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manifest date: 2020-03-20 00:00:00 UTC

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# Insider Patch Notes 2.0.13.2

Insider Update 2.0.13.2 is now live! Following your feedback, we have a range of changes to combat, reviving and Ghost Ship encounters. We have also introduced the highly requested Tall Tale checkpoints which give you the opportunity to save your progress within a Tall tale.

If you do encounter any bugs, then please head to the 
[Sea of Thieves support site](https://support.seaofthieves.com/hc/en-gb) and let our Player Support team know.

## Ghost Ships

* **Emergent Ghost Ship Encounter** – During an emergent Ghost Ship encounter, crews will now find more structured waves clearly showing their progress through the battle. In addition, the total duration of the encounter has been increased. At key stages throughout the encounter, the fleet will subside, and a Captain of Formations will surface, encouraging crews to work together to fight through these increasingly challenging scenarios. Crews fighting through to the final wave will now encounter the Captain of the Fleet surrounded by his fleet and must take him down to complete the encounter!
* **Ghost Ship Balancing** – Ghost Ships are now more deadly and can vary in speed to add variety to the encounter, with faster ships being rarer. Ghost ships will also now fire more often, at a much wider angles and even from a greater distance! Ghost Ships will also no longer fire Firebombs as their Phantom and Wraith Cannonballs become available.      *The visual effects used for both Phantom and Wraith Cannonballs are still work in progress and not final visual quality.*

## Tall Tales Checkpoints

* **Tall Tale Checkpoints ‘Shroudbreaker’** – Checkpoints allow players to save progress and pick up again in a new session. There are now points within each Tall Tale where the game will automatically save a ‘checkpoint’, and these checkpoints are shown as a Voyage.  In a new session, your crew can vote on this Voyage to return to your checkpoint and continue from where you left off.      Checkpoint Voyages will currently take up a slot in your voyages tab, however future Insider builds will see this transition into their own tab to free up voyage space.

## Trading Company Emissaries

* **Trading Company Costumes** – Players can now purchase the Trading Company costumes from the Gold Hoarders, Order of Souls and Merchant Alliance company shops after buying the Emissary Flag. Reapers Bones does not yet have Costumes available, but you can purchase all Company promotion items such as the cannons and figurehead.
* **Emissary Grade Commendations** - Commendations awarded for reaching Emissary Grades 1,2,3,4 and 5 can now be unlocked.
* **Recognising your Flag** - Should your ship sink while representing as an Emissary, the tooltip will specify that the flag that floats up to the surface was your own. Cashing this in will reward you with negligible gold and reputation.
* **Emissary Grade Progress** - When earning Emissary Grade progress, the UI displaying your Grade have now been improved visually.
* **Expanding Trading Company Ranks** – The Trading Companies have expanded their ranks to defend against the Reaper’s Threat. Athena’s Fortune now allows players to progress to Rank 20, with new promotions and titles available from the Pirate Lord.
* **Emissary Ledger** – Each Trading Company now shows its most valuable Emissaries within the new Emissary Ledger tab in the reputation pane. Cashing in rewards as an Emissary will earn you ‘Company Value’ towards the Ledger and you can track your value on a global scale with other players. Each Emissary Ledger will reset on a monthly basis, and progressing through the Company tiers will earn exclusive cosmetics which will be retained when the Ledger closes.      *During Insider testing, we may reset the Emissary Ledger regularly in order to deploy updates and test our back-end services.*

## Reviving

* **Revive Window** – In Adventure, you now have 15 seconds to revive your crewmate, increased from 10 seconds.
* **Alliance Reviving** - When in an Alliance with another crew, you are now able to revive allied players in addition to your own crewmates.

## The Arena

* **Glorious Sea Dog Effects** – The Glorious Sea Dogs chest now has improved visually. 
* **Arena Contest Duration** – Arena contests have now been reduced to 15mins in duration, down from 24 mins.
* **Contest scoring Re-balance** - When damaging an enemy ship, you will now be rewarded with 40 Silver per hit, down from 25 Silver per hit previously.

## Non-Verbal Improvements

* **Crew Nameplate Activity** – When enabling the ‘Crew Status Tags’ in Gameplay Settings, you can now see the actions performed by your crewmates alongside their gamertags. Actions such as bailing and steering now display an icon indicating the action being performed by players.

## Updates

* **Cutlass Damage Balancing** - Following your feedback, the cutlass damage has had a further balancing pass. Players striking with a cutlass will now deal 25 damage per regular hit, reduced from 30. Attacking with a heavy strike remains unchanged at 60 damage.
* **Harpoon Detach** – Launching a Blunderbomb at a harpoon will now cause it to detach from its target.
* **Cursed Cannonball Effects** – Cursed Cannonballs loaded into cannons now have improved visual effects.
* **Pets Reacting to Other Players** - Pets will now react to the actions performed by other players you meet out in the world.

## Fixed Issues

**General**

* ‘Shroudbreaker’ - There is now a glint on the sunken Ancient Collector's Chest.
* Attacking a metal skeleton with a cutlass,now causes a stun effect.

**Arena**

* During DeMarco’s intro the subtitles now correctly match the voice over.
* The pillar of light effects now stays attached to the Glorious Sea Dogs chest when moved.
* Prior to digging up a Glorious Sea Dog’s Chest, the Pillar of Light VFX now display correctly.
* Intentionally sinking a Glorious Sea Dog Chest no longer prevents future chests from spawning.
* It is no longer possible for a Glorious Sea Dog chest to spawn on the same island twice in a row.
* The chest icon shown in the Dig up/Hand in toasts now matches the actual Glorious Sea Dog chest.

**Trading Company Expansion**

* The flag icon is now correct for the Order of Souls flag earned at level 75.
* The flag icon is now correct for the Merchant Alliance flag earned at level 75.

**Reviving**

* When reviving someone right after they die, their ghost will now animate properly back into their body.
* Reviving someone right after they die should no longer cause some clients to crash.
* Being revived after offering your soul to the Ferryman no longer causes the “offer your soul to the Ferryman” option to disappear the next time you die.

**Pirate Emporium**

* The Hook, Line and Sinker emote is now in sync.
* Cats no longer accept fruit as food from other players when they are being held.
* Revised cat positioning when held by a player to reduce instances of hands clipping when stroking.

**Trading Company Emissaries**

* Emissary Ship Flags now display in higher resolution at all distances.
* When picking up an emissary flag it will now appear correctly in your hands and when showing to others in first person.
* Disconnecting and rejoining to your session no longer removes the ability to vote to lower the flag on your return.

## Known Issues

* **Commendation Resetting** – Commendations are currently resetting when leaving and re-joining a session
* **‘Cursed Rogue’ Enchanted Compass** – If you don't pick Enchanted Compass before Madame Olivia finishes her monologue the compass will disappear.
* **Reapers Bones Commendations** – Cashing in treasure to the Reaper’s Bones Trading Company will not progress commendations
* **Placeholder Imagery** – There is a range of placeholder imagery for Commendations, Icons, Costumes and Artwork, please hold off on raising bug as these are still work in progress.
* **Emissary Voting** – When voting to become an Emissary the banner animation will repeat multiple times before eventually stopping.

* **Reviving** - If you die while inside Caverns/Catacombs the death camera can float through the ceiling.
* **Tall Tale Checkpoint** - Tall tale book disappears from the ship table if you return to the ship using mermaid after starting Shroudbreaker from checkpoints. This doesn’t cancel or reset the Tall tale.

Preview

Insider Patch Notes 2.0.13.2

If you do encounter any bugs, then please head to the Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.

Ghost Ships

Emergent Ghost Ship Encounter – During an emergent Ghost Ship encounter, crews will now find more structured waves clearly showing their progress through the battle. In addition, the total duration of the encounter has been increased. At key stages throughout the encounter, the fleet will subside, and a Captain of Formations will surface, encouraging crews to work together to fight through these increasingly challenging scenarios. Crews fighting through to the final wave will now encounter the Captain of the Fleet surrounded by his fleet and must take him down to complete the encounter!
Ghost Ship Balancing – Ghost Ships are now more deadly and can vary in speed to add variety to the encounter, with faster ships being rarer. Ghost ships will also now fire more often, at a much wider angles and even from a greater distance! Ghost Ships will also no longer fire Firebombs as their Phantom and Wraith Cannonballs become available. The visual effects used for both Phantom and Wraith Cannonballs are still work in progress and not final visual quality.

Tall Tales Checkpoints

Tall Tale Checkpoints ‘Shroudbreaker’ – Checkpoints allow players to save progress and pick up again in a new session. There are now points within each Tall Tale where the game will automatically save a ‘checkpoint’, and these checkpoints are shown as a Voyage. In a new session, your crew can vote on this Voyage to return to your checkpoint and continue from where you left off. Checkpoint Voyages will currently take up a slot in your voyages tab, however future Insider builds will see this transition into their own tab to free up voyage space.

Trading Company Emissaries

Trading Company Costumes – Players can now purchase the Trading Company costumes from the Gold Hoarders, Order of Souls and Merchant Alliance company shops after buying the Emissary Flag. Reapers Bones does not yet have Costumes available, but you can purchase all Company promotion items such as the cannons and figurehead.
Emissary Grade Commendations - Commendations awarded for reaching Emissary Grades 1,2,3,4 and 5 can now be unlocked.
Recognising your Flag - Should your ship sink while representing as an Emissary, the tooltip will specify that the flag that floats up to the surface was your own. Cashing this in will reward you with negligible gold and reputation.
Emissary Grade Progress - When earning Emissary Grade progress, the UI displaying your Grade have now been improved visually.
Expanding Trading Company Ranks – The Trading Companies have expanded their ranks to defend against the Reaper’s Threat. Athena’s Fortune now allows players to progress to Rank 20, with new promotions and titles available from the Pirate Lord.
Emissary Ledger – Each Trading Company now shows its most valuable Emissaries within the new Emissary Ledger tab in the reputation pane. Cashing in rewards as an Emissary will earn you ‘Company Value’ towards the Ledger and you can track your value on a global scale with other players. Each Emissary Ledger will reset on a monthly basis, and progressing through the Company tiers will earn exclusive cosmetics which will be retained when the Ledger closes. During Insider testing, we may reset the Emissary Ledger regularly in order to deploy updates and test our back-end services.

Reviving

Revive Window – In Adventure, you now have 15 seconds to revive your crewmate, increased from 10 seconds.
Alliance Reviving - When in an Alliance with another crew, you are now able to revive allied players in addition to your own crewmates.

The Arena

Glorious Sea Dog Effects – The Glorious Sea Dogs chest now has improved visually.
Arena Contest Duration – Arena contests have now been reduced to 15mins in duration, down from 24 mins.
Contest scoring Re-balance - When damaging an enemy ship, you will now be rewarded with 40 Silver per hit, down from 25 Silver per hit previously.

Non-Verbal Improvements

Crew Nameplate Activity – When enabling the ‘Crew Status Tags’ in Gameplay Settings, you can now see the actions performed by your crewmates alongside their gamertags. Actions such as bailing and steering now display an icon indicating the action being performed by players.

Updates

Cutlass Damage Balancing - Following your feedback, the cutlass damage has had a further balancing pass. Players striking with a cutlass will now deal 25 damage per regular hit, reduced from 30. Attacking with a heavy strike remains unchanged at 60 damage.
Harpoon Detach – Launching a Blunderbomb at a harpoon will now cause it to detach from its target.
Cursed Cannonball Effects – Cursed Cannonballs loaded into cannons now have improved visual effects.
Pets Reacting to Other Players - Pets will now react to the actions performed by other players you meet out in the world.

Fixed Issues

General

‘Shroudbreaker’ - There is now a glint on the sunken Ancient Collector's Chest.
Attacking a metal skeleton with a cutlass,now causes a stun effect.

Arena

During DeMarco’s intro the subtitles now correctly match the voice over.
The pillar of light effects now stays attached to the Glorious Sea Dogs chest when moved.
Prior to digging up a Glorious Sea Dog’s Chest, the Pillar of Light VFX now display correctly.
Intentionally sinking a Glorious Sea Dog Chest no longer prevents future chests from spawning.
It is no longer possible for a Glorious Sea Dog chest to spawn on the same island twice in a row.
The chest icon shown in the Dig up/Hand in toasts now matches the actual Glorious Sea Dog chest.

Trading Company Expansion

The flag icon is now correct for the Order of Souls flag earned at level 75.
The flag icon is now correct for the Merchant Alliance flag earned at level 75.

Reviving

When reviving someone right after they die, their ghost will now animate properly back into their body.
Reviving someone right after they die should no longer cause some clients to crash.
Being revived after offering your soul to the Ferryman no longer causes the “offer your soul to the Ferryman” option to disappear the next time you die.

Pirate Emporium

The Hook, Line and Sinker emote is now in sync.
Cats no longer accept fruit as food from other players when they are being held.
Revised cat positioning when held by a player to reduce instances of hands clipping when stroking.

Trading Company Emissaries

Emissary Ship Flags now display in higher resolution at all distances.
When picking up an emissary flag it will now appear correctly in your hands and when showing to others in first person.
Disconnecting and rejoining to your session no longer removes the ability to vote to lower the flag on your return.

Known Issues

Commendation Resetting – Commendations are currently resetting when leaving and re-joining a session
‘Cursed Rogue’ Enchanted Compass – If you don't pick Enchanted Compass before Madame Olivia finishes her monologue the compass will disappear.
Reapers Bones Commendations – Cashing in treasure to the Reaper’s Bones Trading Company will not progress commendations
Placeholder Imagery – There is a range of placeholder imagery for Commendations, Icons, Costumes and Artwork, please hold off on raising bug as these are still work in progress.
Emissary Voting – When voting to become an Emissary the banner animation will repeat multiple times before eventually stopping.
Reviving - If you die while inside Caverns/Catacombs the death camera can float through the ceiling.
Tall Tale Checkpoint - Tall tale book disappears from the ship table if you return to the ship using mermaid after starting Shroudbreaker from checkpoints. This doesn’t cancel or reset the Tall tale.