Insider Patch Notes 2.3.2.2

Insider Update 2.3.2.2 is now live. Head to the Pirate Emporium to deck out your ship and pirate with new cosmetics ready for the festive seaso! Then check out the events tab to take part in the Grogmanay event which will be sure to help you end the year with a bang.

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

Grogmanay (December 27th – January 11th)

• Grogmanay is back! Chug tankards of grog, complete a range of challenges to celebrate the years end and earn event themed rewards.
• Introducing a new Firework Stash Voyages, available from Larinna’s shop, that are unlocked by completing Grogmanay challenges. Each Voyage will provide players with an X marked map which will uncover a crate of time-limited Bilge Rat Celebration Fireworks to commemorate this time of year.
• Players can collect the free event flag from Larinna to display their intent to share while out travelling the seas. Players will also be able to earn the Bilge Rat Celebration Makeup and tattoo!
• Also starting from this year, players can celebrate their participation in Grogmanay with an Annual Tankard! Each year players who join in the festivities will earn another notch in their Tankard.
• The Powder and Arms Stash Voyages will no longer be available during Grogmanay. 

Pirate Emporium

Royal Revenge Ship Collection

• Adorn your ship with the new Royal Revenge Ship Collection. In addition to the main bundle, a majestic Collector’s Figurehead and glorious Collector’s Sails can be purchased separately for top-tier showboating!
• A Royal Revenge Essential Ship Bundle is also on offer, including just the core ship cosmetics at a lower price.

Royal Revenge Weapon Bundle

• Strike fear into your enemies with these mighty Royal Revenge weapons.

Captain Barbossa Costume Set

• Dress as the belligerent Captain Barbossa and strike fear into the hearts of other pirates who dare cross you on the seas.
• Players will receive two variants of the costume when purchasing, one with beard and one without.

Mutinous Mutt Pet

• Welcome this dapper dog into your crew with the arrival of the Mutinous Mutt pet!

Time-limited Captain Barbossa Pet Bundle

• A time-limited discounted bundle containing both variants of the Captain Barbossa Costume and the Mutinous Mutt pet to keep you company as you sail the seas.

Sea Dog Weapon Pose Bundle

• Flaunt your victory and show off any equipped weapon with these triumphant all-in-ones emotes!

Say Cheese Emote Bundle

• Pose with friends and foe for a quick picture with these Say Cheese emotes.

Time-limited Bonechiller Costume

• Back to help you bring the fear to your foes with the terrifying Bonechiller Costume, which can be worn with or without the ‘jolly’ beard on sale for a limited time.

Time-limited Festival of Giving Weapons

• Express your love for the festive season and pick up the Festival of Giving Weapon Bundle is back on sale for a limited time.

Time-limited Festival of Giving Pet Outfits Collection

• To celebrate the festive season, the Festival of Giving pets are back on for a limited time: head to the Pirate Emporium to choose from the range of festive outfits for your pets.

Freebie Festive Tree Emote

• Get into the festive spirit with this Festive Tree emote!

Updates

Improved Island Navigation

• Pirates have been busy around Thieves' Haven; crews will find the crumbling mechanisms of old replaced with new working versions allowing players to traverse the island more easily. Along with working mechanisms, keep a watchful eye out for any booby traps laid for unsuspecting pirates.
• Something feels different on Plunder Valley… New ladders have been placed around the island to aid players in reaching those high cliffs more easily.
• Watch your step on Kraken’s Fall, new ladders and makeshift bridges will allow pirates to make a death-defying leap to shortcut to the peak.
• Everyone’s favourite island Old Faithful has received some much-needed improvements allowing players to more easily traverse the difficult terrain including a few lifts to help players move vertically much more quickly.

Earning Quest Board Rewards

• When posting a buried treasure map, crews are free to continue their adventure or leave the server, receiving rewards for any completed maps while offline. Whether online or offline, when next joining the game, players will receive an improved set of notifications of Quest Map rewards followed by the Renown and Reputation.
• Crews who have placed Treasure Maps onto the Quest Board are now issued a Renown and Reputation reward as compensation if another crew retrieves a map and leaves the server or discards the map bundle.

Fireworks

• Fireworks will now cast brief patch of ambient light that will illuminate ships and islands close by, matching the colour of the explosion in the sky.
• Firework crates can now be sold back to the Merchant Alliance or be sold to the Reaper's Bones for a gold reward. 

Island Enemy Encounters

• While exploring islands, crews who encounter and vanquish any dangerous Ocean Crawlers should now find a much longer respite period before they encounter Ocean Crawlers again on that island.

Known Issues

Grogmanay

• Players will receive two versions of the Grogmanay Annual Tankard rather than one Tankard that updates.

Pirate Emporium

• The Mutinous Mate Costume set is incorrectly named.
• The camera positioning for the Sea Dog Weapon Pose emotes are too low.
• The Boreal Aurora and Royal Revenge Cannon Flares are currently using a placeholder effect and is not representative of the final design.
• The Frozen Horizon Lantern has the incorrect default colour flame.

Burying Items

• It is possible for another crew to get the buried treasure map for an item you buried if they dig it up once before you bury it.
• Dropped map bundles can migrate with players but cannot be placed on the ship.
• Items that are partially buried when a player dies cannot be fully buried unless they are fully dug back up again.
• The crew toasts for digging up items from player generated or Voyage maps are now only seen if in close proximity of the player who dug up the item.

Fireworks

• Fireworks have a chance to not fire from a cannon.
• Migrating across servers while a Firework’s fuse is lit causes it to be unusable when arriving on the new server.
• Attempting to launch Fireworks in Tunnels of the Damned causes the fuse to light permanently.
• When a Firework is held by a player, it is not shown in the correct position in the hand.

Sitting & Sleeping

• Players do not currently drown when sleeping underwater and are also not removed from a seating position when the ship sinks.
• When a player is sitting their pirate does not sit on surfaces correctly.

Season Five

• The 'Steal a map bundle as a reaper ...' emissary deed is not tracking when the player steals the item, but when it’s placed on their own voyage table. 

Fixed Issues

General

• The ‘New’ tag has been removed from the Sunken Kingdom commendations.
• The disappearing animation when picking up an ammo pouch should now play correctly.
• The loot retrieval Sunken Merfolk mermaid should now have the mermaid audio effects. 
• The resolution scaling slider should now be adjustable at all times.
• Players should no longer be able to see through fog when they are standing next to a ship that is on fire.
• When in a Treasury, if a player dies and returns to a boss wave from the Ferry, the boss music should continue to play. 
• The Victorious Sea Dog Blunderbuss should no longer clip through the camera when aiming down the sights.
• On a Sloop, Items dropped from the harpoon when the harpoon is angled into the air will no longer become unreachable by the player.

Cosmetics

• The handles on the Legendary Fishing Rod and the Silver Blade Fishing Rod should no longer become detached while used.
• The majority of fishing rods now should now have the fishing line colour better match the colour of the line in the spool.

Tall Tales

• ‘The Sunken Pearl’ – Players should not be able to see the bubbles of other debris pieces through the water of the air during the swim down.
• ‘Captains of the Damned’ – There should now be a gate to the Spanish fort that players will have to open before being able to gain entry to the fort.
• ‘The Dark Brethren’ – Ambient noises in the Coral Fortress should no longer cut out when you move around in the ascending chamber.

Localisations

• The text description in the Events panel should no longer be cut off when the games language is set to Russian or Japanese.
• Text should no longer go outside of the box when naming pets in with the game language set to Chinese, Korean or Japanese.

Fireworks

• Signal Flares now have a straighter trajectory when fired compared to the wiggly fireworks. 

Burying

• The fuse on the Keg of Ancient Black Powder should no longer light when the player digs it up from a Voyage.
• Empty Collector’s Chests should no longer appear in game generated Quest Board maps.
• Carafes should now correctly count for the Hider of Sizeable Stashes Commendation.
• The Coral trinkets and merchant items should now have the correct toasts when buried or dug up.
• The Ashes of the Damned toast should now have the correct text when buried or dug up.
• Skulls should no longer appear slightly above the ground when dug up.
• The Deed for stealing a map bundle should no longer progress if a player picks up their own map bundle and places it on their table.
• The Chest of Legend should no longer appear open in the bury and dig up notifications.
• Players should now be able to bury an item in the Strange Shores, however, will still not create a map.
• Items buried inside a Collector’s Chest will now be added to the reward value when Treasure Maps are shared to the Quest Board.

Sitting & Sleeping

• Standing up shortly after sleeping should no longer cause the laying down animation to continue and the camera to be on the floor for a short time.
• The Commendation “Down with the Ship" should no longer count when sitting on an enemy player’s ship.
• The Hot Seat Commendation can now be progressed.
• Players should no longer be able to interact with beds whilst taking damage.
• The seat on the lift platforms on Thieves’ Haven should now move with the lift.
• Players should now be able to sit on the Gold Hoarder’s throne on Shores of Gold.
• The Brigantine and Sloop sitting spots should no longer overlap with pet hangout spots.
• Sitting on the tavern seats and Treasury seat in the Sea of the Damned during ‘Captains of the Damned’ and switching to the 3rd person camera should no longer cause the camera to be at the player’s legs level.
• The third person camera should now be centred correctly and no longer get blocked by the environment when looking around.
• Taking damage from fire should now wake up the player if they are sleeping.

Dice Emotes

• Playing dice emotes while already using one should now swap the emote.
• Players should be able to see previews of the different dice emotes when selecting them in the Vanity Chest.
• When Using ‘Let Games Read to Me’, the outcome of the dice roll emotes should now be narrated.
• The camera should now smoothly transition to third person when performing the dice roll emotes.