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SpartyCrunch

Xbox
Verified
Oct 25, 2017
2,497
Seattle, WA
If you're still seeing 0x803f8001 / "not available in your account", try forcing your cache to reset ASAP by running wsreset from the start menu and re-launching the store again after.
 

trugs26

Member
Jan 6, 2018
2,025
I had an idea today that I thought was brilliant. Then I couldn't remember what it was. I remember now! You should be able to hide in barrels. Barrels on islands, floating in the sea, in enemy ships, etc. It would give more options for stowing away on vessels, and for solo players to hide from galleons and whatnot when being pursued. When inside the barrel, you could peek out (or have the hiding entirely in third person around the barrel). You can't perform any actions when inside, just hide (maybe eat bananas). Other players would only know you are inside by stabbing or shooting the barrel, at which point you would be forced out of hiding.
I like this idea! Nice one.
 

bmdubya

Member
Nov 1, 2017
6,500
Colorado
GamePass might be working again. I just hit Play on the Windows Store page on PC, and the game launched. Just an hour ago I was getting an error.
 

Jarate

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
4,614
game is like basically fully downloaded but says that it cant install

getting error code Code: 0x80070005 with game pass
 

Tawpgun

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
9,861
So some people are getting disheartened by bad solo sloop experiences. Saying there should be pve servers, or sloop only servers which I am against, because I want to have a shared cohesive world, and a mix of ships helps spice the game up.


1. Needs to be anti griefing in place. The best way is to offer you more options in the ferry of the damned. Allow you to scuttle your ship and spawn in another region.... and give you an option to migrate servers. This happens in other games all the time "yo this team is stomping us let's find another match"

2. Allow you to bury your treasure. If you see a ship bearing down on you there should be a way to bury the treasure and maybe give yourself a crude map to it. This is such a piratey feature!

3. Tune the experience better for solo players. The sloops already fill slower than a galleon. Make solo sloops fill slightly slower than a duo. Other things include making pigs live longer, snakes charmed longer, skeletons less beefy (excluding forts)
Forgot to add to this one of my most requested features... the ability to get rep by just doing certain actions, and specifically for beating the voyage.

So for instance, you will get rep upon finding the treasure, killing the captain, and capturing the animal.

In order to get the money, you need to turn it in. They will give you some bonus rep on top of that. This way, if
You get attacked you don't feel like you lost EVERYTHING. You still keep that rep.
 

Remedy

Member
Oct 29, 2017
278
I'm still getting the error, but I'm gonna keep trying like 'I'm an average consumer', so basically I'll just keep clicking the desktop shortcut until it works. If it doesn't, for whatever reason.......... well, that's basically means 90% of PC players who got this will disappear. People don't check twitter and follow instructions like "Well just uninstall it and re-install it and check these settings". People uninstall, and forget.
 

forrest

▲ Legend ▲
Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,517
Game gets right to the end of the download and errors out on the install.

*If you're experiencing this issue, wait until the game starts to install and then restart your pc right away. When it reboots if will finish the installation properly without the error. smh
 
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bmdubya

Member
Nov 1, 2017
6,500
Colorado
Got my ebon flintlock pistol. :D
Same! I love the look of it. Does anyone else know if this patch added the feature where you start with the cosmetics you had equipped last session, or has that always been around? I noticed last time I didn't have the new tankard equipped that I had recently purchased, but when I booted up this time, it was equipped.
 

ThiefofDreams

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
1,481
Forgot to add to this one of my most requested features... the ability to get rep by just doing certain actions, and specifically for beating the voyage.

So for instance, you will get rep upon finding the treasure, killing the captain, and capturing the animal.

In order to get the money, you need to turn it in. They will give you some bonus rep on top of that. This way, if
You get attacked you don't feel like you lost EVERYTHING. You still keep that rep.

I think this is the exact thing that needs to be done to help out with longevity. Losing your treasure to griefing or random pirate attacks would be fine, if the time you spent finding your loot at least built up to something a little bit.

I spent an hour and a half doing a three chapter quest yesterday, while also fighting off successfully a gally the whole time. On our way back with the rewards the other ship FINALLY got lucky and sank us and whoop there goes all that time spent for nothing. We sank them too so I'm the end no one even got anything.

Getting the rep upon completing a voyage and gold upon turning it in is probably the best "meet in the middle" we could hope for.
 

Chiramii

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,665
Norway
Was in yet another fierce stronghold fight. Managed to sink a galleon and board another one. Raised their anchor and set sail just to get them away from the stronghold and the boss. It seemed like they didn't realize I was an enemy at first so they let me control the ship for a small moment and I sent their ship directly into a kraken!

Got the key, looted the place and sailed away with the loot. Best experience I've had so far. RNG was on our side bigtime.
 

Petran

Member
Oct 29, 2017
2,034
The Game Pass issue should now be resolved - both the ability to download and play, and the 0x80070005 error code some of you were previously seeing while downloading today's update.
Hi!
Can you please push this up the chain, along with my asking for an option to toggle on/off PC players on xbox?



Needless to say that for people like me this is a complete dealbreaker., hence what I ask you for.

Thank you
:)
 

Drexion

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
268
The problem imo is that you can't leisurely explore or take your time on a quest. Its all rush rush rush before someone comes by and sinks your ship parked off shore. Not the best experience imo. Constant stress of a PVP attack.
This was one of the reasons The Division lost so many players in its first few months - the way they tried to mix PvE and PvP content in their end game at the time (the dark zone) - which just led to a lot of griefing and harassment which drove players away from the game. You had squads of PvP players running around ganking other PvE players and stealing their loot. The game population didn't start to pick back up until the devs started to add end game PvE game content that did not have forced PvP in it.

Even if the game was content packed, it'll be interesting to see how the player count changes long term, it's very difficult to mix and match pve/pvp minded players in the same zone, especially when they can steal each other's loot. It's the kind of thing that drives players away en masse.
 

Garrett 2U

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
5,511
Hi!
Can you please push this up the chain, along with my asking for an option to toggle on/off PC players on xbox?



Needless to say that for people like me this is a complete dealbreaker., hence what I ask you for.

Thank you
:)


Craig Duncan of Rare already tweeted acknowledging this exact hack and said that they are working on fixing it. I don't think you get much higher up the chain than that, regarding Sea of Thieves.

Also, I think that user works on Microsoft Store, not Sea of Thieves.
 

Petran

Member
Oct 29, 2017
2,034
Well fixing ONE hack is not what I asked guys.
I asked for an option to keep online to xbox-only players if and when I want.
 

Xiaomi

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,237
Got my Steam Controller working with this last night via GloSC. It's pretty great. The game really doesn't require the precision of a mouse, and for sniper rifles you can crank the sensitivity on the trackpad and the gyro waaaaay up upon ADS to aim at a decent speed for once. Feels comfy.
 

Windu

Member
Oct 25, 2017
13,622
This was one of the reasons The Division lost so many players in its first few months - the way they tried to mix PvE and PvP content in their end game at the time (the dark zone) - which just led to a lot of griefing and harassment which drove players away from the game. You had squads of PvP players running around ganking other PvE players and stealing their loot. The game population didn't start to pick back up until the devs started to add end game PvE game content that did not have forced PvP in it.

Even if the game was content packed, it'll be interesting to see how the player count changes long term, it's very difficult to mix and match pve/pvp minded players in the same zone, especially when they can steal each other's loot. It's the kind of thing that drives players away en masse.
Yeah I have never seen a game mix both play types successfully. I don't expect Rare to either.
So have we gotten our achievements?
server side patch later this week will resolve it.
 

jviggy43

Banned
Oct 28, 2017
18,184
You haven't stated any problem.

What makes you think players who don't have Legendary status will have access to Legendary cosmetics? They are just going on Legendary Voyages w/ legendary pirates, earning gold and XP faster. This doesn't meet shops will sell them Legendary Gear.

If you steal Legendary loot, then at least one pirate in the crew was legendary.

Being able play with a Legendary players, isn't the same as being Legendary yourself... just like hanging out with a celeb for a day isn't the same as being a celeb. You aren't even guarunteed to have such an opportunity. The idea is such that people will relish this opportunity... which makes it special.
Because rare said that non legendary status players will be allowed to go into the legendary pirate hideout and do quests with them. Which means they'll be leveling any new vendor/cosmetic as well otherwise why would you be allowed to do the legendary voyages at all?
 

Dyno

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
13,256
I'm pretty sure they are, but I'm not just reporting, I am asking for a specific thing. Yes?

Well, realistically it isn't going to happen. And why would they bother when they're already aware of the issue? They're not going to cause 100 other problems to solve one they're about to fix
 

Sydle

Member
Oct 27, 2017
3,276
Was in yet another fierce stronghold fight. Managed to sink a galleon and board another one. Raised their anchor and set sail just to get them away from the stronghold and the boss. It seemed like they didn't realize I was an enemy at first so they let me control the ship for a small moment and I sent their ship directly into a kraken!

Got the key, looted the place and sailed away with the loot. Best experience I've had so far. RNG was on our side bigtime.
That must have felt incredibly satisfying. I imagine the rest of your crew had a good laugh.
 

RoslindaleOne

Prophet of Truth
Member
Oct 27, 2017
121
I just got my black dog pack 10 minutes ago from an Xbox live message. So, for those who are worried they won't get it, you will eventually.
 
Oct 27, 2017
616
Newnan, GA
Ha ha, I just got my first Chest of a Thousand Grogs! I didn't realize it also played "Drunken Sailor" while you carried it. It is amazing how I've gotten more gold and leveled up higher from finding random crap than I have from doing voyages.
 

tokyostomp

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
855
Is there a way to chat on PC through a headset while having game audio go through the tv speakers? I use a xbox controller and the mic (not headset) and it funnels everything to the one earpiece
 

Keeng

Member
Nov 1, 2017
495
Friend and I just robbed a sloop with a single player. Netted a villainous, two disgraced and a hateful skull. Feels good
 

Windu

Member
Oct 25, 2017
13,622
Is there a way to chat on PC through a headset while having game audio go through the tv speakers? I use a xbox controller and the mic (not headset) and it funnels everything to the one earpiece
There is a setting on the Xbox version of Sea of Thieves for having chat audio in the headset or tv. Maybe SOT pc has a similar setting.
Friend and I just robbed a sloop with a single player. Netted a villainous, two disgraced and a hateful skull. Feels good
Not for the Solo Sloop though. I hope he attacked first.
 

roguesquirrel

The Fallen
Oct 29, 2017
5,483
so annoyed a ship with the skeleton fort loot slipped through my fingers because my crew quit in frustration after dying to them and the randos who loaded in wanted to fight the kraken we ran into and voted me into the brig because i sailed away from it towards the galleon
 

Cream Stout

Member
Oct 28, 2017
2,613
neat, finish the update, hop on to play with friends and can't even equip a weapon to my second slot and can'treplace my sword with a gun in the 1st slot. just lovely. then our ship gets raided by 2 guys and i'm getting 1 shot killed by the blunderbuss as soon as i exit the loading screen. it's like it's loading my body in before i even get out of the loading screen so the enemy is right up on me.
 

Gestault

Member
Oct 26, 2017
13,356
First impression of the patch on the 1X is good. Screen tearing the places I had run into it before seems to be gone. Performance feels similar in a good way. I did see a game crash maybe five minutes out from the starting outpost, but that's seeming like a fluke. I spawned in the wilds, so at first I thought the HDR was acting up, lol.
 

Kyle Cross

Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,414
The worst aspect of this game is not being able to find groups to play with 95% of the time even with the Discord and Xbox Group. It's really dragging me down.
 
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