Video: Sea of Thieves Content Plans (Feedback)

  • Admiral Tweedle
    Founder

    Sea of Thieves Inn-side Story #26: Content Plans

    "Arguably there's not a enough reasons and motivations to go out and explore..." - Joe Neate (Executive Producer)

    "There will be custom rewards, timed things, that if you do them during this time period, you'll get exclusive stuff..." - Joe Neate (Executive Producer)

    "What's great about the weekly events is that it's a great way to for us to announce the content rather than just doing a set of patch notes." - Mike Chapman (Design Director)

    The Hungering Deep (May 2018)

    • New AI threat
    • New item
    • Limited time for event
    • After event ends, AI will be permanent part of SoT

    Cursed Sails (Summer 2018)

    • "A new AI threat that can engage you while you're out there"
    • "Cursed Sails" - alludes to what's out there
    • "A new thing that can engage you different from "The Hungering Deep"

    Forsaken Shores (Summer 2018)

    • "A new area to explore - a little bit different"
    • "...a perilous part of the world - extra odds"
    • "A new AI threat "themed" for that part of the world but different than what is being brought in beforehand"

    New items

    • New ship type
    • Cursed cannon balls
    • Skeleton thrones (found in hard to reach places with "cool rewards")

    Future plans

    • Fall and Winter - 3 more major content updates
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  • True Minion1297
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    Awesome. I think Rare announced the content roadmap in a very concise way while keeping the mystery.
    It made me really look forward to what they got planning. :D

    There is so much to love about their plans!
    Looking forward to need deep threats, to the new ship, to different AI threats. Definitely looking forward to them mixing it up with weekly events.
    Cursed cannon balls!!!! :D Yes Please!

    I hope the forsaken shores add another weather mechanic like fog.

    And the hungering deep, I hope they add diving equipment like helmets or diving bells that you can unlock!

    I think adding rewards for exploring is going to add a lot to make the game more interesting. :)

    The skeleton throne thing is going to add quite a few funny moments in crews trying to figure out how to get up somewhere.

    All in all, their roadmap has me excited! :D

  • Admiral Tweedle
    Founder

    @excalibur107 Curious about the cursed cannon balls. Cursed for who and how? Glad to see they're putting some of the player feedback in their updates though. Just hoping these new AI threats don't turn out like the Kraken.

  • RayFromJersey
    Ship Mate

    During the video, the first "new item" was hinted to be something that will help with communicating with other crews.

    Speaking trumpet.

  • Buckshot Matt

    Just watched the video. I think this is awesome! SoT has a lot of potential and I think the devs are going to deliver.

  • Admiral Tweedle
    Founder

    @rayfromjersey I honestly thought Joe Neate said "phones" instead of "thrones". lol

  • Pikaaroon
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    Deckhand

    @admiral-tweedle said in Video: Sea of Thieves Content Plans (Feedback):

    @rayfromjersey I honestly thought Joe Neate said "phones" instead of "thrones". lol

    iPirate X (Marks the Spot) - "Confirmed" hahaha

  • RustyPyrate
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    I am crossing my fingers the new ship is a 6 man warship that is sluggish, and i hope there will be a volcanic island.

  • Admiral Tweedle
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    @cheatingpirate I think it'll have unique features, but the real 6 man warship should have been the Galleon - which in my opinion would have been better saved and earned through progression.

  • RoughLeech03117
    Master

    @admiral-tweedle I heard that to lol

  • RoughLeech03117
    Master

    @admiral-tweedle no a man o war would be a six player ship a galleon is fine were it is

  • A7X Spawn
    Founder

    @admiral-tweedle As did I!!!

  • Admiral Tweedle
    Founder

    @roughleech03117 "warship" not "man-o-war"

  • Shikia Caeleaum
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    I really like the idea of having these skeleton thrones all around and making (maybe) individual emote/poses for them :D

    But to be honest at first I did not understand cursed cannon balls but instead cursed "cannibals" :D I thought they leaked one of the AI threats but oh well, cannon balls are good as well :D

  • Cyphronite
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    @admiral-tweedle sagte in Video: Sea of Thieves Content Plans (Feedback):

    @excalibur107 Curious about the cursed cannon balls. Cursed for who and how? Glad to see they're putting some of the player feedback in their updates though. Just hoping these new AI threats don't turn out like the Kraken.

    I could imagine they’re like silver bullets, the only cannonballs that can hurt the AI.

  • Pleasure012

    i am really dissapointed with the video, almost non of the community feedback threads were adressed or even hinted at adding other than more ai. We get no information whatsoever on what exactly we can expect in the content update. Will we get another ai like the kraken ? the Kraken is ridicolous :D unfortunatly.

    The Awesome Poll from @ShootHere4EXP was totally ignored as well, you can see what most of the people want in that awesome thread.
    I hope we get more interaction with the Devs as well.. all this secrets and hinting. You have Community Managers who should give you guys our Feedback, and the Feedback is clear as glass.

    Not saying it is a great Game, but you basicly gave us almost no new information.

  • Moomintroll
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    @pleasure012 All the top 4 items from the poll are being addressed... or did I miss something?

  • Cyphronite
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    @pleasure012 sagte in Video: Sea of Thieves Content Plans (Feedback):

    i am really dissapointed with the video, almost non of the community feedback threads were adressed or even hinted at adding other than more ai. We get no information whatsoever on what exactly we can expect in the content update. Will we get another ai like the kraken ? the Kraken is ridicolous :D unfortunatly.

    The Awesome Poll from @ShootHere4EXP was totally ignored as well, you can see what most of the people want in that awesome thread.
    I hope we get more interaction with the Devs as well.. all this secrets and hinting. You have Community Managers who should give you guys our Feedback, and the Feedback is clear as glass.

    Not saying it is a great Game, but you basicly gave us almost no new information.

    You really think they implemented the stuff after launch? You really think any developer on earth would drop any preparation for content they have up their sleaves to make a quick and dirty changes / additions of what players want? That takes time.

    Get real for once ...

  • Pleasure012

    well mostly i wish there were just more actuall facts on what will be added other than teasing stuff.. Like specific items that will be added or specific quests.

    We now only have stuff to speculate again.

    I am seriously afraid we will get another kraken that we ignore after meeting it the first time

  • Admiral Tweedle
    Founder

    @pleasure012 I totally agree.

  • Admiral Tweedle
    Founder

    @rayfromjersey I'd like them to hint at playing this game in VR. :)

  • Sniffyn0se
    Founder

    The community has given Rare excellent feedback since alpha and beta, it's really up to them to act on it and I think most who are currently disappointed are feeling this way because of how far back problems were brought up and how nothing was done for launch.

    I'm happy we have more ahead to look forward to but most people burned through everything even casually within the first few weeks.

    They have an incredible amount of amazingly done arguments and ideas here and on places like reddit/resetera that have been discussed for months now and if even a few were implemented we'd have had a much better critical response and happier playerbase.

    In the end the move is totally up to Rare now, we've done all we can to help them succeed and if they use that input and use it sooner rather than later things could massively improve. If they don't and the updates are mediocre or starved it's totally on them.

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