Sea of Thieves wants you to get all emotional with new Adventures and Mysteries
Sea of Thieves is getting a pair of massive new features that'll change the way we play the game in 2022: Adventures and Mysteries.
Rare provided a ton of details on Sea of Thieves' plans for 2022 as well as a a sneak preview of season 6 in an extensive video preview.
Adventures are cinematic, story-driven live-events that'll take place monthly and last for about two weeks each. Each adventure can be thought of as a chapter in an overarching story, with each season hosting a "Special Adventure" to bring the various threads to a conclusion before changing gears in the next season. Director Mike Chapman says that the way the community reacts to the Adventures and the choices they make will alter the outcome of the story and change the game world forever.
These story events are apparently designed to create more of an emotional connection between players and the NPCs sailing around the world. "We want to appeal to players' hearts, get them to care about these places, get them to care about these characters," said senior designer Chris Davies.
Mysteries, on the other hand, are stories players will have to work together to uncover, with clues presenting themselves both "in-game and out of game," according to executive producer Joe Neate. Mysteries will unfold throughout longer intervals than Adventures as Rare reacts to how efficiently players are solving them. So basically, it sounds like if we fumble around like drunken pirates, it'll take longer for Mysteries to unravel, but if we're smart about it they might play out a little quicker.
Davies says Rare was inspired by murder mysteries, ghost stories, and whodunnits across movies, TV, and books as it was designing Sea of Thieves' Mysteries. In fact, the first one will task
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