The number of content creators hitting the Sea of Thieves continues to grow and so following your feedback, we’ve provided a number of settings to reduce the negative experience of stream sniping. We are continuing to assess further areas of support for content creators and will keep this guide updated as we add new features.
Prevent Friends Joining Your Crew Without an Invite
This setting prevents the ability for anyone on your friend's list to join your active crew if they have not been issued an invite.
- Navigate to Back - My Crew - Crew Management
- Set Allow Friends to Join Me to No
Replacing/Scrambling Gamertags
This setting allows streamers to replace their Gamertag, their crew members’ Gamertags, and any Gamertags of pirates they meet out in the open world to hide their identity from their viewers. If anyone else on the server enables this feature, then the replaced names will match for everyone allowing players to strategize and shot call as before. Encountering another player in the world who has chosen to replace their Gamertag, their true Gamertag will still be visible to you to ensure you know who you are playing with.
- Navigate to Back - Settings - Gameplay
- Set Replace Gamertags to On
Hiding Crew Gamertags
This setting allows streamers to Hide the Gamertags of players that are on their Crew.
- Navigate to Back - Settings - Gameplay
- Set Show Nameplates Above My Crewmates to Off
Hiding Non-Crew Gamertags
This setting allows streamers to hide the Gamertags of players they encounter out in the world that are not part of their crew. This setting can also be configured to a Keybind in the Controller or Keyboard and Mouse Settings.
- Navigate to Back - Settings - Gameplay
- Set Show Nameplates Above Other Crews to Off
Hiding Non-Crew Text Chat
This setting allows streamers to hide the text chat (chat messages by keyboard or chatpad) sent by players they encounter out in the world that are not part of their crew. This setting also hides the visibility of the players Gamertag from the Chat Notification Window.
- Navigate to Back - Other Crews - All Other Crews
- Set Mute All Other Crews Text Chat to Yes
Hiding Non-Crew Phrases Chat
This setting allows streamers to hide the phrases chat (radial messages such as ‘Ahoy’ etc) sent by players they encounter out in the world that are not part of their crew. This setting also hides the visibility of the players Gamertag from the Chat Notification Window.
- Navigate to Back - Other Crews - All Other Crews
- Set Mute All Other Crews Phrases Chat to Yes
