Insider Patch Notes 2.8.1.7
Insider Update 2.8.1.7 is now live. A new season has blown ashore in this insider update. Now is your chance to take a look at and play around with the new Guilds menus that will be coming as part of Season Ten. Give your Guild the name of your dream, with a firesome or friendly logo to boot, the choice is all yours!
As always, if you encounter any bugs, then please head to the
Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Guilds of Gold
An early preview of Season Ten has just landed with Insiders for testing, this initial test will focus on the front end flow for creating and managing a Guild. This feature set will expand in future Insiders updates, but for a thorough breakdown
head to the forums!
*Creating a Guild *
- Players will now have access to a new flow from the Front end, allowing them to create a Guild and customise it with a unique brand.
- During the creation, players will need to select a Guild Name, Icon, Border, Colour scheme and Guild Motto to truly set their Guild apart from the rest.
*Pledging Ships to a Guild *
- What is a Guild without a ship! Captains will need to pledge one or more of their vessels to the Guild and can add and remove ships at any time.
*Exploring Guild Settings *
- While many features are currently locked in this early preview, Guild owners can browse the Guild Settings where they can view and manage some of the following - Guild Members, Permissions, Rebranding and Disbanding options.
Pirate Emporium
*Ship Announcement Banners *
- Ahead of a future launch in the Pirate Emporium, three new bespoke ship announcement banners will be available for Captains to test out. In this Insiders build, these banners can be equipped from the ship decoration chest at the Shipwright.
- The three new ship announcement banners that are available are the Reaver's Ship's Crest, the Royal Coronet Ship's Crest and the Forgotten Temple Ship's Crest.
Known Issues
*Guilds of Gold *
- The Guilds menu currently contains placeholder text and imagery, players cannot interact with the Guilds feature set outside of these menus at the moment.
- Players cannot currently invite other members to their Guild or join a game as part of a Guild.
- When creating a Guild some players may see a screen saying that their Guild has been successfully created even when it has actually failed to create the Guild.
- Within the Guilds creation menu players can't click on the "Name" section with their mouse, they have to use their keyboard instead.
*Pirate Emporium *
- Descriptions for the new ship announcement banners still contain placeholder text.
*‘A Dark Deception’ *
- This is an early preview of this new Adventure and therefore will still contain some placeholder text and imagery.
- If another crew on the server completes the adventure, this will cancel the adventure for all other crews on the server.
- Madam Olivia will no longer have the dialogue option to ask about the Pocket Watch after players obtain the gem pieces.
Fixed Issues
*Gameplay *
- Players depleting all charges of a Trident of Dark Tides while aiming will no longer be prevented from aiming other weapons after switching.
- Players attempting to sell a Trident of Dark Tides while aiming it will no longer be prevented from aiming other weapons once sold.
*‘A Dark Deception’ *
- The Pendragon Pocket Watch memento is now awarded when players complete the adventure for the first time.
- The Interaction prompt for the Burning Blade Figurehead is no longer located to far away from the figurehead.
- The Secret Hideout door will no longer remain open when starting from a checkpoint after completing the adventure.
*Battle for the Sea of Thieves *
- Players will no longer see a Quest Received notification despite not owning any quests, when they first join a server or dive below the waves looking for an opponent.
*Pirate Emporium *
- The Spring Blossom on the Eye of Reach no longer blocks players vision.
- The Collector's Spring Blossom Figurehead now has visual effects for the falling petals.
- The Spring Blossom Eye of Reach petals no longer intersect into the players thumb slightly when blowing in the wind.
- The Spring Blossom Fishing Rod petals no longer intersect through the players hand.
- The Spring Blossom firearms no longer intersects with the players hands or arm when holding/aiming.
- The Player will now appear to hold the Spring Blossom Fishing Rod correctly.
*Visual and Audio *
- Merchant Alliance Hair and Beard no longer have placeholder text.
- Videos in the ‘what's new’ section no longer freeze up when a player exits the what's new section and then opens it back up.
- Pirates striking a Ghost ship, Skeleton ship or Megalodon with cannon fire will no longer hear other game music quieten for an extended period.
- At Galleon's Grave, the coastline audio is no longer really loud when you are not near the beaches
*Performance and Stability *
- Improved server stability to reduce instances where players are disconnected from their session when playing the adventure or in a normal session.
