Insider Patch Notes 2.5.2.5
Insider Update 2.5.2.5 is now live. As Season Seven approaches, the new cosmetics have arrived for Insider testing alongside further fixes and improvements to our upcoming ‘Lost Sands’ Adventure.
As always, if you encounter any bugs, then please head to the
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Season Seven
Season Seven Progression and Rewards
- Progressing through the 100 levels of this Season will reward pirates with the Courage of Captaincy Clothing Set, new to Season Seven along with time-limited Perilous Seas cosmetics.
- Pirates or those who become a Pirate Legend during Season Seven can also earn Merrick’s Jacket and the Merrick’s Cutlass.
- Completing tiers of Seasonal progression will also award unique Titles, allowing players to display their success for all to see.
Insiders have a Renown accelerator applied, increasing the Renown earned to progress players much faster through this Season in order to gain the rewards for testing.
Captains of Adventure Technical Test
Trinkets
- Players choosing to captain a Brigantine or Galleon will now find additional locations where trinkets can be placed.
- Outside of a captain session, players inspecting a Galleon or Brigantine will find that a range of static dressing has now been removed to make way for players to customise using trinket locations.
Updates
Server Optimisation Technical Test
- This Insider’s build contains an experimental change on the server, with the goal of improving server performance and reducing the frequency of spikes resulting in rubber banding experienced by players. The team will A/B test this optimisation during this update and monitor the performance behind the scenes.
Known Issues
Season Seven
- Season Seven’s progression rewards in the Pirate Log contain a range of placeholder imagery and text. The team are not currently looking for feedback on these clear placeholder areas of within the Pirate Log.
Captains of Adventure
- When sailing as a captain on a Brigantine; map markers, charring, ship damage and battle scars do not persist between servers.
- When sailing as a captain on a Brigantine, the name on the ship crest is not currently displayed.
When setting sail on a Captained Brigantine, if there is another player on the crew the saved ship customisation may not appear when arriving in the game.
Trinkets applied to captained ships can become invisible when returning from the Ferry of the Damned or Pirate Legend Hideout. Players joining a crew in progress may also find trinkets are invisible.
The cost of damage isn’t displayed when restoring if you scuttle your ship and leave the game before it sinks.
Pirate Emporium
- Prehistoric Plunderer Weapons can intersect with the player's camera when firing and can be seen intersecting with a pirate's body when seen by other players.
The Prehistoric Plunderer Cannon Flare may not be visible for all players when fired.
The Pirate Emporium contains a range of placeholder artwork, imagery and text. The team are not currently looking for feedback on these clear placeholder areas of the experience.
Fixed Issues
‘Lost Sands’
- Players completing the Quest for the Servant of the Flame will now be offered the [Complete Adventure] dialogue option.
Items on Merrick’s checklist should update with a line through them once completed instead of above the item.
The closing cutscene with the Servant of the Flame now plays correctly after completing the Servant of the Flame’s Quest.
The notification advising players to head to the Reaper’s Hideout after the Servant of the Flame tale ends now appears for longer.
Lighting around the Golden Sands will now more accurately reflect which team players are siding with.
The Servant of the Flame’s checklist should no longer update when an opposing crew hands in your stolen relic cache.
Reaper scout birds will now no longer leave behind a blurred effect when fading away.
The Reaper’s smuggler and his lantern will now disappear at the same time when handing in a relic cache.
Players can now cancel the Servant of the Flame’s quest through a dialogue option when speaking to the Servant of the Flame.
Captains of Adventure
- Players interacting with the ship customisation chest will now consistently see British spelling of ‘Customise’ and ‘Customisation’.
Visual and Audio
- When moving around Plunder Outpost, players should no longer see characters disappear and reappear at short distances.
- ‘Lords of the Sea’ - The cannons on the Black Pearl should now be visible.
Performance and Stability
- Improved server stability to reduce scenarios where crews are removed from a game session.
- Players on PC should no longer experience high memory usage during active gameplay.
