If you've pre-ordered the Premium Edition for Sea of Thieves off the PS Store, your seafaring quest can now begin on PS5 via five days of early access ahead of the official release date. Making its first appearance on Sony hardware, Rare brought its servers online for PS5 players, allowing them to get started on plundering islands and sailing the seas. This means PlayStation users can play the last few days of Season 11, before the next one starts on the official release date of 30th April 2024.
You'll need a Microsoft account to play Sea of Thieves on PS5, and you'll be guided through an account linking process when you first boot up the game. If you want to carry over your progress from a previous playthrough on Xbox or PC, you must correctly associate the two profiles you want because this is a permanent decision. "Be sure to use the correct Microsoft account, as the two accounts chosen to be associated cannot be changed later," an FAQ on the Sea of Thieves website warns.
From there, you'll appear in-game with your Microsoft account name and gain access to the Recent Players tab listing both the PSN IDs and Microsoft gamertags of the pirates you meet on your travels. "Cross-platform play is enabled by default, ensuring that all new players joining High Seas will find their home on the waves with other players from all walks of life. Players on PlayStation 5, however, can choose to disable crossplay from Matchmaking Settings and only matchmake with others on PlayStation Network."
The game will run at 4K and utilise 60 frames-per-second, but there's also a Performance Mode option for those with 120hz TVs. This setting drops the resolution to 1080p. The PS5 DualSense controller also sees some love in Sea of Thieves, with the adaptive triggers "leveraging unique qualities of the controller [to] heighten the gunplay experience". Then, haptic feedback will simulate interactions with the world and movement.
Are you getting started with Sea of Thieves today or will you wait for the full release on 30th April? Share your plans in the comments below.
[source seaofthieves.com]
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Loved the beta! I pre-ordered the standard edition so have to wait until the 30th, but I’m really looking forward to playing it again!
I only bought the game because I thought it would be a fun co-op game, but the beta turned it into one of my most wanted games. Loved it. I've gotta wait until the 30th and it's killing me!
I haven’t really been buying too many games lately, so I paid up for the premium edition of this game. I have been on it most of the afternoon, it’s been great to play it! I have played this a bit on Xbox and I enjoyed it there too, even though I mostly played by myself, but my main friends core is on PlayStation and there are a few of them getting this aswell, so it should be even more fun that it was the last time I played!
Crazy how this early access stuff has become normalized. “Pay an extra 30 or so dollars so you can play the game when it’s ready, and everyone else who can’t afford it are just locked off ”
Looks like today the crow will be ate that MS killed Rare. This game like many live service games launch with limited content and a vision of where it wanted to take players. Over time they nailed it time and time again. One of my favorite Xbox One games. All Rare has to do is release another title that is loved and i think the Rare is dead talk will hush a little.
@Deoxyr1bose gotta love coughing up extra money to find what QA missed.
One could say it is in....Aaarrrrly Access.
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I'll show myself out.
I refuse to touch this game after playing for dozens of hours on my Xbox. Not going near SoT again. SoT doesn't respect the busy gamers time. Between long voyages, accrued booty lost to griefers, and cheaters. No thank you.
I'll wait to get it on gamepuss
It’s brilliant. Properly addictive. Great graphics. I enjoy the travelling in the game. Quite mindfulness too, only irritating thing is the map you hold is rubbish, and the map for seas is so hard to compare to the place you want to go in a mission. Even with my glasses it is so hard to find the correct islands. Hope there is an easier way I haven’t worked out
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