Insider Update 3.8.0.3 is now live. With this update the team are looking for further feedback around the upcoming changes to Commendations, as well as some improvements that have been made around ranged weapons being fired into the water.
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.
Miles Sailed Commendation Improvements
Following Insiders feedback, the Trading Company Commendations for Reapers Bones and Hunter’s Call that require players to sail with an active voyage have now been updated and will now also progress when the crew is sailing on behalf of the company as an Emissary. These Commendations include;
Hunter of the Wide Sea - Sail 1000 nautical miles on Hunter's Call Voyages or with their Emissary Flag raised.
Sailor of Scorching Seas - Sail 1000 nautical miles on Reaper's Bones Voyages or with their Emissary Flag raised.
Water Splash Improvements
Ship Cosmetics
Gameplay
Custom Seas
Any Fast Movement when using Quick Sail should now work correctly on a controller.
Enemies can now be spawned on the Ferry of the Damned.
When using the Scoreboard, players’ final score is no longer able to exceed the score limit.
Quick Sail/Fly Controls will now be hidden when using the 'Hide Menu' Option.
The icon for 'Fast Travel Ship' is no longer using the using the image for general Fast Travel.
While inputting a Join Code, the player can no longer go beyond 5 characters.
Time will now display as live when a new time is selected with an indicator
The current location indicator for fog and storms should no longer have a delay in appearing when a new location is selected.
Double clicking 'Set Sail’ will no longer cause the next cancel countdown attempt to fail.
All Hunters Call reputation should now be greyed out in the switch list when the Trading Company is set to 'Off'.
If Host terminates the game in a lobby and 10 minutes have passed, non-host Players will now be kicked from the lobby.
The Fog Location will now change while trying to move it to another island from a different Region
The podium header will no longer appear in view in when looking at the full scoreboard.
Areas of the camera settings will no longer expand out of their area.
Session Roles and Ship Type text is now localised.
Long Preset Names will no longer overflow the boundaries in Preset page and Session Setup.
When activating a new World Setting all audio should now be present.
Quick Spawn Radial box edges now display correctly.
With the 'Expanded Ship Supplies' switch enabled, mangos will now appear in ship food chests.
On the Xbox One, when spawning many of the Chest of Rage, the client will no longer crash.
Last Ship Standing
Flags will now display correctly as Won in battle if the player equips the flag before voting to dive to Last Ship Standing.
Solo pirates sailing beneath the waves waiting for a match are now consistently prevented from inviting other players to their crew.
Environment
Visual and Audio
When the Burning Blade has been claimed, players will no longer see VFX from the Flameheart statue flashing around the map table and crest.
The Silver Coin Double Barrel Pistol now displays a muzzle flash effect while shooting.
The Ghost Fleet cloud will now display correctly regardless of where the player is facing.
The player’s hands will no longer clip through the Fallen Sea Dog Spyglass.
After firing the Silver Coin Double Barrel Pistol, the triggers will now go down
Accessibility
Text and Localisation