Insider Patch Notes 2.8.1.8
Insider Update 2.8.1.8 is now live. Our new Guild creation menus are still available for insiders to play around with. Players can name their Guild, give it a logo and even a motto to unite all your crews under. Take a look, tweak your settings and then let us know your thoughts in the insider forums.
As always, if you encounter any bugs, then please head to the
Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Updates
*Reduced Cannonball Knockback *
- Players sailing a Galleon or Brigantine will find that the knockback from cannonball splash damage no longer propels them so far into the air, preventing them from being so easily sent overboard. However, they will still be knocked back and disorientated by the blast. This change now brings the knockback experience consistent across all ship sizes.
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.
- Players are currently unable to navigate to the Guild Invites button when using a controller.
- Currently some players ships will not show their saved customisations on the ship preview page within the Guilds menu.
- If a player has two of the same ship type, the second will override the first's customisations with its own on the ship preview page within the Guilds menu.
*Pirate Emporium *
- The Tia Dalma costume’s right arm will not change when a pirate curse is equipped.
- The Pirates Life costume emotes currently have no sound effects when performing the emote.
- Descriptions for the new ship announcement banners still contain placeholder text.
*‘A Dark Deception’ *
- Migrating server before speaking to Madame Olivia in Chapter 2 will remove the Interaction Point from Pendragon’s Pocket Watch.
- The Pirate Lord’s subtitles are delayed during the final cutscene.
Fixed Issues
*Guilds of Gold *
- Players can now click the "Name" header on the left side of the screen to start naming their Guild.
*‘A Dark Deception’ *
- Madame Olivia will no longer restart her cutscene sequence after picking up Pendragon's Pocket watch.
- The Figurehead gem is no longer too bright when held by the player.
- The Adventure is no longer cancelled for all crews if another crew on the server completes the adventure.
- Madame Olive no longer holds the wrong pocket watch during Enchanted Compass cutscene.
- Players will now be able to walk past where the fake pirate lord was after they disappear during the final cutscene.
- Madame Olivia now has the dialogue option to ask about the Pocket Watch after obtaining the gem pieces.
- Madame Olive no longer holds the wrong prop if Enchanted Compass cutscene is triggered too quickly.
- Madame Olive no longer holds outdated version of Figurehead Fragment during enchanted compass cutscene.
- The Water plane is no longer visible in the Secret Hideout.
- The Ritual Table shown in the Secret Hideout is no longer incorrect.
- The rat at Plunder Outpost now appears in the correct position.
- The player will no longer be teleported when reaching the bottom of the ladder near the second figurehead.
*Visual and Audio *
- The Merchant Alliance Eye of Reach no longer intersects in multiple places with player model.
- Liquid will now be present within the Tankards when performing the tankard emotes.
- When underwater, the air bubbles no longer look like they are emitting from the center or back of the pet's head.
*Performance and Stability *
- ‘The Sunken Pearl’ - Migrating during the Sunken Pearl Tall Tale no longer crashes the server that Player was supposed to migrate to.
- Improved server stability to reduce instances where players are disconnected from their session.
