I jumped into this game on a whim after nearly a year. After I finally remembered how to do everything, I went on a simple cargo run. Should have taken 20 minutes, maybe 30 minutes tops. Instead, I got attacked by a skeleton ship, went miles past my destination, and finally started blasting their ship, only to hit a rock since I was by myself trying to steer and fight at the same time. That was when the megalodon showed up and sunk the skeleton ship right as I scuttled mine. It was hilarious, I can't wait to do it again!
Randomlyshowed up in my recommended, you summed up SOT perfectly in my opinion. I've sunk nearly 500 hours into this game since it had massive content updates in the last 2 years or so and this has bee nthe perfect analysis of rares effort. Bravo
I want to love this game. SoT has an unmatched atmosphere, attention to detail and (what's rare in any media now) it needs you to think. I adore jumping into the game, sailing off and just...vibing. I feel like this game was made for people like me, who above all else enjoy vibing with people, stories, adventure and solving riddles. BUT, none of the players I came across shared this approach. It seems like the playerbase has shifted to sweaty PvPers who'll kill anybody they come across "just because", while calling them names through chat. Feels like Rare has created a beautiful city park for people to chill in...but it was overrun by hooligans so nobody goes there anymore.
I know you've heard this enough, but this feels like a very high-quality video for such a small channel. If I didn't see your sub count, I would have assumed that you were a huge channel with millions of views. Keep it up man, honestly a really good watch.
My friends and I got into this game back in March of 2020. Beginning of the pandemic. It was right as the content updates added enough to make this game worth its time. I have since no life’s the hell out of it and after doing the math, me and my friend that I sloop with have technically spent 1% of our lives playing the game. Thats like 80 something days
about a year ago during the flameheart ghost ship events me and my girlfriend played sea of thieves together. we’d play it for hours basically everyday and eventually we even had a session with her mum and stepdad. and my favourite memory is the time where we had a 13 hour session of playing the game non stop. and some point during the session i got stranded on an island with a rowboat and all of our loot because our ship had gone down. and because we didn’t really understand how to get around the map very well i decided to just row around the sea with a dozen or so chests and skulls until eventually they were able to find me again it sounds dumb i know but small things like this where you still don’t understand everything about a game and are just having mindless fun can honestly be some of the funniest moments when playing
Finally bought this for $20 on sale off of Steam this past Friday. I now have 15 hours played already with my mates. I can't believe I slept on this game for so long. Incredibly charming game that is easy to get into and very relaxing.
ive sunk over 2000 hours in this game and still find myslef having fun after complwting most it has too offer, on top of frequent major content updates, the expiriences and interactions you have with others is enough to keep it alive and fun
Don’t wanna be that guy but the content updates aren’t really major. The only big/meaningful content update we have gotten in the past year and a half is the new factions this season.
I remember when Black Flag came out and becoming a favorite of mine due to great gameplay just by sailing the seas and discovering new islands, treasure, and enemy ships to attack. And since then, there hasn't been anything to top Black Flag, which has a bar that can be easily surpassed if done right. Sea of Thieves may have gotten to a place where it's pretty much a great game, but first impressions mean a lot. And with the constant delays of Skull & Bones, it doesn't look like we will get more pirate games anytime soon.
I went back to this game the other week, playing with my 2 sons. We have so much fun and i realy want this game to keep growing into Epic scales. Personaly i hope they will add a Monkey Island theme, maby fight leebrok och Visit the monkey cave.
There is actually a hidden section in the the first Pirates Life Tall Tale (the jack sparrow ones), that is an homage to Monkey Island! This is the accompanying song for that hidden area! th-cam.com/video/luXSyLTR4IM/w-d-xo.html
Great video man, I was very hesitant about buying the game but you convinced me, thank you. Keep up the great work, I honestly expected you have waaay more subs. Thanks again!
went back with a buddy, sunk an enemy good and proper, they got one guy on who spawn oofed us for an hour, only then did he sink our ship full of 7 hours of loot. sea of thieves needs a major fix to spawn camping before its good, otherwise its just sweat city or pve only, no in-between
There is an in between, you will rarely come across someone who is willing to go and try to kill you over and over until you die and when you do they either need to get a life or you really pissed them off.
It's really a great game, but the sea and the world still feel a bit empty, more lifeless than empty, just a bit more sea and land animals could make it better, both for immersion and gameplay, some good whale hunt could be good fun to grind the hunters call and stuff like that, and some other npcs might be good, new enemies and kind of ships that roam the ocean, also new world events, and some stuff that is played through voyages should be also on the map, something like you see seagulls, go towards them and you find some barrels and a clue for a lost shipwreck, same thing for the vaults, or ghost ships, it already happens with messages in the bottles. It can very well be rng, changing it's spawn time and location every playthrough
I think the big problem is that I cant seem to want to keep playing the game for more than a week (which I grind the game a lot in this week) before taking a break for months. I think the game needs more incentive that just cosmetics. Like cool new guns (not just skins), cool new ships (not just skins), and some cool ass shit that makes me want to grind the hell out of the game for.
I still think the game’s empty and everything takes ages to do. I would also like some more obscure features like pirates that walk around on your own ship even if they do nothing, there’s no life in the game
Played since launch with 1400 hours in. This is a great showing of Sea of Thieves. I wouldn’t say they only recently completed the game years after launch and I would rather say that happened when we were around the 2nd or 3rd anniversary which is still years, but keep in mind you showed the Pirate’s Life second tall tale as an example so I assumed that’s when you though it finished.
Would you play on a Xbox using a controller whilst on crossplay? It's a morbidly disappointing experience for dozens of reasons. Enjoy your skins and titles 🍻
I agree with you! That was one of the best game I've ever played in my entire life. Even solo, that was thrilling to me. I can't wait to hop back, if that will be possible soon enough. Hopefully, the game is still alive and at least without that much cheaters/buggers/scripters etc
I'm so glad people are coming back to the game and this review was sick but I disagree with the solo part I've played with both with friends and solo and while dicking around with the lads is great solo isn't that bad as I've trolled and memed with other crews and it's a damn fun time
6:43 I genuinely don't understand what the 'actual meaningful content to grind towards' is. The only thing to grind for is cosmetics just like before. And the idea that this is only a problem in solo play is just not true, there is literally nothing to work towards with friends, just mess around with them and do random shit. You could do that in any game Also for the point at 9:54: I absolutely adore sandboxes and games that aren't so restricted in their progression, and I don't see how this really fits either of them. Sandbox does not just mean open world, I don't see a single sandbox element to change or play with in this game. And for the progression, how is it non-linear other than being able to pick where you get quests? Which is hardly progression... The only real 'progression' is getting more valuable cosmetics, which felt pretty restricted to me.
@@MXedits_1 Thank you for this, I honestly felt so crazy re-exploring this game years later after hearing such good things only to find it basically the same
@@luminen4051 Those good things you heard where probably people repeating what streamers told them on Twitch. And Sea of Thieves and Twitch have a partnership.... It's all baseless hype and advertisement. I feel you.
I first played Sea of Thieves in September of 2020, so I missed the early stages of the game, I never realized how bare bones it was. I'm glad that Rare stuck with it though, because by the time I was starting to play it it was one of my favorite games ever
Sometimes a see a game ive played thats dull. Yet still some how had captured a fan base. Its not improved any way like No Mans Sky. Its reptition can only be enjoyed by 2 groups. Group 1 The Friends Crews. Playing it with anyone non random is somewhat less grindy. Group 2 Grief A-holes, only mission is to sink you, loot you.
I never get tired of sailing, searching for treasure or fighting skeletons. I just want to be able to do the grinding and not have to keep looking over my shoulder for toxic greifers.
i am not gonna lie i would love to play this game. but i just dont have any friends to play it with now so i feel like id be missing out on a lot of stuff
Random question, but I absolutely love your chanel and I'm trying to get into making video essays what editing software and mic do you use. I have filmora.
Thank you for the comment! It's great that you're also looking to get into this field, I use premiere pro as my editing software and this mic - www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B08CDD1XBW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Tbh I know you play to get gold, but there isn’t anything to spend your gold on cept cosmetics. Missions for emissary’s are identical copies (just slightly different names) and leveling up your emissary doesn’t feel like you are really progressing because the quests remain the same. Digging up treasure is easy sure, but I certainly don’t like doing it over and over again. Maybe it’s just me but titles and cosmetics isn’t enough to keep me in the game.
It’s the journey is the only real motivation. Often when I used to play the game a lot (I got burned out and couldn’t find good people to play with) almost every voyage had something special happen even if we never saw another player. Like shoveling up a mega keg only to see a geyser start to form directly under it. Like having casual conversations with people that don’t have an undiagnosed mental illness. When our ship was The only ship around it felt boring and there was no danger. Gold and cosmetics is the material thing to keep you in but it isn’t the real thing that’s fun.
I haven't played it since season 6, I'm level 50 on all except hunter so I'm not a newbie. It's got so much better in just that time when I played last night. They set the bar high so i don't see skull and bones even close to this
I did love it, however, once I reached pirate legend, and bought all the cosemetics I wanted it felt kinda pointless? Theres no motivation reason for me to do quests or rob people anymore because there is nothing to do with the money, it just piles up
You can’t tell people who play solo that it’s not worth it for them. I think that’s a terrible mistake. Not everyone has a huge group of friends who ALL play video games. As a years long solo player, I can confirm that playing solo is PERFECTLY DOABLE AND FUN
just started watching, thought id correct the misconception this game was made by original RARE developers, it wasnt... RARE was essentially discontinued when MS bought it and only kept in name... it was replaced by a new company structure, management and staff under the same name, almost all staff left when their employment contracts expired... for obvious reasons. this is also why some staff jumped ship before MS took over, because MS had been visiting the studio and talking with them years in advance... and most were not keen with the idea of MS being involved, so seeing the founders not closing the door on MS, it was obvious to them, they were looking at their options and waiting to see if Nintendo would right itself... obviously never happened and many staff expected as much and left early, before finding themselves stuck in a employment contract that would require them to work under MS when ownership changed... gives u a inside clue to how many experienced devs honestly think about MS, but cant officially vocalize this in fear of it effecting their career... they would rather take their chances somewere else, then sign a guaranteed long-term work contract to work under them, part of the new Rare. MS still successfully re-contracted some Rare staff, but as a gimmick to make it seem like it was the same company... hence MS refused to let these Rare employees / founders actually make anything as they had been promised by MS,... but this was not defined legally... so its not rocket science. so naturally MS went back on their promise and the only reason Rare heads agreed to the MS purchase of Rare was supposedly because they had a bunch of cool games they wanted to make, many already in development and needed more $$$ to keep financials within a safe margin encase a release by chance flopped... AAA is very very expensive after all... and MS basically took advantage of their situation... since Nintendo was suffering severe management issues at this time and was not paying attention to its competitors at all, so the vultures came in to harvest. MS falsely promised Rare they would be given the green light to finish current projects without interference and start other projects they had wanted the $$$ for without interference, but... no sooner had the MS taken over shop and placed its own staff into the company and taken over its management, they basically shut everything down for review and looked at what was close to release or needed to be released part of pre-existing legal obligations... anything else was basically shutdown. however "quality" was also not part of the formula, so very obviously everything that released post MS take over = very note worthy decline in quality, even Kameo of power... the original alpha models/textures... actually looked better then the xbox release models, infact the xbox release looked like a graphical downgrade and below the standards it would have released on the GC.... various former staff leaks basically indicate MS specifically ordered the original work to be scrapped and forced dev's to downgrade the release and scope of the game. other projects which had been started, like the next Banjo game were put on hold, original worked again scrapped and released latter with various complaints from former staff who were not allowed to make the game as they originally wanted /promised by MS... this also went onto conker and perfect dark like wise, various complaints were made they were not allowed to make these games as originally intended /planned with any original work again scrapped by MS and they were basically forced to re-make them according to how MS wanted them to be made, so conket basically just became a re-make and perfect dark drifted completely of-rails from what had been originally made and planned for the game, with MS basically lecturing staff their original ideas and plans were not suited for the current market etc. everytime original Rare staff went to get a project green lit, even worked on for "free" to make a alpha / demo to show MS they had a awesome idea, they just needed the green light... MS would refuse. in the end virtually all the staff left as their contracts expired, realizing MS was just yanking their chains and had never intended to honor a single promise, even for the founders they had been offer a fair amount of $$$ to continue their contracts, but left... obviously because by then what was coming out of Rare that would be associated to them... to put it mildly would be a industry wide embarrassment. Today rare is full of the woke type rubbish, typical of many studios operated by major names... so its infact rather amazing they even made sea of thieves... but since its a niche area, but in absence of any real competition... well its not hard to make a successful game when virtually anyone interested in that genre will buy ur game out of desperation to scratch that itch... so the fact it was so poorly released, is just another indicator this is not RARE... its original staff and management left long long ago already... just because the name sustains... doesnt = the same thing. this is also why many many other names which once made great games... eventually fall into decline = those people no longer work at that company and management has also typically changed as well... only a empty shell remains. as such if were being honest Rare doesnt exist anymore... which is also why Seas of thieves... is so far below original Rare quality and standards, its basically a wet fish to the face when considering their legacy and even vs the industry in general... MS Rare is also pretty sub-standard, you couldnt even list them as a AAA studio, infact that status basically died after they started releasing games under MS, quality was only ever B grade at best and in general F grade... Sea of thieves is at best a C grade game currently and released as a D grade. at the end of the day its not hard to make a good game in this genre if you got the $$$, staff and time, its hard to mess up such a simple formula for fun, unless your trying to go the full sim route... so when someone with $$$, staff and time does mess it up... yea... even if they salvage the situation... u know ur dealing with a very low end, low quality studio... simply put most indie studios can do x10 better then MS Rare, they just lack the $$$, time, staff and interest, otherwise Sea of thieves would have been a dead fish on release and stayed that way... MS Rare is basically a D grade studio by itself, but since it gets support from other MS departments, its possible for it to elevate things to C grade, otherwise its dependent on re-making old games, in order to produce anything better, as for anything new and original = impossible for such a low quality studio running under stiff restrictions, its dev's are all low quality employees and its management is hardly better.... this is not something $$$ can fix... only a complete gutting and overhaul of staff and its management could resolve this... and under MS = never going to happen... someone would need to buy Rare of MS and since your basically just buying the name to throw everything else in the bin... doesnt make much financial sense, so probably never going to happen, unless a real game lover with $$$ gets involved, till then Rare is dead and its cheap clone MS Rare continues to bring shame to its name.
Excellent summary. In general I've noticed that "casual" gamers have no concept of the fact that developers "make or break" a game. They expect these big titles to return to them every year with the same amount of love put into them as by their core developers. Then I tell them that "well, you see all those developers have left" and they get this blank stare in their eyes for 3 seconds before saying something like "oh well GTA6 is gunna be epic". As if they had any idea how bad things really are at the moment. I pity these casual thinking people.
the fun in sea of thieves is the fun you have with your friends, well, only 3 of them....like its that hard to make larger crew? XD, its not a tactical fps with important balance to keep looking for its a goofy sandbox pirate game with minimum 150 ping, let us play together for real for the love of god....
The main problem has been making ship sizes larger that are still effective and don't just win outright against anything else that is smaller than them. One of sea of thieves largest problems is numbers: More people, more cannons, more guns = usually more victory. Skill only matters to a point and that's something rare needs to fix in terms of them trying to address pvp content. Besides that, Larger ships like galleons make the servers very unstable in regards to the the galleon sails, galleon cosmetics, as well as the fact that player models are very poorly optimized. If you have more than 8 players together expect each and every one of their unique ship cosmetics and player models to render at a constant 15 fps at best. That coupled with hit registration issues and large loading times after each death with each additional player nearby its a recipe for a sometimes very frustrating experience. Adding larger ship types and larger crew is not really a valid option in the current base build of the game, so why doesn't rare let us join on our friends server with a ship and crew of our own? Well, I don't know. A lot of these problems could be solved if we just were allowed to play with our friends on the same server while on a different crew and keep the current ship types. Simple solution to what otherwise would be a big problem. I personally think something like that would be fun as hell. I'd love to join on my friends and either fuck with them and fight them or play with them in that way.
@@miboo7459 they've been working on custom "creative" servers for a while now, no gold or progression, but it's a private server where you can mess around with stuff. So other ships can be brought in to mess around and do stuff. Having a private "PvE" server for crews has already been addressed by rare as never happening, because it takes away that unexpectedness of pvp encounters, as well as gives way to mind numbing grinding, because there's no threat of your ship sinking to other players.
@@ZombishTurkey I think PVE servers would be abad idea. Custom servers for messing around is great. I'm not afan of removing gold and progression entirely because your time should feel worthwhile, but it should be nowhere near the amount you could make on live normal servers. A multiplier of 0.5-0.25 of normal value I see as ideal for that. I had no idea that concept had been brought up before by rare so I'm excited to see what that brings when they finally release it!
@@miboo7459 currently only sea of thieves partners have access to the servers. theres a tab in main menu settings where you can join a partners server, but you need a code.
I'd still prefer to have the option to always play as you want... including getting to enjoy the game and it's story without other people interfering. Or at least make PvP battles more than just "Sink enemy-Harpoon Loot" (Unironically I'd want everything on an enemy ship to go down with it if it's not placed on Deck so people would actually have to STEAL loot)
what am i grinding for again ? bc i don't want cosmetics what about new ships guns ship guns and stuff like that not just skins that be cool if they did that
I stopped playing this game around the time I finished the Sesson 1 battle pass, then I stopped paying for xbox game pass. But I did have a lot of fun doing the quests and world events until I reached Pirate Legend. At that point I figured I've done enough and decided to quit. I'm considering buying the game on steam and trying out all the new stuff I missed out on
I came to this video because I just got yelled at but my soul called friends because I said that sea of thieves sucked. This is me after playing it when it came out , and playing It again a year ago. And honestly both times Kinda sucked, ironically mostly BECAUSE of my friends, Ik what you're thinking,"Get new friends" tried with 5 different friend groups and it all had the same results. Everything was just very annoying and all they wanted to do was fool around and troll each other even when we were trying to do missions...do you know how many times these dbags just randomly put me in the brigg just for shts and giggles? Or lit me on fire and puked on me, NONE OF THAT Tomfoolery WAS FUN! I know some of y'all hold moments like that as fond memories, me I found it freaking annoying, even when I found a group that seemed serious,there's ALWAYS Tomfoolery, and this is why I'm mostly a single player type of person...I hate games that RELY on multiplayer to make the game fun cuz ppl are very unpredictable and have the compacity to ruin the whole experience for you. That's another reason why I can't get into borderlands cuz my friends kept power leveling through the whole game and kept giving me random guns to sell. I tried games like sot and I keep getting screwed and time and money wasted. The only games that seem to get it right is Destiny and monster hunter rise. So all in all,I personally don't like the and don't think I'll be trying it again due to previous bad experiences. Good review though.
It revovles around player interaction hostile or not and imo this is the best aspect of the game and after that the lore. I find pve mostly repetitive even now that we have a variety of bosses and enemies to face and without the thread of other players I would get bored fast and this is what the devs have in mind like they say this will always be a pvevp world.
This game is perfect in concept, but because of the high ping (no servers in my country) and the horrible combat, I just can't play it, as much as I really want to
Very good video, but I would also like to mention that the PvP in SoT is a very rewarding and unique system (when you aren't getting regged), there is a very fun balance of combat skill, strategy, and fps skill, and it comes together to make a very interesting blend of mechanics that leads to probably the most fulfilling PvP experience I have ever engaged in on a game-by-game basis. The synergy required of you and your crew, when you're playing with others, is a demanding but amazing feeling. Sea of Thieves manages to take that feeling you get playing a co-op game like overcooked or unrailed and add so many layers of depth and fun that the PvP systems become a truly amazing experience. If you're reading this, and this sounds exciting to you, I highly recommend giving it a go. It is the best team based PvP hands down, there is no other game that can hope to match Sea of Thieves. However, Make sure that when you come into the game, you do your best to learn at first, rather than win. Watch videos, gather more information. If you make a dedicated time investment, it is all the more rewarding. And the new hourglass system is amazing for being able to improve your skill level quickly. If you're new to Sea of Thieves, now is the best time ever to get into the game, no matter what you want to play it for. Happy sailing!
I used to love SoT before they started focusing more and more on PvP and removing the Arena. And the time it takes to do anything as well as my time becoming more and more limited. I stopped playing. I don't care for the PvP all that much. And they stopped focusing on the Tall Tales and just not helping the time it takes to do stuff and how annoying it is to be sunk. Galleons picking on poor sloops. It just made me wanna play less and less. If it didn't take forever or if you could still earn rewards and host your own private servers I also didn't want to play anymore. Also a lot of my friends stopped playing or don't talk to me anymore. So that also led to me playing less.
All this sounds good, but here is the problem I have with the game. The risk vs reward. I spend sometimes hours getting gear, when a random person shows up. PVP is fine, but these people have nothing while I have done all the work. So when i kill them, i get very little, while if they kill me. They get my hours of work.
"You can use gold to customize your ship and character" that... is such a waste of the use of currency mechanic. You risked your lives and your ships to get just a bunch of costumes... It could have been used to buy better ships(larger, more storage), upgrade parts of the ship (defensive durability, offensive cannon upgrades, more efficient sails for traveling), upgrade your gear (guns, swords, armor). If you wanna go further with the usefulness: hire some temporary crew members (ai or players) to join a short treasure hunt. If you have currency in games, don't just slap a cosmetics onto them and be done with it. Fucking, make it worth the effort to get those currency.
Personally I don't play of it because I feel like I've already missed out on so much. I just can't stand games that permanently make it impossible to get content that came out earlier just because you weren't at the right place at the right time. The whole idea of a battle pass is just an instant killjoy for me.
The video is pretty good but your microphone is way too heavy on the lower frequencies compared to high, it sounds like you cut out a lot from 5k and up.
Could you please elaborate further on that? I use a hard limiter at around -3.0 or else the audio is very quiet when I normalize it. Is this problem persisting with my other videos or just this?
@@TimePlayerOfficial If you don't modify your audio otherwise then I believe the microphone is the 'problem', I checked 3 other videos from you and they all sound pretty much the same. If you have access to an equalizer in your editing software then you can play around with that and see the differences between frequencies, I recommend picking a song you like listening to and lowering the higher frequencies (5k-18k Hz) by 3-12 decibels, it won't sound the same as what is happening with your mic but you will probably understand what I mean. But the gist of it is that your mic is missing a lot of important high frequencies, these higher frequencies help your voice sound more 'clear' and they help a lot in making your voice sound better and easier to understand. I'm an amateur is sound mixing and you should take my words with a grain of salt, I recommend checking a few tutorials on how to use equalizer and other stuff on audio as it's going to help on the long run if you keep making content.
@@BUCCIMAIN Thanks a lot for the advice! will do and try to get the audio sounding better for the next upload. Appreciate you taking your time to write this.
@@TimePlayerOfficial To this end, a high pass filer would also be a very easy way to cut out some of the rumble and bassy tones that can make your audio sound muddy! They are usually very easy to implement with most audio editors
Hey man good vid. A piece of advice though, it sounds like your mic could benifet from a pop filter. Was a little jarring to listen to at times. Cheers
I think it still needs a story. I still don’t feel like I’m going through a world it’s just a quest style game geared around the player. I wish their was more AI ships just doing their own thing. I wanna be a pirate that has to survive in a mysterious world. Not just go get a quest from the same outpost for some gold.
I’ll say this… my son is a avid Fortnite, Roblox and Rec Room Player. Some friend got him to play sea of thieves…. And he is hooked. With that being said. This game is far from a failure. The graphics fits right up there with Fortnite and what he wants to do. Sharks, sea creatures.. looting.. sailing the great unknown not knowing what’s coming next. Needing teamwork to steer the ship. If kids love it… you made a masterpiece cause they are not amused easily
My only thing is they should have leaned more towards a survival aspect building and upgrading your boat a pirate version of rust almost upgrade guns and boats beyond cosmetics make up for skill differences with farming and fire power a solo questline to learm to build upgrade and run the boat alone or with a team
realise a live service game is not expected to have a ton of content at release..... it's a 10 yr plan so over time more things come out... why ppl expected the launch version to be massive i will nvr understand. same with halo infinite add more as it goes not expected to have everything day 1
I mean the game is still meh, would be nice to see some more enemy varieties, like Spanish or British navy, maybe navy forts too, more ships variants and maybe different type of missions except the ones we have? Also maybe more different world events? Would be nice to see a new sea monster or new areas to explore. Game is good and fun but gets stale easily
I was playing with 3 friends. After a while they quit, so i found a lot of discord groups and new friends in there, i gotta say this game is relaxing and i love it
most of the game is vastly better than at launch but a couple of things are now worse. naval combat now has too many things for a crew to be managing (used to be a matter of boarding enemy ship + firing cannons + fixing holes. but now there's additional repairs, cursed balls and fire to manage. fire is the big one here. it's just not a fun mechanic once the novelty runs out). the other thing that's worse is economy and inflation.
The grind and monetization* are real. Also, apologists stink. Aside: No full PVP model yet released works. * To add insult to injury, this isn't a "free-to-play" game.
Fishing is surprisingly not fun. Because it takes way too long. Would rather play championship bass fishing and actually have a blast. Different fish have different patterns.
I jumped into this game on a whim after nearly a year. After I finally remembered how to do everything, I went on a simple cargo run. Should have taken 20 minutes, maybe 30 minutes tops. Instead, I got attacked by a skeleton ship, went miles past my destination, and finally started blasting their ship, only to hit a rock since I was by myself trying to steer and fight at the same time. That was when the megalodon showed up and sunk the skeleton ship right as I scuttled mine.
It was hilarious, I can't wait to do it again!
It was only supposed to take 30 mins… turned into 3 years is what I thought you were gunna say haha
Randomlyshowed up in my recommended, you summed up SOT perfectly in my opinion. I've sunk nearly 500 hours into this game since it had massive content updates in the last 2 years or so and this has bee nthe perfect analysis of rares effort. Bravo
Its not random if you looked for SoT
@@marcelk3847 reccomended my guy
@@marcelk3847 r/wooooosh
Hehehe. Sunk.
"Sunk" 500 hours hehe
I want to love this game. SoT has an unmatched atmosphere, attention to detail and (what's rare in any media now) it needs you to think. I adore jumping into the game, sailing off and just...vibing.
I feel like this game was made for people like me, who above all else enjoy vibing with people, stories, adventure and solving riddles.
BUT, none of the players I came across shared this approach. It seems like the playerbase has shifted to sweaty PvPers who'll kill anybody they come across "just because", while calling them names through chat.
Feels like Rare has created a beautiful city park for people to chill in...but it was overrun by hooligans so nobody goes there anymore.
Say thanks to Chinese corporations, that laid hands on the marketing site. It is the same destiny that approaching every good game in this era.
If you ever get bored in sea of thieves just remember: there’s always something waiting to happen
I can't be bored in sea of thieves, there's just something so magical about being able to soar around in an endless sea
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I know you've heard this enough, but this feels like a very high-quality video for such a small channel. If I didn't see your sub count, I would have assumed that you were a huge channel with millions of views. Keep it up man, honestly a really good watch.
My friends and I got into this game back in March of 2020. Beginning of the pandemic. It was right as the content updates added enough to make this game worth its time. I have since no life’s the hell out of it and after doing the math, me and my friend that I sloop with have technically spent 1% of our lives playing the game. Thats like 80 something days
My guy how old are you
@@ssd3303 80 days x 100 (1% x 100 is 100%)
around 21 years old.
@@LOLWHATBRO ight
@@LOLWHATBRO that's not how the math would work if it was in proportion to someone's life lol
@@Sfcfan120 What's wrong with that? I think he's right! Since 80 days equals to 1% of his life, 8000 days equals to 100%
about a year ago during the flameheart ghost ship events me and my girlfriend played sea of thieves together. we’d play it for hours basically everyday and eventually we even had a session with her mum and stepdad. and my favourite memory is the time where we had a 13 hour session of playing the game non stop. and some point during the session i got stranded on an island with a rowboat and all of our loot because our ship had gone down. and because we didn’t really understand how to get around the map very well i decided to just row around the sea with a dozen or so chests and skulls until eventually they were able to find me again
it sounds dumb i know but small things like this where you still don’t understand everything about a game and are just having mindless fun can honestly be some of the funniest moments when playing
Finally bought this for $20 on sale off of Steam this past Friday. I now have 15 hours played already with my mates. I can't believe I slept on this game for so long. Incredibly charming game that is easy to get into and very relaxing.
I bought the game a couple years ago and now i cant find anyone to play it with since my friends are poor af.
Dude the same if you play the game with friends it s so much fun...
@@uncleiroh9328 And with randoms some times, i played with 2 random ppl yesterday on their ship was so funny and fun, loved it
i love it solo too
ive sunk over 2000 hours in this game and still find myslef having fun after complwting most it has too offer, on top of frequent major content updates, the expiriences and interactions you have with others is enough to keep it alive and fun
Don’t wanna be that guy but the content updates aren’t really major. The only big/meaningful content update we have gotten in the past year and a half is the new factions this season.
I remember when Black Flag came out and becoming a favorite of mine due to great gameplay just by sailing the seas and discovering new islands, treasure, and enemy ships to attack. And since then, there hasn't been anything to top Black Flag, which has a bar that can be easily surpassed if done right. Sea of Thieves may have gotten to a place where it's pretty much a great game, but first impressions mean a lot. And with the constant delays of Skull & Bones, it doesn't look like we will get more pirate games anytime soon.
this is very underated content, like i cant believe you only have 800 subs. you did great on this video:) keep it up!
I went back to this game the other week, playing with my 2 sons. We have so much fun and i realy want this game to keep growing into Epic scales. Personaly i hope they will add a Monkey Island theme, maby fight leebrok och Visit the monkey cave.
There is actually a hidden section in the the first Pirates Life Tall Tale (the jack sparrow ones), that is an homage to Monkey Island! This is the accompanying song for that hidden area!
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@@dillusion6083 was gonna mention it here too but u did it already :D
@@dillusion6083 wow realy, gotta find that out
got your wish man
@@jacksonedwards9803 I did it was epic!
Great video man, I was very hesitant about buying the game but you convinced me, thank you. Keep up the great work, I honestly expected you have waaay more subs. Thanks again!
Not to mention how the world is impacted by player vs player mini story / campaigns! (Like recent events)
Calling sea of thieves one of the most anticipated titles ever to be released is a vast overstatement
went back with a buddy, sunk an enemy good and proper, they got one guy on who spawn oofed us for an hour, only then did he sink our ship full of 7 hours of loot. sea of thieves needs a major fix to spawn camping before its good, otherwise its just sweat city or pve only, no in-between
There is an in between, you will rarely come across someone who is willing to go and try to kill you over and over until you die and when you do they either need to get a life or you really pissed them off.
Skill issue
@@natedog8101it's past your bedtime
It's really a great game, but the sea and the world still feel a bit empty, more lifeless than empty, just a bit more sea and land animals could make it better, both for immersion and gameplay, some good whale hunt could be good fun to grind the hunters call and stuff like that, and some other npcs might be good, new enemies and kind of ships that roam the ocean, also new world events, and some stuff that is played through voyages should be also on the map, something like you see seagulls, go towards them and you find some barrels and a clue for a lost shipwreck, same thing for the vaults, or ghost ships, it already happens with messages in the bottles. It can very well be rng, changing it's spawn time and location every playthrough
The quality of this content deserves more than 900 subscribers, i will not be surprised if this channel grows a lot within the next couple years.
I think the big problem is that I cant seem to want to keep playing the game for more than a week (which I grind the game a lot in this week) before taking a break for months. I think the game needs more incentive that just cosmetics. Like cool new guns (not just skins), cool new ships (not just skins), and some cool ass shit that makes me want to grind the hell out of the game for.
worst part is when u return from the break, you'd forget everything and become very lost
I still think the game’s empty and everything takes ages to do. I would also like some more obscure features like pirates that walk around on your own ship even if they do nothing, there’s no life in the game
Played since launch with 1400 hours in. This is a great showing of Sea of Thieves. I wouldn’t say they only recently completed the game years after launch and I would rather say that happened when we were around the 2nd or 3rd anniversary which is still years, but keep in mind you showed the Pirate’s Life second tall tale as an example so I assumed that’s when you though it finished.
Would you play on a Xbox using a controller whilst on crossplay? It's a morbidly disappointing experience for dozens of reasons. Enjoy your skins and titles 🍻
@@burtlangoustine1 Yes, the entire time I was on Xbox I was cross play.
I agree with you! That was one of the best game I've ever played in my entire life. Even solo, that was thrilling to me.
I can't wait to hop back, if that will be possible soon enough.
Hopefully, the game is still alive and at least without that much cheaters/buggers/scripters etc
I'm so glad people are coming back to the game and this review was sick but I disagree with the solo part I've played with both with friends and solo and while dicking around with the lads is great solo isn't that bad as I've trolled and memed with other crews and it's a damn fun time
cheers!
Yeah true. But stay far away from other players lol
@@frostxr Ive had ve some funny interactions man going to other players is great
6:43 I genuinely don't understand what the 'actual meaningful content to grind towards' is. The only thing to grind for is cosmetics just like before. And the idea that this is only a problem in solo play is just not true, there is literally nothing to work towards with friends, just mess around with them and do random shit. You could do that in any game
Also for the point at 9:54: I absolutely adore sandboxes and games that aren't so restricted in their progression, and I don't see how this really fits either of them. Sandbox does not just mean open world, I don't see a single sandbox element to change or play with in this game. And for the progression, how is it non-linear other than being able to pick where you get quests? Which is hardly progression... The only real 'progression' is getting more valuable cosmetics, which felt pretty restricted to me.
You do not know HOW much I agree with you. This sums it up perfectly.
@@MXedits_1 Thank you for this, I honestly felt so crazy re-exploring this game years later after hearing such good things only to find it basically the same
@@luminen4051 Those good things you heard where probably people repeating what streamers told them on Twitch. And Sea of Thieves and Twitch have a partnership....
It's all baseless hype and advertisement. I feel you.
Played this on its first day up until the 2 year mark. Seen so much going on I may have to summon the old crew and make a return to game
I first played Sea of Thieves in September of 2020, so I missed the early stages of the game, I never realized how bare bones it was. I'm glad that Rare stuck with it though, because by the time I was starting to play it it was one of my favorite games ever
Sometimes a see a game ive played thats dull. Yet still some how had captured a fan base. Its not improved any way like No Mans Sky. Its reptition can only be enjoyed by 2 groups. Group 1 The Friends Crews. Playing it with anyone non random is somewhat less grindy. Group 2 Grief A-holes, only mission is to sink you, loot you.
Me and my buddies started playing sot in the beginning of the pandemic and still it's the most fun game which you'll love playing with your friends.
Great video man! I hope your channel grows!
Great review! Buying on sale now thanks to you
Totally deserve more subs, this is top quality content! Subbed!
I never get tired of sailing, searching for treasure or fighting skeletons. I just want to be able to do the grinding and not have to keep looking over my shoulder for toxic greifers.
I'm just getting back into it tbh, haven't played it much at all since 2018/2019
i am not gonna lie i would love to play this game. but i just dont have any friends to play it with now so i feel like id be missing out on a lot of stuff
2:10 what's is the name of this music pls tell
Great writing there my friend, awesome video ❤
Random question, but I absolutely love your chanel and I'm trying to get into making video essays what editing software and mic do you use. I have filmora.
Thank you for the comment! It's great that you're also looking to get into this field, I use premiere pro as my editing software and this mic - www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B08CDD1XBW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
@@TimePlayerOfficial thanks
Tbh I know you play to get gold, but there isn’t anything to spend your gold on cept cosmetics. Missions for emissary’s are identical copies (just slightly different names) and leveling up your emissary doesn’t feel like you are really progressing because the quests remain the same. Digging up treasure is easy sure, but I certainly don’t like doing it over and over again. Maybe it’s just me but titles and cosmetics isn’t enough to keep me in the game.
It’s the journey is the only real motivation. Often when I used to play the game a lot (I got burned out and couldn’t find good people to play with) almost every voyage had something special happen even if we never saw another player. Like shoveling up a mega keg only to see a geyser start to form directly under it. Like having casual conversations with people that don’t have an undiagnosed mental illness. When our ship was The only ship around it felt boring and there was no danger. Gold and cosmetics is the material thing to keep you in but it isn’t the real thing that’s fun.
@@luigimrlgaming9484 >that don't have undiagnosed mental illnesses
Everyone who plays this game has an undiagnosed mental illness.
I want to play this game since I First Saw It
I'll buy an X Box just for this, and of course when New Fable "Reboot" comes out
I think that SOT needs a sustaining competitor game to make them wake up and take care of their players
Which could be Skull and Bones, if Ubisoft ever releases it. Although most people don't seem to think it looks any fun anyway.
There used to be atlas but that shit is dead in the water
@@oldspice051 that game isn't a sustaining competitor it's not even out and it's disliked by most people it's also ubisoft so it won't be good
@@rezalmao True. The last game I really liked from them was Immortals: Fenyx Rising.
@@oldspice051 I didn't really like that game tbh
This was a great video really helped me out!
I haven't played it since season 6, I'm level 50 on all except hunter so I'm not a newbie. It's got so much better in just that time when I played last night. They set the bar high so i don't see skull and bones even close to this
Great video, good content, subbed! Keep going!
aight amazing review now when i get few pc friends ill download this
I did love it, however, once I reached pirate legend, and bought all the cosemetics I wanted it felt kinda pointless?
Theres no motivation reason for me to do quests or rob people anymore because there is nothing to do with the money, it just piles up
Pls ask the devs to also add the option to also have 3rd person view. and also tell them to add new rewards besides cosmetics.
You can’t tell people who play solo that it’s not worth it for them. I think that’s a terrible mistake. Not everyone has a huge group of friends who ALL play video games. As a years long solo player, I can confirm that playing solo is PERFECTLY DOABLE AND FUN
I always wanted to play this game but I can’t find any friends to play this with sad
Started playing 2 weeks ago, awesome game.
just started watching, thought id correct the misconception this game was made by original RARE developers, it wasnt...
RARE was essentially discontinued when MS bought it and only kept in name... it was replaced by a new company structure, management and staff under the same name, almost all staff left when their employment contracts expired... for obvious reasons.
this is also why some staff jumped ship before MS took over, because MS had been visiting the studio and talking with them years in advance... and most were not keen with the idea of MS being involved, so seeing the founders not closing the door on MS, it was obvious to them, they were looking at their options and waiting to see if Nintendo would right itself... obviously never happened and many staff expected as much and left early, before finding themselves stuck in a employment contract that would require them to work under MS when ownership changed... gives u a inside clue to how many experienced devs honestly think about MS, but cant officially vocalize this in fear of it effecting their career... they would rather take their chances somewere else, then sign a guaranteed long-term work contract to work under them, part of the new Rare.
MS still successfully re-contracted some Rare staff, but as a gimmick to make it seem like it was the same company... hence MS refused to let these Rare employees / founders actually make anything as they had been promised by MS,... but this was not defined legally... so its not rocket science.
so naturally MS went back on their promise and the only reason Rare heads agreed to the MS purchase of Rare was supposedly because they had a bunch of cool games they wanted to make, many already in development and needed more $$$ to keep financials within a safe margin encase a release by chance flopped... AAA is very very expensive after all... and MS basically took advantage of their situation...
since Nintendo was suffering severe management issues at this time and was not paying attention to its competitors at all, so the vultures came in to harvest.
MS falsely promised Rare they would be given the green light to finish current projects without interference and start other projects they had wanted the $$$ for without interference, but...
no sooner had the MS taken over shop and placed its own staff into the company and taken over its management, they basically shut everything down for review and looked at what was close to release or needed to be released part of pre-existing legal obligations... anything else was basically shutdown.
however "quality" was also not part of the formula, so very obviously everything that released post MS take over = very note worthy decline in quality, even Kameo of power... the original alpha models/textures... actually looked better then the xbox release models, infact the xbox release looked like a graphical downgrade and below the standards it would have released on the GC.... various former staff leaks basically indicate MS specifically ordered the original work to be scrapped and forced dev's to downgrade the release and scope of the game.
other projects which had been started, like the next Banjo game were put on hold, original worked again scrapped and released latter with various complaints from former staff who were not allowed to make the game as they originally wanted /promised by MS...
this also went onto conker and perfect dark like wise, various complaints were made they were not allowed to make these games as originally intended /planned with any original work again scrapped by MS and they were basically forced to re-make them according to how MS wanted them to be made, so conket basically just became a re-make and perfect dark drifted completely of-rails from what had been originally made and planned for the game, with MS basically lecturing staff their original ideas and plans were not suited for the current market etc.
everytime original Rare staff went to get a project green lit, even worked on for "free" to make a alpha / demo to show MS they had a awesome idea, they just needed the green light... MS would refuse.
in the end virtually all the staff left as their contracts expired, realizing MS was just yanking their chains and had never intended to honor a single promise, even for the founders they had been offer a fair amount of $$$ to continue their contracts, but left... obviously because by then what was coming out of Rare that would be associated to them... to put it mildly would be a industry wide embarrassment.
Today rare is full of the woke type rubbish, typical of many studios operated by major names... so its infact rather amazing they even made sea of thieves... but since its a niche area, but in absence of any real competition... well its not hard to make a successful game when virtually anyone interested in that genre will buy ur game out of desperation to scratch that itch...
so the fact it was so poorly released, is just another indicator this is not RARE... its original staff and management left long long ago already... just because the name sustains... doesnt = the same thing.
this is also why many many other names which once made great games... eventually fall into decline = those people no longer work at that company and management has also typically changed as well... only a empty shell remains.
as such if were being honest Rare doesnt exist anymore... which is also why Seas of thieves... is so far below original Rare quality and standards, its basically a wet fish to the face when considering their legacy and even vs the industry in general... MS Rare is also pretty sub-standard, you couldnt even list them as a AAA studio, infact that status basically died after they started releasing games under MS, quality was only ever B grade at best and in general F grade... Sea of thieves is at best a C grade game currently and released as a D grade.
at the end of the day its not hard to make a good game in this genre if you got the $$$, staff and time, its hard to mess up such a simple formula for fun, unless your trying to go the full sim route... so when someone with $$$, staff and time does mess it up... yea... even if they salvage the situation... u know ur dealing with a very low end, low quality studio... simply put most indie studios can do x10 better then MS Rare, they just lack the $$$, time, staff and interest, otherwise Sea of thieves would have been a dead fish on release and stayed that way...
MS Rare is basically a D grade studio by itself, but since it gets support from other MS departments, its possible for it to elevate things to C grade, otherwise its dependent on re-making old games, in order to produce anything better, as for anything new and original = impossible for such a low quality studio running under stiff restrictions, its dev's are all low quality employees and its management is hardly better....
this is not something $$$ can fix... only a complete gutting and overhaul of staff and its management could resolve this... and under MS = never going to happen... someone would need to buy Rare of MS and since your basically just buying the name to throw everything else in the bin... doesnt make much financial sense, so probably never going to happen, unless a real game lover with $$$ gets involved, till then Rare is dead and its cheap clone MS Rare continues to bring shame to its name.
Skill issue
Excellent summary.
In general I've noticed that "casual" gamers have no concept of the fact that developers "make or break" a game. They expect these big titles to return to them every year with the same amount of love put into them as by their core developers.
Then I tell them that "well, you see all those developers have left" and they get this blank stare in their eyes for 3 seconds before saying something like "oh well GTA6 is gunna be epic".
As if they had any idea how bad things really are at the moment. I pity these casual thinking people.
the fun in sea of thieves is the fun you have with your friends, well, only 3 of them....like its that hard to make larger crew? XD, its not a tactical fps with important balance to keep looking for its a goofy sandbox pirate game with minimum 150 ping, let us play together for real for the love of god....
The main problem has been making ship sizes larger that are still effective and don't just win outright against anything else that is smaller than them. One of sea of thieves largest problems is numbers: More people, more cannons, more guns = usually more victory. Skill only matters to a point and that's something rare needs to fix in terms of them trying to address pvp content. Besides that, Larger ships like galleons make the servers very unstable in regards to the the galleon sails, galleon cosmetics, as well as the fact that player models are very poorly optimized. If you have more than 8 players together expect each and every one of their unique ship cosmetics and player models to render at a constant 15 fps at best. That coupled with hit registration issues and large loading times after each death with each additional player nearby its a recipe for a sometimes very frustrating experience.
Adding larger ship types and larger crew is not really a valid option in the current base build of the game, so why doesn't rare let us join on our friends server with a ship and crew of our own? Well, I don't know. A lot of these problems could be solved if we just were allowed to play with our friends on the same server while on a different crew and keep the current ship types. Simple solution to what otherwise would be a big problem. I personally think something like that would be fun as hell. I'd love to join on my friends and either fuck with them and fight them or play with them in that way.
@@miboo7459 they've been working on custom "creative" servers for a while now, no gold or progression, but it's a private server where you can mess around with stuff. So other ships can be brought in to mess around and do stuff.
Having a private "PvE" server for crews has already been addressed by rare as never happening, because it takes away that unexpectedness of pvp encounters, as well as gives way to mind numbing grinding, because there's no threat of your ship sinking to other players.
@@ZombishTurkey I think PVE servers would be abad idea. Custom servers for messing around is great. I'm not afan of removing gold and progression entirely because your time should feel worthwhile, but it should be nowhere near the amount you could make on live normal servers. A multiplier of 0.5-0.25 of normal value I see as ideal for that.
I had no idea that concept had been brought up before by rare so I'm excited to see what that brings when they finally release it!
@@miboo7459 currently only sea of thieves partners have access to the servers. theres a tab in main menu settings where you can join a partners server, but you need a code.
@@ZombishTurkey Very cool ngl. Hope it comes to public soon, would lvoe to mess with my friends and fight them lol
great quality video! keep it up
I'd still prefer to have the option to always play as you want... including getting to enjoy the game and it's story without other people interfering. Or at least make PvP battles more than just "Sink enemy-Harpoon Loot" (Unironically I'd want everything on an enemy ship to go down with it if it's not placed on Deck so people would actually have to STEAL loot)
Your argument is flawed
what am i grinding for again ? bc i don't want cosmetics what about new ships guns ship guns and stuff like that not just skins that be cool if they did that
I love that this game is a sandbox, and that there is something of a progression / grindy aspect to work towards while doing said stupid stuff.
I stopped playing this game around the time I finished the Sesson 1 battle pass, then I stopped paying for xbox game pass. But I did have a lot of fun doing the quests and world events until I reached Pirate Legend. At that point I figured I've done enough and decided to quit.
I'm considering buying the game on steam and trying out all the new stuff I missed out on
I came to this video because I just got yelled at but my soul called friends because I said that sea of thieves sucked. This is me after playing it when it came out , and playing It again a year ago. And honestly both times Kinda sucked, ironically mostly BECAUSE of my friends, Ik what you're thinking,"Get new friends" tried with 5 different friend groups and it all had the same results. Everything was just very annoying and all they wanted to do was fool around and troll each other even when we were trying to do missions...do you know how many times these dbags just randomly put me in the brigg just for shts and giggles? Or lit me on fire and puked on me, NONE OF THAT Tomfoolery WAS FUN! I know some of y'all hold moments like that as fond memories, me I found it freaking annoying, even when I found a group that seemed serious,there's ALWAYS Tomfoolery, and this is why I'm mostly a single player type of person...I hate games that RELY on multiplayer to make the game fun cuz ppl are very unpredictable and have the compacity to ruin the whole experience for you. That's another reason why I can't get into borderlands cuz my friends kept power leveling through the whole game and kept giving me random guns to sell. I tried games like sot and I keep getting screwed and time and money wasted. The only games that seem to get it right is Destiny and monster hunter rise.
So all in all,I personally don't like the and don't think I'll be trying it again due to previous bad experiences. Good review though.
The game is good but it has the potential to be unbelievably great. it revolves around pvp yet this is it's weakest aspect.
It revovles around player interaction hostile or not and imo this is the best aspect of the game and after that the lore. I find pve mostly repetitive even now that we have a variety of bosses and enemies to face and without the thread of other players I would get bored fast and this is what the devs have in mind like they say this will always be a pvevp world.
@@j.s.s.j.7516 Wait, an actually good take in a yt comment section! I thought this day would never come.
This game is perfect in concept, but because of the high ping (no servers in my country) and the horrible combat, I just can't play it, as much as I really want to
Very good video, but I would also like to mention that the PvP in SoT is a very rewarding and unique system (when you aren't getting regged), there is a very fun balance of combat skill, strategy, and fps skill, and it comes together to make a very interesting blend of mechanics that leads to probably the most fulfilling PvP experience I have ever engaged in on a game-by-game basis. The synergy required of you and your crew, when you're playing with others, is a demanding but amazing feeling. Sea of Thieves manages to take that feeling you get playing a co-op game like overcooked or unrailed and add so many layers of depth and fun that the PvP systems become a truly amazing experience.
If you're reading this, and this sounds exciting to you, I highly recommend giving it a go. It is the best team based PvP hands down, there is no other game that can hope to match Sea of Thieves.
However,
Make sure that when you come into the game, you do your best to learn at first, rather than win. Watch videos, gather more information.
If you make a dedicated time investment, it is all the more rewarding. And the new hourglass system is amazing for being able to improve your skill level quickly.
If you're new to Sea of Thieves, now is the best time ever to get into the game, no matter what you want to play it for. Happy sailing!
I agree with you but you sound kind of like a crypto stock bot
@@luigimrlgaming9484 HAHAHA!
I totally see it!
I used to love SoT before they started focusing more and more on PvP and removing the Arena. And the time it takes to do anything as well as my time becoming more and more limited. I stopped playing. I don't care for the PvP all that much. And they stopped focusing on the Tall Tales and just not helping the time it takes to do stuff and how annoying it is to be sunk. Galleons picking on poor sloops. It just made me wanna play less and less. If it didn't take forever or if you could still earn rewards and host your own private servers I also didn't want to play anymore. Also a lot of my friends stopped playing or don't talk to me anymore. So that also led to me playing less.
Great video!
All this sounds good, but here is the problem I have with the game.
The risk vs reward.
I spend sometimes hours getting gear, when a random person shows up. PVP is fine, but these people have nothing while I have done all the work. So when i kill them, i get very little, while if they kill me. They get my hours of work.
Can you play this without personal companions Like is it online multiplayer friendly with exploring?
"You can use gold to customize your ship and character"
that... is such a waste of the use of currency mechanic. You risked your lives and your ships to get just a bunch of costumes...
It could have been used to buy better ships(larger, more storage), upgrade parts of the ship (defensive durability, offensive cannon upgrades, more efficient sails for traveling), upgrade your gear (guns, swords, armor). If you wanna go further with the usefulness: hire some temporary crew members (ai or players) to join a short treasure hunt.
If you have currency in games, don't just slap a cosmetics onto them and be done with it. Fucking, make it worth the effort to get those currency.
Personally I don't play of it because I feel like I've already missed out on so much. I just can't stand games that permanently make it impossible to get content that came out earlier just because you weren't at the right place at the right time. The whole idea of a battle pass is just an instant killjoy for me.
You should have more subs tbh you deserve more.
2:40 saying that and not including no mans sky hurts my soul
Are the expansion dlcs that you have to purchase?
The video is pretty good but your microphone is way too heavy on the lower frequencies compared to high, it sounds like you cut out a lot from 5k and up.
Could you please elaborate further on that? I use a hard limiter at around -3.0 or else the audio is very quiet when I normalize it. Is this problem persisting with my other videos or just this?
@@TimePlayerOfficial If you don't modify your audio otherwise then I believe the microphone is the 'problem', I checked 3 other videos from you and they all sound pretty much the same. If you have access to an equalizer in your editing software then you can play around with that and see the differences between frequencies, I recommend picking a song you like listening to and lowering the higher frequencies (5k-18k Hz) by 3-12 decibels, it won't sound the same as what is happening with your mic but you will probably understand what I mean. But the gist of it is that your mic is missing a lot of important high frequencies, these higher frequencies help your voice sound more 'clear' and they help a lot in making your voice sound better and easier to understand. I'm an amateur is sound mixing and you should take my words with a grain of salt, I recommend checking a few tutorials on how to use equalizer and other stuff on audio as it's going to help on the long run if you keep making content.
@@BUCCIMAIN Thanks a lot for the advice! will do and try to get the audio sounding better for the next upload. Appreciate you taking your time to write this.
@@TimePlayerOfficial To this end, a high pass filer would also be a very easy way to cut out some of the rumble and bassy tones that can make your audio sound muddy! They are usually very easy to implement with most audio editors
Thanks! Will try my best to make the audio sound better next video and research into this more
Hey man good vid. A piece of advice though, it sounds like your mic could benifet from a pop filter. Was a little jarring to listen to at times. Cheers
I think it still needs a story. I still don’t feel like I’m going through a world it’s just a quest style game geared around the player. I wish their was more AI ships just doing their own thing. I wanna be a pirate that has to survive in a mysterious world. Not just go get a quest from the same outpost for some gold.
There’s way more than that
I’ll say this… my son is a avid Fortnite, Roblox and Rec Room Player. Some friend got him to play sea of thieves…. And he is hooked. With that being said. This game is far from a failure. The graphics fits right up there with Fortnite and what he wants to do. Sharks, sea creatures.. looting.. sailing the great unknown not knowing what’s coming next. Needing teamwork to steer the ship. If kids love it… you made a masterpiece cause they are not amused easily
My only thing is they should have leaned more towards a survival aspect building and upgrading your boat a pirate version of rust almost upgrade guns and boats beyond cosmetics make up for skill differences with farming and fire power a solo questline to learm to build upgrade and run the boat alone or with a team
How's the game for solo play? I don't play with friends.
I really want this game
i cracked up at the end, "oceans of sea" , completely butchered the name hahahaha
How do you only have 800 subs?
You should have more subs then me, great content and good job!
Well if I had friends..........[sobs]
realise a live service game is not expected to have a ton of content at release..... it's a 10 yr plan so over time more things come out... why ppl expected the launch version to be massive i will nvr understand. same with halo infinite add more as it goes not expected to have everything day 1
But we still need finished games as customers not games who get better after so many years of release
I love playing this but I don’t have friends
I mean the game is still meh, would be nice to see some more enemy varieties, like Spanish or British navy, maybe navy forts too, more ships variants and maybe different type of missions except the ones we have? Also maybe more different world events? Would be nice to see a new sea monster or new areas to explore. Game is good and fun but gets stale easily
No they add content you can't do because trolls are always lighting you crap on fire, avoid at all costs unless you have friends to pvp with.
I would say its a good game now but it needs some more enemy types.
Sea of thieves release kind of mirrors No man's sky.
Your voice is right in my ear lmaooo
I have 0 friends and I want to play this game, but single player just doesn’t sound worth it
I was playing with 3 friends. After a while they quit, so i found a lot of discord groups and new friends in there, i gotta say this game is relaxing and i love it
Still so much potential left
Got this game cause I saw a YTer play it w/ his buddies and thought wow that looks AWSOME. Then I remembered I don't have freinds :(
most of the game is vastly better than at launch but a couple of things are now worse. naval combat now has too many things for a crew to be managing (used to be a matter of boarding enemy ship + firing cannons + fixing holes. but now there's additional repairs, cursed balls and fire to manage. fire is the big one here. it's just not a fun mechanic once the novelty runs out). the other thing that's worse is economy and inflation.
I’m just trying to be king of the pirates.
so i started watching, got to 2:04 and then watched POT
The grind and monetization* are real. Also, apologists stink.
Aside: No full PVP model yet released works.
* To add insult to injury, this isn't a "free-to-play" game.
It must have because it’s still one of the most popular games On steam
Literally a better review than gameranx bro keep it up dude u just made me download it n tell my buddy’s wit Xbox’s to download it😂
Good video👍
Fishing is surprisingly not fun. Because it takes way too long.
Would rather play championship bass fishing and actually have a blast. Different fish have different patterns.
Now, if only they had a functioning anti-cheat