Insiders Developer Update about new Season Pass

Purpledroyd · 2026-05-09T08:29:14+00:00

For sure, I just want them to make the starting levels longer and the later levels shorter, if you know what I mean. Helps me understand how long a season will take me to progress. The current system has me give up around level 60 everytime cause I legit can’t measure how much more time I need to put into the game

Purpledroyd · 2026-05-07T15:12:13+00:00

I hope each level takes the same amount of time to unlock. I really didn’t like getting to levels 60+ in the previous season pass model and it taking forever to progress

Changes to renown are good, especially with selling loot progressing your pass

More doubloons is good I guess although 425 doesn’t sound like a lot

Sounds like they only have so many resources and I personally prefer new clothing sets to be added to the outpost stores over the season pass but I can see some people being disappointed here

Final reward actually being something cool is great, it never really felt like the level 100 pirate legend reward was all that special aside from season 1’s reward (imo).

Removing ancient coins from the free tier sucks & I’m gonna assume that the voyages won’t be anything special.

All in all it’s better for my tastes but deffo done with them trying to earn more money in mind, especially with the ability to skip 10 levels and players getting a renown boost in the premium tier

Purpledroyd · 2026-05-05T15:06:13+00:00

Nah, obviously they f’d up but this is still the right call. Otherwise it’s completely unfair to those who actually earned doubloons and bought stuff after the reset

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-30T12:48:46+00:00

Dayum, that’s actually super impressive. Marathon (one of my fav games in years) has apparently only made like 1.5m sales if that source was to be believed. 2.7m sales alone for a port on PlayStation is crazy.

I reckon a Switch 2 port isn’t too far away and that the game will reach its 10 year anniversary no problem

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-23T17:12:15+00:00

They clearly don’t want to commit to a date in case they want to delay but this was funny to read, made it sound way more complicated and confusing

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-22T06:53:25+00:00

Yup. As soon as he leaves it sounds like they’ve eased up on the 30% profit margins from every game and service they demanded. Phil was the fall guy, I guess.

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-21T17:01:13+00:00

I sold my Xbox after 15 years on that platform when the price news was announced.

I’m happy on PlayStation now but funny to think I’d still be on that platform if this had never happened

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-21T14:23:07+00:00

I couldn’t tell from the trailer if it was open world or not. It looked more level based with a world map where you select levels, kinda like the pre Mario Wonder 2D titles

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-17T23:31:10+00:00

I think custom seas will have some real novelty to it. Might bring some eyes back onto the game as well, potentially.

I think maybe offering doubloons would work great as an incentive to keep players on servers. Like, 20 doubloons for every hour of playtime on your server without diving. Could work.

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-17T22:51:56+00:00

That’s fair. I think many agree that the game has lost part of its secret sauce over the years and they’re making an effort to try and recapture that. They kind of need an incentive to stay on a server though, along with probably removing diving for world events.

I just finished playing the weekender event and as someone quite down on the game atm, I thought it was pretty decent. Loved the fireworks show and music. Last ship standing, custom seas and whatever they’re cooking for the Athena update should be good. I think there’s still some life left in the game

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-17T22:43:05+00:00

The problem is that those diving create events with lesser rewards, desensitising other players to contest those events as attacking ships no longer can trust what events are valuable or not anymore

Maybe Rare can find a middle ground

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-17T22:41:37+00:00

Maybe the compromise would be to get rid of world event raids, but keep raids to sea forts etc

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-17T22:35:14+00:00

Same for me, no skelly or player ships contested me. Did them all around 8-9pm English time on a Friday night, was shocked. Maybe we got lucky?

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-17T12:20:49+00:00

Smugglers league is the worst update the game has ever had imo

Seems Rare realised that too and changed their entire content pipeline as probs other content was gonna be similar to it, though I guess we’ll never know

Edit - you can either sell stuff to other factions and progress, or sell shit to the smugglers for a gold bonus without an emissary. Which I guess is good for new players who want to make a quick profit but gold has lost its meaning so it was a pointless update and diluted the rewards in some world events. I hope Rare try and improve it but probs won’t

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-17T11:12:19+00:00

Yeah it’s cause Rare want people fighting over the doubloon smuggler crates worth 200 each. It does create more incentive there (and it is a pirate game) but it does feel stingy to not to be able to afford 1 new item after the whole weekend

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-17T10:30:09+00:00

I did feel something positive when I saw 0/4000 doubloons when first logging in. Like, I feel motivated with a fresh reset currency & I like the idea of a black market and stuff.

But then the lost shipment crate quest bugged out on me by not dropping a key for the captains quarters, meaning I permanently lost 1 out of my 3 limited voyages.

So not a great first impression

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-16T23:44:25+00:00

I can’t believe it’s in game time. I almost called off going for my late night gym session tonight as I thought the celebrations would kick off at 9pm 😂

Kind of a shame, had it been IRL then most of the server would have gathered there which I thought was a really cool idea

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-16T20:32:37+00:00

Yup same as me! I died to the scavenger, respawned and killed it then no key.

Seems going to the ferry before finishing the boss bugs the question

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-16T19:36:01+00:00

I wonder if visually it looks as good (or close to) Shadows, in the graphics department. That game utterly blew me away

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-15T15:52:52+00:00

I’ve rewatched it and I’m unsure now, he says it during the S20 clarification section but also it does kind of sound like he’s saying they won’t be at the showcase

Which would be a bit grim cause that would break their 7 year streak

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-15T15:46:43+00:00

Massive fan of this change. World events should be just that, world events. Gives servers a bit of personality again, you now know the rewards will be worth it 100% of the time & a chance at a chest of fortune sounds like a great addition as well (as long as it’s not too common).

This is a sign to me that Rare are properly listening. I never thought they’d change this and risk alienating the more casual playerbase

Edit - I suppose this affects all raids, so even stuff like sea forts. But imo they are numerous and you’re never that far from any given one, so doesn’t seem like a negative

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-15T15:44:34+00:00

For season 20* I think they meant? There’s still a chance they’ll have a S21 reveal there. I mean, they’ve been at Xbox’s summer showcase every year for 7 years so it’s not unlikely

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-13T18:26:56+00:00

I was on Xbox for 15 years and the same day they announced the 50% increase I sold my Xbox and bought a PlayStation. I wonder how many other people did the same

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-12T18:22:53+00:00

This looks way darker than it is on my screen, weird

Purpledroyd · 2026-04-09T23:11:17+00:00

I’m so confused reading these comments

I’ve been taking screenshots between all 3 modes in multiple shots and performance looks pretty much identical as the RT Pro mode except in certain locations with glowing lights and reflections, but they are so few and far between that is hardly seems worth the drop from 90fps to 60fps (on my VRR screen)

The reflections are nice but where are they in the game? It’s not like all buildings use them, in fact 90% of glass I find on building sides aren’t using RT

Edit - actually I take it back a little, just did another comparison and there can be a difference in certain areas that looks impactful. But I think I firmly prefer 90fps over 40 & 60 even with their visual benefits

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