In a multiplayer game about pirates, PvP is almost a necessity, and ship-to-ship battles remain thrilling, but being murdered when you’re just reading your map, trying to talk to NPCs in an outpost or trying to set up a pirate band is just disheartening. That Sea of Thieves has PvP isn’t the problem. We rarely had anything worth stealing, so ultimately it was just two groups of pirates, boring themselves for nothing. We’d either be docked or on land, another ship would sidle up to us, murder us and then camp out on our ship until they got bored. This sums up just about every single encounter we had last night. Eventually they got bored, scuttled our ship and left. This happened several more times until we just waited them out on the ferry. We respawned on our ship, where the other pirates were waiting for us. We were both a bit disappointed that our very first encounter ended in bloodshed, but we patiently waited for the ferryman to let us return to the land of the living, hoping that our next life would contain more friendship and fewer bullets in the skull. Unfortunately pirates rarely follow suggestions. It promotes community and fair play, and if these were rules rather than suggestions, the ocean would be a lovely place.
SEA OF THIEVES CHICKENS CODE
There’s a Pirate Code of Conduct stuck to the wall in every tavern in Sea of Thieves. Sea of Thieves is quite a lot of fun until you meet other pirates.
This was our first sight of other players, and we were excited to get our instruments out and expand the size of our band. We’d both cleared our schedules so we could enjoy a leisurely cruise across Sea of Thieves’s striking azure ocean. “More pirates!” I shouted at my matey, who we’ll call Andy because that’s his name.