Insider Patch Notes 2.0.11.1
Insider Update 2.0.11.1 is now live! While we are preparing February’s update for a future Insider build, we’ve been tackling a range of quality of life improvements and bug fixes for Insider testing.
If you do encounter any bugs, then please head to the
Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Updates
- Mermaid Behaviour – If a player falls into the sea and isn’t too close to an enemy ship, mermaids now follow more frequently and provide a quicker support in getting back to their ship.
- Mermaids around Rival Ships – When approaching a rival ship the mermaids will spawn less frequently giving the player a chance to stealth approach.
- Skeleton Ships Coming for your Masts! – Skeleton Ships may now return fire on player ships with the new Chain Shot - TIMBER!
- Molten Sands Fortress Vault – Increased Skeleton activity has been sighted at Molten Sands Fortress as well as reports of the Fortress Vault having been redesigned. Just what are they planning?...
Fixed Issues
General
- When using the screen space tooltips accessibility option, toasts are moved down the screen when radials are opened.
- When using keyboard shortcuts to select radial slots, the appropriate slot is now highlighted.
- Commendations for defeating coloured skeletons on the Fort of the Damned now continue to track progress after the 2nd wave is killed.
- When loading the game and navigating through the intro cutscene, repeatedly pressing B or the Escape key will no longer cancel popup options for Re-join or Join Crew.
- Handle no longer becomes detached from the reel on The Killer Whale Fishing Rod when turning.
- Snakes will once again attack players when placed down while inside a basket.
- The Pirate Legend Hideout no longer has two clipping Pet Cages.
- Corrected Outpost Store pricing for the Hardy Longcoat, Mender's Jacket, High Collar Jacket and Midshipman's Jacket.
- Corrected naming inconsistencies on the Collector's Chest pick up prompts, toasts and the text chat radial.
- Players can no longer become stuck in the environment at Crow’s Nest Fortress.
- Players can no longer become stuck when jumping into the altar on Molten Sands Fortress.
- Tome of Fire locked Ashen cosmetics are now available in both Duke's shop and the Outpost Stores.
- Player can run into an invisible wall between the bowsprit and hull of sloop.
- ‘Shroudbreaker’ – When reaching the Puzzle Vault and are presented with the vault table. Maps, these will continue to be visible to crews even if they leave the island and return.
- When enabling Let Games Read to Me, the equipment and map radial items are now narrated.
- Rag and Bone Crates should now emergently wash up on islands across the world.
Combat
- Players can no longer shoot more than once within a 1 second window.
- Blocking and then continuously attacking will no longer cause you to strike without animating in first-person.
- Aiming down sights and immediately swapping to your sword will no longer cause the sword block to get stuck until you block again.
- Stowing your sword while blocking and then taking it out once more will no longer cause you to have to press LT twice to block again.
- Attempting to block towards the end of the wield animation now queues the block to trigger after the wield animation finishes.
- You are now able to swap to another item using a key binding during the sword wield animation.
- When your gun is out of ammo and you try to shoot, it will now play the dry fire sound effect.
- Removed slight pause in animation when a player first takes out their sword.
- If a player is hit with a cannonball and not killed on impact they are now knocked back.
Arena
- Players still migrating at the end of contests will now be safely disconnected if the migration requests times out and the server shuts down.
New Player Onboarding
- Ship prompts will now be hidden during Maiden Voyage’s final cutscene.
- The ‘Set Sail’ button has appropriate artwork when selecting the Maiden Voyage.
- The rowboat slowdown key binds now update when changed within the Maiden Voyage.
- Improved the cinematic ending of the Maiden Voyage.
Pets
- When playing in non-English languages, equipping outfits to a pet no longer reverts its name and descriptions back to English.
- Stroking a pet after jumping should no longer show a pause in the animation.
- Players can no longer fire an empty cannon if a pet that was loaded into it is dismissed.
- When drowning a pet, the pet correctly disappears for all players and not just the person doing the terrible deed.
Chest of Rage
- The Chest of Rage now correctly displays its anger and eventually explodes.
- If the chest is sold while damaging a player, they no longer continue to take damage after selling the chest.
Legends of the Sea
- When handing in Mythical Chests, Skulls and Chests of Legends to the Reapers, players will no longer gain Commendation credit towards Gold Hoarder Order of Souls and Athena Commendations.
Known Issues
- Voyages - Crews are prevented from seeing another Crews active voyage – When encountering another crew’s ship, the Captain’s Table no longer displays the voyage that crew is currently on.
- Cosmetics - Equipped cosmetics do not persist between sessions – Some players may find that after equipping cosmetics then leaving the game, those cosmetics will no longer be equipped after logging back in.
