Little Quality of Life Things I want in Sea of Thieves
Sea of Thieves actually has a lot of decent accessibility features. You can use text to speech, have subtitles and turn on a lot of useful little things, like holding or tapping to interact with objects. However, there’s always a few little things that I feel like Sea of Thieves needs, that are more gameplay-orientated.
Markers for skeleton ship loot
Skeleton and ghost fleets are both world events, and when you kill a ghost ship, you get a couple of wraiths circling where the loot drops. When you defeat a skeleton ship though, that loot just bobs up and down in the water. This can be a real pain when you’re busy fighting waves of ships, since you can easily lose track where the loot has gone. This makes skeleton fleets a pain in the ass to fight, and skeleton fleets are by far one of the more common world events.
The same applies for Krakens and Megalodons as well. While a Megalodon does rise to the surface when it dies, its corpse sinks very quickly, meaning you can lose track of the loot. For Krakens, the loot is just spawned all over the place, away from your ship, you get very little of it and it despawns very quickly. This loot could be marked by a pool of blood or ink, or perhaps with sea birds flocking around where the food is. That being said, birds are also very hard to see at times. They should be made whiter, or perhaps replaced with colourful parrots. Yes, parrots don’t live at sea, but they are a pirate staple.
The ability to save outfits
When it comes to clothing, I don’t have very much of it, thus putting my outfit back together is generally quite easy. But for a lot of people, it can take ages to change their clothes. I’d love to see a feature where we can save an outfit and equip it, the same way we can with costumes. In fact, we should be able to save multiple costumes, so we can change our looks on the fly.
Put health bars above all other popups
Sea of Thieves gets a lot of popups. You’ll get popups while selling loot, while doing skeleton fleets, while approaching islands, while doing Tall Tales and more. However, many of these popups end up covering vital information, most notably your health bar and ammo. A really simple quality of life change would be to make sure that your health and ammo always pop up above any other popups or interfaces, sicne they’re the most important information in the game.
Better barrel management
On the Stormcloud, we have a particular way of doing things. The top cannonball barrel is for damaging cannonballs, and fireworks go in the bottom right hand barrel, while cooked meat and pomegranates, mangoes and pineapples all go in the top barrel, and fish, bananas, bait, coconuts and uncooked meat goes in the bottom barrel. However, when you have a storage crate, you can’t properly decide what goes in what barrel, so time is wasted moving things from one barrel to another manually. It’d be great to be able to mass-move all those useless coconuts from the top barrel into the bottom barrel with ease in the barrel menu.
A search feature
Another reason why I don’t change my look very much is because it’s a pain to find what I’m looking for. Most of the clothes I own are arranged by the date that I bought them, meaning newer stuff disappears onto later pages. However, that’s not always the case. I have no idea how titles are saved, but searching through those is hell. A search bar in every menu would make things so much simpler.
I’d also LOVE a search bar in the Pirate Emporium, as there are so many items for sale. Pirate stuff in particular, sometimes you have to search manually through tens of pages. A search bar would mean I can look up what I’m interested in, and be more likely to make a purchase. In particular, I’d like to look up different categories, such as clothing cosmetics and emotes, but currently I have to rifle through ship sets and weapons that I’m not interested in.
Anyway, these are pretty simple features that I’d like to see. TThey’re a bit far-fetched, but Rare are pretty good at adding quality of life features, so you never know.