Ahoy mates!
So the beta ended and i feel it's the right time to share those storys you all experienced in the past days. Things that made your day or were just unexpected/hilarious/astonishing/sad/awesome or whatever else so it sticks in your minds. Let's share the best Moments of the beta together!
And as opener of this thread here comes my Story, happening yesterday on the last full day of the beta:
Do you know the kind of stories where the Storyteller is spinning an exciting, sometimes maybe hilarious Story about own astonishing achievements? Like how they outsmarted overwhelming odds and this kind of stuff?
Now my story isn't that kind of Story! It's about the accomplishement of our "enemy" and about 2 "lousy" Pirates whose most respectable traits were persistance :-D. Here it goes:
I was lucky and met a really nice crewmate from the netherlands after logging in and spawning on our 2 man Slope. We did some Voyages together and decided on our last day in the beta to go out and do some hunting and fighting. We got into many battles and tried even difficult ones 2 vs 4 and even battled in a 2 vs 2 Vs 2 Vs 4 Battle around Crooks Hollow but at the end of the day it was the Hunt of a small Ship which was piloted by just one guy that made my day.
So we first encountered him on the open see, while we were looking for a fight. We soon noticed that he was sailing all alone but the s*****g, seaswallowing Pirates we were, we attacked anyways! He tried to sail away and the hunt was on! While sailing across a rough ocean we exchanged Gunfire and the occasionally cannonshot to each other but were not able to Close in to the Guy who sailed all alone.
He managed to stay away from us while returning Gunfire with blunderbuss and Sniper and yelling at us to stay away! The Hunt went on for about 20-30 minutes i think and we came Close to Boarding him 1 or 2 times but failed at doing so (cause 1 of us was steering the ship and the other occupied with repairing or adjusting Sails or Shooting Cannons). Then our "Prey" decided to take a risk and sailed right into a Storm.
While waves big as houses smashed into our Ship we still tried to fight him but luck seemed on his side and the stormy Sea blocked our rudder and we lost sight of him behind the rain and the stormy Sea. So we decided to bring us out of the storm and sail to our Destination of our ongoing Voyage. (at this Point we were already 4 times "on our Way" before entering another fight) But as we left the Storm, guess whose Ship we saw not too far away? So we continued the Hunt!
Again we fighted a littlebit with the Guns but i managed in a darring maneuver to shot myself out of the cannon and hit his ship while he was firing at my mate. So i boarded him finally. We exchanged some Gunfire and he proved to be the better gunslinger and send me straight to the fishes, while still managing to avoid rocks all alone on the sea. My mate managed to pursuing the Hunt and i respawned on our Ship. So in a darring attempt and realizing he cant escape us he Anchored on an Island and proving to be such an astonishing Buccaneer already, we decided to take an all or nothing shot on him.
We crashed our ship on the Island just to be able to board him finally - while he was preparing to leave the Island. There we fought what we thought to be the final battle of this hunt and while hitting him heavy he managed to kill us both in an intense closequarter fight.
Our ship sank and as we respawned we had to relocate to the nearest outpost. Me and my mate were just discussing how awesome this guy played and that we should have hired him for our own Crew and laughing at our selfs how we were not able to catch this one Guy while trying it for more than an Hour. But we agreed that it was a Blast anyway, with such intense Battles. So our Story could end here but we decided yet again to take our 5 try at finally fullfilling our Voyage. So we are leaving the outpost and i was watching at the Crow's Nest for interesting stuff and you all will know what i spotted at the horizon closing in to the outpost we were just leaving? Right! Our legendary one-man Nemesis! And yeah we could have just let him go ... but ... you know :D. So we engaged him again while laughing a lot on how unfortunate and awesome this poor guy was at the same time. We engaged again in some Long range firefight. Even this guy laughed as he encountered us AGAIN. And he finally proposed that he will give us a Chest if we leave him alone. Out of respect of his really awesome playing we took that offer. We anchored our Ships on the Sea while my mate boarded him peacefully and we all laughed and talked a little bit about the ongoing hunt. He really gave us lousy Pirates one of the Chests that he was carrying. We sailed all back to the outpost and cashed in our hard fought Treasure and he totally deserved to cash in his big 2 or 3 Chest's that were left, while we selled our consolation bribe :D. Afterwards we stood at the Beach together, drank some Grog in his honor and were praising his Accomplishment of defending himself against overwhelming Odds and 2 really persistent swashbucklers the Hunt finally ended. It was a great last evening at the Sea and all in all a Blast. I think despite of being the hunted and have to fight 1 vs 2 even he got a lot of fun out of this Encounter.
For myself it was a proof that you can have fun together even if we are playing on different sides with different Odds. And still being able to not beeing toxic about it afterwards. So balo íf we ever meet again after the Release of the Game, the Grog's on me!
Cheer's to my dutch mate who sailed with me the last night and Cheer's to the Rest of you and to the Closed Beta of Sea of Thieves. I for myself had really a Blast! Hope you enjoyed it too.
Best Regards
a lousy Pirate :)
PS: Sorry for my bad english, it's not my native tongue :)
Solo for the win
