It’s not lengthy till Sea of Thieves’ seventh season goes dwell following its delay, and as per common, a serious content material replace might be going dwell alongside it.
This specific replace, which focuses on Captaincy, has been long-awaited, a lot anticipated, and may simply see me return to the sport. In any case, who doesn’t need to be the Captain of their very own boat?
The Captaincy replace will introduce options to Sea of Thieves that gamers have been requesting for the reason that sport was launched, so it’s a reasonably large deal for a lot of eager pirates. You’ll be capable to hop aboard your ship and get customising when the replace goes dwell at 2am PT / 5am ET / 10am BST on August 4, 2022.
As for the specifics, gamers will be capable to buy a ship of their very personal utilizing in-game Gold, and so they’ll then change into the captain of their new boat. Gamers can even title their ships and customise a hell of much more parts of their ship than earlier than. This contains the Captain’s Cabin room, the place gamers will now be capable to fiddle with the whole lot from the mattress to the partitions, to make the ship actually really feel like their pirate dwelling.
After all, life at sea isn’t all the time regular and objects will discover themselves misplaced typically. Gamers can tidy up their ship with the usage of a easy ‘Modify’ button, or they will even save the state their ship is in in the event that they want to rejoice over a very profitable battle.
Gamers will even be capable to entry supplies like wooden, bombs, fruit, meat, cannonballs, and extra utilizing in-game Gold. Moreover, a brand new group of NPC’s could be discovered at Outposts. This specific faction – Sovereigns – will fortunately take all of your loot off your arms, however they may solely achieve this for those who’re from a Captained ship. This protects you having to search out particular Buying and selling Corporations, offered you’ve the Gold to man your personal ship.
Each function being added to Sea of Thieves with the Captaincy replace might be detailed in season 7’s patch notes tomorrow, however for now, the trailer offers us a reasonably good thought of what to anticipate. The Captaincy replace will even include its personal Captaincy development system, so you’ll be able to monitor your pirate stats whereas embarking on voyages.
You may do not forget that these options -or a minimum of related ones – have been anticipated to reach again in 2018 through the sport’s first replace following its launch. After an unsure launch, these concepts have been put to relaxation for some time. Nonetheless, we’re now lastly seeing them come to fruition, and gamers will lastly have one thing to spend all of their hard-earned Gold on!