Keelhauled: A Sea of Thieves Podcast

This week in Sea of Thieves we got a new Sea of News video and here are things covered in this episode =)

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Events and Releases

• Gilded Voyages: Returning from October 10-17 for all four major voyage-based trade companies.


• Twitch Drops: From October 17-21, you can earn the Seasoned Sailor Pistol, Sage Seadog Shovel, and Drum.


• SoT Vinyl: Available again on iam8bit.


• New Soundtrack: “Making Mischief” releases on October 11.


• New Art Book: Available for purchase here.


• Golden Scallywag Contest: https://www.seaofthieves.com/news/golden-scallywags

Gameplay Updates

• New Mechanics:
  
  • Hiding on the outer edge of a hull.
  
  
  • Setting bear traps.
  
  
  • Using blow darts, including exploding ones that can be extinguished with water.
  
  
  
  


• New Items and Costumes:
  
  • Midnight Prowler costume set.
  
  
  • Ninja-style weapons.
  
  
  • Fabric wraps in various colors.
  
  
  • Lucky Hand Ship and Weapon Sets.
  
  
  • Rusted skulls clothing, makeup, and accessories.
  
  
  
  


• New Emotes:
  
  • Leaning against barrels.
  
  
  • Crouching/sneaking.
  
  
  • Walking with a barrel hide emote.
  
  
  
  

Development and Improvements

• Anti-Cheat Measures:
  
  • Enhanced Anti-Cheat (EAC) system to combat hacks.
  
  
  • Dedicated team working on new cheats.
  
  
  • Autobans for ship teleporting, trident manipulation, and flying players.
  
  
  
  


• Player Safety:
  
  • Improved security to reduce negative interactions.
  
  
  • Enhanced chat with profanity filtering.
  
  
  • Measures against stream sniping and chat abuse.
  
  
  
  


• Game Performance:
  
  • Optimizations for ship loading during dives and hourglass events.
  
  
  
  

Season Updates

• Sneaky Season:
  
  • Changes to the armory, making loadouts more significant.
  
  
  • Armory on ships will be accessible only to the ship’s crew.
  
  
  • Introduction of the Grapple Gun for repositioning during chases.
  
  
  
  

Communication and Quality

• Insider Information Flow: Efforts to improve the flow of information to insiders.


• Release Process Changes: Calls to remove the NDA for better transparency.

You can check out the official Sea of Thieves news YouTube video