Please give us a PvE mode.

I to would like it after a nightshift or something just a guaranteed hour of enjoying without stress and while i pet the cat and eat spaghetti have a little sea of friends like the arena tavern i chill there sometimes its peacemode 🤣

Or roleplay the pirate encounters it actually is funny.. try to outsmart pvp with a little creativity. I have fun doing so even when it fails many times but if im outmatched i have nothing to loose so just try funny stuff and i dont even use my sword or pistol and also often survived 🤭

Sometimes i use sailor title undress and start talking with them raise sails raise white and surrender thats easy and sometimes works. They sometimes only need supplies and loot and agree not to kill and sink or even show mercy share a athena quest and colour all lantarns for fun🥳

Sometimes i quikly dress as pirate hoist skull and bones then turn and camouflage as pirate fire two shots and this actually works because they then ignore me or dont want to waste time and effort on another pvp? I dunno but it works sometimes and i can still try something else if it didnt work.

Sometimes i drop all empty supplies crates and leave a glittering trail for them to fish and to gain speed offcourse 🤭 some actually stop the hunt if they can use it it worked a couple of times for me..

Sometimes i flee run panic away this is hard mode because you trigger a huge loot alert like a reaper all pirates start drewling and think you are a loot pinata.. from now its a sport to catch you even if it takes an hour to corner you into the red sea.. its hard to escape between borders..

Sometimes i ignore them and scuttle this is easy but then you cant hoard loot and supplies its less fun and exciting. And its not funny roleplay but its fast you get new boat and go!

Sometimes i sail to another pirate or fleetbattle and introduce them to eachother or try environment like storm mist vulcano.. lot of time and effort and low succes rates but i think its a fun exciting sailing voyage.

Always i stay polite and fun its game and its okay to let others have a good catch sometimes its just funny loot for funny rotten bilgerat clothes and a new rusty sword.🤭

If people react by getting angry or calling its unfair or whatever my experience is the pirates will show no mercy since you just gave them an excuse to have some fun 🤐

I dunno i like this mess somehow

@bloodybil

You are just one more stop during the whole adventure, don't flatter yourself thinking you are the only target because you get attacked.

Stealing this by the way.

@nabberwar said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

@bloodybil
You are just one more stop during the whole adventure, don't flatter yourself thinking you are the only target because you get attacked.

Stealing this by the way.

"You PVP players are so toxic!!! You can't get your own loot, you need to steal it from others!!!"

Meanwhile, what my session looked like:

@bloodybil said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

@nabberwar said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

@bloodybil

You are just one more stop during the whole adventure, don't flatter yourself thinking you are the only target because you get attacked.

Stealing this by the way.

"You PVP players are so toxic!!! You can't get your own loot, you need to steal it from others!!!"

Meanwhile, what my session looked like:

The duck stratagem, that will make those PvE guys go quackers.

@bloodybil

Thats fun! I need to do this sometime record the voyage on a map 🤓👍

@ruigtand-nl said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

@bloodybil

Thats fun! I need to do this sometime record the voyage on a map 🤓👍

I do wish you could have a whole session map records and all kinds of stats in terms of ships sank and gold made! Maybe someday with the captaincy update!

@knotsoeasytv
Man even minecraft has harder PVE encounters than SOT .. you're just really really not good at the game but that's fine you can get good with practise and will

Its one of those things that wont work unless the whole game was reworked.
Example: Fort of the damned requires Pink light which only given when killed by a player, enemy player.

As a PvEer mainly, I can empathise and a year ago maybe I would have supported such a post enthusiastically. Once you get beyond a certain point though, you stop taking it all to heart.

I don't wish for a PvE mode any more because that wouldn't be Sea of Thieves. Memes on the name aside ("not sEa oF fRiEnDs, blah blah blah"), it really is the tension created by other players that gives the game atmosphere. Because if you strip that away, the PvE is rather dull - Kraken, Meg, Skelly Sloops are all too easy, Skellies on land are either too easy or annoyingly cheesy aimbots with little actual depth. The FOTD was an interesting twist... the first time... but it's just yet more skellies... again.

Other players are the only real challenge in the game. For my part, I avoid them mostly. If I have to defend, I will, but they rarely get close to me (I've sank to other players maybe once in the last two months... and that was me approaching a crew at the FOTD and my mic wasn't working for whatever reason).

In an ideal world, I'd love Rare to make another online co-op PvE adventure game using the same resources and tech as SoT, but I honestly don't think they have the skills or ability to do a "Sea of Destiny"... as much as I'd love that, they're not Bungie.

@dailyalphattv Some don't care about challenge. Some care only for just the fact that it's a good pirate fantasy game for once that isn't pure hot dog defication sewer water like you see everywhere else

@bloodybil Not really a challenge to get loot as I don't care about the loot, I sail for adventure. Loot is only gotten if I just so happen to come across it, if I even care enough about it to harpoon it mid-sail on the water. And even then, cannonballs/wood/food is far more valuable than any number of chest of legends or athena chests ever

@davidhawk1 said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

@dailyalphattv Some don't care about challenge. Some care only for just the fact that it's a good pirate fantasy game for once that isn't pure hot dog defication sewer water like you see everywhere else

@davidhawk1 said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

@bloodybil Not really a challenge to get loot as I don't care about the loot, I sail for adventure. Loot is only gotten if I just so happen to come across it, if I even care enough about it to harpoon it mid-sail on the water. And even then, cannonballs/wood/food is far more valuable than any number of chest of legends or athena chests ever

Cool, well player encounters are quite adventurous and since you don't care about loot, whatever the outcome, you win whether you sink or not! 👍

just think of other players as AI, its a pirate game, expect pirates on the seas, and what do you guys even mean, SOT isnt even an online game, i mean for real are we still running along with this whole joke that the AI pirates are real people, i mean cmon guys this joke has gone on too long, people actually believe they are real people now.

@bloodybil 50% of the time, players are a major stall to my adventures. So I guess being chased for 5 hours is super fun, when all I wanted to do was just check out the devil's roar for the first time. I still have never been there yet

@davidhawk1 said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

@bloodybil 50% of the time, players are a major stall to my adventures. So I guess being chased for 5 hours is super fun, when all I wanted to do was just check out the devil's roar for the first time. I still have never been there yet

Who runs for 5 hours? Whatever loot you have on board is not worth that waste of time. Most I'll run for if I need to is 10 mins. Either turn and take a chance on sinking them after that time or change servers.

5 HOURS??! You could get so much more done on another server in that time.

@knotsoeasytv said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

@bloodybil That is one of the most toxic posts I have ever seen. You said it yourself you are gonna play it the way you want. even if that means making someone else have a bad time. Their are times that you can have good moments in this game in bad situations but that is far not the case in most situations. Most people I come into contact with has no loot and will track you down like a dog.

The problem with stealing is that the person who lost will always have a bad time. It's obvious you cannot have a good time without winning.

Please understand this is not the game for you,

I do not go into [insert game name here] and ask for them to implement [PvP if only a PvE game] or [remove features I don't like from a game]
an example
I don't go to the Death Stranding site and ask them to implement PvP, in their shared world

@davidhawk1 said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

@bloodybil 50% of the time, players are a major stall to my adventures. So I guess being chased for 5 hours is super fun, when all I wanted to do was just check out the devil's roar for the first time. I still have never been there yet

Then stop running, do something imaginative if you think you gonna lose anyway, raise the white flag try and talk your way out of it.

Alot of people I think need to break out of their comfort zone and just try and fight back. What have you got to lose?

@davidhawk1
Well it is a good pirate fantasy, sinking and robbing people like you seems to work fine as of today

@kevininnyc said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

It's not the loot. It's the forced contact. The last thing I want when escaping the troubles of life with a good video game is contact with other humans. They're the problem in the first place—as this game demonstrates on the regular.

But this is a social adventure game. If you don't want to be social, why even buy it in the first place? Why come here demanding it be changed to suit your preferences when you don't actually like what it is? That seems like an incredibly self-centred attitude to take to me.

OP - this is what being a new SoT player feels like. Take it from me, in about a month you won't even be phased by the PvE stuff and you'll really only get excited when it's players who are messing with you.

The seas change all the time, one month they'll be spicey and then a few weeks later they'll be super quiet and peaceful again. It ebbs and flows.

There are entire PvE fleet servers you can find or even set up yourself, where the threat of being attacked is greatly reduced. It's in the game right now, you just need to put in a little work to organise it.

Next time you get sunk and feel demoralised like this, try to set up alliances on your server or look on LFG/Discord for a PvE fleet, try to buy out people's boats to crew them with friends. It won't completely eliminate the risk, but it is something that you can take more control over than it sounds like you are currently.

@knotsoeasytv said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

@nucl3ar13 Why would someone respond to a thread that is over ran with hate on the subject? the way everyone is going on about it is childish. once someone express their feeling about a PvE mode. Everyone gets all but hurt, They bring points up that doesn't matter and the same argument. It discourages people from expressing their feeling on a subject when they get ganged up on.

Why would a protester start another protest when there is already a protest going on right next to them? There is a reason why unions exist and that is to collect all the issues they're wanting to communicate effectively from a single point of contact. Spreading out the issues among different threads is only going to split your outcome. Have you heard of a megathread? They are made so people don't have conversations that could be beneficial or already have happened and thus redundant.

Making another thread isn't helping your cause. It's only making the users who are against the idea even more against it because they're tired of seeing multiple threads with the exact same reasoning with the same counter-points.

@heavyreaper102 said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

Anyone up for some forum bingo?

I'll warn you, I'm pretty good at it.

This I can get behind. The drinking game version shot past human tolerance levels.

No escape from other players, you say? To be great, it takes work, experience and a little luck.

@tak225 said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

@realstyli or he could have played on a pve servers if that was a option and got a lot done

This is a pirate game, not a sailing simulator. The AI threats are no threat for a real pirate.

The thing is, Rare has balanced "risk/reward". It is perfectly balanced. The most lucrative activities attract the most opposition i.e. FoTD. When a player does it a giant skull shows up attracting other players. Now imagine if people could farm gold without any risk to themselves? All PvE encounters are balanced to crew size I believe. So a solo players can easily kill a Megladon. If there was no risk, people would just spam Athena voyages in a solo session so that people wouldn't be able to challenge them. Rare put an Athena commendation in for STEALING an Athena chest, they obviously want players to be able to take loot from others. Not sure why people still are arguing about this.

You have PVE mode, it's called Adventure mode. You can PVE there all day long if you like. You can even go into arena and PVE only in that mode as well. This is a shared world sandbox experience, and your asking them to make it a single player game. Ridiculous! Raise your head up from your tunnel vision and avoid the pvp threats that are noticeable from many minutes away. Awareness of your surroundings will go along way in this game.

How do you not understand that? Why are you campaigning for a game mode that already exists in the sandbox world? Why are you so stubborn and entitled as to think that constant harping on a subject will get the devs to relent and ruin their vision of their game for you?

@gutterangel people just don’t understand this. They want this game to just be more and more casual. PvE only mode with no other players defeats the purpose and would literally kill the game. I’m not saying decrease players a little, it would absolutely kill the game. Rare would have no income.

@gutterangel said in Please give us a PvE mode.:

Why are you so stubborn and entitled as to think that constant harping on a subject will get the devs to relent and ruin their vision of their game for you?

I would truly like to know this as well.