I’ve barely been able to get to sell loot as a solo without getting attacked. People waiting off in the distance for you to complete world events and then swoop in when you’re low on supplies and picking up loot.
@@JonBardcore oh my god I know right? The days of going around barrel to barrel filling everything you can and making 10 round trips filling your ships supplies was a nightmare. And now the ability to take stuff out of a barrel straight into the storage crate is absolutely amazing. I remember taking like 15 minutes just supplying from the outpost after spawning in before you could buy one. Modern sea of thieves has so many good qol features.
Nice! I logged in and tried the fleet, then ended up making a friend. We both ended up befriending the entire server for an organic server alliance, did 6 fotd, a couple for, 3 ashens and ended the night with glitterbeard before we all took screenshots and added each other on steam
Yo i managed to hit lvl 5 emissary solo thanks to this update! Previously i just never even bothered to do emissaries at all. Also CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW NICE HARPOONS ARE NOW?! HOLY SHIT ITS SO CONVENIENT
As a SOT speedrunner I could run through a FOF as a duo in 10-15mins. Now with this update every Fort takes about 10mins or less solo. its nuts. its crazy!
great video!! love the storytelling vibe and it was really refreshing to see someone NOT cannonball every pirate they see. I like SoT best when there are those random team up's.
Same. I honestly wish I could find more cooperative players for alliances as the only thing I really care about is Commendations and achievements. I'm honestly happy to share the rest of my loot with whoever wants it as long as I'm nabbing the stuff I need. Right now I'm about to wrap up my Shipwrecked chests and about halfway done with the Breath of the Sea that I need to complete the Sunken Kingdoms page.
something about this season just hits right like i was a reaper today and we got a ton of action and also a fight with a player brig a skelly galion, sloop and meg lmao
As a new player that started late last season, the harpoon change is waaay better even for co-op play. I also met my first person today who didn't kill me right away, instead we added each other and he joined my session. Once I understand how to make gold better this game is gonna be bomb af, already addicting and a nice change of pace from Halo Infinite.
I love watching your videos man. I thought for so long Sea of Thieves content on UA-cam was only going to be the same PVP & steal clips, but these are so legitimately fun.
Aw, thanks Idiot! (And I mean that nicely!) There's nothing wrong with either of those things and admittedly I've done my fair share of both but I do believe it's important to highlight some of the more friendly and surprising encounters you can have on the seas. :D
@@JonBardcore Nah I LOVE the crazy high skill PVPers as well. I just don't think enough outsider viewers have seen the more amusing, odd, or silly ways things can go on the Seas. So I really love your videos for shining a light on some of the alternative play styles that are still fun.
Season 9 basically is you loading into a server just to find it full with all ships fighting eachother over a world event no matter what it is. It's almost unplayable with how packed the servers are, you'd think a QUALITY OF LIFE UPDATE wouldn't bring in a flood of people if so, the most amount of concurrent players I've seen in the games 5 years. Nothing changed..... and yet everyone is flooding into the servers it's mind baffling and frustrating knowing you literally can't get a single thing done.. no matter what you do.
But if everyone is going after the world events, isn't this the best time to work on things like commendations and the like, especially if you're not as fond of PvP?
@Jon Bardcore I hear you and agree but even then there's so many people on a server that they will hunt you down just because. I'm not afraid of pvp by all means, I just think it's annoying to get nothing done bc everyone just chases you and wants to fight despite there being an hourglass game mode specifically for that. I'm more curious as to why so many people are flooding the servers when nothing was added, just tweaks and it isn't game breaking tweaks. Definitely good tweaks but not to this extent. I've had many others who said the same thing and a lot of streamers even say it's a lot more hectic which is good content wise, but not if you want to just chill out. This game can't be pvp all the time just like they say it can't be just pve all the time.
@@schwartzybuisness I agree, balance is key! As far as why so many people are playing the game again, it usually pops like this at the start of a season. We'll see in a month or so what the trend is.
The harpoon feature is nice but I've played since gunpowder skeletons so everytime I harpoon loot I forget I don't need to get off and I panic when I don't see the loot on the harpoon. Then I look down and go "oh yea, I forgot"
The harpoon didn't change anything for me and my friend, because one use the harpoon and the other picks the tresure to place everything in either a safe spot and some other stuff
That should not be possible since the launch of Season 9. All loot drops on deck. The only time it doesn't is when it's meant to be collected like barrels and ammo pouches.
I think some of the voyages should be balanced to the crew doing it a bit so the ghost fleet oos voyage should be slightly balanced will lower fire rates and less ships and same for legend of the veil with less ships and lower fire rates at the end part just to make those 2 possible for solo players to complete more easily
maaaan 3:45 how the hell did they not betray you, i have a white sails sloop called fishing vessel one and my character is an old lady and 100% of times I get killed there xD
This game really does need an anticheat. Started playing again after about 2 years and the amount of people who mysteriously are able to track you across the entire map without having a reaper emissary is baffling. At least now i can get my loot back on my ship a lot quicker when i see someone coming up on me at an outpost
@@JonBardcore I don’t think that they did anything, yesterday I had two servers in a row where people just had divine knowledge of what was going to happen before it happened. Maybe they’re banning the blatant cheaters with the ability to flip boats and fly around. But I’m not just talking about the kind of cheaters that mixelplx had a video on a month or so ago, but people who have only esp is incredibly high I feel.
Ghost fleet balance: this event is the same encounter for everyone. It was mentioned officially, i feel like, but i cant find or prove my source, sorry about that. Ashen winds is definetly as fast as a treasury now, probably faster. The new scaling works with 'players at/on island' multipliers. But with no island... (this is where i start talking out my ass) the entity of 'sea' always sees all the players, im willing to bet. [Edit;typos]
@@JonBardcore thats also probably the same it was. Solo sloop is supposed to struggle against a galleon chucking curses at you, so its genuinely hard to gauge this. If youve got a single skelly galley, do what you can to get cannonballs at lower deck. Try and shoot a blunder every third to keep them off repairs. Regardless, the power play is this. Harpoon the galley. Bail your water onto them. Try and keep fire on their cannon line. Fire is just a bother in pvp; skellys genuinely fear it (Skelly)Sloops give me next to no naval difficulty. If you struggle, anyone, go to order of souls and do ghost fleets. (Note; this is seperate than the one that looks like skinny veil. I said ghost fleet to refer to both the event and the OoS voyage; sorry to confuse) Captains can buy the level 25 voyage in bulk. Youll be shocked how confident and competent you become. Further, i think, meg/kraken scale to your ship as before. I think it was ten balls for sloop, 20 if brig, 30 for galley. I can solo brig but used to mean i had a tougher fight against megs. ... dont qoute me on all this. The only thing i was SURE about is new scaling at ashen winds/forts [Edit; huge thumbs, again]
Man, The first 50 levels I did in like a couple hours, but now I’ve done so many events and fortresses as well as a fleet and merchant alliance mission and I only advanced 10 levels. Feels like a slog in the 2nd half
How do you get everything off ship on the dock so neat and quickly? Also can other people steal your loot off the dock/ship? Im new to the game and just solod an ashen lord event, didn’t know you could harpoon loot so I spent like 20 mins loading and unloading treasure chests for the loose stuff, and dealing with the exploding fire chest. That was fun. What stressed me out was when I was turning in loot someone else was dancing on my ship! I don’t know if they took anything.
Once you have a captained ship, you'll be able to sell direct to the Sovereigns and use their harpoons to bring the loot off the ship and onto the dock. And yes, your loot can absolutely be stolen off of your ship or even at dock. Just remember: It's not your loot until it's sold. :D Welcome to the Sea of Thieves! I hope you have a great time with the game and thank you for watching!
@@JonBardcore ah nice thank you, I think people are giving me an easy time because I have zero skins, even lvl 5 reaper emissary just kinda looked at me and left
Ikr? Me, my brother, and my cousin have been briging together and every session has been intense and adventurous! Even the ones that started with just fishing eventually developed into a 3v2 alliance battle for an ashen lord (my cousin is going for the captain Grimm commendation)
@@JonBardcore im still used to getting off the harpoon, so I get off and wonder “wait where did it go” and then I remember.. it’s season 9 I don’t have to do that anymore 😅
This season is awesome, I did 2 Fotds solo in 23 mins and me and my friend did 3 fotds in less than an hour. I did and ashen winds a fof in a total of 25 mins the fof was already on boss wave because of another player was doing it and I stole it then while getting the loot a duo sunk me but I stole chest of fortune and the chest of legends
@@JonBardcore yeah the new changes made me start doing over more than I do pvp now I only pvped once season 8 dropped now I am going back to do doing both but more heavily on pve
I needed this vid for some perspective. I was feeling pretty sour about season 9 with the lackluster rewards and the removal of the red sea escape option...but I suppose some of the changes are pretty good after all. Thanks mang!
I spent 11 hours on yesterday completed for regular fleets 3-ghost fleets to Ashen winds and 3 fort of the dam's not a single Fort of Fortune the entire time
@@JonBardcore the skull of destiny is a great utility. Not only can it give you all of the lights to start the fort. But if you're holding it and you change it to the correct color you can use it as a lantern The flash the shadows sKelly's
Its easy to get level 100 i mean you get one of the quest season milestone things done by just breathing plus each breath is 1 point also for each step you take
@@JonBardcore since I dont have much free time in my weekdays I raid a couple of ghost forts and call it a day. I never worry about hyper focused farm.
I must be playing something else. I see 1 ghost ship/hr, always get attacked even when I'm looting isnalds let alone at a world event. Ive played for 3 days and I'm only renown 41.
The game really doesn't need anything like a Pirates Life again, what we need is more standard voyages. How is NOONE talking about this? Rare makes tons of adventures recently but releases next to no voyages. The only ACTUAL voyage we got in years is the Legend of the Veil. How is noone acknowledging how CRIMINAL it is that in a 5 year old game, the trading companies only have 2 voyage types, one of which is clearly superior, thus they effectively only have a single voyage type. For player retention and just a non stale game experience, the game NEEDS more voyages for every company. Rare needs to work on adding AT LEAST 3 voyages on about the level of the gold hoarder vaults, nothing crazy like Legend of the Veil needed, to EVERY COMPANY. So that when you log on you don't have all of them for choice and it's a surprise every time which ones the companies offer you today. And they need to be balanced to be about equally efficient. Maybe make the longer ones a liiittle more gold efficient since you need to invest more time into them. But the way it currently stands, there is no voyage variety whatsoever. NONE. Anyways, great video mate, happy you're having fun. Sadly for me, the QoL updates aren't enough when I've already done all the content over and over and over again and Rare refuses to add anything new outside of the adventures WHICH THEY DELETE 2 WEEKS AFTER. Seriously, focusing THIS MUCH on time limited content, which they obviously put A LOT of work into, just feels like throwing away content instead of adding permanent content into the game. Rare confuses me. For every adventure they made, they could've made 1-2 new PERMANENT voyage types q.q
Do you have any Voyage ideas you want to share? For me, I think the company that needs the most TLC in that regard is the OOS. Especially now that Ghost Fleet is back as a world event
@@JonBardcore First off, the Order of Souls should have gotten the Soulflame Skull voyage, not Athenas, it's a literal Skull with Flames of Fate which you get from the ferry of the damned in it. Would've been a perfect fit for OOS even if it's just a tiny voyage. Now some random ideas: For OOS maybe do smth that combines the treasuries and vaults. Basically we locate skeleton crypts in a little goose hunt, then when we uncover and open them, it's a big battle in there against all the skeletons who we've disturbed in their graves. Just like vaults these can be put in the geometry of many islands. For GH I'd want a more creative way to look for treasure other than "x marks the spot". Maybe you find sunken treasure. Or maybe with the lore developments atm we can have ghost related stuff. Like the voyage could be that the veil between the realms is tearing slightly in certain places and the gold hoarders want us to profit from it. So we end collecting clues and going to some island where there would be ghosts coming out of the sea of the damned and we would kill them and steal their riches, the ghost type treasure chests specifically. For MA we could actually do the lost shipment run, but we are the shipment. So we have to get a big pile of cargo to a certain outpost but you need to take certain checkpoints on the route. Talk to an NPC on an island that gives you another item to sell along the way. Maybe force Kraken/Meg/Skelly attacks on the seas to stop you. Or maybe a Reaper NPC ship to attack you and try to steal your cargo. And the goal is to get to the outpost safely and deliver your cargo. For RB, and yes I would want a proper RB voyage, I would say the coolest option would, again, be related to lost shipments. What if you get a voyage where you need to intercept a shipment? Like the game spawns an NPC merchant ship which functions exactly like a Skelly Galleon but with human NPCs on it and a proper clean ship. You have to find them, possibly sink their hired ships to protect them and then attack and rob them. Maybe you can even find the key on their ship and throw the loot overboard without having to sink them. But a RB voyage that makes you go and steal loot from humans would be dope. This game is about piracy, and literally ZERO VOYAGES have you commit piracy. These are just a few ideas that came to mind when reading your question. I am sure the actual game devs at Rare could do much better and much more. It just seems they don't have their priorities straight and expect a game to grow without even having much content after 5 years of development. Sure, the verans may stay, but easily 95% of the potential playerbase will quickly get bored and not want to do the same old mission for the 200th time. So I think Rare is really losing so many casual players with that. And steam charts support this by saying SoT always gets an influx of new players with big updates, especially a Pirates Life and then quickly loses most of them. SoT has very bad player retention. And I think there are 2 big reasons for it 1: Voyage variety, so even if people like it, a casual player won't stick around if he completed every voyage the game has multiple times already. 2: PvP. I do NOT want Rare to change this. But their marketing makes many people think this game isn't as constantly dangerous as it is. And as such most people in this game just give up on the game completely after losing their loot to another player crew a couple times. Rare needs to make the PvP aspect much more clear in their marketing. But the way this game handles PvP shouldn't change. It's good. Aaaaaanyways, very long comment, hope you at least find my ideas interesting. Have a good day mate.
Wow, some great suggestions Ardyn! Especially the RB voyage suggestion. I really hope that we do get proper NPC crews like the Grand Maritime Union, into the game eventually. Meant to respond a little earlier but tied down with editing. :D
@@JonBardcore No issues, I never expect answers from people that I don't have to do with irl anyways, especially not fast ones :'D Those suggestions were really just off the top of my head, I usually don't make up actual voyages when thinking about my complaints, as I don't work at Rare so my suggestions won't change anything anyways, so I don't waste the time. My point is, I just thought them up in 2 minutes so Rare, with their professional team, can likely do MUCH btter, their priorities are just all messed up. I will never top being confused about how much time and effort they put into adventures, just to delete them 2 weeks later.
How do you play on invite only? More seriously a day like that without pvp with a chest of fortune and an athena emissary alliance is never freaking possible for me nor imaginable. But you forget to talk about one thing they shouldn't have done and it's the freaking fog. I was doing a treasury today and give up on getting my loot because I couldn't see it after 15 min sailing around the spot where I made the loot spawn... It's just too much when you can't even see the water
Meanwhile, My Season 9 Experience 4 Minute long black screen followed by a Gallion sinking my solo sloop whole a player calls me Racial slurs and tells me to *Walk the plank* So to speak. Why can't I get a Nice server for once
@@JonBardcore stories like that? It's 90 percent of the game. When will streamers finally focus on the deep issues surrounding this game. You guys are the only people that Rare listens to, stop abusing it.
@@MXedits_1 I've been creating content for SoT for less than three full months, my dude. I wish Rare knew who I was. Not saying you're wrong in that these sorts of circumstances are a terrible thing. What would you like Rare to do to resolve them?
@@JonBardcore a place to interact with other community members. Crew finding options. Content drop notifications. Channels for your fans to post their own content and shenanigans. It will grow and mold itself from there as the community joins.
I wish I encountered nice players that actually wanna team up. In the 2 day's I've been play I've only ran into people who grief me then calll me slurs and tell me to kms.
@@JonBardcore I'm on PC for some reason it doesn't give me the option to look at recent players. I have my steam connected to my XBL account/Microsoft account.
No it didn't. There are some good QOL changes, yes, but it didn't make soloing easy at all. You still get hit by multiple enemy world events at the same time, you still end up with 5/6 players at the same place (not world events), skellies are now more lethal and smarter, the bugs are now weirder, etc
I haven't seen multiple world events yet, unless you're talking about things like megs & skelly ships which you could arguably sail away from. There will always been other players on the seas but how you deal with them can vary. I don't recall anything in patch notes on skellies being buffed, in fact skellies during certain events like FotD have been nerfed. The bugs.... I'll give that one to you. 🤣
@@JonBardcore yeah by world events I meant skellies and krakens. And about skellies, I used to underestimate them until I got sunk by one in under 5 mins. One weird bug was when our fully loaded and fully repaired brig suddenly decided to flip and sink (it was stationary)
Reached 100 in 5 hours, without leaving Devils Ridge Fished and fought Skeletons, Captains, Crawlers, Phantoms all 5 hours, once finished fishing by the time I turned in. 15million gold and 100 renown. What sorta BS is this? What am I gonna do for 3 months now...
I think it's great that players don't have to *worry* so much about completing the pass which means they can actively think more about getting the paid Plunderpass version
@@JonBardcore I prefer season passes to last the entire season or half myself but one thing i do love about sea of thieves pass is that most of the items are completely free including the pirate legend stuff
@@JonBardcore i just came back to SoT a couple days ago after a year of not touching it , i've done nothing but a few hours as a passive fisherman and my plunderpass is already at lvl 40 so even when not doing anything its super fast to complete
They should just add a pve mode for those like me who don't give a F to pvp and only loot and forts, it's annoying being doing fine on things and some idiot comes and all the hard work goes to crap.
They definitely shouldn't do that. Even if they did add it, it would be heavily criticzed and they would have to do reduced payouts, and certain restrictions because low risk means low reward. Also, it won't stop players from attempting to be toxic. You're just gonna have to suck it up and realize you're playing Sea of THIEVES; a PIRATE game.
I don't think a pure PVE mode will ever happen but have you ever tried to engage in diplomacy with your fellow pirates? Maybe get an organic alliance going? That could help out your cause a bit
I just made a video last week on this topic and while I don't disagree that the purpose of the sandbox game is to create your own adventure, it doesn't necessarily mean the default answer *has* to be thievery, deceit and PvP. Friendship and camaraderie can be found on the seas too!
@@JonBardcore It is really short, like 10 minutes and you didn't even get a Reaper 5 flag. I like that the ships aren't shooting so much, but it's just boring doing it, I hope they do it a bit harder, but I think all other Season 9 changes are good for that
@@JonBardcore XD I got one Went about doing a OoS run with one friend on my galleon. We got it done in an hour, but rest of our usual crew just never showed up, so he left. I sold off everything, but there was one thing left An Athenas Fortune lvl 5 Emi. flag. Never turned one in at reapers before, so I decided to go for broke and head to the hideout. But rares ever omnicient servers sent karma my way: an actual aggresive meg, and it spawned in-line directly behind me, and its fin made my ship not only jump, it capsized perfectly while I was still on the wheel. Panicing, I let go and the ship kept sailing as the tide swept me. THEN the meg attacked. Ship sank in a minute, and I was still a ways away without even a rowy. Rare giveth and rare taketh away XD
God Xbox sea of thieves is way more toxic lol me and a buddy just ran from a level 5 reaper gally on our sloop for a solid hour only to get a miracle and pull away and launch the rowboat full of loot lol then it took another 30 minutes to get back to an outpost from the edge of the map
Your constant paranoia goes to show exactly why I never play this solo, haha. I buddy bought me SoT to play with him, and I'll never play if he's not on. Too many bad encounters with other players in this game, and too many bad experiences in games like RDR2 where I tried to play solo only to get ganked while trying to live my best PvE life, haha.
I'd argue that Reaper is probably the most inefficient way to level renown these days considering that you're relying on other crews to have enough loot and that you'll be able to defend it yourself
Sorry you feel that way! Edit: I'm going to try this again and interpret this as constructive criticism. There is a lot more that was discussed than just "random encounters" We talked about the auto-harpoon, the world event scaling & yes, the random encounters happening more frequently and scaled toward player count. All of which make the game easier to play solo compared to previous seasons. But I will take your feedback and apply it to future videos as an opportunity to better state my position and points. Thank you and though it sounds like you've blocked my content I hope you find content on Sea of Thieves you do enjoy watching. Thanks!
Oh, it's never going to be preferred, absolutely. But in terms of the game mechanics, at least at the time of this video, things were on the up and up for solos.
"some players don't like the change, because it decrease teamwork", omg f@ck those players, really :D Hope RARE will never listen people like them. There is a big difference between quality of life/enjoyment and unnecessary complications :D
If you're just going to spend time fishing, I recommend a rowboat or fishing off a seapost or seafort! Get a storage crate with you to keep the fish and use the seafort to cook it all.
![Sea of Thieves: Solo Sloop [Strange Guide]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bFHos3m3Fpw/mqdefault.jpg)
I'm convinced you're playing a different version of this game called sea of friends lmao
Duuuude, I just leveled up Speech to 100, what are you talking about? 😂
Ikr? Even a solo slooper doing a tall tale with no emissary is a target these days.
I haven't really enountered an issue with that since Hourglass was launched but then again, I don't regularly do the Tall Tales these days.
I’ve barely been able to get to sell loot as a solo without getting attacked. People waiting off in the distance for you to complete world events and then swoop in when you’re low on supplies and picking up loot.
Hopefully the auto harpoon makes that much easier for you as a solo to get outta there faster. I definitely felt a difference for me!
Man, the harpoon change is the best thing ever. I'm playing solo like 80% of my time on SoT and this is just awesome
I play more with a group more often than solo and I love the harpoon change
The harpoon change will be like the storage crate. We'll never think about what life was like before it again
Fun for all types of crews!
@@JonBardcore oh my god I know right? The days of going around barrel to barrel filling everything you can and making 10 round trips filling your ships supplies was a nightmare. And now the ability to take stuff out of a barrel straight into the storage crate is absolutely amazing. I remember taking like 15 minutes just supplying from the outpost after spawning in before you could buy one. Modern sea of thieves has so many good qol features.
You managed to make an 8 minute video feel like 17, I give you props, good content
I appreciate that! Just trying to provide an entertaining experience and learning each time I do!
@Jon Bardcore I agree with 17 Leven's statement. Also does entertaining mean eating 5000 BANANAS AS WELL? (Yes I WILL keep reminding you.)
That is the oddly specific but correct thing I have ever heard.
I try to be that friendly pirate people encounter in this game, even if I rarely encounter one myself. Glad to see more people aren't being so awful.
Spreading friendship across the seas is the new Meta in 2023!
@@JonBardcore The Sea of Wholesome!
Nice! I logged in and tried the fleet, then ended up making a friend. We both ended up befriending the entire server for an organic server alliance, did 6 fotd, a couple for, 3 ashens and ended the night with glitterbeard before we all took screenshots and added each other on steam
That is an AWESOME tale!
That is so cool!!!
Yo i managed to hit lvl 5 emissary solo thanks to this update! Previously i just never even bothered to do emissaries at all. Also CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW NICE HARPOONS ARE NOW?! HOLY SHIT ITS SO CONVENIENT
YES WE CAN ABSOLUTELY TALK ABOUT HOW GOOD HARPOONS ARE. BECAUSE THEY ARE!
Emissaries are easy an have been a long time beside merchent
Even if you are solo there’s not much reason to not have an emmisary
As a SOT speedrunner I could run through a FOF as a duo in 10-15mins.
Now with this update every Fort takes about 10mins or less solo. its nuts. its crazy!
Definitely feels much faster this season to get through these events. Longest part now is moving the loot 🤣
great video!! love the storytelling vibe and it was really refreshing to see someone NOT cannonball every pirate they see. I like SoT best when there are those random team up's.
Important to make sure that we have some positivity on the seas at some point lol!
I’m glad that theirs people who are honest in voice coms. I myself don’t need anything but renown so I would’ve been like the alliance member.
Very nice, kudos to you then. There are definitely more players on the seas like that then are usually shown on YT!
Same. I honestly wish I could find more cooperative players for alliances as the only thing I really care about is Commendations and achievements. I'm honestly happy to share the rest of my loot with whoever wants it as long as I'm nabbing the stuff I need. Right now I'm about to wrap up my Shipwrecked chests and about halfway done with the Breath of the Sea that I need to complete the Sunken Kingdoms page.
The Breaths of the Sea commendation is such a pain. ; _ ; Treasuries aren't bad to do but some of those shrines are :( solo.
As a new sea of thieves solo player this was very informative 👍
Glad you enjoyed!
Whats the name of the soundtrack at 7:18 I've been looking for it for a while
It's part of the Maiden Voyage song from the Sea of Thieves soundtrack!
@@JonBardcore ah so it is, thank you very much, also great video
Thank you!
something about this season just hits right like i was a reaper today and we got a ton of action and also a fight with a player brig a skelly galion, sloop and meg lmao
Seas have definitely felt more alive this season so far!
As a new player that started late last season, the harpoon change is waaay better even for co-op play. I also met my first person today who didn't kill me right away, instead we added each other and he joined my session. Once I understand how to make gold better this game is gonna be bomb af, already addicting and a nice change of pace from Halo Infinite.
I hope you're still playing today!
I love watching your videos man. I thought for so long Sea of Thieves content on UA-cam was only going to be the same PVP & steal clips, but these are so legitimately fun.
Aw, thanks Idiot! (And I mean that nicely!) There's nothing wrong with either of those things and admittedly I've done my fair share of both but I do believe it's important to highlight some of the more friendly and surprising encounters you can have on the seas. :D
@@JonBardcore Nah I LOVE the crazy high skill PVPers as well. I just don't think enough outsider viewers have seen the more amusing, odd, or silly ways things can go on the Seas. So I really love your videos for shining a light on some of the alternative play styles that are still fun.
Appreciate you!
Season 9 basically is you loading into a server just to find it full with all ships fighting eachother over a world event no matter what it is. It's almost unplayable with how packed the servers are, you'd think a QUALITY OF LIFE UPDATE wouldn't bring in a flood of people if so, the most amount of concurrent players I've seen in the games 5 years. Nothing changed..... and yet everyone is flooding into the servers it's mind baffling and frustrating knowing you literally can't get a single thing done.. no matter what you do.
But if everyone is going after the world events, isn't this the best time to work on things like commendations and the like, especially if you're not as fond of PvP?
@Jon Bardcore I hear you and agree but even then there's so many people on a server that they will hunt you down just because. I'm not afraid of pvp by all means, I just think it's annoying to get nothing done bc everyone just chases you and wants to fight despite there being an hourglass game mode specifically for that. I'm more curious as to why so many people are flooding the servers when nothing was added, just tweaks and it isn't game breaking tweaks. Definitely good tweaks but not to this extent. I've had many others who said the same thing and a lot of streamers even say it's a lot more hectic which is good content wise, but not if you want to just chill out. This game can't be pvp all the time just like they say it can't be just pve all the time.
@@schwartzybuisness I agree, balance is key! As far as why so many people are playing the game again, it usually pops like this at the start of a season. We'll see in a month or so what the trend is.
@@JonBardcore yes I agree it will probably eventually die down as the weeks go on!
The harpoon feature is nice but I've played since gunpowder skeletons so everytime I harpoon loot I forget I don't need to get off and I panic when I don't see the loot on the harpoon. Then I look down and go "oh yea, I forgot"
Hahaha, yeah that happened once or twice for me so far too!
Sovereign it literally puts on the lift, like a little chefs kiss
They should add a bonus gold feature were after level 100 every level you get adds 500 gold to it and at the end of the season you get all the gol
Gold not gol
Either gold or doubloons and maybe every ten levels a stash of Ancient Coin for good measure.
The harpoon didn't change anything for me and my friend, because one use the harpoon and the other picks the tresure to place everything in either a safe spot and some other stuff
That should not be possible since the launch of Season 9. All loot drops on deck. The only time it doesn't is when it's meant to be collected like barrels and ammo pouches.
I was happy to see this notification pop up. Another amazing video dude
Glad you enjoyed it! Always love sharing tales on the sea. 😁
Nice! I'm only at 80 renown, but I haven't even tried many of the new things. I also love the new Harpoon and a lot of the changes in Season 9
I think this update has been severely underrated so far. Hope there's a mid-season update too for other items.
I think some of the voyages should be balanced to the crew doing it a bit so the ghost fleet oos voyage should be slightly balanced will lower fire rates and less ships and same for legend of the veil with less ships and lower fire rates at the end part just to make those 2 possible for solo players to complete more easily
Agree, Ghost Fleet is still a slog
I cannot begin to even understand this man's drive, but I respect it
My drive is to make content that people want to watch! 😀
Great vid!
Thanks Zera! Grateful that you enjoyed it. :D
harpoon was the only thing I´ve ever wanted to change, and it changed. I was so happy when I first saw the speed of it.
It feels SO GOOD nowadays
maaaan 3:45 how the hell did they not betray you, i have a white sails sloop called fishing vessel one and my character is an old lady and 100% of times I get killed there xD
Hahaha, the power of Bardcore!
This game really does need an anticheat. Started playing again after about 2 years and the amount of people who mysteriously are able to track you across the entire map without having a reaper emissary is baffling. At least now i can get my loot back on my ship a lot quicker when i see someone coming up on me at an outpost
I'm curious if they did anything with anti-cheat quietly since the launch of Season 9. Haven't read as many reports regarding cheating since.
@@JonBardcore I don’t think that they did anything, yesterday I had two servers in a row where people just had divine knowledge of what was going to happen before it happened. Maybe they’re banning the blatant cheaters with the ability to flip boats and fly around. But I’m not just talking about the kind of cheaters that mixelplx had a video on a month or so ago, but people who have only esp is incredibly high I feel.
That'd be a real shame if that was the case. :(
Ghost fleet balance: this event is the same encounter for everyone. It was mentioned officially, i feel like, but i cant find or prove my source, sorry about that.
Ashen winds is definetly as fast as a treasury now, probably faster. The new scaling works with 'players at/on island' multipliers. But with no island... (this is where i start talking out my ass) the entity of 'sea' always sees all the players, im willing to bet.
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Interesting, good to know. Wonder what that means for skelly fleet
@@JonBardcore thats also probably the same it was. Solo sloop is supposed to struggle against a galleon chucking curses at you, so its genuinely hard to gauge this. If youve got a single skelly galley, do what you can to get cannonballs at lower deck. Try and shoot a blunder every third to keep them off repairs.
Regardless, the power play is this. Harpoon the galley. Bail your water onto them. Try and keep fire on their cannon line. Fire is just a bother in pvp; skellys genuinely fear it
(Skelly)Sloops give me next to no naval difficulty. If you struggle, anyone, go to order of souls and do ghost fleets. (Note; this is seperate than the one that looks like skinny veil. I said ghost fleet to refer to both the event and the OoS voyage; sorry to confuse) Captains can buy the level 25 voyage in bulk. Youll be shocked how confident and competent you become.
Further, i think, meg/kraken scale to your ship as before. I think it was ten balls for sloop, 20 if brig, 30 for galley. I can solo brig but used to mean i had a tougher fight against megs. ... dont qoute me on all this. The only thing i was SURE about is new scaling at ashen winds/forts
[Edit; huge thumbs, again]
Man, The first 50 levels I did in like a couple hours, but now I’ve done so many events and fortresses as well as a fleet and merchant alliance mission and I only advanced 10 levels. Feels like a slog in the 2nd half
Really? Interesting. I wonder if Rare scaled down the renown post-launch.
@@JonBardcore I think they have its not as easier to advance levels I use to do sea forts and gain 10 renown levels each fort but now I only earn 2-4
Woah another banger by the one and only bardcore, im sad to see that my notifications are hours late
Thanks Piugn! Don't know what's up with the notifications but glad you managed to find the video!
How do you get everything off ship on the dock so neat and quickly?
Also can other people steal your loot off the dock/ship? Im new to the game and just solod an ashen lord event, didn’t know you could harpoon loot so I spent like 20 mins loading and unloading treasure chests for the loose stuff, and dealing with the exploding fire chest. That was fun. What stressed me out was when I was turning in loot someone else was dancing on my ship! I don’t know if they took anything.
Once you have a captained ship, you'll be able to sell direct to the Sovereigns and use their harpoons to bring the loot off the ship and onto the dock. And yes, your loot can absolutely be stolen off of your ship or even at dock. Just remember: It's not your loot until it's sold. :D
Welcome to the Sea of Thieves! I hope you have a great time with the game and thank you for watching!
@@JonBardcore ah nice thank you, I think people are giving me an easy time because I have zero skins, even lvl 5 reaper emissary just kinda looked at me and left
Just letting you get your sea legs!
Question: why do y not use any skins for your items?
I'm planning on having the viewers choose them with me during a subscriber special!
Wait, you can sell the tridents?
Yep! Starting in Season 9 tridents can be sold!
Love the vids keep it up p
Thank you, will do!
Since when have you been able to sell the tridents
Starting in Season 9! 250 a pop so not a lot but if you don't want to stack them at an outpost at the end of a session, you can sell them now!
At first i thought this season was going to be boring, but i have been having so much fun!
The pace has definitely sped up the game which is very nice indeed! Glad to hear you're enjoying it. :D
Ikr? Me, my brother, and my cousin have been briging together and every session has been intense and adventurous! Even the ones that started with just fishing eventually developed into a 3v2 alliance battle for an ashen lord (my cousin is going for the captain Grimm commendation)
@@darknightmc5637 Nice work! Those Commendations should be a lot easier to grab
I agree, but 16 weeks until the next season is still going to suck.
@@HonestGhost21 Yeah you're probably right
At first this season looked a bit dull to me, but so far I’ve been having an absolute blast.
It's a lot of small improvements that make the game FEEL better, for sure
@@JonBardcore favourite change for sure is the harpoon changes hehe.
@@Spooksterss Man, when I used the harpoon to grab the Ghost Fleet treasure for the first time... *chef's kiss*
@@JonBardcore im still used to getting off the harpoon, so I get off and wonder “wait where did it go” and then I remember.. it’s season 9 I don’t have to do that anymore 😅
@@Spooksterss it’s satisfying to spam the harpoon grabbing loot, at least for me
Since when can you sell the trident!? Is it only sellable to the Sovereigns?
Since the start of Season 9! And to Sovereigns and OoS I believe.
@@JonBardcore I had no idea. I just sold a few to Flameheart Jr. Good to know they can finally be sold, I won't avoid picking them up anymore.
@@josephbanet5410 Don't avoid them! They're great on PVE enemies!
My season level won’t show up it just shows a error is there a way to fix that?
Usually that's just an issue with Rare's side. Your progress should still be tracking.
@@JonBardcore thank you I appreciate it
this has genuinely been my favorite update
It's definitely something that I think many people underestimated
This season is awesome, I did 2 Fotds solo in 23 mins and me and my friend did 3 fotds in less than an hour. I did and ashen winds a fof in a total of 25 mins the fof was already on boss wave because of another player was doing it and I stole it then while getting the loot a duo sunk me but I stole chest of fortune and the chest of legends
World Events are so much snappier now with these changes.
@@JonBardcore yeah the new changes made me start doing over more than I do pvp now I only pvped once season 8 dropped now I am going back to do doing both but more heavily on pve
you are underrated as hell
Awwwwwww, thanks a lot!
I needed this vid for some perspective. I was feeling pretty sour about season 9 with the lackluster rewards and the removal of the red sea escape option...but I suppose some of the changes are pretty good after all. Thanks mang!
Of course, Cappy! Just trying to bring some cheer. :D
This is a good new season, it would have been funnier if he said "so long and thanks for all the fish" at the end
Copyright strike, lol
@@JonBardcore Damn, they copyrighted that? Yikes, that's a bit much
Did you just sell a Disney stick? You can sell those now? I was told you can't sell them.
Starting in Season 9 you can!
I spent 11 hours on yesterday completed for regular fleets 3-ghost fleets to Ashen winds and 3 fort of the dam's not a single Fort of Fortune the entire time
Oh man, that's rough. But hey, three FotDs aren't bad!
@@JonBardcore the skull of destiny is a great utility.
Not only can it give you all of the lights to start the fort.
But if you're holding it and you change it to the correct color you can use it as a lantern The flash the shadows sKelly's
@@magicpyroninja I saw Phuzzybond do this on stream and was like :O
Hey Google Adsense, give this man money. He deserves it.
Hahahah, let the algorithm hear your message!
Its easy to get level 100 i mean you get one of the quest season milestone things done by just breathing plus each breath is 1 point also for each step you take
Hahahah, not quite that easy but close!
So turns out the ghost fleet does not correspond to the crew number
At all, really? Interesting... sounds like once again we're going to be seeing a lot of ghost fleets left up.
I've managed to beat a fort in 2 minutes because of these new upgrades.
WOooo.
It's taking me longer to move the loot as a solo than it is to finish the world events. Maybe now we'll get *running* with loot next?!
I'm a returning player and I'm enjoying the game much more than before.
That's great to hear RO. What do you enjoy the most about the game?
@@JonBardcore since I dont have much free time in my weekdays I raid a couple of ghost forts and call it a day. I never worry about hyper focused farm.
@@ricardoricardoricardoricardo Yeah, for the amount of time spent on them the sea forts pay out well!
I swear they've slowed the weapon swapping, there's been multiple times I've died to not being able to switch fast enough
Double gunner? Do you hot swap with sprint? They might have nerfed that.
You make a 9 hr session look so easy 😂
Hahaah, it was probably because it was at the crack of dawn when the servers first opened that I got to do this pretty much unscathed.
Mr Jon Bardcore why do you choose not to use any cosmetics?🤔
I think it'd be a special thing to have the community pick out my outfits in the future. Just haven't landed on the best way to do that yet!
Finally I could maybe win PVP
Another great video I have not watch the whole thing because it just came out but I can tell it’s going to be great
The best way to win is to not fight! Hug it out, hug it out!
@@JonBardcore Thanks!
Very nice :D
Thanks! Appreciate you watching as always Owman! 😄
Do you have any exploits to getting ancient coins faster for us cheapskates?
Make sure you're playing this Community Weekend, they're turning up Ancient Skelly spawn rates!
That's a crazy run!
It was pretty nuts, yeah! Had to get it in right away before everyone had a chance to wake up. :D
Gotta love the Sea of Friends 💙
Every now and again it happens! Got to clap when it does 👏
Meanwhile me, level 2 OoS being chased down by a reaper alliance because I stopped at an island for 2 seconds: 🗿
Were they already at the island? And were you flying Emissary?
I must be playing something else. I see 1 ghost ship/hr, always get attacked even when I'm looting isnalds let alone at a world event. Ive played for 3 days and I'm only renown 41.
I think time of day matters, day matters and region matters!
man ive stacked 9 fotds so far + other world events but i've only gotten to level 50..
Interesting... Maybe it's because of how easy FotDs were made in Season 9? Also, are you running Emissary?
@@JonBardcore reaper level 5, earned about 2 mil i think
The game really doesn't need anything like a Pirates Life again, what we need is more standard voyages.
How is NOONE talking about this? Rare makes tons of adventures recently but releases next to no voyages. The only ACTUAL voyage we got in years is the Legend of the Veil.
How is noone acknowledging how CRIMINAL it is that in a 5 year old game, the trading companies only have 2 voyage types, one of which is clearly superior, thus they effectively only have a single voyage type. For player retention and just a non stale game experience, the game NEEDS more voyages for every company. Rare needs to work on adding AT LEAST 3 voyages on about the level of the gold hoarder vaults, nothing crazy like Legend of the Veil needed, to EVERY COMPANY. So that when you log on you don't have all of them for choice and it's a surprise every time which ones the companies offer you today. And they need to be balanced to be about equally efficient. Maybe make the longer ones a liiittle more gold efficient since you need to invest more time into them. But the way it currently stands, there is no voyage variety whatsoever. NONE.
Anyways, great video mate, happy you're having fun. Sadly for me, the QoL updates aren't enough when I've already done all the content over and over and over again and Rare refuses to add anything new outside of the adventures WHICH THEY DELETE 2 WEEKS AFTER.
Seriously, focusing THIS MUCH on time limited content, which they obviously put A LOT of work into, just feels like throwing away content instead of adding permanent content into the game.
Rare confuses me. For every adventure they made, they could've made 1-2 new PERMANENT voyage types q.q
Do you have any Voyage ideas you want to share? For me, I think the company that needs the most TLC in that regard is the OOS. Especially now that Ghost Fleet is back as a world event
@@JonBardcore
First off, the Order of Souls should have gotten the Soulflame Skull voyage, not Athenas, it's a literal Skull with Flames of Fate which you get from the ferry of the damned in it. Would've been a perfect fit for OOS even if it's just a tiny voyage.
Now some random ideas:
For OOS maybe do smth that combines the treasuries and vaults. Basically we locate skeleton crypts in a little goose hunt, then when we uncover and open them, it's a big battle in there against all the skeletons who we've disturbed in their graves.
Just like vaults these can be put in the geometry of many islands.
For GH I'd want a more creative way to look for treasure other than "x marks the spot". Maybe you find sunken treasure. Or maybe with the lore developments atm we can have ghost related stuff.
Like the voyage could be that the veil between the realms is tearing slightly in certain places and the gold hoarders want us to profit from it. So we end collecting clues and going to some island where there would be ghosts coming out of the sea of the damned and we would kill them and steal their riches, the ghost type treasure chests specifically.
For MA we could actually do the lost shipment run, but we are the shipment. So we have to get a big pile of cargo to a certain outpost but you need to take certain checkpoints on the route.
Talk to an NPC on an island that gives you another item to sell along the way.
Maybe force Kraken/Meg/Skelly attacks on the seas to stop you.
Or maybe a Reaper NPC ship to attack you and try to steal your cargo.
And the goal is to get to the outpost safely and deliver your cargo.
For RB, and yes I would want a proper RB voyage, I would say the coolest option would, again, be related to lost shipments.
What if you get a voyage where you need to intercept a shipment? Like the game spawns an NPC merchant ship which functions exactly like a Skelly Galleon but with human NPCs on it and a proper clean ship. You have to find them, possibly sink their hired ships to protect them and then attack and rob them.
Maybe you can even find the key on their ship and throw the loot overboard without having to sink them.
But a RB voyage that makes you go and steal loot from humans would be dope.
This game is about piracy, and literally ZERO VOYAGES have you commit piracy.
These are just a few ideas that came to mind when reading your question.
I am sure the actual game devs at Rare could do much better and much more.
It just seems they don't have their priorities straight and expect a game to grow without even having much content after 5 years of development.
Sure, the verans may stay, but easily 95% of the potential playerbase will quickly get bored and not want to do the same old mission for the 200th time.
So I think Rare is really losing so many casual players with that. And steam charts support this by saying SoT always gets an influx of new players with big updates, especially a Pirates Life and then quickly loses most of them.
SoT has very bad player retention.
And I think there are 2 big reasons for it
1: Voyage variety, so even if people like it, a casual player won't stick around if he completed every voyage the game has multiple times already.
2: PvP. I do NOT want Rare to change this. But their marketing makes many people think this game isn't as constantly dangerous as it is. And as such most people in this game just give up on the game completely after losing their loot to another player crew a couple times.
Rare needs to make the PvP aspect much more clear in their marketing. But the way this game handles PvP shouldn't change. It's good.
Aaaaaanyways, very long comment, hope you at least find my ideas interesting.
Have a good day mate.
Wow, some great suggestions Ardyn! Especially the RB voyage suggestion. I really hope that we do get proper NPC crews like the Grand Maritime Union, into the game eventually. Meant to respond a little earlier but tied down with editing. :D
@@JonBardcore
No issues, I never expect answers from people that I don't have to do with irl anyways, especially not fast ones :'D
Those suggestions were really just off the top of my head, I usually don't make up actual voyages when thinking about my complaints, as I don't work at Rare so my suggestions won't change anything anyways, so I don't waste the time.
My point is, I just thought them up in 2 minutes so Rare, with their professional team, can likely do MUCH btter, their priorities are just all messed up.
I will never top being confused about how much time and effort they put into adventures, just to delete them 2 weeks later.
How do you play on invite only? More seriously a day like that without pvp with a chest of fortune and an athena emissary alliance is never freaking possible for me nor imaginable. But you forget to talk about one thing they shouldn't have done and it's the freaking fog. I was doing a treasury today and give up on getting my loot because I couldn't see it after 15 min sailing around the spot where I made the loot spawn... It's just too much when you can't even see the water
The fog can absolutely be rough at times. Definitely have run into an island bank or two since its return!
10 hours? I needed exactly 100 hours to reach Level 100 in the Plunder Pass
I wonder what your record nowadays is!
bro was that a white shark 6:36???
It was one of the Megalodons but not the one we all want.
it's more fun as solo PVE in S9, definitely!
100%. Roll up and less than ten minutes later you're moving loot!
I swear everytime I read your name on YT I always read Joe barcode 💀
Almost but not quite! 🤣
Meanwhile, My Season 9 Experience
4 Minute long black screen followed by a Gallion sinking my solo sloop whole a player calls me Racial slurs and tells me to *Walk the plank* So to speak.
Why can't I get a Nice server for once
Man, the stories like this make me sad. Sorry you're dealing with that. 😔
@@JonBardcore It's tough, But I'm getting though it.
One Tryhard at a time.
@@JonBardcore stories like that? It's 90 percent of the game.
When will streamers finally focus on the deep issues surrounding this game. You guys are the only people that Rare listens to, stop abusing it.
@@MXedits_1 I've been creating content for SoT for less than three full months, my dude. I wish Rare knew who I was. Not saying you're wrong in that these sorts of circumstances are a terrible thing. What would you like Rare to do to resolve them?
Yet another certified banger 🍷🗿
Thanks Ian! This one was a little tough to get edited in time for today but managed to pull through!
@@JonBardcore gj dude, you are growing to be my fav SoT content creator, cap falcore should be jealous 🤣
@@ian.404 Aw man, that means a lot to me Ian. Thank you!
Hello and - woah, wait, did you just sell a Trident !!!!!
Yep, you can sell Tridents in Season 9! 250 a pop.
@@JonBardcore as the king am amazed
Discord when??????
What would you appreciate in a community Discord server?
@@JonBardcore a place to interact with other community members. Crew finding options. Content drop notifications. Channels for your fans to post their own content and shenanigans. It will grow and mold itself from there as the community joins.
@@RkRk-xi7wi Let me think about it some more. I want to do it right!
I wish I encountered nice players that actually wanna team up. In the 2 day's I've been play I've only ran into people who grief me then calll me slurs and tell me to kms.
I'm sorry you've had poor playing experiences. You should absolutely report them if they were harassing you. We don't want them on our seas!
@@JonBardcore I'm on PC for some reason it doesn't give me the option to look at recent players. I have my steam connected to my XBL account/Microsoft account.
No it didn't. There are some good QOL changes, yes, but it didn't make soloing easy at all. You still get hit by multiple enemy world events at the same time, you still end up with 5/6 players at the same place (not world events), skellies are now more lethal and smarter, the bugs are now weirder, etc
I haven't seen multiple world events yet, unless you're talking about things like megs & skelly ships which you could arguably sail away from. There will always been other players on the seas but how you deal with them can vary. I don't recall anything in patch notes on skellies being buffed, in fact skellies during certain events like FotD have been nerfed. The bugs.... I'll give that one to you. 🤣
@@JonBardcore yeah by world events I meant skellies and krakens. And about skellies, I used to underestimate them until I got sunk by one in under 5 mins. One weird bug was when our fully loaded and fully repaired brig suddenly decided to flip and sink (it was stationary)
Not easy for a solo when your trying to go for a Fort of fortune and your server is full of brigs
Set the brigs on each other, then go in for the kill. Or alliance. Either way. :D JK, seriously I know it's a bit rough there.
Reached 100 in 5 hours, without leaving Devils Ridge
Fished and fought Skeletons, Captains, Crawlers, Phantoms all 5 hours, once finished fishing by the time I turned in.
15million gold and 100 renown.
What sorta BS is this? What am I gonna do for 3 months now...
15 million in fishing? What sort of pure gold fish are you finding!? O_O
@@JonBardcore bro is fishing chest of fortune 💀
LOL, sounds like my next video if that's the case
The season pass was easy before but now it’s just too easy
I think it's great that players don't have to *worry* so much about completing the pass which means they can actively think more about getting the paid Plunderpass version
@@JonBardcore I prefer season passes to last the entire season or half myself but one thing i do love about sea of thieves pass is that most of the items are completely free including the pirate legend stuff
Only 4 more barnacle chests to go before I get the commendation, wish me luck
Yesssss, so close Reaper! Good luck! 🤞
The season is super easy to complete. Don't really need to do much.
Season 9 has made it so easy to level up your Plunderpass with all the changes, agreed.
@@JonBardcore i just came back to SoT a couple days ago after a year of not touching it , i've done
nothing but a few hours as a passive fisherman and my plunderpass is already at lvl 40 so even when not doing anything its super fast to complete
Favorite outfit
It is a SPECTACULAR one!
@@JonBardcore I actually look like a captain in it
6:54 propaganda the ghost doesn't exsit!
Man, one day... one day....
You can't hunt what's not real, Jon! 🙃
@@Leecros18 Exactly fight for the truth its all a lie there is no shrouded ghost
I got level 100 on the first day lol, I think it’s way too easy tbh
The changes made to the game have definitely made farming renown a heck of a lot easier.
They should just add a pve mode for those like me who don't give a F to pvp and only loot and forts, it's annoying being doing fine on things and some idiot comes and all the hard work goes to crap.
They definitely shouldn't do that. Even if they did add it, it would be heavily criticzed and they would have to do reduced payouts, and certain restrictions because low risk means low reward. Also, it won't stop players from attempting to be toxic. You're just gonna have to suck it up and realize you're playing Sea of THIEVES; a PIRATE game.
I don't think a pure PVE mode will ever happen but have you ever tried to engage in diplomacy with your fellow pirates? Maybe get an organic alliance going? That could help out your cause a bit
I just made a video last week on this topic and while I don't disagree that the purpose of the sandbox game is to create your own adventure, it doesn't necessarily mean the default answer *has* to be thievery, deceit and PvP. Friendship and camaraderie can be found on the seas too!
@@JonBardcore they don't Even wanted to help with glitter beard event xd so no diplomacy 🥺
@@CommandoJaJas Check out Toxie Sinclair's video on Glitter beard. They came up with an ingenious solution to that specific problem!
It’s been three-ish days calm down
Finished it on the first day, and no I don't wanna. To be fair, no one has to do it like this. I just like the speedrun challenge. 🍌😅
I have done the fof 3 times solo and everytime just got raided by a gally
Ooof, rough times. Was that before or after Season 9 launched?
0 out of 10 you didn’t talk about bait crates
Hahaha, I am a Legendary Hunter of the Sea of Thieves. My fishing days are behind me until they give me a different fish.
But im tired of being alone
You don't have to play solo! There's always open crew and plenty of communities out there on XBOX LFG or Discord to play with.
Very noice
Thanks Cap!
Solo skeli fleet isn't fun anymore, it's to easy
Haven't had the chance to do one yet. What was your experience like?
@@JonBardcore It is really short, like 10 minutes and you didn't even get a Reaper 5 flag. I like that the ships aren't shooting so much, but it's just boring doing it, I hope they do it a bit harder, but I think all other Season 9 changes are good for that
@@roberthubert7838 Appreciate the insights!
solo galleoneers, UNITE
Man, the stories you must have
@@JonBardcore XD I got one
Went about doing a OoS run with one friend on my galleon. We got it done in an hour, but rest of our usual crew just never showed up, so he left. I sold off everything, but there was one thing left
An Athenas Fortune lvl 5 Emi. flag.
Never turned one in at reapers before, so I decided to go for broke and head to the hideout.
But rares ever omnicient servers sent karma my way: an actual aggresive meg, and it spawned in-line directly behind me, and its fin made my ship not only jump, it capsized perfectly while I was still on the wheel. Panicing, I let go and the ship kept sailing as the tide swept me. THEN the meg attacked. Ship sank in a minute, and I was still a ways away without even a rowy.
Rare giveth and rare taketh away XD
Ooooof, my heart dude.
@@JonBardcore yea....bigoof
God Xbox sea of thieves is way more toxic lol me and a buddy just ran from a level 5 reaper gally on our sloop for a solid hour only to get a miracle and pull away and launch the rowboat full of loot lol then it took another 30 minutes to get back to an outpost from the edge of the map
That's a great story though!
Is this guy aware that other people play this game?
After five years of playing I'd hope so!
16 weeks before season 10 and yall at 100 already boy oh boy this game is gonna be dead in 2 weeks
Nah, this is just me grinding out due to speed running. Plenty to take advantage of this season.
Too much PvP, I wont ever join an alliance
Doesn't that conflict?
Your constant paranoia goes to show exactly why I never play this solo, haha. I buddy bought me SoT to play with him, and I'll never play if he's not on. Too many bad encounters with other players in this game, and too many bad experiences in games like RDR2 where I tried to play solo only to get ganked while trying to live my best PvE life, haha.
Man, I wish Rockstar didn't screw up Red Dead Online as bad as they did. It had some real potential there to be something great.
First
👏👏👏
Boring do Reaper
I'd argue that Reaper is probably the most inefficient way to level renown these days considering that you're relying on other crews to have enough loot and that you'll be able to defend it yourself
Sooo... ur random encounter means the game is "easy" now.... click bait annoying content creator... thumbs down and flagged to not be suggested.
Sorry you feel that way! Edit: I'm going to try this again and interpret this as constructive criticism. There is a lot more that was discussed than just "random encounters" We talked about the auto-harpoon, the world event scaling & yes, the random encounters happening more frequently and scaled toward player count. All of which make the game easier to play solo compared to previous seasons.
But I will take your feedback and apply it to future videos as an opportunity to better state my position and points. Thank you and though it sounds like you've blocked my content I hope you find content on Sea of Thieves you do enjoy watching. Thanks!
🤣 sea of thieves never gonna prefer solo play
Oh, it's never going to be preferred, absolutely. But in terms of the game mechanics, at least at the time of this video, things were on the up and up for solos.
"some players don't like the change, because it decrease teamwork", omg f@ck those players, really :D Hope RARE will never listen people like them. There is a big difference between quality of life/enjoyment and unnecessary complications :D
I mean, I understand a bit where they are coming from but yeah, as a solo primarily it's such a nice feel.
ohhh is that gonna stop ppl from griefing while i just fish,just to sink my boat for shits and giggles....no it isnt
If you're just going to spend time fishing, I recommend a rowboat or fishing off a seapost or seafort! Get a storage crate with you to keep the fish and use the seafort to cook it all.
@@JonBardcore i do fish off seaports or close by
@@JonBardcore ima solo slooper and im too paranoid to do missions cause ppl will take my shit while im on island
@@weegmon How about Merchant Commodity runs or Trade Goods? Great way to make some gold while sticking close to your ship!