Sea of Thieves Arena matches will get nastier and shorter in April

Sea of Thieves is all about high-seas swashbuckling: Crusing the ocean blue, digging up treasure, battling supernatural evils, and infrequently mixing it up together with your fellow pirates. That is what I like about it, anyway, however gamers with a extra aggressive bent also can bounce into the Enviornment, a separate PvP mode that focuses solely on grabbing treasure and sinking ships.

The April content material replace will make some pretty large adjustments to that Enviornment expertise, first by eradicating treasure maps from the mode. As a substitute, there shall be only one chest, marked with a Superb Sea Canines beacon—principally a neon purple flare capturing straight up into the sky—and one place to drop it off, additionally well-marked. As lead designer Shelley Preston explains within the replace video, meaning you may know precisely the place you might want to go from the second the match begins—and so will everybody else. That ought to go a good distance towards funneling gamers collectively, and into battle.

To assist be certain that gamers tangle like actual pirates as a substitute of spending all day dancing round each other, Enviornment match lengths are additionally being shortened from 24 minutes to 15, the Arenas themselves are being condensed, and silver rewards for ship-to-ship battles are being elevated. The adjustments are presently being testing through the Sea of Thieves Insider Program, and barring unexpected catastrophe shall be rolled out within the April replace.

This weekend will even mark the second anniversary of Sea of Thieves, which Uncommon will have a good time with a particular livestream starting at 10 am PT/1 pm ET on March 20, that includes former Rooster Enamel CEO Burnie Burns. The Spinal Figurehead shall be up for grabs in the course of the stream, and anybody who performs at any time in the course of the anniversary weekend will even be given an anniversary version Eye of Attain—that is the Sea of Thieves sniper rifle.

Sea of Thieves will even be free to play from March 18 to 23, a wonderful technique to bounce into the motion if you have not performed it beforehand, and a three-week anniversary occasion will start on March 20 with occasions and rewards drawn from among the recreation’s earliest updates, together with the Hungering Deep, Cursed Sails, and Forsaken Shores.

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