Wednesday, April 10, 2019


Sea of Thieves' new competitive Arena mode is 24-minutes of glorious, consequence-free carnage

As someone who ordinarily only tolerates Sea of Thieves' PvP side, rather than proactively engages in it (although, to be clear, I will send you to Davy Jones' Locker if you try and mess with my sloop), I was a little apprehensive when Rare first announced that its multiplayer pirate extravaganza would be getting a new competitive-focussed standalone mode.

From April 30th onward, when Sea of Thieves' Anniversary Update arrives, the existing game (now retitled Adventure Mode, and massively expanded with new rip-roaring, story-focussed campaign missions) will be joined by the new combative Arena Mode. The latter, I had previously assumed, would surely be the domain of bloodthirsty reprobates and toxic trolls, not friendly, carefree sailing-folk like me. Yeah, I might have been wrong about that.

Based on the handful of matches I managed to play at a recent Sea of Thieves press event, Arena Mode is astonishingly good fun. It offers exactly 24-minutes of swashbuckling carnage as five crews of four battle it out, galleon-to-galleon, on a truncated version of the familiar Adventure Mode map, frantically outmanoeuvring each other to accrue the most coins.

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from Eurogamer.net
by April 10, 2019 at 12:01AM

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