Since the tiny bucket has been fixed, would a "Tiny Bucket" emote be cool? Maybe the pirate pulling out the bucket and being super confused because of its size?
"We're going to be holding back Season 15's update to February" Meanwhile me that thought it was going to be February anyway: "Oh.. oh no.. that's terrible"
The grapple gun buff is going to make it so much nicer to use. I've wanted to use it on multiple occasions but end up putting it away after getting annoyed at its range and fire speed. It's great that they are buffing it.
I was the opposite, I kept practicing it and eventually couldn't put it down cuz I got so good with it. I knew one day they'll buff it but I had to sit through the awkward phase.
@@NOTIAREPANDARight? My ship folks thought I was doing parkour before. Now? My god. Simultaneously harpooning both players from a sloop? Yes. Yes please.
Possibly they haven't done dev updates in years, and they recently started up again :P. Jokes aside, I agree, they're really high quality, and Drew's really good at it.
It benefits that it doesn't have the time restraints that it has as part of being in SoT News as a segment, so it's much more thorough, and can also be uploaded independently.
Absolutely this, either that or some sort of server software like Minecraft. SoT is a one of a kind game, I’d hate for it to be lost forever when the official servers go down.
Nope, they need to majorly nerf Safer Seas. Safer Seas is training wheels for the real game. More content in Safer Seas = Less people playing in High Seas.
@@necrosaro710 people are already not playing in high seas... 90% of ships you find in hs ... give up at the slightest chance of human interaction... or dont exist in the first place also diving/seaforts/skeletonforts.... high seas IS safe seas already
"Now, I'm sorry to always be the bearer of bad news--" / Oh god Oh no... "But the giant flowers have been fixed in this update" / *NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!* 😔
honestly, I think rare is actually trying now, keep it up! Rare - the best season you can make is just a bug season - no new content - just focusing on every update. I get that different teams do different things - so make new skins, you do need money. But I believe that other teams could help the bug team, or at least have 2 seasons to prepare for an awesome season which would bring players back after the no new content season - giving us 2 awesome season Believe me, we don't really need content right now - new players have so much to explore and veteran players will absolutely welcome every bug fix you release
If they actually only focused on this a lot of players will be very very very very very happy. I just posted a comment about how they need to stop adding new things to the game and focus on what they're breaking
did you actually listen to what he said in the video? they barely have a bugfix team... especially since hte bugfix team is the SERVER STABILITY TEAM that ALSO has to deal with exploits AND cheaters there is no bugfixing focus
@@Maethendias my comment was supposed to be a light hint for Rare to actually get a bug fix team and to actually focus on bugs - if we all were this negative, the game would have already died
@@Maethendias,thats there problem...if they dont have a team,get one!!uncle phill spencer just have money to get cheaters on xbox??cant do nothing for rare?
He LITERALLY said they are lol, they are moving the game health and exploit team around to focus on health and performance while moving back updates to work on game performance.
@@Knight_X15 he literally said their "small" team works on 4 diffrent things, 3 of which have nothing to do with game performance so literally no... they are indeed NOT focusing on game stability... hell the biggest "feature" he was advertizing this video with was... ban evasion. which is not just completly useless but also completly irrelevant concerning stability
@@dirrtyfurby I mean they said (some years ago idk when) that they want to focus more on the PvE than PvP, but imo they are trying, just are not that succesfull
@radekhornych my issue is arena was never really updated (from what I heard, I started season 7) and hourglass has been plauged with cheaters since season 8 and it died out quick cause people got tired of it. Minus a few skelly cosmetics nothing really new with HG. And agreed adventure will always be their focus which is justified. Just seems more focused on nerfing every little thing with pvp
They're... changing Insiders slightly? They remembered Insiders even exists??? AND they actually listened to an Insider??????? Hell must be really cold right about now.
They listen to insiders a LOT. Way more than people realize. For example season 11 was originally going to be everyone diving to a actual world event ( not a special made one for the faction your diving for ) and the way it was going to be balanced is there would be multiple other people diving at the same time. Whenever someone was sunk they forced sever merged and whoever stood ontop kept the world event for themselves. This is literally a completely different feature entirely at the insiders concerns and comment. The literal whole update was changed. Just one example of how something has changed at the insiders request
@vxspiritzyuh5529 Oh I am fully aware, I have witnessed the number of people that kind of just work for Rare indirectly and will do anything they tell them to do. I won't go down that route since its a lot of controversial opinion, but yes, I've seen it first hand
Way to go Rare! I think you guys are nailing it since the last couple weeks with those podcasts and dev updates! Totally down with a break on features to maximize game performance. Really like the honesty and transparency. Keep up the good work!
They couldn't do that because you can use the grapple gun to traverse the bottom of the sea floor. Maybe a chance to not consume ammo? But free shots always would be very OP
@@DJCurry25 people would use it to traverse the game from under the ocean. Sneak attacking FoFs or just ships in general. Your intention are wholesome, but the playerbase would find every way to abuse it, for certain
@@dedmachine6534 if youre at the ocean floor you still have to swim up. its effectively the same as swimming above water. and mermaids would still snitch you out. we're capped at 3 merfruit. and it would introduce a new way of getting around the map without needing ships with the punishment being your ship is far away
Great work Rare, love the transparency and regular dev updates. As a dev and a season 1 player I really appreciate what you guys have done with the game and that you've listened to the community. I really hope the ban evaders get sorted. Hourglass can be a nightmare and a very frustrating experience. Looking forward to no more cheaters in SoT!
This is sounding so good! Drew you are now the bearer of all the good news! You deserve it! Love ya mat and thank you rare for putting in effort to being better
Happy Holidays to you too Drew and everybody at Rare!!!! I still am really hopeful we shall see Grogomany this year !!!! Glad to see you guys are listening to our feedback and being transparent about the changes that need to be made . Again Happy Holidays Rare!!!
This is what I like to hear! Everything sounds like it’s going to get better and I’m sure players won’t mind postponing more content for big fixes and performance improvements. I’m looking forward to all of this
My god I'm so happy for the grapple gun! Those were my only problems with it, I already loved it, but this is gonna be so good! Also the delay for stability reasons and dividing content is very good. I think introducing new stuff is better even for players, because they have stuff to look out for
Hands down as a ps5 player playing first time this year, I would just like to say thank you 🙏 You keep giving us updates and acknowledgment about things that aren’t working. Some people don’t understand this is also a business. In comparison to other games, I think the communication from your side has been good 🙂👍
I love everything in this. All of these decisions are excellent. I’m very pleased with how conservative y’all were with introducing the grapple gun. It did not break the game, and that’s all that really matters. I like the monthly update slower season approach. Perhaps coupled with more live events. Which we’ve been getting in spades and I’ve really been enjoying! Season 14’s launch was the worst I’ve experienced in my time in this game (started season 9). But it seems like the team is learning the lessons from this season, and has made meaningful commitment to change. I’m thrilled about this direction the game is taking. Thank you to the whole Rare team, and I patiently await whatever happens next. I guess I’ll go do some HG, FOTD steals, and BB stacks/sinks while I wait.
This developer update seems REALLY good. If you deliver then this'll be amazing, since reducing the amount of new content to fix key issues is absolutely worth it and is gonna make many old players happy, then you can start doing more once you've stabilized things. Here's a couple of ideas I have that I still want to share even though content's slowing down, just because I think they're fun. It'd be really cool if the grapple gun could still take up a weapon slot, but be equipped as an off hand. What I mean is that if you have grapple gun + another weapon then you could use both, maybe a separate keybind for offhand weapons. That'd make many more people use it even more because although the buff is nice, lots of people still won't use it as they'd prefer the damage. I think any non-damaging weapons (currently only grapple) should be able to essentially be duel-wielded with other weapons. You definitely should NOT be able to use 2 damaging weapons at the same time though. Then in the future, just something I think would be cool, we could have an equippable shield and then have that classify as a non-offensive slot. It wouldn't fully protect you from everything, but it'd just make combat so much more interesting, especially as there's only 1 weapon that lets us block at the moment, and it's also the only close-range one (not counting throwing knives) I just shared my ideas for fun and no expectations to see what other people think, but either way, great update, hope everything goes smoothly!
Amazing! 🎉 I love the improvements proposed for grapple ands blowdarts! These are either exactly what I was hoping for or just as good! Good to hear about ban evasions, the much needed Insider improvements, performance being a focus, and glad to hear that season 15 won’t be rushed! All good news! Thank you Rare!!
Not being able to grapple across masts is the main reason you’ll rarely see the grapple gun used. Lose too much offensive capability by not having another weapon with not enough useful ship mobility.
Great video, im glad you guys are focusing on performance rather than realising new mechanics. Nothings worse then getting lag in the middle of a fight
the imrpovements to the grapple gun were much needed...... however there is still the problem of cutlass and 1 gun being mandatory so unless a 3rd slot opens open weapon swapping just for specific use case scenarios is extremely annoying. like every island stop needing to change the load out is a bit ridiculous. added to the fact we STILL dont have a FAVORITES button for our weapon skins after weve cluttered our chests with stuff we no longer care about
I am very happy these are back. It is nice to know what is going on and what’s being worked on. I am also glad your delaying season 15, take your time to make sure it launches in a good state
Well, it’s a wonderful Christmas gift. I really like the new direction you’ve decided to take, with a greater focus on performance and I hope you will separate even more the concepts of “season” and “a massive update released all at once.” I hope this helps improve the quality of future updates, fix issues that have been around for months, and give you the time to work on new features without crunches to meet the strict “season deadline”.
Love the sound of these changes. Taking a cautious approach with the grapple gun was definitely the right call, and I've already found a bunch of uses for it despite that, so I'm definitely looking forward to the buffs. And honestly, releasing Season 15 in multiple parts over sounds kinda nice? Just means something new to get excited about each month as opposed to having to learn and adapt to a bunch of new mechanics at once.
Thank you for listening to the seasoned pirates. We spent thousands of hours already, and know that the content of the game doesnt lie in big flashy updates (for example new talltales) but rather improving server performance, banning cheaters for good (btw, the ingame report feels very useless since all you get is "please provide more info" without any link or so to even do so. Not that it should be necessary, blatant cheaters can be caught by adding stuff like movement logs. The logs dont have to be human readable. The threshold for bans this way should be fairly high and should not be seen as "has definetely hacked", since the server performance is pretty bad at times, but if someone can teleport inside a cannon that should be detected.
Bro, how is it that Subnautica, DRG, and SoT devs are actually like, the best, they are like the best, for the people! Keep it up devs, you guys are truly Goated.
Add a spawn point on our sloops at the crow's nest and the tip of the bow to help with avoiding spawn trap loops being done by 2 - 4 people. Hell, I'd even be happy with an option on the Ferry to choose to spawn at a random spot around the ship in the water.
Thank you all so much for your consideration! Although I am disappointed by the delay, I know it's absolutely necessary and I think it's such a good idea to release the update features in smaller chunks to monitor performance, as well as making it easier for the Game Health Team to fix the performance issues! Looking forward to the holidays on the seas!
Still waiting for you to remove the NDA status on Insiders. Making the discussion and testing public would open up new venues for testing and build more hype, along with helping us find issues far faster than just faffing about and hoping we find something. Despite that? I approve of the change from 'idle for an hour' to 'actively test and get a reputation level'. Lets hope this improves fixing things and finding bugs!
sea of thieves experience in 2024 look like - i havent played for a while and returned coz of new cool updates, i joined opened crew gally and we go to fof, sunk brigantine and then they comebacked and 1 of them switched his main acc to cheater acc and killed us all, love this game.
Wow, finally focusing on performance? Bout time. Lost my ability to play competitively-what? two, maybe three seasons ago. Dang Rare, glad to see you figured out where so much of your player base went. At this rate, I may even come back to give the game a go again. Keep it up!
Splitting up the seasons is a double-edged sword. While yes, it allows for features to be tested better so we don't have a repeat of season 14, it also feels like drip feeding content which only benefits the devs at the cost of player enjoyment. Seasons should feel amazing to look forward to, instead of having to wait.
I am excite! Can we work on Blowdart UI so that it works more like a tridents giving us the left bumper or right mouse click to open a radial to choose ammo types like we can for cannonballs when firing a cannon or picking bait when using a fishing pole.
everything sounds awesome, would be cool to see performance get some love since everytime i play i crash once or twice per day. Little tip: My game usually crashes on Npc ship spawns such as skelly galleons on the naval events. Sometimes i get crashes while piloting the burning blade too, same error every time that goes something like "out of memory trying to allocate texture etc" i have a 3070 32ram ryzen53600 1tb ssd, i play at 1080p with everything on cursed except water on rare btw
I just want the crew of sea of thieves to know, I love this game and think it’s the best pirate experience ever and would love for more and hope to see more for this game
I think it's wonderful that Drew is making sign language for Italian people when he makes video
I am Italian, actually he's teasing season 15/16 and 17 at once.
@@WildCrewClips what is he saying?
@@-fireball65- i can guarantee 9/10 that the future of sot is going to be fun, trust me 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
@@-fireball65- imma guess "riziti spagetti pasta"
@@Dunkin_Chicken135 so thats coming in season 15 16 and 17?
Since the tiny bucket has been fixed, would a "Tiny Bucket" emote be cool? Maybe the pirate pulling out the bucket and being super confused because of its size?
I'm sorry, what is the tiny bucket?
@RafeArcher it's a bug where the bucket-related emotes would display the default bucket but shrunken by a lot, I thought it'd be funny
They already have that bucket 🪣 and is drum emote😂
And please add the big flower as emote, it's just so much cooler that way and allows for funny interactions
Idea for grapple gun:
If you grapple a mermaid in the water, it will pull you towards the mermaid to get there faster
Idea for merfruit: make it spawn your mermaid instead
@@Noobfaceno
Uncooked spawns 40 mermaids. Cooked spawns one inside of you. Wink wink @@Noobface
@@Noobface so trueee!!!!!
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This is much more transparent and honest than previous videos. I'm definitely impressed. Well done Rare.
Sarcasm off
"We're going to be holding back Season 15's update to February"
Meanwhile me that thought it was going to be February anyway: "Oh.. oh no.. that's terrible"
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! It was delayed to when I expected, but they didn't tell me it was gonna be January, so now I can't be mad about it.
same lol
you will never be a rare employee, give up taamas
@@UnclePatchesThis guy didn't even bother to put a triple A Taaamas. tsk tsk.
Im happy it was delayed, my dog knocked my speaker off my bed and fried my pc
The grapple gun buff is going to make it so much nicer to use. I've wanted to use it on multiple occasions but end up putting it away after getting annoyed at its range and fire speed. It's great that they are buffing it.
It was already everything I wanted out of a grappler type tool and now they’re buffing it. This is a good day for grappler players.
I was the opposite, I kept practicing it and eventually couldn't put it down cuz I got so good with it. I knew one day they'll buff it but I had to sit through the awkward phase.
@@NOTIAREPANDARight? My ship folks thought I was doing parkour before. Now? My god. Simultaneously harpooning both players from a sloop? Yes. Yes please.
@@joopsvt I've had exactly the same experience xD
These developer updates seem to be much better lately. More informative, transparent? Can't put my finger on it
Possibly they haven't done dev updates in years, and they recently started up again :P. Jokes aside, I agree, they're really high quality, and Drew's really good at it.
It benefits that it doesn't have the time restraints that it has as part of being in SoT News as a segment, so it's much more thorough, and can also be uploaded independently.
It’s because it’s more intimate without all the sound effects and loud music
Less of that cringe dude i cant stand (sorry dude)
These are AWFUL. not a single bit of good news, and it annoys me more to see this herpe wave his dumb hand around
That one Insider is right now dancing at his house singing: "What can I say except you're welcome?"
Please give Safer Seas an offline option for game preservation (so we can continue to play the game whenever support ends)
Absolutely this, either that or some sort of server software like Minecraft. SoT is a one of a kind game, I’d hate for it to be lost forever when the official servers go down.
I hope newer company make game that make better pirating game
Nice try
Nope, they need to majorly nerf Safer Seas. Safer Seas is training wheels for the real game. More content in Safer Seas = Less people playing in High Seas.
@@necrosaro710 people are already not playing in high seas... 90% of ships you find in hs ... give up at the slightest chance of human interaction... or dont exist in the first place
also diving/seaforts/skeletonforts.... high seas IS safe seas already
So glad the ban evaders will be gone 🙏
Best comment.
The beef is NOT over lmao
... says the glitch exploiter.
@@loup9003😱
gulp!
"Now, I'm sorry to always be the bearer of bad news--" / Oh god Oh no...
"But the giant flowers have been fixed in this update" / *NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!* 😔
Big flower pics will be missed 😔
Thanks man for talking directly to the players and addressing the real issues.
Best of luck on improving the game even more and Happy Holidays!
honestly, I think rare is actually trying now, keep it up!
Rare - the best season you can make is just a bug season - no new content - just focusing on every update. I get that different teams do different things - so make new skins, you do need money. But I believe that other teams could help the bug team, or at least have 2 seasons to prepare for an awesome season which would bring players back after the no new content season - giving us 2 awesome season
Believe me, we don't really need content right now - new players have so much to explore and veteran players will absolutely welcome every bug fix you release
If they actually only focused on this a lot of players will be very very very very very happy. I just posted a comment about how they need to stop adding new things to the game and focus on what they're breaking
did you actually listen to what he said in the video?
they barely have a bugfix team... especially since hte bugfix team is the SERVER STABILITY TEAM that ALSO has to deal with exploits AND cheaters
there is no bugfixing focus
@@Maethendias my comment was supposed to be a light hint for Rare to actually get a bug fix team and to actually focus on bugs - if we all were this negative, the game would have already died
@radekhornych "if we all were this negative" m8... get some perspective
@@Maethendias,thats there problem...if they dont have a team,get one!!uncle phill spencer just have money to get cheaters on xbox??cant do nothing for rare?
W Sea of thieves for learning from they're mistakes and listening to us. Keep it up!
Very encouraged by many facets of this update, thank you for the communication and for showing effort on improving!
Merry Christmas my fellow pirates
and a jolly Festival of Giving to you, matey
The grapple gun range was the main thing that annoyed me. Glad it’s fixed plus some
Love how yall are going about updates and focusing on game health and stability! Thanks Drew!!
he literally said that they ARENT
He LITERALLY said they are lol, they are moving the game health and exploit team around to focus on health and performance while moving back updates to work on game performance.
@@Knight_X15 he literally said their "small" team works on 4 diffrent things, 3 of which have nothing to do with game performance
so literally no... they are indeed NOT focusing on game stability...
hell the biggest "feature" he was advertizing this video with was... ban evasion. which is not just completly useless but also completly irrelevant concerning stability
Well... If you guys are going after hackers now. Then hourglass is the main place you'll need to start on.
They need a team that is just queing hourglass all day
Hourglass been infested for years. They don't care about pvpers lol
@@tns2853 John Anti-Cheat got it covered
@@dirrtyfurby I mean they said (some years ago idk when) that they want to focus more on the PvE than PvP, but imo they are trying, just are not that succesfull
@radekhornych my issue is arena was never really updated (from what I heard, I started season 7) and hourglass has been plauged with cheaters since season 8 and it died out quick cause people got tired of it. Minus a few skelly cosmetics nothing really new with HG. And agreed adventure will always be their focus which is justified. Just seems more focused on nerfing every little thing with pvp
They're... changing Insiders slightly? They remembered Insiders even exists???
AND they actually listened to an Insider???????
Hell must be really cold right about now.
It is christmas season
They listen to insiders a LOT. Way more than people realize. For example season 11 was originally going to be everyone diving to a actual world event ( not a special made one for the faction your diving for ) and the way it was going to be balanced is there would be multiple other people diving at the same time. Whenever someone was sunk they forced sever merged and whoever stood ontop kept the world event for themselves. This is literally a completely different feature entirely at the insiders concerns and comment. The literal whole update was changed. Just one example of how something has changed at the insiders request
@vxspiritzyuh5529 Oh I am fully aware, I have witnessed the number of people that kind of just work for Rare indirectly and will do anything they tell them to do. I won't go down that route since its a lot of controversial opinion, but yes, I've seen it first hand
Having the enchanted merfruit out of the food rotation is the best news I've heard in a long time!
You’re easily pleased 😂
Way to go Rare! I think you guys are nailing it since the last couple weeks with those podcasts and dev updates! Totally down with a break on features to maximize game performance. Really like the honesty and transparency. Keep up the good work!
Thank you soo much for finally focusing on performance. I think I speak for a great number of players, This is all we have been asking for.
Hope the insider goals are still doable in an hour
Adore these QOL and Game Health updates! Keep up the great work! Also looking forward to more directed play in Insiders!
one cool buff you could add is if a harpoon gun hits land and not a ship or person or enemy. it doesnt use ammo
They couldn't do that because you can use the grapple gun to traverse the bottom of the sea floor. Maybe a chance to not consume ammo? But free shots always would be very OP
@@dedmachine6534 they would still need to breathe though. and its not like that would mess with other players unless im missing something?
@@DJCurry25 people would use it to traverse the game from under the ocean. Sneak attacking FoFs or just ships in general. Your intention are wholesome, but the playerbase would find every way to abuse it, for certain
@@dedmachine6534 if youre at the ocean floor you still have to swim up. its effectively the same as swimming above water. and mermaids would still snitch you out. we're capped at 3 merfruit. and it would introduce a new way of getting around the map without needing ships with the punishment being your ship is far away
Absolutely love the passion you have behind your game. Looking forward to playing SOT moving forward. Happy holidays all you scurvy pirates! 🏴☠️
Great update! I love the idea of the grapple buffs and the focus on performance over content.
Great work Rare, love the transparency and regular dev updates. As a dev and a season 1 player I really appreciate what you guys have done with the game and that you've listened to the community. I really hope the ban evaders get sorted. Hourglass can be a nightmare and a very frustrating experience. Looking forward to no more cheaters in SoT!
This is sounding so good! Drew you are now the bearer of all the good news! You deserve it! Love ya mat and thank you rare for putting in effort to being better
Happy Holidays to you too Drew and everybody at Rare!!!! I still am really hopeful we shall see Grogomany this year !!!! Glad to see you guys are listening to our feedback and being transparent about the changes that need to be made . Again Happy Holidays Rare!!!
I like everything apart from the rep in insider. Like what i have to grind rep in the test and the game?
This is what I like to hear! Everything sounds like it’s going to get better and I’m sure players won’t mind postponing more content for big fixes and performance improvements. I’m looking forward to all of this
My god I'm so happy for the grapple gun! Those were my only problems with it, I already loved it, but this is gonna be so good!
Also the delay for stability reasons and dividing content is very good. I think introducing new stuff is better even for players, because they have stuff to look out for
Thank you drew and merry Christmas to all
Thank you guys for giving us more updates. It really helps
I like the insider update, can we also make it easier to access what changes are being made and make it easier to report bugs we find in game?
Those grapple changes are everything I could have ever wished for!
Hands down as a ps5 player playing first time this year, I would just like to say thank you 🙏
You keep giving us updates and acknowledgment about things that aren’t working. Some people don’t understand this is also a business. In comparison to other games, I think the communication from your side has been good 🙂👍
This game is dead and you got scammed its called the pirate emporium
I love everything in this. All of these decisions are excellent. I’m very pleased with how conservative y’all were with introducing the grapple gun. It did not break the game, and that’s all that really matters.
I like the monthly update slower season approach. Perhaps coupled with more live events. Which we’ve been getting in spades and I’ve really been enjoying!
Season 14’s launch was the worst I’ve experienced in my time in this game (started season 9). But it seems like the team is learning the lessons from this season, and has made meaningful commitment to change.
I’m thrilled about this direction the game is taking. Thank you to the whole Rare team, and I patiently await whatever happens next. I guess I’ll go do some HG, FOTD steals, and BB stacks/sinks while I wait.
This developer update seems REALLY good. If you deliver then this'll be amazing, since reducing the amount of new content to fix key issues is absolutely worth it and is gonna make many old players happy, then you can start doing more once you've stabilized things.
Here's a couple of ideas I have that I still want to share even though content's slowing down, just because I think they're fun. It'd be really cool if the grapple gun could still take up a weapon slot, but be equipped as an off hand.
What I mean is that if you have grapple gun + another weapon then you could use both, maybe a separate keybind for offhand weapons. That'd make many more people use it even more because although the buff is nice, lots of people still won't use it as they'd prefer the damage. I think any non-damaging weapons (currently only grapple) should be able to essentially be duel-wielded with other weapons. You definitely should NOT be able to use 2 damaging weapons at the same time though.
Then in the future, just something I think would be cool, we could have an equippable shield and then have that classify as a non-offensive slot. It wouldn't fully protect you from everything, but it'd just make combat so much more interesting, especially as there's only 1 weapon that lets us block at the moment, and it's also the only close-range one (not counting throwing knives)
I just shared my ideas for fun and no expectations to see what other people think, but either way, great update, hope everything goes smoothly!
I've always been a supporter of Insider tasks for rewards, this seems to be a good step.
Amazing! 🎉
I love the improvements proposed for grapple ands blowdarts! These are either exactly what I was hoping for or just as good!
Good to hear about ban evasions, the much needed Insider improvements, performance being a focus, and glad to hear that season 15 won’t be rushed!
All good news! Thank you Rare!!
Very informative. Sounds good to focus on stability of the game. Thank you.
Not being able to grapple across masts is the main reason you’ll rarely see the grapple gun used. Lose too much offensive capability by not having another weapon with not enough useful ship mobility.
The first video from Rare that has felt genuine in years.
Great video, im glad you guys are focusing on performance rather than realising new mechanics. Nothings worse then getting lag in the middle of a fight
Happy holidays! Hope you guys get some good rest! Much love, I'm looking forward to the new features you're baking for us!
the imrpovements to the grapple gun were much needed...... however there is still the problem of cutlass and 1 gun being mandatory so unless a 3rd slot opens open weapon swapping just for specific use case scenarios is extremely annoying. like every island stop needing to change the load out is a bit ridiculous. added to the fact we STILL dont have a FAVORITES button for our weapon skins after weve cluttered our chests with stuff we no longer care about
Guys this is the right step with the updates I'm so proud too be a SoT player happy holidays
I am very happy these are back. It is nice to know what is going on and what’s being worked on. I am also glad your delaying season 15, take your time to make sure it launches in a good state
Good job Drew ! Great transparency, looking forward to the New Year !
Sounds great! Happy holidays!
2:19, I absolutely love this part. Finally they're cracking down on players that evade their bans with new accounts :)
its 2024 they are chasing ghosts
Well, it’s a wonderful Christmas gift. I really like the new direction you’ve decided to take, with a greater focus on performance and I hope you will separate even more the concepts of “season” and “a massive update released all at once.”
I hope this helps improve the quality of future updates, fix issues that have been around for months, and give you the time to work on new features without crunches to meet the strict “season deadline”.
This is awesome. Thanks rare. Truly
Thank you for this Rare. Thank you.
respect to the play tester that found the bug!'
As a day one player I just wanted to say thank you for such an amazing game. Merry Xmas!
Love this format! Nice job rare! Can’t wait for the new season!
Love the sound of these changes. Taking a cautious approach with the grapple gun was definitely the right call, and I've already found a bunch of uses for it despite that, so I'm definitely looking forward to the buffs.
And honestly, releasing Season 15 in multiple parts over sounds kinda nice? Just means something new to get excited about each month as opposed to having to learn and adapt to a bunch of new mechanics at once.
Thank you for listening to the seasoned pirates. We spent thousands of hours already, and know that the content of the game doesnt lie in big flashy updates (for example new talltales) but rather improving server performance, banning cheaters for good (btw, the ingame report feels very useless since all you get is "please provide more info" without any link or so to even do so. Not that it should be necessary, blatant cheaters can be caught by adding stuff like movement logs. The logs dont have to be human readable. The threshold for bans this way should be fairly high and should not be seen as "has definetely hacked", since the server performance is pretty bad at times, but if someone can teleport inside a cannon that should be detected.
Me: "Heard it before"
Rare: "Said it before"
The increase of grapple gun to a ships harpoon range is an INSANE quality of life thing, along side with being an INSANE buff. Thank you
This is actually a great update video for once, It's a Christmas miracle!
Please consider bringing the midnight blunderbuss back with an event!
Honestly seems like overall positives and moves in the right direction. Let's see how it plays out.
As a long time Sea of Thieves player, I'd like to give my thanks to Rare for being open and transparent about their moves going forward.
I love the transparency
Bro, how is it that Subnautica, DRG, and SoT devs are actually like, the best, they are like the best, for the people! Keep it up devs, you guys are truly Goated.
Add a spawn point on our sloops at the crow's nest and the tip of the bow to help with avoiding spawn trap loops being done by 2 - 4 people. Hell, I'd even be happy with an option on the Ferry to choose to spawn at a random spot around the ship in the water.
New/Different Sea monsters would be VERY cool 🫣👀
So, no humble/generous gifts made available like the christmas they were introduced ? The miniature had me hopping.
Thank you all so much for your consideration! Although I am disappointed by the delay, I know it's absolutely necessary and I think it's such a good idea to release the update features in smaller chunks to monitor performance, as well as making it easier for the Game Health Team to fix the performance issues! Looking forward to the holidays on the seas!
This is everything i want to hear ! Amazing changes around balancing the game and focus on ban evades
Amazing Sweater Drew 10/10
I love the SoT devs. Rare has consistently put out amazing games and SoT is right there with it. Love the game and love the interaction with devs!
Game is unplayable half the time with constant lag and teleporting. You get near Burning Blade and it becomes very hard to play with lag.
And just like that, we're back to monthly updates.
“And to be clear, we aren’t going back to monthly updates”
-literally the dude you didn’t even bother listening to 😂
So glad it looks like we'll be starting 2025 on a good trajectory
Thank you for finally putting your foccus on the god awful performance issues the game has
seriously, the game really needed that
Still waiting for you to remove the NDA status on Insiders. Making the discussion and testing public would open up new venues for testing and build more hype, along with helping us find issues far faster than just faffing about and hoping we find something.
Despite that? I approve of the change from 'idle for an hour' to 'actively test and get a reputation level'. Lets hope this improves fixing things and finding bugs!
Drew is becoming my favorite Dev
Captain Falcore’s calling the shots confirmed
The sweater goes crazy
I’m so happy that these are back!
Impressive amount of good decisions!
sea of thieves experience in 2024 look like - i havent played for a while and returned coz of new cool updates, i joined opened crew gally and we go to fof, sunk brigantine and then they comebacked and 1 of them switched his main acc to cheater acc and killed us all, love this game.
I'm kind of impressed this is presented so positively when not only is S15 delayed, it's dripfed
Happy for the grapple changes. A missed shot using ammo was really stupid.
I'm happy I finished Insiders before this change lol. No more outpost afk
we've changed the insider rewards but we don't tell you how to get them, you're great, oh how much patience it takes!
Wow, finally focusing on performance? Bout time. Lost my ability to play competitively-what? two, maybe three seasons ago. Dang Rare, glad to see you figured out where so much of your player base went. At this rate, I may even come back to give the game a go again. Keep it up!
Splitting up the seasons is a double-edged sword. While yes, it allows for features to be tested better so we don't have a repeat of season 14, it also feels like drip feeding content which only benefits the devs at the cost of player enjoyment. Seasons should feel amazing to look forward to, instead of having to wait.
Can yall show the giant rocks on the map
Happy Holidays and happy sailing
I am excite! Can we work on Blowdart UI so that it works more like a tridents giving us the left bumper or right mouse click to open a radial to choose ammo types like we can for cannonballs when firing a cannon or picking bait when using a fishing pole.
Love this game, thanks for all the fun.
everything sounds awesome, would be cool to see performance get some love since everytime i play i crash once or twice per day. Little tip:
My game usually crashes on Npc ship spawns such as skelly galleons on the naval events. Sometimes i get crashes while piloting the burning blade too, same error every time that goes something like "out of memory trying to allocate texture etc" i have a 3070 32ram ryzen53600 1tb ssd, i play at 1080p with everything on cursed except water on rare btw
As someone whos loving the blowpipe for PVE quick dart switching button is a GODSENT
I just want the crew of sea of thieves to know, I love this game and think it’s the best pirate experience ever and would love for more and hope to see more for this game