Insider Patch Notes 3.4.2.5

Insider Update 3.4.2.5 is now live.  In this update, players can continue to test the upcoming features for Season 17, as well as admire some new Outpost stock and some quality-of-life fixes. 

If you encounter any bugs while playing in Insiders, please head to the Sea of Thieves support site and report an issue with our Player Support team.

Season 17: Smugglers' Tide

Season 17 Rewards & Plunder Pass

• Progressing through the 100 levels of Renown in Season 17 will reward players with Master of the High Seas clothing items and unique Season 17 rewards, alongside time-limited Fabled Fins collectibles. 

• Pick up the latest Plunder Pass to gain access to a plethora of additional unlockable cosmetics from the Rare Regalia collection, including a ship set and selection of themed clothing, all available to earn by raising Renown.

Smugglers’ Shipwrecks

• For the duration of Season 17, the Reaper’s Chest and Reaper’s Bounty are now exclusively found within sunken Smugglers’ Shipwrecks and will no longer be found within the Fort of the Damned.

Outpost Stock

Rare 40th Anniversary Celebrations

• As part of Rare’s 40th Anniversary Celebrations, players will receive Ruby-themed rewards when arriving on the seas. Players will unlock the Ruby Legend Figurehead and the Rare Ruby Hat, Eyepatch and Emote.

To facilitate testing, these cosmetics will be awarded when next logging into Insiders.

Outpost Stock

• Continuing the celebrations, Rare 40th Anniversary Stock is now available in the Outposts. Players can purchase the Red Buckled Boots, Red Sailor Bandana, Red Stitched Shirt and the Ruby Celebrations Eyeshadow, Lipstick and Makeup.

Updates

Cross-Region Matchmaking Improvements

• Following the release of Cross-Region Matchmaking in 3.4.1, players now have the choice to opt-out of this improvement and return to only matchmaking within their home region.

• Players are free to change this setting either in the front-end settings or in-game during a session. The selected change will take effect when next attempting to matchmake into an experience such as Faction Battles, Voyages, entering the Tunnels of the Damned for Tall Tales and scuttling a ship.

• If any player in a crew has chosen to opt-out of Cross-Region Matchmaking, the entire crew will be prevented from migrating across regions during their session.

Known Issues

Pirate Profiles

• Newly created Pirate Slots may result in a duplicated slot.

• The Play tab is not correctly refreshed when moving directly to and from the Pirate tab, resulting in the wrong session type.

Season 17: Smugglers' Runs

• Voyage maps currently only show the island sketch for Smugglers’ Bay.

Season 17 Plunder Pass

• The Rare Regalia Cannon Flare due to be awarded Level 10 Renown in the Plunder Pass is currently unavailable. These will be added in September's update and automatically unlocked for all Plunder Pass owners who have reached Level 10 or higher.  

Fixed Issues

Gameplay

• After purchasing a Resource Crate from the Merchant Alliance or hunting spear from The Hunter’s Call, crews should now find that attempting to retrieve the item from the Company Vendor is now much more consistent and hands-over the item when requested.

• The Voyage Skeleton in the Followers of the Flame Voyage should no longer disappear when revived at the dig site.

• During a Faction Battle, a ship that is sunk due to heading into the Devil’s Shroud now consistently causes the match to end and loses the encounter.

Smugglers’ Runs

• Diving to Smugglers’ Runs Voyages will now cause smuggler Phantoms to appear on the pickup and delivery islands.

Black Powder Barrel

• Skeletons holding Black Powder Barrels are no longer missing their walking and idle animations.

• The Black Powder Barrel no longer has placeholder text on interaction prompts and dialogues.

• Pirates of all body sizes and Order of Bone and Blade Skeletons now correctly hold the Black Powder Barrel. 

Smugglers’ Tide

• Players can no longer get stuck behind environment dressing in the Plunder Valley Smugglers’ Hideout.

• All paintings now display the correct text to the player. 

• In the Plunder Valley Smugglers’ Hideout, the prison entrance is no longer missing collision points. 

• Player can no longer get stuck behind environment dressing in The Crooked Masts Smugglers’ Hideout.

• The Smugglers' League description card no longer appears in the Liked Voyages tab when there are no Voyages liked.

• At the Reaper's Fortress, fire damage no longer persists after the fire traps have deactivated.

• The Smugglers’ Note now rotates when offering/showing to other players.

• The Smugglers’ League Quest Table tile no longer uses placeholder text.

Pirate Profiles

• On PlayStation®5 navigating through Pirate Slots will now correctly update the pirate preview.

• The game will no longer stutter when navigating in and out of the Pirate Profile menu.

• The crouching and hanging tutorials will no longer play if players have completed them.

• The options at the bottom of the screen no longer overlap.

• Pirate Deed purchase confirmation is now using final artwork.

Visual and Audio

• When playing on Battle.net® the Ancient Coin Pack images now appear correctly when browsing Ancient Coins. 

• Players dropping a Chest of Bones or Reaper's Chest no longer causes the audio effect to be heard at extended distances.

• The Seasonal Rewards button can now be selected when entering the Deeds and Rewards tab.

• When firing the Riptide Rodeo Eye of Reach, the sights will no longer clip through the player camera.

• There is no longer a missing voice line in Pirate Lord’s dialogue during the Merchant Alliance Tutorial.

• Repairing the Regal Fortune Wheel now shows it as correctly fully repaired.

Text and Localisation

• ‘Lords of the Sea' - The voice-over and subtitles during the Tall Tale are no longer mismatched.