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A Pirate Persona

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Now I’m not actually a very violent person. Sure, I play video games, and my favourite video game involves being a yellow mass-murdering space ninja, but I’m rather tame. Heck, my online alias, Arkay, is named after one of my Phoviverse characters, a friendly death god who doesn’t like his job and spends way too long explaining that he’s more than just death, he’s also the personification of energy changing forms. However, out on the Sea of Thieves though, I’m a monster. I even have a persona for my pirate. My pirate is, well, not evil, but definitely not the… [Continue Reading]

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An Outpost in the Sea of Thieves
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How To Be Less of an Obvious Target on the Sea of Thieves

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I get it, not everyone is a bloodthirsty pirate. Sometimes, yes, you do want to just sail from island to island, digging up chests and shooting the odd skeleton. But sometimes people seem to target you and annoy you. The reasons are varied, either they see you as a threat, you have something they want or they just want to sink a ship. Luckily, there are some ways you can make yourself less of an obvious target. Use bright colours This sounds counterintuitive, because normally being brightly coloured suggests that you are a threat. However, if you use all the… [Continue Reading]

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Me and my new hat
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A Lack of Pirate Clothing

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One of the main goals in the Sea of Thieves is to make your pirate look good. If you visit the shops on any outpost, most of them are selling cosmetics for you to buy. Some are premium, some aren’t. But there are a lot of cool things to buy, to make your pirate look cooler. There’s something odd about all of this though. There’s a bit of a lack of, well, clothing for pirates. Admittedly, there are plenty of pirate captain clothes. If you want to look like a pirate captain, then you can buy all sorts of jackets… [Continue Reading]

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Krakens and World Events

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In the Sea of Thieves, there’s always some sort of event going on. By ‘event’, I mean a world event, a timed, optional thing you can sail to and do. These events are situated somewhere in the game world, and you tend to have to sail to them to do them. World events appear one at a time, and will disappear either after a crew has finished the event, or it times out on its own. Skeleton and Ghost fleets feel like the most common world events, and generally take the longest to do. Both events involve fighting other ships,… [Continue Reading]

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A randomly created character in Sea of Thieves
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A Pirate Game With Not Many Pirate Clothes

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There’s something odd about Sea of Thieves and its cosmetics. A huge part of the game is to go on adventures and quests, getting rich and doing pirate-y things. All of this gets you plenty of gold, which you can then spend on cosmetics. And, bloody hell, there are a LOT of cosmetics. Not just clothing, there are skins and sets for all your tools, weapons and companions as well. But we are lacking in normal pirate gear. You know, the striped shirts, the bandanas, the more basic clothes. What you’d see in kids TV shows. There are some pieces… [Continue Reading]

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A Rank 5 Reaper Emissary
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Why The Reaper’s Bones are my Favourite Faction in Sea of Thieves

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There are several different factions in Sea of Thieves, and most of them are tied to outposts or the Pirate Lord. We have people who collect skulls, pirates that hoard all the gold they can get their hands on, and we also have merchants, who like to either ship things or send you off to find lost shipments. On top of those, we have the Hunter’s Call, who will buy any fish you happen to have, and Athena’s Fortune, who are tied to the Pirate Lord and offer various voyages to Pirate Legends. However, not all factions are equal. For… [Continue Reading]

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A Rank 5 Reaper Emissary
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Several Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Run Away in Sea of Thieves

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When you’re sailing on the Sea of Thieves, there’s always a ton of adventure to be had. From looting ghost forts to finding lost relics, there’s plenty of gold and treasure to be had. However, you’re rarely ever alone, and an enemy ship could turn up at any moment. While some people see an enemy ship as an opportunity, most pirates we encounter try to run away and flee. But that’s the worst thing you can do. Here are several reasons as to why you should fight back, rather than run away. It’s quicker If someone is pursuing you, they… [Continue Reading]

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A Pirate Legend?

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The other day, I finally hit a cool target while playing Sea of Thieves. I reached rank 50 with the Merchants, the third level 50 rank I needed to become a Pirate Legend. However, I… don’t really… feel like a Pirate Legend? It’s hard to explain, especially since I haven’t been playing that long. Or maybe I have been playing for that long. I already have 100 hours played in Sea of Thieves. Bloody hell, the time flies. I still feel like a newbie though. Despite being a pirate legend. And being at level 50 for three separate emissaries. I… [Continue Reading]

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SO. MUCH. LOOT.
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So Much Loot that it Caused Performance Issues

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The nice thing about Sea of Thieves is that every single outing has something different going on. The previous time I played, we had a sloop following us for several miles, playing a game of cat and mouse. This time however, we had, well, insanity on our hands. What started out as a normal Veil mission ended up in… Well… Uh… I don’t know. It’s hard to describe. We’d just finished our first Veil quest when this happened. The plan was to spend our day doing Veil voyages, getting progress towards one of the best hats in the game. And,… [Continue Reading]

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A cool-looking curse that's like being on fire.
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On Lava and Looking Hot

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Sea of Thieves has quite a lot of different cosmetics. Absolutely tons of gear to customize your character. While the character creation screen is one of the strangest I have ever seen in a video game, at least Sea of Thieves makes up for it by having a ton of cosmetics that can be bought or unlocked. However, you can also unlock Curses, which are basically TF2’s Unusual gear except for your skin. Curses look really cool, but they are obtained by doing all sorts of difficult tasks. So, when I next played with Bacxaber and his crew, we all… [Continue Reading]

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