Sea Of Thieves

[Electric Kite]

Lets discuss.

It has a lot going for it and in many ways the concept is relatable to elite - ships, crews, open ended gameplay, ship battles, loot...

From what ive seen i think Elite could strive to achieve what this game is..

Your thoughts?

 

[Deleted member 110222]

I mean... I guess?

Let me put my personal opinion here. I have access to both ED and the SoT Beta.

I am not playing SoT at all, and playing ED all the time.

Make of that as you will.

 

[Enderby]

Not heard of Sea of Thieves until now.

Looks like it could be fun.

 

[Vasco Sapien]

There is a sub-forum for non ED gaming.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

Looks good but multiplayer only so I am out

 

[Cruel_R]

Before this thread gets moved - SoT looks pretty good so far. I'm in.

 

[Electric Kite]

Before this thread gets moved - SoT looks pretty good so far. I'm in.

You can still talk after its moved

But yeah it is a lot of fun.

There is a sub-forum for non ED gaming.

Thanks for your creative input.

 

[Weps]

At first I thought: "pfff, what's this cartoon game" but for the past 4 days I've had my eyes glued to Twitch watching this. And yes, I thought about the lessons FDEV could learn from it.

The crew mechanics are what make it shine. Each so simple by itself, yet it's so satisfying when a good team manages to get everything to come together. Regardless of holograms, teleportation and other nonsense, this is what multicrew should have been.

 

[Electric Kite]

I mean... I guess?

Let me put my personal opinion here. I have access to both ED and the SoT Beta.

I am not playing SoT at all, and playing ED all the time.

Make of that as you will.

i mentioned it because its basically Elite..excpet on water...but with more features..like ship boarding...sea (space?) legs... sunken ships aka derict space stations/shipwrecks...Eeverything elite has this seems to have the historic equivelant of..theres a reason the Uss Enterprise was named after a Sea Ship...


Anyway. I also play elite . But i also play this and i think both games could learn from each other.

At first I thought: "pfff, what's this cartoon game" but for the past 4 days I've had my eyes glued to Twitch watching this. And yes, I thought about the lessons FDEV could learn from it.

The crew mechanics are what make it shine. Each so simple by itself, yet it's so satisfying when a good team manages to get everything to come together. Regardless of holograms, teleportation and other nonsense, this is what multicrew should have been.

Finally. Someone who gets it. Thank you. And yes. I totally agree!

 

[TieKnee]

Just watched the trailer .... not for me, I prefer space stuff and the ability to go solo to a quiet place if the need arises....... but it looks funny ... might get a laugh out of it!

 

[Electric Kite]

Just watched the trailer .... not for me, I prefer space stuff and the ability to go solo to a quiet place if the need arises....... but it looks funny ... might get a laugh out of it!

There is a solo ship option. Just you and the open sea. Ive done it. And its brilliant.

Anyway i was not trying to get you to play it...but take note of how its world building and emergent gameplay has been created....something elite could do with.

I would love for Braben to sit down and play this game for one hour. Then sit down and Play his own. (something a lot of us have asked if hes done recently)

This is what ideally would happen in my mind and it would lead to great things for Elite.

 

[Sci-Fi Sage]

There is a solo ship option. Just you and the open sea. Ive done it. And its brilliant.

Anyway i was not trying to get you to play it...but take note of how its world building and energent gameplay has been created....something elite could do with.

You can sail on your own, but you're not playing solo; learned that the hard way.

 

[Electric Kite]

You can sail on your own, but you're not playing solo; learned that the hard way.

Should have gone to a quiet place

 

[Vasco Sapien]

Thanks for your creative input.

This isnt a forum for Xbox games. Simple.
I guess the mods are on tea break.

 

[StarfireIX]

I mean... I guess?

Let me put my personal opinion here. I have access to both ED and the SoT Beta.

I am not playing SoT at all, and playing ED all the time.

Make of that as you will.

If you don't play SoT, then why are you here then.

 

[SAB380]

I mean... I guess?

Let me put my personal opinion here. I have access to both ED and the SoT Beta.

I am not playing SoT at all, and playing ED all the time.

Make of that as you will.

I'm convinced.

 

[Mano d'Oro]

If you don't play SoT, then why are you here then.

Ummm, at a guess? Probably 'cos this is Dangerous Discussion... you know, the subforum for discussion about events/occurrences actually in Eliteangerous... rather than, as Vasco said earlier, being the appropriate subforum for non-Elite related stuff? Just a hunch. [yesnod]

 

[Captain N]

Clearly, we need a feature to be able to use random Holo-me cmdr's from the match-maker as limitless ammunition for our cannons. If you aim them just right, they crash through the enemy conda's windshield and stab the captain to death.

 

[JudeSaint]

Ive played the hell out of Sot the last 3 days. It is a lot of fun for sure. Is it elite? ... no. Can elite take some things away from it? ... yea kinda i think. Does it matter? .... no because at the end of the day Elite is Elite and Sot is Sot ... two different games that will appeal to two different types of people. Both are a lot of fun for different reasons.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

This isnt a forum for Xbox games. Simple.
I guess the mods are on tea break.

whilst initially the post was in the wrong section........ I would say you were wrong on 2 accounts
1) Dangerous Discussion IS a forum for xbox users........ (admittedly it is meant to be elite )
2) Sea of Thieves is a play anywhere title, so xbox AND PC.

(just for the record)

PS there are a lot of games FD could (should imo) look at for Elite... but then, I am convinced FD know exactly that these features would benefit ED greatly.

in my most optimistic glass half full days I like to think all the stuff missing, which is in the DDF (hence why i know FD know what makes a great Elite game) I like to think the missing stuff is in development and just not ready yet.

in my more pessimistic days I fear the devs either do not have the Time / money / talent - delete as appropriate) to make it work properly OR that fundamentally at its core the ED code is just too broken and is too much of a mess to get this stuff right and so we may never get it