There'd be nothing like it in the gaming market and would explode. 25-50 ships in one big sea. Floating barrels with supplies and some tiny islands to restock. Random storms, etc. It would be massive and original..... and I don't believe that hard to put together.
Rare and MS should at least consider the potential of what they have here.
@tedakin I don't know how I feel about this. I feel like it would divide the game and attract the wrong player base. I think it would be fun but at the same time, I feel like that's all the game will eventually be.
It wouldn't even work. It doesn't even fit the theme and imagine if the circle was closing in and you were going towards the wind. There are just so many issues with this idea. Going on islands, finding weapons and resources and getting back on the ship takes an excessive amount of time too. This is not a battle royale type of game. Also on another note, no game out there is like the original battle royale movie anyway, which is why they're all so bad.
@maximus1978 said in I'll say it again.... Battle Royale would be HUGE:
And again nope bad idea. Divides the playerbase even more. And its not the concept of the game.
There's no real "concept" to the game.
I do see the worry of splitting the base, but you gotta give people a reason to play both. No one had ever heard of Fortnite until they introduced Battle Royale. BR in SOT would be a money making machine.
But don't add it until you've given people a reason to WANT to stay with the game proper as well.
All they need to do is dynamically improve the population division between servers. Sometimes I want to sail empty seas, and sometimes I'd like a few people to fight. PVE and PVP options would be helpful. PVP servers would be more populated, whereas PVE servers wouldn't be. Might have to be better described than PVE/PVP... population scale option maybe... 3-10. 3 meaning mostly by yourself, and 10 being a ship on every horizon.
@surlystubbles said in I'll say it again.... Battle Royale would be HUGE:
If you want Battle Royale, go get chicken dinners in PubG or Fortnite. I am wholesale against RARE deviating any resources from the main game's development, to make a side mode that only the hardcore PVP fans want.
Fortnite and PUBG as hardcore PvP? Oh please. They're such garbage FPS games. I'd rather play the original unreal tournament than those garbage casual games.
I have said this before and I will say it again (anytime anyone brings up a BR mode).
This game would need to be redesigned from the ground up to create a BR game.
Ships are too slow and the wind is a huge factor. - Too many players would yell and scream that they could not win/make it into the zone since there is no wind.
Ships are nearly unsinkable with a good team. Ship battles currently take forever first you have to catch them, then you have to sink them. BR games are meant to be a few minutes, not a few hours.
The map is not designed for it. If a ship sinks and the player does not die there is no way for them to get back into the game because of all the water. Swimming is too slow, sharks will bite, mermaids would not allow for a ship to respawn.
There are not enough weapons and no stats in this game so players would not know which is the best loot to locate.
Pubg needs to finish developing the game before other games start ripping it off.
Still in game preview on Xbox.
Purchased Sea Of Thieves because it was different.
Don't want it to be Call Of Duty, Battlefield, Pubg, Fornite, etc.
Needs the bugs, achievements fixed and more content.
The foundation is there. Now complete the house. 😄
@tedakin said in I'll say it again.... Battle Royale would be HUGE:
There'd be nothing like it in the gaming market and would explode. 25-50 ships in one big sea. Floating barrels with supplies and some tiny islands to restock. Random storms, etc. It would be massive and original..... and I don't believe that hard to put together.
Rare and MS should at least consider the potential of what they have here.
No, they shouldn't there are already games for this and there are probably games coming that fit this category, what they should do is keep focusing on what they started, instead of doing what h1z1 and fortnite did.
This would take development of the game to put into something that already exists in other games. No thanks, I want them to fix this game instead of starting to make a new one.
@tedakin If it was a separate mode that I would never have to take part in sure have at it if It was forced on me then I would drop the game the second it was released as this is just a death match arena with a fancy name.
@naoshadowpaws said in I'll say it again.... Battle Royale would be HUGE:
Why does every game have to have BR? If you want to play it there are plenty of other games that offer it. It's not my game mode of choice and not why I play SoT. If I want to shoot my friends I'll play a shooty friends sort of game like Unreal or ARMA.
It's not that every game has to have a BR mode, it's just that SoT is positioned to have a unique take on it. You say if we want to play BR there are plenty of other games that offer it, but the point is there AREN'T plenty of games that offer "pirate themed BR on the open seas with cannon battles", that's the important factor, those other BR games don't offer the unique twist of BR gameplay that SoT could, so "there are already other BR games" really isn't a good reason for SoT to not at least consider the idea.
@nightmare247365 said in I'll say it again.... Battle Royale would be HUGE:
- Ships are too slow and the wind is a huge factor. - Too many players would yell and scream that they could not win/make it into the zone since there is no wind.
Simple to solve, just make the wind always point in the direction of the centre of the map/zone from all directions.. if you didn't know already the wind in SoT isn't global it's cell based so you can have wind going SW in one part of the map but NE in another, and as you cross from one cell to the next the winds "change", so wouldn't be hard to just always have the wind in each cell point in the direction of the centre.
- Ships are nearly unsinkable with a good team. Ship battles currently take forever first you have to catch them, then you have to sink them. BR games are meant to be a few minutes, not a few hours.
Nerf buckets slightly (in BR only) so it's harder to out-bilge the rate at which your ship can fill up with water, and significantly reduce the number of planks you start with and that can be found in each barrel.
Ideally SoT-BR would be designed so that each match should last 1 hour at which point the "zone" would be at its smallest forcing a final battle in close quarters to be the last ship afloat.
- The map is not designed for it. If a ship sinks and the player does not die there is no way for them to get back into the game because of all the water. Swimming is too slow, sharks will bite, mermaids would not allow for a ship to respawn.
That would be as intended, in SoT-BR your ship is what's most important not your character, they could even allow (a perhaps limited amount of) player respawns instead of having the "revive teammate" feature and it would still work as a BR mode because once your ship sinks that's when your team is out of the game.
- There are not enough weapons and no stats in this game so players would not know which is the best loot to locate.
There doesn't need to be specific loot to locate, your ship spawns with very limited supplies so you are mainly just checking small islands or floating barrels you pass for supplies or gunpowder kegs (with increased spawn rates), as far as the player to player combat is concerned you just PvP as normal with your choice of weapon loadout from your ships weapon locker.
It's not about who gets lucky with what good weapons they find, it's purely down to who can actually keep their ship afloat the longest with limited supplies and a dozen other ships all heading to the same place trying to sink each other!
@nightmare247365 said in I'll say it again.... Battle Royale would be HUGE:
I have said this before and I will say it again (anytime anyone brings up a BR mode).
This game would need to be redesigned from the ground up to create a BR game.
Ships are too slow and the wind is a huge factor. - Too many players would yell and scream that they could not win/make it into the zone since there is no wind.
Ships are nearly unsinkable with a good team. Ship battles currently take forever first you have to catch them, then you have to sink them. BR games are meant to be a few minutes, not a few hours.
The map is not designed for it. If a ship sinks and the player does not die there is no way for them to get back into the game because of all the water. Swimming is too slow, sharks will bite, mermaids would not allow for a ship to respawn.
There are not enough weapons and no stats in this game so players would not know which is the best loot to locate.
Just want to point out a few things
outside the circle doesn't mean instant death so it no a huge deal if you are a little late you just take a little damage. Additionally no matter how far you are you are always able to make it to the circle given the allotted time between circle shrinks so it would have been your own fault for choosing to gather supplies. Instead of going strait to the circle
Agreed. I have another post but I believe ship combat should be altered anyway so if this is the motivation then so be it.
Ship sinking is how you would lose the game. The way i see it you have unlimited lives but once your ship sinks you lose.
Loot would be supplies, gunpowder barrels, and maybe modify 1000 grogs to explode like a gunpowder barrel except it makes the whole crew drunk for a bit :)
personally I think this game actually has a really good setup for a BR game if you think of it as the ship and not the player
@trenix90 3 people can shoot out of cannons and fill their inventory pretty quick and then mermaid back to the ship.
