"Kikyo, the "non-combatant kunoichi," will utilize her skills in acting and sexual techniques to infiltrate the suspicious streets and investigate the details of the incident in order to fulfill her mission."
"Kikyo, the "non-combatant kunoichi," will utilize her skills in acting and sexual techniques to infiltrate the suspicious streets and investigate the details of the incident in order to fulfill her mission."
"Kikyo, the "non-combatant kunoichi," will utilize her skills in acting and sexual techniques to infiltrate the suspicious streets and investigate the details of the incident in order to fulfill her mission."
With the warm winds of June in our sails, the time has once again come to look back on the pirates who’ve recently stepped into our Spotlight to share their experiences on the Sea of Thieves. Since we last caught up with you in March, the brave souls below have faced our questions with nary a quiver, including noted cosplayers, gifted artists and community staples. Let’s find out what they all had to say…
First up was the costume connoisseur TizzyTam! In this Creator Spotlight, the cosplaying corsair regaled us with tales of her history with Crash Bandicoot, her experiences at SoTFest ’22 (including hosting) and how important it is to be yourself and not cave in to pressure from others. But do you think Sir Arthur Pendragon and Jar Jar Binks are synonymous? We have our doubts.
Later in March we lined up another Creator Spotlight, this time checking in with one of the community’s favourite yarn-spinners, Cliff the Story Guy. Taking a break from his usual schedule of sharing stories and guides on YouTube, Cliff delved into what brought him to video production in the first place and how his experiences shape his approach to content creation.
Next on our list, we returned to the world of streaming with the help of a recent inductee into the Sea of Thieves Partner Programme, LadyHaradaNiwa! Another pillar of the cosplay community and a big Belle fan, she discussed her journey to also becoming a Twitch Partner, how she got her channel name and what advice she’d offer to other upcoming content creators.
For our first Community Spotlight in this batch, we took the time to check in with artist and ten-time #SoTShot winner zNiinjaa to find out just what his secret is. Alongside reminiscing over The Arena, he discussed some of his favourite pieces of art and achievements in Sea of Thieves, as well as an unusual tattoo subject. Do you have any pirate-themed body mods?
As we moved into May, the Creator Spotlight highlighted event organiser and Nightmare mode hopeful LDSylvr. The conversation ranged from events like The Boomer Games and Captains of the Sylvr’d Waters to surviving tornadoes. If you’ve ever wondered why someone would undertake the mammoth task of trying to reach Pirate Legend without dying, give it a read…
May’s Community Spotlight saw us featuring our avian friend Owlet! Unsurprisingly, we did end up touching on the topic of his famous daily owl requests and appearance in the Voyage of a Lifetime documentary, but we also heard about his work in musical theatre and how he briefly became Emperor of Tamriel. Not a bad promotion for a weekend’s worth of work.
Forging ahead into June, we kept the Community Spotlights coming with a Wh1zzrr_ encounter, chatting to her just ahead of her entry into the Partner Programme ranks. As a TikTok-based pirate tipster and trainer, Wh1zzrr_ told us the tale of how she carved out this niche for herself before going on to mention her other interests in writing, museum-hopping and more.
In our final Spotlight for this catch-up batch, we hopped on deck with the fightin’ pirate AweCoop to hear about his adventures from well over a decade of creating content. Trusted friendships, time management, tennis and maintaining a healthy balance of trash-talking vs. wholesome encounters were other subjects we criss-crossed over the course of the conversation. And thus, with a full four months’ worth of recent Spotlights under our belts, we call an end to the sixth Spotlight Showcase! As always, the full interviews can be found by clicking through to the Sea of Thieves website, all packed with interesting insights and fun facts about some of the community’s favourite faces. If you’re hungry for even more, you can read up on all our previous Community, Creator and Legend Spotlights via our News page, or catch the highlights in our previous Showcases.
We’ll be back with even more Spotlight fun in the next few weeks, so keep an eye on all the usual channels. Until then, farewell and may the wind be in your sails!
Updated voice acting - we managed to find an amazing voice acting that will not only complement the character, but also make the player feel all that gravity of the situation and atmosphereъ
Optimization - thanks to your Feedback, we have learned a lot of things to optimize both in code and visually, now it will be even better to play))
New enemy - a new mysterious creature with which you have to face one on one
Improved graphics - for those who love a beautiful picture, we tried to improve what was and add many other graphic elements so that you still plunge deeper into this atmosphere
Bugs fixed - thanks to your Feedback, we were able to fix the bugs that caused you discomfort
we will not stop at this will do everything better and better wait for more news)) I will be grateful for the feedback in the discussions
We share the same feeling of incompleteness about our game and the player experience, and we're going to give it some fervour and passion. With your supportive feedback and the release on iOS, we can finally proceed to make some major updates and prepare the additional content to the game.
First, I would like to remind to all that the game is oriented party/board game and not necessary just competitive. The additional contents, characters and future updates will increase this aspect.
Currently in v0.8 and with upcoming updates, consider the game still in “early access” with a lot of issues and bugs to fix this season. Latest feedback help us a lot and we definitively getting closer to a stable version, and we will be able to add further contents to promote the game.
For community better comprehension and avoid misinterpretations. The game has attracted 3 kinds of players: casual friendly, enthusiastic, and hardcore players. The interest between these communities on how to play the game are huge and led to a major issue in first experience during our release for both communities in early season. Some expectations about what the dev “should” do to the game is also divergent and sometimes conflictual, we will try our best to handle with it.
At each party, the unexpected/unpredictable variable about the difficulty or fairness aspect of the game based on how players play the game has incontestably affected the overall game experience for all. This parameter has not been properly taken seriously in consideration during the development process and we take it as a great lesson. We will take the necessary time to add the needed rules to the game to give players pleasant game experience.
ABOUT TREE OF TALENTS
To significantly reduce the experience level gap between players due to the Tree of Talent. We plan a major re-work completely the Talents system to integrate them (with several adjustments and additional augments) directly into the game after each turn. This will give more progressiveness to players and fairness to the game.
ABOUT BALANCE
To proceed and stick to the original plan, we will mainly focus on main ranked mode: Classic. Add the mechanics, rules, and functions to bring more interest to the battle and improve characters and skills balance for the fairness. At present, Eilit is the only character that “unanimously” from communities and our point of view to have a need for debuff because of her resistance and survivability. As well as a debuff for the Ring of Rage to limit his value compared to other equipment. In the future, we would prefer to help and increase characters/equipment that need to be improved rather than debuff a character.
ROADMAP
Here are below lists of known and expected modifications we plan to add/improve to the game in the upcoming patch(es) and future updates. (*This is an approximate prediction of our Roadmap and schedule which may vary from certain unpredictable events and unexpected development issues.)
THIS SEASON
Add Character Emote system. Ring of Settlement implemented. Ring of Rage max +6 attack damage limitation. Ring of Leviathan reduce taken damage to 30->20. Eilit ability change to each pair reduce cooldown. Eilit Vampiric Pain skill restore half health from damages deals. Reduce player turn timer 120->100s. Add Summary screen game Statistics. Matchmaking optimization. Quit tutorial during tutorial settings when not the first time. Surrender Button will be available in battle settings within conditions. Solve Audio volume bug. Fix several Freeze bug in battle. Several UI/Text improvements. (Enlarge several Popup on mobile) Daily chest timer adjustment.
NEXT SEASON
Complete re-work of the Tree of Talent. New game feature and implementation of Talents Selection in game. Scoring changes for Classic Leaderboard. Major scoring changes for Cooperative Leaderboard. Matchmaking in Classic will be according to player current Leaderboard Ranking. The 4 elementary pair tiles Quests will be related to character element. New day Quest: deal 2 Attacks to any player with higher health than you. New day Quest: Deal 15 damages to "character". Allowing name changes once per Season and trading some Golden Nuts (Necessary conditions to avoid mass changes and extra problems). Showing all skills and their description in selection panel. Add and implementation of player turn extra time.
LATER THIS YEAR
Extension “Guardians” with 4 Characters and 1 Equipment. Alternative team character selection for Cooperative mode. Add Soulmate friend list. More Equipment.
ABOUT PVE
With all the major updates planned, implementations of new characters/equipment, improving the Classic/Coop modes and adding more party game contents and options to Custom mode. Unfortunately, due to its high production cost and the need for more preparation, we cannot schedule the PVE game mode at this time.
And here is a reveal of the next "Guardians" characters.
