Insider Patch Notes 2.6.1.2
Insider Update 2.6.1.2 is now live. The Sea of Bones is still available to all Insiders brave enough to take up arms in the name of their faction and fight for victory, just choose your faction and unfurl the war map to begin. For those looking to test upcoming Adventures, take part in the next adventures technical test to see how you can help Belle with what comes next for the Sea of Thieves by speaking to her on Liar’s Backbone.
As always, if you encounter any bugs, then please head to the
Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Adventures
Ashen Lord Technical Test
- The early Technical Test of this fiery Ashen Lord encounter continues to be available for Insider testing. Head to Liar’s Backbone and speak to Belle before then heading to the nearby Ashen Winds Vortex above Molten Sands Fortress and face off against the Ashen Lord.
‘The Sirens’ Prize’
- The next Adventure ‘The Siren’s Prize’ has been temporarily disabled in Insiders due to instability. The team are continuing to work on Known Issues and address feedback provided during testing.
Sea of Bones
Invader vs Invader Matchmaking Technical Test
- The Matchmaking Technical Test is still live and available to players to take part in. To begin simply choose a faction to represent using the Hourglass of Fate and then unfurl the war map to begin the fight.
Updates
Trinket Nudging
- Trinkets now have a small chance to be nudged by being submerged in water.
Known Issues
The Sea of Bones
- Players can ‘vote to battle’ before another player has invaded and will dive under into the tunnels whilst still in battle with another player.
- Players may sometimes spawn back in near or inside of rocks which can cause them to be transported out of world.
Ashen Lord Technical Test
- As this feature is an early Technical Test, there is a range of placeholder assets, imagery, and text. The team are not currently looking for feedback on these clear placeholder areas of the experience.
Fixed Issues
Gameplay
- Emergent Skeleton Captains will now be counted for towards the Hunter of Cursed Captains Commendation.
Sea of Bones
- Allegiance icons have been increased to be more visible on map tables when playing on Xbox.
- When reaching the top of the lift in the Reapers Hideout players will no longer be able to hear continued lift audio effects.
- Players will not be able to vote to leave the fight if their ship is not within range of the Outpost.
*Captains of Adventure *
- Saving a customisation to a Captained Ship should now consistently ensure that item is equipped in the next session.
- Players who skip the Captaincy tutorial ten times will no longer be shown the tutorial in their next session.
- The Icons for the Silent Barnacle Decoration set have been lighted to make their visibility better.
- The tooltip for Captains Logbooks will now advise players to take them to the Reaper’s Hideout and not to an Outpost.
- The "scorched forsaken ashes" and "silent barnacle" tables, chairs, curtains and chandeliers now use the correct colours and match the rest of the items in their sets.
- Logbook Customisations that have been set by the player should no longer reset after server migration.
Environment
- Players should no longer become stuck in place when walking around the palm tree near the Order of Souls tent.
- Players will no longer be able to walk through lamps within the new Athenas Fortune expansion.
Visual and Audio
- Pets should no longer begin to float when placed on the ground if other pets are also present.
