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# Insider Patch Notes 1.4.5.3

Find out about Insider update 1.4.5.3 where you can get preview exciting new features coming with the Anniversary Update and beyond. Read on to find out what's in store!

## Insider Patch Notes - Update  1.4.5.3

This latest build introduces a number of exciting changes and smaller tweaks across Adventure and Arena mode. What’s more, we’ve also included a brand new Tall Tale for you to sink your teeth into and as with last week, Arena mode is now accessible for you to play at all times so go and seek vengeance. You hear right, vengeance is now a thing!

As always, be sure to tell us what you think about these new additions once you’ve played over in the 
[Feedback Focus Forums section](https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/category/93/insider-feedback-focus).

## Tall Tales!

* **Tall Tales: Stars of a Thief – **This Tale picks up after Cursed Rogue and follows the journey of an eccentric star gazer and his hunt for an ancient stone. Head to the North Star Sea Post to find a new Tale book placed on beside the shipwright to begin this Tale.

## The Arena

* **Death Camera** – When you are defeated in the Arena you will now fall to your knees and your camera will slowly spin above and away from your body. This feature is specific to arena to help crews communicate during death.
* **Removal of Ghost Ship** - Due to the new arena death flow we have removed the ghost ship from the arena. When players are defeated in the arena, they will no longer be sent to the Ghost Ship and be required to walk through the door to return, bringing you back to the action sooner.
* **Contest Duration** – Contests have now been changed to last 24 minutes.
* **Score Scroll UI** - The score scroll emblem in the map radial is now updated with the sea dog’s emblem.
* **Contest Boundary** - The devils shroud around the contest boundary once again matches the adventure damage and range.
* **Ship Map Table UI** - The emblems for the sea dog vendor cash in points on the ships map table are now reduced in size and golden.

## Hunter's Call

* **Hunters Call Reputation Page** – The Hunters Call Reputation page has now been added, cataloguing players achievements within the new company.
* **Cook those animals!** – Killing animals and monsters found out in the world now drops raw meat, ready for cooking! There is a rare chance that meat may also be found in resource barrels around the world.
* **You’ll need Bait!** – There is now a chance to find bait for fishing in resource barrels, some rare fish will require bait before they can be caught!
* **Resource Inventory Limits** – The Resources Inventory now shows each of the resource limits at the top of the inventory grid for Cannonball, Cursed Cannonballs, Food, Wood & Bait.

## Updates!

* **Vengeance** – After dying, players returning from the Ghost Ship will have a period of invulnerability while on their ship. This Temporary Invincibility will last for 30 seconds or until the player leaves the ship. For the duration of the invincibility players will appear with a ghostly green glow, will be unable to be stunned by sword strikes, however can be knocked back by explosives and cannon fire. This change will provide the defenders a temporary advantage against potential attackers to turn the fight.

## Fixed Issues

* Removed voyage icons from maps in the map radial menu for arena
* Resolved issue where players could briefly see their arms at strange angles when docking to a cannon or harpoon launcher
* Harpoon projectiles when fired no longer move as if still attached to the ship
* Weeping chests will now correctly fill the ship with water when placed on and around the ship.
* Resolved issue causing subtitles to display too early in a cut scene
* Picking up the Enchanted Compass during Wild Rose now correctly wields it for the player who picked it up
* Resolved issue where a barrel collected by a harpoon launcher could jitter and then snap to different positions when detaching
* Resolved a number of server stability issues
* Using a ladder while trying to fish no longer affects player movement
* Resolved issues caused by players fishing on a sinking ship
* Resolved gaps and holes allowing players to see through the walls inside various puzzle vaults
* Resolved issue where fishing on the Ghost Ship caused the line to act erratically
* Resolved issue preventing bananas from being placed into a banana crate
* Fish can now be stored in barrels
* Resolved an issue preventing players from turning while using a mouse on Xbox
* Collectors chests no longer show water passing through them when placed on the ground
* Resolved issue causing the Harpoon Rope to flicker when steering the ship
* Resolved issue causing music to continue playing after defeating Greymarrow

## Known Issues

* **Shopping in Arena - **Arena Store NPCs may intermittently be unable to return their inventory on Xbox or you may be unable to purchase ranks from Lesedi or DeMarco.
* **Reaching Tribute Peak** – Insiders have found various ways to reach Tribute Peak, these will soon be removed once the supporting Tale is ready for testing.
* **Broken Texture on Player Models & Clothing** - There is a chance when loading into the game, that a player’s model or clothing may become corrupted and display an incorrect texture.
* **Extended Black Screen on Loading** - There is a chance that players may be held indefinitely on the Black Loading Screen with Spinner when returning from the Ghost Ship.
* **Sword Combo using the Environment** - When attacking a player against a wall, you will no longer trigger the 3-hit combo when hitting the player and the wall simultaneously.
* **Questbook Page Turning** - When using rebound Q, E, Left D-Pad or Right D-Pad buttons, you are unable to turn pages on a Tall Tales Quest Book. To workaround this please reset your keys to default.

## Insider Features Still Active

* **Tall Tales: The Cursed Rogue** – Reactivated this Tall Tale for our Insiders! This Tale follows the legend of a Skeleton Lord who was once a humble treasure seeker like yourself. Can you solve the puzzles left behind and track down this elusive character? Head to Madame Olive at Plunder Outpost to find a new Tale book placed beside her.
* **Tall Tales: The Legendary Storyteller** – Reactivated this Tall Tale for our Insiders! This Tale follows the doodling's of a young girl, regaled with stories from a Legendary pirate. Head to Tasha at Ancient Spire Outpost to find a new Tale book placed beside her to begin her story.
* **Tall Tales: Wild Rose **– Reactivated this Tall Tale for our Insiders! This Tale follows the story of two lovers, last seen by Madame Olive. Head to Madame Olive at Sanctuary Outpost to find a Tale book placed beside her to begin their story.
* **Tall Tales: Art of the Trickster **– This Tale follows the path of a wicked Trap Maker, who has been experimenting with a range of devious traps to test pirates. Head to Salty on the beach at Plunder Valley to find a new Tale book placed beside him to begin this Tale.
* **Tall Tales: Revenge of the Morningstar** – This Tale follows the last known whereabouts of a crew lost at sea, can you trace their steps? Head to Sandra at Dagger Tooth Outpost to find a new Tale book placed on her table.
* **Animated Page Turning** - When reading through a Quest Book, players will now actually turn the pages!
* **Beware, Traps**! – The Trap Maker has begun laying booby traps in a number of caves across the world, tread lightly and keep your wits about you!
* **Environment Sword Comboing** - When striking with your sword, hitting the environment will no longer trigger a 3-hit combo chain.
* **Something on the Horizon** - You may notice a mysterious landmass beyond the Devil’s Shroud. A new island or something more sinister, perhaps?
* **Feeling chatty?** – You will hear new dialogue lines when interacting with specific characters.
* M**erging Reward Notifications** - When cashing in multiple treasure at once, UI toast popups will now combine the rewards and show a single popup rather than queuing them individually.
* **Voyage Voting** - With the introduction of Tall Tales, crews can venture out with both a current Voyage and a Tall Tale active at the same time. Once started these can be found and cancelled from the Captain's Table.
* **Pets in shops** – There are now 5 colour variations of Monkeys and Parrots that you can purchase from Duke.
* **Pet customisation** - You can find pet customisation chests on all outposts in placeholder locations.
* **Pet Movement & Interaction **– Pets will follow your pirate as they traverse the world. You can of course pick up yours or another pet you find out in the world for a closer inspection, but stay away from the cannons…
* **Pets on Ships! **– After some training, pets will now follow you onto your ship and can path around the decks.
* **Pet’s Reacting to their Owners **– You’ll quickly find that pets will react to certain actions performed by players, they currently only have a few abilities trained – but looking forward to growing this in coming builds.
* **Harpoon** - After all the waiting, the Shipwrights have finally delivered the Harpoons we ordered! Each Ship now has two Harpoons fitted in the recesses on the bow; latch onto rival crews in the heat of battle or onto the environment for some advanced sailing tactics. This initial build delivers the base functionality, reeling-in objects coming soon!
* **Grab those Barrels!** - Harpoons can now latch onto floating barrels found out at sea and will automatically pull them to the ship to be raided for resources, before being dropped back into the sea.
* **Get that Treasure!** - Harpoons can now latch onto Treasure of any type (Chests, Skulls, Crates, etc.) whether floating out at sea, or placed on islands. When latched they will automatically pull them to the ship to be collected by your crew.
* **I’m really bad at this** - Harpoons when fired now have a small aim assist to help players hit their target, this is especially helpful when trying to steal a chest out of another players hands!
* **Harpoon the Keg!** - Harpoons will now explode gunpowder barrels on first hit. Hitting kegs carried by players will also cause them to explode! 
* **Harpoon Players – **Latching onto a crewmate or rival player with the harpoon now retracts them back to your ship.
* **Harpoon Retraction Speed –** Reduced the speed in which harpoons can retract once latched on.
* **Harpoon Spinners **– Harpoons now have spinners attached to better visualise the spooling and reeling of the rope.
* **Feel the impact** – We’ve added more tactility to using harpoons. You’ll now feel a rumble when a Harpoon impacts and a camera shake when re-docking the harpoon projectile.
* **Spools of war** – The spool of the harpoon launcher now rotates with the movement of the rope.
* **Harpoon Audio** – Attached various Harpoon audio effects to improve the player feedback when using the Harpoon.
* **Fruit & Meat – **With the expansion of various different culinary delights available to pirates, both Fruit and Meat have had their health balanced across the range. You’ll find your trusty Banana now is less satisfying, however more rare fruits return a large amount of health.
* **Health Regeneration** – With Fruit replenishing a base level of health, you’d expect a nice cooked piece of meat to do much more right? Cooking the perfect steak will provide players with a period of health regeneration, this is shown as a ring around your health bar in the bottom left corner. Now you can stock up with various meats while out on your voyage and then cook up a meal before engaging in battle for that extra edge on your rivals!
* **Barrel Inventory** – The Barrel Inventory has now been redesigned to show a 4x4 grid of items rather than a 3x4 grid.
* **Ship Damage - Hull Holes** - When targeting shots into your enemy’s hull, repeated shots in the same place will now grow the size of the damage holes. These new holes vary in size and increase the rate in which your ship fills with water and takes longer to repair!
* **Ship Damage - Collapse the Mast** - Landing a clutch shot on an enemies Mast will now drop the mast onto the deck of the ship, slowing their speed. Your enemies will need to both raise the mast and patch it with wood to secure it back in place.
* **Ship Damage - Drop the Anchor** - Targeting a shot onto the Capstan will drop the anchor and damage the Capstan pegs. Your enemy will need to repair their capstan pegs to retain its original raising speed.
* **Ship Damage - Disable the Wheel** - Targeting an enemy’s wheel will destroy pegs within the wheel, reducing the effectiveness in turning the Ship. Your enemy will need to repair their Ship wheel pegs to retain its original turning rate.
* **Shop Browsing** - Finding a specific category of item is now much easier in the shop, filters have been added to all shops.
* **PC High Dynamic Range** - Support for HDR compatible Screens on PC. Players can access a 'HDR Calibration' page with Settings to calibrate the Brightness of the display.

Preview

Insider Patch Notes 1.4.5.3

Find out about Insider update 1.4.5.3 where you can get preview exciting new features coming with the Anniversary Update and beyond. Read on to find out what's in store!

Insider Patch Notes - Update 1.4.5.3

This latest build introduces a number of exciting changes and smaller tweaks across Adventure and Arena mode. What’s more, we’ve also included a brand new Tall Tale for you to sink your teeth into and as with last week, Arena mode is now accessible for you to play at all times so go and seek vengeance. You hear right, vengeance is now a thing!

As always, be sure to tell us what you think about these new additions once you’ve played over in the Feedback Focus Forums section.

Tall Tales!

**Tall Tales: Stars of a Thief – **This Tale picks up after Cursed Rogue and follows the journey of an eccentric star gazer and his hunt for an ancient stone. Head to the North Star Sea Post to find a new Tale book placed on beside the shipwright to begin this Tale.

The Arena

Death Camera – When you are defeated in the Arena you will now fall to your knees and your camera will slowly spin above and away from your body. This feature is specific to arena to help crews communicate during death.
Removal of Ghost Ship - Due to the new arena death flow we have removed the ghost ship from the arena. When players are defeated in the arena, they will no longer be sent to the Ghost Ship and be required to walk through the door to return, bringing you back to the action sooner.
Contest Duration – Contests have now been changed to last 24 minutes.
Score Scroll UI - The score scroll emblem in the map radial is now updated with the sea dog’s emblem.
Contest Boundary - The devils shroud around the contest boundary once again matches the adventure damage and range.
Ship Map Table UI - The emblems for the sea dog vendor cash in points on the ships map table are now reduced in size and golden.

Hunter's Call

Hunters Call Reputation Page – The Hunters Call Reputation page has now been added, cataloguing players achievements within the new company.
Cook those animals! – Killing animals and monsters found out in the world now drops raw meat, ready for cooking! There is a rare chance that meat may also be found in resource barrels around the world.
You’ll need Bait! – There is now a chance to find bait for fishing in resource barrels, some rare fish will require bait before they can be caught!
Resource Inventory Limits – The Resources Inventory now shows each of the resource limits at the top of the inventory grid for Cannonball, Cursed Cannonballs, Food, Wood & Bait.

Updates!

Vengeance – After dying, players returning from the Ghost Ship will have a period of invulnerability while on their ship. This Temporary Invincibility will last for 30 seconds or until the player leaves the ship. For the duration of the invincibility players will appear with a ghostly green glow, will be unable to be stunned by sword strikes, however can be knocked back by explosives and cannon fire. This change will provide the defenders a temporary advantage against potential attackers to turn the fight.

Fixed Issues

Removed voyage icons from maps in the map radial menu for arena
Resolved issue where players could briefly see their arms at strange angles when docking to a cannon or harpoon launcher
Harpoon projectiles when fired no longer move as if still attached to the ship
Weeping chests will now correctly fill the ship with water when placed on and around the ship.
Resolved issue causing subtitles to display too early in a cut scene
Picking up the Enchanted Compass during Wild Rose now correctly wields it for the player who picked it up
Resolved issue where a barrel collected by a harpoon launcher could jitter and then snap to different positions when detaching
Resolved a number of server stability issues
Using a ladder while trying to fish no longer affects player movement
Resolved issues caused by players fishing on a sinking ship
Resolved gaps and holes allowing players to see through the walls inside various puzzle vaults
Resolved issue where fishing on the Ghost Ship caused the line to act erratically
Resolved issue preventing bananas from being placed into a banana crate
Fish can now be stored in barrels
Resolved an issue preventing players from turning while using a mouse on Xbox
Collectors chests no longer show water passing through them when placed on the ground
Resolved issue causing the Harpoon Rope to flicker when steering the ship
Resolved issue causing music to continue playing after defeating Greymarrow

Known Issues

**Shopping in Arena - **Arena Store NPCs may intermittently be unable to return their inventory on Xbox or you may be unable to purchase ranks from Lesedi or DeMarco.
Reaching Tribute Peak – Insiders have found various ways to reach Tribute Peak, these will soon be removed once the supporting Tale is ready for testing.
Broken Texture on Player Models & Clothing - There is a chance when loading into the game, that a player’s model or clothing may become corrupted and display an incorrect texture.
Extended Black Screen on Loading - There is a chance that players may be held indefinitely on the Black Loading Screen with Spinner when returning from the Ghost Ship.
Sword Combo using the Environment - When attacking a player against a wall, you will no longer trigger the 3-hit combo when hitting the player and the wall simultaneously.
Questbook Page Turning - When using rebound Q, E, Left D-Pad or Right D-Pad buttons, you are unable to turn pages on a Tall Tales Quest Book. To workaround this please reset your keys to default.

Insider Features Still Active

Tall Tales: The Cursed Rogue – Reactivated this Tall Tale for our Insiders! This Tale follows the legend of a Skeleton Lord who was once a humble treasure seeker like yourself. Can you solve the puzzles left behind and track down this elusive character? Head to Madame Olive at Plunder Outpost to find a new Tale book placed beside her.
Tall Tales: The Legendary Storyteller – Reactivated this Tall Tale for our Insiders! This Tale follows the doodling's of a young girl, regaled with stories from a Legendary pirate. Head to Tasha at Ancient Spire Outpost to find a new Tale book placed beside her to begin her story.
*Tall Tales: Wild Rose *– Reactivated this Tall Tale for our Insiders! This Tale follows the story of two lovers, last seen by Madame Olive. Head to Madame Olive at Sanctuary Outpost to find a Tale book placed beside her to begin their story.
*Tall Tales: Art of the Trickster *– This Tale follows the path of a wicked Trap Maker, who has been experimenting with a range of devious traps to test pirates. Head to Salty on the beach at Plunder Valley to find a new Tale book placed beside him to begin this Tale.
Tall Tales: Revenge of the Morningstar – This Tale follows the last known whereabouts of a crew lost at sea, can you trace their steps? Head to Sandra at Dagger Tooth Outpost to find a new Tale book placed on her table.
Animated Page Turning - When reading through a Quest Book, players will now actually turn the pages!
Beware, Traps! – The Trap Maker has begun laying booby traps in a number of caves across the world, tread lightly and keep your wits about you!
Environment Sword Comboing - When striking with your sword, hitting the environment will no longer trigger a 3-hit combo chain.
Something on the Horizon - You may notice a mysterious landmass beyond the Devil’s Shroud. A new island or something more sinister, perhaps?
Feeling chatty? – You will hear new dialogue lines when interacting with specific characters.
M*erging Reward Notifications* - When cashing in multiple treasure at once, UI toast popups will now combine the rewards and show a single popup rather than queuing them individually.
Voyage Voting - With the introduction of Tall Tales, crews can venture out with both a current Voyage and a Tall Tale active at the same time. Once started these can be found and cancelled from the Captain's Table.
Pets in shops – There are now 5 colour variations of Monkeys and Parrots that you can purchase from Duke.
Pet customisation - You can find pet customisation chests on all outposts in placeholder locations.
Pet Movement & Interaction – Pets will follow your pirate as they traverse the world. You can of course pick up yours or another pet you find out in the world for a closer inspection, but stay away from the cannons…
Pets on Ships! – After some training, pets will now follow you onto your ship and can path around the decks.
Pet’s Reacting to their Owners – You’ll quickly find that pets will react to certain actions performed by players, they currently only have a few abilities trained – but looking forward to growing this in coming builds.
Harpoon - After all the waiting, the Shipwrights have finally delivered the Harpoons we ordered! Each Ship now has two Harpoons fitted in the recesses on the bow; latch onto rival crews in the heat of battle or onto the environment for some advanced sailing tactics. This initial build delivers the base functionality, reeling-in objects coming soon!
Grab those Barrels! - Harpoons can now latch onto floating barrels found out at sea and will automatically pull them to the ship to be raided for resources, before being dropped back into the sea.
Get that Treasure! - Harpoons can now latch onto Treasure of any type (Chests, Skulls, Crates, etc.) whether floating out at sea, or placed on islands. When latched they will automatically pull them to the ship to be collected by your crew.
I’m really bad at this - Harpoons when fired now have a small aim assist to help players hit their target, this is especially helpful when trying to steal a chest out of another players hands!
Harpoon the Keg! - Harpoons will now explode gunpowder barrels on first hit. Hitting kegs carried by players will also cause them to explode!
Harpoon Players – Latching onto a crewmate or rival player with the harpoon now retracts them back to your ship.
Harpoon Retraction Speed – Reduced the speed in which harpoons can retract once latched on.
Harpoon Spinners – Harpoons now have spinners attached to better visualise the spooling and reeling of the rope.
Feel the impact – We’ve added more tactility to using harpoons. You’ll now feel a rumble when a Harpoon impacts and a camera shake when re-docking the harpoon projectile.
Spools of war – The spool of the harpoon launcher now rotates with the movement of the rope.
Harpoon Audio – Attached various Harpoon audio effects to improve the player feedback when using the Harpoon.
**Fruit & Meat – **With the expansion of various different culinary delights available to pirates, both Fruit and Meat have had their health balanced across the range. You’ll find your trusty Banana now is less satisfying, however more rare fruits return a large amount of health.
Health Regeneration – With Fruit replenishing a base level of health, you’d expect a nice cooked piece of meat to do much more right? Cooking the perfect steak will provide players with a period of health regeneration, this is shown as a ring around your health bar in the bottom left corner. Now you can stock up with various meats while out on your voyage and then cook up a meal before engaging in battle for that extra edge on your rivals!
Barrel Inventory – The Barrel Inventory has now been redesigned to show a 4x4 grid of items rather than a 3x4 grid.
Ship Damage - Hull Holes - When targeting shots into your enemy’s hull, repeated shots in the same place will now grow the size of the damage holes. These new holes vary in size and increase the rate in which your ship fills with water and takes longer to repair!
Ship Damage - Collapse the Mast - Landing a clutch shot on an enemies Mast will now drop the mast onto the deck of the ship, slowing their speed. Your enemies will need to both raise the mast and patch it with wood to secure it back in place.
Ship Damage - Drop the Anchor - Targeting a shot onto the Capstan will drop the anchor and damage the Capstan pegs. Your enemy will need to repair their capstan pegs to retain its original raising speed.
Ship Damage - Disable the Wheel - Targeting an enemy’s wheel will destroy pegs within the wheel, reducing the effectiveness in turning the Ship. Your enemy will need to repair their Ship wheel pegs to retain its original turning rate.
Shop Browsing - Finding a specific category of item is now much easier in the shop, filters have been added to all shops.
PC High Dynamic Range - Support for HDR compatible Screens on PC. Players can access a 'HDR Calibration' page with Settings to calibrate the Brightness of the display.