Yo-ho, Sea of Thieves captains. The latest game patch is giving you more control over who exactly is on your boat thanks to the “Open and Closed Crews” system implemented this morning. You’ll use “Open” when you’re game for a PUG and “Closed” when you just want to sail the seas with your mates with no intruders or replacements. Eventually, the game will even allow folks to block their own friends from joining (if you really need some serious alone-time, I guess) as well as flip between the types on the fly.
“We hope this mitigates one of the key reasons for people misusing the brig and will be monitoring this closely,” Rare says. (You’ll recall that brig-griefers claimed they were doing it because they wanted to bring their friends into their group, something easily rectified before by simply gathering said friends before queuing, so yeah, we’ll see.)
What else is in the patch? The studio’s added basic trading of items like bananas and cannon balls, fixed tags underwater, added new sound effects, tweaked some in-game prices, improved drops at higher ranks, and fixed a ton of nasty bugs, including the one that was delaying achievements and commendations.
The #SeaOfThieves servers are back online nice and early! This patch includes the much requested Open and Closed Crews feature, the ability to hand resources to your crew-mates, a bunch of bug fixes, improvements and more! Notes: https://t.co/mskY0MoZLq pic.twitter.com/Im1Ohz3vO7
— Sea of Thieves (@SeaOfThieves) May 15, 2018
The servers were up early, it’s true, but then came right back down for a hotfix:
From 14:45 BST the #SeaOfThieves servers will be offline for approximately 1 hour. Unfortunately the feature which enables players to hand other pirates resources is causing an issue and as such, needs to be temporarily removed from this patch while we investigate further.
— Sea of Thieves (@SeaOfThieves) May 15, 2018
Update: And here’s the dev update video out now:
