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- See what the longer term holds for Sea of Thieves in 2022 in an intensive video preview.
- Put together for brand spanking new narrative experiences in Adventures and Mysteries, and get a glimpse of what’s in retailer for Season Six.
- Sea of Thieves is out there free for all gamers with Xbox Recreation Go and throughout Xbox Sequence X|S, Xbox One, Home windows 10 and Steam.
After an action-packed 2021 for Sea of Thieves, we’re planning one other thrilling 12 months in 2022 for all these gamers who sail along with us. We hit some large milestones final 12 months, passing 25 million complete gamers and promoting 5 million copies on Steam alone – so we’ve bought an actual mission forward, however what kind of pirate crew doesn’t welcome a problem?
Reasonably than revealing our plans one content material replace at a time, we’re doing one thing somewhat completely different this 12 months. To unveil our intentions for Sea of Thieves in 2022, we’ve put collectively a particular video the place our Inventive Director Mike Chapman and another Uncommon faces clarify the following steps in our grand pirate odyssey. So settle in, get some popcorn and a drink, and we’ll present you the path by which we’re headed.
Occurring an Journey
With Seasonal updates nonetheless forming the skeleton for Sea of Thieves, considered one of our major targets for 2022 is to flesh out our pirate world and make it really feel extra dynamic. Tales, whether or not they’re those we inform or people who our gamers create themselves, are on the very coronary heart of Sea of Thieves, so we wish to encourage new tales of derring-do and comradery.
Enter Adventures and Mysteries: these story-focused occasions are designed to enrich Seasons, offering common narrative-driven content material for gamers to dig into alongside the opposite gameplay options introduced in by our Seasonal content material drops. Adventures are time-limited, arriving on a roughly month-to-month schedule and working for 2-3 weeks, with every one forming a chapter inside an overarching narrative. Accompanying cinematics will assist arrange the story, and a finale Journey will cap off every narrative arc. Our first Journey, ‘Shrouded Islands’, is presently set for launch on February seventeenth. Set your pocket watches now!
Mysteries will run alongside Adventures and stay a part of the world for longer, counting on the neighborhood to resolve clues and riddles each inside and outdoors the sport to maneuver the story ahead. These will play their very own half in making the world of Sea of Thieves really feel richer than ever earlier than, and whereas the topics of those Mysteries may very well be something, we will let you know that the primary one will see gamers making an attempt to resolve a homicide…
A Fortuitous Arrival
Seasons will proceed to usher in new options and content material, together with new Seasonal rewards, Pirate Emporium inventory and elective Plunder Passes to spice up the rewards you obtain on the climb to degree 100. Kicking off in March, Season Six will probably be headlined by a brand new fight and exploration expertise: Sea Forts.
Six Sea Forts will seem around the globe, drawn via from the Sea of the Damned and guarded by patrolling Phantoms. You’ll battle via these ghostly foes and gather keys to totally discover the Sea Fort, finally taking down its hardest defenders and claiming the loot inside the treasury. The Sea Forts are additionally intertwined with the motion that unfolds throughout our first set of Adventures, so keep tuned to find extra about these new places manifesting on the Sea of Thieves.
Within the latter half of Season Six, we wish to introduce one thing that’s lengthy been requested by the neighborhood: new content material for Pirate Legends! That is deliberate to take the type of a brand new, Legend-exclusive Voyage full of story beats and a sequence of challenges that change every time you set sail. We don’t wish to reveal an excessive amount of of what you’ll be doing simply but, however anticipate to discover new places and search treasure with particular maps…
A Farewell to Arms
Together with this thrilling new content material, we as a group are working onerous to implement suggestions on a few of the neighborhood’s sizzling button matters, devoting as many sources as we will to enhance options that matter most to the gamers. Nevertheless, shifting the main target absolutely onto making Journey mode the most effective it may be implies that we do should make tough choices elsewhere. So, after prolonged inside discussions, we now have made the robust name to shut down Sea of Thieves’ Enviornment mode inside the subsequent few months.
With the scope of Sea of Thieves rising bigger and bigger, the massive activity of sustaining QA and bug fixes for each Journey and Enviornment modes has turn out to be one thing we will now not justify. We’re pleased with what we achieved with Enviornment, however in the end it wasn’t as profitable as we had hoped, and a bespoke aggressive mode with few devoted gamers is tough to align with our future imaginative and prescient for Sea of Thieves. We wish to provide heartfelt due to the hardcore Enviornment communities for his or her creativity and fervour throughout Enviornment’s run of almost three years, and you will discover a information publish protecting this determination in additional element over on the Sea of Thieves website.
And that’s an outline of our focus for Sea of Thieves as we head into 2022! After all, we nonetheless have many extra secrets and techniques and surprises hidden away within the cargo maintain, however we hope this primary take a look at what’s coming has sharpened your appetites for the 12 months forward. Relaxation assured issues will not be slowing down on the seas, in order all the time, keep tuned to our social channels for bulletins as they occur and all the knowledge on month-to-month updates as they launch.
New to Sea of Thieves? Discover out in regards to the newest free content material updates on our What’s New web page and decide up some suggestions from our Pirate Academy, which offers invaluable data on matters starting from crusing to swordplay as you put together on your maiden voyage. Learn more about Sea of Thieves here, or be a part of the continued journey at SeaofThieves.com the place you possibly can embark on an epic journey with considered one of gaming’s most welcoming communities!
Sea of Thieves
Microsoft Studios
$39.99
$26.79
Xbox One X Enhanced
PC Recreation Go
Xbox Recreation Go
Xbox Stay Gold membership required to play on Xbox One; offered individually.
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In regards to the recreation
Sea of Thieves gives the important pirate expertise, from crusing and preventing to exploring and looting – every part you’ll want to dwell the pirate life and turn out to be a legend in your personal proper. With no set roles, you’ve full freedom to strategy the world, and different gamers, nonetheless you select.
Whether or not you’re voyaging as a bunch or crusing solo, you’re sure to come across different crews on this shared world journey – however will they be associates or foes, and the way will you reply?
An enormous open world
Discover an enormous open world stuffed with unspoiled islands, sunken ships and mysterious artefacts. Tackle quests to hunt for misplaced treasure, hunt down cursed Skeleton Captains or collect worthwhile cargo for the Buying and selling Corporations. Go searching and fishing or select from a whole lot of elective targets and side-quests.
Sea of Thieves: A Pirate’s Life
Play the Tall Tales to expertise Sea of Thieves’ distinctive narrative-driven campaigns, and be a part of forces with Captain Jack Sparrow within the latest unique story that brings Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean crusing into Sea of Thieves. These immersive and cinematic quests present round 30 hours of the last word pirate journey.
Develop into Legend
In your journey to turn out to be a Pirate Legend you’ll amass loot, construct a fame and outline a novel private model along with your hard-earned rewards. Adventurer. Explorer. Conqueror. What’s going to your legend be?
A recreation that’s all the time rising
With 5 main expansions and nearly a 12 months’s price of month-to-month updates, Sea of Thieves is a service-based recreation that’s regularly rising and evolving. Verify again every month to see what new content material has been added.
