It have to be exhausting to make Halloween updates for a game the place most enemies are swashbuckling skeletons. But that’s simply what Sea Of Thieves is attempting to do with Fort Of The Damned, October’s harrowing Halloween twist on Rare’s sea shanty. With a damnable new fort and skinless pets, Sea Of Thieves desires to ensure your timbers have totally shivered.
Fort Of The Damned is the most recent in Sea Of Thieves’ ongoing month-to-month content material drops. Centre stage this month, shockingly, is the Fort Of The Damned. Old Boot Fort has been invaded by new skeletons, kicking out the outdated skeletons within the worst case of skeletal land possession disputes thus far. Rare are calling the replace the largest replace to forts since launch, with a captain’s bounty of voyages and challenges.
These harmful new forts are everlasting new additions to Sea Of Thieves. They will be triggered by captains who’ve collected sufficient ritual skulls and nabbed flames of destiny, activated at will by crusing under new crimson cranium clouds. It’s suggested you carry a couple of ships to the struggle – but when that is something just like the final time I drifted by way of Sea Of Thieves, I wouldn’t belief one other participant with my saltiest peg-leg.
I’d belief a monkey with it, although. Fort Of The Damned provides two flesh-free pets to pop in your shoulder, a skeletal Cockatoo and Marmoset. Unlike the remainder of the replace, these rattling rascals are solely accessible for a restricted time. Once the November replace kicks off, they’re off.
This month’s replace additionally provides a couple of adjustments to 2v2 area battles, letting pluckier pirates pop in with smaller sloops and duke it out on six new maps. More importantly, Sea Of Thieves now options banjos. Needed just a little little bit of Deliverance on the excessive seas did we, Rare?
There’s the standard host of beauty additions from garments to ship components, too. Full particulars on every part on this month’s free replace will be discovered on the patch notes here.