Insider Patch Notes 2.6.3.8
Insider Update 2.6.3.8 is now live. The battle for the Sea of Thieves still rages on in Insiders, whose side has your loyalty? Use the Hourglass of Fate to decide, then unfurl your war map to dive beneath the waves to take your fight to the enemy faction.
As always, if you encounter any bugs, then please head to the
Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Battle for the Sea of Thieves
The Battle is on!
- The Battle for the Sea of Thieves is back in Insiders. Players can once again join a Faction, unfurl their war map and dive beneath the waves.
*Solo & Duo Balancing *
- Solo crews who join a battle will stay solo until the battle has concluded, any player joining a solo crew during an encounter will now be sent to the Ferry of the Damned and held until the battle has ended.
Updates
Season Notifications
- Instead of receiving multiple Season notifications within the chat, these will now be combined into one notification to reduce the volume of notifications given to the player.
Known Issues
*Battle for the Sea of Thieves *
- Some players may experience black screens when taking part in the PvP matchmaking feature set.
- Invading a passive ship sometimes causes the invading ship to be thrown across the map after matchmaking.
‘The Rogue’s Legacy’
- This is an early preview of the Adventure and therefore may contain placeholder imagery, models and text.
- Deeds are currently not working as intended and will therefore not track accordingly to player's progress. Due to this, players will currently not receive Mementos for finishing the Adventure.
Fixed Issues
Gameplay
- Started and discarded Voyages now disappear as intended from the player's Quest inventory for that session.
- Players will now be able to complete the bucket task when playing through the Maiden Voyage.
Battle for the Sea of Thieves
- There are longer any safe teleport areas within the mine shaft in the Reaper’s Hideout.
- The prompt to talk to the "Voice of the Flame" is no longer visible when another player is in the cutscene.
- The number of total stats for the Faction figureheads for both Factions has now been set to the correct number.
- The scenery beneath the waves no longer flickers as players sail by them.
- Invaders should no longer become stuck in the invasion tunnels which would then cause the invasion to fail.
- After aligning to a Faction, crews are warned that they are unable to propose a Tall Tale to the Shores of Gold.
- Players continue facing the same direction when emerging from below the waves.
- After invading, players will no longer hear distorted creaking sounds like you are still in the Tunnels.
- Surfacing for a battle near an active Skeleton Fort or Ghost Garrison encounter should no longer cause the attacking crew to become stuck on a long loading screen.
- The screen will now fade up smoothly from a black screen when resurfacing from below the waves.
- Players can no longer make it so they are uninvadable by sailing to the Shores of Gold and then cancelling the Tall Tale.
- Emissary flags will no longer be released when a ship dives below the waves.
- Leaving the game during ‘A Pirates Life’ Tall Tale no longer stops players from aligning with a Faction in future sessions.
‘The Rogue’s Legacy’
- There are no longer text or formatting issues when playing the game in either German or Portuguese.
- The keys collected in the Adventure no longer appear to float when placed on the ground.
- The hyphens in the Adventure Quest Book no longer appear as equal signs.
- Larinna's pre-Adventure dialogue and post Adventure dialogue is now correct.
- There are now sound effects when digging up Briggsy's chests.
Pirate Emporium
- The Sparkler Freebie Emote now has emote narration.
- All Ravenwood cosmetics within the Plunder Pass no longer have placeholder names.
- The Night Wulf Costume no longer uses a placeholder icon.
- The Sparkler Emote is no longer using placeholder icon, name and description.
- Previous freebie emotes are no longer available for free in the Emporium.
- All tiles on the home, pirate and ship tab are no longer displaying placeholder art, name and descriptions.
- All King’s Ransom icons are no longer showing placeholder name and description in the Emporium and customisation chest.
- The Golden Sailor Cannon Flare no longer fires in opposite direction.
- Sapphire Blade Capstan now uses the correct colours.
- The King’s Ransom Sails are no longer listed twice in the King’s Ransom Ship Collection.
