[Mega Thread] Sea of Thieves: The Arena

@sshteeve said in [Mega Thread] Sea of Thieves: The Arena:

@xphelipe said in [Mega Thread] Sea of Thieves: The Arena:

@betsill True. But I think they will organize the game in this new mode (Maybe Xbox only??). The game that is now will be the same. (This is what I think)

Yup, because development will stop if more folk play adventure.
Look at Fortnite - that name can finally be sensibly uttered here now it seems - when did "save the world" or what I bought as "fortnite" last get some attention over BR?

And this is what I'm worried about. Think about all the money that Fortnite has made over the last year and some odd months. It's absolutely insane but how much of that trickled down to Save the World? I seem to only see updates regarding BR and hardly anything about StW. It'll be a complete shame to see SoT go from this make your own adventure in our sandbox world kind of game to BR but with ships.

There needs to be a way to encourage players to play both modes. Otherwise as others have said Adventure mode will eventually be taken over and we'll only get 1 or 2 DLC updates a year for it out of the 6 or 7 for Arena.

The only positive thing I see about this is that hopefully it means it will be a bit calmer in the adventure mode. I like the PvP aspect in adventure mode as it makes things exciting and unpredictable.

But when you are unlucky and join a realm with players that only want to sink ships over and over again. And especially if it's PC players fueled up on Red Bull then it's not much fun.

So hopefully allot of those players will get a kick of bunny jumping around quickscoping Xbox players.

OMG!

I played as a founder but never bought the game for some reasons..... but finally this is something that will make my friends and I buy it for sure if it's well done!

@personalc0ffee

Well that depends on the player dont it. Just because your experience is good dont mean it's like that for everyone. I love this game. But I'm sick of the disadvantage I get when playing on Xbox.

Resulting in me feeling forced to play on PC to stay competitive.

I would have rather seen them put more effort into making the game more interesting and not so repetitive. Quests. Enemy types. Dungeons. Cities. I don't know. Anything

@personalc0ffee "That's not the kind of experience Rare wants for SoT."

Now the question is "What kind of experience wants Rare NOW for SoT?", bc it seems to have changed.
All that "Shared World" and all that apparently is going to sadly die.

lol @ somehow not having enough players to fill servers...
this will balance the game even more. Adventure mode will see a bit less PvP because of this but it's still possible. And to me it will a bit more rewarding knowing many will fall into a false sense of complacency. PvE players will overall not complain as much about PvP because it will be more rare and they can play way more PvE than before. Those that really want PvP can dive right into it without getting frustrated by uncompetitive fights that can take sometimes take an hour+ to come across. It also adds a way to play SoT if you only have say 30 minutes to spare. Adventure mode will have enough hooks to still attract those who lean more PvP because of all the emergent encounter(and even more coming soon ;) ). I know so many people who left the game because of both sides of the coin, and those are many who I can easily see come back to play(including new players); not enough PvP, takes too long to do anything in the game, can't play the game without being jumped when I just want to PvE(can still happen but they will get much more of the fix they want). Also lets not pretend like somehow developement is stopping for Adventure mode when there are 3 other teams working on it. And yes some of those will bleed into Arena and I'm sure that the Arena team will introduce things that can be used in Adventure mode. Many people are going off the cuff thinking through emotion(primarily fear) instead of full critical thinking and waiting for more complete information(of which we will get more tomorrow).

@personalc0ffee said in [Mega Thread] Sea of Thieves: The Arena:

Rare has already said, or should I say Mike Chapman, that they have zero interest in a bounty style system because it encourages negative player behavior and I absolutely agree. I was playing in the FO76 BETA which has one and it does the opposite of a punishment. People are happy to get wanted, those types of system encourage it, not discourage it.

Hm... That's not my experience with the Fallout76 beta. People tried it for lols in the start. But soon realized that there was little to be gained by doing so as people hunted them down in large numbers...

@xcalypt0x Adventure mode didn't change at all, you can PvP all you want there still. But fact is PvP will decrease in the main game. That is great news for those who want much more of their time spent on PvE. But those who want PvP in Adventure can still do it as much as they want. I fail to see the negative side of this. Servers shouldn't be an issue either, it only needs 6 ships to be filled. Also with the continued updates along with giving people a chance to play more often the way they want should bring people back into the game and appeal to even more players. At the end of the day the goal is to increase the player base and that's exactly what I foresee happening. Time will tell.

I’m honestly excited, I generally crave combat and sometimes it’s hard to find yourself an all
Out war to participate in. I’ve always welcomed pvp but I’m sure some of you guys would disagree. Splitting it into a different mode is an interesting idea and I’m hoping there are exclusive rewards that can be used in adventure mode to show off accomplishments in battle. Perhaps this could be the PvP faction I’ve been wishing for.