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The Ocean of Thieves preview event has aired every bit promised, and a slew of upcoming content for the game has been revealed. This includes new narrative-driven events known every bit "Adventures," with the first one, Shrouded Islands, arriving in the game on February 17. Shrouded Island volition be a express-time event about Flameheart's attempt to regain his lost powers and will only last until March 3.

The developers at Rare intend to release a new Adventure every month and plan to accept a finale Adventure in each Season. Adventure events take players collaborate with the changing world of the game and are more than story-driven than most other events in Sea of Thieves.

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Another new feature revealed in the Preview Issue is Mysteries, which are riddles and secrets that players can discover and piece together to solve a, well, mystery. The first mystery will revolve around uncovering a plot "behind a murder nigh foul."

Ocean of Thieves will continue releasing seasons, with Season Half-dozen starting sometime in March. Appropriately, the upcoming season will bring six new Sea Forts where players tin battle new captains and phantoms. Also function of Season Six is new Pirate Legend content, in which loftier-level players can take Athena's Fortune assignments from the Pirate Lord and discover new story details nigh the world.

Rare also shared a road map for all future seasons in 2022, showing that each season will take iii Adventures and new mysteries. Season Seven will launch in June, Season Eight will launch in September, and Flavour Ix will launch in Dec.

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Despite all the new content coming to the game, Sea of Thieves will besides be unfortunately getting rid of The Arena mode. The reason given was that only most 2% of the player base regularly engages with the mode, and it became unreasonable to keep it running. Arena Mode will remain open up until March 10.