Sea of Thieves is basically Ultima Online but with pirates.

In that everything I have read so far from the gaming press and working reviews suggest that all anyone does is either a) murder people just because they can and then corpse-camp them or b) get murdered repeatedly and then corpse-camped.

How could they possibly think that PvP free-for-all was a good idea in a game marketting itself as a cooperative adventure?

Personally I find this hilarious and eagerly await the obvious progression that you see in pure PvP MMO games:

Griefers murder and corpse-camp newbies/carebears continuously --> everyone but griefers get driven off --> griefers get tired of being on the receiving end of their own medicine --> griefers leave --> game dies.

I give it 2 months max before 1 of 2 things happen: PvP safe zones are instituted around outposts or a mass exodus with maybe a bunch of refunds.

you can't loot their bodies and take all their stuff so its not like ultima online at all

It has crossplay?

@freedomfreak: PC and xbox can play together.

Remember when we used to have sticky threads for new games.

When did that stop?

Remember we used to have hype threads sticky threads to combat more on the game game topics every minutes? Yeah.

I underestimate SoT would get a lot of attention around here.

except Ultima Online was a good game

Yeah except Sea of Thieves is a good game. Take Sony's cock out of your mouth for once and understand that there are plenty of good games out there not on your little shitbox.

Sea of ZZZZ's is a Sea of trash look at the way the pirates look and theres nothing to do in the game its boring

Not as boring as the new God of War movie

Ultima Online is a PC game so what are you even talking about

Bro so active you are on here but you won't show face on here...

Crow :)

Hahaha you silly kid...

Except Ultima online was deep, this isn't.

I dunno. Fantastic concept, failed execution. I liked having my own shop. I did not like people 'ghosting' into the shop, being rezzed from outside and then wiping me clean. I did not like people casting 'gate' in front of me, and with the incredible lag the game was famous for, walking right into it and being stranded on some little island.

Could go on and on about UO, but you get the picture.

@SerOlmy: 3 hours in so far, haven't been corpse camped once. So yeah, maybe try a game that you want to slag off first.

Btw, you do know that there are sanctuary ports to deliver your treasure?

They changed the house stuff pretty early on by being able to lock stuff down.

I was gone by then. I was in the beta and pretty much ALL the beta testers were pleading with Origin not to release yet, but...

Anyway, I played for less than 6 months after release. Just couldn't handle it.

People love talking about Sea of Thieves....great!

You can scuttle your boat and then spawn elsewhere to avoid this. Also if you see ships at a outpost, set sail for another outpost. scuttle boat option is in pause menu and will help you avoid the griefing mentioned in this topic.

I for one am glad these threads died off. It was a nightmare having one giant thread with a bunch of different conversations happening on top of each other.

I don't see any problem with there being a handful of threads about a big new release (though there have certainly been some redundant ones i'll give you that).

@SerOlmy: Hasn't been my experience at all. I've been in the alpha since feb 2017, played it all night last night. People i come across are doing the pirate thing: Trying to find treasure or steal treasure, warring with other ships. Guess it's subjective like entertainment in general.

@boycie: Remember when we used to have sticky threads for new games.

When did that stop?"

SW is a shell of It's former self. Was before, but really has plummeted further since charizard left.

@davillain-: I underestimate SoT would get a lot of attention around here."

This is cow central. Xbox is talked about constantly here

Some of the active mods here are all on Discord now (even Charizard) and rather just talk about cool stuff then what goes on in SW. I hardly use Discord myself and it's why no one pays attention to most active threads around here.

I should have known better by now lol.

Hmm how can you corpse camp? Don't you respawn at an outpost? You respawn on the boat? If so an easy fix could be to give the player an option to respawn to an outpost or the boat.

@davillain-: Yeah i know dude. I was on discord with them when they started using it. It was nice to just talk gaming without the vitriol of SW. I have been coming here less and less. This past week I've been here more than in a while. I have some buddies here like getyeryayasout, yourself, quad, kuu2, heil68, Eroica among others.

@KungfuKitten:

From what I read you re-spawn back on your ship.

Played it for 2 hours today. It was quite honestly one of the most pleasant online experiences of my life.

But, yes; literally the first thing my crew and I did was park our boat behind some poor guys sloop (it was just one guy) so he could not escape. We then stole all his loot off his ship. Then we went on the island and killed him. Twice.

Then, finally, we got tired of that and blew up his ship, then set off on our merry way.

That's when the fun started: we went from island to island to wreck and had a good time. Didn't do a whole lot, not even combat heavy. But sailing is such a pleasure as a team effort in that game, it's just a lot of fun. I had some really nice helpful folks with me too.

When someone says X is "basically" like Y, it's almost always over-simplification.

Hmm OK I think if they allow an option to respawn at an outpost with your ship reset, it would prevent something annoying like that. (It would have to wait for all people in the crew to die to do a group respawn, to prevent things like one teammember trolling the rest and resetting the ship when it contains lots of treasure, by dying and picking that option.)