Insider Patch Notes 2.0.15.6
Insider Update 2.0.15.6 is now live - with Haunted Shores arriving next week, this will be the final Insiders build focused on this update. Head to Duke or the Order of Souls to pick up a Ghost Ship voyage or sail out to the menacing Flameheart Skull to take on the spectral fleet!
If you encounter any bugs, then please head to the
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Ghost Ships
- Ghost Ship Encounter Balancing – Both Order of Souls Ghost Ship Voyages and Emergent Ghost Ship encounters have been rebalanced for smaller crews on Sloops.
- Order of Souls Voyage Sailing Distances – Order of Souls Ghost ship voyages will now spawn closer to the player requiring less sailing before entering the battle.
- Duke’s Black Market – The Ghost Captain Sails and the Burning Blade Sails can be purchased from Duke’s Black Market after being unlocked. They will be available for one month before returning to the Shipwright.
- Wraith Cannonballs – The cooldown timer of Wraith Cannonballs has been increased to make them fire less frequently after the first shot.
- Flameheart’s Voice Over – Further improvements have been made to Flameheart’s voice overs. His ambient taunts now play slightly less often, to give more space for him to play his other contextual lines.
Non-verbal Radial
- Quick Select – It is now slightly easier to trigger a "quick select" if you release the button before the radial opens you will trigger it.
- Cannonball Radial – When accessing the cannonball radial when docked to a Cannon, Firebombs and Blunderbombs will now have a permanent slot in the radial (slots 3 and 4), regardless of if the player has these items in their inventory. This maintains a consistent order of commonly used cannonballs.
Known Issues
- Missing Localisation – There is a range of missing translations in the non-verbal radial.
- *Compass *– A ship’s compass can get stuck facing North.
- Flame hearts Skull Cloud – There is a circle that shows around Flameheart when viewed through fog or the storm.
- Flameheart’s Voice Over – Flameheart’s Alliance Voice over lines will trigger when a player raises the Alliance flag or when an AI ship enters the area. His Intro Voice over lines will also only trigger for the first crew to enter the encounter radius.
- Non-verbal Radial – When Quick selecting a Non-Verbal phrase there will be a delay before the message appears.
- Equipment Radial Quick Select – Using a tap to Quick select will not equip items you equipped via hotkeys.
Fixed Issues
General
- Musical instruments are now playable during the Maiden voyage.
- Company onboarding will now start for new pirates without having to leave session and start a new one.
- Extra Emissary flags will no longer appear if a ship sinks after migrating.
- Choosing to invert your controls will now correctly invert the controls on a cannon and Harpoon.
- Players using Nvidia RTX GPUs should no longer see gridlines in the sea in certain hardware & setting combinations.
- The size of a pirate’s body will no longer be affected by using emotes.
- When launching the game using a game invite it will now launch in the forefront of the screen.
- Players will now burp again after consuming several pieces of food in succession.
Ghost Ships
- Flameheart will now turn to face if you die when your ship sinks.
- Completing a Ghost Ship Voyage will now reward the players with Order of Souls Emissary reputation.
- Migrating with an active voyage will no longer prevent players from being able to complete it.
- The Haunted Shores player titles now have the correct icon once unlocked.
- The Storage Crate of the Damned now has 16 free spaces instead of 9.
- Flameheart’s voice over outro will now play when finishing the Encounter.
- Ghost ship mines will now spawn at their correct location, behind the ship.
- Loot markers now disappear when rewards picked up by a player.
- Completing a Ghost Ship Encounter as an Emissary will now reward Emissary reputation.
Pirate Emporium
- Viewing the Preview for the “Playful Hide Emote” will now fully show the emote.
- When trying to purchase the Ghost Pet outfits there will now pe a pop up to make the player aware they need to own the Athena 20 Promotion.
- The Silver Mane Barbary is now showing the intended price.
- The Shovel Flourish emote animation now correctly shows the shovel in line with the characters hand.
- The Sovereign Emote Bundle tile no longer incorrectly shows as a Time Limited Price.
- When browsing through the Ghost Pet outfits the UI should no longer select an item off screen.
- The Shovel Flourish emote will now play smoothly.
- The screaming audio from the Wraith Cannonball will now be heard when they are fired from Cannons.
Non-Verbal Radial
- The non-verbal radial will no longer remain on screen during the cinematic at the end of the Maiden Voyage.
- Rebinding the contextual non-verbal radial key in the settings menu will now correctly rebind it in game.
- After having stowed an item, when using quick select in the Equipment Radial it will now switch back to the last equipped Item first, before then switching to the last used map.
- The map radial will now order the maps in the same way that the original radial system ordered maps.
- When using the shortcuts 1-8 to select a radial item, the item will be highlighted, and the radial will close. This will be the same as the existing behaviour in the previous radial system.
