Season 12 is upon us finally! Bringing with it a wealth of recent instruments, our newest content material replace guarantees extra methods to play than ever earlier than. Searching for a brand new loadout? Two extra weapons have been added to the Armoury to broaden your choices. Nonetheless not received the dangle of boarding enemy ships? With the flexibility to run throughout harpoon strains, you’ll be hopping from deck to deck very quickly. Alongside a number of different main and minor modifications, Season 12 rewrites the foundations of engagement on the Sea of Thieves.
Arriving with a bang on April thirtieth, this new Season follows within the footsteps of these earlier than and contains one other 100 ranges of Renown to be climbed, with all of the earnable cosmetics, gold, Doubloons and Historic Cash that entails. As all the time, this launch is free for all gamers – simply be sure your recreation is totally up to date on the platform of your selecting and also you’ll be able to set sail.
The central focus of Season 12 is increasing the instruments at your disposal to be sure you can all the time be precisely the kind of pirate you need to be, it doesn’t matter what that appears like. To make that occur, we began with the cornerstone of all pirates’ day-to-day lives: fight. For the primary time since launch, two new weapons have been added to your Armoury, providing model new alternate options for approaching the likes of skeletons, Sirens, Ocean Crawlers and, in fact, enemy crews.
The primary of those incoming armaments is the Double Barrel Pistol, a variant on the present pistol that, because the title implies, has the capability to fireside twice earlier than every reload – or, if you happen to’re very positive of your goal, you possibly can unleash each bullets collectively in a single charged shot.
The second is a barely extra hands-on, however no much less lethal different: throwing knives! These compact blades can be utilized for mild and heavy melee assaults if you happen to get in near your opponent, or hurled from afar if you happen to’d relatively maintain your distance.
And, in contrast to misfiring one in every of your weapons, a poorly aimed throwing knife isn’t wasted – as a substitute, it’ll lodge itself into no matter it hits, able to be picked up and rethrown. Simply attempt to bear in mind the place they landed; there’s nothing stopping your opponent from taking that knife and throwing it again, in any case…
In fact, fight isn’t simply concerning the weapons in your hand, however the mates by your aspect! With the magical Bone Caller, even pirates preferring to sail solo will have the ability to name for assist and summon skeletons to battle beside them. For a time, at the least. Skeletons aren’t identified for his or her sturdy work ethic, .
It’s not solely face-to-face battles getting a refresh both. The addition of scattershot provides a brand new twist to cannonball fight, inflicting a number of breaches on any ship it hits at the price of decreased firing distance. On the similar time, novel rope know-how now allows pirates to hop onto their harpoon strains and sprint throughout them to enemy ships in a high-risk, high-reward boarding technique. So long as you possibly can maintain your stability!
All these new additions are accompanied by a wealth of different modifications to your gameplay expertise, together with the set up of useful ziplines so as to add some spice and velocity to island traversal, and the Horn of Honest Winds – an artefact that gives many perks from filling your sails and boosting your swimming velocity to rebuffing enemies and placing out fires. There’s by no means been higher flexibility to determine your personal private strategy to the pirate life!
As all the time, the newest replace doesn’t simply introduce gameplay modifications however new cosmetics too! The brand new Season brings a contemporary Plunder Go, for decided gamers to unlock the myth-inspired Gorgon ship assortment, Headband and two-stage Stone Curse.
In the meantime, pirates with a watch for technique – or simply massive, massive followers of monochromatic trend – will get pleasure from shopping the Checkmate ship set, weapons and clothes, whereas jellyfish lovers must be delighted by the return of the Sting Tide assortment from a earlier Plunder Go. And did somebody say owls? Absolutely not the brand new owl pets we’ve been promising for ages? That’s proper, owls are right here finally, a alternative of 5 from Barn Owl via to Black Banded Owl!
The arrival of Season 12 isn’t all concerning the new content material – it additionally sees a brand new wave of gamers crusing in on PlayStation®5. Whereas some had been in a position to be part of us for the Closed Beta earlier within the month, and people who bought the Premium Version have been in a position to discover Early Entry over the past 5 days, at the moment’s replace opens the floodgates for all pirates on PS5® to set out onto the seas.
A hearty welcome to all newcomers! To assist have fun the launch, gamers on all platforms who be part of us all through Season 12 will obtain the splendidly symbolic New Daybreak Sails. Fly them with delight! This new period for Sea of Thieves additionally had us considering our present recreation trailers and deciding that now can be the right time for a refresh…
If you wish to know extra about any of the modifications arriving with Season 12 – in addition to those who we delivered final week as a part of PS5® Early Entry – be sure you try our newest launch notes. In any other case, a brand new Season awaits! Get on the market and luxuriate in it!