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manifest date: 2020-06-02 00:00:00 UTC

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# Insider Patch Notes 2.0.15.2

Insider Update 2.0.15.2 is now live! Along with updates to Ashen Lords and Ghost Ships, this Insider build introduces a new non-verbal system for improved communications with your crew and a refreshed set of shanties for all your musical needs.

In addition, as we prepare for Sea of Thieves' release on Steam, Insider testing on Steam will cease temporarily until after launch. We’ll share more soon on when this will return!

If you 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.

## Non-Verbal Radial

* **Improved Non-Verbal Communication** – The non-verbal radial has been redesigned to provide a much wider range of phrases separated into distinct categories. The top level will continue to provide fast access to chat and alerts to surrounding players. The second level is focused on strategy, providing expanded ways to communicate what you are doing and give directions to others. The third level is providing contextual phrases specific to the item you are holding or ship interaction you are using.
* **Non-Verbal Radial Keybinds** – The non-verbal radial has now moved to a more prominent keybind on RB (Controller), E (Keyboard) allowing for faster access in pressured situations. The quest radial previously on this keybind has now been moved to co-exist inside the equipment radial.

## Ghost Ships

* **Order of Souls Voyage Rewards** – Ghost Ship Voyages now only drop skulls as rewards. The drop rates on these are balanced to stay in line with existing Order of Souls voyages whilst also accounting for the additional preparation and risk involved in a Ghost Ship battle.
* **Ghost Ship Voyages** – Ghost Ship Voyage cards and banners have titles and descriptions based on their rank
* **Ghost Ship Music** – New music has been added for Ghost Ship encounters as crews approach the fleet, before launching into combat.

## Duke's Black Market

Duke has once again stocked the Black Market with new items for your hard-earned coin!

* **Wild Rose Clothing** – Available from Duke this month is the Wild Rose Belt, Boots, Eyepatch, Gloves, Hook and Trousers, these are purchasable with Doubloons.
* **Inky Kraken Equipment** – Available from Duke this month is the Inky Kraken Bucket, Compass, Fishing rod, Lantern, Pocket watch, Shovel, Speaking Trumpet, Spyglass and Tankard these are purchasable with Gold.

## Updates

* **Selecting a Shanty** – When equipping an Instrument, the item radial now expands to a new menu allowing players to select which shanty to play. Along with the original selection of shanties, 7 new ‘never heard before’ shanties are also available, along with an exclusive shanty for Pirate Legends!
* **Text Size Accessibility** – Lost Treasures introduced an increase in text size across the game to provide an improved default experience for wider accessibility. With this update, the ‘Text Chat Scale’ option within Accessibility Settings can now be tweaked from 1.0 (new default) down to 0.5 (previous size) enabling players to return text chat notifications back to their original size.
* **Attacking through the Environment** – In combat, both melee and ranged attacks are now prevented from attacking through the environment.      This insiders build contains an early version of this hit validation functionality to allow us to begin gathering insider test coverage and feedback. This is a large change to the combat system and has already identified locations in which attacking players around the ship is now incorrectly prevented, check the known issues for more information.
* **Emissary Ledger Friends View** – The Emissary Ledger now supports a friend view, showing where your friends are placing on the current month ledger and where they placed in the previous ledger.
* **Barrel Inventory** – When using keyboard and mouse, opening a barrel inventory will now reset your mouse cursor to the centre of the screen.
* **Cat Animations** – When holding your fluffy friend, they will now have improved animations while relaxing in your arms.
* **Cannonball Radial** – When using a cannon, the cannonball radial now uses a revised order for displaying cannonballs. While cannonballs still retain the first slot position, that is then followed by Chainshot before rotating round to Cursed Cannonballs and other projectiles.
* **Accessibility **– There have been improvements made to the font sizes when you receive an invite, a crew mate joins, and when a crew mate leaves toasts.

## Known Issues

* **Environment Hit Validation** – Due to this release containing an early version of hit validation, the following areas now incorrectly prevent player attacks; Grates on the ship’s deck, ship’s wheel has an enlarged hitbox, Crow’s Nest low walls, Sloop’s rear low wall.
* **Placeholder Imagery** – There is currently a range of placeholder imagery, artwork and text related to the Ghost Ship voyages and Ghost Ship toasts when selling rewards.
* **Ghost Ships Commendations** – Firing Wraith Cannonballs at enemy ships does not currently count towards the ‘Unleashed the Damned’ Commendations.
* **Ghost Ships Encounter** – Flameheart's subtitles will be visible for all players on the server.
* **Ghost Ships Voyages** – Ghost ships will not spawn around the voyage island after a server migration.
* **Ghost Ships Voyages** – Order of Souls voyage maps will not update with a new voyage location after migrating to a server with an active emergent encounter.
* **Non-Verbal Radial** – Quickly switching to an item will prevent the non-verbal radial from displaying phrases for that equipped item.
* **Non-Verbal Radial Text Sizes** – The Cannonball Crate of the Damned name text does not wrap but extends over the background box boundaries of the Non-Verbal radial.
* **Non-Verbal Radial Auto-Closing** – Opening the item radial and then opening any other radial will cause that second radial to automatically close.

## Fixed Issues

**General**

* All items purchased during current session will be visible in chests straight away.
* Shooting any ship with a chainshot will now cause predictable damage holes on the outside of the ship.
* During the Maiden Voyage, eating the banana before being prompted to no longer causes Pirate Lord's animation and dialogue to be cut short.
* In the Pirate Legend Hideout, swimming into the rudder, at the back of the Athena's Fortune tavern, and getting stuck will now spawn you in the Pirate Legend Hideout.
* When post-contest in Arena, interacting with the Wheel, Cannon or Ladders no longer causes you to get stuck until you migrate.
* The correct music now plays when starting an Athena's run voyage.
* Fire VFX is now present during the Ashen Lord encounters, players should no longer be damaged by invisible fire.
* There have been visual improvements made to the Inky Kraken Lantern when taking a Flame of Fate.
* The "more" option will now correctly be displayed in the centre of the radial when using the non-verbal radial. 
* Speech to text now transmits in same range as regular voice chat when using the speaking trumpet.

**Tall Tales**

* ‘Shroudbreaker’ - Players will be awarded the Commendation for opening the puzzle vault even after migrating.
* ‘The Seabound Soul’ – Completing the Tale will now correctly unlock ‘The Seabound Soul’ Commendation and award the player with the Sword of Souls weapon.

**Localisation**

* Missing text strings in the main menu have now been replaced with correct localisation in non-English languages.

**Combat**

* Improvements to hit registration when shooting at players while they are walking, running, and jumping.
* It is no longer possible to shoot people through the ship's map table on the Galleon.

**Pirate Emporium**

* The Ruby Splashtail Cannons will now be displayed correctly when applied to a ship

**Ghost Ships**

* Ghost Ships will now despawn when cancelling an Order of Souls voyage.
* There have been VFX improvements made to Flameheart’s Skull cloud.
* Migrating to a new sever with an active Ghost Ship voyage will no longer crash that server.
* The Storage and Cannonball Crates now show the correct text in the toast when selling them
* Cancelling a Ghost Ship voyage will no longer cause the server to crash.
* Being targeted and attacked by Ghost Ships will no longer cause the client to crash.
* Ghost Mines are now visible in the water from further away.

**Duke’s Black Market**

* Letters of Recommendation will now lock after purchase.
* Equipping boots or a Pegleg no longer affect the colour of the Nightshine Parrot Trousers.

Preview

Insider Patch Notes 2.0.15.2

In addition, as we prepare for Sea of Thieves' release on Steam, Insider testing on Steam will cease temporarily until after launch. We’ll share more soon on when this will return!

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

Non-Verbal Radial

Improved Non-Verbal Communication – The non-verbal radial has been redesigned to provide a much wider range of phrases separated into distinct categories. The top level will continue to provide fast access to chat and alerts to surrounding players. The second level is focused on strategy, providing expanded ways to communicate what you are doing and give directions to others. The third level is providing contextual phrases specific to the item you are holding or ship interaction you are using.
Non-Verbal Radial Keybinds – The non-verbal radial has now moved to a more prominent keybind on RB (Controller), E (Keyboard) allowing for faster access in pressured situations. The quest radial previously on this keybind has now been moved to co-exist inside the equipment radial.

Ghost Ships

Order of Souls Voyage Rewards – Ghost Ship Voyages now only drop skulls as rewards. The drop rates on these are balanced to stay in line with existing Order of Souls voyages whilst also accounting for the additional preparation and risk involved in a Ghost Ship battle.
Ghost Ship Voyages – Ghost Ship Voyage cards and banners have titles and descriptions based on their rank
Ghost Ship Music – New music has been added for Ghost Ship encounters as crews approach the fleet, before launching into combat.

Duke's Black Market

Duke has once again stocked the Black Market with new items for your hard-earned coin!

Wild Rose Clothing – Available from Duke this month is the Wild Rose Belt, Boots, Eyepatch, Gloves, Hook and Trousers, these are purchasable with Doubloons.
Inky Kraken Equipment – Available from Duke this month is the Inky Kraken Bucket, Compass, Fishing rod, Lantern, Pocket watch, Shovel, Speaking Trumpet, Spyglass and Tankard these are purchasable with Gold.

Updates

Selecting a Shanty – When equipping an Instrument, the item radial now expands to a new menu allowing players to select which shanty to play. Along with the original selection of shanties, 7 new ‘never heard before’ shanties are also available, along with an exclusive shanty for Pirate Legends!
Text Size Accessibility – Lost Treasures introduced an increase in text size across the game to provide an improved default experience for wider accessibility. With this update, the ‘Text Chat Scale’ option within Accessibility Settings can now be tweaked from 1.0 (new default) down to 0.5 (previous size) enabling players to return text chat notifications back to their original size.
Attacking through the Environment – In combat, both melee and ranged attacks are now prevented from attacking through the environment. This insiders build contains an early version of this hit validation functionality to allow us to begin gathering insider test coverage and feedback. This is a large change to the combat system and has already identified locations in which attacking players around the ship is now incorrectly prevented, check the known issues for more information.
Emissary Ledger Friends View – The Emissary Ledger now supports a friend view, showing where your friends are placing on the current month ledger and where they placed in the previous ledger.
Barrel Inventory – When using keyboard and mouse, opening a barrel inventory will now reset your mouse cursor to the centre of the screen.
Cat Animations – When holding your fluffy friend, they will now have improved animations while relaxing in your arms.
Cannonball Radial – When using a cannon, the cannonball radial now uses a revised order for displaying cannonballs. While cannonballs still retain the first slot position, that is then followed by Chainshot before rotating round to Cursed Cannonballs and other projectiles.
*Accessibility *– There have been improvements made to the font sizes when you receive an invite, a crew mate joins, and when a crew mate leaves toasts.

Known Issues

Environment Hit Validation – Due to this release containing an early version of hit validation, the following areas now incorrectly prevent player attacks; Grates on the ship’s deck, ship’s wheel has an enlarged hitbox, Crow’s Nest low walls, Sloop’s rear low wall.
Placeholder Imagery – There is currently a range of placeholder imagery, artwork and text related to the Ghost Ship voyages and Ghost Ship toasts when selling rewards.
Ghost Ships Commendations – Firing Wraith Cannonballs at enemy ships does not currently count towards the ‘Unleashed the Damned’ Commendations.
Ghost Ships Encounter – Flameheart's subtitles will be visible for all players on the server.
Ghost Ships Voyages – Ghost ships will not spawn around the voyage island after a server migration.
Ghost Ships Voyages – Order of Souls voyage maps will not update with a new voyage location after migrating to a server with an active emergent encounter.
Non-Verbal Radial – Quickly switching to an item will prevent the non-verbal radial from displaying phrases for that equipped item.
Non-Verbal Radial Text Sizes – The Cannonball Crate of the Damned name text does not wrap but extends over the background box boundaries of the Non-Verbal radial.
Non-Verbal Radial Auto-Closing – Opening the item radial and then opening any other radial will cause that second radial to automatically close.

Fixed Issues

General

All items purchased during current session will be visible in chests straight away.
Shooting any ship with a chainshot will now cause predictable damage holes on the outside of the ship.
During the Maiden Voyage, eating the banana before being prompted to no longer causes Pirate Lord's animation and dialogue to be cut short.
In the Pirate Legend Hideout, swimming into the rudder, at the back of the Athena's Fortune tavern, and getting stuck will now spawn you in the Pirate Legend Hideout.
When post-contest in Arena, interacting with the Wheel, Cannon or Ladders no longer causes you to get stuck until you migrate.
The correct music now plays when starting an Athena's run voyage.
Fire VFX is now present during the Ashen Lord encounters, players should no longer be damaged by invisible fire.
There have been visual improvements made to the Inky Kraken Lantern when taking a Flame of Fate.
The "more" option will now correctly be displayed in the centre of the radial when using the non-verbal radial.
Speech to text now transmits in same range as regular voice chat when using the speaking trumpet.

Tall Tales

‘Shroudbreaker’ - Players will be awarded the Commendation for opening the puzzle vault even after migrating.
‘The Seabound Soul’ – Completing the Tale will now correctly unlock ‘The Seabound Soul’ Commendation and award the player with the Sword of Souls weapon.

Localisation

Missing text strings in the main menu have now been replaced with correct localisation in non-English languages.

Combat

Improvements to hit registration when shooting at players while they are walking, running, and jumping.
It is no longer possible to shoot people through the ship's map table on the Galleon.

Pirate Emporium

The Ruby Splashtail Cannons will now be displayed correctly when applied to a ship

Ghost Ships

Ghost Ships will now despawn when cancelling an Order of Souls voyage.
There have been VFX improvements made to Flameheart’s Skull cloud.
Migrating to a new sever with an active Ghost Ship voyage will no longer crash that server.
The Storage and Cannonball Crates now show the correct text in the toast when selling them
Cancelling a Ghost Ship voyage will no longer cause the server to crash.
Being targeted and attacked by Ghost Ships will no longer cause the client to crash.
Ghost Mines are now visible in the water from further away.

Duke’s Black Market

Letters of Recommendation will now lock after purchase.
Equipping boots or a Pegleg no longer affect the colour of the Nightshine Parrot Trousers.