Insider Patch Notes 2.0.17.6
Insider Update 2.0.17.6 is now live! Larinna, at the Tavern, has an exciting Voyage ready to be explored. Dig up pieces of a map to discover a vault with treasure and gold galore - how much booty can you plunder before time runs out?
If you encounter any bugs, then please head to the
Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Updates
Slimline Island Banners
- Configure the style of UI banners shown when approaching i9slands from the original cinematic banners. The new slimline banners provide a simpler design using less screen space, and banners can even be disabled completely should you wish to do so.
- Banners can be selected by game mode in the Gameplay settings. ‘Island Banners in Adventure’ default to cinematic banners, while ‘Island Banners in Arena’ default to slimline.
World Encounters
- Increased the rate in which Ashen Lord Encounters appear.
Known Issues
Treasure Vaults
- When uncovering a Treasure Vault as part of a Wayfinder Voyage, crews participating in a Tall Tale at the same time may find their Vault is in use and be unable to progress the Tale.
When migrating with a Wayfinder Voyage active, the previous server will crash.
Loot will be removed if they it is placed near the door after the Vault door closes.
Vaults can have more than three medallions for testing purposes.
The Treasure Vaults in The Devil's Roar are currently a work in progress and can cause safe teleporting.
Mysterious Notes
When completing a Mysterious Note’s criteria, it will not ‘complete’ and will stay in the Quest Radial.
Mysterious Notes currently use a range of placeholder assets.
Digging
- Certain loot items will start floating into the sky after being dug up.
Skeleton Forts
- Migrating after collecting the Fort Key will cause they key to be no longer useable.
Loot Haul Memory Saving
- When reaching the item threshold, loot items will visually swap to placeholder low cost memory items. For example, all Chests will appear as Castaway Chests once the item threshold has been reached.
Fixed Issues
General
While repairing a hole in the ship, players are no longer able to ‘give’ a plank to cancel the repairing audio effects.
The Bucket of Courage now has the correct texture inside it.
When in a storm, players will now have a chance to be hit by lightning.
Opening the Quest Radial using a key bind will now show the Mysterious Notes radial option.
Vomiting will no longer propel the vomiting pirate backwards.
Players will now hear bespoke sound effects when interacting with Umbra on the Lagoon of Whispers island.
Volume settings will now persist across sessions, even when returning to the front-end.
Combat & Hit Registration
- Attacking with ranged weapons while standing on the Arena hand-in ship will now correctly register shots on rival players.
- Attacking with ranged weapons while standing on a rowboat will now correctly register shots on rival players.
Ashen Winds Skull
- Using an Ashen Winds Skull to set fire to skeletons now counts towards the Ashen Bones and Captain of Ashen Bones Commendations.
- Using an Ashen Winds Skull to set fire to Skeleton Ships now counts towards the Warsmith of the Flame Commendation.
Gold Hoarders Voyage
- The “Hoarder of the Vault Keys”, “Seeker of the Ancient Vaults” and “Hoarder of the Ancient Tributes” Commendations will now unlock when the criteria are met.
- Opening the Vault doors with a totem and dying will no longer cause the doors to close and lock.
Pirate Emporium
- The Merchant Alliance Emote Bundle now correctly shows in the Sale Category for the extended July sale.
- The front-end Pirate Emporium icon will correctly show July's icon along with July’s content.
Pets
Dogs will animate correctly when being stroked by any medium to large pirate.
Placing a pet on a perch spot will function as intended, even after migrating.
Accessibility
- When enabling “Let Games Read to Me”, the narrator will correctly narrate all buttons across the title screen.
