Rare has announced that Sea of Thieves’ second major content update, Cursed Sails, will release for PC and Xbox One on July 31st – and there’s a brand-new trailer to accompany the news.
Cursed Sails brings significant additions to Rare’s swashbuckling multiplayer pirate adventure, some of which the developer has shared in its latest blog post. Top of the list is a new roaming AI threat in the form of “fortress-like” ghost ships manned by literal skeleton crews – which, judging by the new trailer below, will haunt the Sea of Thieves’ by randomly bursting up from the depths of the ocean, ready to unleash hell.
“All that sustains these grinning terrors,” says Rare, “is a thirst for battle that leads them to terrorise Outposts and call out defenders to face them on the tides…”. That line about Outposts is particularly intriguing; if skeleton crews have the ability to lock-down the game’s safe zones until defeated, that’s going to make turning in treasure a particularly fraught endeavour.
Source: Eurogamer Sea of Thieves' next major content update Cursed Sails gets a July release date and trailer