When Sea Of Thieves went to sail out of the harbour and launch on Tuesday, it was rapidly boarded by much more many gamers than anticipated and the sport’s servers sunk to the briny depths of Davy Jones’ cyberlocker. Deveelopers Rare even temporarily stopped new players from joining the multiplayer sandbox pirate sport. While issues are a bit extra shipshape now, it’s not with out issues so Rare final night time issued a developer update detailing identified points and their plans for fixing ’em.
Rare laid out 4 major issues with the Windows 10 model, which I’ll summarise right here.
1. Players having issue stepping into the sport at peak instances
Oh god they’re attempting to repair it. For now, “Try matchmaking into a crew that is already out on an adventure, as you will join an in-progress session rather than going through the server matchmaking flow.”
2. Player rewards being delayed
They’re attempting to repair it however, for now, simply wait slightly than restart.
3. Achievements being delayed
This ought to be mounted within the subsequent patch, due out “early next week”.
4. Temporarily lacking gadgets
Should even be mounted in that patch.
They additionally element a fifth drawback involving one thing named the ‘Xbox One X’, however I do know a made-up identify after I see one. Nice attempt, Rare! I received’t fall in your ‘X marks the spot’ pirate japery.
Rare are additionally planning server upkeep from 9am to midday GMT on Thursday, Saturday, and Tuesday, and oh look – right now’s upkeep has simply been extended by one hour, to 1pm. Sorry, lunchtime buccaneers.
Oh, what’s the sport truly like? Our Alec and Fraser Brown have each written about a few of their experiences these previous few days, which I’ll broadly summarise “It could be so much fun with the right players, though the wrong players also kinda ruin it.” So it’s promising however we’ll have to see how the playerbase develops and the sport matures.
Back over to 2 fellas standing in entrance of a whiteboard:
