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# Insider Patch Notes 2.3.2.4

Insider Update 2.3.2.4 is now live. Head to the Pirate Legend Hideout to discover a new Voyage and set sail to discover Haunted Forts! Also, check out what’s new in Seasons and the Festival of Giving event.

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.

## Legend of the Veil

The world of the Sea of Thieves is beginning to fracture as memories from the Sea of the Damned bleeding through into our world. With malevolent forces seeking to harness this immense power, the Pirate Lord tasks legendary pirates with a fateful quest…

**Legend of the Veil Voyage**

* The ‘Legend of the Veil’ is a new Voyage exclusive for Pirate Legends, blending Quests and Tall Tales to provide a highly replayable experience in a shorter session. Purchase the Voyage from the Pirate Lord in the Athena’s Fortune Hideout for free before voting on the Captain’s Table to begin.

*For this Insider’s build, all pirates have been granted Pirate Legend status, with full access to the Athena’s Fortune Hideout.*

* The Pirate Lord calls upon the support of legends to retrieve the missing Veil Stones and prevent them getting into nefarious hands. The Pirate Lord himself will guide players through the Voyage from their own ship, appearing after crews retrieve each Veil Stone and placing it on the Veil of the Ancients located on the ship.
* Each Voyage will play out differently, providing crews with a mix of experiences, differing orders and changed locations in the world. Crews will face challenges posed by Sudds and a new character called Belle, before the Voyage culminates with an encounter at a Haunted Fort.
* Crew’s uncovering the mysteries of the Veil will earn both old and new items of Athena’s Fortune treasure as they progress through their Voyage.

**Zoom Map Quests**

* Sudds has uncovered the location of a Veil Stone, but was only able to decipher the information close to the dig site. Crews will need to use their knowledge of the world to identify the location from the limited clues provided.

**Picture Map Quests**

* Sudds has been noting down his research of images of a particular island and dig spot. Using the clues, he has provided to find where the Veil Stone may have been buried.

**Lying Map Quests**

* Sudds was able to gather some information about a potential location, however he believes the information is somehow flawed. Uncover the truth and locate the buried stone.

**Haunted Island Quest**

* Belle’s mysterious connection to the Sea of The Damned has enabled her to bring the fabled Ferryman’s lantern through to our world. Harness the magical powers of the lantern to locate and uncover the memories of Ancient Totems before dragging them into reality.
* Once all Totems have been discovered, witness the Ancient’s ritual interrupted by Phantoms, take arms alongside your new allies to earn their trust and the location of the final Veil Stone.

**Haunted Forts**

* The Legend of the Veil will culminate in a naval encounter with apparitions piercing through from the Sea of The Damned. Crews must demonstrate their mastery of the sea and defend themselves from the unending waves of ghostly ships in order to target these haunted fort structures.

## Game Events

**Festival of Giving**

* Both Plundered Presents and Grogmanay events are active for Insiders, allowing crews to progress the various challenges from either event.

## Updates

**Loot Haul Memory Controls**

* When collecting notable hauls of different loot in a single place, the game will reach a threshold where it will optimise performance by changing the appearance of certain loot items. Players on PC will now have the ability to configure how much system memory can be allocated for these loot hauls, ensuring higher spec rigs can show a wider range of treasure.

**Player Input Handling**

* Improved responsiveness of radial menus on lower-spec hardware. Following this change, players will find any custom key binds for radial menus have been reset.

**Fireworks & Signal Flares**

* Fireworks and Signal Flares are once again available for purchase from the Merchant Alliance.

## Known Issues

**Legend of the Veil Voyage**

* The Legend of Veil is currently in a very early stage of development, and therefore contains a range of prototype artwork, animations, UI, cutscenes and assets throughout the experience. The team are not currently looking for feedback on these clear placeholder areas of the experience.
* Veil Stones slotted into the Veil of the Ancients can become invisible after a player’s death or disconnect. This is visual only and does not affect the ability to complete or make progress on the Voyage.
* Players are currently able to slot stolen Veil Stones into their own Veil of the Ancients onboard their ship, however this is not intended behaviour.
* When progressing a Haunted Island Quest, the placeholder friendly golden skeletons are currently able to be damaged and killed by players.
* Players already holding a flame of Fate will find the statues uncovered during the Haunted Islands Quest will be unable to be lit. Players should lose the flame of fate and return and use the Ferryman’s Lantern to light the brazier.
* Ghost Ships encountered during the Haunted Fort Quest are damageable and accidently destroy the Fort emplacements.
* Starting the Shores of Gold Tall Tale will cancel the Legend of the Veil Voyage if the Voyage is active.
* Phantom cannoneers on the Haunted Forts do not currently fire at player ships.

**Fireworks**

* 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.

**Burying Items**

* Dropped map bundles can migrate with players but cannot be placed on the ship.
* Players cannot view the delivery note when they dig up cargo items.

**Performance & Stability**

* Players may experience rubberbanding directly after landing a ranged weapon shot on enemy threats.

**Pirate Emporium**

* The camera positioning for the Sea Dog Weapon Pose emotes are too low.
* The Frozen Horizon Lantern has the incorrect default colour flame.

## Fixed Issues

**General**

* When chased by an emergent Megalodon, she should less frequently collide with the islands and run aground.
* Players harpooned from the water should no longer become safe teleported and experience a black screen.
* When “Jump up to Move up” is enabled, holding the ‘Swim Up’ button at the same time as reading a Journal should no longer cause players to be stuck swimming up when they stop reading. 
* While travelling through the Tunnels of the Damned on a Sloop, the ghosts on the lower deck can now be seen using the comfy mattress.
* **‘A Pirate’s Life’** – Starting any of the Tall Tales, when opening the Quest Book players should no longer find missing text within the pages.

**Visual and Audio**

* When boarding a ship from the sea, players are no longer able to reduce the volume of the boarding audio effects by grabbing the ladder while using items.
* The drum should now play the correct accompaniment when playing “Infernal Gallop”.
* The lightning visual effects around the Ashen Lord tornado should now appear correctly.
* There should no longer be a visual glitch when firing the Victorious Sea Dog Blunderbuss, the Scurvy Bilge Rat Blunderbuss, The Castaway Bilge Rat Blunderbuss and the Sea of Sands Blunderbuss.

**Pirate Emporium**

* In the Plunder Pass, the Creeping Cold Costume should now appear correctly across all pirate body types.
* The page turning animation should now loop correctly when using the 'Good Book' emote.
* The Captain Barbossa Costume set is now correctly named.
* The Boreal Aurora Cannon Flare now have the intended effects applied
* Corrected spelling issue within the Monkey collection.
* Players purchasing Season Five’s Plunder Pass are now awarded with the appropriate level rewards without requiring renown to be earned.

**Sunken Kingdom**

* Players should no longer experience a crash when placing treasure into a Sunken Merfolk Statue and attempting to retrieve it on the surface.
* ‘Shrine of the Coral Tomb’ - Players can now exit through the Shrine’s entrance.
* ‘Shrine of the Coral Tomb’ – An ammo box has been added to the entrance of the Shrine.

**Festival of Giving**

* The Grogmanay annual tankard should now upgrade correctly for every year a player has participated in the Grogmanay event. Players who participated in last year’s Grogmanay will receive a second notch in their tankard.
* The Gilded Voyage text above the entitlements should now be final.

**Burying Items & Quest Board**

* Cargo and animal crates should now give correct awards and show correct popups when buried or discovered. 
* Players should no longer receive rewards for maps buried on custom servers. 
* Players should now be able to see coffers as they're being buried or dug up. 
* The crew toasts for digging up items from player generated or Voyage maps should now be seen, regardless of proximity to the player who dug up the item. 
* The bury item prompt should no longer show that an item cannot be buried in certain places when it can. 
* The map bundles should no longer be able to be stolen back and forth between two crews to earn commendations or Seasonal Renown. 
* Players should now receive rewards when other players complete buried maps that contain an animal crate.
* Every item being dug up should now have the correct audio effects.
* When approaching a portal to the Tunnels of the Damned with items onboard, the notification should now warn you that you will lose your maps, as well as any treasure onboard.
* If players take a map from the Quest Board, they should be able to take more afterwards unless they have hit the limit.
* To reduce clutter on the captain’s table, the Voyage proposal prompt is hidden when wielding a map bundle.

**Island Interactivity**

* The lift on Thieves' Haven should now be correctly aligned with the crane.
* The bridge jumps across Kraken’s Fall and Old Faithful are now easier to land from both directions.
* The traps hidden within Thieves’ Haven should now play audio when triggered.

**Sitting & Sleeping**

* Players should now drown when sleeping underwater and should be removed from a seating position when the ship sinks.
* Players should no longer be able to interact with a bed if it is underwater.
* Players should no longer be able to open their item radial while sleeping in a bed.
* Players can now sit down on stools found on K-9.
* When observing a player sitting, players should no longer see a blank tooltip where the player is sitting.

**Fireworks**

* The Night-time Spectacular Commendation should now correctly list five fireworks required, rather than three. 
* Fireworks and Flares should no longer be able to be stored within the Sunken Merfolk statues.
* Humming Snake Fireworks should now have a clear visual effect when fired.
* Resolved a spelling issue within the dialog of the merchant representative at Galleon’s Grave.

Preview

Insider Patch Notes 2.3.2.4

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

Legend of the Veil

Legend of the Veil Voyage

The ‘Legend of the Veil’ is a new Voyage exclusive for Pirate Legends, blending Quests and Tall Tales to provide a highly replayable experience in a shorter session. Purchase the Voyage from the Pirate Lord in the Athena’s Fortune Hideout for free before voting on the Captain’s Table to begin.

For this Insider’s build, all pirates have been granted Pirate Legend status, with full access to the Athena’s Fortune Hideout.

The Pirate Lord calls upon the support of legends to retrieve the missing Veil Stones and prevent them getting into nefarious hands. The Pirate Lord himself will guide players through the Voyage from their own ship, appearing after crews retrieve each Veil Stone and placing it on the Veil of the Ancients located on the ship.
Each Voyage will play out differently, providing crews with a mix of experiences, differing orders and changed locations in the world. Crews will face challenges posed by Sudds and a new character called Belle, before the Voyage culminates with an encounter at a Haunted Fort.
Crew’s uncovering the mysteries of the Veil will earn both old and new items of Athena’s Fortune treasure as they progress through their Voyage.

Zoom Map Quests

Sudds has uncovered the location of a Veil Stone, but was only able to decipher the information close to the dig site. Crews will need to use their knowledge of the world to identify the location from the limited clues provided.

Picture Map Quests

Sudds has been noting down his research of images of a particular island and dig spot. Using the clues, he has provided to find where the Veil Stone may have been buried.

Lying Map Quests

Sudds was able to gather some information about a potential location, however he believes the information is somehow flawed. Uncover the truth and locate the buried stone.

Haunted Island Quest

Belle’s mysterious connection to the Sea of The Damned has enabled her to bring the fabled Ferryman’s lantern through to our world. Harness the magical powers of the lantern to locate and uncover the memories of Ancient Totems before dragging them into reality.
Once all Totems have been discovered, witness the Ancient’s ritual interrupted by Phantoms, take arms alongside your new allies to earn their trust and the location of the final Veil Stone.

Haunted Forts

The Legend of the Veil will culminate in a naval encounter with apparitions piercing through from the Sea of The Damned. Crews must demonstrate their mastery of the sea and defend themselves from the unending waves of ghostly ships in order to target these haunted fort structures.

Game Events

Festival of Giving

Both Plundered Presents and Grogmanay events are active for Insiders, allowing crews to progress the various challenges from either event.

Updates

Loot Haul Memory Controls

When collecting notable hauls of different loot in a single place, the game will reach a threshold where it will optimise performance by changing the appearance of certain loot items. Players on PC will now have the ability to configure how much system memory can be allocated for these loot hauls, ensuring higher spec rigs can show a wider range of treasure.

Player Input Handling

Improved responsiveness of radial menus on lower-spec hardware. Following this change, players will find any custom key binds for radial menus have been reset.

Fireworks & Signal Flares

Fireworks and Signal Flares are once again available for purchase from the Merchant Alliance.

Known Issues

Legend of the Veil Voyage

The Legend of Veil is currently in a very early stage of development, and therefore contains a range of prototype artwork, animations, UI, cutscenes and assets throughout the experience. The team are not currently looking for feedback on these clear placeholder areas of the experience.
Veil Stones slotted into the Veil of the Ancients can become invisible after a player’s death or disconnect. This is visual only and does not affect the ability to complete or make progress on the Voyage.
Players are currently able to slot stolen Veil Stones into their own Veil of the Ancients onboard their ship, however this is not intended behaviour.
When progressing a Haunted Island Quest, the placeholder friendly golden skeletons are currently able to be damaged and killed by players.
Players already holding a flame of Fate will find the statues uncovered during the Haunted Islands Quest will be unable to be lit. Players should lose the flame of fate and return and use the Ferryman’s Lantern to light the brazier.
Ghost Ships encountered during the Haunted Fort Quest are damageable and accidently destroy the Fort emplacements.
Starting the Shores of Gold Tall Tale will cancel the Legend of the Veil Voyage if the Voyage is active.
Phantom cannoneers on the Haunted Forts do not currently fire at player ships.

Fireworks

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.

Burying Items

Dropped map bundles can migrate with players but cannot be placed on the ship.
Players cannot view the delivery note when they dig up cargo items.

Performance & Stability

Players may experience rubberbanding directly after landing a ranged weapon shot on enemy threats.

Pirate Emporium

The camera positioning for the Sea Dog Weapon Pose emotes are too low.
The Frozen Horizon Lantern has the incorrect default colour flame.

Fixed Issues

General

When chased by an emergent Megalodon, she should less frequently collide with the islands and run aground.
Players harpooned from the water should no longer become safe teleported and experience a black screen.
When “Jump up to Move up” is enabled, holding the ‘Swim Up’ button at the same time as reading a Journal should no longer cause players to be stuck swimming up when they stop reading.
While travelling through the Tunnels of the Damned on a Sloop, the ghosts on the lower deck can now be seen using the comfy mattress.
‘A Pirate’s Life’ – Starting any of the Tall Tales, when opening the Quest Book players should no longer find missing text within the pages.

Visual and Audio

When boarding a ship from the sea, players are no longer able to reduce the volume of the boarding audio effects by grabbing the ladder while using items.
The drum should now play the correct accompaniment when playing “Infernal Gallop”.
The lightning visual effects around the Ashen Lord tornado should now appear correctly.
There should no longer be a visual glitch when firing the Victorious Sea Dog Blunderbuss, the Scurvy Bilge Rat Blunderbuss, The Castaway Bilge Rat Blunderbuss and the Sea of Sands Blunderbuss.

Pirate Emporium

In the Plunder Pass, the Creeping Cold Costume should now appear correctly across all pirate body types.
The page turning animation should now loop correctly when using the 'Good Book' emote.
The Captain Barbossa Costume set is now correctly named.
The Boreal Aurora Cannon Flare now have the intended effects applied
Corrected spelling issue within the Monkey collection.
Players purchasing Season Five’s Plunder Pass are now awarded with the appropriate level rewards without requiring renown to be earned.

Sunken Kingdom

Players should no longer experience a crash when placing treasure into a Sunken Merfolk Statue and attempting to retrieve it on the surface.
‘Shrine of the Coral Tomb’ - Players can now exit through the Shrine’s entrance.
‘Shrine of the Coral Tomb’ – An ammo box has been added to the entrance of the Shrine.

Festival of Giving

The Grogmanay annual tankard should now upgrade correctly for every year a player has participated in the Grogmanay event. Players who participated in last year’s Grogmanay will receive a second notch in their tankard.
The Gilded Voyage text above the entitlements should now be final.

Burying Items & Quest Board

Cargo and animal crates should now give correct awards and show correct popups when buried or discovered.
Players should no longer receive rewards for maps buried on custom servers.
Players should now be able to see coffers as they're being buried or dug up.
The crew toasts for digging up items from player generated or Voyage maps should now be seen, regardless of proximity to the player who dug up the item.
The bury item prompt should no longer show that an item cannot be buried in certain places when it can.
The map bundles should no longer be able to be stolen back and forth between two crews to earn commendations or Seasonal Renown.
Players should now receive rewards when other players complete buried maps that contain an animal crate.
Every item being dug up should now have the correct audio effects.
When approaching a portal to the Tunnels of the Damned with items onboard, the notification should now warn you that you will lose your maps, as well as any treasure onboard.
If players take a map from the Quest Board, they should be able to take more afterwards unless they have hit the limit.
To reduce clutter on the captain’s table, the Voyage proposal prompt is hidden when wielding a map bundle.

Island Interactivity

The lift on Thieves' Haven should now be correctly aligned with the crane.
The bridge jumps across Kraken’s Fall and Old Faithful are now easier to land from both directions.
The traps hidden within Thieves’ Haven should now play audio when triggered.

Sitting & Sleeping

Players should now drown when sleeping underwater and should be removed from a seating position when the ship sinks.
Players should no longer be able to interact with a bed if it is underwater.
Players should no longer be able to open their item radial while sleeping in a bed.
Players can now sit down on stools found on K-9.
When observing a player sitting, players should no longer see a blank tooltip where the player is sitting.

Fireworks

The Night-time Spectacular Commendation should now correctly list five fireworks required, rather than three.
Fireworks and Flares should no longer be able to be stored within the Sunken Merfolk statues.
Humming Snake Fireworks should now have a clear visual effect when fired.
Resolved a spelling issue within the dialog of the merchant representative at Galleon’s Grave.