The MOST CONTROVERSIAL Update in Sea of Thieves
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Today, we're taking a look at the most controversial update in Sea of Thieves history for as long as I can remember, Sea of Thieves' SUPER SEASON, Season 10. From a long wait for Guilds, the Skull of Siren Song and the controversial Safer Seas, let's take a look back at this past Season.
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Doesn't feel right the season ending on time for once, made the disappointing season feel less disappointing honestly. That being said it is a damn shame this "super season" was lackluster.
I'm glad we're back to 3 month Seasons, 4 months was far too long
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I’ve not even played Thai season so I’ve just got less than 2 days to max the pass. Went from 0 to 66 over 3 days
Watch season 11 be back to 4 month seasons.
@@AShinyRayyeah but all we got after a very underwhelming super season is a QoL update. It’s just not a good feeling or very promising for the future of the game.
The "super season" really was only super because it was short
Lol yeah but at least it was on time. I’m ok with it
Underrated comment
For me what killed my enjoyment of SoT was Hourglass, and the fundamental issues with it. They took the two most requested curses and locked them behind a tedious PvP slog that is impossible for anyone who isn't a PvP sweat lord. The best way to fix Hourglass is to give XP for action like killing enemy players, damaging the enemy ship, repairing, bucketing, ect. This would reward you for fighting well and keeping your ship alive, as it is right now, if you lose, you might as well not have even tried. Sure, some people would cheese this, but people will find ways to cheese anything.
Why do you say this under all his videos? It's obnoxious.
@@SalesmanWave I don't intend to be obnoxious, but it is an issue I feel that gets swept under the rug. If changes aren't made to Hourglass, it'll completely die off, and knowing rare, the curses would be lost forever.
Instead of just abandoning it, I'd much rather see it improve. Instead most of the community wither ignores it or ridicules anyone who makes suggestions for improvements to it.
It’s ok for you to not have all the cosmetics. I don’t have the ones from the activities I’m not interested in.
Getting rep for just shooting cannons would just encourage players to run away and take pot shots forever.
@@MaximusBC1 I think you're missing the point. The two most requested curses, curses that people have been asking about for years. I would also support a time limit and shrinking arena to discourage running.
Tbf hourglass made me stop playing. It felt so draining trying to get the curses . Especially since I’ve wanted the ghost curse from day 1 . They defo need some sorta change . Even passive exp from doing stuff out of hourglass like sinking ships or using doubloons to buy levels would be nice
Guilds were designed for content creators, who have a cabal of regular players at their disposal. I don't want to invite randos to my guild, and nor does anyone else want to help level up a guild they could be kicked out of at any time.
maybe. make some IRL friends and get them to play an join your guild
Safer Seas is wonderful for one big reason;
As a gaming clan owner, we have a lot of brand new fresh off maiden voyage players. Safer seas allows one of us older folk to take 3 noobs out and slowly while playing the game learning basic mechanics.
Last training session I had them doing skeleton ships and ashen winds back and forth. They get rewarded while learning. Then when they feel comfy enough we go into high seas and they already have the experience to fight others without learning the hard way.
You only TRULY learn anything the hard way
@@tomathecatgato2813 nuh uh
I wholeheartedly agree, couldn’t get a few of my friends and family in the game until safer seas. I know people hate it but fact is many don’t want the PvP experience and this is a business. More people joining the game keeps rare supporting the game which lets the PvPers keep pvping lol.
@@tomathecatgato2813you’re forgetting a fundamental basic of gaming which is that it’s always a good idea to give players choice. They learn the way they want to learn
@@CoOlKyUbI96 no. Read my statement again...ur assuming
Safer seas is great , I always thought it was insane that you went straight from tutorial to being in the open world with a Galleon barreling straight for you before you even got your anchor up. And it'll be nice to fish or enjoy tall tales as well.
I think the game needs more naval world events. There's only 1 Naval world event and it feels very similar to Ghost fleets in terms of what you're doing , shooting cannons and repairing your ship. I think it'd be amazing if there was like a merchant convoy that shows up on the map and travels from one point to another , and players can intercept it (and eachother) , maybe people can even flag up for merchant alliance and defend the convoy. Also a new enemy ship type that only rams , or maybe uses harpoons , boards.
have to agree and if i just want to relax and go fishing i don’t have to worry about murder hobos attacking me as i’m fishing.
@@envynemo4170Couldn’t agree more, though I personally like using it for getting 100% on tall tales, I’m not trying to get murdered every time I set sail to go to the shores of gold for my curse, if I wana actually play, I’ll do high seas, If I wana grind out tall tales, safer seas is “chefs kiss”.
Megs=Naval, Kraken= Naval, Ghost fleet= Naval, Normal Fleet = Naval, Athena tornado is also naval. There is a lot of naval.
megs are not world event. kraken is not really a world event, athena isnt a world event. and the ghost fleet isnt a traditional fight the way the ships work@@josiahd8468
PvP is where naval shines tho . Nothing better than landing good cannon shots on an enemy ship
Personally loving Safer Seas, and I say this as a pirate legend. My only gripe is not being allowed to captain a ship makes zero sense. Outside of that though I have no complaints.
Probably to discourage players from playing the mode
It makes complete sense. There are a lot of milestones you can earn with a captained ship, and by grinding them without any threat sounds like a problem. I have a fishing boat and I’m catching as many fish I can while sailing it to max out the fish trophies. If I can do this without any threat there is no challenge and it’s just a grindfest of who has more time to sink.
If you can’t earned milestones in safer seas yes I don’t see a reason for not having captained ships
Agreed. Would love to see captain ships.
This feature "safe seas" is good for earning commendations in peace, for example that one for unlocking the frostbite cannons, use the ashen skull to burn 10 skeleton ships or doing events or simply learning the game. Not a bad update at all.
I think the controversy about that is that getting those commendations is supposed to be tricky due to the other players on the server. So by removing that aspect, it's not difficult at all.
Honestly, only thing I would ever use Safer Seas for would be Tall Tales. That's really all I'd use it for.
@@JonezBBQthat’s a bad way to make content artificially more difficult to get.
@@JonezBBQI can somewhat agree and disagree. When it comes to commendations involving combat then yes I’d agree part of the challenge is from constantly looking over your shoulder for other players and sometimes fighting said players. However there are also a huge amount of commendations that are just very chill (such as the Hunter’s Call). So I can understand why some people may not want to be constantly looking over their shoulders for something as simple and mundane as fishing
@@JonezBBQI think it’s a stretch to suggest it impacts those subsets of commendations. Like sure maybe you’ll have a total of 10 people doing that commendation but most people have moved on from that.
I do definitely reckon there are some cheapening of the experience but I don’t think it’s anywhere near as colossal as some are making it out to be.
One thing though, we need actual content coming. The QOL stuff is awesome, much needed, like for ages we’ve needed it more. But we are starving a little for actual new stuff where a lot of our events have been reskins or more of the same stuff we already do.
I started playing in late December, so coming into the game very recently safer seas was an amazing way to learn how to play safely, I 100% love the addition of it. However, now that I’m not scared of other players and I have knowledge on the game, I pretty much never think I’ll touch it again
Interesting perspective; seems like it worked!
i mean im also pretty new but i started before safer seas and i will say its perfect for tall tales
And once you actually have learnt the game and done all tall tales there’s zero point to play safer seas so it’s more or less still a waste of an update
That’s why I never understood the hatred for including a PvE mode. It’s a good way to ease new players into the game and then eventually PvP
It's more the devs assumption "eventually they'll move to high seas"
I won't... I get 3 to 5 hours a day to game and socialise with my friends and Fiancee... I honestly do not have time for randos to interupt that.
Saying get good or... your just not good enough yet or... that's not what the devs intended.
I don't care... me and my friends are at the cutting edge of cocking about and we don't want to spoil that or for it to be spoiled.
I was screwing around on a rowboat the other day and happened upon a random skull of siren song chest. Didn't even think twice about it. Tossed it in my rowboat. Brought it over to the outpost along with all the other stuff I found there went to turn it in and realized it was still sealed. Somebody had dug it up and just left it sitting on the beach.
Probably someone doing the commendation for digging up the keys/chests
I'm someone who came back to SoT due to safer seas and friends and now we play back on the high seas since we were hitting the progression caps. I really think it works exactly as intended. It's great for fishing, commendations, tall tales and lazy play. But the heavy penalties are also a great way to make people not want to play it over high sea's for too long.
I came back because of it as well
Same, I've actually been able to get my friends who quit playing years ago to play again. Safer seas was the best way to get people back into the game and being new people in who will stay.
I welcome the addition of Safer Seas. Great for new players to get a feel. I mostly play on High Seas, but i do use Safer just to get some of the Tall Tales done uninterrupted. It really sucked to be a few hours deep and lose all your progression. Outside of tall tales though, i like to get in there and mix it up with other crews. thats what makes the game fun
Safer seas is amazing. I can focus on commendations without getting jumped by sweats.
about the skull of sirens, I have done like 10 and never had an encouter with other players. I was left completely alone across multiple servers. I am not doing it again unless a friend needs te rewards. The thing that killed imo is that it constantly spawns so there is no reason for players to go after it
everyone who was excited for safer seas quickly realized it was too restrictive because they were too daft to understand what they had already explained. so safer seas seemed hugely popular at the start hence it having a que.... they literally did nothing to fix the que they just waited out people realizing the mode is useless.
i have wanted to be punished for my safe gameplay for years. i have played on alliance servers for 4 years now. this means every time i play i get 250% progression vs safer seas which would have -70% progression instead, i wanted to login and play how i want with a punishment for doing so. locking out 70% of the game from that mode is just idiotic.
the only other method than alliance servers would be having multiple pcs running anti afk macros so you can own every boat on the server and this is costly because you need to run multiple pcs using more electricity and bad for the environment..... so yea
I don't think they actually made anybody happy with safer C's all the people that wanted it are complaining that they didn't go anywhere near far enough with it. They want completely separate servers that are 100% the same and nothing short of that is going to make them happy and a small percentage of those people would be happy if they drove all of the PVP people out of Sea of thieves all together because they think they don't need us
For the people who play more often, I find that the servers are either dead or everybody is attacking you all the time. No random chance encounters with friendly players anymore
As i've been told numerous times by many in the SoT community(the pvp sweats), this isn't sea of friends. Friendly players tried being friendly, but would more often than not get rolled by the always-on pvp nerds/toxic shitstains that think "unga bunga more kills gooder" is how every game should be played and love to eat the mic while spewing shit about people being bad at the game. It's unfathomable that the pvp people haven't figured out that talking down to new or less experienced players after beating them is the best way to drive people out of this game. You wonder why there are some that want full progression without the pvp? Look at the pvp sweats and how they interact with people for your answer. It's plain as day.
"a small percentage of those people would be happy if they drove all of the PVP people out of Sea of thieves all together because they think they don't need us"
I'll start off by saying I'm NOT one of those people, but...they kind of *don't* need PVP people?
Like I enjoy the game the most when I'm playing with friends and we never encounter anyone else. For me to enjoy the game, I *don't* need PvP.
Does that mean I think the game shouldn't have PvP? No. But I think it means that for me and (judging by numerous comments across SoT media) a lot of people have the most fun without PvP and that shouldn't be a controversial thing.
People play games in different ways and have fun in different ways, and this is just another example of that.
I really wish there was more friendly people to be honest. my best times with this games were those friendly or funny pvp moments like meating 2 ghost people cruising and have a friendly bout of combat. or reapers who took my ship just to goof off but then immedialty apologized when they realized i was in a tall tale. or that time when I organically got an alliance server. I really feel like big guilds and meeting people on the seas just doesn't happen because everyone is paranoid or hostile there's no chance for you to grow your guild as a normal guy and meet more SoT crew mates if you are friendly your are mostly punished for it.
@@RenegadeBilbo This is why I do not play High Seas. I never once touched SoT until the announcement of Safer Seas, I wanted too ... I love pirates, but I hate PVP with every fiber of my being. It has no place within my playstyle and I refuse to have a mic muncher moron spewing shit at me because he thinks his play style is superior to mine. Sadly with the cap so low on SS to try and force people into HS, I doubt I will linger with the game long as a result of Toxic PVP Players who ruin all PVPVE games period. SoT is a beautiful and very fun game ... that I am being punished for not wanting to play with a bunch of toxic people who are upset that I am ruining "their" Fun by not being a loot pinata.
I personally feel the Arena needs to come back in some form. It was a great place to go for PVP if you've got some bloodlust. And it was a great place to practice PVP if you're more of a PVE player.
Perhaps then, the high seas wont be so sweaty (maybe), and it'll help prepare new players who've only played in the safer seas (maybe).
I appreciate the positives of safer seas but it's not really the answer. Ranked servers would be nice. Or aggression ratings. Players with low agression ratings put amongst others like players. And then on the other end of the spectrum you'd have sweats vs sweats.
I do feel like safer seas is a great addition, I always hated tall tales but now I’ve been grinding them and it’s actually quite fun.
As someone who does pvp I personally like the idea of safer seas for those who wouldn't care about fighting like a child and their parent/ someone fishing/ tall talers. I think season 11 will make the people who use safer seas for farming rep/ gold want to move to high seas as they can't get any distinctions and the rew rewards that come with it.
Guild should allow you to have 1 (and even then I feel there needs to be some kind of special thing) other friend ship join. It feels weird that they’re so small yet you can’t even guarantee that you’ll ever see each other. I understand why they don’t allow friends to join others on the seas as an entire friend server would basically defeat the point. But it would be nice if there was some way to have at least another ship, maybe only ever a sloop, join
I wish they would allow safer seas with multiple friend ships. Not having a way to play this awesome game with multiple ships fighting each or racing your friends to me is wildly a missed opportunity.
@@ethannewman1905 they literally should just let it be a private server. They don't need to increase anything
Season 10 was not an ''Super'' Season.. not by an long shot.
Barely any new things to do, and the one thing we got ended up not even lasting the whole season.
I don't have a lot of hopes for season 11, sure the things they talked about and showed does look like good things, but I am still on the defensive over it and not having any exaptation on it being anything more then ''fine''
I do like how they’re adding new tutorials because the tutorial before taught you the mechanics of the game but not the objective really so the only reason I play it was because I saw CZcams videos like this
Safer seas has brought me back and I’ve had no end of fun in it, just hate that I’m punished for it by earning 70% less gold, max level of 40 in companies and can’t even purchase my own ship to name and save cosmetics on it.
Well without thieves (the only real threat) the game isn’t a challenge. U need a challenge to deserve real rewards
Why is it a punishment? It's only to be expected that, since you've got basically no threat to your gold earning whatsoever, you're gonna be earning less. What next, ancient skeletons on demand? Just be happy with what you got, whiner
@@safourgardpa5459 Fr yo
@@safourgardpa5459 Calm down sweatlord. He was just giving his opinion.
@@LemonDaniok, the "sweatlord", yeah he really just wants to sweat so hard while sinking him and stealing all his loot.
God this community is so weird. From the tdm community to the pve community, it just doesn't get better...
I like safer seas. I don't always use it but it's really nice to ha e when I just want to chill and dick around. I can finally learn the islands and maps and do tall tales without having g to worry about being stomped on.
"Super Season" was an enormous bait and switch. I kept watching all their announcements and reveals and going "ok and?" expecting something actually meaningful that never came. Unfortunately that seems to be the theme of the game, they just add these things that are so inconsequential with now wow factor so it's never enough for people to actually come back to the game, and if they do its for no longer than a session or two. From what I've seen and heard of season 11 it'll be much the same. I hate to say it but I think that massive anchor that was season 9 may have permanently crippled the game.
I legit wrote a whole essay on why Safer Seas was a good call.
Cool story, bro!
@@TheOneStooge You wanna see it?
I purchased the game solely because they added safer seas. And a dozen of my friends. And i'm sure I and my friend circle isn't the only one. Sure these are not people who will shitbucket the game for 1000s of hours like many PvP fans. But they generated a lot of new revenue. And why is it still not more popular? Because of what you just said in the video. The restrictions are way too harsh. 30% of the gold earned isn't 30% if you count how much more efficient you are with the fast selling option of the sovereigns and the emissary system in addition. We easily arrive at around 15% of the possible earnings. And I don't care about the cheap excuses for that from PvP fans who were vocal as hell against anything PvE related from the beginning. PvE has no affect on the PvP field. Period. So Rare gave the PvE fans what they wanted without giving them what they wanted. But i'm still grateful for that. I enjoy it.
My biggest gripe with Guilds was I was originally under the impression that we would be getting currencies and progressions while offline to log in and get that progression when you log in. I was pretty disappointed that it wasn’t the case. Only shared progression you get is the commendations you earn with your ship
Is the background music playing at 2:01-3:04 from Spyro Ripto's Rage ? I swear I can hear my childhood 😅
Must say it season 10 had pontential,but the endless waiting the weird guild system and the story mode (safer seas) also server issues ruined it for most people i think skull of siren song was cool but they shouldn't make it like a quest with accept options just to see when someone dug up a chest or key or not
guilds would be good with 200+ players. siren skull needs to be rare and have a bigger reward and then maybe even dive to it to! and we need an option to revert the hitmarker in settings because the new one is so ugly
Well hello there
👀
I don't really know what they expected when they had that long a wait for guilds being 1 glorified menu, 1 reskinned ashen skull, and pve servers implemented in the most clumsy way possible. They should have just ignored the requests for pve servers. This took, what, 8 months?
Hey, any way to join that Reapers themed guild of yours ? Im fairly interested.
I switched to safer seas to play with my wife. There are people playing safer seas who dont care about gold and xp. Its about fun and adventure
Didn’t know until watching this video that I had already unlocked Briggsy’s jacket, was under the impression you had to sell 30 or something😂
The cof is going in the “fleet of fortune” it still spawns randomly
Ray, could you do a video ranking the tall tales or a tier list?
I once sank a crew with skull of siren song but then it gave us no location for turn in, in that case can we turn it into reaper, nah. Some time after a SSS voyage appears and we do one now we have 2, a functioning one so we can find briggsy. We do and sell one but cannot the other. Captain Briggsy is telling me I can’t turn it in here and should find Captain Briggs to turn it into her.
Idk why maybe it was a bugged skull or the voyage had timed out or smt, so if it did like let us turn it into reapers or smt otherwise it’s useless.
The season discussion aside, i am really confused by rares decion making. First, they remove arena and "replace" it with hourglass 1.5 years later to have it be on the same servers as regular adventure. They already saw how problematic it was when tdmers started camping people in adventure after arena was gone, but somehow they decided to keep all the pvpers in a gamemode with cosmetic rewards that every player desperately wants. Unsurprisingly, a ton of people conplain, a ton of people start cheating and then, after a year of no shit given about the mode at all, not even new cosmetics, it's nearly dead. Not to mention that every hourglass player takes up precious server space that could be inhibited by people who actually want to DO something on the server. All that keeping hg in adventure servers did was making it, so you could get 3rd partied. And then, because all the new/bad players in adventure complained about the top 5% of pvpers, rare removes quickswitching, driving all the pvpers away from the game. Essentially, adding a mode for the pvpers, fucked the pvpers.
I just kinda wish they'd bring back arena with hostable servers and changable rulesets like supplies, map size, quickswitching, island loot, ship type, number of ships, etc. to allow anyone to practice. It'd bring a sizeable influx of players (back) to the game and make it, so adventure is a little more peaceful, with all the toxic and skilled players on other, seperated servers.
My god am i fluent in yappanese and crying.
Guilds feel like they weren't thought through for long term longevity and the UI could use a tune up to make them more accessible. The skull of siren song never stood a chance mostly because it was an obscene hassle for 50k. Safer seas was a decent band aid for new players getting sunk but doesn't actually solve the issue of properly teaching them mechanics. Sea of thieves could use a proper tutorial overhaul
the main problem with skull of siren is that it's simply not worth fighting for with how common it is.
if you see a crew already doing it, you just reroll and quickly find another one.
Ive been loving it (Safer Seas) for Tall Tales.
I’m a new player that joined because of Safer Seas. I’ve had my fill of sweaty toxic PvPers in other games and I would never have touched this without something like Safer Seas. What ended up happening though was I fell in love with High Seas and will likely never go back to SS. If I have friends join me who are brand new or just really new to games though, Safer Seas is always there. I think it serves its purpose well and is a great addition to the game.
Now that I’m actually fully immersed in the game though, I wish they’d put their “Quality of Life” stuff like diving/voyages from captain’s table and even sovereigns (*I can feel the rage already) over there. Even though I’m new I can definitely see that the game has lost a lot of the immersion and original vision. I’m really sad I didn’t pick it up and play it in earlier years before they started going int his direction.
Anyone that has problem with Safer Seas should just can it. I can now play with my elementary school age niece and nephew, I will say aren't the greatest at any games because they are just learning how to play games other than Minecraft, and not worry about PvP breaking out and making them cry and instantly never wanting to play the game again. I know the realities of multiple player games will be rough in the future like any gamer, but at that age, they could just give up on something to never come back if there is just lose the stuff they earned on missions. They just want to have fun and Safer Seas makes it the best option for our little group.
The way they implemented PVE is not what the community wanted. It was sabotaged to fail.
The shortness of this season caught me off guard, because when I came back to the game the seasons would last several months. Frankly, I wish that was still the case as I’m not the kind of person who just stays on one game forever. Kinda hard to grind a stupid battle pass when I’m wanting to play Baldur’s Gate 3.
5:01 ah yes , true gamer activites in game
Honestly, I think Safer Seas could have been a massive success if they had just made it a completely separate character. Where you would have two characters with everything you earn being locked to that character. That way you can still earn max reward and would settle anyone worrying about earning stuff and bringing it to High Seas. I honestly wouldn't mind starting over again. Or allowed us to put our character over and start a new one on High Seas. Sure, it would still piss off some people in it's inclusion, but if Rare were going to do it anyway, they should have just gone all the way. You just can't please everyone, so when Rare pulled this out it felt like they were trying to please both communities, and it backfired a bit. As you said, many people didn't come back because the reward nerf was too harsh. I know a over a dozen now that didn't come back because of it. And there are lots of people still miffed you can earn stuff on Safer Seas and bring it over. The solution I feel was simple but they implemented it wrong, which is just par for the course with Rare at this point.
Safer Seas brought my friends back to the game, so for me I love the danger that pvp adds it turned them off and we stopped playing all together, so that change meant I got to play again and I was good with that
No one ever does the skull of sirens song, every time I’ve done it I’ve been alone
In general, i have to say that season 10 was a let down. Now, i say this as someone who only still plays pvp, either camping people in hg or tdming, but i do feel like i have my fair share of experience and knowledge regarding this game. guilds is nice and all, but mostly just some extra gui and a bit of clothing. the skull of siren song sounded really cool, i would've loved to kidnap the skull, bring it to a fort and then defend it there untill i die. the reality of the situation however, boiled down to nobody actually doing it. i've literally NEVER seen anyone do this voyage while on a server, always had to start it myself and WAIT for other people to come. and safer seas, ig it's nice for newer players. i think they nailed the "punishment" for playing on it, it just brought EVEN MORE yappers and whiners to the game and communtity though. speaking of yapping and whining, the removal of quickswitch made me yap and whine a bit, as now i have to use quickswitch cheats when i actually want fort tdm to be barable. it's obviously not an issue right now, as there is free quickswitch cheats and every somewhat competent tdmer (that didn't quit yet) has and uses it, but it's still just really annoying. also i feel like the only REAL difference it made, is that pvp is objectively worse, as you can still 2 tap people faster than they can eat and double gunning is very much still viable. i can still easily camp most of the players i face as well. the biggest difference is just in the playstyle, which feels MUCH slower, more boring and less skill based. the skill difference between players at very high levels is also WAY smaller now, which sucks as well. 90% of tdmers quit the game, leaving only a few. i myself barely touch sot anymore as well.
all in all, i don't think that season 10 brought any actually interesting content to the table for both less experienced, more pve focused players, as well as the pvp veterans. many people discredit the statement "the game is dead/dying" by saying that it's actually gaining players, though i'd argue that ever sicne season 8 servers just felt really dead. i highly doubt season 11 will change that but who knows.
People crying about safer seas are just mad that 75% of players now use it to actually have fun
If u can’t play high seas because you don’t like interactions then play a different game and stop ruining it for us with all your running
@@Scythes43 hey at least on the plus side the only people that you would encounter are the ones that won’t run. Should save some time
Have fun, pal.
@@Scythes43don't bully someone for enjoying a game differently to you... gatekeeping is very stupid in this situation.
See that's the problem,all I can say scythes72,
I'm laughing at you, it's ironic your so mad that your complaining about people not wanting to play with you becase your the very reason they don't want to play....
Enjoy the irony you and every sweat lord created.
Meaning:: you and others like you were SO HORRIBLE to other players they added a mode to get away from toxic little basket cases of like mind.
Thank you sweat lords your the reason we have safer seas,now pipe down and revele in your septic sludge..
As a very new player I found safer seas to be a great training area before I went to the high seas. Whenever I’m not playing with others I’ll use it to get better. Plus, I’ve found the “toxic” players to be very few & far between. My experience had been very positive so far.
Can someone explain to me how you do unlock the masks
HG enjoyer here. We’re biding our time for S12 😈
What's 12 bring?
@@SnaxMang become an insider
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It's awesome, it means that people who want to do stuff peacefully can do that, but when people choose higher seas, they can't ask "why did you attack us?" we attacked you because we felt like it. simple. don't want to be attacked? there's a game mode for it now.
As far as guilds I only have 4 mates who actively play and we haven’t broken level one
Man was i waiting for this upload! 😀
Personally I think the Skull of Siren Song should give a big buff to Guild experience, then it would get rather popular to fight over for us who don't have 24 "friends" to play --for-- with us.
Skull of Siren's song was dead within 10-14 days. Literally no one cared about guilds after week 1, Safer Seas probably has an audience but I wouldn't know as I only play the main mode.
They have got to stop adding menus and start adding content.
I have started playing 2 weeks ago. Safer seas allowed me to learn the game in peace and complete tall tales. If i would started pn highs seas with experienced players shiting on me and reverting my progress i dont think i would be still here. Everything takes alot of time to complete in sot when you don't know how to play. Now i play only high seas and safe when i want to chill or do commendations or browse shops.
I know that Safer seas was the only thing that even got me into attempting the game. But once I saw how abysmal the rewards were, I went to high seas to continue my fishing instead.
Good video as always. The downside of the SSOS giving no guild rep makes me not want to touch it (plus it's boring when uncontested). Making the two new things released in Season 10 be completely separate activities is a weird decision but they said they've addressed the issue and are giving it guild rep in Season 11, but why not push it out immediately? Oh well we're only a few days away from Season 11. "Super season" though? A little hyperbolic, but at least the next season is being delivered when promised (knock on wood). Excited to see what the future brings us once the foundational system updates are out of the way.
My first love was Sid Meier's Pirates! back in 1987. All the way back in the day when gaming wasn't considered even remotely cool. And as an original Legendary and Triumphant Sea Dog with over 4k hours on these seas. I can honestly say Sea of Thieves gave me some of the greatest gaming moments and memories I've had in over 35 years. Sadly, what used to truly be a gamer's game and the best I've ever been blessed enough to enjoy. Has now turned into the opposite. I understand that it's the nature of the beast when it comes to monetization and attracting casual players who want rewards without the risk. That doesn't change the fact that I mourn the loss of what this game used to be and instead have begun to loathe what it has become. That's ok though, things change, it's life. And often we have little to no control over it. But I do miss you SoT and the best part of me always will. GG
Since the servers constantly merge to keep them full, the only complaint one might have about Safer Seas effecting game play is that one is less likely to encounter squishy noobs and more likely to encounter players who can fight back. If that is the case, then you are one of the toxic players that inspired Safer Seas.
As a player who don't have friends who want to play SOT, the guild system is just useless : I was happy to create my guild day one, but nobody to invite. When I met some players on the seas, they either weren't interrested in joining a guild (or just mine) because they played just to have a look on the new season, or they didn't wanted to level up my guild and were looking for a guild at least lvl 100, so I struggle alone with my level 6 guild, after playing everyday for 2 month. I will never see those cosmetics
s10 was content wise( and quickswap remove wise) a massive L
Dude imagine if season 11 was just a skull voyage that lasted like a week or two
I liked playing sea of thieves. I was an alpha tester, beta tester and I enjoyed my time playing the game for years but in 2023 two of my closet friends got banned because we decided to infiltrate an alliance server run by a streamer since they were the main boarders they got spam reported by the streamer and they made new accounts to still play with us but over time lack of content bored them on a game that didn’t care about the truth and they quit permanently. I put in dozens of appeals on their behalf but it didn’t do anything. I thank Rare and SoT for giving me a great game to play for years but it’s time to hang up my cutlass and move on.
Chest of Fortune being in the FotD was lame, battling around that island with 0 towers just isn't fun. It made that commendation super common.
Skull of Siren Song is great except that it doesn't count towards rep.
Safer Seas is great except that it doesn't allow for captained ships.
I got my 30 siren skulls because I love the ship cosmetics, but I don't see a need to do anymore. Now I just accept the voyage so I know where additional ships are on the map when they dig up an item.
I thought I would absolutely live in Safer Seas since I've been maxed out in reputation for awhile and don't need gold. But if it's not your ship and its back to being a vanilla sloop every time you load in, it's much less interesting. Every Captain Jack Sparrow needs a Black Pearl. Cap the levels, % down the milestones, whatever you gotta do, just give us captained ships in Safer Seas. Until then I'll be High Seas getting dunked on by PVPers.
So basically two great ideas that lack a critical element. Fix those, and you got a winner.
i don't think you took into account how much safer seas impacted overall server performance. since it launched servers have been (and still are) in the worst state ever, because every safer seas session is another instance running, especially impacting eu servers which are mostly run out of one big data centre in amsterdam, compared to the more localised stamps in north america. combat had never been so clunky
The sirens skull should have a super reward and I’ll explain it now. After getting the 30 u need for the mask, the voyage goes up to 200k per completion. Making this voyage full of people who want that crazy cash, or people who are actively working for it and care about it. Make the voyage a little less common 2
I really wished they would bring NPC Pirates that roam the sea. Also just 30% for the PvE mode is really to low imo.
Still havent even gotten to level 20 in guilds
Super season? No. Adding a new UI tool, one voyage that in my experience nobody engages in (loved the idea of it but the way it was done made it flop), and a pve mode that's the same game just dumbed down with no other players that I and many others will likely not use or only use rarely. IMO this was not a "Super Season" it did not even feel like a full season, especially for how long we had to wait for it.
i miss the fort of fortune fights it was fun just the pure chaos you think oo a fort of fortune and 5 minutes later there is a galleon coming nowadays you see a fof all i think is ugh when is a new event
a negative ive met is there are a lot more aggressive non talking players in high seas now, just yesterday each server i went to i was attacked over and over again by mute savages while i was trying to grind out the last of my pirate legend levels, i know its an open pvp game but the fun is significantly lowered during these encounters
Ya the playerbase divide isn’t fun . I enjoy pvp to some degree but it feels like your fighting off an entire server by yourself and half the time I’m not even at the fotd
i was doing some skeleton hunting missions and the skull of siren song happened to spawn on the island i was fighting on so my ship was quickly attacked while i was minding my own business with the skeletons, i had no idea it was there until i saw them dig up the chest with the skull but for that i lost 5 hours of missions as it was the last in my long chain before going to sell
The main issue with safe seas is it doesnt prepare you for high seas at all the games a pvp sandbox and without the other players you wont learn about
Not anchoring
Fast naval
Priper ship management
Or even half the game content
I agree that it doesn’t prepare players for EVERYTHING. But to flat out say it doesn’t prepare players for high seas AT ALL? That is a bit disingenuous in my opinion. It prepare players far more than the maiden voyage does
@@CoOlKyUbI96I feel like it doesn’t prepare you tho really , it just gets you into a lot of bad habits like lowering anchor . Not changing the sails direction , ya it helps people get used to buttons and where the barrels are etc but the second they come across an experienced player they’re just as dead . I’d find it more shocking being a player coming from safer seas and getting demolished than going into high seas straight away and losing . I feel like it just gives false confidence like your really good at the game then your getting double gunned and you can’t escape a ship
Glad to see ashtray back at it again
Safer seas was nice to play the tall tales with out getting trolled
Season felt short ngl
It was average length. I guess that's what happens when they have a semi annual previously.
That's good! Seasons used to be this length in 2021.
Personaly I like thst safer seas showed up sadly with all its punishments for not wanting to be spawncaped for half a hour I long surpased it. Non the less its good for people wanting to show game to new players. Since when every time i tryed to get someone to play with me they stoped playing rarher fast due to being destroted every time while trying to do anything. Caps on safer seas should be renoved on factions or drasticly increased. Imo.
As for guilds I have only my self to play with so its unexistaent frature on my end.
And as for SoSS I was disturbed in delivering it once by someone camping island for a kill apart from that Its simple as go grab and deliver. Like I do it in middle of voyages just cause its on the way. Most offten you can sell quite a few in a row without issue.
idk how people still have faith in rare to turn this game around.
Safer seas would be better if it didn’t nerf your earning so much. It’s a great choice for those who don’t really want that PVP aspect, and high seas is still available for those that do
Safer seas is fine. I play super hard-core pvp on a brig in hourglass or just as a reaper terrorizing servers. That's for normal play. But when I pull my kids in to do a tall tale and have fun, it is nice to make it a story game that they can learn and have fun without being spawn camped on a Galeon.
For me, safer seas is basically non- existent as interactions with other crews is the funniest part of Sot i my opinion. Chest of fortune at fotd- just why? what a horrible change. Guilds are cool but I dont have a friend group that big so after hitting level 15 for the emissary flag I just ignored it because the skins werent that cool imo anyways. So the only cool thing for me was the skull of siren song, it was probably one of the most fun expiriences in the game for me, too bad nobody played it after a week anymore and it became a boring fetchquest with lackstuster rewards
The only think i dont like about safer sea s is that your rep cant go past 40 if that didnt happen i play it alot more
ngl, the skull of siren song is probably more dissapointing than even season 5 was. literally dead after what felt like 2 weeks.
you should have to make two characters, one for high seas, one for safer seas. and they cant cross seas. they stay where theyre created
why don’t we lock the characters to region too.
That’s definitely taking it too far, nobody is really progressing in Safer Seas anyway
I can finally do tall tales without being spawn camped or chased across the whole map by people who only want new players to suffer
Ray is that a new mic or are you just sick
I'm sick and I have a new method of recording, same mic though!
I feel like one thing they could do to satisfy a large chunk of the safer seas players is keep the 30% rewards but uncap the companies like grinding them to max rank with 30% rewards? Sounds like pain to me but if someone REALLY wants to do that I don’t see why it’s an issue
I would be okay with the 30% if they allowed one more ship in the game with friends. How great would it be to have multiple friend ships in an armada of sorts. I get why they don’t in high seas… albeit there is exploited alliance servers doing it all the time. But in safer seas why not?
Nerfing double gunning into the ground was also some bullshit
We gonna make the same things for rings and puppet. Sooooo nope. Thk u palworld !!!
Best part of the Season was it being 3 months long!
Aye
I'm not sure I'll use safer seas, considering that I barely even log into this game anymore.
Season 10 for me was solid enough. I’m fortunate to have a fantastic good community that has grown to encompass multiple media platforms and even generate our own events. The skull of Siren Song was great, the action was excellent, however the spawns were, and continue to be a pain in the ass. And safer seas… was safer seas.
I’m gonna start doing safe seas. I started playing this game in 2018 on Xbox and I’m getting back into it now and it is way more toxic now than what I can remember. I played on Sunday and my crew got slaughtered by a toxic brig and we lost all of our hard earned loot and it really took the fun out of it for me personally. I don’t want to PVP I just want to do my quests and get my reward. When I see a ship I usually sail away, I don’t want to PVP anyone. It’s annoying having these guys KOS you and they are such try hards. They come up to you with the blunder bust shotgun thing and one tap you going up all in your face, that doesn’t feel like a pirate game to me! I want to sword fight you and these guys just want to kill you the cheapest way possible which is running right up to you jumping around and one tapping you. Come tf on bro, I’m done with the PVP
The guild I am in and play relatively in I have 11 levels
In total
didn't feel like a supper season to me it seemed like an old content update before seasons