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How to Communicate in Sea of Thieves

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A common complaint I’ve seen nowadays about Sea of Thieves is that “everyone just attacks you on sight”. While this is often true with Reapers (that’s literally their style of gameplay), often, when you look into things and read deeper into people’s posts, you realise that there was no effort to communicate on either side. And there are plenty of things you can do to provoke an attack, even if you don’t realise it. In today’s article, I want to discuss how to communicate with other players, and to make some suggestions as to how to not invite everyone to… [Continue Reading]

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Why I am Worried About the New PvP Hourglass Mode

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One of the things announced alongside the removal of our doubloons was that, during part of season 19, sloop hourglass will be replaced with a 6 sloop free-for-all, where the last ship standing wins. I assume this will be in a separate area, and we were promised chaotic battles, but while this sounds good on paper, in practice, I have my concerns. Lack of focus A free-for-all sounds fun, but in a deathmatch scenario, a 2v2v2v2v2v2 battle has no focus what so ever. There is too much going on. In normal hourglass, sure, you can get third-partied by other people… [Continue Reading]

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The SoT Dev Update and On Stealing All Our Doubloons

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Alright so I’m gonna start this article off by saying that you should watch the SoT Developer update video so you know what I’m talking about first. You can do so here: Anyway, yeah, they’re just going to reset people’s currencies. Doubloons are the third currency in the Sea of Thieves. They aren’t easy to come by, they’re mostly rewarded by doing Reaper-y things, season pass things or commendations, and there’s not really much you can buy with them. New players struggle to get them, but old players probably have a bunch lying around. Alternatively, the stuff you can buy… [Continue Reading]

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A Guide to *Sometimes* Running Away

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I’ll be honest, I don’t think running all the time will get you anywhere in Sea of Thieves. If you always run, then you never learn to fight. And that means, the second you get caught, you’re basically screwed. But there are definitely times where you NEED to run away. After all, I occasionally play solo, and I am definitely not skilled enough to take on a rank 5 reaper galleon on my own. The thing is, you need to be SMART when you run away. And today, I want to share a few tips to help you survive out… [Continue Reading]

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Why does Peak not work?

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This was going to be a genuine review of Peak, the latest friend-slop twitch bait game designed for streamers to laugh at each other at. Honestly, I went into the game knowing I’d dislike it, because I hate awkward platforming with low stamina, floppy physics and survival mechanics. And I came out of it hating it and getting a refund. Honestly, my biggest turn offs were the awkward stamina, the wasting of your time when you’re dead (spectating someone else isn’t fun at all) and I had massive problems determining what was a walkable surface you could stand on. I… [Continue Reading]

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A Right Proper Gigakegging

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Season 17 of Sea of Thieves has admittedly been disappointing so far. The whole gimmick of the season is picking up loot from one person and delivering it to some other guy halfway across the sea. It’s basically Merchant stuff except more annoying, and there’s some glaring flaws, mostly that the stuff you are smuggling has zero value to anyone apart from the smuggler NPCs. So there’s not much point stealing someone else’s smuggler loot and trying to sell it to anyone – not even the Reapers, who accept literally anything apart from meat, will accept smuggler loot. There’s also… [Continue Reading]

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Deathbringer's Agony, with a yellow sail.
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On Finally Getting A Damn Yellow Ship Set

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I love Sea of Thieves. It’s the only video game that I play lately, outside of Pokemon GO. Admittedly, I’ve kinda gone off gaming in general (hence why this site is no longer updated daily) but pirates are fun and the new content for Reapers is somewhat interesting. I’m also a sucker for buying more and more ships. Most folks just buy a sloop, a brig and maybe a galleon, to have the full set. Me? I buy a new ship as soon as my previous ship has earned a legendary title. One of my more recent ships is Fluffyblade’s… [Continue Reading]

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How to Not Join an Alliance in the Sea of Thieves – Part 3

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I’ll be honest, I never thought I’d need to make a Part 3 of this type of article. Somehow, I do. You’d think that alliances would be good fun and even, occasionally, capable of getting you rich. When a ship in an alliance sells loot, everyone else in the alliance gets 50% of the gold earned. But that does require having one thing: an alliance of ships that don’t want to kill each other. Today, we are looking at even more ways to NOT join an alliance, because some people are stupid. Lie that you are a newbie The first… [Continue Reading]

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A Really, Really Weird Sea of Thieves Collab

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Sea of Thieves has done a few crossovers over the years. Both Pirates of the Caribbean and Monkey Island make sense for crossovers, as they are pirate-themed. There’s a few smaller collabs, like the Halo crossover (which I think was a Microsoft promotional thing) and, as far as I was concerned, Borderlands was probably the weirdest collaboration, even though I’ve never, ever seen anyone use the ship set. I suppose, at least, the Vault Hunters in Borderlands are kinda pirate-like, looking for a vault full of treasure and stuff. It kinda makes some sense. Most of the time though, these… [Continue Reading]

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Welcome Party Is The WORST Special Research

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Today, I completed step 4/4 of Welcome Party, a Special Research. The research was introduced in October 2023. I finished it at 6:25pm on the 26th of February 2025. And all I got for it was, literally, a t-shirt. Welcome Party was special research which was supposed to introduce us to the Party Play mechanic. And it kinda does do that. Kinda. Actually, no, it doesn’t. Welcome Party just makes you do a billion Party Challenges. And these have to be done with another player our three. It’s literally 1 step of “catch 10 normal types and do 10 party… [Continue Reading]

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