Insider Update 3.4.2.5 is now live. In this Insider update, Reaper’s Forts are reimagined with new enemies, traps and loot, while a new Season Menu helps track progress and rewards across the Season’s Acts. New Outpost and Emporium cosmetics are also available for testing.
As always, if you encounter any bugs, please head to the Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Season Overview
A new Season Menu has been introduced, designed to showcase the new content arriving across the Season and helping players track their progress and earned rewards.
The Overview tab breaks the Season into three Acts, highlighting the content arriving across the three Monthly Updates. Players can view the content, progress and available rewards.
The Deeds & Rewards tab introduces challenges to complete during each Act. Completing these challenges will unlock both time-limited and permanent rewards.
With this new approach to Seasons, the old Trials and Deeds system used previously has now been retired.
Act 3: Reaper Forts
Starting in Act 3 of Season 17, all Skeleton Forts (excluding the Fort of the Damned and Molten Sands) will be upgraded into Reaper’s Forts with upgraded visuals, devilish traps and reinforced defences.
Pirates will now encounter Ghost Ships circling the Fort, and both Phantoms and Order of Bone and Blade Skeletons will reinforce the defending waves during the attack.
These reinforced Reaper’s Forts now have deadly fire traps that can be turned on Flameheart’s minions or used when defending against rival crews.
When a Reaper’s Fort is active a new Skull Cloud now signals crews from across the waves. Once the Season ends, Skeleton Forts will be able to provide both the original encounter and the reinforced Reaper encounter, which can be distinguished by the different types of Skull Cloud.
Smugglers’ Shipwrecks
New Emporium Items—In stock Now!
Riptide Rodeo Ship Set: Figurehead, Collector’s Figurehead, Sails, Collector’s Sails, Hull, Flag, Cannon, Capstan, Wheel and Cannon Flare (currently placeholder).
Riptide Rodeo Weapons: Cutlass, Pistol, Blunderbuss, Eye of Reach, Grapple Gun, Blowpipe, Throwing Knives and Double Barrel Pistol.
Riptide Rodeo Clothing: Hat, Jacket, Boots and Mask.
Fan the Hammer Emote – Free for a limited time.
Riptide Rodeo Ship’s Crest.
Riptide Rodeo Pocket Watch.
Ghostly Curse Alsatian (Requires Pirate Legend status to purchase).
Rare 40th Anniversary Cosmetics
Cosmetics to celebrate Rare’s 40th Anniversary are now available for testing.
Ruby Legend Figurehead.
Rare Ruby Emote.
Rare Ruby Hat.
Rare Ruby Eyepatch.
Improved Controller Keybinds
When customising keybinds within the input settings, actions that share the same button by default can now be easily set to either a new button or returned to the original shared button without needing to revert the settings back to default.
The following actions can now be customised independently or share a button: Secondary Interact and Swap Weapons, Secondary Interact and Reload, and Primary Interact and Reload.
Insider Watermark
Search for Ancient Secrets Voyage Notifications
Reaper’s Forts
While Traps have been added to the Forts, these are still considered placeholder and have therefore not yet been embedded into the environment.
The contents of Weapon Caches and the Fort’s Vault are currently placeholder and are not representative of the final design.
Fire damage can continue even after Fire Traps are deactivated, causing players to catch fire with no visible flames.
Some enemy types may not receive the correct amount of damage from Traps.
Pirate Profiles
Switching from the Pirate tab to the Pirate Log can cause overlapping menus with the Change Pirate button.
Players may be able to sail for a Guild using a Pirate Profile that isn't a Member of that Guild.
Gameplay
Following a recent regression in Insider builds, bailing water out of the ship should no longer show the water visual effects appearing back inside the ship.
Players taking damage soon after healing to full health will no longer find their health bar becomes hidden even though they are not at full health.
When boarding a ladder from the sea, players are no longer able to muffle the boarding audio effects by repeatedly attempting to give an item while grabbing the ladder.
Smugglers’ Run
Smuggler Caches
Smuggler Rum Crates now move naturally when they're being carried.
Damage to Smuggler Rum Crates now provides correct visual effects and messaging.
The Skull of Siren Sorrow, Weapon Cache Skull Key and Chronicle Book can now be stored in Treasure Chests.
Black Powder Barrels
Pirate Profiles
Players will no longer receive an error when attempting to purchase a New Pirate Deed when suggested via a post-sale notification.
Company level progress now displays correctly in the Pirate Tab.
Guild Role editing now works correctly for a player’s own Pirate Profiles in the same Guild.
Shared Pledged Ships settings now apply properly for Pirate Profiles within the same Guild.
Environment
Visual and Audio
The Reaper Rowboat Gunpowder Barrel explosion now uses a red explosive effect.
Smuggler characters’ dialogue has been updated, with new voice lines added (excluding Wei-Lin and Leander, which will be updated in a future Insider build).
Text and Localisation
The scrambled player name "Half-Stew Jean" will now appear correctly on screen.
Pop-up notification icons for Black Powder Barrels, Skulls of Siren Sorrow and Smuggler Chronicles have been updated when sold or delivered.
The Dashing Duellist Costume Set no longer contains placeholder text.
'Captains of the Damned' - Jack Sparrow’s final subtitles in this Tall Tale will no longer be cut off too early.
Performance and Stability
