I am keen on the shipwrecks in Sea Of Thieves. There’s simply one thing so thrilling about pulling up apart from one and diving in to assert some sunken treasure. Maybe it’s the worry of sharks lurking about, able to strike, or maybe it’s the joy of by no means figuring out what kind of booty these misplaced vessels may comprise.
You’ll perceive then, pricey reader, why I’m baffled to study I’m within the minority of Sea Of Thieves gamers who love these sunken beauties so dearly. According to Rare, shipwrecks had been one of many least interacted with encounters within the game earlier than they determined to beef them up with higher loot.
It all got here out in certainly one of Microsoft’s videos showing the talks they would’ve given at GDC. They streamed a bunch of them of the previous two days, together with one from Rare about designing Sea Of Thieves to be a profitable dwell service game.
Now, all that sounds fairly business-y, and the video was fairly developer-focused generally. But one part that caught my eye was some dialogue about participant suggestions. Not the type of suggestions from disgruntled followers yelling into the void on-line, fairly the type of suggestions builders get from game knowledge, permitting them to find out what issues gamers get pleasure from doing most by seeing how a lot time they spend on them.
According to this, shipwrecks was one of many least bothered with encounters! This was one of many causes Rare put the reaper’s chests in them – the glowing ribbons beaming into the sky makes it a good bit extra apparent there’s one thing hiding underwater, and the alure of a dear little bit of loot offers gamers extra of a cause to purposefully search them out.
But the place’s the sense of journey in that! Following these beams is all very nicely and good, however there’s one thing so satisfying and exhilarating about coming throughout one thing surprising. I hopped onto a sloop simply now to see if I may discover wrecks, and never 5 minutes after I’d discovered one by following the glowing ribbons of a reaper’s chest, I discovered a second one nestled up towards a rocky island in the midst of the ocean.
I’m curious if maybe gamers had been by chance overlooking them earlier than. Surely nobody would actively keep away from them. I’ve grow to be accustomed now to watching the skies every time I’m crusing, looking a flock of seagulls within the distance to let me know there’s one thing hidden beneath.
Even in the event that they don’t comprise the costliest loot, there’s at all times some strange fish to scavenge from the barrels, and even some attention-grabbing cannonballs to fill up on.
But that’s simply one of many beautiful issues about Sea Of Thieves, I suppose. There’s a lot on the planet now that there’s room for everybody to have a favorite factor. Finding surprising treasure appeals to my sense of journey, whereas the reaper’s chests may enchantment to the more cash pushed gamers, or maybe those that fancy the chance of a struggle whereas making an attempt to money it in. And heck, if none of you lot just like the shipwrecks that simply means there are much more for me to loot.
I feel I’ll follow exploring them on my own for now although, when I tried to show one to Nate and Matt they both immediately drowned. The adventurer’s life isn’t for everybody, I suppose.
