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Yeah, I mean they have the base mechanics and sailing nailed down but everything is a fetch quest.

I mean, for treasure, go to island or islands, find treasure and bring back. Now there are riddles that add a slight bit of variety and of course the curse chests (crying chest slowly fills boat with water, drunken chest makes you instantly pished when you pick it up) again add a bit of a change but nothing really.

The Bounties so far are go to an island kill spawning in skeletons till captain appears then kill that person, pick up skull and bring it back.

Then there's the trading, which will mean finding chickens, pigs or snakes and bring them to another outpost, oddly the trading ones are the most free-range cos they don't tell you where to go.

Fishing from boat while travelling would be great, maybe a big marlin would tow your sloop along with it or a whale would tow a galleon, spear guns would be good, maybe fish in island water will be fresh water and be different...

At the very least they are still working on it non stop.

That's probably why my sloop sank. I didn't realise the cursed chests did that.

So this literally is cartoon Elite Dangerous?

Tafdolphin wrote:So this literally is cartoon Elite Dangerous?

It's not quite as technical as Elite, but yeah it's very much "make your own fun" right now.

It does feel like it could have done with another 6 months worth of development to implement some additional gameplay. As I mentioned earlier it very much feels like a game where the main story/quest has been taken out leaving only (admittedly fun) sidequest content.

As a gamepass game it's definitely worth trying and sticking with to see what comes in the future (And I do think there will be a phenomenal game here in 6 months to a year), but as a full-price purchase it's somewhat lacking right now.

Down for five hours maintenance tomorrow (9am - 2pm).
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018 ... s-tomorrow

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Down for five hours maintenance tomorrow (9am - 2pm).
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018 ... s-tomorrow

Perfect start to my adventuring...

Bought the £1.50 Game Pass starter month and downloading this now so will be on for at least that long. Gamertag Tafdolphin, obvs.

Played about 45 minutes before quitting and deciding to read up on it all first. I gave up on Voyages as I had no idea what I was doing (and the game certaintly wasn't telling me) so I spent my time following another player around the outpost playing music at him. When he refused to join in I boarded his sloop and nicked a chest, selling it for 341 coins. I think he twigged what had happened as he started firing at my ship.

I, of course, just wanted to play music so I rammed my ship into his and boarded it before proceeding to play cat and mouse as he shot at me and my hurdy-gurdy. He eventually joined in on accordian but I was bored by that point so I shot him in the face and sunk his ship.

Some people....

abcd wrote:Some people....

Hey, it was that or face the fact I spent £1.40 on a game with no content whatsoever. I made my own fun!

Shame to hear the game resembles Destiny in the lack of content department. Hopefully they can fulfill their lofty goals as at its core there’s a strong game with huge amounts of potential.

Indeed. If only they had stuff like AI ships, decent missions with interesting rewards, varied enemy types (off the top of my head; rogue pirate clans, corsair groups, sea monsters, invading army ships, undead ships, legendary figures/bosses like Blackbeard and Davey Jones etc etc etc), home bases for clans*, an actual clan system, a reward for killing the kraken, weekly public events, more stuff to buy than cosmetic items, a better/functional combat system, more ship types, a character creator, ship customisation**, a bounty system for prolific players, plot based missions, decent NPCs, more interesting stuff on the islands (anything on the islands in fact) and some decent tutorials it'd be a great game!

*from the start, not as some end-game unlockable
**beyond 'buy this new figurehead'

NickSCFC

Tafdolphin wrote:Indeed. If only they had stuff like AI ships, decent missions with interesting rewards, varied enemy types (off the top of my head; rogue pirate clans, corsair groups, sea monsters, invading army ships, undead ships, legendary figures/bosses like Blackbeard and Davey Jones etc etc etc), home bases for clans*, an actual clan system, a reward for killing the kraken, weekly public events, more stuff to buy than cosmetic items, a better/functional combat system, more ship types, a character creator, ship customisation**, a bounty system for prolific players, plot based missions, decent NPCs, more interesting stuff on the islands (anything on the islands in fact) and some decent tutorials it'd be a great game!

*from the start, not as some end-game unlockable
**beyond 'buy this new figurehead'

Soon changed your tune eh Nick :slol:

The achievements list is full of riddles, have a gander and see what tickles.
...
The pictures attached to them are nice.

KjGarly wrote:Soon changed your tune eh Nick

When it comes to Xbox it’s only 1 tune. :lol:

Tafdolphin wrote:Indeed. If only they had stuff like AI ships, decent missions with interesting rewards, varied enemy types (off the top of my head; rogue pirate clans, corsair groups, sea monsters, invading army ships, undead ships, legendary figures/bosses like Blackbeard and Davey Jones etc etc etc), home bases for clans*, an actual clan system, a reward for killing the kraken, weekly public events, more stuff to buy than cosmetic items, a better/functional combat system, more ship types, a character creator, ship customisation**, a bounty system for prolific players, plot based missions, decent NPCs, more interesting stuff on the islands (anything on the islands in fact) and some decent tutorials it'd be a great game!

*from the start, not as some end-game unlockable
**beyond 'buy this new figurehead'

Can't you get different sails too?

Yup.

Another couple of hours, this time with a friend and it's good fun. We were chased by a Galleon for about 15 minutes, trading shots every now and again, before they got bored and we went to a nearby island to kill a Skelly Captain. Once we were done, we find the same Galleon under siege by a sloop. So we join in, two against one. It was a great encounter, ending when I boarded the big ship and killed it's remaining crew (who then scuttled it).

Still, the Voyages themselves are suuuuuuper dull. Once you've done one of every kind, including Message in a Bottle ones, that's it. It's the same thing over and over. The Outposts too are just...lifeless. Complexity of the controls aside, I was bang on with my Elite Dangerous comparison: both simulate piloting their respective type of ship extraordinarily well but give you nothing to do with them.

(and you lot know full well when I say ship customisation I mean actual customisation of your ship, not just the sails and figureheads)

So after last night where Pedz, Jazzem, Grum and myself where unable to join together at all. Today I tried playing by myself for a bit again to find that none of the quest givers worked. Trying to buy any of the quests and they just said they couldn't find them.

Opening up the reputation/voyages menu just gave me a blank screen.

Good job I have not even paid for the Game Pass so far.

Sea of Thieves (XB/PC/Game Pass/PS5) - Over 40m players. Coming to PS5 on 30th April. 2024 details.

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