Insider Patch Notes 2.3.1.3
Insider Update 2.3.1.3 is now live. After Keeyaa’s recent post on the upcoming features for Season Five, the team continue to work behind the scenes to get all the features ready and available for testing. Head here to learn more -
Season Five - Buried Treasures. This Insider’s build continues to deliver bug fixes and improvements ahead of our next update.
As always, if you encounter any bugs, then please head to the
Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Updates
Megalodon Encounters
- The rate of emergent Megalodon encounters while out at sea has been significantly increased temporarily to aid in investigating unexpected physics issues.
- This Insider’s build contains additional logging behind the scenes to identify potential scenarios where Megalodon can collide with rogue objects and affect their behaviour.
Accessibility
Let Games Read To Me Narration Improvement
- Within the Settings Menu, players can now use ‘Narrate Change Only’ to control how ‘Let Games Read To Me’ narrates what is visible on the screen.
- When disabled, the game will continue to narrate the entire screen when navigating through menus. However, when enabled only the changes to the screen will be narrated allowing faster navigation.
Known Issues
Settings Menu Refresh
- On Xbox, players are unable to reset the Video Settings page to default.
- On PC, when resetting Video Settings to default, the Frame Rate Lock will default to 15 FPS.
Burying Treasure
- The map bundles look oddly positioned in the player's hand in both first-person and third-person view.
- Players shouldn't be able to bury items in the same location.
- Items that are partially buried when a player dies cannot be fully buried unless they are fully dug back up again.
- When digging up Gunpowder Kegs during Voyages or Skeleton Orders, the keg’s fuse will be lit.
Cannon Rowboat
- Defeating emergent enemies or emergent enemy ships with the Cannon Rowboat does not progress the relevant Commendations.
Feast of Bounty
- There is placeholder imagery throughout the event.
Fixed Issues
General
- Megalodon attacking a stationary ship should no longer cause the ship to stutter in position.
- Pets can once again be named Pedro.
Sunken Kingdom
- ‘Shrine of Tribute’ – Players can no longer become stuck near the coral Siren Statue.
- ‘Shrine of Tribute’ – Players can no longer venture outside of the environment through a gap in the Shrine wall.
- ‘Shrine of Tribute’ – Players can no longer venture outside of the environment through the base of a Mermaid Statue.
- ‘Shrine of Tribute’ – Various pieces of coral can no longer be walked through by the player.
Player Input Handling
- When using the shovel to bury an item, switching to another piece of equipment or weapon will no longer force the secondary input to become stuck.
- When using the shovel to dig, switching to another piece of equipment or weapon will no longer force the primary input to become stuck.
Accessibility
- ‘The Sunken Pearl’ – The quest book and Tale items discovered while on the Tale are now correctly narrated in the map radial when using ‘Let Games Read to Me’.
- Maps retrieved from a Coral Message in a Bottle are now correctly narrated in the map radial when using ‘Let Games Read to Me’
Performance and Stability
- Server stability has been improved, reducing scenarios where crews are removed from a game session.
