Ah, Sea of Thieves. A couple of barely barnacled spots on its hull apart, it’s a stunning little factor as long as you may get a crew collectively. It’s just a bit gentle on issues to do, outdoors of crossing swords with different rival crews of gamers. Today’s large replace, The Hungering Deep, guarantees to carry a little bit bit extra motion to the desk in a brand new time-limited quest chain, in addition to a bunch of latest objects to make use of, and customisation choices for each pirates and their vessels alike.
Making your self heard appears to be an essential a part of The Hungering Deep, with a Speaking Trumpet (attain out and shout at somebody) and Drum being earned by way of following the Hungering Deep storyline. These objects will finally be bought usually, however are campaign-exclusive in the intervening time. There’s additionally a brand new vary of tattoos for pirates, flags that you could fly out of your crow’s nest and trendy trying scars that your pirate can earn by way of completion of particularly powerful missions. While the previous two may be purchased, scars might be earned solely by way of play.
The most baffling a part of The Hungering Deep replace is that for a recreation that was already desperately in want of some further meat to hold from its bones, it actually doesn’t make a lot sense for brand spanking new story-driven content material like this to be time-limited, however it’s. In truth, they’ve even gone so far as introducing a brand new NPC – the Bilge Rat – to taverns with a view to maintain gamers abreast of what (if any) occasions are working. Being that there’s just one in the mean time, you’re greatest off simply monitoring down Merrick, the character within the trailer above.
A fast peek at some gameplay footage from gamers already diving into The Hungering Deep reveals an fascinating however all-too-brief quest chain, capped off with a genuinely difficult boss combat towards (watch for it – it’s a shock) a really giant, very pointy shark, able to biting nasty holes in your ship’s hull. A group might want to coordinate repairs, retaining the cannons stocked and attempting to maintain the circling fish inside firing vary, and presumably victory brings extra than simply bragging rights.
The Hungering Deep replace for Sea of Thieves is reside now, and you may see the full patch-notes here.
