Kraken sea of thieves
Hopefully you're not alone when the Kraken strikes as it can be quite difficult to manage your offensive attacks and defensive counters like repairs and water-bailing when solo - even worse if the monster has snagged you off your sinking ship. Like fighting a skellie ship or a Meg, you're not going to get out without a few bumps and bruises of your own, so make sure you don't leave your starting outpost without a good supply of planks (and cannonballs and food for general adventuring, of course). The most important thing you'll want to have on hand is wooden planks. But first, you just have to survive, so let's go over that first. There are really two stages to beating the Kraken, and it's up to you to know when you've had enough. As of now, it never succeeds, but you can get stuck high above the water in the mouth of the beast, which can be a real pain if you're needed on deck, patching holes, bailing water, or fighting back directly. It can even yank pirates right off their ships and try to swallow them. It can also squeeze your ship in different places, slowly delivering more holes should you not fend off its gripping tentacle. It has a slap attack that is quick and brutal to your hull, leaving several holes in it in one go, much like a bite from a Meg. The Kraken has several methods to unravel every pirate's best-laid plans. That's the only way to guarantee you avoid an encounter.
If you really want to avoid the Kraken - say if you're playing solo and wish to avoid the headache - don't sail unless a fort cloud is in the sky. Even if you're minding your own business and another crew just finished off a fort, you could still draw the short straw and find yourself in a fight for your life.
KRAKEN SEA OF THIEVES FULL
Rare seems to have implemented the Kraken this way to make getting away with the lucrative fort loot a bit tougher, as there's a good chance the ship full of fort loot will be halted by the inky beast, but it could still happen to anyone. Someone, somewhere, will get Kraken'd before the next cloud rises. But in between, when there isn't such a cloud in the sky, beware. It simply can't spawn during those times. If such a cloud has settled over your game, that means a fort is active and you need not worry about the Kraken.
Do you see a cloud shaped like a skull or a pirate ship? Those are Sea of Thieves forts. Rare would likely be leaving this one for players to discover it on their own at launch.Look up in the sky. So far, no new content has been confirmed for the next beta, so don't expect kraken screenshots just yet. It's only open to closed beta players and Xbox Insiders, but Rare promised to host another beta before the game releases. Rare will be hosting a Sea of Thieves scale test this weekend. The image quality is not the best, but this is probably as close as we're going to get to seeing it, unless Rare decides to release official screenshots. Someone on 4Chan (via ResetEra) managed to grab off-screen pictures of the kraken attacking a ship. It's able to throw them off the deck, eat them, thrown them across the map, and it can even cause trouble for the ship like punching holes in the hull and teleporting it to a completely different zone. The gist of it is that the kraken is a tough monster, capable of messing players' day in big ways. Unfortunately, game files didn't show any actual images of the kraken.Īt a recent preview event, developer Rare talked a little bit about the kraken, and how it's going to work. The Sea of Thieves files revealed that the sea monster would have eight tentacles, which it will use to attack players and topple ships. During the recent Sea of Thieves closed beta, dataminers dug up multiple references to a kraken.