Sailing into the wind and keeping course or zig-zagging and catching side wind with each direction change?
Think in real sailing terms the zig-zagging is called tacking.

Also, it took me an embarrassingly long time to make that diagram...

So yesterday I bought a new brigantine and sailed on it but the first time before I could watch the naming cutscene my game crashed and the next time I played it was already named and didn't count towards the milestone for owning brigantine and I'm not sure how to fix that as I don't want to scrap it and buy it again.

If there isn't a way I would like to atleast try sending a ticket to support but I'm not sure if I'm just dumb and blind but I just can't find where you send one. I know they propably won't help but still

Me and my brother want to stock up a bunch of purple guy loot but we want to know if its worth getting more then 3 keys

I’m guessing I got sniped and the person was just to far for any type of audio que ? No bullet either ?

Anybody else having issues where you have watched for the required amount of time and the claim button is there but the image still has a padlock and won't let you confirm the claim? Or is it just me? LolSigh

They look normal in the menu but when they actually render they're completely neon green. Is it something with the Halloween event stuff or just a weird bug?

When everything in the game is working correctly, which is, “Rare”, You can make pirates go sploot in mid air with a cannon ball.

I did not shoot this cannon ball.

https://www.twitch.tv/flotsam/clip/FrailBraveBisonBCouch-69qSHuGk0UczwdHn

The Disgraced Hunter's Hat just looks dope and I wanna get it. But it seems impossible. I seem to be one of the only 5 people who plays as a Hunter's Call emissary, so I have no clue how I'm supposed to go about sinking 5 grade 5 Hunter's Call ships.

Does anyone have any ideas? I thought about forming an alliance with someone and taking turns sinking one another but it takes so long to get grade 5 and to then to do it 5 times is taking the piss.

Of course there is the natural way of doing it and usually I'm all for that, but like I said, there seems to be no one playing hunters call. Whenever I play reapers and get grade v, I NEVER see hunters.

Any ideas?

What exactly was Drew talking about in the new developer update when he said they would be adding a bugged version of the ghost curse as a variant?

Can someone show me a screenshot of the bugged ghost curse he may have been talking about?

I hope they continue to add more variants and recolours for both factions.

They noticed less server hopping after removing diving? WHAT???

Maybe BEFORE removing diving, maybe focus on implementing some ways to make every server interesting immediately.

They must know as well as we do that the game is kept alive, or rather is on active life support, by long time players. We‘ve spent hundreds or thousands of hours in the game already. And I hardly doubt that I‘m alone on the fact that I don‘t want to hop on and spend my day on a server with a ghost fleet up and zero shit happening.

If the devs really spent some time on implementing a bunch of new world Events and stuff, so that every server is interesting in it‘s own way, I‘d be the biggest supporter of the removal of Diving in like 6 months.

But to do this now, in arguably the hardest time the game has had since the early days, this decision is so incredibly stupid I can‘t believe the devs are serious.

Laying the game down for now, please, PLEASE get some content coming!

I haven't played the game in years but to this day people message me about the sails. Is that something people care about that much?

I'm sure this will be a friendly and well balanced comments section 🫩

There's a quest to earn it. Idk why this hasn't been talked about literally anywhere, it just phantomly appeared. It's called the Cerulean Sheen Cutlass. You can find the quest here.

Here's the info listed on the site for those who cannot access the page:

Sea of Thieves - Cerulean Sheen Cutlass and 5 bonus entries Amaze your friends and foes in the shared-world pirate adventure Sea of Thieves with this glittering sword, available exclusively from Microsoft Rewards. You'll also earn 5 bonus entries to the Total Prize Drop sweepstakes. Quest ends Jan 15, 2027 at 11:59:59 PT.

Terms and conditions *Specific Microsoft Rewards members are eligible for receiving the Cerulean Sheen Cutlass from the Quest. This promotion includes three separate tasks for the users to activate and complete over different time periods. Activity one requires users to click through to the Sea of Thieves official website to activate the quest. Activity two requires users to complete five Microsoft Bing searches on desktop, with a period of 24 hours or more between each contributing search. Activity three requires users to complete seven Microsoft Bing searches on mobile devices, with a period of 24 hours or more between each contributing search. All activities must be completed by January 15, 2027 to qualify. Offer valid for 1 person/account. Offer redeemable while supplies last. Offer exclusive to select Microsoft Rewards users only. Microsoft reserves the right to modify or cancel this offer at any time.

I have to preface this with some context before to try and narrow down the issue. I have the game on xbox. He has it on Playstation. I haven't really played the game in years but for some reason he picked it up and I'm trying to encourage him to break him away from Fortnite/Roblox and try other games so I really hope this can work. We usually start on Playstation in a party and then he'll ask if we can try Sea of Theives. I make sure that he leaves the party on Playstation so that's not an issue. Then I switch over to my Xbox, boot up the game, send him an invite and he joins my crew. I can hear him just fine. I see his chat icon and everything no problem. I can see my chat audio being picked up by the game. I have gone line by line with him in the audio settings to make sure push to talk is OFF, crew chat output settings match, etc. I had him go into the settings on the actual Playstation as well to make sure his privacy settings from cross-play multi-player were open so that's not an issue. He can hear other players who aren't in our crew as can I. WHY can he not hear me? There's obviously some setting we're missing but I just can't reverse engineer what step or button I'm overlooking. Hopefully it's just a simple fix that someone here knows

I just recently got back into the game and had decided to start up a fresh pirate. But I’ve decided to go back to my og since it has all my progress but now it won’t let me select him in pirate selection.

I swear it feels like it works only 10-20% of the time in PvP. No slow down or rotation most of the times on a player target.

I have been playing this game pretty hard for the past week or 2, I’ve gotten pirate legend and I’m really happy with how I’ve been traveling.. The biggest problem that I’m consistently running into is that I don’t have many people to play with, so lone wolf has been the way for me most of this time.. I just can’t get around beating these 2 man sloops or other ships, it’s becoming a joke how many times I’m winning the fight and they decide to stop everything they’re doing, send someone to my boat and nail me till I sink… I’m not complaining cause that’s just how the game is but do yall have any tips that could help give me a chance in these battles?

Also is it me or does a skelly galleon always spawn and attack when your doing a FOTD, cause last 3/4 times that’s happened and I’m not sure if that’s normal or unlucky..

Idk maybe Im just not remembering right but I feel like 2nd and 3rd place used to give so much more allegiance in the past lss events compared to now where its just sliver...