Category: Sea of Thieves Videos

During a recent Sea of Thieves developer game play event, the team set sail across the oceans to battle it out in what they later dubbed the “Pirate Olympics”. What’s particularly interesting is that devs are playing cross platform. Two players are on XBox One and two are on PC.

The Sea of Thieves team is working quite hard to ensure that players are challenged both by game play and by the types of quests which they are sent out on. One of the things that players will find are “riddle quests”, tricky, sneaky, go figure it out sorts of quests.

Any captain on the high seas understands that it’s not always smooth sailing. In the latest Sea of Thieves Inn-side Story, Valentine & Shelley talk stormy weather and how storms can affect how ships sail and the dangers they present to sailors.

A merry band of Xbox folk including Phil Spencer join the Rare development team for some island scouring, skeleton sniping, high seas swordfighting and rival ship scuppering.

The latest Sea of Thieves Behind the Scenes video has been published, this time focused on the importance of community feedback. After inviting the first thousand players to the technical alpha, the team gained valuable feedback that will help drive development.

The next Sea of Thieves technical alpha event will be setting sail for new horizons with the arrival of a skeletal invasion throughout the growing game world.

Four feisty pirates from the Sea of Thieves development team venture into a Technical Alpha play session and mingle with players from our Insider Programme! See how Joe (Executive Producer), Mike (Lead Designer), Andrew and Shelley (Senior Designers) fare on their selfless treasure delivery mission.

In the latest Sea of Thieves “Inn-Side Story”, a series of video developer diaries from Rare, Senior Designers Shelly and Andrew Preston take part to talk more about how cooperative game play will work when the game launches later this year.