The best updates to SoT?

  • Prescafatty
    Commander
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    What, in your opinion, have been the best updates to SoT thus far?

    My top three:

    #3 The Meg. Adds excitement and variety to sailing. A great example of how emergent elements makes for more epic stories.

    #2 Tall Tales. At their best, they play like great escape rooms. The teamwork, problem-solving, and stories feel like what SoT was meant to be all along. I only wished Tall Tales stacked better with the emissary system…

    #1 The Emissary System. Yes, there are issues with Reapers Bones. But leveling up through the emissary system added much-needed progression to play sessions. And there’s nothing like that nerve-wracking sail back to port once you're full of loot and level 5.

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  • Gundy the Shark
    Vanguard
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    Tall Tales are #1 for me. It’s an innovative approach to a story mode and scratches the itch I had for exploring ancient ruins and solving puzzles.

  • Captain Coel
    Commander
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    Barrels getting fuses.

  • Galactic Geek
    Seafarer
    Founder

    1. Expanded ship damage and pirate healing/reviving

    2. Throwables and new cannonball options

    3. Personal Weapon balance changes

    Regarding the last point, it's been a long road, but we're getting ever closer to pirate-to-pirate combat being just about perfect, IMO.

  • NeedSmokes
    Commander

    1. Optional crossplay

    2. Forsaken Shores

    3. Skeleton Thrones..
      (an odd choice, but we had such warped fun at Maurauders Arch firing our cannons at people sat on the throne there pleading with us to join them to complete commendations)

  • ViperishEmu2992
    Marauder

    Best- The rowboat
    Worst - Barrels 2.0

  • FoxyWithTheMoxy
    Legend
    Insider

    For me:

    • TallTales: I am a huge fan of adventure games and movies so I was very excited for these.
    • Traps: Same point as before.
    • Athena Cosmetics: Specially the completion of them, the instruments look amazing.
  • Prescafatty
    Commander
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    With the exception of Forsaken Shores, all of the mentions are improvements to quality of life or core gameplay mechanics. Not new world events like Flameheart and FOTD. I know this is only a small sample, but I think it shows development is best when it's adding sandbox elements to the core game, instead of adding new "rides" to SoT amusement park.

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