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WrittenWeird, (edited ) w Five Years After Launch, Sea of Thieves Is Finally Getting a Solo Mode - IGN

Restricted to High Seas:

  • Become Pirate Legend
  • Earn rep and gold for Athena’s Fortune and Reaper’s Bones
  • Hourglass Faction Battles
  • Captain your Own Ship
  • Sail as part of a Guild
  • Sail as Trading Company Emissary
  • Live Events

Safer Seas:

  • Progress up to Level 40
  • Gold and Rep at reduced rate
  • Seasonal Renown at same rate
  • All Tall Tales
  • Commendations, achievements, cosmetics yadda yadda…

Can anyone give a rough estimate of how much game content is in Safer Seas? Either a percentage of the full game, or number of hours? Also a bit concerned about the “Captain your own ship” bit…

starman2112, (edited )
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Lame. They couldn’t just go for optional PvE servers, they have to lock most of the content in PvP servers. Guess I’m still not playing it

CancerMancer,

Yeah they’re going to do the absolute bare minimum they can to bring in pve players without actually giving them what they want as if this game isn’t dead af

mordack550,

The sad thing for us is that we always wanted to have a private server, not a solo mode. I want to mess around with my friends with multiple boats. I don’t care about playing in a galleon, let me play 4 solo sloops with my friends!

glitches_brew,

Kinda surprised safe mode has commendations… Sounds like getting the gold curse just got a lot easier.

Fraylor,

The challenge was never in the pvp. It was stomaching each of the tall tales that many fucking times.

Fraylor,

I have about 600 hours in SOT so I can answer this.

So honestly that’s a TON of progression without risk, but it’ll be slow going. Emissaries allow you to increase your rewards for a particular faction (reapers, hoarders, merchants, order of souls) so you can’t get those bonuses.

You need to be a pirate legend to captian a ship, and you need three of the primary factions at level 50 to become a pirate legend. Literally no difference beyond achievements and cosmetics. Captaincy just let’s you “own” the ship that spawns in, and essentially designates a player as “leader” whereas in normal play its ad hoc on who does what. And a captained ship just has a name and extra cosmetics anyway.

Can’t earn rep for reapers which kinda sucks, but makes sense. It’s the pvp faction. But many players do pve reapers as well.

I’d say safer seas covers about 75%.

merc,
@merc@sh.itjust.works avatar

Also a bit concerned about the “Captain your own ship” bit…

My guess is they mean that if you’re doing the Safer Seas stuff, you get a standard ship and you can customize how it looks (sails, cannons, etc.) from the NPCs in the harbour but you don’t get to name the ship, and any customizations you do aren’t saved for the next time.

If you do the High Seas, you can buy a ship, name it, and unlock lots of customizations (more than standard ones) which are saved with the ship, so they’re there next time you log in and select that ship.

I don’t know about the other current major advantage of a captained ship, which is currently being able to unload all your treasure and sell it extremely quickly. Without that you need to dock, then manually run all the skulls to the skull guys, all the trade goods to the trade guys, all the treasure to the treasure guys, etc.

7112, w Interview: Capcom explains why Dragon’s Dogma 2 has taken so long

Itsuno sounds like such a simple and nice dude. He doesn’t hype.

Glad to hear that the gameplay is basically the same. Surprised about the GTAV inspiration.

I_Has_A_Hat, w Five Years After Launch, Sea of Thieves Is Finally Getting a Solo Mode - IGN

Welp, that’ll kill the game. Great.

all-knight-party,
@all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

Actually, the fact that it didn't have that is the sole reason I never bought it, so it brought it to life for me

Mr_Buscemi,
@Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Same here. This news has me fucking excited to play it.

Tried it on gamepass in the past but couldn’t stand the multiplayer component so I stopped playing.

SidewaysHighways,

Yeah, got me thinking that the fam and I could do this and have some fun

cactus,

And might bring me back

WrittenWeird,

Me too, 100%. I’m getting this now, and probably a second copy so I can sail with my kid too.

Squirrel,
@Squirrel@thelemmy.club avatar

Same here. My wife and I considered it a while back, but we opted against it after seeing how pvp heavy it is.

merc,
@merc@sh.itjust.works avatar

Honestly, most of the time it’s not PvP heavy, instead it’s dead. I play with some cousins and we’ve had 3 hour sessions where we’ve only occasionally seen other people through the spyglass. When we do encounter other people about half the time they aren’t interested in PvP either.

Having said that, unwelcome PvP at the wrong time can spoil a gaming session. Like, you can be attacked when you’re at the end of a long quest chain and lose hundreds of thousands worth of gold in treasure.

starman2112, (edited )
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Aww, you won’t be able to bully people who don’t feel like fighting back? You’re gonna be forced to play with other people that actually want to fight? I’m so sowwy 🥺

Lmao get fucked

CancerMancer,

Please the game is already dead. Last time I hopped on (about a year ago?) I got into 3 back-to-back fights with unkillable ships and players due to cheats. Fuck that noise, PvE or nothing.

RGB3x3, w Five Years After Launch, Sea of Thieves Is Finally Getting a Solo Mode - IGN

I wanted to like the game so badly because it looked like so much fun.

But my brother and I spent 29 minutes getting a treasure just to be steamrolled by a group of three more experienced players that killed us and took our shit.

I get that it’s the point of piracy, but it’s not much fun to spend 20 minutes accomplishing nothing. There’s a reason piracy is illegal in real life.

Maybe this new mode will let me enjoy the world they’ve built a bit more

mordack550,

20 minutes? You are lucky! Me and my friends wasted entire afternoons of gametime because of insanely aggressive and skilled pvp crews. That’s the reason i quit the game, i just cannot handle to waste many hours every time a pvp crew targets me.

merc,
@merc@sh.itjust.works avatar

The balance is just way off.

If you’re a PvP pirate you’re never really risking anything. You’re probably carrying a few hundred cannonballs (5k gold?), some wood and some food. If you are sunk, you get your ship back fully repaired for free and lose only the cannonballs, wood and food. If you sink someone carrying treasure, you get their entire haul and just have to get to any port to sell it.

If you’re a PvE pirate returning from a quest, you don’t really get your quest rewards until you get back to port with your treasure. If you lose to a PvP pirate all that time questing was for nothing. If you fight a PvP focused pirate and win, all you win is some cannonballs, while you have the potential to lose all your treasure, the result of hours of game time.

Having said that, if you’re a PvP focused pirate, you’re going to be bored a lot. The game world is very empty so you’re going to spend a lot of time sailing around, hoping to find someone to grief. If you fly a reaper flag people can see you on the map and steer clear of you. If you’re a PvE focused pirate, it’s easy to find something to do, so you can have a great time sailing around, having adventures… until you run into a PvP player.

The game should really be changed so that PvP focused players have an easier time finding other players to fight. Meanwhile, people doing PvE content should have something significant to gain if they ever beat a PvP player. If they choose to turn and run, there should be safe harbours where they can unload in peace.

PoetSII, w Five Years After Launch, Sea of Thieves Is Finally Getting a Solo Mode - IGN

Feels like an odd choice for a game that’s balanced for PvPvE imo.

merc,
@merc@sh.itjust.works avatar

I guess this is them admitting that it wasn’t actually balanced, and that they’re losing players because of the lack of balance.

n3m37h, w EVE Galaxy Conquest Is a New Mobile 4X Strategy Game Set in the EVE Online Universe - IGN

I still want to play DUST 514…

MrSpArkle,

The slap in the face that was. They eventually even deleted the infantry kill mails. Dusties deserved better.

clay_pidgin,

They announced a new FPS called Vanguard at Fanfest this week. It looks like fun! ign.com/…/eve-vanguard-aims-to-be-the-eve-fps-tha…

n3m37h,

Yeah I saw that 20 min after I posted here, I’m def gonna try it out when it is available. Possibly F2P the only problem I see is CCP isn’t a well known company if they put it in their own launcher I can see the same fate as DUST 514. Mainly because people don’t want another launcher.

ProvableGecko, w Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 - PC Tech Review - DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction Deep Dive

In a couple of generations when path tracing with reasonable levels of performance is available on mid-range cards (eg. equivalent of 4070) I might consider Nvidia. Until then team red for me

Thecalicocar, w Dragon's Dogma 2 brings back all the joy of Capcom's 2012 cult hit with few real changes

Nice. I haven’t played the original yet. Planning to play it.

Maajmaaj,
@Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca avatar

It’s on sale for $5 on steam. I’m redownloading it on my switch rn actually.

7112,

Same price on GOG too

Maajmaaj,
@Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca avatar

That’s 🔥🔥🔥, I went ahead and double dipped, just in case my switch shits the bed. It’s getting older.

kugmo, w Five Years After Launch, Sea of Thieves Is Finally Getting a Solo Mode - IGN
@kugmo@sh.itjust.works avatar

A solo mode in an online-only game? I hope the servers get fucked Payday 3 style (they won’t) so people will stop buying these garbage games.

TheaoneAndOnly27, w Five Years After Launch, Sea of Thieves Is Finally Getting a Solo Mode - IGN

Honestly the last handful of times I have played the servers have been so dead that it may as well have been solo.

tagliatelle,

there’s only a certain amount of ships on each instance

paulcdb, w EVE Galaxy Conquest Is a New Mobile 4X Strategy Game Set in the EVE Online Universe - IGN

People still play eve?

I can’t remember how much isk I have on my accounts but I’ve no interest in playing again but I guess I should do something with it. Maybe I can buy a few capitals and go on suicide mission to burn it all.

Kinda sad you can’t just trade it to get some of the £1k’s spent over the years. 😞

clay_pidgin,

We’re at 20 years of Eve this year! Still going strong.

GreenMario, w Payday 3 players endure second consecutive day of server issues, preventing them from playing

Yeah Day 1 was completely unplayable for our 4 man group. Like we don’t need matchmaking we’re in a party just roll a server up and go.

Seems fine now since last night, had no issues getting games going.

SnakeRattleNRoll,

I envy you - was able to play a few matches shortly after release with friends, and havent been able to find a match since.

Solo, with friends, public - doesnt matter, just sits and searches for upwards of 30 minutes before i opt for something else.

GreenMario,

I went to work but apparently some of my friends are still struggling to get into games so it’s not fixed yet, we just have caught a downtime period I guess.

Pheonixtail, w "Ubisoft may also request that Microsoft perform technical modifications,including to ensure that the Activision Games support emulators like Proton"

But proton isn’t an emulator? It’s an API converter

echo64,

It’s an api emulator.

moody,

It’s a translation layer. It doesn’t emulate anything.

echo64,

emulate

ĕm′yə-lāt″

transitive verb

To strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation.

To compete with successfully; approach or attain equality with.

To imitate the function of (another system), as by modifications to hardware or software that allow the imitating system to accept the same data, execute the same programs, and achieve the same results as the imitated system.

smeg,

I’m capable of computing logical operations, that doesn’t make me a computer

echo64,
smeg,

Touché

Nibodhika,

Yes, and I usually agree with you and think the whole WINE Is Not an Emulator acronym is a bit too much because a windows Emulator is the easiest way to explain Wine… That being said emulators have a technical definition, and Wine does not fit it because it doesn’t emulate hardware nor does it translate binaries. Linux is perfectly capable of understanding windows binaries and vice-versa, because they both run on the same platform the binaries are the same, which is to say a specific sequence of bits that instructs the processor to do something is the same for both Windows and Linux binaries. The reason you can’t run windows binaries on Linux (again, or vice-versa) is because they make calls to external libraries that are not available, be it the windows API or the Linux Kernel API. So if you write a library that implements the windows API using Linux APIs you suddenly are able to run windows binaries on Linux, and that’s all that wine does.

dudewitbow,

Its a compatibility layer, which is not usually considered emulation.

ipha,

Wine is Not an Emulator.

It’s right in the upstream name.

datavoid, w Unity: disappointed at how removal ToS has been framed. We removed it way before the pricing change was announced not because we didn't want people to see it.

If the great reddit exodus taught me anything, it’s that I will happily abandon something I’ve enjoyed for over 10 years as soon as it becomes obvious how self-centered its goals are.

cdipierr,

I swear deleting that account felt like shackles coming off. Any hint of BS now and I’m just cancelling subs and deleting accounts. I’ve ditched about six services I thought were essential before.

PugJesus, w Dragon's Dogma 2 brings back all the joy of Capcom's 2012 cult hit with few real changes
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