Rare announced that Sea of Thieves will get a Technical Alpha test next week. A few lucky players who have signed up for the Insider Programme will be able to test the shared world multiplayer pirate game, on both Windows 10 PC and Xbox One.
According to Rare, thousands of fans have already signed up but the scale of this session will be limited to around a thousand players.
As with the rest of the Insider Programme, the contents of the Technical Alpha will be subject to the NDA all Insiders must agree to when signing up for the programme.
We’re powering into this phase of development with three main goals in mind:
1. We want to deliver on our promise to Insiders to help us test early game mechanics and services at a larger scale than anything we’ve delivered before.
2. We want to give our participating Insiders the opportunity to provide feedback about their experience.
3. We want to use this feedback and our data insights to make meaningful changes to our game.
Our first Technical Alpha play session will take place next weekend, from December 16th-18th. It’ll be available during several timeslots throughout the weekend, after which we’ll thank our participating pirates and give the servers a rest while we take on board everything we’ve learned, determining the best ways to apply it to Sea of Thieves’ development.
The developers also shared a brand new video. It's well worth watching since it gives us the very first look at core mechanics like melee and ranged PvP combat, finding treasures and exchanging them for gold in towns, resurrecting both your character and your ships.
Sea of Thieves still has no release date whatsoever, but this is another step towards the beta which hopefully will start at some point in 2017.
About the author: With over two decades of experience in gaming journalism, Alessio Palumbo has led the gaming vertical at Wccftech since August 2015. He started working at a young age for Italian websites like Everyeye.it, Gamestar.it, Nextgame.it, and Multiplayer.it before kickstarting the indie English-language publication Worlds Factory as its founder and Editor in Chief. In the last decade, he has coordinated the overall output of Wccftech's gaming section, managed PR relations, assigned reviews, produced daily news coverage, edited gaming content as needed, and delivered game reviews. Arguably, his trademark content is the long series of exclusive developer interviews that have been cited by Wikipedia and by the biggest news media and gaming publications. His passion for technology also makes him knowledgeable when it comes to gaming hardware and tech. His favorite genres include RPGs, MMORPGs, and action/adventure games.
Follow Wccftech on Google to get more of our news coverage in your feeds.
