Sea of Thieves!

I’m always in a party so I have never heard the proximity chat. I’m sure it’s super mature and not at all full of racists.

Do xbox party chats max at 4 people?

Edit: when you say on xbox you can see if some one is in a party do you mean game party or xbox chat party?

Xbox party allows a total of twelve people, but I’m guessing Sea of Thieves limits in-game grouping to four? Or at least I’ve never been in a group bigger than that in-game so I assume that’s the maximum.

In the crew of strangers I played with yesterday, the one with a bunch of high schoolers, it literally started with the kid telling us his name, explaining he got frustrated when people mispronounced it, and then he said “I’m not racist, but…” before explaining it wasn’t like he had one of those complicated names that are spelled funny like black people have.

To their credit(?), the rest of the crew (I think these kids all knew each other) kicked him out and made fun of how racist he was later on.

That has nothing to party vs. public, since we technically all got in an Xbox party once we set sail. But yeah, listening to random players will still be a weird thing to deal with.

Well, it’s like Jim Morrison said, people are strange.

Awesome.

The first time I played, I hit enter because it says “press any key” and just as I did, I saw a red box pop up and disappear. All I knew is that I answered NO to something. That was it!

Certainly will! Just been on and had a grand ol’ time. My crew and I ended up spending quite a while just drinking, playing music and dancing on the beach with another guy we found. We laughed a lot as our music got progressively worse with the grog…

Jumping in for a while now, send me a message if you want to play. Gamertag: Schmidt

Posted on Reddit:


whoa.

Living life on the edge!

I jumped on and purposefully joined a random large 4-person galleon. My crew-mates were someone with a good eye for treasure maps, someone who understood the sails well, and a younger kid.

We had a blast! Ended up being a fairly competent crew, aligning ourselves to the wind, angling the sails, navigating through narrow shores, and digging up plenty of treasure.

We did a tiny bit of jousting with a few small sloops from a distance, but none of them wanted to close with a larger galleon that started firing off 4-cannon volleys.

In the end we turned in about 8 chests, a few animals (someone was smart enough to bring some spare cages), and a couple of gunpowder barrels. I don’t know the rewards well enough yet but I got a few points of faction and probably 1500 gold over 90 mins.

We exchanged a few Arrrgh’s and pirate jokes, danced when we had time on flat seas, and tried to avoid the vomit of our companion whose on-board pastime was to constantly drink grog.

Grouping with randoms feels a bit like signing on with an unknown crew at port, its an interesting social experiment.

We fought another galleon last night and chased them to port. They tried to engage us while they turned in their booty but we cut them down as they were running to the vendors with the loot and sold it ourselves.

Later, we saw a ship at another port and fired full broadside at it. 8 hits in like 10 seconds and it sunk instantly. They had a ton of loot all floating on the water now. Turns out it was those same guys we sunk and robbed earlier. And we sunk and robbed them again.

All in all we completed 1 voyage on the evening and turned in about 20 items. Thanks guys!

This is what happens when you play Sea of Thieves with your PUBG squad.

Some of the balance decisions are weird. Like if you attack somebody, and you lose your ship, it spawns nearby again.

And some decisions seems kind of weird, like any collision opening random holes in the hull.

But, I don’t care because has a stream viewer, what random occurences that happen just make my time more enjoyable.

Continuing the discussion from Sea of Thieves!:

I understand everyone saying it’s missing a lot of stuff, but to say there’s nothing there is complete bullshit. I played for more than a dozen hours and had a blast both with and without friends. Must be awfully boring being someone who can’t have fun.

I missed the days of being able to turn a game on and have some fun then turn it off without worrying about did I get enough progression done? Fortnite’s been rubbing me the wrong way lately with the weekly challenges in that same vein. Instead of just loggin in and playing to do my best and have fun and try to ‘win’ I just log in and try to do obscure challenges that I don’t actually enjoy doing to get something I can’t get any other way. I just feel like games have been heading the wrong way for years milking human psychology and it’s refreshing to see someone throw that away. I wish land combat wasn’t such crap though.

Joined a crew last night on a galleon. Two guys didn’t talk (or only used text). The third guy kind of dominated the convo. We were already in the middle of a quest and he saw a big skull in the sky. He said we should go do that, ‘make $10k, easy’.

We sailed over there and there was already another galleon and sloop circling the island trading shots at once another/the skeletons. We ended up in a prolonged war with them. We’d sink one or the other of the ships, and try to sink the other, but by the time we did, the first would have respawned and have come back. Then we’d be out of ammo, and go to the island, but there was one of the other crews left there, an annoying guy who was ‘good’ (meaning he bunny-hopped constantly) who kited hordes of skeletons while firing at us and making racial slurs.

I tried to say that we should just go back to the original plan, but dude wouldn’t have it. After dying a few times, the second time we lost our boat I logged off. @kono1134 had messaged me just a few minutes before, but he was already in a game, so I quit for the evening. If I’m playing, I don’t generally have time to respond. Probably just easiest to send me a party invite.

big advantage of using game chat is that you can hear people coming and often what they are trying to do. Used that in the beta to my advantage many times.

That’s one of the things that’s pretty much guaranteed to change as part of the upcoming
respawn system changes. Too frustrating and easily abused.

Yeah the guys we beat were back within minutes, we barely had time to grab anything after sinking them before their ship was back.

Here’s a clip of our griefing, you can’t hear my party because I started the stream in the middle of the battle and they didn’t opt into chat yet. I’m watching it again and cracking up. Maybe this is a good game.

I’m getting a lot of good bits and pieces on this game here but I can’t quite tell what the consensus is.

Assuming server issues are ironed out, is this game fun?