Insider Patch Notes 3.0.2.5

Insider Update 3.0.2.5 is now live. Insiders can now show off their pirate’s style with July’s Outpost cosmetics and browse the upcoming offerings to the Pirate Emporium stock, including a brand-new feathered friend! 

As always, if you encounter any bugs, please head to the Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.

Season 13

Burning Blade Encounter Balancing

• Skeletons working the cannons on the Burning Blade will now adjust their accuracy and choice of ammunition based on the size of the attacking crew, providing a more balanced experience across all crew sizes.

Crewing the Burning Blade Balancing

• The experience of crewing the Burning Blade has been rebalanced to make it more achievable for smaller crew sizes to control. This will still be far from easy and will require an experienced crew to maintain it. For the finer details on the changes, head to the Feedback Thread.

Obsidian Bone Caller Skeletons

• Once in control of the Burning Blade, firing Bone Callers from the ship’s cannons will now summon Obsidian Skeletons to your aid. These will be fewer in number, however much tougher and resistant to fire damage.

Season 13 Rewards

• Players can earn a vast bounty of rewards during Season 13 for tackling the Commendations and Ship Milestones charting players’ progress against the Burning Blade and Skeleton Camps.

• Players can unlock access to items from the new Obsidian Bone Set with Ship, Clothing, Weapons and Skeleton cosmetics all available.

• Players can also unlock access to the Burning Blade Reborn Ship Set from the Shipwrights.

Season 13 Emissary Ledger Rewards

• This Season, the Guild Emissary Ledgers offer the Secrets of the Ancient Flame Painting, Dark Hand of Fate Ornament and Guild of Fiery Spirits Title to Guilds who represent them well and perform proudly in the Ledgers.

Outpost Cosmetics

New Outpost Stock!

• Outpost Clothing stores have received a shipment of brand-new items and now offer the full Proud Plume Clothing set, all available for gold.

• Outpost Weaponsmiths now stock a range of weapons from the new Carpenter’s Weapon Set.

• The Cephalopod Courtly Jacket and Whalebone and Tentacled Terror Tattoos are all available from the Outpost Clothing shops for those with enough gold to spare.

• Outpost Weapon shops now stock a further range of heavy swords and rapiers from the Kraken, Inky Kraken and Venomous Kraken sets, locked behind their associated Commendations.

Season Six Legacy Cosmetics

• Cosmetics previously available during Season Six have arrived in Outpost shops and can now be yours in exchange for Doubloons!

• Players can purchase the Naval Commander clothing set, along with a range of unique one-off items that were available during this Season. Pirate Legends can also pick up Belle’s Hat and Stranger’s Cutlass.

• The time-limited Dark Relics items, however, remain exclusive to players who participated in Season Six.

Pirate Emporium

New Items – Now in Stock!

• Radiant Comet Ship Collection

• Radiant Comet Weapon Bundle 

• Radiant Comet Lantern

• Cloudburst, Treetop, Brightbill, Seaspray and Sugarspun Toucan pets

• Runway Emote Bundle

• Mayhem Ship Bundle

• Sting Tide Cutlass (free!)

Season 13 Plunder Pass

• Pick up the latest Plunder Pass to gain access to a plethora of additional unlockable cosmetics from the Eclipse set, including a full ship set, Jacket, Hat and Gloves, all available to earn by raising Renown.

In this Insiders build, all Insiders have been awarded the New Season 13 Plunder Pass items to allow for testing.

Gameplay Improvements

Post-Defeat Ship Sinking

• Once a ship is destroyed it will now sink in a much shorter time, allowing the crew to interact with the mermaid and head to their new location more quickly.

• All ships now use the same shorter post-defeat sink time.

Bone Caller Skeleton Improvements

• Summoned Bone Caller Skeletons will no longer uncover players using a hide emote to hide in plain sight.

• Players being chased by Bone Caller Skeletons will now be able to hide if they are able to lose line of sight and complete the hide emote before being found.

• Players can now lure Bone Caller Skeletons to a location by firing a weapon and rehiding, causing the Skeletons to patrol the location of the sound.

Updates

View Profile on PlayStation®5

• Players on PlayStation 5 will now have the ability to view another player’s PlayStation 5 Network profile, by selecting View Profile from within the Crew Management and Guild Menus.

Known Issues

Server Stress Testing

• This Insider build will be limited to Open Crew matchmaking only, with the goal of creating fuller servers within Insiders to stress test server performance ahead of the launch of Season 13. In order to aid with testing, please choose Galleon Open Crew where possible and join other Insiders in the battle!

Skeleton Camps

• The sound effect for the Stargazer currently plays twice when the Stargazer is lit by players.

• Entering a Temple with a solved Constellation puzzle will not show as solved on the star chart.

• Entering a Temple with a Constellation puzzle in progress causes the spinners to display their default positions.

Fixed Issues

Gameplay

• Text chat input will now display correctly on the Xbox and PS®5 after players set the text chat option to R3 and click in the right stick.

The Burning Blade

• Skeletons will no longer fall through the walls of the Burning Blade.

• The Burning Blade sails now display in high resolution, even when players are close to the ship.

• The ropes attaching the rowboat to the Burning Blade are now properly placed.

• Enemy Ashen Devout Skeletons stop spawning once the Burning Blade is defeated.

• Ambient music will now stop playing when the hand-in animation sequence begins.

• Shadows on the Burning Blade sails are no longer pixelated.

• Waves are no longer visible on the bottom deck of the Burning Blade.

• Battle music will now only play when the Burning Blade is in combat.

Skeleton Camps

• Main Skeleton Camp flames now fit better into the brazier mesh and the visual effects appear less extreme.

Environment

• Loot dropped next to the Vault doors in Sailor's Knot Stronghold now stays above the ground.

• A visible hole in the Fetcher's Rest Vault wall has been filled.

• Waves are now properly aligned with the ground at Plunder Valley and Sailor's Bounty.