Insider Patch Notes 2.3.0.2
Insider Update 2.3.0.2 is now live. With our September update going live soon, this build is focusing on bug fixes and stability detection.
As always, if you encounter any bugs, then please head to the
Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Gameplay Improvements
Floating Treasure
- After defeating Kraken tentacles or a Megalodon, friendly seagulls will now circle above the floating treasure, marking its location until it sinks.
- Treasure dropped by defeated Kraken tentacles will no longer begin to sink until the Kraken has been dispatched, preventing the treasure from sinking while crews are engaging in the encounter.
Input Responsiveness
- When performing an action such as walking or using items, the responsiveness between input and the action should now be faster.
Updates
Server Stability
- This Insider’s build contains additional logging and detection behind the scenes to identify potential causes of server instability identified recently in Insiders.
Known Issues
General
- ‘A Pirates Life’ – The Ferry of the Damned should appear in the correct position to players who join the Tale in progress.
- The "Continuous When Equipped" option text for Nautical Narration should no longer overlap the arrows in the menu.
- After an Almondbeard server crash the 'What's New' menu should no longer show as padlocked and should function correctly.
Player Input Handling
- After casting, players should now be able to move the fishing rod using a mouse and also reel in a caught fish using either controller or mouse as intended.
- Players should now be able to dodge while holding block and jumping with the cutlass.
Season 4
- After purchasing the Plunder Pass and progressing through Season Four, players should no longer lack any Plunder Pass rewards in their inventory.
Sunken Kingdom
- ‘Treasury of Secret Wilds’ – There should no longer be a hole on the exterior of the Treasury.
- ‘The Shrine of the Coral Tomb’ – There should no longer be a hole in the ceiling of the first red coral themed cave.
- ‘The Shrine of Ocean’s Fortune’ – When interacting with the first pulley, players characters should no longer appear to be lifted off the ground.
Fixed Issues
General
- The shimmer visual effects from objects in water should no longer appear to unnaturally flash when playing on an Xbox Series X or Xbox One X.
- Leak audio effects should no longer continue to play if a hole in a ship’s hull is repaired when the player is away from it.
- Holding the Swim Up button on a gamepad at the same time as reading a Journal should no longer cause players to be stuck swimming up when they stop reading the Journal.
- When using Alt+Tab to switch windows, using the mouse to click back to the game window will now select the window and should no longer also perform an action within the game.
- The Outpost Signposts should now give accurate directions.
Fury of the Damned
- Players should now be able to access the Events menu.
Tall Tales
- ‘Sunken Pearl’ – The floating debris at the surface of Tale Two is no longer able to be harpooned.
- ‘Sunken Pearl’ – Migrating during The Castaways intro scene should no longer block players from being able to enter the Shrine through the Siren window.
- ‘Sunken Pearl’ – Toasts for receiving checkpoints should now appear.
- ‘Lords of the Sea’ – Players should no longer hear Jack Sparrow’s voices lines once he sails out of the battle area.
- When starting chapter four of the ‘Sunken Pearl’ Tale and chapters two, three, four or five of the ‘Dark Brethren’ Tale, players should now get a prompt to use the mermaid statues.
Season 4
- The ‘Earn Emissary Gold’, ‘Kill 100 Skeletons’ and ‘Kill 100 Phantoms’ Deeds have been removed to prevent players from receiving an influx of Deed notifications.
Sunken Kingdom
- All Coral loot should now sell for their intended price to the Order of Souls and Reapers Bones companies.
- Returning to your ship from a Shrine using the Merfolk Statue and swimming back down should no longer cause visual issues.
- The water reflections should now appear correctly within the Treasury.
- ‘Treasury of Sunken Shores’ – The hermit should no longer get stuck on small rocks that are on the floor within the Treasury.
- ‘Treasury of Secret Wilds, Sunken Shores & Lost Ancients’ – The shimmer above the Treasuries should no longer be visible to players who join after a Treasury has been completed and before the Treasury has been reset.
- ‘Shrine of Flooded Hungering’ – The geyser should no longer still be active when the water level is above it.
- ‘Shrine of Flooded Ocean’s Fortune’ – There should no longer be a hole in the terrain behind one of the barrels in the room with the skeleton bridge.
- ‘Shrine of Flooded Tribute’ – The gunpowder barrel in main statue room should now be able to be picked up.
