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The Chest of Fortune in the Skelly Fleet makes me so happy. Skelly Fleets are my favourite World Event, this will be an awesome season!

Was a bit skeptical at first, but this update truly is shaping up to be a massively positive overhaul to the gameplay loop.

So most of the trading companies have had a 6.66x level cap increase and Athena has had a 16.66x increase.

FINALLY SOMEBODY WHO UNDERSTANDS THE DIVING MECHANIC

As a Solo Slooper, “The Chaser wins by default” is my biggest fear with this update. I’ll fly the guild emissary flag on a chill server with no reaper in sight, go to an island to complete a voyage and all of a sudden a reaper 5 galleon pops out of the water 3 islands away. They scan their map table, see my emissary ship, and I can count the minutes until I have to say my merry loot goodbye. So far, I was able to keep my distance. But I fear I won’t be for long with this update.

This cleared up most of my worries for season 11, sounds pretty cool

In addition: You can find some of the new special emergent-only loot in shipwrecks also, the way it looks in the video from Rare. I hope the maps that randomly spawning skeleton captains drop also have a chance to be the special emergent loot, and that the loot that randomly spawns on islands and underwater around them, has a chance to be those also!

This is the most excited I’ve been for a season since they introduced Hourglass. Some of my best memories playing this game are me and my friends throwing an emissary up and grinding out level 50-75 for each faction. This is going to breath so much new life into the game, and since they said this is the last foundational season, I bet the rest of 2024 is going to evolve the sandbox in amazing ways. We’ve made it through the dark times everyone! Edit: Thank God they’re rebalancing Athena reputation gains.

Thank you! I had so many unanswered questions about the update. Those athena rings better be epic.

Another note: It was confirmed that dabloon voyages (skull of destiny, cursed treasure, etc) will be available as free voyages, like any other. Not directly related to season 11, but Mike Chapman confirmed a few other things in replies on Twitter (mostly teasers). Hunters Call will eventually get distinctions too. Though he was cheeky about the details, meaning it's probably involving an overhaul to hunters call. When asked about the possibility of adding an axe as a weapon, he said it almost certainly will be added eventually. And a Briggsy plushie as a ship trinket is inevitable. That's all the extra details I noticed.

After I maxed out every faction including hunters call I basically dropped off entirely because I’ve done everything I wanted to and having nothing to really want to grind for made me bored but now having 425 levels in each major faction gives me years of play again

I have never seen this channel before and was just trying to learn about trading company mechanics, but that intro was the most magnificant thing I've ever seen.

I waited for the last dive and you did not disappoint me 😂

I do wonder how Doubloon purchased quests and Larina's quests will work. Guess I don't have long to wait

Best update we had in a while. This actually works on replayability and not add in some event everyone will do a few times and then never again lol

haha that was the best intros to a video I’ve seen in quite some time. I was laughing pretty good. Thank you Falcore, your videos are always welcome! Most informative. 🏴‍☠️ I’m looking forward to catching your live stream tomorrow

The best thing about new fortunes location is guna be interesting as there’s no more camping a fort to steal its got to be naval

I think some people done truly see how big off an update this really is. It changes a lot off what we've been doing in SoT for years. Now instead off just hitting lv 50 and going to do world events or vaults for money, there will be more people doing everything, due to the gold changes. For pvps, the chances of loot being in ships is higher and we'll see more emissary flags. Not the mention with gaining progress when finishing a quest or picking loot is going to encourage more fighting. There is Soo much I. This update that can be done is crazy how big it really is

I have been gone for a few years... I came back and had a guilded Athena in my inventory. But before I was confident enough to risk it , the patch came out... I cry...

this video made me genuinely excited about sea of thieves for the first time in a long time

Hey falcore, thanks for the extra information, really informative!

I just want a hunters over haul 😭 fishing and monster hunting is my favorite thing to do but it's so limited rn 😔

There is currently an achievement to deliver 50 fruit crates on time. The contracts for fruit crates are only found in bottles. Since bottles are being upgraded, what happens for fruit crate contracts? Is the achievement achievable?

Food for thought, we set up an ashen lord raid, surfaced at mermaids hideaway after a mattwer of seconds, with the boss already spawned and a brig and sloop there fighting over it.

@0:43 absolutely nailed it, thank you

The intro was hilarious, but really speaks the truth about how sometimes new season update feels! I have played new season yesterday and pretty happy about it so far, although it appears that amount of loot we get has dropped, although now we get more valuable loot. Quality over Quantity? Im not yet sure how i feel about it. Loving new quest table! Thanks for amazing video explanation!

"OVER AT THE PRIVATE EMPORIUMMMMMMMMM...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

3:11 Define "uncontested". Because I dove twice to a skeleton fleet and there was at least one player ship there already, both times.

I believe that there is a bug with the diving with world events because the first day it came out, I was doing a phantom fleet with my friend on a sloop and a gallon just came out the water. Luckily they were horrible but they divided on us half way through the event.

The diving mechanic will be useful for me. I’ll dive to the jack sparrow / davy jones battle and stock up on resource crates and then cancel the voyage. If you want to fight my ship I hope you’re prepared for a long gruelling fight. I’ll have like 5000 planks and cannonballs 😂

My first question about the rings is how would they work with the gloves we have now that are just rings.

Great video Falcore!

@captainfalcore During the ship fleet captain. Can you board the Skeleton Captain's Ship and locate the Chest of Fortune and just jump it off? Or does it only spawn when the ship is sunk?

I can't imagine how much fun you had recording the intro.

Solid video, extreme sound warning for the beginning though

OMG, I love your videos! Thanks for the info past the first sentence.

I bet his neighbors loved that intro lol

Thanks boss for the understandable update on the update

Those twitch drops are the best😂

I know I'm normally the doom and gloom sort for SoT, but these changes I actually do like! Giving the Skeleton Fleet relevance again is great! I don't think I'll grind to 100. I did it for 75 and nearly died doing it. (Thank you Devil's Roar for making skele missions easy.) I'll pass on the 100. Still, if nothing else, I will happily say I believe this is a step in the right direction.

But, when you earn a distinction, and reset to level 1, do you still have access to higher voyage tiers or will you have to start again with only the low tier ones? If it's the second option, I hope you have the choice to ''prestige'' or not when getting to level 100.

This season is going to be awesome

Cant wait to see the future of this game continue

Great video Falcore!!

honestly the fast travel diving thing sounds really good as a recent new player, I feel like it'll be easier to learn the ropes that way

What about the achievements of buying 250 voyages of each Trading Company? Are you still able to get them or did they get deleted?

I'm still not sold on the diving mechanic but the rest of the changes seem positive to me

6:27 jokes on you I love castaway chests

And another thing. This means that all players that you find has more probabillity of having loot. AND they wont be that weiry to fight since they did not had to be at sea going to the quest for 1 hour because they had spawned at Galleons Grave and need to go to Plunders Valley

I am still confused on the raids. If i dive to a world event can it still have the loot that it has always had, or does it now only have that faction's loot?

PIRATE EMPOURIUMMMMM! (Love this bit, me and my freinds were refrecing it for hours in our session)

I'm pretty sure you CAN dive to a world event with someone on it (it happened to me) either that or my game was a little broken

literally today i've dived to an "uncontested" skullfort and had a reaper brig literally sat next to it, so there's that for "uncontested", not that it mattered because they were the kind of player to say "we will sink you if you attack us (nerd emoji)" and then get absolutely destroyed by a sloop and run away (and dive lmao)

I knew he was gonna say “dive, 22” at the end!

It’s easy to separate the over reactive doomsayers from the real and knowledgeable pirate legends with this update. This is easily one of the best updates the game has ever gotten and any one saying fast travel will kill SoT doesn’t understand it yet. Thanks for this super informative and helpful video!

what happened to thieves haven runs cant find them anywhere in new quest UI

What is happening to the quest board then?

As someone who doesn't want to have Twitter or have the time or inclination to watch things on Twitch, I tend to miss out on promotional stuff and information. So I get my news from you, Captain. It would be nice if Rare didn't just stick to these platforms but it is what it is.

Well, I failed to get that gilded athena voyage going in time. Good to hear Athena's fortune will be made less of a grind at least.

So about the new Athena cap: do the rewards unlock at higher levels now or are they the same? For instance, does the ghost eye of reach still unlock at 18 or is it something like 60 now?

first day we went diving for an ashen winds raid, to then come up next to a gally already doing it on boss wave. seems some stuff is still not working correctly.

God I love you Falcore, appreciate the clarifications. Im pumped for Season 11

Does anyone know if the Hunter's Call reputation cap will also increase?

They should add more loot to Skelly forts because when I did it for merchants there was only 3 crates and a couple trinkets

They actually did say this about season 11. But they said it in the deep dive

early in the morning..... half a sleep.... started this video!!!!! woke everyone up awesome intro! HAHAHAHAHHA

The orb has a new dialog :we give you a warning.Soon ,our masters plans will be unveiled .Soon, his spies will be at large

what chest have they replaced for the chest of fortune at the FOTD?

going from point a to point b instantly is actually fast travel 😂

What I don't hear in any video is, how much of this will be nerfed/unavailable in Safer Seas?

Reapers as well the cap is off and there's new cosmetics for the Skeley curse!

As a casual player that only plays with friends in safer seas can I dive in safer seas and if so how?

the intro was hilarious

Thanks so much, you answered so many of the questions I had that wasn't mentioned in the video from rare.

Lost two gilded voyages…but hey I hope they give them out again in the future! :(

Would have loved to hear queen trying to say: over in the pirate emporium. While he was dying In laughter 😂

loved the intro

Things I want to check out when S11 hits: value of chests, mostly chest of fortune, chest of legend and ashen chest of legend. Wondering if they made it so athena quests is actally rewarding you with cash or if it's still about "glory". Also, do you loose high lvl quests access when you prestige? If so, I won't and will keep playing with guild emissary flag while using lvl 100 quests from my favorite faction (assuming there are some and that they're worth it). There is no rings for guild prestiges right? (because going to lvl 10, we could have both hands full?) Does athena loot also have S tier loot? Is box of wonderous secrets more accessible and did they raise it's value? Picky questions but still worth cheking out. Just like gamers asking if you can take chest of fortune from skelly ship or if it's locked somewhere... Ty Falcore for the laughs and happy S11 =)

Diving while on an empty vessal to flee from a persistent griefer that is just trying to kill you for no gain and will chace you for an hour seems like a good use for this. All you need to do is get 3 map scqares away. Then you dive and end up in a new server and you don't have to worry about a vengeful ship chasing you all session. As long as you don't find another one smh. Also guess i just lost my 10+ rare voyages you can't get anymore that I've been saving for 2 years. Sighs*

I've got just one more question regarding this season... _Can you dive directly to the Shores of Gold?_

lol that intro! ❤

I heard something about the map table freezing the servers at the moment?

If only reapers could’ve gotten one of the special, high grade faction loot pieces. It would’ve looked amazing

I got 2 chest of fortunes back to back of those fleet spawning surprisingly nobody in the sever went for the fleet of chest

My only Question is how are they gonna handle Quests like the Skull of Destiny because the only balancing is the Price of the Quest, but now all Quests are Free. I was Just wondering, but I think we are gonna find out Tomorrow ( I’m already hyped )

Is that a new Captain falcons intro? Lol

The intro 😂😂😂😂😂

So if I do some Fishing and put all my fish in the barrels and someone decides to attack me. can just dive down and get rid of them? If I understand correctly.

Just spent my first evening playing the new Season 11 system. It was bad. Oh the whole idea worked just like you said it would, until it didn't. That Dive routine was supposed to ease up on "noobs", (and I am always a noob in SoT,). But it just made it worse. Yes seson ten was very very long. And very peaceful. I rarely even saw another player, let alone had any kind of unpleasant encounter. I was even hoping to actually MEET other players and sit around a play music and drink grog and such. There was very little of the old School knife in the back game play that made focusing on the content just impossible, let alone take the time to actually enjoy it. It one evening I have been ambushed and griefed more times that I suffered with for the entire last YEAR. I dove on three different adventure. In each case withing minutes other players were sinking our ships, without even bothering with loot. We never had any. They just ambushed us, shot us to pieces and had a good laugh. In one instance when we spawned in after the Deep Dive, we were in the middle of three other players, like they were just waiting there for us to show up. This was a bad night. A really unpleasnt, nasty "S*** Storm" of a night. And I think I know how it was so nasty. Forts of Fortune are so close to outposts. Diving to them is useless and you collect less loot if you are an emissary than if you just sail there. Skelly Forts? Pretty much the same,. So World Events, the Big timeconsuming World Events that require some honest focus to beat. They all put big beacons in the sky. Skelly forts and their skulls, Skelly Fleets and they Ship symbol, Ghost Fleets and their Green tornados, and Ashen Lords and their big red tornados. So here is what I think is done. There is enough frequency of folks using the Dives, that the other so called "players", in private I do not use such polite names, just hang out and wait for the even to be visible. I am fairly certain the event shows up while you are still diving to it, so they have the time to just drive over there and wait for your. You get involved with the target and they move in. They know you have nothing to steal, so they aren't after that. The only fun in it is to prevent other people from playing out the the even they wanted to play. Nothing more than that. Once Again we are back Rare Software displaying an absolute hate of their players who actually enjoy the sandbox. And now, ... again, we can't take the time to do it. I will play test this. But I am sure I can get to any world event that appears on any server I am on and show up pretty much as the crew is just getting into their fight. This is extremely aggravating game play. It is miserable, it is the exact opposite of fun, something which games are supposed to be. Unless, of course, one is a low life piece of scum whose only fun in life requires you to make others miserable. Sorry this new system sucks Captain. I can not recommend it to anyone for any reason. I'll play safer Seas. There is no point in playing the rest of it. 75% of the time some jerk stops you from doing that. And Just think! I got to experience all of that in one evening of play, after a year of actually enjoying myself. Huge dissapointment.

We going to get a Keg explosion when the timer hits zero? Lol

Does anybody else see the reapers or hunters tab in the quest thing like at all?

My question is if you’ve been level 75 for a while, will all the work you do past that cap automatically or at all

does ships spawn with boats on?

How does it work with Guilds, is there an option to dive on their behalf besides the emissary?

Oh storage crates go with you? Never knew that😂

So the fleet of fortune won't have increased difficulty? I mean, it kinda make sense, as it's already one of the hardest world event. I think it would have been cool to buff it, to really have the ultimate challenge of sea of thieves. Like the fort of fortune was supposed to be.

Time to come back to the sea after a long break.

Wait your telling me you can wear rings over gloves

any combat changes?