It's 2022 and we're in the future! But as the purpose of this round-up is to revisit the recent past, from Season Five's arrival through to Grogmanay and a year-ending bout of Gold & Glory, we encourage you future folk to deactivate your smart eyepatches and dismiss your robot monkey butlers for a few minutes. Then join us, your time-travelling pals, for a quaint look back at the last leg of 2021 in the world of Sea of Thieves...


December was another Seasonal launch month, unleashing 2021's fifth in-game Season in the form of, cleverly, Sea of Thieves Season Five. And jam-packed with new features it was too, from the long-awaited arrival of a treasure-burying mechanic and accompanying Quest Board to the crates of fireworks rushed in ready for the festive season. And dice! And rats! And Cannon Rowboats! Haven't played for a while and want the full breakdown? You can see everything, Patrick Stewart-style, on our Season Five landing page or in the remorseless detail of the release notes.

Yes, there were time-limited Events too: the customary pairing of the Festival of Giving across the middle of the month and Grogmanay bouncing blearily off the walls as New Year approached. The Festival of Giving also brought the gift of Gilded Voyages, while Grogmanay debuted an Annual Tankard for strong-stomached repeat participants.

And what should turn up in December's Pirate Emporium restock but a surprise new batch of cosmetics inspired by Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, comprising a Captain Barbossa Costume, Royal Revenge ship set and matching Royal Revenge weapons – and even the now-traditional roleplaying pet in the form of the Mutinous Mutt! All that plus a particularly packed Plunder Pass, and if you're quick you can still jump in and grab your freebie Festive Tree Emote, although it's fair to say you may have missed the moment for using it in-game.



Continuing the theme of "Blimey O'Reilly O'Rourke, a lot happened in December considering a chunk of it was Christmas" was our news coverage, with the Sea of Thieves website celebrating charitable proceeds from the Sails of Sharing, cheering the milestone of five million Steam sales and encouraging players to rub their noses in our Season Five Deep Dive with bonus article-based enthusiasm from the Design team.

Alongside those sat another pair of player profiles – a Creator Spotlight on Shrouded Ghost slayer Sotus and a Community Spotlight on SoT France fan film favourite Gatas – plus a final 2021 batch of Community Hub player stories, not forgetting our fourth Fan Art Gallery Showcase over on the Rare site. Meanwhile we encouraged players to share their own stories via the slinky medium of stats, spun up by 2021's incarnation of the Your Story So Far page! Light a fire under your filthy Bilge Rat Boots and you can still swipe your own stats before the page goes under...

We also embarked upon a team-up with Streamheroes, knocked through another wall to add more merch to our online store (including Sea of Thieves shoes, what a time to be alive) and ushered in the festive season with the latest streamable soundtrack addition, 'Call of the Bells'. And we were over the moon to receive a Most Improved accessibility award from Can I Play That? in the light of our ongoing efforts in this area – you'll regularly see Accessibility updates in our release notes (archived on the What's New page, release note enthusiasts).

And of course we couldn't ignore the return of famous Halo star Mister Chafe in December, saluting his rash-inducing escapades with this launch day crossover artwork alongside the time-limited Noble Spartan Sails and Flag offered to freshen up your UNSC livery. UNSC... of Thieves. Sorry. Look, stop that, we can't do a proper segue into the video section if you're going to throw things.




Now, December wasn't just about Season Five's big video hitters, the hype-inciting content update trailer and the talking-head-tastic Deep Dive. No, there were other bits of footage sent out to ensnare your flighty attention spans – like our 2021 Year in Review video, a visual reminder of what was in the last 12 months' worth of free updates shipped onto the seas. Or the fun-sized launch trailers for the Festival of Giving and Grogmanay Events. No? What about our lovingly crafted video accompaniment to the 'Call of the Bells' track? Still no? Honestly.

If streaming's more your thing, Sea of Thieves TV continued its packed pattern of Twitch programming, including the last episode in the current run of riddle-weaponising chase-fest The Gauntlet. Sea of Thieves Season Five does of course come bearing Twitch Drops too, the first of which fell into the laps of diligent stream-watchers right after the Season launched. Keep checking our channels for the next set of Drops so you don't miss the opportunity to look PROPER DAPPER in your Twilight Hunter clobber.



In the odd spare minute between announcing all this malarkey on Sea of Thieves' channels, we like to make sure there's exclusive stuff there too for you to participate in what we won't call 'bants' until we've asked around what the new word for 'bants' is. In December there were special festive giveaways featuring stuff ferreted out of our actual physical office, a stash of downloadable wallpapers emblazoned with recent artwork, some important questions asked and a whole lot of orb pondering because the internet is weird and that's how it decided it wanted to see out 2021. Merry Christmas!

Our regular hashtags also kept the content coming, even when we were all at home weighing up the viability of Ferrero Rocher curry on Boxing Day: #TriviaTuesday coughed up hairballs of info on new features like those Cannon Rowboats and fireworks plus the Dark Brethren and Bell Brigade, while #SoTGear showcased a cheeky five weekly choices of fan-favourite cosmetics ranging from the showroom-fresh Party Boat and Midnight Blades sets to the classic Magpie's Fortune Sails.

Mid-December's #SoTShot entries on the Festive Fun theme sent us spiralling into the usual moral crisis as we tried to pull a list of winners from a ludicrously good shortlist, and then we solicited it all over again with a New Year, New You #SoTShot theme taking us into 2022. And the year's last lot of #SundayVibes skipped specific island locations in favour of ambience from the Season Five splash screen, the Maiden Voyage, the best seat to watch the sun go down and a festive fireplace to warm your cockles afterwards. Doesn't have to be cockles, other disgusting edible bivalves are available.



That's about the sum of it for 2021! You may now resume the future – a future into which you can accompany us by following Sea of Thieves on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or Twitch, unless you just want to hurl your demented 2022 opinions around like upsetting confetti on our Forums or Discord server, which is fine too, maybe, within reason. Now then shopkeepers, where's our Dark Adventurers Mech Suit and Jetpack of the Wailing Barnacle? What sort of a future is this?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172620/Sea_of_Thieves/

Last few months we’ve been working on Skiing VR and we’d like to show you the whole new demo of the game. We collected all of your feedback and made the game more immersive, stable and, of course, now it looks prettier

We developed new models of objects, updated textures, added some eye-candy things like snow trails under your ski and little snowflakes all around.

Try the new demo now and show us your support by adding Skiing VR to your wishlist!

• Real skiing mechanics in VR
  
• Epic slopes which you can ride in the daytime or night
  
• Different game modes: relaxing free ride, challenging time and AI race, classic score mode
  
• Challenge your friends on hillsides and find out who is the best skier
  
• And yes, deers. We have some!

Celebrating the release of the prequel novel -- 《The Beginning of Reincarnation》
《Rail of Möbius》Art setting collection has added pictures in DLC!
In addition, the pictures of Cecilia and Luna drawn by Mr. Moke have been added.
Welcome to update the collection!



- The artwork
- Concept designs
- Background artworks
- Four-frame comics
- The afterword to the game

Memories of the souls that don’t survive in the World In-Between are imprisoned into gems.



During your journey in the World In-Between you will come across these mysterious gems. Collect them and retrieve those doomed memories.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1548940/RUN_The_world_inbetween/

Dear Fellow Stalkers!

Thank you all for participating in the Bean Stalker Christmas Event and the Speed run Challenge!
Results of the Challenge will be published in our Discord group on the 11th of January.
You will still be able to use your collected Christmas exclusives and enjoy their benefits, but don't search the beanstalks for more.

Following your feedback, we prepared a new feature for you. It’s a beta version, so if you experience any issues, please feel free to reach out to us.
Stay tuned for the upcoming events and the multiplayer version.

• You will be able to turn around with both snap and smooth turns while climbing.
  (Beta version - Activate it in the gameplay settings.)

• The trees’ collider works properly on the Floating Islands.
  
• The tumours count has been fixed at the Boss.

• The freezing effect will not drop down your FPS when you want to kill the Boneys or Snakes at the Overgrown Pyramid or when you want to kill the Boss with a weapon that has ice damage.

• The blizzard will not follow you to the death scene or into the Treehouse. What a blast!

• The Gun Shield and the Slingshot will have a correct position in the rotating Tool Inventory from now on.
  
• The Slingshot Magazine’s position has been fixed when it is loaded into the Slingshot.

• We have added a credits book to the game. Good luck trying to pronounce our names.

— The Bean Stalker Team

Ave! Welcome to DevDiary 15, and boy do we have a doozy for you this week. It’s companion week! Every day starting today, we’ll be releasing a new video about one of our five companion characters, introducing the role they play in the story as well as in combat, and hinting at the personal problems they’re saddled with, which you will hopefully help them deal with throughout your adventures together.

Find out more about the Compainions that will join you Here

🔦 Governors! Take advantage of the extra Gangster Daily Activities🤝💯. Make sure to complete them to grasp the daily and weekly rewards even faster!📦💰

The Governor of Poker 3 Team

Fixes

• Fixed issue with Jaero’s Intercepting Fist ability causing the game to crash
  
• Fixed summer event fight being automatically won if player skipped their turn instead of attacking
  
• Fixed issue caused by interacting with Savannah 7 bar patrons while transitioning to their sex scene from dialog
  
• Fixed domesticity of offspring increasing when breeding two monsters of the same species (should have decreased)
  
• Fixed Chimera Power Struggle ability not healing
  
• Fixed issue in combat with some monsters that possess the Dragon Leyline Drain trait
  
• Edited some dialog lines in new provision day conversations
  
• Fixed job cards not updating when triggering a monster to quit their job by right-clicking on the draggable icons at the top of the menu
  
• Fixed issues with the tracking of how many Spirit Shards have been turned in for the Hallow Haunt event
  
• Fixed combat reward window reporting a different set of items than what was gained
  
• Fixed bonus money item modifiers not actually providing bonus money
  
• Fixed issue with using Brontide’s Brace ability while he’s the only unit still active
  
• Fixed offspring inheriting base stat limitations incorrectly biased towards only one parent
  
• Fixed an issue when weak stat limit traits were improved by mutations
  
• Fixed Kreyton filtering as male in character selection
  
• Fixed issue with Brontide always following player in Cloverton
  
• Fixed issue with taunt status on enemies when taunting unit was disabled
  
• Fixed new games starting the player without any korona
  
• Fixed milk momma exhausting other monsters for an entire day

The recipe merchant now sells recipes for non-perishable briquettes for Rain Pony, Apple Pony, Carrot Pony. If there is both a fruit and a briquette in the inventory, the pony will eat the one closest to the beginning of the inventory.
Thanks: Psichi

We are very happy to see that the community is growing at such an incredible pace! We have reached the first stretch goal for the community challenge (congratulations to all of you!) and we receive a lot of questions about the game and its story.

If you are wondering how the whole story started and you haven't heard about the 112 Operator game before, we have to begin with mentioning that Infection Free Zone continues the narration that we have started in The Last Duty DLC for 112 Operator. While the base game tries to realistically depict the job of an emergency services dispatcher, the last DLC is an alternate story that takes place during an infection outbreak. This mysterious outbreak and its following events are the story introduction to Infection Free Zone!

So if you are really interested to see this prologue for yourself, we really recommend giving 112 Operator and The Last Duty DLC a try!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/793460/112_Operator/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1570180/112_Operator__The_Last_Duty/


Congratulations everyone! The first stretch goal has been reached, which means that the Expeditions stretch goal is going to find its way into the launch release! Now it's time to introduce the second stretch goal - biomes! If we can reach 10 000 followers on Steam, we will add different biomes and seasons into the game. Wondering what does it mean and how it might look like? Expect some sneak peek in the next "Behind the scenes" entry!



Remember, that you can check the current number of followers in HERE! At this very moment, we have just passed 6900 members in our group and this number is growing day by day! Thank you for joining us in anticipation for Infection Free Zone.

Best regards,
Jutsu Games Team