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<br>It’s no secret that Sea of Thieves has had quite a few issues since its launch last week. Most notably, players have been slamming the servers , trying to get online and partake of Rare’s pirate sandbox. Unfortunately, that influx of players has also led to several other problems, including some bugs with the game’s messaging sys<br><br> <br>Most importantly, the update brings a new region to explore: The Devil’s Roar. If you remember sailing along a vast and empty The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker -style ocean in the early days, you’ll be glad for any new area, but this is just on a whole new level. As the official trailer demonstrates, it’s a perilous place, with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, fireballs and scalding geysers to avoid. If you were looking for an exciting new area to explore, The Devil’s Roar is sure to bring all the excitement you could’ve asked <br><br> <br>Scars and tattoos can now be added to player avatars to further make pirates more unique, there's a new flag system for ships, and even a brand new instrument (a drum!) needed to summon the mighty megalodon shark. But first, the quest itself! How does a pirate and their crew start The Hungering Deep's limited time event, Merrick's Quest ? And how do we get the drums?! Allow us to explain, in det<br> <br>Merrick offers this clue to look for the "fin-rock that stands in a lagoon" and it's very close by! Head to the center of Shark Bait Cove and look for the fin-shaped rock to find Merrick’s Journal XX which has two pages. The first hint is that two ships had to work together, using the drum instrument, to summon the giant megalodon shark. The second hint, "red haired and fair of face, her tavern stands at a shining place!" which refers to Tina at Golden Sands Outpost (E<br><br> <br>The reward for selling even the most valuable chicken types (like the gold-feathered ones) is miniscule and only a tiny fraction of their actual value when on a voyage. So, unless your crew is tasked with acquiring livestock, don't waste time capturing and transporting animals. They have virtually no va<br><br> <br>When starting up Sea of Thieves after the free update, players start as per usual in a tavern except there's a new character here, the Bilge Rat. This is where you learn of new events, beginning right now with Merrick's Quest . He'll point you in the direction of Shark Bait Co<br><br> <br>Head to Dagger Tooth Outpost and ask Teri about drunken pirates. She gives a few location hints: "fishy lil cave," "underr the golden arch," and "uncharted place wessht o’ Shark Tooth Key- he sshaid there’sh a rock nearby ‘looks jussht like hish enemy" which points to Shark Tooth Key (U-15) and if you go west you can find a barely visible uncharted island at S<br><br> <br>The other key issue addressed in Rare's developer update is cheating in Sea of Thieves . Despite only releasing a few weeks ago, the game reportedly already has a hacking problem, and Rare states that the studio considers dealing with this issue a top priority. The studio reiterated its banning policy, stating that any players caught cheating in the game would be banned straight a<br><br> <br>Now, the DLC’s arrival was slightly delayed. Pirates don’t tend to set much stock by the rules and time-keeping, though, so there’s no surprise there. Regardless, it launched on September 27th for Xbox One and PC, and has certainly brought some curious new wrinkles to the gamep<br><br> <br>In a recent developer update, Rare laid out plans to alter the way that Sea of Thieves ' multiplayer operates, while also explaining how the studio planned to deal with cheating in the [https://Strategyreviewer.com/ strategy game collectibles|https://Strategyreviewer.com/] before briefly touching upon the topic of post-launch cont<br><br> <br>Now, gamers everywhere have all kinds of mixed feelings about Sea of Thieves . The winning premise— piratical PvP? Sure as heckles don’t mind if we do— was let down by some unfortunate decisions on Rare’s part, and an egregious lack of content in the early days. If Street Fighter V taught us anything, though, it’s that you can release a game and then add the actual game to it later, via upda<br><br> <br>On top of that, Sea of Thieves players are still seeing a delay in gold and reputation rewards and there has been some server instability noted on the forums. Not all of these issues will be fixed by this week’s patch, but Rare is hoping to get the more pressing problems ironed out. At the very least, this patch should put the game on the path towards stability and new content releases , even if some problems still pers<br><br> <br>Fortunately, Phil Spencer (Executive Vice President of Gaming at Microsoft) knows this all too well and is in the midst of turning things around. As Bloomberg reports, Spencer claims that the focus moving forward for Microsoft will be in software as it will begin to either create new studios or purchase them. He said: "We need to grow, and I look forward to doing that. Our ability to go create content has to be one of our strengths. We haven’t always invested at the same level. We’ve gone through ups and downs in the investment." Furthermore, Spencer indicated on Major Nelson's podcast that there are going to be some " positive changes " at this year's E3, presumably meaning that they are truly starting to turn things around with regard to first-party cont<br>
<br>I think we already established that the Sea of Thieves community is awesome. It’s tight-knit, it’s mostly friendly, and most people do not take it personally when their ship is sunk and their booty - stolen. After all, that’s what the [https://Strategyreviewer.com strategy game units|https://strategyreviewer.com/] is all about, right? But, surely, most people would not attack an empty ship, just to get some cheap laughs by watching it sink to the bottom of the sea, right? Well, wrong. In fact, often you will find that other crews do not attack you for your loot, they will not even check if you have loot. They just want to make you feel miserable by having to respawn over, and over, and over ag<br><br> <br>And while us players are certainly not getting what we paid for (yet), the devs are feeling the stress as well. This is where the devs step in to explain the situation and plan going forward, and they've done so in a very smart <br><br> <br>I’ve played plenty of Sea of Thieves and never have I met a single cheater. When it comes to Rare’s pirate title, cheaters are those elusive mythical beasts that we have all heard of, but no one has ever met. Sure, Rare did acknowledge that some people did manage to cheat at some point, but they were swiftly dealt with and this will continue to be the case in the future. Rare, just like Microsoft, do not take lightly to people exploiting their software, so quick and harsh bans are their answer to any cheating they manage to detect. Thankfully, this means that Sea of Thieves is quite clean of such nasty and disgraceful a<br><br> <br>We noted in our first impressions of Sea of Thieves that the server issues are a problem all too common in online games and one that after all these years shouldn't still happen, but it does. So please be prepared going in that there may be difficulties joining with others in a crew, and that it's possible to lose connection while playing, and with it, your loot that you've yet to redeem at an outpost. This can be infuriating but it's part of the growing pains and reality of this game at the mom<br><br> <br>For those unaware, TIGA is a network for game developers, and digital publishers, and are a non-profit trade association representing the video game industry. The charity partner at this year's TIGA Games Industry Awards 2018 was SpecialEffect, a charity dedicated to creating methods for disabled gamers to play their favorite titles. They also had a helping hand in guiding the production for the recent Xbox Adaptive Controll<br><br> <br>Rare has a fairly substantial list of things that need fixing with Sea of Thieves, and a patch releasing later today should address some of player’s issues. Specifically, Rare hopes to make sure that all players that unlocked the Black Dog Pack gear via a code should see those items appear in their inventory once the patch arri<br><br> <br>Rare doesn’t have a timeline for when achievements will be re-enabled, but the developer hopes to have everything up and running by the end of the week. For now, however, players will not unlock any achievements while playing Sea of Thiev<br><br> <br>Now, the DLC’s arrival was slightly delayed. Pirates don’t tend to set much stock by the rules and time-keeping, though, so there’s no surprise there. Regardless, it launched on September 27th for Xbox One and PC, and has certainly brought some curious new wrinkles to the gamep<br><br><br> Lockwood Publishing, Avakin Life <br><br> <br> <br>While there were many sponsors for the TIGA Games Industry Awards 2018, Google were sponsors for the Game Of The Year award, a mobile game. From Lockwood Publishing, Avakin Life is an Android and iOS game that allows players to create an avatar and roam a 3D world while interacting with a large online commun<br><br> <br>As for bugs like inventory items not showing up in the radial menus, that still can happen often enough that you may have to rejoin a game to fix. Missing gold, reputation levels, and achievements however seem to be just delayed - meaning Rare doesn't think you're actually losing any of that. It just may take a while to show up, or will show up next time you get into a g<br><br> <br>"Congratulations to all of our winners and finalists, whose excellence is driving the games industry forward.Last night’s TIGA Games Industry Awards Ceremony – our largest to date – highlighted excellence, innovation, diversity and creativity in games, businesses and education provide<br><br> <br>"The UK has tremendous game development talent, as evidenced by the high standard of Avakin Life and the many great entries. In the 10 years since Android launched, it's amazing how far mobile gaming has come, and at Google we are proud that so many innovative and entrepreneurial game developers are using Play and Android to reach a global audien<br><br> <br>In addition to the new region itself, Forsaken Shores brings a plethora of other interesting elements to gameplay. Rowboats are also new. You can find them washed up on beaches, claim them for your own, and sneak around largely unseen. As Destructoid reports, the uses of this in PvP are going to be as devious as they are hilari<br>

Latest revision as of 16:01, 25 January 2026


I think we already established that the Sea of Thieves community is awesome. It’s tight-knit, it’s mostly friendly, and most people do not take it personally when their ship is sunk and their booty - stolen. After all, that’s what the strategy game units|https://strategyreviewer.com/ is all about, right? But, surely, most people would not attack an empty ship, just to get some cheap laughs by watching it sink to the bottom of the sea, right? Well, wrong. In fact, often you will find that other crews do not attack you for your loot, they will not even check if you have loot. They just want to make you feel miserable by having to respawn over, and over, and over ag


And while us players are certainly not getting what we paid for (yet), the devs are feeling the stress as well. This is where the devs step in to explain the situation and plan going forward, and they've done so in a very smart


I’ve played plenty of Sea of Thieves and never have I met a single cheater. When it comes to Rare’s pirate title, cheaters are those elusive mythical beasts that we have all heard of, but no one has ever met. Sure, Rare did acknowledge that some people did manage to cheat at some point, but they were swiftly dealt with and this will continue to be the case in the future. Rare, just like Microsoft, do not take lightly to people exploiting their software, so quick and harsh bans are their answer to any cheating they manage to detect. Thankfully, this means that Sea of Thieves is quite clean of such nasty and disgraceful a


We noted in our first impressions of Sea of Thieves that the server issues are a problem all too common in online games and one that after all these years shouldn't still happen, but it does. So please be prepared going in that there may be difficulties joining with others in a crew, and that it's possible to lose connection while playing, and with it, your loot that you've yet to redeem at an outpost. This can be infuriating but it's part of the growing pains and reality of this game at the mom


For those unaware, TIGA is a network for game developers, and digital publishers, and are a non-profit trade association representing the video game industry. The charity partner at this year's TIGA Games Industry Awards 2018 was SpecialEffect, a charity dedicated to creating methods for disabled gamers to play their favorite titles. They also had a helping hand in guiding the production for the recent Xbox Adaptive Controll


Rare has a fairly substantial list of things that need fixing with Sea of Thieves, and a patch releasing later today should address some of player’s issues. Specifically, Rare hopes to make sure that all players that unlocked the Black Dog Pack gear via a code should see those items appear in their inventory once the patch arri


Rare doesn’t have a timeline for when achievements will be re-enabled, but the developer hopes to have everything up and running by the end of the week. For now, however, players will not unlock any achievements while playing Sea of Thiev


Now, the DLC’s arrival was slightly delayed. Pirates don’t tend to set much stock by the rules and time-keeping, though, so there’s no surprise there. Regardless, it launched on September 27th for Xbox One and PC, and has certainly brought some curious new wrinkles to the gamep


Lockwood Publishing, Avakin Life



While there were many sponsors for the TIGA Games Industry Awards 2018, Google were sponsors for the Game Of The Year award, a mobile game. From Lockwood Publishing, Avakin Life is an Android and iOS game that allows players to create an avatar and roam a 3D world while interacting with a large online commun


As for bugs like inventory items not showing up in the radial menus, that still can happen often enough that you may have to rejoin a game to fix. Missing gold, reputation levels, and achievements however seem to be just delayed - meaning Rare doesn't think you're actually losing any of that. It just may take a while to show up, or will show up next time you get into a g


"Congratulations to all of our winners and finalists, whose excellence is driving the games industry forward.Last night’s TIGA Games Industry Awards Ceremony – our largest to date – highlighted excellence, innovation, diversity and creativity in games, businesses and education provide


"The UK has tremendous game development talent, as evidenced by the high standard of Avakin Life and the many great entries. In the 10 years since Android launched, it's amazing how far mobile gaming has come, and at Google we are proud that so many innovative and entrepreneurial game developers are using Play and Android to reach a global audien


In addition to the new region itself, Forsaken Shores brings a plethora of other interesting elements to gameplay. Rowboats are also new. You can find them washed up on beaches, claim them for your own, and sneak around largely unseen. As Destructoid reports, the uses of this in PvP are going to be as devious as they are hilari

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