Sea Of Thieves Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs
4. Online Play With Randoms Is A Mixed Bag
If you haven't got three friends to reliably play the game online with, you'll of course be teamed up with three random humans, and the results are, as ever, a bit of a lottery.
Because Sea of Thieves is so reliant on social interaction and voice communication to pull off voyages smoothly, if you're matched with players who aren't much interested, don't use microphones or just want to troll you, things can get frustrating fast.
This can result in gameplay sessions that feel more like hard work than fun, and while you certainly can make fast friends if teamed with like-minded players, this will only sometimes be the case.
This is one major area where the game's spare approach to objectives works against it, because there's nothing funnelling teamed players in the same direction.