The Best Update Ever (You Just Don't Remember) - Sea of Thieves

[@ewalsh7682]

Shrouded Spoils basically made it the game it should have been at launch. This video made me so nostalgic for the 2018 days, it was amazing back then

[@skyblue2708]

Nah, it's still not the game it should have been at launch, but we are very very close to it!

[@AShinyRay]

Glad you enjoyed it! I had some nostalgia vibes from it too!

[@captainbat37]

@@AShinyRay forsaken shores was my favourite giving me the sence of exploration witch was always my favourite thing at first exploring new islands and places

[@ghostface208]

It wasn't amazing, nostalgia yes,but now the game is technically better

[@LonelyPandora]

I really do feel like the Devil's Roar is getting left behind with all these new contents coming into the SoT. When I mention the shrines or forts being added to the Roar, a few times I would hear people say that they can't because of the volcanic eruptions but believe me there are a few locations in the Ashen area that are clear of volcanoes. I really hope that something does happen in the Devil's Roar soon.

[@Kezsora]

I'd be down with making the roar less hazardous and then allowing players to actually spawn at Morrows Peak. Unfortunatley, the reason no one goes to the Devils Roar is because the tedium isn't worth the extra reward so they should just bring that area down to be like the rest of the map.

[@Andyisgodcky]

@@Kezsora I don't know about you, but the Devil's Roar makes Order of Souls VERY lucrative for me. A single Ashen Villainous can sell for almost 5k, and a single quest can easily net you 4+ skulls. Not to mention the rep grind is much faster there because of it.

[@captainchungus2140]

@@Andyisgodcky i need to grind order rep, is it really that much better in the roar?

[@Andyisgodcky]

Rep gains are linked to sale price, and Ashen Villainous skulls go for 3k+. With emissary, you're looking at a 6k sale for one skull. Not to mention a single voyage in the roar will net you several ashen villainous and many lesser skulls, you can see why its superiour. Only catch is, you have to be wary of volcanoes. Just keep an eye out for black smoke on the island you're parked at and if you see it, abandon everything and sail away to a safe distance, then go fishing for a few minutes until it stops erupting.

[@gamermanh]

@@Andyisgodcky I know I'm late but the roar has another amazing feature for this: the volcanos/geysers can and will absolutely fuck up OOS targets and their waves of lower level skeles, meaning you get more reward for less work overall, really

[@magus104]

I love that loot floats to the surface faster now... that being said i miss my favorite strategy... I used to swim deep under ships with kegs and release them and due to loot floating so slow i would swim up and board and start fighting the crew and during the heat of combat then the keg would go off adding to the chaos and possibly having some of the crew dead so they couldnt even try to start repairing.

[@2birds1nuke56]

Devil's Roar fort would be really cool as if some sort of instance similar to FOTD, with high tier loot aplenty. Also that fort is not in the middle of the map near multiple outposts with also the threat of volcanoes so winning the fight for said loot would make it much more high risk high reward cashing in. A very unused cool asset imo.

[@Jaxclay000]

Would have been so perfect for the only place a fof could spawn

[@mitchnunn1332]

devils roar has 2 forts

[@Jaxclay000]

@@mitchnunn1332 ah yes totally

[@Jaxclay000]

Either "one" of them would work

[@redixe9960]

@@mitchnunn1332 no.

[@Der_Sheriff55]

I always wanted the breaths of the sea to buff your character in tune with their color, Blue makes you swim faster, hold your breath longer, and maybe something else. Green makes you run faster and slowly Regens half of your health like overheal from cooked food. Red should make you deal more damage but not too much, say make swords deal 30 damage, pistols deal 65, snipers deal 80 and blunderbusses have better spread while aiming. These should all last about a minute or two tops though

[@j-train13]

Man as a Day 1 player I always find it so interesting having things I watched unfold before me be discussed as stories of the past, it's really quite an odd experience. Same goes for in game lore too, everyone's talking about Wanda the Warsmith and her big return and discussing all her backstory and I'm just sitting here thinking "I remember when I just bought swords from her"

[@twinshorts4088]

Another day 1 here brother 👊🏼

[@xpscrazykiller2]

I bought my very first sword from her lmao

[@somebodykares1]

Finding coral encrusted bottles to find the breath of the sea is quite difficult, regular bottles spawn more often, even then you can just find quests in barrels randomly, you should also have a chance to find like barnacled maps or something in barrels to raise the chances of finding the Breath of the Sea.

[@MomradG]

I replayed a fort with a friend, after not touching them for years, and it was really fun. I would love to see update for that. Aaand, also hope Rare does something with the adventures, because they are boring. I know they are for a short time, and they don't want to pore too much time into it, but making them more exclusive would benefit them, and also the players who had the luck to paly them

[@AShinyRay]

Adventures will get better :)

[@ForTheOmnissiah]

I hope the recent Megalodon Adventure wasn't so boring for you. I found it very fun and engaging. They definitely put work into it and it gave us a glimpse of what is possible with this new Adventure concept they're implementing. I just hope they keep that momentum moving forward and Adventures don't dwindle into tedious tasks like the first 2. Those were still fun'ish, with new voice lines, lore, and new characters, including an upcoming impact decision on the gameworld (golden sands), but that particular Adventure was something very memorable.

[@MomradG]

The new Lost Sands looks promising. Amd yes, Shrouded deep was a really good experience

[@scampscamper1781]

Building on the ship customisations in Shrouded Spoils, I would love to see customisable harpoons, and also lanterns and compass for the ship, which could just be what you've already collected, I think it would be a nice little feature, and of course the obvious, naming your own ship!

[@Polarzz]

captaincy update will basically be shrouded spoils v2 being able to buy your own boat, have trophies on your ship, being able to repair your ship, and having the reaper servants deliver your loot for you

[@Ninja_Naranja]

Shrouded spoils was my favorite Y1 update. I really wish S5 delivered in the same regard. I think it’s about time we see the ship customization expanded to include lanterns, compass and harpoons. The Skelly brig is way overdue and new wether effects (or heck even just make fog more common around the center of the map. So much potential that doesn’t have to do with making new stuff.

[@nihilistpenguin7511]

Man, this makes me nostalgic for the old SoT. Me and my friends started playing just before the anniversary update. I remember the huge adrenaline rush we got when we finished our first skull fort. The first time we spent 2 hours fighting a skeleton ship. We spent 3 hours looking for chests on cannon cove because we didn’t know how to read maps lol. Man sot was so magical back then. I still enjoy the game and play it often, but I feel like, for me, a lot of that magic has worn off even if I still get that feeling now and then. Most of that is probably just because of experience, but I also feel like the game has kinda lost its way. Rare has inflated the economy into oblivion, I have millions of coins and not much to spend them on. The new content they’ve added has been good, but still lacks a lot of replay-ability and depth. I want the old days when pirate legend was a huge grind and finding an ashen captain’s chest was an achievement. This video is all my thoughts summarized so well, we desperately need a another shrouded spoils. I love this game but 2019-2020 was really the golden age for sot, for me at least. I hope Rare listens and makes another shrouded spoils.

[@armatisulv8569]

I feel like Devil's Roar is quite worth it is you're grinding for emissary because of the vaults and ashen skulls. Merchants isn't really worth it there because there are no sunken ship runs over there but it is much easier to do merchant runs (as long as the location stays in the Devil's Roar) The only thing I would like changed about Devil's Roar is the volcanos not going off when you're doing a Gold Hoarders Vault. Just because of how far you are away from your boat generally and the earthquakes always breaking your sprinting.

[@igorlinhares8441]

I'de like them to see a refresh on the values of chests and how they work. Like, after getting lvl25 as gold hoarder, the X mark missions are 4 islands with 8x to dig each... and one chest value about 600g. I'de love to dig less chests and recieve more, i dont know... its too slow having to deliver 30 chests to earn a small amount of gold. Why not make chests rarer and more valuable???

[@littlefinger5812]

go do forts? or higher tier loot. what your doing is gonna take forever

[@igorlinhares8441]

@@littlefinger5812 Yeah, thats what I do... But what happens with the Gold Hoarder Missions them? Whats the point of having them, getting lvl50 with the company and never have acess to better missions with better loot?? Now I have to do forts forever? Or events? Bro, we should have different options to choose. Its just not worth it at all to a player who loved to find the X spot kinda mission.

[@littlefinger5812]

@@igorlinhares8441 Yes. Lets hope they do something about it.

[@toddoverholt4556]

I would love being able to drink the breath of the sea for an appearance change into a merfolk/sirenfolk with bonus swim speed and infinite breath in water. Or a merfolk/sirenfolk costume.

[@daanbos5918]

Did you know that ethernal freedom helm doesn’t have a shadow

[@AShinyRay]

Really?

[@ImpulzeProductions]

Great video, seriously just so accurate and reminded me of how much I appreciate rare and their commitment to making the game feel more alive and how I believe they handled the updates from the beginning.

[@markwhitmoremusic]

Add an Ice area on the west side of map. New items that are like containers that can be used to gather lava from the devil’s roar, that need to be transported to the ice area to melt doors that allow access to treasures inside.

[@dawidscheffler7152]

Their servers barely scrape by with the current map and ship loads. Unless they portal you to a new "domain of ice" I don't see it happening.

[@pietincat]

Shrouded Spoils was seriously a great update. I’m feeling nostalgic!

[@Slicey56]

Bruh, the devils roar definitely has more to do than just the ashen athenas. Ashen vaults aside, I find running order of souls there is incredibly profitable, considering that each ashen villainous bounty skull is worth 4-7k with a lvl 5 flag

[@goblinbarrel25yearsago55]

Just run reapers and stack world events or fotd if you want money

[@Slicey56]

@@goblinbarrel25yearsago55 that is definitely not the best way to make money as a solo slooper, which is mainly how I play the game

[@chaosmagican]

Also the islands are keen on helping out blasting skellis and their captains into shreds, love the geysers

[@judeplaysvr4527]

I remember in 2019 I always tried to do skely forts but I never succeeded

[@codeine626]

When they released the change from the original 3 forts, (crows nest, shark fin and keel haul) to all of them, it was so dang fun. yeah it was just refreshed content but new environments just made it so much more fun.

[@AShinyRay]

Aside from Lost Gold, that one still sucks

[@codeine626]

@@AShinyRay preach it lol. also fort of the damned is nice but i miss its original state. had such good loot grab spots too.

[@DJBaphomet]

I'd absolutely love to see them rework certain voyages, as right now, as a player with every guild maxed except Athena's, the only reason I have to do them is for emissary value, and even then, you get so much gold hoarder loot from literally anything that doing the voyages themselves doesn't matter. Vaults are overtaken by Treasuries, which have much better loot and don't take as long, and even have a guaranteed Chest of Ancient Tributes at the end as well. Really the only reason I have for doing vaults is for the sails locked behind doing 100 of them, which do actually look rather nice. Also brings me to another thing, I really wish rare kept some sorta, consistency, with those voyage commendations. The sails you get from selling Ancient Tributes is only for 50, while the one for opening vaults is for 100, and same goes for the Sunken Cargo ones, where the one for selling manifests is for 20, and the one for opening cabins is for 50, which is the 'optional' part, and sometimes even not even possible if the final shipwreck glitches and doesn't spawn, which I've had happen 3 times already

[@TheBlackWaltz]

I think I had the ship wreck not spawn for me today. I spent an hour sailing around. Any time I got near the birds, I'd just lose them and they were off somewhere else in the distance. I finally gave up. Not sure what the issue was. But it could have just been due to playing on my phone so the screen was small. But I'd be heading right at them and then just gone when I got close. Didn't happen on any other step of the voyage either.

[@tangofett4065]

Just a question…. Why is the banner on your galleon blurred out at the 1:15 mark?…. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@alexwixom4599]

Also I LOVE Stronghold Kegs. Big Bucks or Big Booms, both are my favorite.

[@ghosthunter790]

I played in 2018 during the beta and after the beta was fun however the main release was very boring and I hated it however now I love the game and can never get enough it for the past year

[@Dashx64]

Besides the shrouded ghost of lies itself, hungering deep and shrouded spoils saved the game just as anniversary/pirates life did, but even better. Still rock Shark Slayer, and the tattoo/scar combo. whatta real adventure that was, we were fighting the giant for what felt like hours, there we floated; a galleon with no planks. we had patched up holes on every wall, but the giant kept on biting! no food left, just a few cannonballs in my pocket. the other sloop that started this with us, didnt do much of anything but sail in a circle, sadly after a few unlucky consecutive bites it sank! the meg circled round us again, with a handful of shots left I fired and fired till the very last shot, and as luck would have it, the giant hungering one finally roared upwards and was out for good. I couldnt believe it! but as much as I started celebrating, I heard what and found of why It was just me yelling happily lol, the galleon groaned and all I heard now where buckets! We were only a few moments away from sinking for good! Now, to the NE there was a chance, so we slowly limped against the wind to Devil's Ridge, while frantically bucketing the whole way! my crew cheered when I came back with planks. we all raised a grog and struck a happy tune as we sailed towards sharkbait cove, finally in the clear. Not only did we take out the beast, we did it basically alone! it took everything we had, but we did it, what a wonderful feeling that was. one of my favorite moments in gaming! honestly, wont ever forget it. thanks for the trip down memory lane Ray

[@jacobvorhies3720]

Just wait for that ghostly meg 😉 she is a commin

[@calinbutuza8936]

2:08 nice touch bro

[@TheDailyDevDev]

Ive got some ideas for shrouded spoils update for example Reclaiming your emissery flag The skeleton ship getting a working anchor wheel and mass Curse cannonballs being effective againts the kraken and meg The meg getting a new attack And finally adding a skeleton brigantine

[@TheBlackWaltz]

Why not add whales? I think a school of Orca would be a great addition. Even if they aren't aggressive by default, lantern oil tended to come from whale fat back in the day. It would make a pretty fun journey to hunt down a whale to sell the fat.

[@TheDailyDevDev]

@@TheBlackWaltz mostly because most of these suggestions are improvements to old stuff not completely new stuff

[@billjimakatrevin]

Where I agree Shrouded Spoils was sick at launch there was no update like Anniversary. It really brought a bunch of new players in and old players back with Fishing, Tall Tales, and Arena(RIP) that was the peoples updaye

[@theonecat988]

Do you know when the obsidian six-pack giveaway is coming back, I was so upset that I never managed to get my hands on it. Great vid as always. :)

[@AShinyRay]

Let me know your GT and I'll get it applied!

[@theonecat988]

@@AShinyRay DarlingFrog8358, thank you so much

[@theonecat988]

@@AShinyRay Sorry to bother yourself you but the six pack doesn't seem to have worked and I cant find it on my account. Is there something I need to do to claim it? Thanks anyway if it doesn't work.

[@big.dinkledorf]

been playing since week 1, and the change the game went through in the first week is crazy to think back to

[@AdvSpringBonnie]

Sorta unrelated but now that you mentioned it, the Kraken really needs better loot tbh, you get like 5 mediocre items at max, and then 1 meat for each treasure.

[@AShinyRay]

Agreed

[@jonathanh.2038]

Especially since the kraken is a world event too.....

[@feltron]

I've only been paying for 2 weeks. Had no idea you could empty a barrel into a storage crate with one button. I've been putting the crate down and switching from the barrel to the crate.

[@themightynebby]

Speaking of updates… something seems to have happened to the galleon’s nameplate at 1:14

[@silvervoid8906]

Great video as always! I wish I had joined the game sooner, as I only joined December 2020, but a new overhaul update would be terrific. Tools not rules updates are always a treat!

[@alisonhamilton994]

I remember when I watched sea of thieves back in 2018 tho I missed alot of the updates as I couldn't play get to play it until Jan 2021

[@kakashiuzumaki8541]

yeah me and my crew we're decent in this game but not like pro players who stack like 12 FoD loot. We got all the fate flames, activated one FoD, fought against a few sloop who also were experienced, dealt with a few tuckers and got rid of them, later we finished this single FoD, had reaper level 5 flag active and sold all the loot. We played like for 6h or longer for all this and in the end of our session we noticed that the loot wasn't really worth it for spending so much time on doing a single FoD. After that we decide to never do a FoD again and just to grind all the other normal world events with reaper emissary. It just wasn't worth it for all that struggle to finish this one single FoD and constantly dealing with other players which caused us to take longer on finishing the FoD. Rare really need to boost a little bit of the rewards and such....

[@chaosmagican]

You do fotd and you get attacked, you do world events as reaper and don't? For me the glowy sword was worth doing it 25 times :D

[@m4gicm00se7]

I've been playing since the last week of skeleton thrones, took a break from the game during hungering deep, but have been playing ever since. Its sooo much more fun now then back then.

[@juniper9607]

you are so right, shrouded spoils is slept on. i’ve been playing since just before launch and seeing this reminded me how little was in the game before any of the updates😂😭 still loved the game though😂

[@lavvgiver]

Roar: -Reduce the earthquake/gyser frequency -Add a 3rd Vault location -Add more food/supply barrels -Add a sea fortress -Add a fort -Special mermaid shrine -New special PVE monster or skele type that drops abnormal treasure -Different skeleton ship type -Maybe something like a dragon turtle to compete with the meg/kraken

[@SpringSixPLAYSGAMES]

What rare could do with the skull forts is have a chance of them becoming ghost forts. A bit like the fotd but are a bit easier and you get a ghost version of the different skeleton lords e.g two faced scoundrel. And if you killed the skeleton ghost lord you get a ghost stronghold skull along with ghost stronghold loot. This gives more content and it fits in with the spectral storyline... kinda... i think.

[@sodddit8360]

2:33 I see what you did there 😂

[@jonathanh.2038]

What did he do? All he did was name all of the meg variants. Hungering one, Crested queen, shadow man, ancient terror, and -REDACTED-

[@tjasjelen3882]

I used to test the game half a year before it got released. There wasn't even a sloop by then. ONLY Gold Hoarder voyage. The game had no NPC's to talk to and you didn't go to them and buy voyage. When you joined the game, the riddle or x marks the spot was appointed to your inventory as soon as you joined. There were no forts, no megalodons, no krakens, it was all just a mith. There was no treasure chests, no skulls and no any merchant alliance items. There was only a shop for clothes and maps for future gold hoarders. And now we are here, look how much has the game progressed. It is unbelievable. Rare didn't gave up.

[@theheavysleeper2845]

Have it so you can post bottle maps on the quest board. I don’t usually do them and get annoyed by clicking through a barrel to get some garbage map I won’t do. I would rather be able to post them for someone else who is going to that island and would like the extra bonus. I would also like a leaderboard system for buried treasure. It would work just like the emissary system. The same amount of points will give to you depending on rarity of the item, if skulls are in a chest(I feel bad killing a guy then burying him in the ground seconds later without a proper coffin), and an emissary grade for the corresponding loot. Reapers wouldn’t get a bonus because it’s out of character to stop at an island and bury treasure. I feel the quest board was only put in for buried treasure, which is fine, but I still think it deserves more.

[@mxbush1]

It'd be nice if you collect an emissary voyage in the roar that the majority of the island be in the Roar. It's frustrating to complete some voyages in the roar only to leave because of emissary quests being outside of it.

[@chaosmagican]

Hell you can't even dig up an ashen key on Morrows Peak, I never understood why. You can buy it there, vote on it and it leads to ancient spire every time

[@Fang-ek4uq]

What would be cool is if the Molten Sands fort in the Devils Roar got some new platforms and elevators to make gathering the loot more fun. Some lever activated traps in the tunnel that leads to the vault. Some buffs in the loot (maybe even an ashen mega keg) and a 5% of the Box of Secrets spawning in the vault with the rest of the loot, so we finally can get a commendation for selling that damn box. And maybe even a new boss at the end. Maybe Stitcher Jim.

[@pirusaogostoso741]

They should add the supra mega keg, which could sink a galeon in one blow, also they should add the shrouded ghost

[@OneOddPerson]

0:07 I actually started in June 2018 but then stopped playing a year or two later but I have just started playing again as of yesterday!

[@Varrick2]

One possible solution is to make the original forts have an unique item that no other fort has. Said item could be a compass that points to another island for loot, or it could be a storage crate with a guaranteed 5-6 random curseballs. Could also make default forts have the ability to have 3 extra random loot that are high value and can be literally anything except the athena chest or the box of wondrous secrets. For example, maybe you got a ghost chest, perhaps you earned an ashen winds skull, or you could've acquired a storage crate with 10 random fish in it (totally suggested it for the food aspect, definitely not trying to worm my way out of legitimately fishing, *wink wink*).

[@chaosmagican]

10 random fish? Let me see, shark, shark, shark, shark, plentifin, shark, shark ;)

[@ancientsalt4291]

Interesting. I didnt start playing until early 2020. Well I take that back, I BOUGHT the game in early 2020 but didnt start playing until about 3 months before the Pirates life update. Still suck at the PvP aspect but its cool to watch videos on what SoT was like in the early days.

[@SirShadeyy]

Shrouded Spoils is a major reason why the game survived year one before the anniversary update. So many new ways to get loot, so much new loot. It was fantastic. I have every commendation except that damn Shrouded Ghost!

[@AShinyRay]

Very much agreed. Back then I was a bit meh about it after the first 3 updates but in hindsight it made the game what it was (Anniversary and Ships of Fortune too).

[@SirShadeyy]

@@AShinyRay I miss the big anniversary updates. Obviously we won’t get an ‘Anniversary Update’ size update but Anniversary ‘updates’ for years 3 and 4 have been nothing. I get we have seasons now but c’mon

[@RainyRocket-fm6sx]

“Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol days”

[@SpookyJackaBoy]

Well that was a throw back and a haft I first came to the seas on shrouded spoils and never stopped 3 and a bit years later I'm pl a PvP pirate lord and love this game with all my heart. Thanks rare for making a game that is truely special.♥️♥️♥️

[@Tim85axira]

Me and my mate usually dont do any voyages (unless we are on open crew). We spawn in, stock up the ship and just make up our own voyage as we go, complete with challenges and a goal. We dont care about the gold we might end up gaining or loosing. For us its about the adventure and spending time on something we enjoy doing. Never to waste it on something we find boring (Even if we get rewarded in the long run). And even so we have reached max level with all the main factions, except hunters call of course. And we are both hovering just around 20mil gold each. Gold will come no matter how you play. Doing something you think is fun and are really enjoying, is never wasted time, even if you sink and lose all the shinies... Again and again. Just get out there and try again. Maybe try a different approach to a problem, maybe violence is not the answer. Maybe it is. Adapt to every situation so that is suits your own narrative and you will always feel like a true Pirate Captain of old! We really have been enjoying the game for about a year now playing nearly every day using this simple method. "Create your own adventure" (tl:dr Have fun) Sure it might not be as rewarding as doing some sunken ship merchant runs, or stacking FoTD. But in the long run we are playing the game to relax and have a bit of fun after a hard days work. And we have met so, so many new friends that we might never have engaged with if we were doing the voyages. If you have loot and care about the gold, you usually just see people running and rarely engaging with another crew, not even talking, thinking the gold is the most important. (Maybe it is for you, aslong as you enjoy the game you can do whatever you like) But if you have some loot. Or none. But dont care about the gold at all (Because it really is irrelevant and is only used for cosmetics and such, which you will get eventually anyway) and instead choose to engage with your fellow players in a little chat or a fight or whatever happens on the seas, you will start to enjoy this game alot more! And with every addition Rare is making to the game, is a new way to make friends...or enemies! So the best update imo is all of them, or the recent one! PS: The best advice I can give is that if you ever stumble upon a new player. Dont just kill them on sight or if they are on your crew dont harass them for beeing new to the game! We were all new once. Show them why YOU love the game so much and why YOU choose come back to it! Help them and make their session the best you can! Let your passion rub off unto these brave new sailors. This happened to me and I am still here, still loving the game every bit as much as I did my first time learning to steer a ship! Maybe you can help another person find their new favorite game. After all, kindness is its own reward.

[@magus104]

you didnt mention one of the biggest game changers added as well.... Kegs didnt used to have a fuse. you had to set it down and get a safe distance away and shoot it. for such a small change the ability to light a fuse is just so good

[@AShinyRay]

This came out with Gunpowder Skeletons before Cursed Sails!

[@meetthekitsune3973]

0:08 me i started playing this game since 20 of march 2018.

[@daniel_cl4rke]

I think the best thing about the first 4 updates (except maybe forsaken shores) is that it was content that changed the game permanently. To this day all those changes and additions to the game are all interacted with to this day and helped better the game permanently compared to a pattern with new updates I've noticed where with new updates it's more just one time content that everyone does when it comes out and then it's back to the game for example it's sad that I rarely ever see FoTD active anymore as it's obsolete but was easily the best fort to causes player interaction and high stakes gameplay although this could just be to the FOF being superior now. Other abandoned content is Sea Forts, Underwater Shrines, Tall Tales etc. Imo Sea of Thieves needs to look at the core parts game and try to improve what they already have like they did in pretty much all of the og 4 updates instead of adding meaningless content that doesn't truly improve the game overall and is forgotten about in a couple weeks.

[@chaosmagican]

I suspected the Shrines to lose meaning really fast. After commendations I never bothered again. Not sure what Rare was thinking there. Either you leave your ship unattended for way too long or one poor guy has to "chill" on the boat missing out on everything.

[@PaletteBegonia]

Alsooo I swear the fogs been updated since the introduction of belle, seems waaaay thicker recently

[@NoctSwift]

I will admit, I didn't know that the og Skeleton Fort event didn't have what it has now. Now it feels as if the payout aged horribly though, and I fully agree that something needs to be done to encourage people to actually do the event. Especially with the new sea forts added to the game, where players could earn just as much doing these in comparison to skeleton forts, only sea forts require a lot less work.

[@tobywarwick4310]

i think a cool quest idea for order of souls would be catacombs where you would find a key to it a bit like a vault then kill skeletons and like a few captains for lower reputation and then like skeleton lords for higher reputation or like an ashen lord there would also be skulls nd mermaid gems scattered about a bit like sea forts.

[@Sange4499]

I've been saying exactly everything you said for the last 6 months, spot on Garry. Hard agree on putting more into the devils roar and Merm Shrines. Coral bottles suck to do, I've got every sunken shrine commendation except the breaths currently 4/30 zz

[@chaosmagican]

Don't you find the bottles? I have 4-5 after every session and I would love to be able to delete them from my wheel as they are always sorted to the start.

[@chubbersnuckles8484]

My crewmate and i were talking about this were both insiders, the details are insane and i agree, best update ever

[@artvandelay6306]

I'm glad people seem to server hop past regular forts, in favor of FoFs, FotDs, or emissaries. Normal forts are probably my favorite solo PvE endeavor.

[@AShinyRay]

Tridents make it really fun too

[@doesnotcomputegaming1913]

Here me out. At level 50 you upgrade the first voyages in each trading company, like for instance for the caption chest voyages, you now also have a good chance of getting a few cursed chests and mermaid gems

[@Stankymanky1]

As a day 1 player i remember that at the beginning there was absolutely nothing to do and skull forts was just like pvp practice untold hungering deep i started playing the game again but quit 3-5 days later and stopped playing till 2019

[@ForTheOmnissiah]

It's interesting to me that the forts existed prior to actual skull fort events. The forts just kind of sat there dormant. And when they first added events there, it was only a third of the forts on the map. And then finally, the forts existences made sense once all forts were capable of hosting the skull fort event. Just really odd to me. I truly think the games release was rushed out to meet the release of Xbox Gamepass, as it was a Gamepass launch title from Microsoft. There was so much content planned but not executed yet by Rare, and they eventually caught up with their initial vision and are now adding content that wasn't expected at launch.

[@bushwickbillOG]

skull keep wasnt an OG fort, it was Shark Fin Camp

[@AShinyRay]

Thanks for correcting me. Forgot shark fin existed!

[@bushwickbillOG]

@@AShinyRay thanks for the great videos ;)

[@AShinyRay]

@@bushwickbillOG thanks for the support!

[@OMAHA16]

Good to see this game still getting support.

[@AShinyRay]

Nice to see you mate! Yeah, Rare blew TC out of the water with support. And 343 too!

[@OMAHA16]

@@AShinyRay Indeed.

[@centric3125]

I feel like we need a wearable Curse of The Damned, possibly in 'stages' of progression, ending just before outright going Skelly/Skelly Lord. Maybe also provide interactions with other curses? Imagine Damned Ashen Dragons or Gold Hoarders?

[@orangnejones]

MY IDEAS FOR SHROUDED SPOILS 2; Supercritical Islands (temporary name i hope) In the Devil's Roar, one island per server, maybe changing once in a while, will have their volcano always going off and worsened, however piles of loot will spawn on said island, and treasure earned on supercritical islands will always be better. (aka, no bad stuff on supercritical islands, risk/reward) Huffin That Breath Of The Sea Breath of the Seas can now be activated by removing a little cork on the top which; RUBY; After uncorking, the bottle shakes for a little while then explodes, can be used multiple times if recovered, slowly decreasing in power until becoming an empty bottle. EMERALD; Essentially works like an Ashen Winds skull, except it's clambreath, also less durability. Easier to get, and less tedious than killing one of those fiery bullet sponges. SAPPHIRE; Summons a small forcefield anywhere it goes that allows breathing underwater, lasts 3 minutes, and doesn't actually lessen value unless it's fully gone. After full depletion, the bottles just become empty and sell for as much as a castaway's chest, because Rare needs to add a " fuck you " every update somehow. Coral bottles will now give three breaths, and doing shrines normally grants one. Megalodons Four megans sounds like not enough, they should add one more that's really, REALLY rare. alright thanks for scrolling down

[@holidaybros]

i started two days before cursed sails and still going strong

[@Michael_Robbins_99]

I don’t know if it would be practical but I think adding a fort of fortune with ashen loot at molten sands fort

[@ohlite]

I think season 9 did great for a shrouded spoils 2.0!

[@RipplyAnemone67]

I agree fixing meg spawns possibly letting krakens spawn any time now scaling world events the power keg voyage the cursed chest one and skull of destiny chest of fortune just was great

[@Monkeelious]

even though there wasnt much to do i had so much fun playing in the beta and the early days

[@justsomeguy3650]

I think that if they were gonna make a the breath of the sea a consumable it should do something like make it so you swim much faster for an amount of time, which would make it so one of your team could catch up to a fleeing ship, anything short of a galleon with full wind, and attempt to anchor them or bring a keg with you to blow them up.

[@Chevrolet2689]

I completely agree with shrouded spoils being one of the best updates, great video

[@AShinyRay]

Nostalgic for Shrouded Spoils

[@crabbybubble3533]

Man I remember when shrouded spoils came out it really did change the game and I was hoping season 5 was going to be shrouded spoils 2.0 but hey it is what it is still regret not buying the wailing barnacle set

[@AShinyRay]

Wailing Barnacle is easily top 3 ship sets for me. It's gorgeous!

[@royalcactusfruit5200]

I remember hating merchant alliance because the animal quests were too long. I played in around the very beginning after it came out I got it and had fun. Then when they added Meg it was even more fun

[@vellendev]

What sails are at 6:03? The black/blue glow ones

[@SepticSafe_]

You going back and talking about old updates makes me want to see a ranking or tier list of updates 😅

[@AShinyRay]

I'll be covering some of the best older updates in my upcoming videos, maybe not next week though!

[@jesperhustad]

Haven't played the game at all since release. This is a really nice video to catch up!

[@JIRWINKOGaming]

I thought you said "reducing the rewards" for the Devils Roar, so I turned on CC and you said "juicing the rewards". Yes please, make me want to go to Devils Roar because the rewards there are horrible rn.

[@PaletteBegonia]

Wonder if we’ll ever see a different colour kraken 🤷🏽‍♂️ like we did with the Meg .

[@AShinyRay]

Would be sweet

[@brooksburson2641]

I just want more weather effects. The storm could have a wider area of cover an entire region at times. They would have to tone it down a little just to make it bearable, but I think it would be cool. The cloud looks gigantic but the storm only covers like 4-5 squares. Have rain, no storm. Lighting and thunder, but no rain. Just little stuff to spice up the seas. Make it more lively.

[@skeev7]

The skull fort was my favourite world event, they really need to buff its not worth doing it anymore..

[@alexwixom4599]

I too want to drink the breath of the sea. I think it should just give you longer breath holding though. Making sunken ships and future scouring the deep a lot easier.

[@coveherbert6035]

3:23 wait, there were unused forts prior to the update? I’ve been playing since launch and I’ve never noticed that!

[@skibidiSigmaOfOhio773]

I’m an og i played in the first week of release and have the old bones original cutlass to prove it

[@kurokiniro]

Ah the old Forts. When 6 ships fought for 10k Loot x3

[@BlindBob]

I wonder what the thing is on the screen on 1:14

[@epicgamerman7360]

2018 was good but for me 2020/Christmas 2019 (when I started) was peak sot. Fort of the damned was fresh but flame heart and tha wasn’t in the game yet. And the ashen fort was reworked by that point. Brilliant.

[@captainbat37]

I'm a day 1 player and I loved shrouded spoils

[@tehcowgoesquack]

I’m of the opinion that the forts should be made significantly harder right now as they can easily be beaten in 20 minutes (aside from the FoF). However, I also believe that the FoF took it too far as it gives worse loot than the FotD and takes longer. If they made it so that all forts spawned the three generic skelly lords as part of the three final waved, but made them all have unique attacks from each other (the helmsman throws the steering wheels at you for example), I think that would be a good change. Obviously they’d also have to buff the loot a little bit, but if they made a change like this, forts would feel so much more unique.

[@sebastienmunier1201]

Having the boss having unique attacks and behavior would have been awesome, as well as the ashen lords, But well we're talking about rare, the laziest recycling ass you can see. As for the forts, the normal fort is easier, because that was the point for the fof, better rewards, for higher difficulty. Even if it's fully recycling, the balance is kinda good. And no, the fof has way better loot than the fotd. Do an for with reaper 5, you'll have around 350k gold, while an fotd is 150k. The big strength of the fotd is the ability to farm it, and the quickness (is that a word? Sorry I'm french) to do it. Regarding the difficulty and the rewards, the forts are well balanced right now, only the freaking seaforts come to smash it up, with this easy farm, and free supplies. But having every boss (gray marrow, the 3 normal ones, and the ashen lords) having each uniques behaviors and mechanics would have been really awesome. For exemple, if you throw water to most of the ashen lords, it should weaken them. But there could be one that is immune.

[@BionicTem]

I still remember being like "wow, 20k from a skull fort? We'll be rich!"

[@AShinyRay]

Same here!

[@tomtenak4967]

I honestly feel that the storage crate was the single most impactful update. You know why? Because looting barrels sucks. And now it doesn’t. No other update has made this game not suck more than not having to ever access a barrel manually again.

[@dawidscheffler7152]

There is still a boon for accessing manually and that's the random quest spawns - cargo crate doesn't scoop those up but, this is not something most folks care about so they just connect the hoover and move on to the next crate :)

[@tomtenak4967]

@@dawidscheffler7152 yeah, the only thing you need those for are accommodations. Other than that, they’re an ineffective way to make money and rarely are worth the time. Personally I hated the missions and would never pick them up anyway. So now it makes it easier not to pick them up too

[@chaosmagican]

I just wish it would indicate somehow when your crate is full or - like it is without crate - that it actually shows if a barrel is empty or not. I have to repeatedly look into my crate to see if it filled up with all those fireworks or cursed balls, etc.

[@DJDiddles07]

I’m an og I played and have Captain Bones original Pirate Cutlass

[@magicpyroninja]

Been here since the betas got my pirate legend a month and a half after release been maxed out since they gave new levels to level up in waiting for this new legend upgrade I think about a week I'll be maxed out in Athena again

[@jacobb8531]

I played in 2018 but left after being bored for way too long. played back in 2020 because of covid and have played in 2021 and 22 on and off since. Absolutley love SoT and i'm glad Legends finnally get an update

[@MiguelAngel-pn1bz]

Being able to load / unload crates is underrated and taken for granted

[@AShinyRay]

It was Season 5's best feature

[@chaosmagican]

I just don't like that I get my locker denied these days because of the "no storage crate on the ship" people. They are afraid that a boarder uses it to drain all the supplies. I mean I do this all the time but I still want my locker goddammit