Rare published a post on their Sea of Thieves development blog announcing that the game volition be presently be testing a individual server feature, which has long been requested by fans. While an verbal public date for private servers has yet to be set, the developer announced it would exist testing the waters with closed alphas for small audiences among the game's core player base.

Sea of Thievesinitial release was met with mediocre critical reviews and tepid takes from early adopters, merely the championship has since constitute its sea legs thanks to a steady stream of content updates and quality-of-life tweaks that have attracted over 10 million full players.

Rare stated that private servers volition be meant to foster emergent play, such as the actor-created SkullBall game type, fashion shows, and Pirate Games. As such, the focus will be on interactions between players as opposed to PvE content, so players will not be able to build custom servers for the purpose of farming reputation and gold.

Some customization features that will exist available at launch include determining the number and type of ships that will be permitted on a server, and link codes to allow specific members of the community to easily sync upward on the same server. That last one is a game-changer, as Ocean currently has a difficult, four-role player cap on crews.

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Larger parties hoping to sail together accept to coil the dice by repeatedly logging into servers and seeing if they finish up in the aforementioned instance. While this makes sense for rest purposes, it can crimp plans for larger, player-organized events that might otherwise exist torpedoed by griefers.

Individual Servers could be the 2d nearly significant update to the game after its recent jump to Steam with full cantankerous-platform play, though it can be hard to proceed rails of all the desperate changes that have arrived over the grade ofSea'due south two-twelvemonth voyage. In grooming for the Steam launch, Rare released a compact patch in late May that added new features including a much-requested checkpoint arrangement for Tall Tales, the lengthy quests that convey Sea's core narrative. This welcome alter enables seafarers to spawn pertinent quest items without needing to backtrack, allowing more players to experience some of the game'due south most compelling and well-designed content in easily digestible bursts.

Given Rare's track record of incorporating innovative and much-sought improvements, it is a safe bet that more interesting customization options will follow after the foundation has been laid. Executive producer Joe "Iii Sheets" Neate appear in the post that rare was "slap-up to hear from people with proposals for new customs events," and recommended those players reach out through the game'due south Affiliate Brotherhood, designed to aid players discover crew members.

Sea of Thieves is out now for Xbox One and PC.

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Source: Rare