Sea Of Thieves is supposed to be a harmful sandbox filled with threatening skeleton ships and dastardly fellow gamers nipping at your heels. It is that, and extra, however as gamers do with sandboxes, many organise much less deadly occasions on the excessive seas. In the previous, pirate crews have hosted every part from fashion shows to ship races, however these occasions all the time exist with the specter of different interloping gamers. Now, Rare are planning to start testing Custom Servers, non-public classes to assist facilitate particular community-organised occasions.
“As Sea of Thieves has grown, we’ve been supporting some of these initiatives in the background, helping people get together on the same server to save on that initial setup time for our community events, but we’ve always harboured a desire to do more,” Rare say in their announcement. “We will be working with these creators and community groups to test Custom Servers in a live environment.”
For the primary iteration of customized server use, Rare are planning to let Xbox Insider testers customise varieties and variety of ships on the server and generate a non-public code to share with invited associates.
Importantly, Rare say that customized servers aren’t meant for use as non-public PvE servers, so that you received’t achieve any gold or repute complete taking part in in a single. A bit disappointing for me, the pathetic pirate who actually desires to go on tough Tall Tales with out the specter of one other participant stealing my quest gadgets, however the restriction does appear honest.
“The first step is to roll these out in an Alpha state and start learning,” Rare say. “We expect this to be a lengthy Alpha phase where we listen, learn and evolve what Custom Servers deliver in terms of tools available to those using them.”
In the long term, Rare remind gamers that servers after all price cash to host and run. Though the take a look at pool will begin small, they are saying it’s doubtless Custom Servers will ultimately be an elective service accessible by the Pirate Emporium money store.
While they might not preserve PvP out of my PvE, it is going to be fairly neat to see if Custom Servers assist to evolve correct ship racing leagues or reside occasions on livestreams and different such group creations.
Public use of Custom Servers sounds a great distance off, however maybe Rare will disclose a bit extra about their take a look at plans throughout Microsoft’s Xbox Games Studios-focused showcase in July.
