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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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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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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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My First Day in Sea of Thieves

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Sea of Thieves has been on my radar for ages, not just because Retvik’s written multiple articles about the memorable adventures she’s experienced as a member of SPUFer Bacxaber’s crew. I’d also heard great things from multiple sources from very diverse gaming interests, and at least 2-3 different people on my friends list are in-game at any given point across the last 5+ years, which is usually a very good sign regarding the quality of a title. But still, I dragged my feet on wading in myself, and I’m not quite sure why. It might have been how many people… [Continue Reading]

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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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