If you are seriously considering playing the game, you might as well get on board day one, or better yet, the beta. Unless there are MAJOR issues, being there on day one in a new MMO is tons of fun, as everyone is all excited and in the same boat.
. There are also pre-order bonuses and Rare always gives out beta specific cosmetics to people who participate. 
Nobody sounded entitled, you are trying to make it sound like that. Try again. Either run a beta test for your benefit as a dev to help make the game better, or charge for a “beta test” that stands in as a micro transaction. It’s a dirt ass practice, no matter how you try to paint it.
And also, don’t try to insult me like I can’t “comprehend” something, I get it, trust me. I don’t give a shit if I can play it ahead of time, I’m totally down to help make the game better on release than it was on Xbox. Y’all Xbots have made it abundantly clear that you don’t want others to enjoy your precious game. This whole thread, I was just trying to figure out how, if, and why I should try the game out. After the last few hours, I legitimately have no interest after the way y’all act about it, especially if your type of person plays the game and I have to interact with this same shit in the game. It’s fucking sad, because I was seriously 90% leaning toward grabbing it, but now I really am not interested. What a joke, I’m sure it’s a great community.
Servers not active yet?
The countdown ended and it let me get that far do I don't know really.
Countdown ended. But servers turn on at 5:00am EST tomorrow.
I don’t have game pass and I don’t have interest in it. I’m more concerned about connection issues than anything. I guess I’ll just wait and see after a few days.
I typically don’t buy online games at launch for that exact reason except on rare occasions, but I’ve been looking forward to this one. It’s not that I even care about trying ahead of time, as much as it’s wanting to play a game right when I buy it and making sure there aren’t connection issues for weeks…ie Helldivers 2.
The major issues are my worry. I took a few days off work for Helldivers 2 and couldn’t even play it the whole time.If you are seriously considering playing the game, you might as well get on board day one, or better yet, the beta. Unless there are MAJOR issues, being there on day one in a new MMO is tons of fun, as everyone is all excited and in the same boat.
As for playing with real life friends, 95% of the people I play with online, I meet online. SoT has a robust online community on Discord, SoT forums, streamers, podcasts and SoT gaming groups and clans. SoT also has in-game matchmaking. SoT also uses Looking For Games (LFG) and there are always between 150-500 posts of people looking for crewmates. A couple updates back, Rare introduced an in-game player Guild system. So you can join a player Guild and it adds a whole layer of team based community goals, commendations, titles and cosmetics to earn.
Well…it was bad, you insulted me twice in your post. Gaslight much?
Are you getting the PS5 version and playing in the Beta, Mana?
I took part in the Xbox/Windows beta when the game launched and had zero issues, other than I think they flipped the switch on the servers a little late. When the game launched there were very little issues, other than maybe a few timeouts here and there when que'ing into a server. Overall it was painless.
Do you think with it being a different system there could be connection hiccups? I know the servers are all the same, but maybe psn and the servers working in conjunction with one another? I mean, I guess I shouldn’t really be worried about it, if they are confident enough to not run an open beta, then it’s more than likely okay I suppose.
Yes
I hope so, I’m going to cave and take my chances. I need something to play.
No clue about the rest of your comment but with regard to whether this is ‘solo friendly’, it is not. This is not worth your money if you do not have people to play with.
I’ve heard the exact opposite from quite a few people here. Why would you say it’s not solo friendly? Is it a learning curve thing? Are there forced co op events, and if so, is there matchmaking?
I have almost 750 hours played in the game and a good 98% of that is solo.
That’s what I was thinking, I remember you being one of the quite a few people that mentioned they have mostly played solo and enjoyed it.
The irony is people spooge over Soulslike games when SoT is the exact same risk vs reward, especially playing solo.
The main game is PvP, so you will be against groups of 4 and they will kill your character and take what you’ve accumulated.
You can kill a group of four. Just need a gunpowder keg and suicide bomb their boat. They’ll be crying while you make off with their loot.
Now this sounds fun! Reminds of when I used to attach c4 to an ATV in Battlefied 3, driving it straight toward a full tank, hoping off then hitting the trigger when it got to the tank. Nothing better than watching a ghost riding ATV drive into a tank and blow up, then watching the screen fill with multi kill vehicle kill points lol
If I grab it before the weekend I’ll shoot you a request. Screen name is the same as well.
The best is when you’re solo slooping and someone is stupid enough to follow you directly behind your ship. Grab a keg, jump off, and time the detonation when they’re right above you.
I like hearing about some of the creative strategy to enjoy the solo experience more.
www.polygon.com
You miss a ton of the game in that mode though including the entire endgame.Try safer seas, if you dont want to pvp.
Sea of Thieves’ next season adds a safer game mode with no PvP enabled
Sea of Thieves finally has a friendly game mode for those who don’t want to scrap
It’s the same game but progression and rewards are capped at 30% less and there’s a level cap for each trading company that prevents you from reaching Pirate Legend and the endgame factions.
You can't really stress test with a closed beta. This is likely just testing the PSN integration if anything.
It actually is.
