Insider Patch Notes 2.5.3.8
Insider Update 2.5.3.8 is now live. With the upcoming launch of Season Seven, the team are hard at work resolving bugs fixes and working away at the listed known issues.
As always, if you encounter any bugs, then please head to the
Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Gunplay Improvements Technical Test
Hit Scan, Aim Assist & Hit Registration Improvements Disabled
- Thanks to everyone who participated in the recent Technical Test of these new features. The team will be working with the feedback and iterating on the experience ahead of further Insider testing. Hit scan, aim assist and supporting hit registration improvements have now been disabled.
Known Issues
Sea of the Damned Adventure Technical Test
- The Sea of the Damned Technical Test has been temporarily disabled.
Captains of Adventure
- When launching the game, players may experience the “Captain My Own Ship” option showing an infinite loading wheel. As a workaround, players should exit and return to the game.
- If a player quits and rejoins, certain checkpoints for the tutorial may not save correctly causing players to have to start the tutorial again.
- The naming ceremony that should happen after a player buys a new ship is currently not working as intended.
- When players discard a Captain’s Voyage, their bookcase inventory will not update until they close it or discard another Voyage.
- When a Captain has restricted permissions for the crew to make changes to the ship, crewmates are unable to raise an Alliance Flag.
Fixed Issues
Captains of Adventure
- Sovereign Huts now use the correct models.
- The Sovereign Hut at New Golden Sands no longer pops in and out of view when observing from a distance.
- When the lift at the Ancient Spire Sovereign Hut is lowered to the bottom, the lift support no longer intersects through the lift.
- The Captain’s Bookcase no longer has no interaction prompt when the bookcase is empty.
- Players should now hear an audio effect when exiting out of the bookcase menu.
- Crewmates can no longer unequip trinkets when the Captain has restricted permissions for the crew to make changes.
- Trinkets ‘The Admired’ and 'Striking it Rich' now display the correct titles and descriptions.
- All Captain’s Titles now show the correct unlock requirements.
- All ship cabin customisations have now been updated to have the correct unlock descriptions and names.
Captains of Adventure – Shipwrights
- Offers within the Shipwright’s shop unlocked via Player Alignments now have the right unlock requirements in the shop.
- Players will now be charged the correct amount for repairing a ship’s capstan.
- Players should no longer be able to purchase any tier of Trinket without purchasing the lower tier first.
- Players who spawn at Dagger Tooth Outpost will now be able to have their ship restored.
- Bait supplies purchased by players should now be sent to their ship’s barrels as intended.
Captains of Adventure – Tutorials
- Fellow crewmates can no longer make the Captaincy tutorial progress by accident when entering the Captain’s Cabin.
- Completing or ending the Captaincy tutorial too early no longer updates the discovered Quests Milestones.
- Subtitles now appear correctly during the separate naming ceremony.
Captains of Adventure – Captains Logbook
- Captain’s Logbooks will no longer appear to be blank when picked up after the ship has sunk.
- The Captain’s Logbook now floats to the surface after players ship has sunk in their first session.
- ‘Feared’ Logbooks are now named correctly within a player’s inventory.
- Rebinding the interact key to Q or E will no longer cause players to be unable to exit the Captain’s Logbook.
- Pinning Ship Milestones to the Captain's Log no longer stops players from pinning Player Milestones to the Captain’s log.
Captains of Adventure – Ships Log
- Players now receive notifications when completing a Milestone
- When looking at the ship’s log as a fellow crewmate, players will now see the correct sails displayed.
- Crewmates from another Captained Ship will now see the correct ship name in their ship’s log.
- When pinning/unpinning a Milestone, the text in the ship's log no longer flickers.
Environment
- Barrels and crates on the first floor of Ancient Gold Fortress will no longer make players movement feel buffered.
- The floor at the entrance of the Imperial Crown Fortress will no longer cause players intersect with the floor texture.
Visual and Audio
- Players should no longer hear a muffled audio effect when being revived.
Performance and Stability
- Improvements to client stability, reducing scenarios where players experience a game crash.
