I don't want this. (Battle Royale)

I feel my opinion on this might be apparent.

@ramb0zld sure - I get that. and frankly any additional content in a game is generally good content. But seriously... whatever happened to honest innovation... oh I know... sales. See, IMHO over saturation of a concept in gaming... just ruins it for everyone. To be honest, I can't even tolerate PvP in general but I accept that it's a logical inclusion and merrily indulge. That said, I may even enjoy a SoT styled BR session or more... but honestly, I won't not in the long run. It'd kill the game for me, albiet slowly but it'd do it none-the-less.

Now... if they aded deeper lore in game, full quest lines (even using voyages as the focus and simply chaining them and adding lore in that way) perhaps even ala Merricks, added greater variety of AI threats beyond mere skeletons (which they might be doing if they actually keep the GPB skelle in and yes I can tolerate skellies... I just want more than the same bad AI driven bad guys, spawn sizes, and more HP isn't AI...), and similar offerings...

You know... flesh out the game that is. Do that? And sure, then we can talk about adding in alternative game modes or something like BR events.

News like this only pains my faith in the game, which honestly waivers already, thankfully this interview only offers basic musings nothing directly official or set in stone...

but in short...

No.

Nope.

Nuh-uh.

I'll say again: Let's finish what we got going first, get a full game delivered instead of piecemeal offerings that feel loose and disconnected, and build up the setting f*s. THEN we can talk about random silliness like BR modes.

@ramb0zld said in I don't want this. (Battle Royale):

and it never replaced it, they coexist as two completely separate game modes.

mmmm naw... I went and bought the game thanks to my local friends love for the BR mode. I played it for an hour... I did play BR for about a month.... then I realized I hate that sort of game too...

I feel that the only reason to play Fortnite IS the BR mode.. the campaign though the original state of the game... really is just a glorified tac on in most players view.

I support this with the notion that many bad games are adopting a BR mode and people do play BR modes. If not for the BR mode fortnite wouldn't exist, by your own admission.

SoT should find a more creative way to elevate their game if they are worried enough that adding a BR mode is the solve.

If they were to implement a separate Battle Royale mode, the die-hard PvP players would migrate to that, leaving the PvE folks with much more peaceful seas. The end result would be similar to separate PvP and PvE servers. Whether this would be a “good” thing or a “bad” thing depends upon your point of view.

This game of baseball is kind of fun. It's reasonably fast paced and exciting.

It just lacks proper goals.

What baseball really needs are things to aim the ball at. Maybe they could be baskets. Baskets mounted high on poles! With a backboard, so you can bounce the ball in. We would probably need bigger balls too. Oh! And, let's have all players from both teams on the field at once. Get rid of the bats and the running-around-a-diamond mechanic.

Why not?

If the result is a better game, what is the problem?

Seriously, I do not understand incoherences of the community and criticism in general.

First that the game has no content. I missed something ? What content is there in those BR games?

If there is any criticism it would be to solve is the lack of depth of the game. Things like the ship's kitchen are in abandoned concepts. When you only imagine cooking recipes with the resources of spices boxes etc ... that the kitchen will catch fire.
Make powerful recipes for breathing underwater or to keep life up for a while.

I've heard rumors of rats that are going to steal resources from the ship.

I have also seen cats of pets, which makes me think that they will be able to counteract the rats.

That is the way. Battle Royal No.
Market is not so big. The bulk is playing fortnite and PUBG. Do you want to try to bring that consumer profile to SoT or keep our prospective market?

While in general I'm against SoT mindlessly copying the next big thing in a cynical attempt to maximise market share - and let's not kid ourselves that's all that going after BR at this particular time would be.

I would still be interested in hearing SoT's take on a BR experience, even if only so I can be more specific in my criticism.

Honestly, I don't care what it is though, now wouldn't be the right time for me to be hearing that they are putting dev time on this if they want me to remain happy with the direction they are taking.

Maybe in the future, but not right now.

They really shouldn't be out of ideas for the main game and looking to copy other IPs at this stage, if they were to announce such a thing I'd probably be out.

@ramb0zld No, I realize that BR came later.

But now when people discuss fortnite, at least in the company I keep... they are referring to BR... not the original game.

BR is IMO the only reason the game is relevant at all... if they would have never stole it from the mod that became PUBG Fortnite wouldn't even be the go-to in this topic.. we'd have me making something like a PUBG poster using SoT assets and making an argument in that light.

Sure, Rare could add a BR mode and I bet it could even be fun....

But that isn't the point. My point is I feel it will water down the spirit of the core game we do have. I would rather see Rare innovate ways to make the "No man's seas" and our lack of content become filled with innovative ideas that draw players. Instead of tacking on a BR mode to get focused interest and THEN add things that will be overlooked and ultimately become unimportant.

Following the leader in creative ideas is not IMO ever the way to go.. it shows a lack of integrity and imagination and makes me wonder why I should bother playing their games when all they seem interested in doing is what others are doing.

If I want a BR experience.. I'll play PUBG or Fortnite... I want an open world pirate game with exploration voyages and monsters. I would like it if it followed a few deeper offerings of RPG tropes it already has the mechanics for but simply lacks the form... I don't want AC: Black Sails 2.0.... I don't want a pure pirate PvP experience.. Ill go to to Skull and Bones for that.... I want a RPG Lite Pirate game with open world mechanics.

Flesh out the core offering before leaping to a whole 'nother game experience. Show some integrity and imagination, you know, the things Rare is supposed to be good at, then once we're all built up... sure experiment and add whatever random garbage ya want.. because sure it could be fun, it is how one celebrates and IP after all.. even the Avengers are on Lunchboxes so to speak.

Difference is.. the Avengers did what they needed to do to become, well the avengers first....

Then they sold themselves to whatever random meme of thought came their way. Perhaps that's a bad example... but it is an example of my point.

Nae from me. Don't waste the development time trying to be the next Fortnite. Leave this game unique and spend the time improving it so other games will want to be the next Sea of Thieves.

Sounds like it could be interesting. I do not see any harm in it since its a separate option than sailing the sea's as we do now.

Sea Of Thieves: Battle Royal.
4 Galleon ships sailing around for 30 minutes looking for supplies and each other.
2 weapons with 5 bullets each or 1 weapon and sword with a 3 hit stun combo.
Bunny hopping PC players with unlimted FPS VS Xbox players capped at 30fps with controllers.

Please don't turn this into another unfinshed Battle Royale beta.
Finish development of the game that needs more content to establish it as a ''full game''.
Sea Of Thieves currently feels like a $60 beta on Xbox One.

Grinding 3 traders to reach ''pirate legend'' was fine for the beta test.
I was expecting more for the full release.
Not just a kraken with no body and only tentacles.

Need more enemies that are not skeletons on land.
Enemy ai ships on the sea.
More sea creatures in the water to fight.
The world of Sea Of Thieves feels too empty.
I see 1 ship every 2 to 4 hours of playing.
Gamepass is the only thing keeping it from sinking into a watery grave.

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I never played fortnite and tbh this is really my first MMO. My question is, is the campaign on fortnite a shared world? If not, my thinking is that a BR mode could bring more PvP's into SOT, because you're going to need to practice somewhere and I've grown tried of the whole griefer/safezone posts, this will only add more.

@manifest7 likely not in the sense your thinking as far as shared world goes.. but yes multiple players in the campaign so share the game until the next session they join or host.

The BR is an open world with a reducing play area and forces players together over time until the last man stands.

It's a valid game mechanism... but it's also one that's being copied and cloned far too often lately thanks to the success of pubg and fortnite.

SoT is already similar to a BR in that it's an open world pvp arena (if chosen to be such since players can run and avoid pvp) it just lacks the reduction over time element in the play area.

In fact, SoT already utilizes an algorithm that sets up overlap in voyage locations (more notable for PL and Athena's) which causes players to bump into one another more often if on the same server. But it's still not enforced PvP and can be worked around by simply doing another leg of a voyage until the other ships moves on or vice versa....

It's not even the enforced PvP I draw exception to... it's also not a mass pvp BR thing that bothers me..

it's the idea of SoT gluing a game mode to the IP ripped from other games without even coming close yet to finishing the IP off with polish that should be expected from this title..

This title is advertised as a SWAG (A new if not entirely original concept to me) and the idea of taking on BR before we've even polish SWAG or made it a thing... to me smacks of desperation and unoriginality.

If I wanted to play fortnite.. I'd play fortnite. That's my only stance... I don't actually have issue with the idea of adding new innovations to the game or even drawing inspiration from other titles.. but this is a whole 'nother direction independent from the original vision... that bothers me.

@personalc0ffee which reminds me... can we get some more love for my poster? I mean c'monI used Fortnites text..SoT assests... Fortnite layout and even the ghouls/zombies... let's face it.. I did gud l**o.

@personalc0ffee but I gotta admit.. it's not original! lol I used assets hahahaq ok I think I need to pack something fresh..I'm spamming..sorry.