Rare's swashbuckling adventure Sea of Thieves is in the final stretch running up to the 20 March 2017 launch, and the devs are making sure to keep them tidbits coming so as to keep us hungry and coming back for more.

Rare's design director Mike Chapman went on record talking about biomes, the dynamic world of Sea of Thieves, griefing and more. We must admit that the way of thinking the company seems to have adopted is pretty refreshing, as it leans towards the qualitative side of the fence.

Rare's design director Mike Chapman has revealed that Sea of Thieves will have "tons of customisation at launch" and that even though the company will eventually introduce microtransactions, they're not the priority here. He also talked about the game's intentions on removing barriers between players and more.

Rare are putting their backs into Sea of Thieves optimization as the system requirements for PC are well below the current standards. It can run on GPUs from 2013. No kidding.

Alright, we’ll spare you the cheesy ahoy-matey attempts at setting the tone and skip to the meat - Sea of Thieves closed beta has ended with a total of 332,052 players. Although a seemingly unimpressive figure at first, the fact that it’s a closed beta of a Microsoft exclusive title puts a really positive spin on it.

With the official launch slated for March 2018, Rare’s swashbuckling action-adventure is making big strides towards the date as the company announced the closed beta for January 24. To make sure that the game is noticed by world plus dog, Microsoft is making as much noise as possible and even launched a special Sea of Thieves controller.

The next PUBG update will add a new weapon, foggy weather and a bunch of bug fixes. New ways of rendering water in the game are also to be implemented at some point down the line.

Rare's Sea of Thieves is shaping up nicely

Booty grabing is all about cooperation and that needs to be designed for