Sea Of Thieves’ newest free update, Legends Of The Sea, arrives at present, bringing with it an in-game easter egg hunt. You won’t be looking for precise eggs although, as an alternative you’ll be despatched to seek for a few of these video game easter eggs, and in Sea Of Thieves these take the type of references to the game’s most legendary gamers.
The references have a tendency to be issues like notes, work, carvings and the like, hidden in plain sight on islands all through the ocean. You possibly can earn new tattoos and commendations as rewards for locating them.
Umbra is the identify of the brand new adventurer trying to find these well-known shrines to pirates previous, rewarding you for each you discover with tattoos and commendations which have some form of reference to the pirate or the feat they carried out. For instance, consuming a silly variety of bananas within the technical beta, or being the very first pirate to go to the Ferry of the Damned, are however two of the numerous wondrous issues gamers have been remembered for.
The first time I heard about these easter eggs was after I found the Race of Legends. Final 12 months, Matt wrote a chunk for RPS a few piece I wrote for Eurogamer about Dread Pirate Doug, the player who began a pirate racing league. He ended up being immortalised in-game by his Pirate Legend CV, which could be discovered within the pub on the Golden Sands outpost.
There’s a great deal of different gamers too which have carried out feats spectacular sufficient to catch Uncommon’s eyes, and you’ll learn all about them within the master-list right here. Final week, Lauren really found whereas reporting on the occasion that certainly one of her pirate mates has their very own easter egg in-game too.
Elaborate easter eggs hunts aren’t all of the month-to-month update is bringing us, nevertheless. Duke is again together with his Gilded Voyages, permitting you to tackle more durable however rather more rewarding voyage to achieve a complete heap of loot. There are additionally extra Ashen Tomes to get extra sizzling Ashen cosmetics, a brand new variant of Reaper Chest that wants to be delivered to The Reaper’s Hideout island, and naturally a great deal of new fairly cosmetics to spend your hard-earned loot on.
For these of you who need to spend your IRL hard-earned loot in-game, the Pirate Emporium has obtained a model new assortment of pet outfits, ship liveries and emotes to rejoice the lunar new 12 months. My favorite is the emote that allows you to dance like your pet monkey.
The Legends Of The Sea update is totally free, and you’ll play Sea Of Thieves on Xbox Sport Go for PC proper now (which continues to be on the criminally low value of £1/$1).
Now in case you’ll excuse me, I’m off to update Sea Of Thieves so I can earn some tattoos for my pirate-sona.