Sea of Thieves Season 17 has formally begun, tasking pirates with looking for out members of a mysterious new faction, the Smugglers’ League. The smugglers have coin to commerce for sure treasures–but a few of it’s dangerous cargo to haul throughout the excessive seas.
To start out your dealings with the League, you will first have to search out them, monitoring down one of many well-hidden and booby-trapped Smugglers’ Hideouts scattered throughout the map. Whereas the League has curiosity in additional commonplace treasures together with fantastic artwork and fantastic rum, their principal focus is on explosive Black Powder Barrels–a dangerous cargo to be carrying in your ship.
As soon as gamers have tracked down a Hideout, they will be capable to choose up Smugglers’ Route Runs, delivering often-dangerous cargo from one level to a different. Smugglers’ Runs can be picked up from a message in a bottle bearing the Smugglers’ mark.
The League additionally has some invaluable cargo unaccounted for, with Smugglers’ Shipwrecks providing plentiful alternatives for enterprising pirates to plunder. Discover lacking cargo on the ocean flooring, washed up on seashores, or reclaim it from Skeleton Ships and return it to the League for an enormous reward.
That is simply Act 1 of the brand new season, with extra content material together with heists set to unlock as Act 2 and three comply with all through September and October.
The brand new season additionally contains a wide range of new cosmetics accessible on the Pirate Emporium, with extra in a position to be unlocked from the Plunder Cross. For the primary time, gamers will be capable to play with further characters, with the brand new Pirate Profiles system permitting you to begin from scratch with a brand new pirate–without wiping your present progress.