Insider Patch Notes 2.10.1.1
Insider Update 2.10.1.1 is now live. Within this build, Insiders are invited to try out the new Message of the Day feature and give us their feedback on some updates to the Scattershot projectiles (formerly known as the Grapeshot), which is due to be released in Season 12. We also have some exciting changes to harpoons for Insiders to test.
As always, if you encounter any bugs, please head to the
Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Gameplay Improvements
Tightrope Walking
- Players sinking a harpoon line into a rock, beach, tree or even ship can now climb on and tightrope walk down the line, keeping balance as they go!
Scattershot Update
- The Grapeshot has now been renamed to the Scattershot and a few changes have been made to it following Insiders’ feedback.
- When a Scattershot breaks apart, the smaller cannonballs now blast a little higher to improve visibility of where they land. While they are now more visible, the spread pattern has been compressed to prevent stray cannonballs travelling too low or too high.
- Damage dealt by the Scattershot’s blast has been capped, preventing repeated shots to the same location from creating tier 3 damage holes.
- The availability of these items in storage containers has also been reduced to match the intended rarity.
Updates
Message of the Day
- This Insider build introduces a new ‘Message of the Day’ feature, which will be used to highlight upcoming content, new features and other exciting news within the world of Sea of Thieves.
Known Issues
Season 11
- Players currently have a small chance of experiencing a ‘Beanbeard’ error when diving for a Voyage, Tall Tale or World Event.
Fixed Issues
Gameplay
- Crews diving to an experience or Faction battle and surfacing alongside another ship should no longer experience issues where items onboard their ship become non-interactable.
- A new tutorial pop-up notification has been added, to prompt players to go to their Quest Table to access newly unlocked Voyages after claiming a relevant Company Promotion.
- Players can now left-click on the Discover Panel to access the corresponding menu location.
- All Raid Voyage Commendations now activate correctly and for the relevant Trading Company upon completion.
- The tab options have been removed from the top of the Quest Table interface.
- All Trading Company tutorial outros will now play upon completion as intended.
- When players unlock the Mysteries of the Sunken Kingdom Commendation, the pop-up notification now mentions the correct place to purchase the quest from in future.
- Players are now able to rename their ship without seeing an error message.
- The Merchant Alliance Trading Company tutorial no longer incorrectly ends with banner 'The Chicken Coop was lost' after handing in Chicken Coop.
- The Pirate Lord will now be present as expected at the end of the Order of Souls Trading Company tutorial.
- The first session tutorial will now play for new pirates until they have interacted with the Quest Table or proposed a Voyage.
Season 12
- 'A Pirate’s Life’ - Players will no longer experience an unexpected game closure when shooting Scattershot cannonballs at the Flying Dutchman.
Environment
- Players will no longer find themselves falling through the environment when swimming near the pier at the Fort of the Damned.
- Pirate’s backs will no longer appear to merge through the chair in the Tavern of the Damned.
- All textures are now displayed correctly at Devil's Ridge.
- 'Captains of the Damned’ - Tree foliage is no longer visible in the sky around the swamp section of this Tall Tale.
Visual and Audio
- All Commendation pop-up notification backgrounds are now themed to the appropriate Trading Company.
- Promotion Certificates have received a visual upgrade, fixing some text size issues and overlap and including some glowing animations.
- Flags on Sea Forts have reverted back to their original colours.
- Tall Tale cards which appear in-world after interacting with Quest Books have been updated to use same layout as those seen when interacting with the Quest Table.
- When a Tall Tale is proposed on the Quest Table, the pop-up informational card has been given an improved layout and now shows Checkpoint status.
- The lighting effect for objects viewed underwater will now work as intended when these objects are positioned between the player and the shimmering effect of a Shrine.
- The Quest Table on enemy ships will now appear correctly while in battle.
- Pirate lord will now appear correctly when walking in on the outro cutscenes in Trading Company tutorials.
- Lost Shipment Voyage maps will no longer appear with black squares on island icons.
Text and Localisation
- Pop-up notifications shown to players attempting to sell an item to the wrong character will now always direct them to the right character.
- 'The Legendary Storyteller’ - Instances of overlapping text in the Tall Tale Quest Book have been rectified.
Performance and Stability
- Pirates completing the Merchant Alliance Trading Company tutorial will no longer experience an unexpected game closure upon completion.
- Improved server stability to avoid instances where players are disconnected from their session.
