something). I feel like the game needs more content creators that do those type of variations.
Got the ghost curse last year around July and haven't touched it since. Season 13 was a mess & 14 just introduced filler weapons we honestly didn't even need. A whole bunch of nothing.
I still think it would be cool to be able to play with your friends on separate ships. I have more than 3 friends, but if we all want to play together? Too bad. We've managed to pull it off once with server hopping (pre-portals too so it was extra annoying) but never again
Love your videos. I'm also on the boat with wanting a dramtically new feature that brings the hype back to the game but we all have been told over and over that the game is already basically overloaded from a game engine point of view. I really think they need to just drop SOT 2 with all new Unreal 5 engine and pick up from where this game is right now... oh and stop updating this outdate game and drop support for Xbox One.
Hear me out. Give us an expanded area of the Ancient Isle's and the Shores of Plenty, it's obvious people like those areas and a snow biome would turn out like the Wilds or Devils roar where majority of people only go there because they have no choice. It's no shock really since it feels the most like a pirate game in the Ancient Isles and Shores of Plenty. But show the influence of Flameheart's return. New skeletons popping up and maybe some islands with explorable underground zones that can be used like voyages. It would be like the vault but a little longer or more engaging (hopefully). I don't mind the forts, I never do the sunken areas, so I can't really complain or add on to them accept maybe have a branching quest? Like finishing one will have maps that guarantee a treasure horde somewhere. The issue I see with that is it turns into another voyage in a way. There's also the Devil's Roar, the loot there just doesn't feel like it's much better than what we get from the rest of the map. So maybe expand it and let us find a new Sea Fort that becomes a new world event? Honestly just anything but a stupid Snow Biome. That would be so out of left field and make the normal and other players feel like the devs are really bankrupted for idea's I don't really understand the hate for the DB pistol. You can't increase its damage or it'll practically 1 shot at ranges farther then the blunderbuss ever could, its hip fire is shockingly better than I was expecting from it, and it does the second highest damage at 80, only beaten out by the blunderbuss. Maybe reload change but who knows
Hard Mode: Playing only with row boats New Region Devil's Roar remake New monster (Leviathan) Story explaining the Leviathan (with the Sea of the Damned Temple) New Faction There ya go.
Related, I've been playing around with the idea of a "castaway mode" for a long time and I'm still not entirely sure how it would work. Like you start on a random island with a rowboat. But there should be a good avenue to allow you to be invited to the crews you come across, like as a 3rd/4th/5th member until they sink, then you're back on your own. Like open crew but more interesting and probably less annoying for everyone involved.
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I want the sea dogs for arena sets😢 even if it was a sub class dark brethren
The *ICE REGION* ... ... ... could actually bring me back to the Game - one more time.
The sea dogs tavern should be turned into a playable space where we can play pub games and bet our gold with other pirates.
would be abused to sell gold for IRL money :P
@@chrisfarmen6080 I’m so down for the tavern being used for cool things like that!
@@Random51620 This is true but they already detect exploits like this with ancient sleletons and getting more than 3. They could also counter with a money gain limit
@@kingoftwilight13 Thing is, it can be. We have dice rolling, we have knife throwing and target boards, we have a stage to play music on. Just that nobody wants to do those things because most of the player base can't be near each other without trying to start a fight
@@ChildOfTheWilderness Then you give 'em the tools in game. You disallow killing, just like in the ferry. Weapons are disabled.
I wish Rare would have an in game poll box at the taverns, where once a year they can do a questionnaire that lasts a month and gives a cosmetic reward. Then they could see what player's are actually interested in seeing for that year.
Example questions could be 1. Do you want more PVP or PVE content? 2. Do you mainly play on a sloop, brig, or galleon? etc.
Getting data through questionnaires would probably give the devs an actual course to sail towards for that year, but instead we've been getting unasked for tools and weapons and chest emotes we can hide in....
Like how old school runescape does it? That is not a bad idea. Although once a year might not be often enough. Definitely a good idea
@@Xograchas somebody who played Runescape from 2008, OSRS's polls only made the game worse to me.
Most players don't put much thought into what they're voting for and are easily swayed by nonsense memes like "the sailing skill" and "ice zone"
@@XograchI was literally about to comment this.
@@bobmcbob49 Facts bro the ice zone Shit has been going around for fucking years, And it makes literally no sense in the game
@@bobmcbob49 that's a hot take. I still play OSRS to this day and the polls are amazing because you get to see actual devs caring about the game by getting monthly feedback and actually implementing it. Not hiding behind videos where they always say "we're sorry, we'll do better, and then they never once have." I will agree that lots of people vote blindly, but it still is better than what the Rare devs do, which is barely anything when it comes to communicating back and forth with the players.
Rare needs to be better. They need to worry less about ban evaders who didn’t cheat and more about cheaters who are actually ruining the game.
I once saw a guy using a cheat to make his ship fly in circles while playing a SpongeBob theme yelling we gotta get SpongeBob back not really ruining anything but within the faction wars it's pretty bad
@@Servantoflaughter And that is what Rare has to change.
The factionwar.
Everyone knows it.
But also many are in denial of it.
There are players like me who played since year 1. We did not amassed as much gold as Pace did for example, but we still are pretty loaded.
And now we can only spend it on *RECOLORS we not WANT?* Bro. The disrespect. The not being valued.
The uselessness of the pirate dream -> the treasure, completely devalued.
Rare must do it, they have to it! -> Spend gold & doubloons for allegiance.
And then people will return to the game.
Cause tons of people want golden bones, I promise.
Not so sure about the urin phantom though. 😏
But Rare isn't even trying to get those back that stopped.
Holy hell I even have the game DEINSTALLED currently. 😑 That is not good!
I should be sweating buckets and shiver like an addict for not playing SoT.
But here I am... totally fine.
@LawfulBased It does not help that with the way the devs changed how voyages work, you CANNOT spend money on voyages.
Found the theb fanboy
@@LawfulBasedYou say that like it's a bad thing, as though you want Rare to add lootboxes and an in-game economy with real money to hook the gambling addicts. I've never supported the idea that a game should be playable forever through continual content updates (except for MMOs, which SoT is not). All games should have a point where you get tired of it and move on to something else, and that's okay. As we have seen over and over again, "games as a service" is unsustainable outside of the MMO model, developers should stop trying to prove otherwise, and players should stop expecting game updates to be made in pursuit of that goal.
You know what boggles my mind? The player base is cut in half, and yet performance only gets worse. It's almost like the servers feed on the life force and wasted hours of players, and are now starving...
This shouldn’t boggle your mind.
Servers consistently try and place you with at least 3-4 other ships. There is a cooldown timer for getting merged, but I’ve been getting merged constantly recently, because player count is down.
The performance issues come from them adding more and more content, to a shaky foundation and abysmal netcode.
The servers have been starving since day 1, and instead of feeding them, the devs keep having them run laps on a treadmill. Eventually their legs will give out.
I'm still convinced that Safer Seas are gobbling up a lot of server resources.
Traditional private servers would've maintained a better ratio of players to server resources.
@@bobmcbob49yea they added an event that makes it where safer seas loot pays out the same as the high seas.
@@numpy979 I don't care about that, just that from everything I know about server hosting, the minimum amount of resources to have a single player on a server are far greater than the additional resources required to accommodate more players after the first one.
@ my point is that even more people are playing safer seas than ever
I respect the idea of adding a new ship, faction or area on the map, but I feel like those changes wouldn't fully address what the game truly needs.
Instead, I'd love to see features that deepen the community and strategy, like customizable guild hubs (maybe in captured forts) where you could gather your crew and stash supplies, ceasefire zones for different crews to gather and socialize, multi-ship battles in Hourglass mode, and guild wars. These additions would bring a fresh layer of collaboration and competition to the game.
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I’ve only been playing a few months so all content is still fresh to me but these ideas sound awesome!!
Agreed!
@@AUGoldyyget him on the rare payroll!
How about bears, cougars, and wild boar for Hunter’s Call, (something that fights back and is already in the paintings and constellations). Giant crab attacks and Moby Dick world event. New Fort for Reaper’s.
we also have paintings of sea horses and manta rays
Yes!!! I would love to fight the creatures on those rock paintings! Giant birds, boars, snakes, bears, etc!
i personally really want 5-6 player boats so i can play with all of my friends
Same honestly, plus it would be so fun aswell if they added them...
Or at least allow two ships from the same guild to join same server.
Have you seen the servers? If you want that they need to put it in safer seas or get way better servers which isn't gona happen according to the last 6 years
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I think a lot of people are choosing Safer Seas (including myself) to play through quests uninterrupted by random gamers. Maybe that's why the main game seems empty.
@adny02 you do realize that it's an online multi-player game not a loot stacking simulator and it lives from risk vs reward if you can't see that you are missing 90% of the fun of the game. You are right that you never find anyone but that is because the new diving mechanic and hg either take up space on servers of people just dive-sell-dive-sell and a way to fix this is bigger servers however the backend if so shit that this will never happen
Map expansion wouldn't hurt player interactions since there are none. 90% of of my sessions I see no other players. This game has only managed to reduce ships per server since its release.
That's what we need to fix. Bigger map would mean none of it
At the end of the day, most of the endgame veteran players play because of interactions with other people, whether they be good or bad. The only thing I can see that would fix SoT is to increase server stability and more ships + players per server. But, Rare seems to just not care about veterans or long term player retention, which is why they’re in this mess in the first place
@@aidanrowland611 I agree. I have over 2000 hours in this game and by far my favourite moments in this game are player interaction.
this is a valid concern, and my only solution is them perhaps adding a new game mode. like opposite of safer seas, like a smaller map with only 6-8 islands and even higher rewards than in high seas. mabe even double the value of loot if stolen
wen you chose your experience it would be more or less hard/normal/easy
but a whole new game mode is a hard ask too
but if it brings enough people back to play along with expanding normal mode (Hight Seas) then mabe would be worth it
Do you play cross play? I just started doing cross play and almost all servers are loaded. Xbox and ps4 cross play no pc
I really like the idea of Sea of Thieves. Visually it's awesome. How tactile it is in having to physically lower sails, steer your ship, bucket the water is great. There really is a solid game here, but man do i think it has a MAJOR direction and game design issue.
Pirate and Sailing is all about adventure yet we have been stuck on the same 7 islands for how many years now? And they dont want to expand the map because youd run into even less players but why didn't they just make each section a new instance you sail into without a loading screen and that section in itself has 6 other ships. Then they could quilt together a huge map this way.
This is a pirate game...where you barely pirate. Why aren't there merchant npc ships going from port to port to loot? Why cant i attack towns? The only pirating you really do is against other players and most of the time you never run into them.
Everyone says the game is best when you interact with others but you rarely get a chance to do it. Why aren't the towns giant hubs full of pirates, why arent the taverns bustling with crews forming. The game feels like an empty amusement park 90% of the time.
The end game grind is for cosmetics you can hardly ever see because its 1st person, that alone kills some drive. Then on top of that, they make the best cosmetics store bought so they essentially strip away the carrot on a stick from grinding for stuff. Gold only gets you so much and players stock pile millions of it because theres nothing to spend it on.
I think this game just needs a Sea of Thieves 2. I think ships should have npc crews tied in to make you feel more like a captain/ you have to spend gold to keep them employed and fed. You should be able to customize your ship better fine tune what you have, more firepower/speed and tons of visual cosmetics to make your ship actually -yours-. Servers should be dynamic by zone with layering similar to wow and the world itself needs more life injected into it so you can actually feel like a pirate. This of course is all thrown out the window if the game engine itself cant even manage 6 players on a map. Imagine Sea of Thieves had a child with Sid Meyers Pirates.
I want more life in the world. More ambient sea life like dolphins, whales. And things like whirlpools. Stuff to make the world just feel more alive.
I would love to change ship time on the fly. I sucks when you’re a couple hours into a long session and a friend wants to join. Now you have to lose all progress to get a bigger ship.
The flip side to that is you spend hours voyaging solo, when another solo rolls up and tries to pirate you. You win the fight. Defeated solo grabs 2 or 3 friends, changes ships, and takes you out. That's what Rare has been against since day 1.
@ but I mean, they could even make where you switch servers. I don’t care how they do it. It’s a feature I’ve wanted for a long time.
@@Stillhere18So just to clarify, you're fine with swapping servers to change ships, even though swapping servers means you lose the loot on your ship? If framed like that, then here are the things that such a system could probably safely allow you to carry over onto your new ship:
-Ship supplies
-Emissary flag rank
-Voyage progress (I don't know if that works for multi-stage voyages, but I've had message-in-a-bottle voyages carry over when swapping servers)
Are those the sorts of things you want to keep when swapping to other ships?
Hey stop bullying my double barrel pistol it's a little weird but I love him
Fax my favorite gun It hits harder than the sniper
I’m ready for some fishing additions
I haven’t played this game in two years and don’t even know what’s new. But I have some ideas that would bring me back.
1. More wildlife and more Npc’s to make the world feel more alive.
2. A area with a bigger isle density and secret hideouts that are customisable.
3. Outpost are boring, why not add more houses and Npc’s with unique quests to customise your home. Or maybe a Pirate island with a city.
4. Option to buy an island and bild your own fortress through the new quests with the added Npc’s.
5. The game is boring when there is nothing to grind, so why not add something that it’s worth grinding for. If the player sees what he has achieved through the grind it’s more fun playing.
But I know the servers probably couldn’t handle that.😅
Bro, this is Microsoft. OF COURSE SERVERS WILL handle it but they don't give a f**k about it. Your ideas super good but i think it would be better to customise your ship instead of a house, because you take more time in sea
While frigate would be cool, I think I’d want like customization options instead, namely you could change your hull to be thinner which gives you more speed but maybe you have less cannons or smth, or you can add triangle sails that don’t need to be turned but either you can’t catch wind any other way (you can’t turn them) or they just take a lot longer to turn / raise for a speed boost. Same with cannon placement, I want ships that have cannons on lower decks
Or unique ships for each trading company... Trading company bases in each direction.. Venture into enemy territory when you are part of a certain company, co-operation, Ai ships for each region, Ai crew, fleets, strategy, commanders, KINGS, QUEENS, ENDBOSSES, WHAAAHH
More cannons aren’t useful if you only have 4 guys
Frigate should be 3-4 crew, gives more flexibility when crew members come and go. Especially if it's selling point is speed over fire-power, with fewer canons it can get away with a smaller crew.
Add a solo only ship and you've got all bases covered: 1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4 and 4.
at that point people would just use the frigate because it’s an easier to control boat that would contain the same amount of people as a galleon
If it’s got more firepower than a brig and still more maneuverable than a galleon, every galleon crews using it
@@CaptFatroll depends on how much more maneuverable it is. I never said that though, I said flexibility when crew members come and go.
Being stuck with a Galleon when you lose crew members basically ends the game, or when you start with 3 and gain 1.
The point is make a boat that can be crewed comfortably with 3 or 4 people.
2 masts so it goes down easier than a Galleon, but packs more of a punch than a Brig.
They need to do a SoT 2.0 where it’s strictly for next gen and pc. Redo the engine/clinet and keep it working. Then set it up for the next few years to add things easily.
I think this is probably why the game has been so ass lately. Maybe they're quietly working on a sequel? Idk one can hope
I would say they need to add a cold biome at the opposite side of the map that works almost exactly like the devils roar (treasure worth more, and dangerous ocean), but all the frozen loot you get will be sold at a higher price to the devils roar and vice versa causing people to get a lot of loot in the ice area, and then going on a large voyage to the devils roar to sell then doing the same thing there
It’s not gonna happen nor should it
@ I am just giving an idea that would allow the game to add a lot of new content
Say they have a hunters call update and you can now hunt animals on islands in the ice biome you would hunt like a yeti
It could also be like a seasonal event where the storm gets turned into a winter storm, and snow goes everywhere with wintery rewards
Plus they already have an outfit set made for the snow, and it would add a diversity in play style
I don’t know if it would be added, but please tell me your reasons why it shouldn’t, I am not against you I just am curious on why
@ an ice biome doesn’t make sense granted neither did the roar but it makes more sense then an ice biome pirates are tropical therefore an ice biome wouldn’t make sense
@ I agree
However it would still be fun to have a whole different area to explore with its own quests and rewards
@ agreed but not ice, they could make an area that’s perpetually stormy or something like that instead
Rare added new tools to play with while grinding old factions, while we want to grind the same old mechanics but with a bar in a new color going up xD
I want to grind merchant alliance commendations that are possible to finish in one life.
Honestly a sea of the damned would be an incredible addition to the game.
And I’m not talking one island or a couple of forts or even a tall tale.
A true second way to play.
Something along the lines of when you go through the portal, you enter the sea of the damned.
Where the islands are reverted to their days of the ancients.
Phantom skeletons, ancient forts, new types of sea monsters, and cosmetics galore.
Not to mention an interesting catch.
Loot in the sea of the ancients would be worth 4 times as much as the loot in the sea of thieves.
But the only way to sell it, would be to go back through the portal from where you came.
Although an ice region would be cool with frozen skeletons, giant frost bird monsters to hunt as they fly low along the sea spray in cannon range.
Frosted loot, cursed treasures that frost up your wheel, cannons and rigging to make it harder to sail with time, and a possible region War with the devils roar and the Frosty region starting to grow and fight for dominance over the sea.
And possibly a frosty skeleton lord to lead this charge against Flameheart
Cool idea except for ice biome, why do we need it just because we got a volcanic biome, pirates aren’t Vikings
@ literally the frostbite set?
And it doesn’t have to mean we have to be Vikings, it would just be something new for us to explore.
Ice zone this, ice zone that, I want a swamp zone that we can traverse in varying amounts with different ship types. Some open areas and some areas that you are navigating through cypress trees in a rowie. Add alligators and or a giant gator world event, some birds like spoon bills, and flamingos, cat fish as a catchall fish
But by new area to "explore" I think we mean "A new area with new creatures, new secrets, new treasures, new other threats inside the new area. Heck I would settle for just a refresh of our current ocean. Basically make the islands less boring. Have things to discover on the islands. Maybe a new currency type like diamonds, or "jewels" that you need to find and those are used exclusively to buy new item types like potions or a new ship or something.
Or… and hear me out here, maybe put the SEA back into Sea of Thieves…. Typhoons, Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Rouge Waves and WHIRLPOOLS!!! Half the fun is sailing. Give us something to actually SAIL on damn it!
I played a lot of the game with friends in 2024, and the core gameplay loop is still strong; we've had a blast hanging out, fighting other pirates, befriending others, going on misadventures and counting gold. What the game does good it still delivers, and even if 2024 wasn't a golden year for the game it still has enough gas in the tank for a good time.
What really needs to happen are the bug fixes. We keep getting Rare'd with disconnects, lag, faulty textures, and other problems. Before adding new features the game needs stability.
As for new features, I want to see out of those in this video new ships. Maybe change up sailing characteristics, like a Barque with triangular sails on the mizzen mast making it even better in a crosswind, or a real Ship of the Line with a large frigate for 5-6 player crews.
Bro, stability has never been anything they focus on. And
Anything more than a four man crew is never gonna happen The servers would crash, Used to be able to have at least two or three stacked ships on One sea without the whole entire server laging out lol Their server performances is very bad And it also has been stated that is going to be a ten year service we are six years in It, it was a monumental feat We even got the burning blade And that shit killed server performance
I like how you say years. "Yerrs."
The thing i would like the most in SOT is the possibility to buy houses on random/useless islands and decorate them / upgrade them like to get a dock for example.
New ship types is a MUST. We need a ship bigger than the sloop but smaller than a brig for a duo crew kinda like a schooner maybe, still only 2 cannons but faster?. My crew is fully able to duo crew a brig but you're at way bigger disadvantage than a duo sloop. Make cosmetics actually mean something.
If they make a new ship that has two cannons they need to put a third cannon on the brig, Instead of a bigger ship we need a smaller one a Strictly one man ship, Something that can fly under the radar
And they took away The only cosmetic that meant something
I think getting the dark bretheren as a faction along side a part of the sea of the damned would be really cool, would fit story wise (the dark bretheren are known to traverse the sotd) and could include some fun new enemies or mechanics specific to that world. Also the idea with the frig and the solo ship would be so cool, but I think if even we'll see one of those things.
Me personally? I wanna see EAC removed and replaced by another, better, more functioning anti-cheat. EAC simply is useless, and the effort to bypass it is minimal. I wanna be able to play Hourglass again without risk of running into cheaters.
UPDATE: Scratch that. I want Rare to actively maintain and update EAC. The software itself isn’t the problem, it’s the fact that Rare overestimates its abilities and (probably) hasn’t done much if anything to update/maintain/encrypt it since its inclusion.
The thing is, EAC isnt useless but the way rare has it implemented is, fortnite uses EAC and I almost never ever run into any cheaters, why? Because they very frequently change up files and actually try to actively stop cheaters and issuing hardware bans they also have extremely encrypted files that makes it even harder for people to make cheats.
Now of course, they still do slip by but atleast epic takes them seriously even threatning with lawsuits to people who develops cheats, now what does rare tho? I don't think they do much but add EAC hoping it would solve everything without doing anything I feel like because there is no way this amount of cheaters would get by if they tried remotely to stop them.
@ Thanks for the info. I fixed my initial comment
I’m pretty surprised people aren’t mentioning AI ships with faction specific loot, so you can properly plunder loot (casually). like you know, a pirate
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Personally, in between these big updates I would like them to do small quality of life and changes to what we already have. New crates that give throwables, being able to buy 2 random curse balls as captain, legend of the veil style quests for every faction that gives you a new curse for that faction, a legend of the veil style quest that combineds vaults lost shipmate and skeleton bountys into one, world event changes( better loot and new ritual skulls), old voyages returning permanently and the most controversial one opening up safer seas even more but based on were your at in high seas( still keep it at only one ship).
My friend thought it would be cool if they did a One Piece collab. Where you can eat Devil Fruits, and it gives permanent buffs and debuffs (you cant swim) to your player until you die.
I'm rather shocked a One Piece Collab has not happened yet, the game would have lent it self perfectly to that.
Thanks Falcore!!
My guild crew’s biggest asks are:
1. Guild hideout/hub that can be customized and shared in map by guild members only (perhaps a house on each outpost that would be accessed with a key, similar to entering Athena den). This also means guild social improvements like boards for announcements and notes/chats. Decorating areas so that everyone can see your play style.
2. This is less likely: Map Expansion/Investment from Microsoft to actually update servers so you can add more crews to a larger server. Imagine having to off-board a crew and row through a jungle river, (only to be ambushed of course).
The lore is great and all, but it’s one and done. We need to explore and see things together. No more out of world tall tales. They have done an awesome job adding fun tools as of late. We love every tool (other than the sneaky treasure chests, we think you should be able to carry someone unknowingly).
TLDR: Keep focused on sea of thieves being full of live pirate interactions with plenty of tools to use and areas to showcase and explore (together or against one another). Keep the seas dangerous and mysterious!
Definitely agree we need all those. A cool tall tail imo would be with the kids movie Sea Beasts really cool movie and fits the narrative so well for sea of thieves
Don't forget about bringing back Arena💁♂️, feel like it would do great in today's environment of the game
Bro Arena would be fucking fifty million times better than hourglass.
@@forestdragon420 exactly, idk how they thought a 1v1 would be better that a "sinking isn't the end" free for all
I personally wish Glitterbeard could be easier to do, me and my girlfriend play together, but it doesn't help to ask and sail looking for other players. Most of the time they shoot at us and 98% of the ones I find don't want to. For example, there could be some kind of voyage/, or that you can Q up and end up with the right number of players in a kind of "seafer" sea zone, but also that you end up back to the menu when you are done. Kind of like a dungeon. It's just a suggestion, but it's something I really want. At least something like that.
My 2 cents - I thoroughly enjoyed my early times around the forsaken shores time, but coming back to it I don't want a million weapons and massively changed world that I have to re-learn. The relative simplicity of the world is what's appealing, and falling into the trap where only active veterans know the full breadth of weapons/tools etc is a dangerous one. I log back in occasionally or watch videos and some of the simple magic is gone. Totally agree, new areas, new ships, new factions sounds great.
I want a Sea of Thieves x Assassin Creed Black Flag mashup.
The only things I want are Bug Fixes, revamped old world events, and MORE SKELETON COSMETICS
Guild. Wars. That's what it needs imagine a map with 4 guilds keeping 4 different ports and they fight for new islands everyday until the end of a week or something the guild with the most islands gets more rewards
I think they should add two new areas with two new outposts each, the often-requested Ice Zone, and an East Asian-piracy themed zone (lot of interesting history there). I also once saw a great concept for a mermaid trading company. New ships could be the real solo ship, an Asian Junk, and maybe a 5 or 6 player frigate to mix it up
To imply grapple gun isn’t “needed” is funny. It’s fun and helpful.
I am ready for the new twitch drops and I am ready to watch you for all of them 😂
Would it be fun if you can actually hide your ship under water by diving as a in game feature? Also perhaps there should be some sort of way to save things.
Idk what the game is missing tbh. I love the game but I can’t stomach playing it for more than half an hour recently. It’s just like boring I guess. They add new content and since I’m solo I never get to genuinely experience it. Or I do and it gets boring very fast. Skeleton camps! Great addition, they don’t make me come back to play more. The game just needs more. More fixes for bugs, more voyages, more factions, more areas, more ships, more ways for players to safely interact, more weapons, we need more. They add stuff but it’s never enough to keep me interested for a prolonged timeframe. Burning blade is really cool. Good luck doing it without a galleon crew. Hourglass is cool. Good luck grinding to level 200 for some glowing bones. It’s just repetitive and despite the fact that really anything can happen on the seas, it all feels the same.
They need to make the sailing faster instead of this snail pace it’s going
In addition to the obvious wants I’d also like to see random encounters. Like picture some giant crab or some sort of creature that is emergent, but never has a marker on a map. You’ll just randomly go to mermaids hideaway and Crab Lord is there and drops fort level loot.
I hope this game survives and is well I finally got my skeleton first grind done so I am excited to find the next big thing for me to do I think a good change would be adding AI help on Captain ships for example if your level 100 servants or guardians you get access to the basic skeleton and basic ghost think of it like the burning blade world event except on your captain ship add a tactical wheel for controlling AI and this would be a fun way to help expand the world
I completely disagree. Progression, not leading to gameplay advantages (aside from you naturally just becoming a better player), is one of the things I enjoy the most about this game. There are no gun upgrades, no better armor etc. It’s great imo.
@SlyMartian true
It's not a bad idea have more areas in different regions server based that u can dive to. But the question is, can the game handle it? I wish they had a guild hideout. You can instance to and challenge newcomers or tdm or ship battle practice. Have worldy guild events like taking over certain outposts and parking your ship inside while defending.
We need a ice region! I was just telling my friend yesterday where all the islands can be located on the map, theres so many empty spaces on the top of the map
well said. I think a crafting/potion add on would be popular as well.
2:42 Typo! Falcore made a typo! Right there! Typo. I saw it. *Points at screen*
How about more in-depth ship customisation, to piggyback of the idea of ship variants, imagine being on a brig for example and being able to change not only the sail design but type, different deck layouts, cannon orientations. Etc...
This would allow so much more individuality to each ship as well as give fights aboard ships that new and refreshing feel it needs ( it might just be me but fighting on the same 3 deck types get kinda boring ). This though, would certainly keep players entertained either practicing movement when they'd unlock new decks for themselves or going out to sea and seeing what others have created to gain inspiration.
I think what would be neat is if a massive whirlpool came and destroyed most of the map and also created a new map and islands forming. Etc
new ship types will be stunning
They need to worry about their shit servers, always freezing and crashing and taking 20 minutes to find a server and getting stuck in the diving screen and weapons just dealing zero damage also your ship just taking damage in open waters the game just sucks
Sea of thieves has become one of my favorite games ever over the years. I hope Rare has something up their sleeve to bring back the player base. I really hope the Sea of Thieves doesn’t continue to lose its player base…
Yeah they do actually.
ARE YOU excited about the new upcoming fishing revamp? So good right?
Make the map bigger with more islands with more unique designs and allow double the amount of people for each boat so I can enjoy time with more friends on any ship I want and allow me to join friends sever with my own ship new enemy’s new world events \elements and more curses and a new guild that about helping others and working together and earn reputation for team work I don’t care what anyone says this all needs to be added
Intro: I think we’re being a little harsh. Season 11 & 12 are great. Knives, bone callers, diving to voyages, horn of fair winds, scattershot, kings loot, shipwrecks and emergent skeleton captains being good again! Etc. Season 13 started strong and kinda fizzled, but its content is still relevant to the game. I at least play the game significantly different than I did in 2023, and I have more fun.
Season 14 is the only bad one imo, with crouching and maybe disguises being the only things I found useful. I’d happily give up everything else from season 14 for 10 fewer ping.
Main vid: I don’t want a new area or new ship type. The ships are fine as is, although I do love that the burning blade means you don’t need a bilge. I don’t want a new area either, because of the strain it will put on game performance. These are normal things to want, but I don’t think the people that ask for them are thinking through the oppurtunity cost and consequences.
I do want a new faction, a return of the old story content (I joined in season 9, I never got to play a single adventure), and frankly Arena back (again, never got to play it). But what I really want, is more loot from story content, and more forms of player interaction.
The story content of the game is great. But getting the cosmetic rewards requires doing tedious journals, and awards little to no treasure for your trouble. Every tall tale should feature some significant loot. Even if it’s just an orb of secrets. And the rewards should focus on emersion with the story, not grinding.
But what I want most, is more player interaction. At present, it’s just troll, sink, and/or alliance. But there should be more. I should be able to earn Athena rep by escorting a swabbie ship so they can sell safely (whether that’s sailing alongside them, or tucking and making fart noises on the hot mic). I should get an increased chance of rare fish if I’m fishing in the same waters as another crew. Things like that. Something that incentivizes and rewards players for actually spending time together and collaborating, rather than just alliencing and leaving each other alone, or sinking everyone. These can also be PvP oriented, guild wars, multi-ship hourglass fights, etc.
Oh, and I want guild hideouts (rather than a new area to explore). Somewhere to sink money into cosmetics, custom tavern and TDM practice arenas, see your ships side by side, custom instrumental shanties! There’s a LOT they could do.
This game has all the mechanics, islands, and PvE it needs. It needs more diverse player interaction, and more story content.
Burning blade is not sucessful? :D I absolutely loved all BB interactions, as crew, as encounter and also PVE only too
for me i was thinking like new areas that they can do to make the world bigger like idk a desert more like area or like a frozen area with ice or heck even sky areas like peterpan ill take at this point cuz that would be cool. or they can add more like actual under water areas to explore that isnt a puzzle like under water islands. but for weapons they can add alot more like axes, bows, spears or any new guns as well. and defintly new enemies to face besides jsut skeletons all the time like maybe other types of creatures possibly.
Yes right new shared areas not just instances of isolated events.
But we all know a colab with one piece would be the boost it needs.
Cool things I think will help the game:
- new Faction: either dark brethrem or something like the ashes ( like grace at morrows peak )
-new Area: ice would be cool but but we need something unexpected but still cool
- new tall tales
- new types of loot
-new world event (like really NEW, not just another skelly ship or fort)
- private servers where multiple crews can play on ( maybe even without being able to earn money on those servers)
-new Outpost to hype up the players that are actively playing the game rn ( seadogs tavern would be great as an outpost)
PS: DO NOT BRING HITBOXES INTO THE GAME RARE I CAN FEEL THAT YOURE THINKING ABOUT IT!!!
+ new game mode would go crazyyy
hitboxes are in the game... thats how games work
Nobodies going to play without some reward safer seas is pretty useless since the nerf of 25 lvl fations
@ i meant with headshots and stuff yk
yeah more map would be crazy, maybe more open world. Buidling bases or harbors or anything if you look at 3th person pirate games. Now you have little islands with small docks and ship. Where are the shipyards, the people etc etc
bro that end music is sick
im with you, i havent played in a month cause the game got empty real quick, a month before that i thought it was a good idea to become an insider for something to do but did not help at all
Sad the playerbase is supposedly dwindling but really no other game offers this experience. What I'd like: fix stability, buff db pistol, add a solo ship, give us a way to boost treasure from world events with higher difficulty, let me HG for merchants/etc., increase distinction cap, multiboat hg, queued tdm game type, move shrines to safer seas if they are affecting server stability.
I would be so, happy with your idea of a dedicated solo ship
Idea, new map. New shroud breaker that you travel into the red sea and come out in a new map/server. 4 New regions factions mobs and all. Tortuga, ice islands/icebergs, bigger towns.
Yes please on the ship variations for 2,3 and 4 man ships.
4:12 I've suggested seasonal icebergs for years now
Tbh, i don't care about new ships, new bioms etc.
I just would like to see a whole season just for quality of life changes. Store away unused cosmetic/weapon skins or just select favorits so you don't have to search for your facorite weapon skins, make the ships more unique (add harpoon skins or lantern skins locked behind completely new commandations), invest money in new and better servers (even if we have to drop the old gen people) so that there even is a possibility for new bioms because the server wouldn't handle any new rn.. make the option to select outfits (tucker outfit etc), make some of the extremely ennoying commendations easier (add gifts to some World Events or even make a voyage dedicatet for them.. same for bottle quest commandations like deliver food crates or wood crates..)
Fix more exploits like funny launch, silent boards etc.. etc...
There are so so so so many things (even if they are just minimal) they could change to make the sailing expirience so much more enjoyable
Hear me out-with the teasers of the glowing-eyes shark statues this came to mind.
This is a new world event- The map goes slightly foggy around one of the islands that has a shark statue. If that happens the player must go to the statue and interact with it in the recpective color (same as FotD except it's with new colored mermaid gems, 2 per statue, one for each eye)
Once that step is complete the fog goes away and the player has to wait for the same world event to happen again...
Eventually all shark statues will have had the event happen and a new world event takes place: some place on the map, marked by fog again, the players have to fight waves of Megalodons, with up to 3 Megs at once.
If the player survives all waves, the fog goes really dense and it summons the Shrouded Ghost. 5x more health, 2x the speed of a regular Meg and still incredibly rare!
It would be perfect to have some more lore for the Megs, the SG is no longer a tale but stays super rare due to the many steps needed to make the event happen.
Thoughts?
Hunters call needs a bigger update, giving us more monsters to take down, and we have to go to new islands to do so would be nice
We could very well model the ship concepts and send them to the developers so they see something positive coming from the community rather than hate.
It would be motivating for them as well.
I'm talking about the Cutter for instance:
She has one cannon facing forward on the bow of the ship, a speedy little boat and even one man can man her but the max would be two.
Then we also have the Junk concept, an Asian vessel with a canon on the bow and a pair of cannons on both port and starboard.
Max 3 player would man the Junk.
Schooner (2 pairs of cannons in the hull 2 mast fast-medium-sized cargo ship)
Fluty
Barquentine are all larger vessels than the Sloop but smaller than the Brigantine, but they have other stats, like varying numbers of cannons and distinct designs.
Then the large ladies like the ones that are much larger than the Galleon and her sister the Barquentine
Frigate would have a better turning radius
the Carrack is just a an 8 player ship a scaled up Galleon
Man O War concept would be a truly huge ship that could support a crew up to 8 players and more with 16 cannons in total 8 canons on one side + mortars
4:40 good idea lets do that✨✨✨ make the dutchman skin actually look like the actual dutchman would make me and others VERY happy same with the pearl and I’m curious with the other ships too but damn yes optional ship costumes would be great, keep same crew size but different build and keep skin compatibility 👌👌👌 btw “the pirates of the Caribbean skins” should look more like their respective ships, but maybe acurate scale no crewsize differences keep 4 max, do the same like burning blade did idk🤣 size doesn’t really matter but accurate looks would be loved by all I’m sure
i want servers that dont guarantee 100+ ping
I just want servers in my country man... hell id settle for 100 ping😂
It would be cool to have more Spanish inquisitor stuff kinda, or a second large port town. Like a Nassau kinda place
I want an Assassin’s Creed 4 crossover!
I want more mysterious sea monsters!!!! Like a giant crab or a leviathan
You know, what ever happened to that ghost on crooks hollow you covered years ago? They never did anything with that
Really wish getting xp for the hourglass and reapers were easier pain in the ass to get the skeleton curse
i was thinking, add steering wheel support, ships, extra crew members, larger dingy with sails. elite AI, skelly ships with more sniper skellies on deck, and skelly squads, or platoons that would flank maneuver to create a crossfire, support each other and use strategy to hold down hard mode reaper skelly fort would pose a challenge for a whole alliance, with intelligent strategic/tactical skelly AI brain commanding elite reaper skellies with strategy, adding more intensity, realism, challenge, and fun. skelly vs ghost action?
Well , you just wanted them add like the worst shit Bro if they made the skeleton ships more aggressive and more advanced than what they are no one that is new would want to play the game after they met one of those ships, Especially if it's like in a galleon or brig The skeleton fleat is a teared Event depending on what ship you're in It's going to be harder if you're in a bigger ship, Also it makes no sense for the skeletons and Ghost to fight their both on flame hearts side
Was there end of 2024 no new look forward with the lantern like last years?
I am really, really new to the game (10-20 hours) and I am not even lying when I tell you that the reason I got to this game was that guy on TikTok who always goes to ships to check for cheaters (I think he calls himself John Anticheat or something). I feel like the game needs more content creators that do those type of variations.
well I haven't played much since 2021 so I'm coming back going OOOO STUFF
Got the ghost curse last year around July and haven't touched it since. Season 13 was a mess & 14 just introduced filler weapons we honestly didn't even need. A whole bunch of nothing.
grappling hook needs cause its a good weapon and if you sail to like old faith isle when the island its very high then you can come to the top with it
I think they should make it so you can customize the harpoons on your ship. And the lanterns
Compass
@CaptainFalcore yeah, I also really agree with that.That is a great idea!
Guild servers where you play in the same server on different ships with guilt mates only would pair amazingly with new ships, areas and factions
Bro, that sounds like a gold, making monopoly that they would never allow it to happen.
Wait, the number one thing isn’t just to fix the lag/stutters/general network frustrations??
Crazy that people don't appreciate the harpoon gun because it isn't the greifing tool people dreamed of. I use it constantly. It's amazing.
I still think it would be cool to be able to play with your friends on separate ships. I have more than 3 friends, but if we all want to play together? Too bad.
We've managed to pull it off once with server hopping (pre-portals too so it was extra annoying) but never again
Love your videos. I'm also on the boat with wanting a dramtically new feature that brings the hype back to the game but we all have been told over and over that the game is already basically overloaded from a game engine point of view. I really think they need to just drop SOT 2 with all new Unreal 5 engine and pick up from where this game is right now... oh and stop updating this outdate game and drop support for Xbox One.
I love Sea of Thieves very much but I do hope Rare will improve on their wonderful game this year. Also once again Falcore you cooked :)
I think sea of thives should add a new boss, but one that can be called somehow, not just a random encounter like the Megalodon or Kraken
ILl be excited for a new ship if the capstan is centered
Hear me out. Give us an expanded area of the Ancient Isle's and the Shores of Plenty, it's obvious people like those areas and a snow biome would turn out like the Wilds or Devils roar where majority of people only go there because they have no choice. It's no shock really since it feels the most like a pirate game in the Ancient Isles and Shores of Plenty. But show the influence of Flameheart's return. New skeletons popping up and maybe some islands with explorable underground zones that can be used like voyages. It would be like the vault but a little longer or more engaging (hopefully). I don't mind the forts, I never do the sunken areas, so I can't really complain or add on to them accept maybe have a branching quest? Like finishing one will have maps that guarantee a treasure horde somewhere. The issue I see with that is it turns into another voyage in a way. There's also the Devil's Roar, the loot there just doesn't feel like it's much better than what we get from the rest of the map. So maybe expand it and let us find a new Sea Fort that becomes a new world event? Honestly just anything but a stupid Snow Biome. That would be so out of left field and make the normal and other players feel like the devs are really bankrupted for idea's
I don't really understand the hate for the DB pistol. You can't increase its damage or it'll practically 1 shot at ranges farther then the blunderbuss ever could, its hip fire is shockingly better than I was expecting from it, and it does the second highest damage at 80, only beaten out by the blunderbuss. Maybe reload change but who knows
Hard Mode: Playing only with row boats
New Region
Devil's Roar remake
New monster (Leviathan)
Story explaining the Leviathan (with the Sea of the Damned Temple)
New Faction
There ya go.
Related, I've been playing around with the idea of a "castaway mode" for a long time and I'm still not entirely sure how it would work.
Like you start on a random island with a rowboat. But there should be a good avenue to allow you to be invited to the crews you come across, like as a 3rd/4th/5th member until they sink, then you're back on your own.
Like open crew but more interesting and probably less annoying for everyone involved.