If you’ve watched any of the footage of players and devs hamming it up on voice chat while playing Sea of Thieves, you’ve probably gotten the impression that voice comms are going to be pretty important in the game, which is true. But it’s not the only type of communication the Rare devs have planned. As a recent video explains, the devs are working on a non-verbal communication system for folks who can’t or don’t want to join the melee on voice comms.
The basic in-progress demo is currently a scrollable radial menu of phrases that change based on the context of what’s going on when and where the player is. For example, if you’re standing by the ship’s navigation map, the radial menu will display compass directions. That’s chiefly of use to console players or PC players using a controller (as the dev on this video is doing), but on PC, you can also type anything you like and send it straight to the standard chat channel.
We’re still anticipating the game for a PC and Xbox One launch early next year.
