Insider Patch Notes 1.4.5.8

Find out about Insider update 1.4.5.8 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 1.4.5.8

Enter Insider Update 1.4.5.8, which introduces the two remaining Tall Tales in Shores of Gold for Insider testing. Alongside a range of bug fixing, improvements and polish for our existing Anniversary features we are closing in on our Anniversary quality bar. Be sure to swing by the Feedback Focus category on our Forums to let us know what you think.

Tall Tales

• Tall Tales: Fate of the Morningstar – This Tale picks up after completing Art of the Trickster and follows the mysterious tale of the Ferryman as he guides lost souls back to the Ferry of the Damned. There is only one way to start this tale, visit the Ferryman on the Ferry of the Damned to begin this Tale.
• Tall Tales: Shores of Gold – This Tale is the culmination of our story, with Graymarrow’s reign of Terror ended and the Shroudbreaker complete once more – the Shores of Gold is within your reach! Visit Grace Morrow at Morrow’s Peak Outpost to learn how to control the Shroudbreaker’s power and reach the Shores of Gold.

Fixed Issues

• Issue that cause the Collector’s Chest model to disappear if held by a player who had just climbed a ladder has been fixed.

• Tall Tales: The Cursed Rogue – Migrating with the Collector’s Chest in possession will no longer cause the migration or the Tall Tale itself to fail.

• Tall Tales: Wild Rose - Issue that blocked crew members from voting on Tales unlocked by their crew mates has been fixed.

• Arena - Issues with level of detail on the banister next to the cannon have been fixed.

• Arena – Animations for contest end banners now display correctly. 

• Arena – The textures on the bottom shelf above the Sea Dog’s Tavern door have been fixed. 

• Arena – Player cameras will no longer rotate when firing themselves out of the cannon in the Sea Dog’s tavern. 

•  Arena – Issue that caused the outside of the Sea Dog’s Tavern to be visible if a player stood at the top of the canopy has been fixed.

• Issue that caused players to become permanently stuck if migration was triggered whilst they were fishing has been fixed. 

• Icons for burnt food now display correctly. 

• Issue that caused the ‘Let Game Read to Me’ accessibility feature to turn on for all players by default has been fixed. 

• The ‘But you have heard of me?’ achievement now triggers for Hunter’s Call and the Sea Dog’s companies. 

• Shovels no longer clip through pots during the NPC stirring animation. 

• Jumping in between two palm trees on Crook’s Hollow will no longer teleport players back to their ship.

• Harpoon – Harpoons attached to objects will no longer retract back to point of origin if a player moves out of the range of their ship.

• Harpoon – Tethering to a docked rowboat and retracting will no longer cause the whole ship to be pulled. 

• Issue that caused the Killer Whale ship cosmetics to not be added to the Hunter’s Call reputation banner item count has been fixed. 

• Bucketing water using the Parrot Bucket will no longer cause clipping on the handle. 

• Issue that stopped spike trap audio from playing has been fixed. 

• Issue that would sometimes block players from placing items inside a freshly dug up Collector’s Chest has been fixed. 

Known Issues

• Tall Tales: Shores of Gold – Players reaching the Shores of Gold may experience significant framerate drops when using high shadow detail settings on Xbox One X & PC. As a workaround for this build reduce your Shadow detail below ‘Rare’.
• Tall Tales: Shores of Gold – Players reaching the Shores of Gold may experience various missing VFX in the environment and on player/skeleton actions. We are currently investigating this issue for resolution in an upcoming update.
• Tall Tales: Shores of Gold – Players who lose their ship while parked up at the island and use the mermaid can spawn inside the subterranean caverns bypassing part of the Tale. 

• Tall Tales: Shores of Gold – After completing all puzzle vaults, players who are outside of a specific range when medallions are being placed into the Compass Vault may not be able to see all of them. 

• If a crew dies while fighting a Skeleton Lord and they reset the encounter, the Skeleton Lord’s health will also reset.

• Large areas of the game are still awaiting localisation ready for release on April 30th .

• Arena -  Players who join contests late will see their crew’s score as 0 until the crew loses or gains points. 

• Arena – Placements and scores on the scoreboard may sometimes update slowly when large numbers of points are being scored in quick succession. As a result, crew placement will appear incorrect for brief moments.  

Insider Features Still Active

• **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.
• 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.
• Tall Tales: Shroudbreaker – Reactivating this Tale for our Insiders following a round of iteration and feedback! Shroudbreaker is the first Tall Tale that players will have access to when we release our Mega Update to Retail and will require players to complete before unlocking access to subsequent Tales in this Volume. This Tale taken from any Mysterious Stranger across the world, introduces the legend of the Shroudbreaker a story told by the Pirate Lord himself! Head to your nearest Outpost Tavern and find a new Tale book placed beside the Mysterious Stranger to begin their Tale.
• Puzzle Vaults - Puzzle Vaults are currently under heavy iteration in the studio, adding the necessary Audio and Visual cues required to ensure it's clear what is expected of the player. New effects have been added to the Vaults in this build, and further iteration is ongoing for upcoming builds.
• Shroudbreaker Puzzle Vault Sequence - When progressing through the Shroudbreaker, on completion of the Puzzle Vault pirates must take on a new puzzle, introduced by an island image appearing on the Vault Table. This image is currently placeholder, however pirates must use this information to further progress the tale.
• Showing your Quest Book – When showing your Quest Book to other pirates the book will now pitch as your camera moves.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Merging 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.
• 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.
• New Contest Areas - 3 New Contest Areas have been added that we are looking for focus testing on. Try your hand at 'Leave Us A Lone', 'Spoiling For A Fight', and 'Kraken's Brawl'.
• Contest Boundaries - The Devils Shroud arena spawn points have been moved back so players have more time to turn around before the devil’s shroud.
• Contest Balancing - The recipes for the maps in contests have been updated following feedback. Several variations to the amount of X’s that spawn on all types of islands and there is now more chance of getting a ‘jackpot’ island.
• Arena Tutorial - An Arena tutorial video now plays after progressing through the front end arena just after crew select.
• Yoink! – You can now pinch most wieldable items our of a player’s hands using the harpoon!
• Tutorial Tweaks – The wording during the new player tutorial has been improved.
• Xbox One S Improvements – Performance for the Xbox One S has been improved.