3 More Days until a Year! Today’s game is Sea of Thieves. I figured I took a screenshot of some fish and jellyfish i saw in the water today and thought “Why the hell not, let’s see if i can keep this fish train going”. The fish in this one are far more cartoony, which is to be expected for Sea of Thieves. They’re a personal favorite of our Crew’s chef too, who likes to use them and burn them to a crisp (along with burning my ship)

We were doing a quest today, which took a lot of time, but got attacked by a Skeleton ship. After sinking it we decided that was enough for today and sailed for the port. We made off with a fuckton of loot. On the way back though we got attacked by a Megalodon and i got knocked off the ship. It left me alone so i just got to float peacefully in the ocean in the dark. It’s pretty; this whole game is honestly pretty.

Another example is the sunset. I stayed behind to watch the ship while my crew was still doing the quest. And climbed up to the crows nest. It was so pretty watching the sun go down. It almost makes you forget the ocean wants you dead.

On our way back into port today we accidentally contributed to the reef extinction (sorry coral reefs, i didn’t mean too) and nearly sunk before selling everything we gathered. Luckily we managed to get everything off, but it was close because our earlier battle with the Skeleton ship took all our wood. We didn’t stock up before ending for the night, so that’s something we have the joy of doing next time.

I feel like the game’s servers are shrinking. It’s sad, but to be expected. It’s fun to hop in with friends, and i hope when the servers go down Microsoft/Rare allows for P2P multiplayer so we can keep doing that. My hopes arent high with them, but we’ll have to see. I’ve seen crazier things happen.

  • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Sea of Thieves really is something. It’s gorgeous, it’s fun, it has a relatively simple game loop that’s very satisfying to do but can get up there in complexity, and can be super chill with the fishing and cooking stuff.

    Edit: when I played, I was a solo slooper, so I mainly stuck to the volcano area and just took on all the Captain’s Voyages I could get at a time. Those things just dump money on you.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    So it’s been about two and a half years since I’ve played (before my daughter was born), so take this with a grain of salt. I think last big update I experienced was the addition of the Reapers’s equivalent of the Athena’s Fortune faction.

    Unless they’ve changed how captained ships work, every time you log in your ship only has a basic set of resources (like 30 wood, 30 canonballs, 15 bananas, something like that). Stocking up from the outpost barrels was an every session start thing. The whole captained ship thing was originally just a way to save your ship cosmetics and adding a bunch of ship specific achievements. Also gave access to a convenient one stop sell location and some “captain” exclusive quests.

    Regarding PVP, natural “emergent” PVP has really dried up since they added in the hourglass (dedicated PVP match queuing) and the ability to server hop (lose all your sellable loot and active quest progress, keep the barrelled resources on your ship). So people up for scrapping usually hop servers until they find a popular and lucrative server event happening where there are likely to be other players. There already was the Reaper’s flag and emmisary to imdicate you were up for/looking for PVP too (both make you visible on the map to the whole server). So a lot of players left running around aren’t as bloodthirsty.

    Also, unless they changed server limits again, each server has an absolute max of six ships. It’s a big sea for so few ships. Especially when we stayed around The Roar (volcanoey area at the east side of the map) we could go entire sessions without running into other players.

    Man, I really hope it’s still around when I have the time to come back to it. Awesome game.