re: Very Good Preview of Sea of Theives

doing forts levels you 10x faster than doing voyages, and gets you about 10K gold per haul.

If nobody steals your stuff at a fort. Seems I can only make it out of about 1/4 forts with anything. Usually 3-4 ships are waiting when you finish.

I have found it particularly enjoyable holding a ship hostage with a gunpowder barrel. Go to the hull and keep holding it. If they try and kill you it will blow the gunpowder and sink their ship. Let your teammate steal everything on their ship and sail off and sell it. Once they have, Aloha Snackbar their arse.


I’m thoroughly enjoying this game, but 100% understand why someone wouldn’t. It is a great checkout game for me where me and my friends can just have a good time together and dick around.

Just finished playing about 15 hours. Some observations.


It’s totally changed my mind on MMOs. I’d never really played big online before, and when I did it was only Battlefield 1 which was a different experience.

On SoT i’m Telling jokes and putting my personality forward, seizing control of a crew, charming ladies. It’s exhilarating. I see the draw of them, questing and raiding with people you don’t really “know”, how you can develop a rapport.

On the skull forts.: my galleon crew and I found one, and went back and forth with another crew for about an hour. Sinking each other, deploying different strategies, etc. it was going nowhere.



Finally, they happened to blow me off of my place at the helm and directly under their ship, where I could make out one of their crew member’s names.


I swam under the ship and hid. And frantically messaged the player. Basically explained that A: we could continue to sink and hunt each other for hours and not get anywhere on the fort, or B: stop killing each other and tackle it together and split the treasure.

Turns out they had been thinking the same thing but weren’t sure if we’d be receptive.

We negotiated that we’d each take half the treasure, teamed up, and knocked the fort out in about 20 minutes. This will be my strategy going forwards.


And right after we left the skull fort with our split loot, they hit a Kraken.
We helped them fend it off, then we got attacked by the kraken.
We fought it off and sailed on(there really needs to be some loot for doing so)

This game has so much potential.

Meaningful upgrades, different ships, more islands, different enemies. These could all keep me playing for a long while.


About midnight a strange message came on the screen about “new ships on the horizon” and some other such stuff. Apparently other crews got it too.

I spent days and days on Sid Meyer’s Pirates.

This has the potential to be even better.

Was that your crew and the other hitting forts together yesterday afternoon. My crew spotted two galleons anchored nose to nose under a skull yesterday at around 4pm.

We also battled and defeated the Kraken yesterday, and it caused a glitch. A message showed up on the screen like 10 minutes later out of nowhere, and we could note vote on voyages. We had to leave that game and start a new one.

Has anyone received a reward for defeating the Kraken? We completely destroyed it but got no reward, just a message.

I think being able to hire an AI ship for protection or even paying for canon protection at certain ports would make things interesting. Not sure how that would all work, but would add some interesting elements.

I've gotten the only 3 I've gone after, but they were all annoying as hell w the other players, basically have to kill them repeatedly until they give up.

I just game chat and thank them for bringing us more bananas every time we sink them. Seems to discourage them after a few runs.

"accidentally" let something slip like man we have 200 cannon balls now thanks to these idiots resupplying us!

I only have my pirate hat left to purchase before I save for ship skins.

They would make so much money releasing customized skins, dances and enotes like fortnite.

Is there a way too kraken hunt or is it RNG?

death tax is a no go.

their tweet::

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Letting everyone know we've heard the feedback and the proposed 'Death Cost' in #SeaOfThieves is, well, dead. We messed up with the messaging around this, and it's now gone. Thanks for the honest feedback & discussion on this.

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Guy on reddit says it took them 9 hours to get all this and they lost it all to an almondbeard disconnect.

REKT