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manifest date: 2020-12-18 10:17:04 UTC

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# Insider Patch Notes 2.0.20.4

Insider Update 2.0.20.4 is now live! A new event is on the horizon... Whilst you are out searching for the Sunken Merchant’s vessel, the Order of Souls has a task for you. Defeat Skeleton threats across the seas to earn soul fragments and be rewarded for your gallant efforts!

As always, 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.

## Game Events

**Champions of Souls**

* The Order of Souls sense something foul afoot and are seeking your support in gleaning insight. Head to the special events menu to learn more about Champions of Souls!
* Defeating a range of skeleton threats will award players Soul Fragments and collecting these fragments will earn rewards coveted by the Order of Souls. Smash those skulls with the Order of Souls Cutlass, Flintlock, Blunderbuss and Eye of Reach. Earning 500 Soul Fragments will award the Champion of Souls Title.
* Each week, the Soul Fragments earned from individual skeleton threats will be boosted, check your Mysterious Note to find which is active!
* When the Event ends, these rewards will be obtainable from Outpost stores after completing certain Commendations.

## Seasons

**Seasons Progression**

* Placeholder progression values have now been replaced with our first iteration of Seasons balancing. The amount of Renown earned by completing actions along with the Renown required to reach each level has now been rebalanced.
* In this Insider’s build, players should expect to feel meaningful Season progression in a short 20-30 minute organic session and progress a level without the need to complete any specific Season Trials.
* All Insiders progress through the test Season has now been reset!

*While this Insiders build contains the first iteration of Seasons balancing, we continue to iterate on the experience with your feedback and data collected from your player behaviour!*

**Seasons Notifications**

* Players can now choose to disable Seasons notifications completely within the gameplay settings menu.
* Disabling will hide notifications for earning Renown, progressing Deeds and prevent pop-ups for completing any Deeds and Trials.

## Lost Shipments Voyage

**Lost Shipment Voyages**

* The initial clue given to players when they start the Voyage will no longer appear and players will now have to find the first clue by following the path on the trade route map.
* When discovering clue sites, crews may now find themselves ambushed by skeletons.
* The clue in the barrel should now be the correct icon, rather than a Cursed Cannonball.
* The map marks that appear on the trade route map when you find a clue will now reflect some of the different clue types you can pick up. If it is an NPC clue there should be a person’s face, a Barrel of Plenty clue should show as a barrel and bottle clues will be bottles.
* The temporary blue beacon SFX has been removed from the clues found at sea.
* As players collect clues on the Voyage there should now be toast notifications.

## Pirate Emporium

**Order of Souls Possessed Pets**

* The Order of Souls have stitched together and brought to life these Cat and Monkey pets, ready to be taken out onto the seas!

**Vigilant Weapon Pose emotes**

* Carefully flaunt your treasured weapons with these new Weapon Pose emotes.

**Heroic Pose emotes**

* Be the hero on the seas that you know yourself to be with these Heroic Pose emotes, available separately or as a bundle.

**Lunar Festival Weapons + bundle**

* Show off with these luxurious Lunar Festival Weapons, available separately or as a bundle.

**Lunar Festival Ship bundle**

* Adorn your ship with this lavish Lunar Festival livery, an opulent Ox Collector’s figurehead and Collector’s sails.
* The Lunar Festival Ship Essential bundle is also on offer, including all the regular ship cosmetics at a discount.

**Lunar Festival Costume**

* Adorn this regal Lunar Festival costume to celebrate the New Year!
* Sail into the New Year with these embellished costumes…with or without the hat.

**Lunar Festival Pet outfits**

* The Lunar Festival pet outfits return for a limited time. Celebrate the New Year with costumes for your parrot and monkey pets!

**Free Plead Emote**

* All you have is bananas? Really want that pineapple your crewmate has stored away? Plead with your crewmate for the delicious fruit with this free Plead emote.

**Sale Tab**

* Check out the sale tab for a chance to purchase a range of ship sets, emotes, pets and weapons at a discounted price.

**Plunder Pass**

* Players will now find the Plunder Pass in the Pirate Emporium for purchase. In future Insider’s builds, this will also be available to purchase directly from the Seasons menu without even venturing to the Emporium.

## Updates

**Outpost Cosmetic Stock**

* Previous Event rewards have now been added to the Outpost Stores; the Frostbite Cannons, Order of Souls Bucket, Gold Hoarders Spyglass, Tankard and Speaking Trumpet can now be found in their respective stores locked behind commendations.

## Known Issues

**Lost Shipment Clues**

* Showing the clue to another player will not display correctly to the other player and cut off the text. 
* A sea clue can fail to spawn a clue and will only spawn loot and debris.
* Clues can be removed from the quest radial after a player dies. 
* Sea clues have a chance to spawn on top of shipwrecks.
* Clues can sometimes fail to spawn at island clue sites.

**Lost Shipments Voyage**

* Ships and shipwrecks can lose collision whilst on the Voyage causing players to fall through the ships.
* Approaching a floating sea clue or shipwreck can cause the client to crash.
* The Lost Shipments Voyages do not currently support server migration and can cause instability for crews.

**Lost Shipments Shipwreck**

* The Merchant Captains found in shipwrecks can spawn under the floor or in the walls of the shipwreck causing them too not be interactable.
* Shipwrecks can sometimes spawn underneath islands or rocks.

**Pirate Emporium**

* The Lunar Festival Ship Collection and Weapons are missing from the Pirate Emporium.
* There is a range of placeholder imagery and text in the Pirate Emporium.

**Champions of Souls**

* The Champions of Souls Event uses a range of placeholder visuals.

**Leaderboards**

* Leaderboards section and Emissary Rank progress is missing for Order of Souls and Gold Hoarders companies

**Seasons**

* Player will not receive any of the Plunder pass rewards when owning the Plunder pass.
* Seasons continues to use a range of wireframe assets and placeholder visuals.

*The following Trials are unable to be completed:*

* Merchant I
* Explorer 1
* Bounty Hunter 1
* Master Sailor
* Story Seeker I
* The Bilge Rat I
* Worshiper of Fire 1
* Voyager 1
* Proficient Sailor
* Proficient Bilge Rat
* Aspiring Scavenger
* Party Pirate
* Ambitious Firestarter
* Aspiring Historian
* Apprentice Hunter

## Fixed Issues

**General**

* When trying to join a crew that has disbanded, players should now receive the message "Failed to join the crew session as the crew does not exist".
* Opening or closing a Collector’s Chest another player is holding should now correctly show as opened or closed for the player holding it.
* When doing the Shores of Gold Tall Tale, if another crew starts the Tall Tale the medallions should no longer appear in the air in the Vault.
* When joining the Arena, the Mute all Other Crews Voice and Text chat options will now correctly show as being set to Yes.
* Rewards from inside a Collector’s Chest should now only be accessible after opening the chest.
* The “Face, Meet Palm” and “Confusion” emotes should now have the final imagery attached.

**Lost Shipment Voyages**

* Voyages should no longer automatically complete when started.
* Debris at island clue sites should no longer float away into the sky.
* The first clue the player is given should now show the correct coordinates for the next clue.
* The clues should no longer have missing coordinates in the German language.
* Clue bottles should now spawn in their intended locations and no longer float up into the sky.
* When players receive their first clue from a floating barrel, they should now be directed to the next clue site and not straight to the shipwreck.
* Clues should now spawn when starting the Galleon's Grave to Spoils of Plenty Seapost Voyage route.
* The correct toasts should now pop up when handing in the manifest to the Merchant vendor or the Reapers Bones.

**Seasons**

* Steam & Microsoft Store versions of the game now correctly display Renown notifications when completing actions.
* Progressing and completing Deeds now notifies the player of progress in the Notifications window along with the Deed name.
* Trials now state they provide a boost to Renown and not an individual level.
* When earning Renown, notifications should not appear twice for a single action.
* A range of Seasons rewards should now have the final text and descriptions.
* When progressing or completing a Deed, pressing ‘more’ should now open the correct Trial.

Preview

Insider Patch Notes 2.0.20.4

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

Game Events

Champions of Souls

The Order of Souls sense something foul afoot and are seeking your support in gleaning insight. Head to the special events menu to learn more about Champions of Souls!
Defeating a range of skeleton threats will award players Soul Fragments and collecting these fragments will earn rewards coveted by the Order of Souls. Smash those skulls with the Order of Souls Cutlass, Flintlock, Blunderbuss and Eye of Reach. Earning 500 Soul Fragments will award the Champion of Souls Title.
Each week, the Soul Fragments earned from individual skeleton threats will be boosted, check your Mysterious Note to find which is active!
When the Event ends, these rewards will be obtainable from Outpost stores after completing certain Commendations.

Seasons

Seasons Progression

Placeholder progression values have now been replaced with our first iteration of Seasons balancing. The amount of Renown earned by completing actions along with the Renown required to reach each level has now been rebalanced.
In this Insider’s build, players should expect to feel meaningful Season progression in a short 20-30 minute organic session and progress a level without the need to complete any specific Season Trials.
All Insiders progress through the test Season has now been reset!

While this Insiders build contains the first iteration of Seasons balancing, we continue to iterate on the experience with your feedback and data collected from your player behaviour!

Seasons Notifications

Players can now choose to disable Seasons notifications completely within the gameplay settings menu.
Disabling will hide notifications for earning Renown, progressing Deeds and prevent pop-ups for completing any Deeds and Trials.

Lost Shipments Voyage

Lost Shipment Voyages

The initial clue given to players when they start the Voyage will no longer appear and players will now have to find the first clue by following the path on the trade route map.
When discovering clue sites, crews may now find themselves ambushed by skeletons.
The clue in the barrel should now be the correct icon, rather than a Cursed Cannonball.
The map marks that appear on the trade route map when you find a clue will now reflect some of the different clue types you can pick up. If it is an NPC clue there should be a person’s face, a Barrel of Plenty clue should show as a barrel and bottle clues will be bottles.
The temporary blue beacon SFX has been removed from the clues found at sea.
As players collect clues on the Voyage there should now be toast notifications.

Pirate Emporium

Order of Souls Possessed Pets

The Order of Souls have stitched together and brought to life these Cat and Monkey pets, ready to be taken out onto the seas!

Vigilant Weapon Pose emotes

Carefully flaunt your treasured weapons with these new Weapon Pose emotes.

Heroic Pose emotes

Be the hero on the seas that you know yourself to be with these Heroic Pose emotes, available separately or as a bundle.

Lunar Festival Weapons + bundle

Show off with these luxurious Lunar Festival Weapons, available separately or as a bundle.

Lunar Festival Ship bundle

Adorn your ship with this lavish Lunar Festival livery, an opulent Ox Collector’s figurehead and Collector’s sails.
The Lunar Festival Ship Essential bundle is also on offer, including all the regular ship cosmetics at a discount.

Lunar Festival Costume

Adorn this regal Lunar Festival costume to celebrate the New Year!
Sail into the New Year with these embellished costumes…with or without the hat.

Lunar Festival Pet outfits

The Lunar Festival pet outfits return for a limited time. Celebrate the New Year with costumes for your parrot and monkey pets!

Free Plead Emote

All you have is bananas? Really want that pineapple your crewmate has stored away? Plead with your crewmate for the delicious fruit with this free Plead emote.

Sale Tab

Check out the sale tab for a chance to purchase a range of ship sets, emotes, pets and weapons at a discounted price.

Plunder Pass

Players will now find the Plunder Pass in the Pirate Emporium for purchase. In future Insider’s builds, this will also be available to purchase directly from the Seasons menu without even venturing to the Emporium.

Updates

Outpost Cosmetic Stock

Previous Event rewards have now been added to the Outpost Stores; the Frostbite Cannons, Order of Souls Bucket, Gold Hoarders Spyglass, Tankard and Speaking Trumpet can now be found in their respective stores locked behind commendations.

Known Issues

Lost Shipment Clues

Showing the clue to another player will not display correctly to the other player and cut off the text.
A sea clue can fail to spawn a clue and will only spawn loot and debris.
Clues can be removed from the quest radial after a player dies.
Sea clues have a chance to spawn on top of shipwrecks.
Clues can sometimes fail to spawn at island clue sites.

Lost Shipments Voyage

Ships and shipwrecks can lose collision whilst on the Voyage causing players to fall through the ships.
Approaching a floating sea clue or shipwreck can cause the client to crash.
The Lost Shipments Voyages do not currently support server migration and can cause instability for crews.

Lost Shipments Shipwreck

The Merchant Captains found in shipwrecks can spawn under the floor or in the walls of the shipwreck causing them too not be interactable.
Shipwrecks can sometimes spawn underneath islands or rocks.

Pirate Emporium

The Lunar Festival Ship Collection and Weapons are missing from the Pirate Emporium.
There is a range of placeholder imagery and text in the Pirate Emporium.

Champions of Souls

The Champions of Souls Event uses a range of placeholder visuals.

Leaderboards

Leaderboards section and Emissary Rank progress is missing for Order of Souls and Gold Hoarders companies

Seasons

Player will not receive any of the Plunder pass rewards when owning the Plunder pass.
Seasons continues to use a range of wireframe assets and placeholder visuals.

The following Trials are unable to be completed:

Merchant I
Explorer 1
Bounty Hunter 1
Master Sailor
Story Seeker I
The Bilge Rat I
Worshiper of Fire 1
Voyager 1
Proficient Sailor
Proficient Bilge Rat
Aspiring Scavenger
Party Pirate
Ambitious Firestarter
Aspiring Historian
Apprentice Hunter

Fixed Issues

General

When trying to join a crew that has disbanded, players should now receive the message "Failed to join the crew session as the crew does not exist".
Opening or closing a Collector’s Chest another player is holding should now correctly show as opened or closed for the player holding it.
When doing the Shores of Gold Tall Tale, if another crew starts the Tall Tale the medallions should no longer appear in the air in the Vault.
When joining the Arena, the Mute all Other Crews Voice and Text chat options will now correctly show as being set to Yes.
Rewards from inside a Collector’s Chest should now only be accessible after opening the chest.
The “Face, Meet Palm” and “Confusion” emotes should now have the final imagery attached.

Lost Shipment Voyages

Voyages should no longer automatically complete when started.
Debris at island clue sites should no longer float away into the sky.
The first clue the player is given should now show the correct coordinates for the next clue.
The clues should no longer have missing coordinates in the German language.
Clue bottles should now spawn in their intended locations and no longer float up into the sky.
When players receive their first clue from a floating barrel, they should now be directed to the next clue site and not straight to the shipwreck.
Clues should now spawn when starting the Galleon's Grave to Spoils of Plenty Seapost Voyage route.
The correct toasts should now pop up when handing in the manifest to the Merchant vendor or the Reapers Bones.

Seasons

Steam & Microsoft Store versions of the game now correctly display Renown notifications when completing actions.
Progressing and completing Deeds now notifies the player of progress in the Notifications window along with the Deed name.
Trials now state they provide a boost to Renown and not an individual level.
When earning Renown, notifications should not appear twice for a single action.
A range of Seasons rewards should now have the final text and descriptions.
When progressing or completing a Deed, pressing ‘more’ should now open the correct Trial.