Xbox One Updates | Sea of Thieves

- Einen Fehler behoben, wodurch Spieler an scheinbar unsichtbaren Kraken-Tentakel feststeckten

- Außerdem besteht beim Ausgraben einer Kiste nicht länger die Chance, dass ihr sie nicht heben könnt

- Dass gefundene Gegenstände oder Waffen nach einem Neustart des Spiels plötzlich verschwunden sind, gehört ebenfalls der Vergangenheit an.

- Players who have redeemed their Black Dog Pack pre-order code will now correctly see these items in their in-game chests.

Not received your code? Check your Xbox Live messages over the next couple of days.

- When digging up a chest, there is no longer a chance that it will be impossible to pick up

- Players should no longer intermittently be missing items and weapons when loading into the game

- Weapon, clothing and ship cosmetic changes made after migrating server will now persist across sessions

- The game will no longer enter an unresponsive state after accepting a game invitation whilst matchmaking

- Merchant Alliance notifications for handing in various items have been corrected

- Lighting has been tweaked in order to improve performance on multiple islands and outposts

- Fixed tinnitus sound which persists after being killed by multiple explosive barrels.

- Significant performance optimisations across all platforms, specifically targeting the 4K native resolution of Xbox One X.

Darüber hinaus wurde die Entfernung deutlich erhöht, bei der Schiffe respawnen

- Ihr müsst jetzt eure Schätze fallen lassen, bevor euch die Meerjungfrau zurück auf das Schiff teleportieren kann

- Players are no longer able to fall through the ship geometry and into the sea if they are to repeatedly jump on the chests/barrel located mid deck

- The voyage image on the captain's table now displays the rank (promotion) banner in the top right corner,

- When accepting a game invitation whilst matchmaking, the game no longer enters a temporary unresponsive state.

Fixed Issues

- Enabling ’non-directional‘ chat no longer allows non-crew players to be heard anywhere in the world.

- Players should no longer get into a state where they can no longer equip a second weapon.

- We have corrected an issue with players receiving very little warning of a server shutdown.

Players should now receive a minimum warning of 30 minutes for a server shut down.

Performance Improvements

- In response to reports of poor ping times in South America, we have now deployed Sea Of Thieves to a South American data centre.

- Multiple server and client crash fixes.

Updates

- Pirate Legend: The first legendary ship customisations have arrived at the Shipwright’s Shop in the Legendary Hideout!

From here you can purchase your new Pirate Legend sails, hull and figurehead.

- Sound Effects: Players will now hear a new sound effect when they open a Lore Book and when a Merchant Alliance contract has expired.

- Spring Cleaning: It is now easier to place chests and skulls on shelves in the Captain’s Cabin, and to drop items overboard!

- Controller Remapping: We’ve added push-to-talk to the list of actions players can rebind on controller.

Fixed Issues

- The server migration-free zone around the Skeleton Forts has been doubled.

- Trading companies now inform you when you have reached the voyage purchase limit for the day (Refreshes at 6am in-game time).

- Fixed clipping of reward values in wallet UI animations.

- Fixed text clipping in the Reputation menu UI.

- Company icons in the voyage pop-up UI are now the correct size.

- Ammo box on Lookout Point can now be used.

- Skeleton crews encountered during bounty quests and skeleton forts now have correctly matching attire.

- Players weapon selection from the Armoury should no longer reset to default after death.

- A notification should now trigger when a crewmate finds a reward from a Message in a Bottle map.

- Ships should no longer spawn with damage.

- Voyage description text has been increased in size, and should now be easier to read from a distance.

- Filters in the Equipment Chest will no longer become impossible to select.

- Candles are no longer floating in the air on Old Salts Atoll

- Lantern in the north-western part of Kraken’s Fall is no longer floating above the barrels.

- Skeleton Fort Cannons can once again be manned by players without fear of an explosive demise.

- Appearance of the water in the Legend Hideout has been improved.

- Rain will no longer appear inside the Legend Hideout Tunnel.

- Players will now correctly take damage from gunpowder kegs whilst underwater.

- Multiple text bugs and NPC dialogue issues in English have been resolved.

Performance Improvements

- Improved performance on high resolution PCs running at lower than native resolution.

- The number of instances of rubber banding and teleporting players has been reduced.

- Increased quality of island rendering at a distance when using the spyglass on all quality settings on both platforms.

This has no effect when the island is too far away to be loaded

- Multiple server crash fixes.

Further improvements and optimisations for all platforms are ongoing.

- Reload!: Adjusted position of the Ammo Crates on both ships, so they are easier to interact with.

- Play the next song!: Players will no longer play the same shanty twice in a row.

- UI Improvements: Images in the Vanity & Clothing Chests now load gracefully when browsing.

- Resolved issues where Skeleton Fort or Bounty Quest Skeletons failed to spawn correctly.

We have been resolving these spawning issues across the last 2 updates (1.0.3, 1.0.4),

however with this update (1.0.5) we have now resolved all known reported spawning issues.

Players will no longer be stuck with a single weapon slot and players weapon choice will now also persist across sessions.

Players who were experiencing the Single Weapon Slot issue will now be resolved as soon as they load into game.

- Pocket watch should no longer display as closed when being shown to another player.

- Skeletons and animals should no longer despawn when players climb in and out of the cannon.

- Rogue Sea Dog Trousers and Royal Sovereign Trousers should now unlock when the requirements are met.

- It is no longer possible to clip through the ship when jumping on the Banana Barrel.

- Wrong company icon is no longer incorrectly displayed for a split second if user is trying to get XP from 2 different companies

- It is no longer possible to drop behind the bar and get stuck in the Pirate Hideout.

- Getting into a cannon then getting back out should no longer skip the Tutorial.

- Players just outside the inky murk will now hear Kraken fight audio when it attacks other ships.

Performance

Bekannte Fehler

- If you still cannot find your items in game, please raise a support ticket to log this issue.

- Players may experience details of their pirate (such as hair colour / scars) looking different from their initial selection.

We are working on a way for our Customer Support team to reset your pirate to your original selection.

If you have experienced this bug, please ensure you have logged a Support Ticket for this issue.

- Players are experiencing delayed achievements and commendations from in-game actions.

We are working on a way for our Customer Support team to re-award these achievements and commendations back to players

- Regional Stock: Shopkeepers in different regions now only stock certain item sets, due to some mistimed deliveries.

- Strike a Pose: We’ve expanded our clothing range to include the Executive Admiral, Grand Admiral, Rotten Bilge Rat,

Sovereign sets.

- Ship Shape: Multiple sets of ship cosmetics have been added to the shipwright stock.

Now you can purchase and equip Grand Admiral, Castaway Bilge Rat, Ruffian Sea Dog and Imperial Sovereign ship customisation sets.

- Ohh, Shiny!: Visit the weapon shops at the many outposts to find their stocks of Grand Admiral,

Castaway Bilge Rat, Ruffian Sea Dog and Imperial Sovereign weapons. Fancy a new weapon style?

We’re sure one of these will take your fancy!

- “Launch Crew” Eye of Reach: In celebration of being at sea for a month, we've added a special weapon to the store.

This limited edition item will only be available for two weeks, so grab yours while you still can at a very reasonable price of 1 Gold!

- Tutorial Invulnerability - Players are no longer invulnerable during parts of the Tutorial when first launching the game.

This should resolve confusion around players seemingly being invulnerable at outposts.

We take all reports very seriously, so please log a Support Ticket and we will investigate further.

- Skeletons Accuracy - When shooting cannons from islands at long distances, Skeleton accuracy has been reduced.

We read your feedback that it was a little extreme... #SkellyOP!

- Merchant Voyages - It is no longer possible to force Merchant voyages to request delivery to a specific outpost.

Now you'll have to earn your cheddar.

- Sneaky Climbing - The bell on the small ship has been moved to the other side of the ladder, to avoid accidental ringing.

We're redecorating! With the Ammo Crate and Bell moved, what are we moving next?

- Incorrect company icons will no longer be displayed for a split second if trying to get reputation from two different Trading Companies.

- Joining a dead player whose ship is parked at an active Skeleton Fort will no longer prevent the joining player’s radials from being opened.

- Recent Players list will no longer be delayed in updating players from other crews.

- Voyage inventory message is now translated when there are no voyages in the inventory.

- Loot items can no longer be dropped behind the Captain’s table on the small ship when trying to place them on the table.

- Musical instruments can now be used immediately after interacting with parts of the ship.

- Resolved an issue which could cause players to fail to migrate and remain on low population servers.

- Repetitive actions from players will no longer impact the network stability for other players.

- Crews können nun geschlossen (Privat gestellt) werden und kein weiterer Spieler kann dazu kommen

Updates

- Here, take this!: Imagine the scene, skeletons surround your crew, your crew-mate has been bitten by a snake,

they have no bananas and there are no resource barrels in sight!

Now you can help them CRONCH their way to full health by handing them a banana!

This also works with wooden planks and cannon balls. You helpful pirate you!

- Who Goes There?: When swimming underwater, gamertag and Player Titles are no longer visible.

- Now in Stock!: Imperial Sovereign Blunderbuss, Pistol, Sails, Hull and Liveries are now available to purchase in the Ancient Isles.

They were incorrectly listed as available in Patch 1.0.6.

- Flintlock Pistol: New sound effects for close fire and reloading the Flintlock Pistol.

- Icons – Within the clothing chest, the icons to unequip all or select a random outfit have been updated.

- Health Bar UI: Deciding whether to eat that banana or keep swiping your sword?

You’ll notice some changes to the health bar UI, fancy!

Progression & Economy Updates

- Greedy pirates had overpriced the Castaway Bilge Rat weapons and ship liveries. These have now been reduced.

Anyone who purchased items within this set pre-price adjustment will have the difference reimbursed very soon.

the chances of finding more valuable rewards has been increased. Say good-bye to those Castaway Chests at higher ranks!

Fixed Issues

- Players should no longer experience details of their pirate (such as hair colour / scars) looking different from their initial selection.

- Players should no longer experience delayed achievements and commendations from in-game actions.

- Resolved issue that sometimes showed riddle landmarks as glowing rocks.

- Resolved an issue on Faithful Isle which could have prevented players from completing riddle voyages.

- Bounty Captains and Crew will no longer have their names mixed up.

- Gunpowder Barrels will no longer cause two explosions if detonated when being held by a player.

- Loaded cannons will no longer intermittently appear unloaded when returning to the ship.

- Starting Merchant voyages back to back will no longer prevent the reminder to collect crates from appearing.

- When playing on wide monitors the settings menu UI will no longer have clipping issues.

- Being on an Order of Souls voyage no longer causes fewer ambient skeletons to spawn.

- Cannonball, wooden plank and banana crates no longer always spawn empty.

- Restarting the game will no longer reset the frame rate lock option.

- Fixed a collision issue on Thieves‘ Haven.

- Equipping the Seadog Hull on a sloop will now match the preview image.

- Muting all other crews will no longer mute your own crew.

- The floor texture of the crows nest on the galleon now appears correctly.

- Resolved a shader issue caused the balcony outside the Captain’s Cabin on the galleon to appear incorrectly.

- There is no longer a gap between a characters head and the Imperial Sovereign Hat when it is equipped.

- Restored missing 90 fps frame rate lock option.

Performance Improvements

- Frame rates will now be more consistent during ship battles, sword fights and Kraken encounters due to visual effect optimisations.

- Latency has been improved in multiple-ship and skeleton heavy scenarios due to server optimisations.

- Multiple server crash fixes.

- 812,77 MB groß

Release: 23.05.2018 (Version 1.08)

Quelle: xboxdynasty.de

Updates

- On to the Next!: Players can now discard unwanted voyages within the Quick Menu.

No more having to propose them on the Captain’s Table and cancel them!

- Did You Hear That?: When you are transmitting voice over your mic, an icon will now appear on screen to let you know that you are doing so.

- Stories Untold: Players will now come across more Lore books on their adventures.

- Give and Take: Resource Crates which are being held by players can now have items put into or removed from them.

- Distressed Chickens: The unsettling sound of a squawking chicken whilst caged is now… more bearable.

- Music of Legends: The musical sting that plays when entering the Legendary Hideout has been updated.

- Updated Voice Lines: Legendary Tavernkeeper Louise,

the Pirate Lord and the Order of Souls NPC Olivia now have new ghostly-sounding voice lines.

- Visual Effects: Improved multiple VFX of weapon impact to grass terrain, and cannon impact to water.

- Icons: Updated the Chests UI to make it clearer that players can scroll through the filter tabs.

Icons are now also prettier, bigger and generally better.

- Out Of Stock: Shipwrights and Weaponsmiths will no longer stock the eight cosmetic pieces which weren’t visually distinct enough.

- Launch Crew Eye of Reach: We kept it in for an extra week due to its popularity,

but this time-limited item has now been removed from the weapon shops!

Player Settings

- Colour Blind Accessibility: There is now a High Contrast ‚X Marks the Spot‘ option in the Accessibility Settings.

Enabling this will change the red X on the map to white with a black outline,

which we understand will be easier to view for red-green colour blind pirates.

- Aim Sensitivity Slider: Player can customise their controller and mouse sensitivity specifically when aiming with each ranged weapon.

The Blunderbuss, Flintlock Pistol and Eye of Reach each have their own slider to adjust.

- Shhh!: Additional muting options have been added to „My Crew“.

These now include the ability to mute voice, text chat and non-verbal phrases separately.

Performance Improvements

- Whilst on the ship and in multi-ship scenarios, performance has been improved.

- Server optimisations to reduce latency.

- Frame rates while streaming islands have been improved.

- Improved gunplay in high-latency network conditions.

- Multiple server and client crash fixes.

Fixed Issues

- Issues with giving items have been resolved and the feature is now re-enabled.

- Skeleton Fort keys will no longer drop into inaccessible locations.

- Dates displayed on pocket watches will no longer go out of sync.

- Fixed areas on Smugglers Bay and Plunder Valley where Bounty Skeletons were not spawning.

- Pirates should no longer lose their clothing upon respawning after death.

- Changing your bucket at the equipment chest will make the water spill out instead of just vanishing.

So be careful not to flood your ship!

- Players should no longer encounter an issue where they are unable to interact

with reward items floating in the water once they leave the area and return.

- Barrels of Plenty no longer disappear when respawning onto your ship after death.

- Improved skeleton movement in Skeleton Forts.

- Instruments will no longer sound muffled / cut out when being played on the back of a sloop.

- Opening the vanity chest multiple times in a short span of time will no longer cause your pirate preview to stop appearing.

- It is now possible to loot all items in Skeleton Fort vaults.

- The prompt to talk to the Merchant Alliance NPC on Sanctuary Outpost is no longer missing her name.

- Chicken movement should no longer appear jittery.

- Pirate Legend band in the Hideout now play audible shanties.

- The legendary Tavernkeeper was loading the wrong text loadout: the correct text loadout has been rebound to the NPC.

- Players will no longer incorrectly hear ambient sounds (storms/rain/birds) after using a mermaid,

exiting the Ferry or being teleported after getting stuck.

- 1,20 GB groß

Release: 25.05.2018 (Version 1.09 Hotfix)

Quelle:

- 152,87 MB groß

Performance Improvements

- CPU performance has been improved when loading objects.

Further improvements and optimisations for all platforms are ongoing.

Fixed Issues

- Permanent black loading screens will no longer be encountered when returning from the Ferry or using the mermaid.

- Leaving and returning to the ship will no longer remove the tool-tip to unload cannons which are loaded.

- Upon starting a Merchant Contract or Bounty Voyage, the UI message will correctly state „Quest Received“ rather than „Maps Discovered“.

- Coral and plants will no longer appear to pop in when approaching the reef near Fools Lagoon.

- Light will no longer appear to flicker underneath the large eagle rock on Plunder Valley.

- Upon spawning at an outpost, an issue has been resolved which would occasionally cause the crew’s Galleon to be missing.

- Resolved a known cause of some player disconnects.

- Multiple server and client crash fixes.

- Customer Support have resolved all known players who were missing downloadable content in-game.

Updates

- Open/Closed Crew – You can now dynamically change whether your crew is Open or Closed while out on the seas.

This option can be toggled from within the ‚My Crew‘ menu.

- Athena’s Fortune Rewards: The chances of finding more valuable rewards have been increased.

Pirate Legends and their crews can now expect to see higher rewards when embarking on their Athena’s Fortune voyages.

Performance Improvements

Further improvements to frame rate when streaming islands.

- Improvement to frame rate when player is walking or running.

- Multiple server and client crash fixes.

Further improvements and optimisations for all platforms are ongoing.

Fixed Issues

- Washed-up items and messages in bottles have returned to the shorelines once more!

- Dropping Skeleton Fort keys in water will no longer prevent them from being picked up again.

- Athena’s Fortune Bounty Quest skeletons will now correctly spawn on Thieves‘ Haven.

If you encounter this issue, please submit a bug report to our Player Support Team with as much detail as possible on your location.

- Players can no longer be voted into the brig before fully spawning onto the server.

- After equipping a weapon from the armoury, aim sensitivity will no longer default to High the first time you aim down the sight.

- When switching between items and weapons, players will see fewer instances of default

models appearing for a few seconds whilst the correct equipped model loads.

- Pricing of the rank 4 and 5 Gold Hoarders compasses are now correct.

- It is no longer possible to accidentally select a pirate whilst watching the intro animation.

- The icon for the Rotten Bilge Rat Shirt no longer appears low-quality.

- Player chat indicator can now be toggled from the front end settings menu and within the game.

- Ship lanterns will no longer appear to remain in an upright position, and now follow ship motions.

- Improved connection stability to resolve the infrequent Alabasterbeard errors.

- Multiple server and client crash fixes.

Further improvements and optimisations for all platforms are ongoing.

Fixed Issues

- Changes to pirate appearance (such as hair colour / scars) have been reverted to their initial selection.

- Messages in Bottles will no longer spawn on top of one another.

- The correct animation now appears when repairing holes in a ship.

- Textures of the Sea Dog Jacket now appear as intended.

- Caged Pigs and Chickens no longer get the cannonball impact decal applied to them if dropped on to one

- Players can no longer drop crates behind the clothing and equipment chest on the Sloop.

- It is no longer possible to clip through the Kraken tentacle when it is wrapped around a ship.

- Cursed Mermaid Statues have been increased to match the intended model scale.

- Viewing textures on Plunder Valley from long distances no longer displays gaps in the terrain.

- It is no longer possible to get permanently stuck in the half submerged ship on Plunder Valley .

- Athena’s Fortune Bounty Quests are no longer incorrectly blank.

- The Legendary Gunpowder Title has been removed from the Bilge Rat progression UI due to it incorrectly tracking progress.

The Title is currently available to players through the Bilge Rat shop once all 3 Legendary Gunpowder Skeleton Commendations have been completed.

- Gunpowder Skeletons Event: Carrying a gunpowder keg, skeletons can now rush towards you, light their fuse and… BOOM,

off to the Ferry you go! The Bilge Rats are challenging all brave pirates to defeat them in various ways,

some less conventional than others! Keep an ear perked for a burning fuse, and a finger on the trigger… good luck!

- Explosive Force: When detonated, gunpowder kegs now have the force to rock and push ships.

- Fuses: When holding a gunpowder keg, players can now light a five-second fuse by pressing the primary action button (Right Trigger on controller or left click on mouse).

- Bilge Rat Doubloons: Each Gunpowder Skeleton Commendation on the progress screen details the number of Bilge Rat Doubloons it rewards.

Players have until the 10th of July to complete the Commendations and earn up to 150 Bilge Rat Doubloons.

- Bilge Rat Cosmetics: The Bone Crusher Sword, Pistol, Blunderbuss and Eye of Reach, priced at 15 Doubloons per item, are available until the 10th of July.

- Letters of Recommendation: Letters of Recommendation now grant a full level in the chosen Trading Company.

Opting to spend your hard-earned Doubloons on reputation with the Trading Companies? This just got better!

- Bilge Rat Titles: Completing the Gunpowder Skeletons Commendations will unlock two new Pirate Titles. These titles will unlock straight into your Vanity Chest for maximum bragging rights.

Legendary Commendations: Legendary Commendation to earn an additional 50 Doubloons!

- Skeleton Accuracy: Skeletons wielding a blunderbuss or pistol have had their accuracy reduced.

- Joinable Status: Players can now make themselves unjoinable from the new Crew Management tab within Settings.

- Bilge Rat UI: The reputation summary and icon have been updated with improved visuals.

- Improved network bandwidth usage which may in turn reduce latency experienced by players in busy scenarios.

- Bear & Bird Figurehead: Now stocked by the Shipwright to celebrate Banjo-Kazooie’s 20th anniversary.

- Rock the Boat Upon impact, cannonballs now apply a rocking effect to ships.

- Shop Clutter: Player Titles no longer remain in the shop when purchased, reducing the amount of clutter in the clothing shops.

Performance Improvements

- Multiple server and client crash fixes.

Further improvements and optimisations for all platforms are ongoing.

Fixed Issues

- Multiple Megalodons will no longer spawn in the same zone.

- Megalodon encounter music will no longer be heard on the Ferry.

- ‚Crew Management‘ and the ‚Allow Friends to Join‘ text is now localised to all languages.

- There is no longer an invisible rock in Thieves‘ Haven.

- ‚Skeleton Exploder‘ Title now shows the correct icon in the Vanity Chest.

- There is no longer a wall on Plunder Valley that players can clip through to see outside the map.

- VFX for lighting a gunpowder barrel now correctly appear connected to the fuse.

- Players will no longer be teleported back to their ship when they shoot themselves from the cannon on the north side of Devil’s Ridge.

- Header and footer UI in shops is now consistent with the rest of the UI menus.

- The ‚More‘ button on all radials now properly updates when key bindings are changed and will no longer remain the same button.

- Resource barrels on ships will not longer periodically restock if they are below the default level.

- 1,86 GB groß

Release: 12.07.2018 (Version 1.1.6)

Quelle: xboxdynasty.de

- Dieses bringt ein neues Event in den Bilge Rat Adventures und diesmal dreht es sich unter anderem um verfluchte Meerjungfrauen-Statuen.

- Darüber hinaus wurden Fehler beseitigt und es gibt einen neuen Titel für Piraten, den Legendary Skeleton Exploder.

- 1,64 GB groß

Release: 27.07.2018 (Version 1.1.7)

Quelle: xboxdynasty.de

- weitere Bugs im Piratenspiel ausgemerzt

- Vorbereitungen für das kostenlose DLC "Cursed Sails" am 31.10.2018

Updates

- Great Water: Improved lighting, reflection and movement of water within the ship.

- UI Update: Ampersands have been updated to be more visible on loading screens and in UI header fonts.

Performance Improvements

- Sinking items now despawn at the lowest depths the player can swim to, instead of sinking beyond. This improves overall game performance.

- Multiple server and client crash fixes.

Further improvements and optimisations for all platforms are ongoing.

Fixed Issues

- The Executive Admiral Jacket no longer clips on muscular body types.

- Flags no longer become detached from flag poles when sailing.

- Players no longer clip out of the Sloop when interacting with Banana/Food Barrel.

- Screen stutter has been reduced whilst sprinting and aiming down sights.

- Players who earned but did not receive items during The Hungering Deep will receive these upon next login.

- Players who completed the required Commendations but did not receive Skeleton Thrones Titles will receive them upon next login.

- 1,33 GB groß

- Cursed Sails Battle Times: Players who can only play during fixed times will be able to battle for a different region each week.

For example, if this week your fixed playtime only allows you to encounter The Battle for the Shores of Plenty,

next week you will encounter The Great Battle of the Ancient Isles during the same fixed playtime.

- Cursed Sails Battle Encounter Indicator: Battle music can now be heard from greater distances. Additionally, the flow when UI banners appear and music plays has been improved.

- Cursed Sails Resources: Treasure items and Barrels of Plenty will now float for longer. This allows greater opportunity to find resources and treasures mid-battle.

- Cursed Sails Battle Cooldown – The timer between battles has been extended to give players a chance to collect loot dropped by defeating the skeleton crews.

- Cursed Sails Battle Despawn – The battle despawn timer has been increased, which will give sunk crews a greater chance to sail back and continue the battle they started.

- Skeleton Ship VFX – Improvements have been made to VFX of water splashes when skeleton ships emerge.

Performance Improvements

Fixed Issues

- Cursed Sails Battle Time: Players who can only play during fixed times will be able to battle for a different region each week

- Cursed Sails Battle Times: Battle times have been rotated to give players who can only play during fixed times the opportunity to battle for a different region each week.

Fixed Issues

Players who have met the requirements for the commendation and did not earn it before the fix have now been awarded the Commendation correctly.

- Während mit Cursed Sails die zeitbegrenzte Kampagne endete, wurde mit Cursed Crews ein neues Bilge Rat Adventure gestartet.

- Cargo Runs: These voyages offer an alternative way to climb the ranks of the Merchant Alliance. Obtain a contract, find out who's waiting with the cargo,

grab it and go! Don't dawdle or damage the goods if you want the full reward when you reach your destination. The Merchants have standards ...

- Skeleton Ship Rewards - Skeleton Captain-led ships at the end of ship battles now give four Skeleton Captain Chests and four >> Skeleton Captain Skulls instead of two each.

- Rowboat Damage: Increased damage now taken by Rowboats from Gunpowder Barrels.

- Stuck Rowboats - You can now push Rowboats that are stuck underneath things such as piers.

- Athena's Fortune Voyages - Cargo Runs are now always included as part of Athena's Fortune voyages.

- Player sitting in the middle of the Rowboat can now see players sitting at the back of the Rowboat.

- Damaged Rowboats no longer appear pristine upon returning to them after venturing far away.

- Rowboats no longer inherit damage decals from other sources (such as damaged ships or shipwrecks) when in close vicinity.

- Looking as far left/right as possible whilst rowing a Rowboat will no longer result in the camera becoming occasionally unlocked and rotating 360 degrees.

- When placing larger items on the Rowboat, water splash VFX will no longer occur.

- Audio when rowing a Rowboat over large distances (especially the squeaking) is now less repetitive.

- Fixed issue with horizontal water planes being cut off whilst a ship is sinking.

- Players no longer get permanently drunk when migrating servers whilst holding the Chest of a Thousand Grogs.

- View Gamer Card option under Crew Settings will now respond correctly to a left mouse click.

- Looking through the scope of an Eye of Reach will no longer trigger the sound effect multiple times.

- Upon loading into a session, the loading music will now commence as soon as the loading screen appears.

- Sailing away from your ship on a Rowboat will no longer cause a mermaid to spawn.

- The ocean will no longer appear separated from the sky when viewing the horizon from within a storm.

- Sail ropes will no longer appear disjointed from the sails when a player returns from the Ferry.

- Collision has been corrected on the Devil’s Thirst volcano so players can no longer fall into the model.

- Player will no longer temporarily lose access to some ship barrels if their first banana, plank or cannonball of the session is washed up or given to them.

- Available titles now correctly appear in the clothing shop on Morrow's Peak Outpost.

- Die Zugabe von Nebel, der plötzlich auftreten kann und alle möglichen Gefahren auf See und an Land birgt.

die Kiste mit dem alten Knochenstaub und die Edelsteine der Meerjungfrau-Statue.

- Mehr Skelett-Festungen, sechs neue Festungen aktiv werden und insgesamt neun entstehen.

eines neuen Skelettschiff-Scharmützels „Battle of the Devil’s Roar“ und reisende Skelettschiffe,

- Neue Möglichkeiten, sich auszudrücken, einschließlich völlig neuer Schiffsanpassungen

Kanonen, Räder und Kapstans – und des zeitlich begrenzten Schiffs- und Kosmetiksets „Wailing Barnacle“.

eine Reihe neuer Megalodon-Varianten, um Belohnungen und Belobigungen für die Niederlage dieser Monster zu finden.

- Loading Times: Loading times into the game have been reduced, so pirates now load in to the front end more quickly than before.

- Commendation Progress: Improved UI layout of Commendation details for Bilge Rat Adventures.

- Bone Crusher Cannons: Modified the Bone Crusher Cannons following feedback to improve visibility when aiming.

- Banana Key Binding: The key binding for quick cycling to your bananas has been reset.

If you’ve assigned or customised the button/key that quick cycles to bananas, please reassign this to restore it.

- Dropping a Gunpowder Barrel on a Rowboat attached to the rear of a Sloop will no longer cause it to explode.

- The ‚Take All‘ function now correctly takes Tattered Parchments found in Barrels.

- Players who migrate and subsequently die whilst a voyage is active will no longer lose progress for voyage Commendations.

- Lanterns will no longer refresh the Flame of Fate colour when stowing and unstowing.

- Resolved an issue that prevented Skeleton Forts from despawning when players were engaging with a Skeleton Ship.

- Treasure dropped on the headboard of the Galleon will no longer become stuck in the ship structure and become irretrievable.

- Floating Mermaid Gems will now sink slowly before disappearing rather than disappearing on the surface.

- The intro animation is no longer silent when switching to another full-screen app on Xbox One. The sequence is now skipped when the title loses full-screen visibility.

- „Waiting to set sail“ now correctly displays in the lobby when joining a crew.

- Hunter of Cursed Captains achievement description corrected to require 1000 Skulls to be handed in.

- Fixed a visible gap in the archway of the underground cave at Sailor’s Bounty.

- Players no longer get stuck between rocks on the east part of Kraken’s Fall.

- Resolved area of mismatched collision on the ground outside the weapon shop at Ancient Spire Outpost.

- Player no longer fall through the ground on the west side of Smuggler’s Bay.

- Resolved a chance for players to receive a Lazybeard error when being invited by a player who is in the game.

- Resolved a chance for players to receive Pythonbeard error when getting drunk and wielding items.

- Loading Times: Further improvements to loading times should be noticeable with the release of 1.4.2.

- Mit dem Update erhält das Piratenspiel unter anderem Maus und Tastatur Unterstützung auf der Xbox One sowie neue Missionen und Herausforderungen.

- Weiterhin gibt es im Außenposten-Shop mit Golden Sailor’s Hat und Golden Sailor’s Cannon zwei zeitlich exklusive Gegenstände zum Jahrestag für jeweils 320 Gold.

- Berechtigte Jahr 1 Spieler erhalten zudem mit Captain Bones‘ Original Pirate Cutlass ein Entermesser in ihr Lager.

Combat Balancing Improvements

- Wielding Weapons: The forced firing delay has been removed when wielding a gun after sprinting or undocking, allowing players to fire sooner.

The forced firing delay when switching weapons still remains to prevent fast switching and firing between guns.

- Sword Switching: Players are now able to switch weapons/items at any point during a light sword attack. Players are still prevented from switching during a heavy sword attack.

Fixed Issues

- Resolved an issue allowing players to sprint while changing weapons in order to fire two shots in quick succession when wielding two guns.

- Resolved a stability issue causing Gunpowder and Stronghold Kegs to sometimes explode during server migration.

- Killing Skeletons while under the effects of Cursed Green Cannonballs now correctly progress the following commendations:

The Curse of The Foul Grog (Grogball), The Curse of The Dancing Demon (Jigball), The Curse of The Black Viper (Venomball),

The Curse of The Sandman’s Revenge (Wearyball), The Curse of The Fools Stride (Limpball), Master of Cursed Iron and Legend of Cursed Iron.

- Using a Gunpowder Keg to destroy a Skeleton Ship will now correctly count towards Skeleton Ship Commendations.

- Players and their crews will receive credit for engaging with Kraken and Megalodon encounters even if they are on the Ferry of the Damned and/or have lost their ship when the encounter ends.

- The Megalodon Makeup description now correctly refers to the player having to complete the ‘Hunter of the Great Maw’ Commendation to unlock.

- Dropping a one-handed item onto a lantern set dressing object no longer causes the player to be unable to pick up the item.

- Pirate Hideout audio reveal now plays at the correct location at Golden Sands Outpost.

- When ‘Let Games Read to Me’ and ‘Speech-To-Text’ are both enabled, transcribed messages will not be read out by ‘Let Games Read to Me’ because that message was already spoken across voice chat.

- The description for the ‘Athena’s Voyager’ Title now correctly identifies the unlock criteria.

- Pirate Hideout audio reveal now plays at the correct location at Sanctuary Outpost.

- Floating meat from Megalodons, sharks & Krakens now will bounce off your ship if sailed through.

- Revised the description of the ‘Legendary Treasure Hunter’ title, to correctly identify the unlock criteria.

- Players will now correctly hear ringing in their ears whilst under the influence of grog.

- Taking a bite of food while quickly interacting with barrels no longer causes the incorrect icons to be shown in the Barrel UI.

- Players will now be able to access the second page of a radial menu after rebinding their Item Radial/Map Radial and Interact/Disengage keys.

- The Pirate Phrase Wheel now has messages for Raw Fish; Devilfish, Battlegill, Islehopper, Pondie, Wrecker and Plentifins.

- Anchoring your ship on the west side of Plunder Outpost no longer puts your ship out of range for the Ship Customisation Chest.

- The Ship Flag box now uses the correct iconography and descriptions when trying to un-equip a Flag.

- Skeletons can no longer navigate into areas players cannot reach on The Crow’s Nest Fortress, preventing the fort encounter from continuing.

- Dropping a Merchant Crate now correctly plays the crunch sound effect to indicate it has become damaged.

- When multiple players are interacting with the same barrel, the UI will no longer occasionally get stuck.

- Shops will close automatically if a player takes damage or is harpooned while browsing.

- The Legendary Flintlock now correctly unlocks when completing the ‘Legendary Sea Dog Commendation’

- The Legendary Flintlock now sits correctly in the player’s hand and aligns with the target when aiming.

- Players will now receive a popup when earning the Victorious Sea Dog Blunderbuss after completing Grade 5 for the Legendary Sea Dog Commendation.

- Leaving the Arena while the contest start music is playing will no longer cause the music to continue to play on the front end.

- Players will be removed from the tavern cannon when migrating to a new server.

- Resolved an issue with the level of detail on some dressing items in the Arena Hand in locations.

- Players who are joined by friends who have progressed further in the Tales will now correctly be able to vote on that Tale to begin.

Crew members will always be able to vote on the latest Tall Tale unlocked by any member of the crew.

- Books previously used as world decoration have been removed to avoid confusion with Tall Tale Voting Books or Tale Journals.

- The Tall Tales Reputation page now supports a wider range of written languages without overlapping text.

- Players interacting with objects in the world while opening and closing a Quest Book will no longer find the book pages become blank.

- ‘Art of the Trickster’: Crews who are killed and subsequently migrate while engaging with the Trapmaker’s Lair encounter will no longer find the encounter to reset back to the beginning.

- ‘Art of The Trickster’: The Skeleton Waves now consistently spawn during the Trapmaker’s Lair Encounter.

- ‘Art of The Trickster’: The ‘Captain of the Lair’ now consistently spawns at the end of the Trapmaker’s Lair Encounter.

- ‘Fate of the Morningstar’: When releasing a trapped soul, leaving a returning to the chest will no longer replay the animation.

- ‘Shores of Gold’: Resolved a number of areas where geometry would disappear inside the trap chasms.

- ‘Shores of Gold’: Looking out from inside a waterfall no longer makes the cave appear as if underwater.

- ‘Shores of Gold’: Players should no longer become stuck if jumping into the rocks when leaving the Gold Hoarder encounter and jumping off the waterfall.

- ‘Shores of Gold’: Players should no longer be able to climb out of the environment in the trap chasm.

- ‘Shores of Gold’:– Players can no longer become snagged and stuck moving around inside the Compass Vault on Shores of Gold.

- Mutineer Rock is now better identified on the ship’s map and correctly matches players’ X Marks the Spot maps.

- When a Skeleton Fort is inside a storm, it will no longer rain inside the vault.

- Players should no longer become stuck in the corner of the Sea Post Shop and become safe teleported.

- Players should no longer become stuck between two palm trees on Marauder’s Arch.

- Players should no longer get stuck and fall through the ground inside a tunnel on Marauders Arch.

- Players should no longer become stuck when navigating the stern of a sunken shipwreck.

- Players should no longer get stuck between palm trees and the market stand on Plunder Outpost.

- Players should no longer clip through parts of the environment around Galleon’s Grave Outpost.

- Players should no longer clip through parts of the environment around Plunder Outpost.

- Certain wooden barrels found around outposts in The Wilds no longer have corrupt textures.

- Lanterns hanged around Mermaid’s Hideaway are now correctly attached to their posts.

- Players can no longer find missing textures on a cliff face on Old Faithful Isle.

- Waves should no longer been clipping through the geometry in a cave on Crescent Isle.

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- When abandoned at sea with an active mermaid, climbing on board a rival’s ship will now cause that mermaid to disappear.

- Respawning on your ship after death or by mermaid is no longer affected by having treasure items on player spawn points, reducing scenarios where players would not arrive on their ship.

- Reaching rank 50 with The Reaper’s Bones now counts towards Pirate Legend status.

- When choosing from the Cannonball Radial during cannon fire, the correct cannonball will now be loaded for the next shot.

- When defeating the Ghost of Graymarrow during the Fort of the Damned, all supporting Flames of Fate Skeletons are now destroyed.

- After defeating a Megalodon, its rewards will once again be released from the depths to float up rather than appearing directly on the surface.

- Resolved an issue with Windows 10 hardware detection that could cause some graphics settings to be set to incorrect levels for your spec. Following this fix, please check your graphics settings are correct!

- Swimming up to the back of one on the ships in the Pirate Legend Hideout no longer pushes you through the world.

- Changing Game Settings with sliders using a mouse will now correctly save the settings when leaving the menu.

- Adjusted layout of the promotion offers in Company shops to prevent text being cut off.

- The order of the cosmetic items purchasable in the Athena’s Fortune Ghost and Pirate Legend shops is now alphabetical.

- When disconnecting from an Xbox-only server on Xbox and moving to PC, players will no longer receive a ‘beard’ error but will receive a message explaining they need to change their settings or use a controller.

- During the initial Company onboarding dialogue from the Mysterious Stranger, leaving the proximity of the tavern and returning should no longer cause two Mysterious Strangers to be present.

- Using a Rowboat after holding the Mysterious Key no longer causes the oars to appear upside-down.

- When radial menus are bound to ‘E’ or ‘R’ and ‘Toggle Radial Menus’ is set to On, the radial menus will now open and close as expected.

- Improvements to hit registration when shooting at players using interactive items on ships.

- The Galleon, Brigantine and Sloop hulls have been modified around the tops of ladders, allowing players to hit targets through the ladder cut-out in the hull.

- Performing a block-sword lunge then quickly entering block on landing will now correctly display the player in block stance to their opponent.

- Attacking with a cutlass while blocking then quickly stowing your blade no longer causes your player shadow to show an incorrect stance.

- Emissary crews leaving the game should no longer prevent an Emissary Flag from dropping from their sunken ship.

- The Emissary Tables now display a ship if an Emissary crew migrates onto the server.

- Placing loot into an open Collector’s Chest on a ship or attached Rowboat now counts towards Emissary Grade.

- The Commendation for handing in an Emissary Flag now has a clearer description to reinforce the message that players must be an Emissary to earn it.

- A toast will pop up when killing the Skeleton Captains during a Grade 5 Order of Souls Voyage.

- Players will now receive the correct Emissary Grade Progression when picking up a Collector’s Chest.

- The Athena’s Fortune Emissary Tables are now positioned consistently across all Outposts.

Gameplay

- Throwing a Blunderbomb or firebomb will no longer alter players’ positions in the air or cause them to teleport on land.

- Pirates will no longer be propelled backwards when vomiting.

- Megalodons and sharks should no longer crash into sea rocks, islands and ships when chasing their target.

- Merchant Crates and Castaway Chests attached to harpoons will now persist through server migration and can then be removed.

- When remapping movement keys, the fishing controls will also change.

- The Emissary UI will no longer persist after lowering an Emissary Flag.

- Harpoons can no longer attach to mines dropped by Ghost Ships.

- The Athena’s Fortune reputation page will no longer display Guardian of Athena’s Fortune even at rank 1. This Title will now only appear when it is unlocked at rank 10.

- Players will now safely teleport back to their ships when stuck in the environment on Ancient Spire Outpost.

- Dig sites located on The Devil’s Thirst should only appear in areas accessible by players.

- Skeletons will animate as intended when eating a banana.

Combat and Hit Registration

- Improved cannonball hit registration on rival ships.

- After becoming a little short-sighted in a previous update, skeletons wielding ranged weapons can once again hit sprinting players.

World Encounters

- The Ashen Lords will now animate more smoothly when switching between movement and attacks.

- Once players have defeated the Ashen Lord Warden Chi, they will hear updated voiceover lines from the Ashen Lord which correspond with the subtitles.

- Ghost Fleet battles will no longer activate on islands already populated by players.

Visual and Audio

- The ‘Mute All Other Crew’ Voice Chat option should no longer enable itself during game sessions.

- Voice chat from other crews should no longer be heard when loading into a game.

- While repairing a hole in the ship, players are no longer able to ‘give’ a plank to cancel the repairing audio effects.

- When picking up the Chest of a Thousand Grogs, the drunken audio effects should no longer persist for players upon its release.

- The Bone Crusher Compass, Fearless Bone Crusher Compass and Bone Crusher Pocket Watch are now readable at all times, even at night.

- Players will now hear bespoke sound effects when interacting with Umbra at the Lagoon of Whispers.

- Volume settings will now persist across sessions even when returning to the front end menu.

Tall Tales

- Crews can now have the ‘The Cursed Rogue’, ‘The Legendary Storyteller’, ‘Fate of the Morningstar’ and ‘Revenge of the Morningstar’ Tall Tales active at the same time as another Voyage.

- In the ‘Heart of Fire’ Tall Tale, players will no longer be able to fall through the ground in Flameheart’s Lair.

Accessibility

- The front end menu buttons are now underlined in order to be more identifiable than the non-selected buttons for partially sighted players.

- The ‘Change Keybind’ prompt will now be narrated when selected with a mouse.

- When enabling ‘Let Game Read to Me’, the screen narration will now narrate how many values are available and which number you are on.

- When enabling ‘Let Games Read to Me’, the narrator will correctly narrate all buttons across the title screen.

- The ‘Automatically Float in Water’ and ‘Locking Interaction Prompts in View’ settings now persist between sessions.

- When ‘Let Games Read to Me’ is enabled, the loading screen tips will now be read out.

- When enabling ‘Let Games Read to Me’, words that are censored by the profanity filter will no longer be narrated.

- When the ‘Single Stick’ setting is enabled, a description will now explain that the ‘Automatically Float’ setting has also been enabled.

Performance and Stability

- Improved server stability when multiple clients are simultaneously using voice chat.

- On Steam, switching to windowed display no longer hides the window.

- Improved detection of host’s location when creating a custom server, improving network conditions when creating a session.

- Season One ist gestartet und ein Battle Pass mit 100 Belohnungen wird eingeführt

- Season Two ist gestartet und ein Battle Pass mit 100 Belohnungen wird eingeführt

- The Outpost shipwrights, along with the clothing, equipment and weapon shops, now offer the Thriving Wild Rose set for purchase. Players must obtain the Always Yours Commendation to unlock access to this set.

- The Outpost clothing shops now stock the Hardy Ruffian Sea Dog clothing set, available to purchase for gold.

- The Emerald Sovereign and Sapphire Sovereign Eyepatches have been added to the Outpost clothing shops, locked behind the Master Emerald Curse Breaker and Master Sapphire Curse Breaker Commendations.

- The missing Dawn Hunter Shirt has been added to the Outpost clothing shops, locked behind the Plundered Prizes Commendation.

- Improvements have been made to how bullets are affected by the velocity of a moving ship, providing a small improvement to ranged weapons fired from moving ships.

- During ‘The Sunken Pearl’ and ‘Dark Brethren’ Tall Tales, when a crew engages with an encounter and the room is locked,

other crews approaching the encounter room will now find a notification on the locked door indicating that the room is currently in use by another crew.

- When encountering emergent threats while exploring islands, crews are now less likely to encounter Ocean Crawlers and Phantoms.

- When attacked by Ocean Crawlers while exploring islands, the number of enemies that attack in a wave has been significantly reduced.

- When facing a crew of Ocean Crawlers, crews will often find they have more time to tackle these challenging new foes before encountering additional threats.

- After crews complete a Bounty Quest on a named island, there is now a longer delay before they may find themselves attacked by emergent threats.

- When players defeat a Phantom, there is now a chance that they will drop Gold Pouches which can be collected to award gold to your crew immediately.

- When players swim into deep water, the time span before a Siren encounter has been broadened, and their presence should be felt less strongly than before.

- Crews swimming in deep water will now be attacked less frequently by sharks and Sirens together in a wave.

- When players wield the Trident of Dark Tides, Megalodons and emergent Krakens now take reduced damage from the Trident’s attacks.

- The Rowboat’s back seat now shows both ‘Sit in Seat’ and ‘Open Storage’ options together.

- To sit in a Rowboat’s passenger seats, players will be prompted by ‘Hold to Sit’ instead of ‘Press to Sit’. Controlling the oars remains unchanged and is still ‘Press to Sit’.

- Ships at Golden Sands, Sanctuary and Ancient Spire Outposts should now spawn closer to the dock, meaning players should no longer need to swim to reach their ship.

- When earning Ancient Coins, players will now see the number of coins earned tick up in the notification area alongside any gold and Doubloons earned.

- All in-game radial menus can now be controlled using the D-pad or keyboard. By default, these can be navigated clockwise and anti-clockwise using the left and right arrow keys and D-pad.

- When ‘Let Games Read to Me’ is enabled, recently added emotes now have support for audio descriptions when performed.

- The initial accessibility screen presented on initial load now has full support for audio navigation.

- Players can now set a keybind for the ‘Toggle Replace Gamertags’ option, allowing players who use this feature to quickly disable it when needed.

- Players can now set a keybind for the ‘Toggle Crew Nameplates’ option, allowing quick access to hide and unhide your crew’s gamertags during play.

- Larinna offers additional Letters of Recommendation for players to purchase in this update, to make up for a lack of availability in previous updates.

- When a crew’s ship is sunk and one of the Merfolk waits to take them to their new location,

any crew members rejoining the session or joining in progress will no longer arrive near the Merfolk. Joining players will now arrive at their new ship in a distant location.

- Catching the sail length of a falling ship’s mast and attempting to raise it should no longer leave players unable to repair the mast when returned to the upright position.

- Players can no longer cancel the scoop and throw animations while using the bucket in order to bail water faster than intended.

- Players can no longer cancel the digging animation while using a shovel in order to dig more rapidly than intended.

- Taking damage while charging a heavy cutlass attack will now cancel the attack, rather than triggering a heavy attack animation without inflicting damage.

- Hitting an opponent’s harpoon with a cannonball should no longer block the hull from taking damage.

- Players will now be told that their inventory is full when trying to remove a fish from their fishing rod with no space to do so.

- When a player is hiding after performing a Hide or Barrel Disguise Emote, approaching that player should no longer show them restart the animation from the beginning.

- Emergent Skeleton Captains should now drop Riddle and X Marks the Spot variants of Gold Hoarders Voyages when defeated.

- Sharks should no longer chase players out of the sea and swim up onto the beaches.

- After unbinding the Rowboat controls, the Rowboat tutorial prompt should now display correctly.

- During the Trading Company onboarding, the capstan prompt should reappear upon reaching the island even after a player’s ship has sunk.

- During the Maiden Voyage there should now be a ‘Climb Ladder’ prompt while on the crow's nest of the fallen mast.

- During the Legend of Glitterbeard experience, skeletons should no longer be able to walk above the Hideout.

- Killing an Ashen Lord during a Fort of Fortune encounter should now correctly progress Ashen Winds Commendations.

- Skeletons summoned by Skeleton Lords during Fort encounters should now be destroyed following the defeat of the Skeleton Lord.

- Crews can no longer find an Animal Crate that offers repeatable Seasonal Renown when collected.

- When collecting a Merchant Contract from a Message in a Bottle, players are now just as likely to find a wooden plank contract compared to other resource types such as fruit or cannonball contracts.

- After leaving the Tunnels of the Damned as an active Emissary, a player’s ship will now release the correct Emissary Flag when eventually sunk.

- After passing through the Tunnels of the Damned, the first emote a player uses on arrival at the new location should no longer make them appear invisible.

- While travelling through the Tunnels of the Damned, players should no longer be able to fall off their Brigantine by climbing into an attached Rowboat and jumping.

- During the return journey through the Tunnels of the Damned, the ghost pirates with a map and a shovel will have those items correctly in their hands.

- Resource Crates of the Damned should now retain their ghostly glow in the Tunnel of the Damned.

- When engaging with the Crab or Hermit Ocean Crawlers, players can no longer push too close and hide the enemy from view.

- Hermits will no longer rush players if there is an obstacle in the way, and will now manoeuvre around the obstacle before performing an attack.

- Eel-ectrics will no longer perform an Eel Slap after dashing away from their melee target.

- Defeating Ocean Crawlers will no longer progress various fire-based Commendations and Deeds, as the Ocean Crawlers are unaffected by these weapons.

- When players enter a ship during an encounter with Sirens, the Sirens will now lose their target and attempt to move to another target within line of sight.

- The visual effects of a Siren healing are no longer shown rising from the surface of the water.

- Sirens will no longer die invisibly if they are killed while using their Disorientate ability.

´- When Sirens change directions while swimming underwater, their tails will no longer flip unnaturally.

- Sirens will now bend their bodies more naturally when launching long-distance Siren Song projectiles at their target.

- Vault Keys should no longer disappear when they are picked up while holding the Trident of Dark Tides.

- Taking an item from a Collector’s Chest while holding the Trident of the Dark Tides should no longer cause the item to disappear.

- The Trident of the Dark Tides explosion VFX should now fire correctly and not rotate if it hits an enemy as they are turning.

- When voting to represent a Trading Company as an Emissary, a vote will now only show at the Outpost it was voted on, preventing a crew from passing a vote when not together.

- Players should now always be able to see voting daggers on the Emissary tables, even if they were not near the table when another player started the vote.

- When tracking a Lost Shipment to a wreck site, players will now more consistently find a shipwreck instead of a floating Manifest.

- When reaching rank 75 with the Merchant Alliance and undertaking a Lost Shipments Voyage, the first clue should now appear alongside floating barrels at the clue site.

- After migrating servers, players should now be able to unlock the cabin of a shipwreck if they have collected the key.

- During a Lost Shipments Voyage, the treasure inside the Captain’s cabin should no longer be duplicated if the crew migrates while on a Voyage.

- The Manifest from a Lost Shipments Voyage now counts as Merchant Alliance loot for a range of Trials.

- Players swimming into the front of the Galleon’s hull while the ship is moving can no longer reappear inside the ship.

- Players can no longer step off the side of the Galleon and become stuck in the hull.

- Players can no longer jump off the Brigantine voting table and pop through the ship’s hull.

- Sword-lunging into the Sloop’s cannonball barrels no longer launches the player into the sky.

- Players moving between the cannonball barrels and the Captain’s cabin of the Sloop will no longer find themselves outside the ship’s hull.

- Players can no longer to use a Rowboat to push through the outer hull of a Sloop and become stuck in the brig.

- During a Fort of the Damned encounter, Graymarrow should no longer be at risk of becoming stuck in a tree.

- The Dark Warsmith Figurehead (regular and Collector’s versions) no longer intersects with the hull on a Sloop.

- The water effects at the small waterfall on Shark Bait Cove should now always be visible.

- Players can no longer reach the Glorious Sea Dog Tavern by breaking through the environment within the Pirate Legend Hideout.

- At Sanctuary Outpost and Golden Sands Outpost, the target hanging by the weapon shop no longer intersects with the environment.

- Wooden towers on Marauder’s Arch can now be viewed correctly even when players are at a distance.

- During an Arena contest, the broken mast at the Sea Dogs delivery point now has the correct collision for players.

- The ambient audio effects heard from a Chest of a Thousand Grogs and Bounty Skulls will no longer be heard once a player cashes them in.

- After repairing the mast with planks, the sounds of the mast being damaged will no longer persist.

- The ghostly effects of the Tankard of the Damned no longer create visual issues when looking at atmospheric effects such as a storm, fog or clouds.

- Instruments of the Damned can no longer be seen through players or appear to distort them.

- When looking at a riddle quest map, the riddle steps now fade in on the map instead of popping in.

- The amount of grog in a tankard should now be visually depleted at the same rate it is drunk.

- On Sloops and Brigantines, the wooden textures on the handrail in front of the wheel now wrap correctly.

- When rejoining a session during a Cargo Run, the Cargo Crates now have the correct appearance.

- When the Dawn Hunter Wheel takes damage, the spokes should now be visibly broken.

- When scrolling quickly through the in-game Settings menu, the setting highlighted no longer briefly disappears.

- The Prison Dog’s tail now animates correctly when the dog reacts to a player performing an emote.

- When changing the ship’s lantern from a Flame of Fate colour back to default, attempting to collect the default colour will no longer take the previous Flame of Fate colour into your lantern.

- Performing the Slippery Spyglass Emote with the Ancient Spyglass no longer causes it to intersect with the player’s head.

- The Reaper’s Bones Emissary Ledger Title awarded to players at the end of July no longer has the same text as the previous Season.

- Emoji characters are no longer supported on the Xbox virtual keyboard when typing messages to other players or renaming pets.

- Ashen Winds Commendations: Ashen Bones and Captain of Ashen Bones now show that progress can be made by completing the stated criteria against skeletons or Phantoms.

- Cursed Sails Commendation: Scorched Skeletons now shows that progress can be made by completing the stated criteria against skeletons or Phantoms.

- Cursed Crews Commendations: The Curse of the Foul Grog, The Curse of the Dancing Demon, The Curse of the Black Viper, The Curse of the Sandman’s Revenge,

The Curse of the Fool’s Stride, Master of Cursed Iron and Legend of Cursed Iron now show that progress can be made by completing the stated criteria against skeletons or Phantoms.

- Subtitles should always be present during moments of dialogue, even after a screen resize.

- At Galleon’s Grave Outpost, Scarlett the shipwright’s name should now have consistent spelling.

- When a player is unable to access Daily Deeds in the Pirate Log, the error message should now read “There are no Events that can be shown right now”.

- The names of Merrick’s family members are now highlighted in yellow when players interact with them.

- The Master of Stronghold Spoils Commendation text should now fill the text box and be clearly readable.

- Descriptions for the Disgraced Merchant Alliance Hat and Disgraced Order of Souls Headband should now clearly show the correct Commendations required to unlock them.

- Improved client stability when interacting with the organ during the ‘Dark Brethren’ Tall Tale.

- Improved server stability, reducing scenarios where crews are removed from a game session.

- ‘The Art of the Trickster’: After navigating through the traps on Sailor’s Bounty and cancelling the Tale, players will no longer respawn in the trap tunnel when dying.

- ‘The Art of the Trickster’: Within the Trickster’s Lair, using a Mermaid Statue will now correctly return players to their ship.

- ‘Shores of Gold’: Barrels found in the trap tunnels and Throne Room no longer can contain cannonballs and wooden planks, and will always offer food to prepare crews for the encounter.

- The ship’s map table should now be hidden after joining a Tale already in progress or rejoining a session.

- When using a Wraith Statue to return to the correct location after using a checkpoint, players should now be facing the intended direction on arrival.

- If a crew’s ship has been sunk within the Sea of the Damned, the Wraith Statue will still allow players to return by spawning a new ship for them. This ensures that players can always cancel the Tale and return to the Sea of Thieves.

- When lighting a lantern that requires the Flame of Souls, the prompt should now say “Requires Flame of Souls to light”.

- In Dead Man’s Grotto, thick fog banks now visually cover the areas that players are unable to reach.

- The ghosts within Dead Man’s Grotto now fade in sooner so there is little or no delay, ensuring players do not miss them.

- The ghostly tankards should now correctly fade in alongside the ghosts in the broken lever room.

- The music now fades in and out naturally or starts again after passing over the first bridge to Sailor’s Grave then immediately walking back across.

- While exploring Sailor’s Grave, players should no longer be able to navigate around the rocks to access the treasure-laden ship before it is opened.

- Players far away from the lighthouse should now be able to see the movement of its light.

- Players should no longer be able to use a Rowboat to access the mysterious wreck before it is opened.

- Players should no longer be able to cross the bridge into Sailor’s Grave without using the beacon to raise the bridge mechanism.

- Upon locating the Cursed Captain’s Ship, players should no longer be able to make their way up the rocks to access the ship before it has been opened.

- There is no longer a pop sound before the Cursed Captain’s crew can be seen on the deck of the Cursed Captain’s ship.

- The Cursed Captain’s subtitles are no longer missing when the player collects the Cabin Key.

- After digging up Poor Dougie’s Chest, the prompt to use a key on the chest now correctly spells Dougie’s name.

- The collision on the chandelier in the Sailor’s Grave tavern now works as intended.

- Ghost pirates now populate the tavern in Sailor’s Grave when the Tale is started from a checkpoint.

- The tavern ghosts’ gunfire VFX and audio no longer continue playing in the Sailor’s Grave tavern after the ghosts have faded following the Ferry of the Damned’s arrival.

- Players should no longer respawn on the Ferry of the Damned after dying before they have boarded.

- Crews reaching the Ferry of the Damned can no longer interrupt the Ferryman’s speech and block progress by interacting with the Well of Fates.

- When interacting with the Prison Dog on the Ferry of the Damned, the prompt now correctly says “Take Brig Key”.

- Players should now be able to pick up the keys after putting them on barrels near Captain Jack Sparrow's cell.

- Audio effects now play when the Ferryman throws his sword and Jack picks it up.

- The prompt for closing the sarcophagi now says “Close” rather than “Open”.

- If the tunnel migration fails after the Tale is finished, subtitles for Jack Sparrow's dialogue no longer appear.

- The Reputation page should no longer be shown prior to unlocking the Tall Tale.

- Players should now see an appropriate prompt when approaching a pulley that has been previously disabled.

- During the Tall Tale, players should now receive pop-up notifications when reaching checkpoints.

- The water out of the stone faces should no longer restart each time you look away and look back.

- When engaging the Kraken, players are now more clearly directed to attack the head to defeat the foe. Attacking the Kraken’s tentacle will no longer cause it to visually react to damage or display a hit reaction.

- In the final phase of the Kraken encounter, dying and returning to the encounter no longer causes the tentacles to replay their entrance animation.

- The wooden board in the Silver Blade chamber is now attached to the ship rather than floating.

- There is no longer a hole in the terrain near the coral on the right-hand side of the Silver Blade room.

- There is no longer a gap under the one of the stone faces in the Siren Queen’s Throne Room that allows players to get out of the room.

- The fog no longer persists after joining during the Siren Queen fight when the water has been raised.

- Players will no longer hear constant drowning audio when entering water again after failing the Tale due to drowning.

- When joining a crew during the final phase of the Silver Blade fight, all other players will continue to animate correctly when moving.

- During the Silver Blade encounter, returning from the Ferry of the Damned or joining a crew in progress, players should no longer be unable to see the Kraken upon entering the room.

- After draining the second water level in the Shrine, the water splash visual effects are now aligned with the rising water level.

- Players are now given additional time in the Silver Blade chamber after defeating the Kraken to retrieve their treasure before being removed from the area.

- The Tale beacon now appears immediately when starting from the Tall Tale checkpoint.

- Starting the Tale from a Chapter 3 checkpoint and entering the Citadel that has been opened by another crew will no longer cause the Tale to fail if your Siren Heart Gem becomes lost.

- Players should no longer be launched to the water’s surface when swimming around the debris air pockets.

- If players go through the large Citadel door and swim back up to their ship before the door closes, they should now be able to use the Tale progress statue to get back into the Citadel.

- Players should no longer see any objects when looking through the window in the Citadel.

- If the Siren Queen is killed while disorientating a player, her death animation now plays alongside her voiceover.

- Players can continue the Tale from a Chapter 3 checkpoint even if the Citadel door is already open.

- The pulley in the Salvage Room should not have a delay when raising or lowering the shipwreck debris.

- Players should no longer be able to see the base of the air-giving plant at the Citadel exit.

- The ship’s map table is now hidden after joining a Tale already in progress or rejoining a session.

- Barrels found within the village will no longer offer players emergent Message in a Bottle Voyages.

- During the intro on Galleon’s Grave Outpost, Gibbs can now be seen leaving the tent through the curtain correctly.

- The player’s lantern will no longer change back to the normal colour after the Flame of Souls is taken from the shipwreck.

- In the return tunnel cutscene where the apparitions review the map, the map should now look ghostly and move correctly with the apparitions’ hands.

- The pop-up when receiving Jack’s Compass now reads “Jack’s Compass Received”.

- When players carry out the platform puzzle in the Isla Tesoro armoury while the cutscene is still playing, invisible collision will no longer knock players off the platforms.

- The Reputation page should no longer be shown prior to unlocking the Tall Tale.

- Players now see an appropriate prompt when approaching a pulley that has previously been disabled.

- Large waterfall visual and audio effects no longer play when the waterfall is inactive.

- In the final encounter, the timing of the music has been improved when Captain Jack Sparrow cuts down the cannons for players.

- During the organ sequence, Jack Sparrow no longer briefly appears in an incorrect location.

- The Dead Man’s Chest Key now sits properly in the lock when unlocking the chest.

- The Gold Hoarder’s Gem now appears in his hand when he returns from the fight.

- The right-hand Crab on the tilting mast now animates properly after the Gold Hoarder is defeated.

- When the Crab falls from the mast during the final encounter, supporting audio effects can now be heard.

- After dying in the Chamber of Sorrow, the music should now start when a player respawns.

- It is no longer possible to jump into the Shipwreck’s planks in the Shipwrecked Room.

- A small door behind a waterfall which Jack Sparrow opens for you now correctly shows the space beneath.

- It is no longer possible to jump onto inaccessible areas from coral in the Ritual Chamber or the Fortress.

- Players can no longer fire themselves up from a cannon to the suspended shipwreck in the Ritual Chamber.

- After starting from the Chapter 3 checkpoint, a floating Jack Sparrow should no longer be seen near the doors to the Chamber of Sorrow.

- After starting from the Chapter 3 checkpoint, when the shipwreck is lowered, Jack Sparrow should now appear correctly.

- Jack Sparrow no longer floats slightly above ground level when docked to the cannon to fire at Davy Jones in the Ritual Chamber.

- There is no longer a floating piece of coral in the large cave after the Shipwrecked Room.

- Jack Sparrow no longer intersects with the ground when coming out of the slide.

- Music in the ascending chamber should now play whenever the player is in there, regardless of whether or not the Sirens have been left alive in the lower chamber.

- Jack Sparrow’s legs no longer pass through the gold piles in the Ritual Chamber.

- Players can no longer become stuck and unable to escape from shipwreck debris outside the Coral Fortress.

- Players can now easily get back up to the raised platform near the entrance to the Ritual Chamber.

- Players no longer stutter after performing a jump from the shipwreck bridge while it’s still being raised.

- The statues that light up to show wave progress in Chapter 2 now illuminate correctly when a player joins an encounter already in progress.

- Players can no longer gain access to the Coral Fortress from outside by firing themselves from a cannon.

- Davy Jones will now comment when Ocean Crawlers board the player’s ship during the battle.

- Davy Jones will now comment when crews accidentally open fire on a friendly Ghost Ship during the battle.

- Davy Jones now has the correct voiceover lines when a player sails away before returning to the battle.

- After cancelling the Tale, players will no longer spawn in the air where the top of the Spire used to be.

- Players will no longer see the storm effect pop in when starting the Final Chapter close to the Spire.

- There is no longer a spelling error in the subtitles for Davy Jones’ dialogue line “She said those statues are invincible!”

- The Flying Dutchman should no longer be missing collision on the back of the ship.

- Dying during the last wave of Phantoms should no longer prevent the required key from appearing.

- When reaching the top of the Spire by using a cannon, appropriate subtitles are now shown for the VO lines.

- Upon reaching the top of the Spire, there should no longer be missing VO when opening the mysterious chest.

- Objects and treasure can now be placed correctly on the deck of the Black Pearl at the end of the Tale.

- When exploring the Black Pearl, wet audio effects should no longer be heard below deck.

- Crashing into the Black Pearl at the end of the Tale should now cause damage to the player’s ship.

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- zeitlichbegrenzte Abenteuer "Shrouded Island" ist vom 03.03.2022 bis zum 03.03.2022 verfügbar

Gameplay

- When progressing through Tall Tales or Siren Shrines, players approaching mechanisms previously used by other players will now see them in the correct location and position.

- When players sit in a Rowboat, interaction prompts for nearby seats and objects are no longer shown as they cannot be interacted with until the player stands.

- When players holding a Cargo Crate attempt to hand it in to the incorrect character, the tooltip now emphasises the correct hand-in location.

- Players who have been vomited on twice are no longer immune to fire damage.

- The achievements entitled A Rare Delicacy and Night Bite should now unlock when completing the required criteria.

- New pirates equipping a shovel for the first time will now be shown the Burying Items tutorial.

- Players can now redeem purchased commodities with the Merchant Alliance representative at Morrow’s Peak Outpost.

- Within the Settings menu, the ‘Swim Up’ controller binding should no longer display within the keyboard binding area.

Sunken Kingdom

- Players disconnecting and rejoining the game with treasure stored in a Sunken Merfolk Statue will now once again be able to retrieve it from the surface.

- Players searching for the Breath of the Sea will no longer find that it disappears if they take an extended amount of time to complete the Voyage.

- Retrieving treasure from a Sunken Merfolk Statue within the Treasury of Sunken Shores should no longer place items where players cannot retrieve them.

- Players should no longer find areas within the Treasury of the Lost Ancients where they can clip into the geometry and fall under the world.

- Players can no longer step through a small gap in the environment within the Treasury of the Lost Ancients to access the Vault early.

Environment

- The lantern hanging above the Sloop’s map table should no longer be accidentally used when players are attempting to interact with the map table.

- Players can now freely explore the ruined tavern at Golden Sands Outpost without becoming stuck on debris.

- Pirate Emporium audio effects can no longer be heard at Golden Sands Outpost.

- Graymarrow should no longer become stuck in a tree while navigating the Fort of the Damned.

- Skeletons should no longer become stuck in the geometry on Shark Fin Camp.

- Ashen Lords using lunge attacks should no longer be prone to getting stuck inside rocks.

- Players moving around the Sea Dog Tavern should no longer find themselves jittering on certain areas of flooring and stairs.

- Pets should now be able to move freely around the Pirate Legend Hideout without becoming blocked.

- Players should no longer be safe-teleported on Mermaid’s Hideaway when jumping into the environment.

- Improvements have been made to skeleton navigation on Keel Haul Fort to prevent skeletons becoming stuck within the environment.

- Grass should no longer be seen mysteriously poking through the floor and walls of various Outpost taverns.

- Players should no longer become stuck inside ruined trees on Morrow’s Peak Outpost or Ashen Reaches.

- Players opening Glitterbeard’s Hideout should no longer be snagged by the environment when moving inside.

- Swimming at various locations around Golden Sands Outpost should no longer cause players to intersect with geometry and be flung into the air.

- ‘A Pirate’s Life’: Players should no longer be able to bypass the sidequest to reach the locked ship and rewards inside.

- ‘Captains of the Damned’: Players following Captain Jack Sparrow through the village should no longer find themselves jittering when standing near him during his speech

- ‘Captains of the Damned’: Players should no longer find locations around the Spanish Fort in Chapter Two where they can become stuck.

- ‘Captains of the Damned’: Players can no longer become trapped between the roots of a tree in the Bayou.

- ‘Dark Brethren’: Players can no longer avoid the battle with the Ocean Crawlers by navigating over the coral structures in Chapter 4

Visual and Audio

- Players equipping the Ashen Curse should now find that their eyes correctly display the effects of this fiery curse.

- When players perform actions that can earn Seasonal Renown repeatedly, the UI notifications should no longer become stuck within the notification window.

- Pets no longer stop dancing if one musician in a band stops playing.

- Players will no longer experience rubberbanding when attempting to move diagonally with a keyboard while afflicted by a limp.

- When the Skeleton Fort at Shark Fin Camp is active, crews descending to the Shrine of Hungering should no longer hear overlapping music within the Shrine.

- The shop and vanity chest icons for the Eyepatch of the Silent Barnacle now better match the item’s colour scheme.

- Players of all body sizes holding a reversed speaking trumpet should now appear visually correct when observed by other players.

- After climbing inside the Notorious Reaper Cannons, other players should now see the player nestled snugly in the cannon.

- Siren Leaders in Siren Treasuries now play their death animation effects when defeated.

- ‘The Sunken Pearl’: The stone face waterfalls no longer have water visual effects pouring out of the side of the statues.

Accessibility

- When using ‘Let Games Read to Me’, the start screen should now be fully narrated.

Performance and Stability

- Server stability has been improved, reducing scenarios where crews are removed from a game session.

- zeitlichbegrenzte Abenteuer "Forts of the Forgotten" ist vom 24.03.2022 bis zum 07.04.2022 verfügbar

- zeitlichbegrenzte Abenteuer "Shrouded Deep" ist vom 21.04.2022 bis zum 12.05.2022 verfügbar

- zeitlichbegrenzte Abenteuer "The Forsaken Hunter" ist vom 30.06.2022 bis zum 14.07.2022 verfügbar

- zeitlichbegrenzte Abenteuer "A Hunters Cry" ist vom 18.08.2022 bis zum 01.09.2022 verfügbar

- Speicherverbrauch von 73,5 GB auf 73,3 GB reduziert (nur für Xbox Series X|S)

- Speicherverbrauch von 74,2 GB auf 74,0 GB reduziert (nur für Xbox Series X|S)

- zeitlichbegrenzte Abenteuer "The Sirens Prize" ist vom 15.09.2022 bis zum 29.09.2022 verfügbar

- Speicherverbrauch von 74,0 GB auf 73,7 GB reduziert (nur für Xbox Series X|S)

- zeitlichbegrenzte Abenteuer "The Herald of the Flame" ist vom 13.10.2022 bis zum 27.10.2022 verfügbar

- Speicherverbrauch von 74,5 GB auf 74,3 GB reduziert (nur für Xbox Series X|S)

- zeitlichbegrenzte Abenteuer "Return of the Damned" ist vom 03.11.2022 bis zum 17.11.2022 verfügbar

- Speicherverbrauch von 75,7 GB auf 75,5 GB reduziert (nur für Xbox Series X|S)

- zeitlichbegrenzte Abenteuer "The Rogues Legacy" ist vom 08.12.2022 bis zum 22.12.2022 verfügbar

- Crews should no longer encounter scenarios where a Legend of the Veil Voyage can fail due to a missing Quest Item that was safely stored on a ship.

- Crews should no longer find treasure seemingly disappears from their ship while sailing.

- Ship’s masts receiving damage should now consistently display cracks, clearly indicating the need to repair.

- When using an Xbox controller while playing on PC, if the controller disconnects during a session, players will now be able to reconnect it without issue.

- Crews are now prevented from joining a Faction while in the Devil’s Shroud or near the Shores of Gold. Crews are also prevented from starting the ‘Shores of Gold’ Tall Tale when aligned with a Faction.

- Crews who previously joined a Faction and headed deep into the Devil’s Shroud will no longer be considered a suitable target for the opposing Faction.

- Players repeatedly placing items into a Collector’s Chest will find it no longer raises their Treasure Grade.

- Players repeatedly docking Rowboats with treasure aboard will find it no longer raises their Treasure Grade.

- Crews should no longer encounter scenarios where their cannons are inaccessible after surfacing from beneath the waves.

- Crews reaching an Allegiance Streak of 4 should now consistently unlock the Nigh Unsinkable! achievement.

- Ships surfacing from the deep on a Brigantine or Sloop will now see the sea appear correctly as they breach the waves.

- Crews surfacing from beneath the waves to battle should no longer immediately encounter Barrels of Plenty in their ship’s path.

Crews can still encounter barrels during the encounter for restocking as before.

- Crews who have chosen a Faction are now prevented from entering the Tunnels of the Damned.

- Players leaving the Ferry of the Damned at the same time as losing a battle will now find they consistently arrive in a new server along with their ship.

- Crews successfully defending from an attacker will now be free to leave the fight at an Outpost, even if they have only recently chosen a Faction.

- Crews scuttling a ship as they are about to dive will no longer become stuck beneath the waves.

- Crews diving beneath the waves to find a rival crew should no longer experience visual issues when swimming into the depths.

- Crews diving beneath the waves for battle will now hear an improved ambient audio experience.

- Players are no longer able to navigate around the Pirate Legend Hideout to reach locked areas before they are eligible.

- The Rising Up and Thanks for the Boost Commendations have now been removed from the representative Factions.

The Concealed Upper Body skeleton cosmetic has now been moved and requires players to complete the Boo Be Gone Commendation in order to unlock it.

- Allegiance Streak visual effects can now be seen while travelling beneath the waves.

- Ships breaching the waves for battle will now see water rushing across the deck of the ship.

- Players experiencing the Blessing of Athena’s Fortune will no longer see a glimpse of any held weapons during the end of the sequence.

- Crews should no longer see duplicate Battle Banners appear if their rival leaves the game.

- Players performing emotes near the Pirate Lord in the extended Pirate Legend Hideout will no longer find their viewpoint becomes stuck.

- Crews who scuttle their ship at the same time as another is surfacing should no longer cause both ships to become stuck in battle.

- Players observing a member of their crew during the Blessing of Athena’s Fortune are now free to use the Vanity Chest without causing other players to become stuck.

- Players choosing to cancel matchmaking should no longer find their pirate unable to move for a short time.

- Players will be prevented from stepping off a docked Rowboat while travelling beneath the waves.

- Trinkets earned from participating in the Battle for the Sea of Thieves now correctly show the Milestone requirements.

- If a player joins a crew after a battle has been cancelled, parts of the ship no longer act as if underwater for the joining player.

- Crews cashing in an Hourglass of Fate following a battle will now find the ‘Gold Earned’ Milestones progress accordingly.

- Players’ hands no longer intersect with various torsos when using the Skeleton Clap Emote.

- The Milestones for earning Hourglass Value no longer refer to Sands of Fate on both the Pirate and Ship Milestones.

- Players should no longer see multiple Krakens or Megalodons while travelling beneath the waves.

- Captains sailing solo should no longer experience a scenario where they are informed that the Captain has left the session.

- Captains diving beneath the waves to battle should now consistently find their saved customisations such as ship liveries and decorations persist between sessions.

- Captains changing a Ship’s Banner should now see the new banner after leaving the Ship Customisation Chest.

- Disabling user-generated content from the Xbox settings should now replace other crews’ ship names.

- Harpoons on the Sovereign marquee can no longer become stuck to the platform they are on and cause the floor to shake.

- Crews discovering a Captain’s Logbook for a ship that is no longer on the server will now see a replaced ship name for it.

- Players will now see a failure message when attempting to buy ship stock from the shipwright if their ship has become too full.

- Repairing the King’s Ransom Wheel now shows the makeshift handles with the correct material.

- Players wielding the Splash Fight Eye of Reach will now see the correct visual effects within the stock.

- After killing a pig, snake or chicken, the audio effects for hitting them should no longer be heard repeatedly.

- ‘A Pirate’s Life’: The torches within Dead Man's Grotto will now light correctly when performing the required actions.

- ‘The Sunken Pearl’: When picking up the keys from the crab, the camera no longer moves into open water.

- ‘Dark Brethren’: During the intro to the final battle, Jack should no longer be seen floating in the air and his voice can now be heard.

- Players browsing the various deeds and story within the Adventures menu should now more consistently see the imagery refresh.

- Improvements to the Pirate Lord’s dialogue to correct punctuation and spelling.

- The Hourglass of Fate ‘Change Faction’ prompt is now localised across a range of languages.

- Players using ‘Voice Chat Push to Talk’ set to Toggle will now find the setting continues to function after migrating across servers or after hunting a rival crew beneath the waves.

- zeitlichbegrenzte Abenteuer "The Secrets Wilds" ist vom 19.01.2023 bis zum 02.02.2023 verfügbar

- Further improvements in this area have now increased the size of the matchmaking pools, allowing players to find more crews who have joined the fight.

These improvements work towards reducing matchmaking times and improving the suitability of skill-based matches.

- In the Battle for the Sea of Thieves, Athena’s Fortune Emissary Flags won from same Faction battles can now be handed to the Mysterious Stranger in return for gold and reputation.

This ensures that players can profit from same Faction battles as well as rival Faction battles.

- Player ships colliding with a Ghost Ship during an encounter will now result in reduced hull damage.

- Captains now have access to a new setting, providing creators with more control over their Ship’s Crest, Banner and Logbook. Captains enabling ‘Hide My Ship Name From Others’ will now find the ship’s name is replaced when their ship is viewed by any other player.

- The existing settings for replacing gamertags, ship names and Captains’ gamertags have all been renamed to improve consistency.

- The Outpost clothing shops now stock the Mauve Majestic Sovereign clothing set, available to purchase for gold.

- A selection of additional items have arrived at the Outpost clothing shops, giving pirates more options to customise their look.

The Cascade Hair, Twin Tails Beard and Ancient Ward Tattoo can now be purchased with gold.

- Countless pancakes are tossed, caught and eaten in the lands beyond the Devil's Shroud at this time of year, and pirates have decided they want in on the action.

- Set sail on the Sea of Thieves between February 17th and February 24th (10am UTC) to have the free Pancake Puzzler Emote delivered to your Vanity Chest, allowing you to join in with the pancake-flipping festivities! The catching, not so much...

- Continue to unlock even more cosmetics throughout Season Eight with Twitch Drops! Stay tuned to Sea of Thieves social channels to find out when Twitch Drops will be active for Partnered streamers, allowing players to earn Eastern Winds Sapphire items.

- Players attempting to stand on a barrel attached to a ship’s harpoon will now find they slip off into the water.

- Players using the ship’s harpoon while migrating across servers will now find the harpoon remains usable on arrival.

- Pirates travelling through the Tunnels of the Damned with a barrel attached to their harpoon will now find they can release the item and continue to use the harpoon when reaching their destination.

- Gunpowder Barrels aboard a ship will now be detonated by attacks from Ghost Ships, Megalodons and Krakens.

- Taking resources or fireworks from a crate and then using a Sunken Merfolk Statue to return to the ship will no longer refill the crate with items.

- The contents of storage containers will no longer revert to default values after migrating to a new server.

- Exclusive Athena’s Fortune items from the Legend of the Veil Voyage will now progress the Hider of Legendary Secrets Commendation.

- Dropping treasure off the side of the ship while sailing below the waves no longer causes the item to float away above the ship.

- Players can no longer beach their ship on an island during a battle to be moved outside the battle area.

- Dying when diving below the waves to hunt another crew will no longer cause the battle to fail for both crews.

- The Commendations entitled His Favourite Crew and Risk It All will no longer update when defeating a non-Champion ship.

- The Commendations entitled Quite the Collection and Souvenir! now display all requirements in their descriptions.

- Captains saving a livery, decoration or Trinket should now consistently find their saved customisations persist between sessions.

- Crews will no longer find their ship fails to release a Captain’s Logbook when sinking, even when the server already contains many Ruined Logbooks.

- When browsing the Shipwright’s shop, backing out of a shop type will now return to the previous page instead of closing the menu.

- After migrating to a different server, the ‘Placed by’ information for a Trinket will now show the correct gamertag.

- Players can no longer equip the same Trinket in multiple locations over the maximum limit.

- The Treasured Memento Mori will now appear in the Trinket Box after purchasing.

- Skeleton Orders found while doing a Fort of Fortune and then completed will now update the Pirate Milestone for Discovered Quests Completed.

- Pirates’ hands will no longer intersect with the Captain’s Logbook the first time players interact with it.

- Starting and cancelling Legend of the Veil Voyages should now ensure that treasure from Shipwreck Graveyards is removed from the world.

- The icon for the Mandrake Cannon Flare has been updated to its finalised form.

- Harpoons located at the Sovereigns will once again be able to fire down at all angles to retrieve treasure from the ships below without hitting an invisible surface.

- An active Skeleton Fort at Old Brinestone Fortress once again fires its cannons at ships on approach.

- Chests can no longer fall under a wooden platform outside the tavern at Sanctuary Outpost.

- Cycling through throwables using an assigned hotkey will no longer cause the cannonball section on a player’s radial to disappear.

- The ‘Disable Blur’ option now continues to function after travelling through the Tunnels of the Damned.

- ‘A Pirate’s Life’: The Cursed Captain’s skull will no longer appear to float if a player buries then digs him back up.

- ‘The Shroudbreaker’: The opening dialogue with the Mysterious Stranger is now present when starting the Tall Tale at New Golden Sands Outpost.

- Players whispering using the Speaking Trumpet while using non-verbal chat will now find their message is only sent a short distance, matching the distance of a whispered voice.

- When observing a pirate fishing, players should no longer see their arms move unnaturally across a range of body types.

- Pressure plate audio effects should no longer be triggered when moving around a specific location in the Pirate Legend Hideout.

- A spherical visual effect is no longer present when viewing patches of verdant growth at Marauder’s Arch.

- ‘Dark Brethren’: Text within the Quest Book now appears correctly across a range of languages.

- Further server optimisations made to reduce the frequency of server performance spikes, which can result in players experiencing lag spikes, rubberbanding and server correction during gameplay.

- Players on lower-performing hardware may notice a small improvement to the speed at which textures load in when approaching an island.

- Improved server stability to help prevent instances where using the harpoon could cause players to be disconnected from their session.

- Dazu zählt die dynamische Anpassung an Weltereignisse je nach Größe der Crew, wodurch ein fester Schwierigkeitsgrad entfällt.

Rare schraubt auch die zufälligen Begegnungen für Krake und Megalodon nach oben, sodass ihr auf diese Kreaturen öfter treffen werdet.

- Weiterhin werden verschiedene Aktivitäten wie Forts of Fortune neue Belohnungen für Spieler bereithalten, die das Gameplay der Sandbox lebendiger gestalten.

- Die Einsatzmöglichkeiten für Dublonen werden ebenfalls erhöht. Damit lassen sich Piratenlegenden-Reisen kaufen oder Kosmetika aus vergangenen Seasons.

- Players can no longer place items on the ship’s capstan, and any item placed here will now drop onto the deck.

- Players engaging in melee combat and blocking with a sword will now find the block consistently prevents the player from taking damage.

- Phantoms’ charging attack now has a reduced range, preventing players from taking damage when successfully dodging.

- Supply barrels jettisoned from a ship will now be more spread out, ensuring they do not intersect with each other when surfacing.

- Crews who remove all items from a washed-up Storage Crate and then leave the area will no longer gain additional resources when returning later to the same crate.

- Players rapidly removing resources from Storage Crates should now consistently remove the correct number of items.

- Crews diving beneath the waves will no longer bring the lit state of lanterns at the Fort of the Damned to their destination server. However, crews migrating naturally will continue to bring this state with them.

- Ships that dive below the waves looking for opponents should now be automatically repaired even when damaged prior to diving.

- Becoming a Servant Champion no longer unlocks the Become Pirate Legend achievement.

- Players who sneak on board another Faction ship and attempt to use a ship interactable as it dives beneath the waves will retain control when returning to their ship.

- Players will no longer be able to walk through the textures of a Sea Fort basement.

- Within the Pirate Legend Hideout, players should no longer be able to push through the environment and appear in the sea.

- The player’s camera will no longer intersect with environment set dressings in two seating spots within the Pirate Legend Hideout and Glorious Sea Dog Tavern.

- When a cutlass three-hit combo is performed, the defending pirate will now only visually react to three strikes, whether they’re blocked or successful.

- To prevent overlapping graphical issues, pets are no longer able to sleep on the ship’s bed.

- When performing the Oar-Inspiring Balance Emote, players zooming in with the camera will now keep their pirate in view.

- The ‘Disable Blur’ option now continues to work after travelling through the Tunnels of the Damned.

- Performing a weapon pose with the Infinite Depths Cutlass now shows the pirate’s hands in the correct location.

- Players rebinding their Secondary Interact and Primary Interact before sitting down can now continue to use the third-person camera.

- ‘Lords of the Sea’: Captain Jack Sparrow can no longer be seen floating above the ground during the cutscene for this Tall Tale.

- The prompt for the skeleton in the Store Room at Royal Crest Fortress has been made more descriptive for screen readers.

- The ‘Place Trinket’, ‘Restore My Ship’ and ‘Browse Captain’s Voyages’ prompts are now translated in all non-English languages.

- The ‘Show/Hide Tall Tale’ prompt on the ship’s map has now been translated into multiple languages.

- Corrected a spelling mistake after players finished ‘The Cursed Rogue’ Tall Tale.

- Reduced instances of server instability that cause players to be disconnected from their session.

- Players are no longer mistakenly issued with a placeholder belt when launching the game, and those who received it will now find it has been removed from their inventory.

- Gain Madame Olivia’s approval within the Order by saving up for a selection of clothing, weapons and equipment now in stock at the Outpost shops.

- The damage required to defeat Captain’s Ships and the Burning Blade during a Ghost Fleet encounter has now been reduced.

- The number of Wraith Cannonballs rewarded for completing the encounter has now been increased.

- Ashen Voyages purchasable from the shipwright no longer have a Trading Company reputation requirement, allowing all Captains access to these new Voyages delivered in Season Nine.

- Players using ‘Let Games Read to Me’ now have additional control within the Settings Menu to adjust the speed of the narration.

This will allow players to set a speed that is the most convenient and comfortable for them.

- Supply barrels jettisoned from a ship will no longer sink while players are nearby.

- Supply barrels harpooned onto a ship will no longer disappear when sailing away from the area where they were collected.

- Players are no longer able to bypass the purchase limit at the shipwright and retrieve multiple supplies.

- Crews are now granted the correct Emissary Grade progression when bringing treasure onto their ship using a harpoon.

- Players below deck caught by the blast from a Trident of Dark Tides as it hits the outside of the ship’s hull will now take reduced damage as intended.

- Rowboats containing treasure will no longer leave items floating in the air when undocked from the Sovereigns’ dock.

- When taking part in a Skeleton Fleet battle, player ships in close proximity to each other will no longer prevent the fleet from appearing from the depths.

- Players discovering the Chest of Legends at the final dig site during a Search for Cursed Treasure will now find the Voyage completes as intended.

- Pirates are now prevented from retrieving multiple Voyages from a Mysterious Journal.

- ‘A Pirate’s Life’: Crews are now prevented from using the cage key on a nearby door, which would block them from being able to complete the Tall Tale.

- ‘Revenge of the Morningstar’: Crews are no longer rewarded when cashing in the Skull of Captain Douglas or Chalice of Resurrection.

- Crewmates who join during a battle and are held on the Ferry of the Damned are no longer awarded Allegiance when the battle ends.

- Players who lose a battle while on the Ferry of the Damned should no longer encounter the rare scenario where they appear beneath the waves after returning from the Ferry.

- Further improvements made to saving ship customisations, reducing scenarios where Captains saving a livery, decoration or Trinket would result in their chosen customisations not persisting between sessions.

- A Captain's Logbook will now maintain a consistent record of events after migrating across servers.

- Players should no longer find that events recorded in a Logbook found floating at sea suddenly become blank after reading.

- A Captain's Logbook will now retain its customised appearance after being placed in a Collector’s Chest, or after being dropped and picked up.

- A Captain's Logbook will now show the correct events pages after being placed in a Collector’s Chest.

- Players holding a Captain's Logbook will no longer be offered the option to retrieve treasure from a Collector's Chest.

- Players are now able to preview the King’s Ransom Crown on their pirate while browsing the Emporium.

- The glowing eyes on the Frostbite Figurehead are now much more visible at a distance.

- Pirates can no longer intersect with the environment within the basements of Sea Forts.

- Within the Pirate Legend Hideout, pirates should no longer be able to push through the environment into the sea.

- Pets can now follow players around the new areas of the Pirate Legend Hideout.

- ‘Shores of Gold’: Players are no longer able to bypass the traps and reach the Gold Hoarder’s vault by passing through the environment.

- ‘A Pirate’s Life’: Rocks found within the tunnels that lead to Sailor's Grave now appear correctly.

- Players on lower-spec hardware should no longer experience graphical issues or missing UI imagery after leaving a session and quickly joining a new session.

- After raising and lowering an Emissary Flag, bringing up a radial menu should no longer show an active Emissary.

- After switching categories within the shipwright’s Voyage shop, players making a purchase will no longer find the category is reset.

- Storage Crates for single resources such as Cannonball Crates no longer display additional UI elements within the storage limits space.

- Browsing the Trials section within the Pirate’s Log now correctly displays the selected page.

- The name of a player's pet is now displayed correctly in the chat notification pane.

- When enabling the extended audio range of sea rocks to improve sailing audio cues, players using headphones will no longer hear audio effects in both ears at the same time.

- Players using ‘Let Games Read to Me’ will no longer hear punctuation narrated within the Custom Server menus.

- Players using ‘Let Games Read to Me’ will no longer hear incorrect or repeated narration while navigating the ‘Info and Tips’ section.

- When boarding a ship from the sea, players are no longer able to muffle the boarding audio effects by grabbing the ladder while aiming down sights, ensuring nearby players will always hear someone boarding from the ocean.

- Pirates striking another ship with cannon fire will no longer hear other game music quieten for an extended period.

- Players shooting, sprinting and aiming in quick succession with an Eye of Reach should no longer encounter rare scenarios where the weapon animation becomes stuck and prevents aiming down sights.

- When a Skeleton Fleet battle is active, players moving around The Reaper's Hideout will no longer hear the audio effects cutting out.

- After speaking with various characters found across the world, players leaving the conversation will now hear the correct ending phrase.

- Equipping the Lucky Hand Dress no longer causes a pirate’s tattoos to appear cut off.

- The Sweet Treat Capstan now blends more seamlessly with the pool of chocolate when being raised and lowered.

- The Mysterious Stranger will now consistently appear at the intended level of detail when visited in the tavern.

- Players with a buried treasure map will now see the correct iconography on the map after migrating servers.

- All ‘Vote to Scuttle’ options within the Settings Menu no longer display debug text strings and are translated to all non-English languages.

- The description for the Fortune's Favour Commendation has now been corrected to reflect that handing in the Chest of Fortune at a variety of locations will still count towards progressing the Commendation.

- Players attempting to equip invalid decorations to a Sloop will now see a translated error message in the player’s preferred language.

- The Emissary tutorials now mention that Doubloons as well as gold and reputation are increased based on Emissary Grade when selling items as an Emissary.

- When players speak to Larinna, she will now mention the new features introduced as part of Season Nine.

- Improved server stability to reduce instances where players are disconnected from their session.

- Show off your allegiance to the Alliance with a new range of clothing items, weapons and equipment

- Crews defeated during the Battle for the Sea of Thieves are now free to purchase Captain’s Supplies or Merchant Supplies upon arrival at the Outpost, even if one in-game day has not yet passed

- Crews diving beneath the waves to battle rival ships will no longer find themselves battling in storm conditions.

- Within the Settings menu, players now have access to a ‘Report a Player’ option, allowing them to directly report another player to the Sea of Thieves Support team for possible moderation and action.

- This reporting tool allows players to be reported for inappropriate gamertags, ship names and pet names.

- Once the report has been completed, players will be shown a list of players who they have been in the vicinity of in the last few hours to enable the report to be targeted at a specific player.

- Continue to unlock cosmetics throughout Season Nine with Twitch Drops! Stay tuned to Sea of Thieves social channels to find out

when Twitch Drops will be active for Partnered streamers, allowing players to earn a selection of items from the Eastern Winds Ruby set.

- Find out how to link your accounts and more on our dedicated Twitch Drops page.

- Pirates swimming to a ship in choppy waters are no longer able to use a ship's cannons, harpoon or Map Table to board directly from the water.

- Pirates striking an enemy threat with a harpoon will once again deal a small amount of damage.

- On discovering a Shipwreck Graveyard during a Legend of the Veil Voyage, players who previously opened the Captain's Quarters will still be able to access that area even after server migration.

- During a Ghost Fleet encounter, crews at a distance from the battle will no longer find that ships disappear while attempting to move to the crew’s position.

- Players are now able to complete the Ocean Epicurean Trial when fulfilling the required criteria.

- Players attempting to sell a Trident of Dark Tides while aiming it will no longer be prevented from aiming other weapons once sold.

- Voting on the Hourglass of Fate will now clear the Captain’s Table of any placed Tall Tale Checkpoints.

- Players will no longer see a ‘Quest Received’ notification when diving below the waves looking for an opponent.

- Solo players forcefully disconnecting from a session while travelling beneath the waves will now find their battle cancelled and arrive on a random island back at sea.

- The win streak UI now appears consistently even if the player force-closes the game and rejoins the session.

- When diving beneath the waves, players will no longer see strange light blue underwater visual effects in the distance prior to fading to black.

- A Captain’s Logbook placed inside a Collector’s Chest no longer loses its cover customisation.

- The Taker of Stolen Stock Commendation now progresses when commodities are sold to Sovereigns.

- Improvements have been made to the Captain’s Logbook to avoid instances where the text and images inside the Logbook overlap or intersect with each other.

- Players will now travel in the intended direction when fired from a Brigantine cannon with the Sawbones Cannons equipped.

- The Sawbones Jacket and Belt will now appear ghostly when equipping the Blessing of Athena’s Fortune.

- The iconography for the Sawbones Collector’s Sail now matches the equipped sail.

- The Sawbones Trinket is now centred correctly and lit from above when placed on a ship.

- The Sawbones Collector’s Figurehead when equipped on the Sloop will no longer display liquid through the vial corks, and will swing more noticeably.

- Players can no longer get stuck when traversing the dry dock area at Port Merrick.

- Players will no longer be able to see the waterline when jumping at either end of the dry dock at Port Merrick.

- The lanterns present at the back of the Order of Souls building at Port Merrick are now lit.

- Players can no longer intersect with the environment within the Sea Fort basements.

- Items can no longer become lost if placed on a table in the Merchant Alliance area at Port Merrick.

- Characters at Port Merrick will now be seen when approaching from a distance and will no longer pop into view.

- The cannon at the south-east of Port Merrick now launches pirates in the correct direction.

- An icon will now appear next to a pirate’s name indicating they are carrying treasure after picking up a Stronghold Key.

- The beacon from the Reaper’s Chest or Reaper’s Bounty will now continue to be visible after harpooning the chest off a ship.

- The atmospheric effects that signify a Ghost Fleet encounter have been improved, ensuring the event is visible from across the waves.

- Pirates striking a Ghost Ship, Skeleton Ship or Megalodon with cannon fire will no longer hear other game music quieten for an extended period.

- Players will consistently see the visual effects for an active lantern during the Fort of the Damned, even when returning after death.

- During the Ghost of Graymarrow fight, the correct visual effects will now be shown at his feet when teleporting.

- Players with the Wandering Reaper Flag or Inevitable Reaper Flag equipped will now find that when representing as an Emissary, the Emissary Flag now attaches correctly.

- Pirates’ bodies will no longer become invisible when equipping the Order of Souls Shirt and an open jacket.

- When pirates are observed climbing ladders or sitting while holding the Skull of Destiny, the skull will retain its correct visual appearance.

- When holding a pet underwater (you monster), air bubbles now appear from the animal’s mouth.

- At Galleon’s Grave Outpost, the coastline audio is now heard at the correct volume.

- Improved server stability to reduce instances where players are disconnected from their session.

- ‘The Sunken Pearl: Improved server stability when migrating during this Tall Tale.

- Players will no longer receive Emissary Grade progression when placing Red Herrings on board their ship.

- Players will now see their previously earned Allegiance at the correct level. This issue was purely visual, and no Allegiance earned has been lost.

- Improvements have been made to localisation for those playing through Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island in languages other than English.

- Improved client stability for lower-spec hardware across general gameplay to reduce scenarios where players may exit the game unexpectedly.

- The Legend of Monkey Island: "The Quest for Guybrush" ist ab sofort verfügbar

- Neues Event "Wish You Were Here" ist gestartet und ist ab dem 15.09.2023 bis zum 21.09.2023 verfügbar

- Pirates entering the water or setting foot on islands should no longer find themselves set upon by emergent threats so quickly.

Lingering in the water and sauntering around islands will still result in an ambush sooner or later, but not at the same frequency as before.

- After returning from the Sea of the Damned, pirates who drop treasure overboard will no longer find the items returned to their ship.

- While all ships continue to be afflicted by a curse once the Skull of Siren Song is on board, Galleons and Brigantines will now be further slowed by its effects.

- The Chest and Key recovered during the Voyage can now consistently be used together to unlock the Skull.

- Crews returning the Skull of Siren Song to Captain Briggsy should now consistently find that she is able to take the Skull and complete the Voyage.

- ‘Lords of the Sea’: Players are now prevented from taking Skull of Siren Song Voyage items into the Siren Spire during this Tall Tale.

- Crews who have engaged in an Hourglass battle will now be able to participate in the Skull of Siren Song Voyage, but will experience a grace period after their battle before the note is delivered.

- Players in larger crews should no longer receive multiple ‘Quest Received’ notifications when starting the Skull of Siren Song Voyage.

- Players are now prevented from burying Voyage items that had only been partially uncovered.

- Improved game stability to reduce scenarios where players experience an unexpected exit from the game.

- Lost Shipments and Prized Merchant Alliance Commission Voyages are once again available for purchase.

- Crews taking on a Lost Shipments Voyage should now encounter the correct number of Merchant Crates when unlocking the Captain’s Cabin.

- Players who are part of a Guild that has unlocked Guild clothing rewards are once again free to wear the rewards when sailing as part of any other Guild, or outside a Guild session.

- Improved server stability to avoid instances of players being disconnected from their session.

- Players now have further control over the hit markers shown when striking targets with a projectile weapon.

The game settings now enable switching from the existing client-predicted markers to server-confirmed markers, which only display hits confirmed directly by the server for improved accuracy.

- A new Order of Souls Bounty Voyage has been added which tasks crews with hunting a Skeleton Lord that drops Dark Relics.

- A new Ghost Ship Voyage within The Devil’s Roar is now available from the Order of Souls.

- Bounty contracts now provide the landmark location of the target along with the island to help guide players to the correct location.

- The difficulty of all Bounty Voyages has been rebalanced to make them more satisfying to play.

- Emissary Voyages have been improved for each Trading Company with a focus on reduced sailing times and

smaller quantities of higher-value treasure to transport, refreshing the gameplay and delivering improved rewards for participation.

- Upon reaching Emissary Grade V for a Trading Company, crews can now head to Morrow’s Peak Outpost and

speak to their Company representative for an Emissary Voyage in The Devil’s Roar that will yield Ashen-themed rewards.

- Emissary Voyages are now lost if the ship sinks or the Emissary Flag is lowered at the Outpost.

- Delivery notes on cargo now provide care instructions which help players to protect their valuable goods.

- Cargo Run Quests now remind players how many items need to be collected and where to collect them,

ensuring they pack all necessary items before setting sail. Supporting information is also now shown on the delivery note.

- Cloth Crates being held while swimming on the surface will no longer become drenched.

- Contracts to recover specific animals now show players which island they need to head to in order to fulfil the contract.

- Crews now recover the required Animal Crates from the beaches on the contracted island.

- All requested animals are now guaranteed to be found on the contracted island, including the various rarities.

- Crews will no longer trigger emergent skeleton encounters on their contracted island, to reduce scenarios where animals are caught in the crossfire.

- Contracts now complete when the crew returns them to the Outpost, rather than upon catching the animals on the island.

- Treasure Vaults now scale the available raiding time to the size of the crew – the smaller the crew, the more time to collect the treasure.

- Treasure Vault Quests now send crews to the nearest possible Vault once the Totem is recovered.

- The braziers surrounding the Vault’s altar are now extinguished over time as an indicator of how long the crew has left before the door slams shut.

- Skeleton encounters across the emergent world and on Voyages have been rebalanced, providing a more fun encounter with these bony fiends.

- Ambush skeleton groups now dynamically scale based on the size of the crew – the bigger the crew, the more ambush skeletons to fight!

- Players leaving the ship to explore islands will now only encounter Phantoms at night.

- Quests from a Message in a Bottle are now significantly more rewarding and likely more valuable than the Voyage already underway

- These Quests also have been refreshed with a focus on reduced sailing times and smaller quantities of higher-value treasure to transport, improving the overall experience.

- Defeating a Skeleton Captain now yields increased rewards and ammunition, with the potential to recover Reaper’s Chests and Reaper’s Bounty, Gunpowder Barrels and ammunition-stocked Resource Crates.

- Crews defeating an Ashen Guardian will now be rewarded with a map to an Ashen Chest on the same island along with a Key to unlock it, no longer requiring them to seek out a Key Master.

- Captains can now adorn the Bookshelf where their Voyages were once stored with Trinkets instead!

- Tutorial notifications have been added to a range of experiences to assist new players’ onboarding.

Quest archetypes, Tall Tales, Cargo Crates and even encounters with different skeleton forms now provide contextual tutorials.

- The Outpost clothing shops have received a new shipment of items from the Maestro set.

Players are now able to purchase the Maestro clothing after unlocking The Artistic Souls Commendation.

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

- Players can purchase the Wicked Web clothing set, along with a range of unique one-off items that were available during this Season.

Pirate Legends can also purchase the Cursed Adventurer Cutlass and Wanda’s Spyglass.

- The time-limited Siren’s Wrath items, however, remain exclusive to players who participated in Season Four.

- Cosmetic rewards earned by completing the various Commendations associated with the Skull of Siren Song Voyage can now be found in the respective Outpost shops along with their unlock criteria.

- With this change, upon unlocking the relevant Commendation, players will now be required to purchase the reward from the Outpost shop rather than having it automatically awarded.

- The parting sequence and passage through the Devil’s Shroud during the Maiden Voyage have received a suite of improvements to visual fidelity, enhancing the visuals of the Shroud itself and clarity of direction for players.

- Sea rocks have received a polish pass, with weathering and water marks now added to the bases of larger rocks to improve their blending into the sea.

- Crews will no longer find emergent Voyage parchments in barrels across the Sea of Thieves and will now find that barrels only contain resources.

- Crews will now lose emergent Voyages such as a Message in a Bottle if they dive to a new experience. Emissary Voyages will continue to be retained through diving.

- The Seeker of Lost Maps Title will now unlock via the Seeker of Pirate Plunder Commendation for the Bilge Rats.

- The Seeker of Lost Souls Title and ability to purchase the Order of Souls Cutlass, Pistol,

Blunderbuss and Eye of Reach from a Company representative will now unlock via the Worthy Emissary of Souls Commendation for the Order of Souls.

- The Merchant Adventurer Title will now unlock via the Taker of Stolen Stock Commendation for the Merchant Alliance.

- The Seeker of Athena’s Fortune Title will now unlock via the Worthy Emissary of Athena Commendation for Athena’s Fortune.

- The Legend of Thieves’ Haven Title will now unlock via the Retreat to the Thrones’ Haven Commendation for the Bilge Rats.

- The ability to purchase the Legendary Treasure Seeker costume from the Pirate Legend Hideout will now unlock via the Legendary Treasure Hunter Commendation for Athena’s Fortune.

- Seeker of Lost Maps: Dig up 250 chests whilst on Gold Hoarders X Marks the Spot Voyages.

- Merchant Adventurer: Fill 250 Animal Crates while on Merchant Alliance Cargo Run Voyages.

- Seeker of Lost Souls: Defeat 500 skeletons while on Order of Souls Bounty Voyages.

- Players who attempt to rapidly switch weapons after migrating across servers should no longer find themselves unable to wield the weapon and hear a repeated audio effect when attempting it.

- Players should no longer experience scenarios where their equipped items are reset after returning from the Ferry of the Damned or recovering from being stuck.

- The Fortress Storage Key and expected quantity of gold pouches should now consistently appear at Sea Forts.

- After migrating across servers, players are now able to access the shops at Seaposts.

- ‘The Legendary Storyteller’: All journals for this Tall Tale can now be read as intended.

- Unlocked Ship Milestone rewards such as Banners are now once again available for players to equip.

- Players placing the Skull of Siren Song in a Harpoon Rowboat dragged behind their ship will continue to be affected by its curse.

- Crews who harpoon the open chest with the Skull of Siren Song still inside will now bring the curse’s effects onto their ship along with the Chest and Skull.

- Players are no longer able to opt in to the Skull of Siren Song Voyage after the Skull has been revealed.

- Crews in a Guild session without the Captain present will now see Ship Milestone progress within the Guild Chronicles.

- Earned Guild clothing can now be equipped in any session and is no longer locked to sailing for the Guild that unlocked access to it.

- Using a spyglass to observe a Guild ship at range should now consistently display the appropriate Guild name on the Banner.

- The correct Guild name should now show consistently on the Guild Emissary Table, Logbook, Guild Plaque and Guild Invite Emote.

- Players can now head up to the Mansion as soon as the guard leaves his post, and are no longer blocked by parts of the environment.

- When players have constructed a body for Murray, any players joining the session after the initial sequence will now be able to see Murray’s body.

- Players will no longer see a silhouette of Walt the violin-playing skeleton through the church window.

- Players should no longer see a patch of mist on the stairs near the Lookout Point after the fog has cleared from the mountaintop.

- A Quest Book is now present during the ship chase sequence, giving players the option of leaving the Tall Tale during this section.

- Herman’s Supply Crate will no longer appear to move around while the player is viewing it.

- The front-facing cannons on the Headless Monkey now have more restricted movement to prevent issues with aiming.

- Liquids in the cooking pot now appear to drain correctly when collecting Banana Grease.

- The notification shown to players when the Chilled Banana Soup has been discovered or lost now references the correct item.

- Players should now find a new sea rock near K11, a common location for mysteriously wrecked ships.

- The Rowboat dock underneath the tavern on Port Merrick is now fully functional.

- Players can no longer become stuck on the palm tree near the Order of Souls tent at Morrow’s Peak Outpost.

- Players can no longer fall through certain areas of the environment around the Treasury of Sunken Shores.

- Chests placed near the doorway of the Vault at Kraken Watchtower will no longer disappear through the floor.

- Players’ legs will no longer appear to merge into the tower structure when using the sitting spots at Skeleton Forts.

- If a player safe teleports while inside the Treasury of Sunken Shores, they will now be placed in a suitable location.

- Placing treasure in various Sea Fort windows will no longer cause the item to fall into the environment.

- The barrel at the shipwright’s shop in Port Merrick no longer appears to merge into the hanging platform.

- ‘Shores of Gold’: Players will no longer be able to walk through parts of the environment inside the various caves.

- Players wearing the Soaring Oracle Costume should no longer see equipped jackets showing through the costume.

- Visual improvements have been made to the constellations on the Lodestar weapons.

- Players with the Order of Souls Hook equipped will now find that they grip the ship’s wheel correctly.

- The Snapping Shark Emote and Shark Dance Emote now appear with different icons to avoid confusion.

- The Sovereign Ship’s Crest will now attach correctly when equipped on a Brigantine.

- The light given off by the Magpie’s Glory Lantern now shines in the correct location.

- Fog will now appear as intended when entering the Vault at Molten Sands Fortress.

- ‘Captains of the Damned’: Pirates in the bayou now hold the candles correctly.

- The Stand to Attention Emote no longer has a placeholder title and description in the Vanity Chest.

- When speaking to Zharick at Brian’s Bazaar, the dialogue will no longer refer to Golden Sands.

- ‘The Legendary Storyteller’: The 'Fish Friends' puzzle in the Quest Book no longer refers to Golden Sands.

- ‘A Pirate’s Life’: Captain Jack Sparrow’s name is now present within his subtitles when escaping from the Ferry of the Damned.

- ‘Fate of the Morningstar’: The Ferryman's intended subtitles now appear while he is speaking.

- Ongoing improvements made to server stability to reduce instances where players are disconnected from their session.

- Improved game stability to reduce scenarios where players experience an unexpected exit from the game.

- Today's hotfix primarily addressed server stability concerns along with some cosmetic and localisation issues.

Achievements have also been reactivated, excepting the new Season 11 achievements which will remain deactivated for now.

Players on PC are encouraged to update to the latest graphics drivers to ensure the best compatibility and performance.

- Sea of Thieves now supports DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 where supported by the hardware.

While the title will now auto-detect and optimise the experience, players can also choose within the game settings.

- General client performance improvements should be seen throughout the experience, with PC players seeing the largest improvements.

- While players on console and the Microsoft Store will experience a large initial download, regular game updates moving forwards will now be considerably smaller.

- The Voyage of Legends and Ashen Voyage of Legends have now been refreshed, providing a shorter session experience and consistently delivering rewards for the Athena’s Fortune Trading Company.

- While diving to a Raid Voyage will continue to reward crews with a concentrated number of high-value items, making the spoils easier to carry than numerous lower-value items, the total quantity and value of items awarded and their visual impact have now been slightly increased following player feedback.

- Crews completing Raid Voyages for the Athena’s Fortune Trading Company will now find that only Athena’s Fortune treasure is awarded.

- Guild Reputation will now be earned by taking part in the Skull of Siren Song Voyage when this is active on the server.

- Crews can earn a modest amount of Guild Reputation when selling an empty Chest of Siren Song, and a significant boost to Guild Reputation when handing in the Skull of Siren Song to Briggsy.

- Players starting an Athena’s Fortune Emissary Voyage in The Devil’s Roar will now be further rewarded with an Ashen Chest of Legends upon completion.

- The Ashen Winds Skull no longer loses value by being used. Fire away, pirates!

- All Tall Tales across the Shores of Gold arc, Sea of Thieves: A Pirate’s Life and the recently released Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island are now unlocked and can be played freely in any order.

- Could the water look any better? When viewed from a distance, the surface of the water now appears smoother, improving its appearance.

- The Outpost equipment shops have received a new shipment of instruments from the Maestro set!

- From Saturday, February 24th to Monday, February 26th (11am UTC), all pirates are welcome to set sail and join in our latest Community Weekend with free gifts to snap up, Twitch Drops to claim, player stories to share and more glorious Pop-Up Plunder!

- As always, raising the Community Emissary Grade (by tuning in to streamers within the Sea of Thieves category on Twitch) will unlock gold, reputation, Seasonal Renown, Allegiance and Guild Reputation boosts for all players.

- Crews purchasing Supply Crates from the Merchant Alliance should find that if a player is unable to retrieve a crate, a crate is now provided on the next attempt.

- Crews purchasing Captain’s Supplies from the shipwright should now consistently find their supplies delivered to their ship.

- Pirate Legends speaking to the Pirate Lord should now consistently be able to access the Athena’s Fortune Trading Company shop.

- Crews diving to a Voyage should no longer find other crews already taking part in the encounter on arrival.

- Crews diving to a Raid Voyage and then cancelling the Voyage will no longer gain rewards in addition to those the Voyage would usually offer.

- The Legendary Herald Costume now unlocks at the intended level, Athena’s Fortune 100.

- Players completing the Trading Company Tutorial Voyages will now earn the intended reputation for the Company.

- Tridents will no longer grant Emissary Grade progression when brought on board a ship.

- Players speaking to the Servant of the Flame after reaching Allegiance level 100 will no longer incorrectly unlock the Become Pirate Legend achievement.

- Completing Medley Voyages will now increase the relevant Captaincy Milestones.

- Treasure sold from within a Collector’s Chest will now consistently progress associated Commendations.

- Grade 5 Emissary Voyages from The Devil’s Roar will now consistently provide locations within The Devil’s Roar.

- Players will once again discover Gold Pouches and the elusive Store Room Key within Sea Forts prior to defeating the Captain.

- Diving to a Sea Fort on behalf of a Trading Company will now award the correct number of treasure items within the Treasury and Store Room.

- The correct treasure types will now appear in Skeleton Fleet and Athena’s Fortune Sea Fort Raid Voyages.

- The Golden Voyager Commendation will now progress when finishing the Gold Hoarders Tutorial Voyage.

- Players taking on the Trading Company Tutorial Voyages with other players will now find that tutorial notifications progress for all crew members.

- The Commendations for earning a Company Distinction will now be earned at the correct level.

- Skeletons inhabiting Siren Shrines will now take the correct number of hits to defeat.

- The Ashen Mariner of Guilds Commendation now increases when completing Ashen Voyages and meeting the required criteria.

- ‘Shores of Gold’: Crews who do not take the Gold Hoarder’s Coin from the Compass Vault will no longer become stuck when the door eventually closes, and are able to interact with the medallions and reopen the door.

- ‘The Cursed Rogue’: It is no longer possible to sell the Skeleton Key to the Gold Hoarders.

- ‘Heart of Fire’: Emergent encounters with enemies will continue to occur after starting the Tall Tale.

- Skeletons defending Shark Fin Camp should no longer become stuck on platforms.

- Players can now manoeuvre a Cannon Rowboat underneath the gate at Shark Fin Camp.

- Players will no longer intersect with the coffins near the Bonesmith in The Reaper’s Lair.

- Players will no longer be able to pass through the environment within the Shrine of the Coral Tomb.

- Sloops will no longer collide unnaturally with the Sovereigns’ jetty at Dagger Tooth Outpost.

- Players should no longer find themselves returned to their ship when attempting to use the lift in The Reaper’s Lair.

- Players will no longer become stuck within the environment in areas of the Shrine of Hungering.

- Players will no longer find themselves getting stuck on the trees near the fish statue at Shark Bait Cove.

- ‘The Lair of LeChuck’: Players will no longer intersect with the statues on Monkey Island.

- ‘The Lair of LeChuck’: Players will no longer find themselves launched into the air when walking near the rock ladders by the stockade on Monkey Island.

- Crew members taking damage will now show the correct Crew Status icon in their nameplate.

- The Sunken Kingdom Voyage now correctly displays the appropriate icons to indicate the Voyage length.

- Visual improvements have been made to Company-specific notifications when diving below the waves to take on a Trading Company Voyage.

- Improved background imagery is now used when a Trading Company promotion is available.

- When progressing from level 100 to Distinction 1 within a Trading Company, the UI animation will now appear correctly.

- References to Old Boot Fort have been removed from maps within the Emissary Tutorial.

- The correct battle music will now be heard during the battle while on the Order of Souls Tutorial voyage.

- Players should no longer see their hands moving inside the Paradise Garden Eye of Reach while reloading.

- The Swashbuckling Story Emote should no longer cause larger players’ arms to bend unnaturally when performed.

- During Trading Company Tutorial Voyages, the Voyage completion music should no longer overlap with the outro music.

- Players of all sizes should now see their thumb correctly gripping the handle of the Boarhunter Blunderbuss.

- The Scrolls of Charted Waters should no longer intersect when placed on the ground.

- The Scrolls of Shrouded Waters should no longer intersect with a Collector’s Chest when placed inside.

- Crews uncovering the treasure during an Order of Souls Siren Treasury Raid Voyage will now find the skulls arranged in the correct direction.

- Players interacting with the map in the Chronicler’s room of the Pirate Legend Hideout should now stand on the ground correctly.

- ‘Dark Brethren’: Captain Jack Sparrow will now be facing the correct direction when players talk to him.

Monkeys wearing the Outfit of Plenty will no longer experience issues where the outfit intersects with parts of the body.

- When aiming the Cronch Pistol, shots fired now more accurately line up with the barrel.

- Players should no longer see their hands moving inside the Sawbones Blunderbuss.

- The Hoarder Reliquary will no longer intersect with the player’s hand when held.

- If players place down more than one proposal on the Quest Table, the second proposal no longer overlaps with the Hourglass of Fate.

- A sweep across all non-English languages has been completed to address inconsistencies with terminology used across a range of items, locations and characters.

Some incorrectly localised location names and types have now been returned to English for consistency.

- Instances of overlapping and truncated text have been addressed in Quest Books across a range of Tall Tales and Bounty Maps issued by the Order of Souls in non-English languages.

- The Saviour of Siren Song Commendation no longer displays placeholder text within the Pirate Log.

- The description for the Lord of Gold Commendation should now display the correct unlock requirements.

- The Merchant Alliance Company shop should now display correctly in non-English languages.

- The Crate of Elegant Cloth no longer appears with placeholder text in the name.

- The description for The Legendary Guardian Title now states the correct Pirate Alignment.

- The description for the My Booming Bones Commendation now appears correctly after unlocking it.

- Crews leaving the game while diving to an experience should no longer cause server instability.

- Improved game stability to reduce scenarios where players experience an unexpected exit from the game.

- Improved server stability to avoid instances where players are disconnected from their session.

- Speicherverbrauch von 91,4 GB auf 88,4 GB reduziert (nur für Xbox Series X|S)

- Sea of Thieves is now protected by Easy Anti-Cheat, the industry-leading anti-cheat solution designed by Epic Games to identify and address instances of hacking and cheating in multiplayer games.

- This anti-cheat solution will be updated outside of Sea of Thieves’ regular update schedule to keep in sync with cheat developers.

- Players who own a copy of Sea of Thieves are now able to experience Safer Seas solo without needing an Xbox Game Pass Core or Ultimate subscription.

- While this addition introduces a truly single-player experience without a subscription for the first time in Sea of Thieves, this is not an offline experience and is still connected to servers hosted in the cloud.

- Players summoning the Virtual Keyboard inside the game will now find that a range of new languages are supported: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Korean and Russian.

- Players will now experience a Message of the Day when arriving in the front end menu, highlighting current Season features, upcoming content and other exciting news within the world of Sea of Thieves.

- The Adventures tab has been hidden from the Quick Menu for a more streamlined navigation experience.

- The in-game Report a Player tool has now been extended, providing players with easy access to a web-based route for making a more detailed report through the Sea of Thieves Support site.

- While players on console and the Microsoft Store will experience another large download this month, regular game updates moving forwards will now be considerably smaller.

- A range of older ship collections are moving into a Classics range within the Emporium, and will be permanently reduced in price.

Further sets will be added to the range in future after being available in the game for a number of years.

- The Classics range currently includes 15 fan-favourite ship sets including the Cutthroat, Sea of Sands and Bear & Bird collections.

- The Outpost shipwrights have received a new shipment of items from the Maestro set. Players are now able to purchase Maestro ship parts after unlocking The Artistic Souls Commendation.

- The Outpost shops now offer items from the Flourishing Wild Rose set, with ship parts along with the Heavy Sword and Rapier available after unlocking the Always Yours Commendation.

- For those wishing to collect further items from the Wild Rose and Thriving Wild Rose sets, the Heavy Swords and Rapiers are now available after unlocking the Always Yours Commendation.

- The Outpost clothing shops also offer a range of new beards and hairstyles, with the Wild Rose Waxed Hair, Floral Hair and Beard along with the windswept Sweeping Hair.

- Crews diving to an experience or Faction battle and surfacing alongside another ship should no longer encounter issues where items on board their ship become non-interactable.

- After losing a battle with an emergent Skeleton Ship or Megalodon, players will now receive a longer rest period before being attacked again.

- The frequency of sharks appearing when players set foot in the water has now returned to normal levels.

- Improved directional stick input detection on controllers and returned dead zone and response curve controls.

- Console players can once again use a mouse and keyboard with full compatibility.

- Sailor’s Knot Stronghold becoming a Skeleton Fort or Fort of Fortune encounter will now consistently be defended by skeletons.

- Players will no longer find treasure from a Sea Fort or Siren Shrine reappears after leaving and returning to a cleared area.

- Diving to an Athena’s Fortune Ashen Lord encounter will now consistently reward players with Athena’s Fortune treasure.

- The correct treasure will now be dropped from ships on Skeleton Fleet Voyages and after defeating an Athena’s Fortune Ashen Lord.

- Players can no longer use a Storage Crate to generate additional resources from their ship barrels.

- The Gold Hoarders Vault Voyage has been updated to prevent players from predicting the location of the treasure.

- All Raid Voyage Commendations now unlock consistently for the relevant Trading Companies on completion.

- The Pirate Lord will now be present at the end of the Order of Souls Trading Company tutorial.

- The first session tutorial will now show for all new players, but will be stopped once a player has interacted with the Quest Table or proposed a Voyage.

- Players are now able to interact with the shipwright when docked at the Sovereigns’ tent on Sanctuary Outpost.

- Quest notes will now be removed from a player’s inventory at the correct time after completing a Coral Message in a Bottle Voyage.

- Ammo Pouches left on board a sinking Skeleton Ship will now sink with the ship.

- Selling Dark Relics will now progress the Treasures Sold to the Order of Souls Captaincy Milestone.

- The Shrouded Ghost Figurehead will now be unlocked consistently when players have completed the Hunter of the Shrouded Ghost Commendation.

- Phantoms should now be able to hit stationary players with their lunging attack.

- Using the harpoon to bring treasure aboard during the Gold Hoarders tutorial will now continue to progress the Voyage.

- Two players performing the Make Friends Emote together will now summon the Add Friends menu as intended.

- Players will no longer find themselves being transported back to their ship when navigating around The Reaper’s Lair.

- Players will no longer find themselves becoming stuck in the rocks beneath the Glorious Sea Dog Tavern.

- Players will no longer find themselves falling through the environment when swimming near the pier at the Fort of the Damned.

- Players will no longer be able to swim in areas that do not contain water inside the Shrine of Ocean’s Fortune.

‘- Captains of the Damned’: Players will now consistently reappear in the correct place aboard the Silver Blade after returning from the Ferry of the Damned.

- ‘Captains of the Damned’: Tree foliage is no longer visible in the sky within the bayou.

- ‘A Pirate’s Life’: Plants will no longer appear distorted when viewed from a distance.

- The notification for a ship taking damage will no longer remain on screen after players have repaired the ship.

- A new tutorial notification has been added, prompting players to go to their Quest Table to access newly unlocked Voyages after claiming a relevant Trading Company promotion.

- Players are now consistently able to rename their ship without seeing an error message.

- When players unlock The Mysteries of the Sunken Kingdom Commendation, the notification now shows the correct place to purchase the quest from in future.

- Completing the Merchant Alliance tutorial no longer displays a banner about a lost Chicken Coop.

- Players can now left-click on the Discover panel to access the corresponding menu location.

- Promotion certificates have received a visual upgrade, fixing some text size and overlap issues and including glowing animations.

- All Commendation notification backgrounds are now themed to the appropriate Trading Company.

- When a Tall Tale is proposed on the Quest Table, the info card has been given an improved layout and now shows checkpoint status. This UI is also shown when interacting with a Tall Tale Quest Book in the world.

- Players diving to a Siren Shrine on behalf of the Order of Souls or Merchant Alliance will no longer see Gold Hoarder-themed imagery when taking gold from Collector’s Chests.

- When playing on Xbox Series X with a 120Hz Screen that either does not support HDR or HDR has been disabled, the Game Settings menu no longer shows HDR Brightness and Contrast settings.

- The prompt to use the Quest Table is no longer visible when a Voyage is active.

- Players should now consistently see their ship name adorning their Ship’s Crest when joining a session.

- Lost Shipments Voyage maps will no longer appear with black squares over island icons.

- Phantoms performing their teleport attack will now be visible as they prepare to attack.

- Phantoms performing their lunge attack will now appear to travel smoothly towards the player.

- Continuously heavy striking a Skeleton Captain will now cause it to visually stumble backwards each time without sliding.

- Players who have migrated across servers should no longer appear on fire to other players on occasion.

- The lighting effect for objects viewed underwater will now appear correctly when these objects are positioned between the player and the shimmering effect of a Shrine.

- The Quest Table on rival ships will now appear correctly during an Hourglass battle.

- The Pirate Lord will now appear correctly when walking in on the outro cutscenes in Trading Company tutorials.

- Players of all different sizes will now sit comfortably on the back of a Sloop without floating.

- Pirates’ fingers will no longer appear to merge into the strings of the Reaper’s Heart Banjo.

- Repeatedly aiming down sights on certain Eye of Reach models will no longer cause the top of the screen to flicker.

- The Reaper’s Heart Tankard contents will no longer appear to drain before players have finished drinking.

- Skulls, Vault Keys and Collector’s Chests buried in the caves of Smugglers’ Bay will now be correctly marked on treasure maps.

- The Ragamuffin Outfit of the Wailing Barnacle no longer causes the cat’s chin to merge into its body when held by a player.

- Pirates with larger body types will no longer appear to merge into the environment when using outdoor sitting spots.

- The flag used to show a Fort is active will now be displayed at a greater distance.

- The Crab Ocean Crawler now turns at the correct speed and animates more smoothly as a result.

- Messages in a Bottle now appear with the correct glint effect when viewed from a distance.

- The Maestro Banjo icon has been resized so that the item is no longer cut off at the top.

- Jumping while holding a fishing rod will no longer cause the player to appear incorrectly when viewed by others.

- Notifications shown when attempting to sell an item to the wrong character will now always direct them to the right character.

- Larinna’s dialogue no longer refers to buying Voyages from Trading Company representatives.

- ‘A Pirate’s Life’: The Cursed Captain’s name is now shown in the subtitles when speaking during chess game interactions.

- ‘Wild Rose’: Madame Olive’s subtitles are now showing fully during the Tale.

- ‘The Legendary Storyteller’: Instances of overlapping text in the Tall Tale Quest Book have been addressed in non-English languages.

- ‘The Legendary Storyteller’: German localisation within the Quest Book is now shown correctly.

- Improved game stability to reduce scenarios where players experience an unexpected exit from the game or become disconnected from their session.

- Xbox Series S players losing an Hourglass battle will no longer experience an extended black screen when migrating to their new server.

- Ongoing improvements made to client and server performance, reducing the frequency of high ping spikes, desync and rubberbanding while playing.

- Once a Microsoft account is linked for Sea of Thieves play, all players will be displayed using their Microsoft account gamertag.

- Players on PlayStation®5 can utilise the Recent Players List feature, located within the Game Options menu, to view the Microsoft account and linked online IDs of players on PlayStation™Network they encounter, as well as directly viewing their profile.

- When setting up a crew, players can use the PlayStation®5 Game Base to invite existing PlayStation friends using ‘Invite to Game’.

- Players are also able to use the new in-game friends list, which consolidates friends from the linked Microsoft account and the account for PlayStation™Network into a single location for seamless crew management.

- Cross-platform play is enabled by default, ensuring that all new players joining High Seas will find their home on the waves with other players from all walks of life.

Players on PlayStation®5, however, can choose to disable crossplay from Matchmaking Settings and only matchmake with others on PlayStation™Network.

- Sea of Thieves on PlayStation®5 is optimised to run at 60 FPS in 4K resolution, ensuring complete parity with Xbox Series X players.

- Players can access an additional Performance Mode from the game settings for supported TVs, allowing for 120Hz refresh rates at 1080p resolution.

- New players on PlayStation®5 using a HDR-supported screen should perform HDR calibration when playing for the first time.

Navigate to ‘HDR Calibration’ in Game Settings to configure your experience.

- Hungry for haptic feedback? The DualSense™ wireless controller enhances the experience of movement and interactions with the world.

- Adaptive triggers leveraging unique qualities of the controller heighten the gunplay experience, allowing players to feel every bullet they fire.

- When a headset isn’t connected, the controller’s built-in microphone will serve as the default device for communication, granting all players access to in-game voice chat.

- When using in-game voice chat with crewmates or other players you meet in the world, the name of the broadcasting players will be shown within the HUD in a new indicator.

This allows a player to be blocked, resulting in them being restricted from communicating with you using in-game voice chat.

- The Player Blocking tool also allows for easy management of your Blocked Players list.

- The Chest of Fortune has been returned to the locked Vault of the formidable Fort of Fortune.

Keep a keen eye on the horizon for the ominous red skull cloud in the sky when it becomes active.

- Crews who retrieve Chests of Fortune can now earn the next Grade of the Fortune’s Favour Commendation, unlocking access to the Fates of Fortune Lantern, Spyglass, Compass and Bucket.

- Crews chasing down the tell-tale beacon of the Reaper’s Chest or Reaper’s Bounty can earn the next Grade of the Reaper’s Riches Commendation, and start unlocking access to the Fates of Fortune Banjo and Drum.

- Further improvements have been made to calculate the location of player shots more accurately across the client and server, providing a sizeable improvement to hit registration for ranged weapons across a range of combat scenarios.

- The frequency of emergent Skeleton Ship and Megalodon encounters has been reduced to match the frequency of encounters prior to Season 11.

- Players now have improved control over the character animation quality within the Graphics Settings.

This will provide a smoother experience; however, higher settings may impact CPU performance.

- The Outpost shops have received a new shipment of items from the Seared Forsaken Ashes set, with the ship set and clothing now available to purchase with gold after unlocking the Warsmith of the Flame Commendation.

- The Outpost weapon shops now have the Forsaken Ashes Heavy Sword and Rapier available for Doubloons after unlocking the Devil’s Cartographer Commendation.

- Previous rewards from the Wish You Were Here Event have now been added to the Outpost shops.

The Cartographer Tattoo and the Refined Gold Cutlass, Spyglass and Speaking Trumpet are now available for Doubloons.

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

- Players can purchase the Bell Brigade clothing set, along with a range of unique one-off items that were available during this Season.

- The time-limited Ancient Gold items, however, remain exclusive to players who participated in Season Five.

- The in-game Report a Player tool has now been extended, providing the ability to report players for Movement Exploits, Aiming Exploits and Toxic Behaviour.

- As with all player reports, these will be referred to the Sea of Thieves Support team for investigation and follow-up action.

- The Pirate Emporium can now be accessed via the Quick Menu, allowing pirates to browse the Emporium at any time!

- With shopping improvements in the works for the Pirate Emporium, this update removes a lesser-used feature that provided players with the ability to make purchases within the Pirate Emporium directly using their local currency.

- The tavern location for the front end is now using the recently constructed Port Merrick tavern.

- Crews diving to an experience or Faction battle and surfacing alongside another ship should no longer encounter issues where items on board their ship become non-interactable.

- The frequency of sharks appearing when players set foot in the water has returned to normal levels.

- Resolved an issue experienced during high network traffic where players bailing from a ship would find that water would only be visually thrown from a bucket, and could then be thrown a second time.

- Console players can once again use a mouse and keyboard with full compatibility.

- Skeletons have been reminded that they need to repair damage to their ships during battle.

- Players losing treasure during the Merchant Alliance or Order of Souls Tutorial Voyages will now find the Voyage cancelled.

- All Gold Hoarders Vault Voyages have been updated to prevent crews from predicting the location of the treasure.

- Players will no longer find treasure from a Siren Shrine reappears after leaving and returning to a cleared area.

- Selling Gold Hoarders artefacts at The Reaper's Hideout should no longer progress Gold Hoarders Commendations.

- Captains leaving a ship damaged at the end of a session should now consistently find the ship seaworthy in their next session, but will still need to restore it to fully repair it.

- The following Commendations will now progress when completing the required criteria: Righteous Victory, Athena’s Shield, Order of Ghouls, Hunt Them Down, Is That All You’ve Got?, Bones, Not Bonds.

- Crews failing to find an Hourglass battle after diving will no longer be unable to catch fire when returning to their original server.

- Resource Crates placed on a docked Rowboat should now still be visible and accessible after leaving the Tunnels of the Damned.

- Players should now find in-game voice chat works consistently when playing across platforms and regions.

- Resolved a prevalent client crash affecting Xbox consoles following the upgrade to GDK.

- Improvements made to shop purchasing when under heavy load, reducing scenarios where players may become stuck ‘Counting Coins’.

- Players should no longer become stuck waiting while attempting to purchase a Trading Company promotion.

- Players returning through the Tunnels of the Damned following a Tall Tale should no longer experience a Hazelnutbeard error.

- Further improvements made to game stability to reduce scenarios where players experience an unexpected exit from the game or become disconnected from their session.

- Players on Steam should no longer encounter the error that Easy Anti-Cheat is not installed when installing from the Steam Store.

- Improvements made to Anti-Cheat detection, reducing the frequency of players encountering a Hazelnutbeard error.

- Improvements made to Anti-Cheat detection to further protect from external access.

- Players can now successfully send Guild Invites to players not on their Xbox friends list.

- Players on PC will now find their graphics settings are consistently saved across sessions.

- Crewmates attacked by an enemy will now show the appropriate Crew Status Tag on their nameplate.

- The Ruby Stinger Cutlass shown in the Armoury preview now more closely matches the wielded weapon.

- The Flourishing Wild Rose items now display the correct iconography in the cosmetic chests.

- Viewing the Lantern Dance Emote within the Vanity Chest now displays the correct flame colour.

- The Noble Spartan Sails now display the correct iconography in the Ship Customisation Chest.

- Players attempting to close the virtual keyboard while typing in text chat will now find the menu is closed.

- Players should now consistently see their ship name adorning the Ship’s Crest when joining a session.

- While navigating around islands, players should no longer see leaves sometimes pop in and out.

- While observing shadows cast on board the ship, players should no longer see the shadows of ropes sometimes pop in and out while moving.

- Picking up a Captain's Key while on a Lost Shipment Voyage should now show it sitting correctly in the player’s hand.

- While on the Legend of the Sunken Kingdom Voyage, picking up the Gold Hoarders Medallion should no longer cause it to visually shrink in the player’s hand.

- Players traversing the world should no longer see large shadows pop in and out across islands or while out at sea.

- Players picking up the Vestige of Power or Ashes of Ruin will now find they use the correct animation when held.

- Players dodging repeatedly with a sword should continue to see their sword sway when returning to blocking.

- During cutlass battles with skeletons and Phantoms, striking and blocking animations are now more accurately synchronised for both players and enemies.

- Players swimming quickly underwater will now see the correct bubble effects from both hands.

- ‘The Journey to Mêlée Island’: The Clock Tower Key should now sit correctly in the player’s hand.

- ‘The Shroudbreaker’: The Mysterious Stranger now animates smoothly during the initial cutscene.

- Crews exploring a sunken shipwreck should once again be able to easily retrieve Bounty Skulls from within the Captain’s quarters.

- Crews unlocking the Vault beneath the Fort of the Damned will now find the treasure placed neatly on the surfaces.

- Players on Xbox using ‘Let Games Read to Me’ will find the virtual keyboard is now narrated.

- Improvements made to Quest Books across The Legend of Monkey Island Tall Tales to reduce overlapping text in a range of languages.

- The Unbroken Bonds Sails now have an appropriate name when viewed in the Ship Customisation Chest.

- Tasha at Ancient Spire Outpost no longer has duplicated words in her dialogue.

- Ship names using the maximum character length will no longer overflow within the Captain’s Logbook.

- Text shown on the loading screen will now be displayed correctly when using an Ultrawide monitor.

- ‘A Pirate's Life’: The Cursed Captain’s name should always be shown alongside the relevant subtitles in all languages.

- These new weapons in the pirate armoury come as a set of five, which are wielded one at a time when equipped and can be restocked from any Ammo Chest.

- Wielding a throwing knife allows players to stab enemies with a quick melee attack or charge for a devastating downward strike.

- Throwing a knife allows for a high-damage ranged attack. If a thrown knife misses its target, it becomes lodged in the environment and can be recovered to replenish stock.

But be aware that another player can also retrieve your knife and use it against you!

- This new fast-firing weapon holds six bullets and can be fired twice before needing to be reloaded, or both barrels can be fired together by charging the shot.

- Shots fired from the Double Barrel Pistol have reduced range and damage compared to the standard pistol, but compensate with a faster firing speed.

- This new type of cannonball can be found in storage barrels across the seas, providing players with an effective short-range option for devastating enemy ships in combat.

- Scattershot breaks apart when fired, sending four smaller projectiles in an outward spread.

These have a lower trajectory than standard cannonballs, making scattershot a shorter-range option.

- Each projectile deals light damage to the impact area, increasing if existing damage areas are hit repeatedly.

Ship interaction points such as the wheel, mast and capstan can also be damaged by the blast, and players caught in the spread will receive light damage without knockback.

- This mystical throwable item possesses the power to summon a loyal skeleton crew who will attack nearby enemies. After a time, these skeletons will expire in a cloud of bones.

- Bone Callers can also be fired from a cannon, giving players the ability to send a targeted package of disruption to rival ships at sea.

- Bone Callers can be recovered from crates left behind by defeated Skeleton Fleets, or found in barrels at Skeleton Forts.

- This Siren shell is a treasure artefact that harnesses the power of the wind, and is discoverable in shipwrecks and other locations throughout the Sunken Kingdom.

- Crews can use it to get ahead by filling their sails to full billow, giving a boost to a Rowboat or propelling themselves through the water.

- Players can also harness the Horn’s powerful effects to knock back enemies, cushion a potentially fatal fall or even extinguish a blazing ship.

- Players firing a harpoon line into a rock, beach, tree or even another ship can now climb onto the line and perform a tightrope walk, maintaining their balance as they go.

- Stepping onto a steeply descending harpoon line will allow players to slide effortlessly, even with treasure on their back!

- Navigation has been further improved with the addition of ziplines to a range of islands across the Sea of Thieves. Seek out these permanent new structures to experiment with speedier traversal!

- With the introduction of the Double Barrel Pistol and throwing knives, previously released Weapon Pose Emotes have been updated to support the new weapon types.

- To celebrate the official launch of Sea of Thieves on PlayStation®5, all pirates who log in during Season 12 on any platform will receive a commemorative gift in the form of the New Dawn Sails.

- Open Crew matchmaking has been re-enabled as an option when starting a Sea of Thieves session, allowing players to form a crew with other random players from all platforms.

- Players are no longer able to use a Quest Map while travelling through the air to modify their trajectory.

- After a lobby is filled with players from different platforms, the platform icons shown next to players upon setting sail should no longer display a default image.

- The team have identified the root cause as to why Meg encounters suddenly become passive and de-spawn, even when anchored down and attacking.

- A fix is now incoming for players who find they are unable to detonate a held gunpowder keg when firing into it.

- A fix for an issue discovered early in Season 12's launch where players can sometimes become stuck in a state where they can rapidly throw throwing knives faster than intended.

- A fix for the Skeleton Squared Commendation, ensuring that players can progress this when using the Bone Caller.

- Crews engaging a Megalodon should no longer find that it suddenly becomes passive and leaves the encounter. Be prepared to fight!

- Players are no longer able to get into a state where they can rapidly throw many throwing knives faster than intended.

- Shooting a ranged weapon at a player holding a Gunpowder Barrel should now consistently hit and detonate the barrel first, rather than sometimes hitting the player behind it.

- Players firing a Bone Caller at Skeleton Ships should now progress the Skeleton Squared Commendation.

- The Blow Bubbles Emote has now had its price corrected from 249 to 149 Ancient Coins. Players who purchased the emote at the incorrect price will be reimbursed 100 Ancient Coins.

- Players on Xbox attempting to play Sea of Thieves before the full game package has been installed should no longer experience instability during play.

- The Sloop, Brigantine and Galleon have all received a set of speed changes, balancing each ship type and placing more emphasis on ship direction and sail management during naval encounters.

- In a straight tailwind scenario, the Galleon with its three sails angled to the wind will now gain the advantage, followed by the Brigantine, then Sloop.

- In a straight headwind, the Sloop will have less wind resistance from its single sail and will be at an advantage over the Brigantine, and then the slower Galleon.

- Sidewind and crosswind scenarios will also now favour the Galleon when all sails are catching the maximum amount of wind. However, Galleon crews who mismanage the wind will suffer the largest penalty.

- Ships heading into a direct headwind will now be required to angle the sails to reduce the wind resistance and maintain their speed over longer distances.

- The damage of standard and charged shots from the Double Barrel Pistol has been increased.

- A charged shot now takes less time to charge, allowing players to prepare this heavy-damage attack more quickly.

- Reload time has been reduced, allowing players to reload more quickly and get back into the action.

- Following the launch of Season 12, the team has adjusted a number of Commendations from the War Chest, reducing the criteria needed to unlock the various Grades.

Players with progress already above the newly rebalanced levels will be required to perform one more action to refresh the Commendation progress.

- When using the Double Barrel Pistol to defeat enemy threats, the Blown-Away Bones, Blam of the Damned and Double Deep Trouble Commendations will now progress more quickly.

- Utilising throwing knives to attack Gunpowder Skeletons will now progress the Keg Knife Kaboom Commendation more quickly.

- Players using scattershot against enemy threats will find the Holey Wood Holes, Scatter Bones, Spooky Spread and Peppered Meg Commendations have been made easier to obtain.

- Using the Bone Caller to attack Skeleton Ships will now progress the Skeleton Squared Commendation more quickly.

- Crews cashing in the Horn of Fair Winds will now find the amount needed for the Storm Sale Commendation has been reduced.

- Players using harpoon tightropes to transfer treasure to their ship will now progress the Carry On Lootin’ Commendation much more quickly.

- The Rib Roast and Title Fight Commendations requiring players to best Skeleton Lords in combat have now been switched to provide progress to the whole crew when defeated, rather than only rewarding a single player.

- Recent improvements to hit registration for player encounters have now been brought to threats encountered within the world, providing an improved ranged combat experience against skeletons, Phantoms and Ocean Crawlers.

- The Outpost weapon shops now stock a further range of Heavy Swords and Rapiers from the Ocean Crawler, Deep Ocean Crawler and Azure Ocean Crawler sets, locked behind their associated Commendations.

- The Crustacean Courtly Jacket is also available from the Outpost clothing shops for those with enough gold to spare.

- Players who have reached reputation level 65 with the Gold Hoarders will now unlock access to the Gold Hoarders Boots, currently found in the Outpost clothing shops but moving to the Gold Hoarders representatives in a future update.

- The Pirate Log is now conveniently accessible from the front end menu when launching Sea of Thieves! Players can now more easily check their Season and reputation progress before joining a session on the seas.

- A QR code has been added to the Report a Player menu to provide easier access for console players wishing to submit a report via a mobile device.

- In-game voice chat notifications for speaking players will now be shown with the appropriate colour for a crew member or Alliance member.

- ‘The Lair of LeChuck’: Players will no longer become stuck after the LeChuck fight or the wedding ceremony and can now once again consistently complete the Tall Tale.

- Crews purchasing Captain’s Supplies from the shipwright should now consistently find their supplies are delivered to their ship’s barrels.

- Players can no longer achieve full billow with the Horn of Fair Winds without it losing its charge when used.

- Players should no longer find themselves joining a session in an empty grey scene when attempting to rejoin a previous session.

- Attacking a Chest of Rage with a range of weapon types will now consistently enrage the chest.

- Players are no longer able to swap between platforms in rapid succession and gain access to exclusive cosmetics in their session.

- Selling Ashen Chests recovered from Ancient Vaults will now progress the correct Ship and Pirate Milestones.

- Players using inverted mouse controls will no longer find their input switched when diving or surfacing for a Faction battle.

- When starting an Ashen Emissary Voyage as an Athena’s Fortune Emissary, the island chosen for the map will no longer be situated outside The Devil’s Roar.

- The Ashen Chest found inside the Vault at emergent Skeleton Fort encounters will now be unlocked by default.

- ‘The Lair of LeChuck’: Players will no longer be able to defeat LeChuck while inside the church before he has a chance to retaliate.

- ‘Shores of Gold’: Diving to a Tall Tale checkpoint should no longer return the crew to a nearby Outpost.

- The Ancient Coin Trinket erroneously granted to some players during this Event has now been removed from those inventories.

Players who legitimately obtained the Trinket are unaffected and will retain their reward (please raise a ticket with our Support team if you encounter any issues with this).

- Players will now be able to jump freely if they stow their throwing knife while charging a heavy strike.

- Players will now be able to run if they stow their throwing knife while aiming.

- Throwing knives embedded in ships’ ladders will no longer prevent players from grabbing on to the ladders.

- Throwing knives at a Gunpowder Barrel held by a player will now consistently cause the keg to explode on impact.

- Players fighting the Ghost of Graymarrow with throwing knives will now deal the intended amount of damage.

- Players engaging in Raid Voyages with throwing knives will now deal the intended amount of damage to enemy threats.

- Players holding aim and fire while reloading will now consistently see the weapon switch to an aimed state and begin to charge.

- Players holding aim and fire then releasing while reloading should no longer see the weapon briefly switch to an aimed state before returning to idle.

- Players are no longer able to skip the animation for pulling back the second hammer when firing.

- Players fighting the Ghost of Graymarrow with a Double Barrel Pistol will now deal the intended amount of damage.

- Players engaging in Raid Voyages with a Double Barrel Pistol will now deal the intended amount of damage to enemy threats.

- The cannons on the north side of Kraken Watchtower are now visible when they shoot at vessels.

- Crews diving to a Raid Voyage within the Treasury of the Secret Wilds will no longer discover gold piles which cannot be claimed.

- Players will now consistently be able to pick up and take items from Collector’s Chests inside the Shrine of Ocean’s Fortune.

- Removed a number of areas where players could fall out of the environment within the Pirate Legend Hideout.

- The Glorious Sea Dog Tavern no longer features invisible objects around the island.

- ‘The Legend of Monkey Island’: A Vanity Chest has been added to the circus stage, enabling players to remove the Skeleton Curse if they have one equipped in order to put on the circus costume.

- Crews defeated in a Faction battle will now experience a smooth transition into and out of the Tunnels of the Damned.

- Players using the Skull of Siren Song will now animate smoothly between wielding and using the weapon.

- Sprinting onto a harpoon tightrope with a weapon equipped will no longer cause the weapon to be wielded, letting players move smoothly along the rope.

- Lesedi’s Spyglass will no longer change into another spyglass when the player dies or rejoins their session with the item equipped.

- The Barrel Bombardier and Checkmate Cannons now display correctly when viewed at all distances.

- ‘The Legend of Monkey Island’: Items will now appear at the correct size when held by players during the Tall Tales.

- ‘Captains of the Damned’: When voting on the Tall Tale, one dagger will now appear on the Tall Tale book to show the player selection.

- Players should now be able to purchase the relevant promotions once they have reached the required Company reputation level.

- After purchasing a Ship Renaming Deed from the Emporium in the front end, players should be able to rename their ship without needing to restart the game.

- When purchasing a ship, having a ship name rejected will no longer temporarily cause the ship price to appear as free.

- All barrels around the Sea of Thieves will now have category item counters, as intended.

- Players will now see an infinity symbol on replayable Voyages in the Quest Table menu.

- Switching quickly through the What’s New articles should no longer display the incorrect imagery alongside a piece of news.

- When playing on Xbox Series X, viewing a ship from the ‘Select a Ship’ flow in the front end will now correctly display the ship’s sails without visual issues.

- The Guild Motto displayed in the Guild Branding screen now consistently matches the one that was selected during Guild creation.

- The pickup interaction for placed pets will now always be visible above the ground.

- Playing in windowed mode on PC will now correctly display the front end session setup screen.

- The description of the Quite the Collection Commendation has been updated to include the requirement to be representing the Guardians of Fortune when handing in Reaper’s Bones Emissary Flags.

- Improvements made to Tall Tale Quest Books to resolve a range of text issues for those playing in Japanese.

- Improvements made to text sizes within Tall Tale Quest Books to resolve overlapping text across a range of non-English languages.

- ‘The Legend of Monkey Island’: The localisation of the Sword Master has been updated to follow the correct terminology in the Korean language translation.

- Players on PlayStation®5 choosing to disable crossplay will now be able to consistently join Open Crew sessions with other players from their platform.

- Players leaving a crew during a session should no longer cause other crew members to be disconnected from the game and experience a Longbeard error.

- Further improvements made to game stability to reduce scenarios where players unexpectedly exit the game or become disconnected from their session.

- Improvements made to memory management to reduce scenarios where players may experience a sudden disconnection on lower-performance PC and console hardware.

- Sea of Thieves on Steam will no longer unexpectedly close if the game is started on an HDR screen then dragged to an SDR screen during startup.

- Improvements made to texture streaming on the front end for lower-performance PC hardware, reducing scenarios where players may experience textures failing to load and leaving them shown at poor quality.

- Players are now able to sprint while carrying one-handed treasure items and discovered weapons. During sprinting, the item will now be stowed on a player’s belt, fully visible to other players.

- The majority of held weapons discoverable around the world can now also be stowed while sprinting, such as the Trident of Dark Tides and Ashen Winds Skull.

The Skull of Siren Song is the exception, and players will not be able to sprint while wielding it.

- With the new identity of the Blunderbuss now settling into live play, the team have been fine-tuning the weapon’s power.

The focus here remains in defensive play styles, with these changes further swaying the knockback power in favour of the defending player.

- Blunderbuss knockback has now been tuned with a reduction to its overall knockback power. The knockback trigger range has been reduced, requiring the target to be much closer, and the horizontal distance players are blasted back has also been reduced.

- Alongside the closer trigger range, the knockback will now trigger when a player is hit with a single pellet, increasing the consistency of knocking back a player when caught in range.

- Players using a ship interaction point such as the ship’s wheel will now be braced from the knockback effects and will not be propelled the full knockback distance.

- The time taken to bring a knife into an aimed state has been reduced, and the thrown knife speed has been increased, allowing players to throw more quickly.

- The controller rumble when using throwing knives has been improved, giving it a softer feel.

- Iron Turtle Ship Collection: This collection will also include a Cannon Flare, delivered in a later update.

Players purchasing the Iron Turtle Ship Bundle now will automatically be granted access to the Iron Turtle Cannon Flare once it releases in November.

- The Piscine Courtly Jacket and a range of new Corset Shirts are all available from the Outpost clothing shops for those with enough gold to spare.

- Outpost shops also now stock the Flaming Jackal Blunderbuss, Pistol and Fishing Rod.

- The in-game Report a Player tool now supports a range of additional reasons that can be used when reporting other players, including Hate Speech and Profanity.

As with all reports, these are sent directly to the Sea of Thieves Support team for investigation and follow-up action.

- All reports sent through the in-game Report a Player tool will now show an acknowledgement of the report, clearly defining the players, the reported reason and a reference code.

- After an in-game report is filed and an action taken by the Sea of Thieves Support team, the player will now receive an update to their report when logging into the game.

This update will confirm that an action has been taken or that further information is required.

- Players attempting to use a fishing rod after being fired from a cannon will no longer be able to modify their trajectory while in the air.

- Players attempting to utilise external tools to teleport to other ships will now be detected and issued with enforcement.

- Crews are no longer able to cause emergent Skeleton Captains to reappear on islands once defeated.

- Crews purchasing Supply Crates from the Merchant Alliance should now consistently be able to retrieve a crate after purchase.

- All pistols within the Armoury have been reviewed and their aiming improved to ensure shots now align with the tip of the barrel, or the iron sights for those that have them.

- Crews taking on a Treasure Vault Voyage for the Gold Hoarders should no longer be led to the open sea at K-11 by the Wayfinder Compass.

- If a crew begins a vote without reaching a majority decision, when crew members leave and the result becomes a majority decision the vote will now automatically pass without requiring the crew to vote again.

- Scoping a crewed Burning Blade from a distance will no longer display the Captain’s Ship Banner if the crew were sailing a Captained ship prior to the Burning Blade.

- Pets being held while travelling through the Tunnels of the Damned will no longer appear to be drowning.

- Due to various issues involving Megalodon encounters with a crewed Burning Blade, Megalodons will not appear for a Burning Blade crew in this update, and any encountered in the world will ignore the crew.

- Enemies within Skeleton Camps now continue to appear even when a crew has an active Bounty or Merchant Contract quest at the same island.

- The Fates of Fortune Gloves are now locked behind the appropriate grade of the Fortune’s Favour Commendation.

- Players purchasing the Deluxe Edition of Sea of Thieves will now correctly receive both variants of the Dark Warsmith Costume.

- Throwing knives no longer pop into the ground when they are thrown into vertical surfaces.

- While wearing the Obsidian Bones, the player’s teeth are no longer stuck together.

- Pirates of all body types will now consistently hold a sword neatly when blocking.

- Clearing all map markers while on the Burning Blade now uses the correct audio effect.

- Visual effects on the Graveyard Grim Whippet are now consistent with other pets.

- ‘Captains of the Damned’: The Lockpick now appears at the correct size when held in the player’s hand.

- ‘Lords of the Sea’: The Dead Man’s Chest Key now remains the same size when dropped on the ground.

- ‘Shores of Gold’: The Gold Hoarder’s Coin now remains the same size when dropped on the ground.

- ‘The Journey to Mêlée Island’: A missing voice line in Guybrush's dialogue during the Mansion animated cutscene has been added.

- Treasure items deposited near the Armoury on the Burning Blade will now continue to be interactable.

- The Burning Blade should no longer pass through the top of the arch at Marauder’s Arch.

- Players can no longer walk through parts of the environment within the Skeleton Camp at the Lagoon of Whispers.

- The skeletons at Barnacle Cay’s Skeleton Camp will now be able to climb the staircases within the Temple.

- Improvements have been made to terrain at the Fort of the Damned, Lost Gold Fort and Crow’s Nest Fortress to reduce scenarios where items and enemies could become stuck.

- The Shrine of the Coral Tomb no longer has a missing wall texture in one of the chambers.

- ‘Shores of Gold’: Players should no longer get stuck in trees on the Shores of Gold.

- Opening bundles in the ‘Browse All’ tab no longer changes the starting page of other tabs when browsing.

- After purchasing an item from within the ‘Browse All’ tab, the Emporium refreshes and further items are shown with no delay.

- The Motley Mariner Figurehead preview icon no longer has a low-resolution texture.

- The Guardian Ghost Cannon and Flag icon and preview are now correct when viewed at the shipwright.

- Improved the accuracy of Polish translations for the Merchant Alliance delivery guidelines.

- Corrected inconsistencies in Motley Mariner items across a range of languages.

- Improved clarity between Bone Caller and Bone Caller Skeletons across a range of languages.

- Further improvements have been made to game stability to reduce scenarios where players unexpectedly exit the game or become disconnected from their session.

- Knives thrown at a crewmate will now pass through them rather than becoming stuck to the player.

- Knives will no longer become stuck in a capstan or other ship interaction point when thrown.

- For crews pledged to the Burning Blade, there is now a short grace period after the Captain leaves the game before the ship begins to sink, to protect from temporary disconnections.

- When a crew in control of the Burning Blade purposefully leaves the game, the ship will now sink naturally and will not appear to others to have been handed in at The Reaper’s Hideout.

- Crews pledged to the Burning Blade who use a Mermaid or Statue to return to their ship will no longer find their Obsidian Skeleton crew missing.

- Text chat now protects players from anyone attempting to send repeated messages in quick succession.

- Text chat now contains improved profanity filtering, covering a range of new words and phrases.

- The Tourist Emote Bundle now shows the correct name when browsing the Pirate Emporium.

- Players can no longer use the fishing rod lure to interact with others in the world. (Released previously as part of an interim hotfix.)

- Players will no longer find themselves moved around when casting a fishing rod into the surrounding environment. (Released previously as part of an interim hotfix.)

- Further improvements have been made to game stability to reduce scenarios where players unexpectedly exit the game or become disconnected from their session.

- Pick up the latest Plunder Pass to gain access to a plethora of additional unlockable cosmetics from the Inner Sanctum set, including a ship set with Collector’s items and a selection of themed clothing, all available to earn by raising your Renown. P

- This Season, the Guild Emissary Ledgers offer the ‘A Study in Sunset Piratical Patience’ Painting, ‘Death by Star’ Ornament and Guild of Mischievous Mates Title to Guilds who represent them well and perform proudly in the Ledgers.

- The Armoury now stocks the Grapple Gun which players can choose for one of their two loadout slots, replacing a combat-focused weapon with a new traversal tool.

- Players can grapple items or other players and pull their target towards them, deal damage to emergent enemy threats or grapple onto solid surfaces to be propelled quickly to that location.

- While this tool can be used during naval combat in inventive ways, there are some restrictions when it comes to ship boarding.

- Players will be unable to grapple directly to the Sloop or Brigantine from the sea, but sneaky routes onto the Galleon are possible.

A player fired from a cannon will also find they are unable to grapple directly onto a ship and their line will break.

- This sneakily versatile new weapon can be equipped from the Armoury along with a selection of darts, each with its own unique characteristics, and can be reloaded at an Ammo Crate.

- Darts can be fired with a quick breath for a less accurate shot, or charged with a full breath for a longer-range and more accurate shot.

- This explosive dart can be fired into a surface, enemy or player. Once embedded, its fuse will light and after a short time it will detonate, knocking players back and even setting them on fire.

Swift-thinking players can defuse the dart by dousing it with water, although any damage will detonate it.

- The explosion will not damage crewmates or the player who fired the dart, and the explosion is small enough to leave ship components undamaged. Chained explosions can be achieved with multiple darts and even Gunpowder Barrels for maximum effect!

- This venomous dart deals a small amount of damage to its target on contact, followed by lingering damage over time. Darts can be damaged to remove them, halting further poisonous effects.

- This distracting dart can be fired at a location to entice players with the subtle glint of nearby treasure, ready for a well-planned ambush.

Nearby enemy threats will also be drawn to the location and will ferociously attack a target hit with a Lure Dart, even if it’s one of their own comrades!

- Players will now be able to switch their stance from standing to a low crouch, slowing their movement, hiding them from some nearby enemy threats, concealing their player name and generally making them more stealthy for the purposes of sneaking around.

- Crouched players will be harder to hit as they can duck shots in combat and will be braced against knockback, reducing its effect.

- While crouched, pirates will have access to a themed radial menu providing access to new techniques such as disguising and other stealth-based tricks.

- From the stealth menu, players can put on a disguise and blend into the environment as a barrel or treasure chest.

Unlike hide emotes, disguises allow players to sneak around the world, albeit at a much slower pace.

- New disguises can be unlocked through a range of new Commendations added in Season 14. After unlocking one, head to the Vanity Chest and the new Disguises category to equip it.

- Players can now acquire Merfruit, a rare food item found in storage containers.

While this fruit can be eaten like any other food to recover health, when cooked it is imbued with special properties.

- A Merfruit cooked to perfection will become enchanted, glowingly brightly and stored in a separate inventory to prevent accidental eating.

When eaten, Enchanted Merfruit will suppress the aid of friendly Merfolk for a few minutes as shown on-screen.

As the effects wear off, players can consume additional Merfruit to reset the duration and extend the effects as required.

- With new tools for unbridled hijinks now at players’ disposal, a range of new Commendations have been added within the Reputation tab.

Explore the challenges under Pirates of Mischief to unlock new cosmetic rewards.

- Players can become masters of disguise by unlocking new types of chest to hide within, from the simple Treasure Chest all the way up to rarer and more coveted looks.

- Using the suite of tools within Season 14 to pull off sneaky plays will unlock new cosmetics for the Grapple Gun, blowpipe and throwing knives, along with the stealthy Shadow Tide ship set.

- The Armoury found on board player ships will now only be accessible to that ship’s crew, and rival players from other crews will be denied access.

Armouries found on Skeleton Ships or even the Burning Blade will continue to be available to all players even when the ship has been seized.

- Crews can now cash in a Storage Crate with The Reaper’s Bones or Merchant Alliance representatives in return for gold. These Storage Crates can be sold either empty or with items inside.

- Skeletons have somehow become a little less perceptive and will no longer uncover players using a hide emote or the new disguises to hide in plain sight.

Players being chased by skeletons will now be able to hide if they can escape the line of sight and complete their sneaky manoeuvre before being found.

- For the duration of Season 14, the Chest of Fortune has been locked away in the Vault of the Fort of the Damned, and can only be obtained by triumphing over this formidable encounter.

- Crews who retrieve Chests of Fortune can now earn the next Grade of the Fortune’s Favour Commendation, unlocking access to the Regal Fortune Figurehead, Hull and Sails.

- Crews chasing down the telltale beacon of the Reaper’s Chest or Reaper’s Bounty can earn the next grade of the Reaper’s Riches Commendation, and start unlocking access to the Regal Fortune Pistol, Cutlass and Double Barrel Pistol.

- The Outpost shops now stock new items from the distinctive Lucky Hand set. Visit the shipwright and weaponsmith to pick up these ship parts and weapons in exchange for Doubloons.

- The clothing shops have also refreshed their stock, and now offer salvage-themed Rusted Skulls clothing and new wrap-style shirts to all players with gold to spare.

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

- Players can now purchase the Courage of Captaincy clothing set, along with a range of unique one-off items first available during this Season.

- The time-limited Perilous Seas items, however, remain exclusive to players who participated in Season Seven.

- Messages sent to players through text chat will now pass through an improved profanity filtering system that can be updated outside Sea of Thieves’ regular updates, for a faster response to inappropriate language being reported by players.

- As part of this update, this system will be running behind the scenes and not directly filtering any text chat seen by players, but will allow the team to begin monitoring the filter rules and begin configuring the strictness of the system using real chat data.

This will help ensure a safe but fair chat experience when it is fully enabled in the live game at a later date.

- In addition to the ability to protect players through profanity filtering, our Player Support team will now have access to reports that flag players who exhibit high levels of inappropriate language for direct enforcement to take place.

- Improvements have been made behind the scenes to further protect our players, including creators,

well-known community members and anyone who is vulnerable, by disrupting techniques used by people with malicious intent to search for specific players on the seas.

- There is now a ‘Browse All’ button at the bottom of the screen when landing in the Pirate Emporium, allowing players to navigate directly to this menu.

- When browsing costumes, players will now find that some show an improved 3D representation of the pirate. Costumes that are sold as part of a bundle will not use this new view.

- Crews diving to an Hourglass of Fate battle or Voyage should no longer experience a scenario where they remain underwater and are unable to surface.

- After disconnecting and rejoining a session near a defeated Burning Blade, players will no longer automatically find themselves pledged to the Blade and in control.

- After harpooning barrels from the Burning Blade, the release of a barrel no longer causes players to be pushed backwards.

- The Cannoneer of Mast Mayhem Commendation now progresses when shooting at a player-controlled Burning Blade.

- Crews participating in the Skull of Siren Song Voyage will no longer be returned close to a player-controlled Burning Blade when defeated, and will now be placed further away.

- Players repeatedly opening Game Options and text chat in quick succession should no longer find that the Game Options menu sometimes becomes stuck on screen.

- The loading icon on all loading screens is now correctly aligned across all screen resolutions.

- ‘The Journey to Mêlée Island’ – Leaves found scattered on Mêlée Island no longer flicker when approached.

- The Ancient Temple star chart will now rotate more smoothly when moving and changing direction.

- The Wailing Barnacle Heavy Sword now sits correctly in players’ hands when performing the Quick Draw Weapon Pose Emote.

- The Thriving Wild Rose Jacket will now sit cleanly when worn with trousers on female pirates.

- Players’ fingers now correctly grasp the map when performing the Completely Lost Emote.

- The belt on the Lunar Festival Costume will now appear correctly when previewed.

- The Roaring Grog Whistle and Fire Breath Emotes now display correctly on pirates of all sizes when previewed in the Vanity Chest.

- Players sitting down will no longer have transparent soles on the underside of their feet.

- ‘The Cursed Rogue’ – The final cutscene in this Tall Tale now plays as intended when handing in Briggsy's skull.

- ‘The Quest for Guybrush’ – Murray’s voice lines during Insult Sword Fighting now play audio as expected.

- Sybil at the Glorious Sea Dog Tavern no longer references Captain’s Voyages in their dialogue.

- The Order of Souls Titles for promotions at 55 and 100 are now correct when playing in the Portuguese language.

- Improvements have been made to voice chat to better support players across all platforms, resolving issues that prevented communication in cross-play encounters.

- Further improvements have been made to game stability to reduce scenarios where players unexpectedly exit the game or become disconnected from their session.

- Players will once again be able to switch their stance from standing to a low crouch, slowing their movement, hiding them from some nearby enemy threats, concealing their player name and generally making them stealthier for the purposes of sneaking around.

- Crouched players will be harder to hit as they can duck shots in combat and will be braced against knockback, reducing its effect.

- Players will once again be prevented from walking directly through enemy threats.

- Players are now prevented from shooting others through solid surfaces on the ship such as the deck.

- Rowboats discovered washed up on islands or those which become beached are now much easier to push back into the sea, and should no longer become stuck and unusable.

- All players will now have access to the Burning Blade’s Armoury once the ship is controlled by a crew.

- Unlockable disguises will no longer be granted when completing part of the unlock criteria, and will now require the full set of conditions to be met.

- Players must now complete the Found You Commendation before being awarded the Shadow Tide Tattoo.

- The Enticing Explosion Commendation now progresses when attaching a Lure Dart to a barrel-wielding Skeleton or directly to the held barrel itself.

- Players attempting to grapple an item while climbing into a cannon will now find the item is placed back on the ground.

Players fired out of a cannon, however, are not prevented from grappling a nearby item if they can do so quickly enough.

The team will continue to monitor this technique from a game balance perspective and address it in the future if necessary.

- Players attempting to grapple each other at the same time should no longer find they are flung across the sea.

- Players attempting to crouch after being fired from a cannon will no longer be able to modify their trajectory while in the air.

- Players attempting to crouch prior to climbing into a cannon will now continue to be damageable when leaving the cannon.

- Players attempting to crouch after falling from a great height will now be able to crouch much more quickly, but will continue to suffer the hindering effects of fall damage while crouched.

- The Witch’s Stitches Bundle now grants players the Coral Coven Cat once purchased.

- Firing Lure Darts into a ship prior to migrating across servers will now result in those darts being removed upon arrival at the new location.

- Players equipping the Lodestar Costume will now find it displays correctly on their pirate and will also appear in the Pirate Emporium and Clothing Chest when previewed.

- Improvements have been made to localisation across a range of languages for newly introduced items in Season 14.

- Further improvements have been made to game stability to reduce scenarios where players unexpectedly exit the game or become disconnected from their session.

- While crouched, players can access the stealth menu to put on a disguise and blend into the environment as a barrel or treasure chest.

Unlike hide emotes, disguises allow players to sneak around the world, albeit at a much slower pace.

- New disguises can be unlocked through a range of new Commendations added in Season 14.

After unlocking one, head to the Vanity Chest and the new Disguises category to equip it.

- While crouched, players will find various locations around the ship where they can vault over the edge and hang from the outside in order to hide from those on board.

They can vault back onto the deck or let go at any time, but if discovered and attacked they’ll be knocked into the sea below!

- Pirate explorers may also find a few locations out in the world where they can hang from certain ledges away from their ship.

- Players can now find deployable traps in various storage containers throughout the world which can be used to damage unsuspecting enemies.

These are considered a throwable item, and while players can hold up to five in their inventory, only two can be deployed at any time, destroying those previously placed.

- A deployed trap will become armed, and then can be triggered by any careless foot, dealing damage and briefly inflicting a limp.

Sneaky players can disarm a trap by crouching, and recover the trap for later use.

- A deployed trap can be enhanced with additional items by crouching close to it and using the menu to select an object. The item’s effect is triggered when the trap snaps shut.

- Traps can be partially buried beneath softer surfaces for a more effectively concealed surprise, and even placed together to trigger a sequence of catastrophic events!

- The blowpipe’s quickfire has been tuned to ensure that it still provides a quick but accurate shot at close range, without overshadowing the benefits of a more considered charged shot.

- Even a brief charge will now deliver a strong mid-range shot, while fully charged shot travels the maximum shot range.

- With a suite of mischief-making tools now re-enabled, the previously blocked Commendations, rewards, achievements and Trophies are available for players to make progress towards unlocking.

- Eager players who jump in during the first week following a Sea of Thieves game update will now receive an early login bonus of gold and Doubloons.

- Players can now embark on a Voyage of Luck each month, offering a quest for a range of high-value treasure.

When starting the Voyage, some players will be blessed with a rare Golden Map leading to a jackpot of one of the highest-value treasures out there!

- Pirate Legends will get their very own Legendary Voyage of Luck: a Voyage for Athena’s Fortune with treasure befitting a Legend and the same chance of a rare Golden Map!

- Gorgon Mixed Bundle: Gorgon Headband, Creeping Stone Curse and Solid Stone Curse (returning from Season 12 Plunder Pass)

- Iron Turtle Cannon Flare (players who previously purchased the Iron Turtle Ship Bundle will now find the Cannon Flare in their Ship Customisation Chest)

- The Outpost weaponsmiths now stock Ironwood Carpenter's weaponry, with the cutlass, pistol, blunderbuss and Eye of Reach all available to buy.

- The Outpost clothing shops now offer Cinched Shirts in four colours for all pirates to purchase.

- The Pirate Legend Hideout has been stocked with the Ghost Heavy Sword and Rapier, locked behind progression with the Athena’s Fortune Trading Company.

- Players attempting to crouch while switching weapons will now consistently have to wield the second weapon before being able to fire the follow-up shot, preventing weapons from being fired faster than intended.

- Sea of Thieves utilises the enhanced hardware of the PlayStation®5 Pro to offer performance improvements during gameplay, providing a more stable 60FPS in 4K resolution.

Players utilising Performance Mode on supported TVs will also experience a more stable 120Hz refresh rate at 1080p resolution.

- Players are now able to play Sea of Thieves on PC with a connected PlayStation®5 DualSense® wireless controller. The DualSense® wireless controller is supported on both Windows Store and Steam platforms.

- Players using a DualSense® wireless controller on PC or PS5® can now further customise the level of haptic feedback within the game settings.

- The Guild Reputation multiplier and gold bonuses now consistently apply correctly when selling treasure to the Sovereigns.

- Players are now prompted to drop the chicken during the Merchant Alliance Tutorial Voyage, aligning it with the Gold Hoarders and Order of Souls Tutorials.

- The Commendations entitled Dance Off Danger, Pied Pirate Piper and Trap Ease Artist now progress for the whole crew when meeting the criteria.

- The Commendation entitled A Venomous Attack can now be completed while standing nearby.

- Players finding themselves underneath the Fort of the Damned are now prevented from retrieving treasure from the Fort’s Vault.

- Players shooting the Grapple Gun into a solid surface while aiming and walking will no longer have their view pulled to the side.

- Attempting to fire a grapple line into a placed dart will no longer cause the Grapple Gun to become stuck reeling in from a distant location.

- Players can no longer gain access to the Burning Blade interior by grappling into the front of the ship.

- Allied Obsidian Skeletons will no longer attack players or each other when hit with a Lure Dart.

- Blowpipe darts can no longer be stacked on each other when fired at the same spot.

- Lure Darts stuck on a player will now be fully removed if the player leaves the game. Players migrating across servers will also now find their darts left behind are quickly removed.

- Players firing a dart at friendly Merfolk will find they now disappear and do not remain attached.

- Players hit with a Black Powder Dart who then dive underwater will now see the fuse doused instantly.

- Switching between darts when not charging a shot should no longer cause a brief controller rumble.

- Players using ‘Reduce Hold to Interact’ accessibility settings should no longer be able to continue interacting with a barrel’s inventory after moving out of range.

- Players can no longer cancel out of a heavy strike with a cutlass by crouching.

- Attempting to aim down sights immediately after exiting crouching no longer causes a player’s movement to briefly stutter.

- Holding aim down sights while entering crouch will no longer cause the player to exit crouch upon releasing their aim.

- Players attempting to crouch after falling from a great height will now be able to crouch much more quickly, but will continue to suffer from the hindrances of fall damage while crouched.

- Rapid crouching while jumping no longer results in players losing the ability to crouch.

- A suite of fixes to disguises have been made to address visual issues with the experience.

- Players should no longer find themselves appearing incorrectly when using a disguise and should also appear correctly when observed by others.

- Players wearing the Burning Eyepatch of the Ashen Dragon will now find the visual effects are correctly hidden when using a disguise.

- Getting into disguise while on a floating Rowboat now has smoother camera movement.

- ‘Shores of Gold’: The exit staircase from the Gold Hoarder’s lair no longer has a blocking wall preventing players from leaving.

- Pulleys on Sea Fort resource barrels containing food now respond correctly to player input.

- Improvements have been made to a number of island locations to prevent players from using the Grapple Gun to get outside the world.

At Imperial Crown Fortress and Old Brinestone Fortress, players are no longer able to push themselves through the roof and reach higher areas.

- Windows within the Sunken Kingdom can now still be opened when shot with a dart.

- Various objects found decorating the Sea Forts are now solid and players are unable to walk through them.

- Objects at the end of the bridge at The Reaper’s Hideout now cast shadows correctly.

- The Captain’s Logbook now includes new sketches when crews progress through the newly introduced Season 14 Milestones.

- The banner shown during the Gold Hoarders Tutorial Voyage now correctly displays the player's name.

- Characters’ faces no longer appear to be missing parts when wearing a mask combined with a range of costumes.

This addresses issues reported with the Shadow Tide Fox Mask, Thieving Mask of Mischief and Monstrous Mask of Mayhem.

- The Pirate Lord no longer becomes transparent when players walk away and return during his speech.

- The Rusted Skulls Braced Jacket no longer drifts or distorts when viewed from the third-person perspective.

- The Watermelon Wheel has been visually improved and now casts appropriate shadows, is correctly held by players when interacted with and has improved quality when viewed at close range.

- The Shadow Tide Capstan no longer has a noticeable change in graphical quality at short distances.

- Various Grapple Guns now display the rope tether correctly at the end of the gun.

- Music volume on the game’s front end has been adjusted to its intended level.

- ‘The Journey to Mêlée Island’ – Murray is now visible near the gate leading to the Governor's Mansion when starting from the third checkpoint.

- Further improvements have been made to game stability to reduce scenarios where players unexpectedly exit the game or become disconnected from their session.

- Players are no longer able to retrieve additional resources when disarming an item-loaded trap.

- Traps deployed should now remain in place and not disappear unexpectedly during gameplay. Once deployed, a trap should now last for hours if left undisturbed and only be removed when triggered, replaced by a new trap when players reach their limit of two or when players leave the server.

- Players are consistently limited to deploying two traps and can no longer place additional traps by disconnecting and rejoining a session.

- Traps deployed by other crews will now consistently be removed when they dive to a new server, scuttle to new seas or migrate naturally to another server.

- Crews diving for the Voyage of Luck should no longer experience an extended wait while underwater.

- Further improvements have been made to game stability to reduce scenarios where players unexpectedly exit the game or become disconnected from their session.

- The maximum range of the Grapple Gun has been increased to match the ship’s harpoon, providing players with greater scope for traversal and various sneaky plays.

- The speed of a fired arrowhead is now much quicker, reducing the need for players to lead their shots and also reducing the time after a failed shot before it can be fired again.

- Acceleration is now increased when grappling to a solid surface, with players moving faster the further they travel.

- Players can now quickly cycle through available dart types via a new keybind, Dart Radial Input.

This same key can also be held to summon the full Dart Radial. By default, this is bound to ‘H’ on keyboard and Right on D-pad when using a controller

players already using these keys for other actions will need to rebind their controls to prevent issues from occurring.

- Players now have a choice on how the blowpipe acts when running out of a specific dart type.

By default it will switch to the next type, but by using Auto Switch Dart Type in the Input Settings, players can prevent this automatic switch.

- Enchanted Merfruit will no longer be selected when using the food keybind to switch and cycle through food within a player’s inventory to prevent accidental eating. Uncooked Merfruit will continue to be selected when cycling through food.

- As shared in our recent State of Play, while this new ammo type for the blowpipe was announced in previous updates, it has not yet reached the quality bar where the team would be happy to release it.

- While this feature is disabled, a range of Pirates of Mischief Commendations are visible but unable to be progressed and the Lucky Hand Blowpipe, Real Dead Ringer Trinkets and Part of the Hive Title remain locked.

- Players choosing to sail on Safer Seas will now find it a more rewarding experience during their early stages of progression with the Trading Companies.

Gold and reputation will now be earned at 100% (up from 30%), equivalent to their value on High Seas.

- To balance this, progression with each Trading Company is now capped at rank 25 (down from 40).

To continue earning reputation and progress past rank 25 with a Trading Company, players will need to venture onto High Seas.

- While players who choose to remain on Safer Seas will be unable to climb all the way to Pirate Legend, they are still free to take on the Voyages to which they already have access and will continue to earn the same gold rewards as on High Seas.

- Starting with December’s update, detection improvements will begin rolling out behind the scenes targeting players who evade game bans to regain access to Sea of Thieves.

These improvements will be deployed in phases over the coming months to systematically crack down on banned players and prevent them from returning to the seas.

- Bonechiller Weapon Bundle, now with additional weapons (time-limited, will return next year)

- Bonechiller Ship Collection and Ship’s Crest (time-limited, will return next year)

- The Pirate Emporium homepage now features a carousel to better highlight new items arriving in the store.

- Beneath the carousel are three dedicated tiles for themed content, showcasing items from Sea of Thieves: A Pirate’s Life and Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island.

With these dedicated spaces now accessible from the homepage, they have been removed from the top navigation to ease browsing.

- Selecting the Plunder Pass within the Emporium now allows players to see all items that can be earned by progressing through the 100 levels of Renown for the active Season before making their purchase.

- The Outpost weaponsmiths now stock the Bone Crusher and Sea Dog Heavy Swords and Rapiers.

- The Outpost clothing shops now offer Stately Shirts in four fetching colours for all pirates to purchase.

- The aim on the Seasoned Sailor Pistol has been improved, ensuring shots now align with the tip of the barrel.

- Performance improvements have been made to the game client, providing a small overall improvement to framerates.

- Further improvements have been made to game stability to reduce scenarios where players unexpectedly exit the game or become disconnected from their session.

- Players completing the necessary criteria to progress the Pirates of Mischief Commendations will now find they are able to purchase disguises once the Commendations are fully unlocked.

Some players with prior progress may remain temporarily blocked as the team works behind the scenes to sync their progress.

- Pirates extinguishing Black Powder Darts attached to them should now consistently progress the Wash Out Commendation.

- Attacking enemy Bone Caller Skeletons with Poison Darts should now progress the Poisonous Pirate Commendation.

- Using a disguise while under the effect of sickness will now pause the symptoms and prevent a bout of vomiting from breaking a player’s disguise.

- The Chest of the Damned disguise visual effects now appear correctly when on a moving ship.

- Players in disguises will no longer make loud footsteps while moving around the deck of a ship.

- Controller vibration has been improved while using the blowpipe, addressing incorrect feedback when aiming and reloading.

- Darts are now damaged by explosives, and those embedded in a target can also be damaged consistently by gunshots.

- Shooting a Gunpowder Barrel with a Poison Dart should no longer trigger the fuse visual effects.

- Black Powder Darts embedded in players should now be consistently extinguished when doused with water.

- The glint of a Lure Dart now appears in the same colour for all players in the session.

- Players hanging from the side of a ship while it dives to a Voyage or Hourglass of Fate battle will no longer find themselves stuck in a drowning state.

- Exiting a hanging point while crouching will no longer cause a player to equip their weapon.

- Players will now find it easier to hide when out of sight of common enemies and Skeleton Captains.

- When multiple players interact with the same hanging point simultaneously, they will now retain the ability to crouch afterwards.

- Cancelling the action to bail water by using crouch no longer causes the resulting splash audio effect to be heard incorrectly.

- Exiting crouch with a stashed item will no longer result in the item appearing to intersect with the player.

- Players can no longer crouch while holding the fishing rod fully drawn back before casting.

- Players switching quickly to a lantern after crouching will no longer see the light emitted below them as if they were still crouching.

- Players crouching while holding items are no longer able to interact with areas of the ship such as the capstan, maintaining consistency with held items.

- Players crouching with an open chest will now correctly display the contents to nearby players and items can be added and retrieved.

- When disarming a loaded trap with limited inventory space, players will retrieve the trap first before any loaded items.

- When attempting to deploy a trap in a restricted location, players will now have the trap returned to their inventory.

- Players who temporarily disconnect from a session with deployed traps will now find the traps stay active for a short grace period for the player to rejoin the session before they are removed.

- Traps are now triggered instantly by gunshots or melee attacks, but when this sets off a chain reaction of deployed traps there will be a short delay between triggers.

- Players standing stationary near a trap now take the same damage as players moving when it is triggered.

- Traps loaded with a Jigball or Wearyball should now consistently affect the pirate triggering the trap.

- While below deck on a ship, players can no longer set traps through the ceiling on the floor above.

- Grapple Guns no longer allow players to move beneath surfaces or reach outside the map at various Skeleton Camps.

- Kraken’s Fall no longer has part of the environment sticking out from the geometry.

- Players are now prevented from moving through the ceiling or interacting with objects on the floors above while navigating Sea Forts.

- Players can now pick up the Mysterious Journal from all potential locations on Crescent Isle.

- ‘The Lair of LeChuck’: Players can no longer reach past the boundaries of the map by using the Grapple Gun.

- Large Guilds with 30 ships pledged should now load consistently when selected.

- Captains should find that when meeting the criteria for a Ship Milestone, that Milestone and associated reward are now unlocked.

- Players choosing to block communication through Xbox Family Settings should no longer find the UI becomes unresponsive after attempting to send messages using text chat.

- When equipping the Radiant Comet Capstan, the prompt to use the capstan is now placed in the correct location.

- ‘Maiden Voyage’: The correct prompt is now shown when handing the Old Sailor’s Chest to the Pirate Lord.

- Items used in various emotes such as flowers and buckets should now consistently appear at their intended size.

- Equipping the Shadow Tide Wheel no longer hides the ship’s compass when sailing on a Brigantine or Sloop.

- Obsidian Bone Crusher and Inner Sanctum Hulls equipped to a Brigantine now display correctly.

- Characters’ faces no longer appear to be missing parts when wearing a mask combined with the Forest’s Blessing Costume or Barrel Bombardier Costume.

- When equipping the Wheel of Noble Captaincy, it will now be displayed with the correct shadows.

- The Iron Turtle and Lucky Hand Grapple Guns no longer intersect with the player camera when fired.

- The speaking trumpet’s shadow now appears properly across all graphic settings.

- Localisation quality improvements have been made to a range of items within the Pirate Emporium across multiple languages.

This dart lets players temporarily transform their appearance into that of other players or skeletons, allowing them to blend in and cause even more mischief!

- Mimicking a target will transform a player for two minutes, and during that time they are free to interact with the world while both dealing and taking damage.

The mimic effect can be removed by firing another Mimic Dart at a solid surface.

- When observing a player who is mimicking, no change will be visible to the mimicking player’s name as shown in their gamertag, although it will change colour to match the affiliation of their target until engaged in combat.

- Pirates can also mimic the mimic, chaining the same appearance onto multiple pirates for ultimate hijinks.

- While mimicking a target, players wishing to emote will be shown a simple set of emotes that can be performed as that character.

Once the mimic effect is ended, players will regain access to their full set of owned emotes.

- The Pirates of Mischief section in the Reputation tab now holds a range of Commendations challenging players to use mimicry to baffle other players, with the Lucky Hand Blowpipe as a reward.

- Players missing a shot with the Grapple Gun will now find the arrowhead returns during the recoil. It will still need to be reloaded, but no longer consumes ammo for missed shots.

- Performance improvements have been made to the setup and loading of Trinkets on Captained ships.

This work should improve client performance on Trinket-laden ships, and reduce the performance impact when approaching those ships at sea.

- Network improvements have been made in scenarios where large amounts of data are being sent from the server to a client.

In these scenarios, the movement of the player and their ship will now be prioritised to ensure a smoother experience.

This work should reduce the performance impact seen when a fully dressed ship comes into range, and when a player fully equipped with cosmetics returns from the Ferry of the Damned.

- Ammo Pouches left behind in the world will now only last for 10 minutes before being removed.

- The Outpost stores now stock equipment from the Lucky Hand set, with the Compass, Spyglass, Pocket Watch, Speaking Trumpet, Tankard, Bucket and Lantern available for purchase with gold.

- Players will now remain able to switch weapons after being knocked back while interacting with the Armoury.

- Traps loaded with a blunderbomb will now deal consistent damage to players who spring the trap based on their proximity when triggered. Running through a blunderbomb-loaded trap will no longer deal enough damage to outright kill a player at full health.

- In addition to water, Black Powder Darts can now be extinguished using boiling water and vomit.

- The damage dealt by an Ashen Lord’s explosion now dynamically scales based on the crew size in the encounter.

- The aim on the Dreamers’ Dust Pistol has been improved, ensuring shots now align with the tip of the barrel.

- The Merchant Alliance Tutorial Voyage now concludes correctly when handing in the Chicken Coop.

- Players with Pocket Pet Emotes will now find they once again perform a range of animations when used.

- ‘The Fate of the Morningstar’: Dinger’s key now appears near the correct position on the island instead of in the open sea.

- The Dance Off Danger Commendation will now progress when triggering groups of enemies (either pirates or skeletons) to dance with a Jigball-loaded trap. Improvements have also been made to ensure this Commendation now triggers more consistently when meeting the required criteria.

- The Pied Pirate Piper Commendation criteria have now been changed so that it can be achieved during solo play./p>

- The Comfortable Sneaker Commendation can now be progressed while on a Skeleton Ship.

- The Hidden in Plain Sight Commendation will now progress when using disguises on the Burning Blade.

- When the Dart Radial input keybind is shared with another action, the Dart Radial input will take priority and not leave players unable to use either action.

- Players rapidly switching the blowpipe’s various dart types should no longer find they become unable to do so.

- Players using Toggle Radial Menus will now consistently be able to close the Blowpipe Dart Radial.

- The Dart Ammo Radial now closes consistently when the blowpipe is stowed or swapped.

- Players will no longer fire two shots faster than intended when attempting to fire a blowpipe soon after sprinting or crouching.

- Firing a dart and then quickly stowing the weapon will now consistently fire the dart as intended.

- Players exiting crouch while holding Aim Down Sights will no longer appear in an idle stance to others, and will consistently appear aiming their equipped weapon.

- Switching weapons just before interacting with a hanging point no longer causes players to lose access to their weapons.

- Players crouching before grabbing onto a ladder will now return to a crouch when letting go.

- Players will no longer hear water splash effects when using crouch to cancel the action to throw from a bucket.

- Players are no longer able to hide treasure in an underwater crevasse near The Reaper’s Hideout.

- Improvements have been made at the Lagoon of Whispers and Picaroon Palms to prevent players from becoming stuck in the environment.

- Players are now prevented from reaching outside the environment at Blind Man’s Lagoon.

- The prompt to climb ladders at Shipwreck Bay now appears in a reachable location.

- ‘The Quest for Guybrush’: Players can no longer become stuck behind rocks near the town entrance.

‘The Lair of LeChuck’: The Grapple Gun will no longer allow players to access restricted areas of the map.

- ‘Heart of Fire’: The Grapple Gun will no longer allow players to access restricted areas.

- Players bailing water in quick succession should now consistently hear the audio effects for scooping and throwing.

- Players will no longer experience pitched audio effects across the game during the Ashen Lord’s smoke screen.

- Players afflicted by a Jigball prior to entering the Tunnels of the Damned will now animate correctly when moving.

- The Shadow Skeleton Captain’s hat now appears at the correct size when shifting into shadow form.

- The flame effects on the Obsidian Captain’s Chandelier are now aligned correctly.

- Pirates of all sizes using the King’s Chest disguise will no longer see their legs poking through.

- The Magpie’s Glory Pocket Watch face has been made darker and now consistently shows the correct time.

- The Stormfish Chaser Blunderbuss now sits correctly in the middle of the screen when aiming down sights.

- The Merchant Alliance Shirt now displays correctly across a range of pirate body sizes.

- Petting dogs and foxes will no longer cause the animal to slide out of position.

- The Dreamers’ Dust Cannons, Dreamers’ Dust Wheel, Sea of Sands Capstan, Spring Blossom Cannons and Shadow Tide Cannons no longer appear at low visual quality when viewed at close range.

- Players pairing certain long hairstyles with tall jackets will no longer find part of the hairstyle disappears.

- Localisation quality improvements have been made for Spanish (MX), Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese (BR) and Thai languages.

- Players using Game Narration will now find that buttons on the DualSense® Wireless Controller are narrated correctly.

- The prompt to disarm a trap now shows the correct text when the player has a full throwable inventory.

- The Polish translation for the Hung Out to Dry Commendation now correctly defines the unlock criteria.

- The German and Russian translations for the Regal Fortune Cutlass now correctly define its unlock criteria.

- Placeholder text no longer appears in the notifications when progressing the Skull of Siren Song Voyage.

- Further improvements have been made to game stability to reduce scenarios where players unexpectedly exit the game or become disconnected from their session.

- Ancient Megalodons have torn through from the Sea of the Damned and begun terrorising pirate crews with their terrifying powers.

- The Feared Redmaw is a ferocious beast with fiery attacks. Crews must quell its supercharged assault by damaging it to release its pressure and avoid a cataclysmic explosion.

- The menacing Barnacled Dread must have its coral armour removed before the beast can be defeated.

Look out for its shocking bite and ability to summon Eel-ectric Ocean Crawlers onto your ship!

- The Quest Table now offers a range of Voyages on demand for The Hunter’s Call, allowing crews to sail or dive to their location.

- New Fishing Voyages provide hunters with the locations of Treasured Fish where they gather near islands, tasking them to retrieve these new fish for the Company.

- The Treasured Fish caught from these Voyages are unique and highly valuable, so they cannot be cooked, eaten or stored in a player’s inventory.

They can be handed in for gold and reputation, but beware – they can also be stolen by other pirates!

- Hunter’s Call Raid Voyages allow players to experience any of the eight existing Raids on demand, while awarding new Hunter’s Call treasure.

- Crews can now represent The Hunter’s Call as an Emissary, boosting their rewards as they go hunting across the seas.

On reaching Emissary Grade 5, crews should keep an eye on the ship’s map as recent sightings of Ancient Megalodons will now be shown.

- Players sailing as an Emissary will now appear on The Hunter’s Call Emissary Ledger and be eligible to earn new rewards.

- Players can now climb to rank 100 with The Hunter’s Call, with new rewards from the Killer Whale set to unlock as they progress.

Reaching the lofty rank of 100 will unlock the Hunter’s Call Costume along with a Distinction Ring, allowing players to continue representing the Company towards their next Distinction.

- With ferocious new encounters to face and Hunter’s Call treasure on offer, a range of new Commendations have been added within the Reputation tab to challenge would-be hunters.

Explore the challenges under Wild Seas to unlock rewards from the new Eternal Hunt set.

- With the introduction of Hunter’s Call Emissary play, The Reaper’s Bones are now offering the Disgraced Hunter’s Hat for crews willing to claim the Flags of fallen Hunter’s Call Emissaries.

- Four new Pirate Milestones have also been added with Wild Seas, unlocking access to new Trinkets: the ‘Fearsome Flame’, ‘Coral Calamity’ and ‘Tides of Tranquillity’ Trophies along with the ‘Gone Fishin'’ Painting.

- Sea of Thieves servers now support multithreading and have received the first phase of performance improvements.

Parts of the physics and network systems are now directed to a different core and can run in parallel to the main game.

- Performance improvements have been made to how treasure is populated within shipwrecks, ensuring that it’s only placed when crews engage with it and more readily cleaned up to improve server performance if items are left behind.

- Broad performance improvements have been made for players across both PC and console when playing at higher framerates, improving loading behind the scenes based on the client framerate.

These improvements have been tuned to target framerates between 60fps and 120fps, but may also provide some improvements for higher framerates where supported.

- Performance optimisations have taken place on all islands across the Sea of Thieves, with each island receiving a pass. There will be no visible changes to the islands as part of these optimisations.

- Performance optimisations have been made when selling treasure to Trading Company representatives while representing as an Emissary.

- Further performance improvements have been made to how Trinkets are loaded when approaching Captained ships, optimising the experience on PlayStation®5 and Xbox Series consoles.

- The appearance of the Burning Blade is now much rarer on the seas, with the other World Events now increased in rotation.

- In addition to the above areas, this update includes a range of smaller optimisations to game performance providing improvements across the broader experience.

- Switching between dart types is now much more responsive and allows for quicker switching before firing.

These revised trap limits are now shown by a separate Trap category in the player’s inventory.

- Traps will now be included when cycling through throwables by using the available hotkey.

- Changes have been made to a range of islands where ships have been reported to become unsinkable when partially beached in shallow areas, with players taking advantage of this during Faction battles.

- The following islands have been improved to address these shallow spots: Dagger Tooth Outpost, Kraken’s Fall, Shark Tooth Key and Port Merrick.

- The Vaults beneath all Skeleton Forts including the Fort of the Damned have been hidden, with players no longer able to see through the cracks from the floors above to spy the Vault treasures waiting to be claimed.

- Navigating through the game’s various menus has been improved when using a controller, providing a more fluid experience when navigating in diagonal movements and held directions now scrolling across larger areas.

- These menu navigation improvements can be customised further in the game’s input settings as ‘Controller Menu Deadzone’ and ‘Controller Menu Repeat Speed’.

- Fans of the Lucky Hand set can now find the instruments available at Outpost equipment shops.

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

- Players can now purchase the Cursed Bone clothing set, along with a range of unique one-off items first available during this Season. Pirate Legends can also pick up Flameheart’s Hat and Cutlass.

- The time-limited Cursed Bone Flag, Sails, Makeup, Tattoo and Scar, however, remain exclusive to players who participated in Season Eight.

- Further detection improvements continue to roll out behind the scenes targeting players who evade game bans to regain access to Sea of Thieves.

These improvements will continue to be deployed in phases over the coming months to systematically crack down on banned players and prevent them from returning to the seas.

- Following the introduction of the Quest Table and the refreshed Voyages delivered in Season 11, players have discovered techniques to increase their progression and gold acquisition in unintended, accelerated ways.

The Sea of Thieves team now has the ability to apply cooldowns to specific Voyages should crews start and cancel the same Voyage repeatedly in a short space of time.

- While no Voyage restrictions have yet been placed as part of this update, the team will continue to monitor player behaviour and target specific Voyages as part of future updates.

- The Sea of Thieves live team now has the ability to temporarily lock a Voyage and prevent it from being started on the Quest Table.

This allows the team to react quickly and protect players in the live environment should a high-impact issue occur, without the need to take the game down for maintenance.

- A new accessibility feature has been introduced to improve the readability of Riddle Maps.

Within the Language settings of the game menu, players can enable a Custom Text Overlay and further customise the appearance, adjusting screen position, font size, background and text colours.

- After preferences have been saved, the overlay will be applied when viewing any Riddle Map, with a scroll bar available for longer text.

- When players dive to a Faction battle, the enemy ship will now consistently appear visible upon surfacing to begin the encounter.

- Players using a Grapple Gun to pull another player while in the water can no longer cause their target to rotate.

- The audio effects for scooping and throwing water when bailing should now play consistently when performed in quick succession.

- The audio effects for a ship filling and creaking when taking on water are now prioritised over other effects, ensuring that these cues are always clear to players.

- Damage marks shown on the outside of a ship’s hull will now appear correctly based on the damage dealt.

- Throwables such as blunderbombs targeting the rear hull of the Galleon will now consistently impact the hull’s surface and not pass through certain areas to land inside the ship.

- Blowpipe darts embedded in moving ships are now more easily targeted and can be consistently destroyed through player actions.

- The prior fix to the Armoury (3.2.3) that addressed players being unable to switch weapons after receiving knockback damage has been reverted to prevent further impact. This issue will be addressed in a future update.

- Any open radial menus now close when crouching, preventing a range of visual issues caused by attempting to wield items while crouched.

- ‘The Journey to Mêlée Island’: Emissary Grade progression is no longer awarded when collecting items found within the Tall Tale.

- Players on PS5® using cross-play should no longer experience game instability when communicating with other players using voice chat across platforms.

- Players on PS5® who are members of a Distinction 10 Guild will no longer experience game instability when navigating the front end menu.

- Further improvements have been made to game stability to reduce scenarios where players unexpectedly exit the game or become disconnected from their session.

- Traps should now consistently rest on the ground when placed in a range of locations.

- Throwing a trap inside a tavern will no longer prevent players from interacting with it or switching to other equipment.

- Players setting the trap will now correctly receive the Red Alert Raider Commendation when meeting the necessary criteria, while those triggering the trap will no longer increase Commendation progress.

- Resolved an issue that caused the Quest Table to display an extended loading spinner when browsing for Voyages.

- When using low graphics settings, browsing the Pirate Emporium from the Quick Menu during gameplay should no longer cause textures to fail to load within the Emporium and across the wider game upon exiting.

- Players earning Distinctions for a Trading Company will now see the correct rank when viewing the Pirate’s Log from the front end menu.

- Skeletons that emerge at Crow’s Nest Fortress and Barnacle Cay Temple should now appear in the correct locations and not become stuck.

- ‘The Lair of LeChuck’: Players can no longer become stuck among palm trees during this Tall Tale.

- Shadow Skeletons set on fire while in shadow form no longer display distorted visual effects.

- Firing a ship’s cannon equipped with various Cannon Flares at Ghost Ships will no longer cause visual issues to appear within the sails.

- Dying during the final wave of a Siren Treasury encounter will no longer cause the music to overlap.

- The Cardinal Lodestar and Lodestar Spyglass now sit correctly in players’ hands across all body sizes.

- Players wearing the Captaincy of Courage Jacket or Dress now appear correctly when observed by others.

- The Horn of Fair Winds and Trident of Dark Tides now appear correctly when viewed at different distances.

- The Kate Capsize hairstyle now fits neatly around tall jackets across all pirate body sizes.

- The Tiny Tree Emote’s visual effect now disappears when the emote is cancelled.

- The light effect of the Ancestral Collector’s Figurehead is no longer visible from inside the ship, and the item now appears correctly when lowering the graphic settings.

- The visual effects of the Radiant Comet Collector’s Figurehead now remain visible when viewed at a short distance.

- Green smoke from the Checkmate Cannon Flare is no longer visible to players launched from the cannon.

- ‘Lords of the Sea’: The Black Pearl now consistently appears with a golden glow at the end of the Tall Tale.

- ‘The Quest for Guybrush’: Stan's voiceover should continue to be heard after being locked inside the wardrobe.

- ‘The Lair of LeChuck’: Murray’s skeleton now appears correctly once his head is attached.

- ‘The Lair of LeChuck’: Improvements made to the Quest Book to address overlapping text in French and Italian languages.

- Improvements made to consistency in terminology across Simplified Chinese, Thai and Brazilian Portuguese languages.

- Players can now wield trusty hunting spears which can be aimed and thrown, dealing damage to roaming wildlife and other players alike.

- Hunting spears can even be loaded into a ship’s cannons for extra power and fired at players or other ships.

When fired into a ship, the spear will lodge in the hull, causing a small damage hole. Removing it will increase the hole size, so be prepared to repair!

- Hunting parties looking to stock up their ship should visit The Hunter’s Call representatives, who will sell hunting spears up to a limit of five.

Hunting spears can also be discovered washed up on shores, within shipwrecks and among the rewards earned when defeating Skeleton Ships.

- While sailing the open seas, crews may now find they are joined by seagulls who fly alongside the ship as it sails. These birds will disperse if they sense danger!

- While out exploring islands, players may now stumble upon small lizards basking in the daytime sun.

- Crews creeping into a dark cave may disturb a flock of bats, who will promptly flee from their hiding spot.

- Players exploring the shallows near islands may now come face to face with a smack of jellyfish.

While these floating jellies may seem threatening, fear not, they’re harmless!

- With the introduction of the hunting spear, new Commendations have been added within the Reputation tab to challenge aspiring hunters. Explore the new challenges under Wild Seas to unlock weapons from the Eternal Hunt set.

- The Fishing Maps provided on Captain’s Fishing Voyages now provide crews with only a partial piece of the island near the fishing location, making it more of a challenge to locate the fishing spots.

- Crews on a Fishing Voyage will no longer find they are attacked by emergent threats on the island with the fishing spots.

- The Feared Redmaw and Barnacled Dread now take reduced damage from a blowpipe’s Poison Dart.

- The Sloop, Brigantine and Galleon have been rebuilt behind the scenes, breaking up each ship into smaller parts, allowing them to be loaded in sections by the server.

This work will provide server performance improvements when ships are created at the start of a session, in addition to ships arriving on a server after diving or naturally through server migration.

- Performance optimisations have been made to Storage Crates and Resource Barrels, addressing spikes in framerate when repeatedly interacting with their inventories over longer sessions.

- Performance improvements have been made to the way treasure items floating in water are managed across the server.

- Further performance improvements have been made to how Trinkets are loaded when approaching Captained ships. Trinkets are now gradually loaded in over time and will only fully load when much closer to the ship, further reducing the performance impact when approaching ships at sea.

- A new management system is now in operation on the server, controlling the activation of certain events and encounters to ensure that the server has the necessary resources to safely operate the activity. Encounters with an emergent Megalodon are now controlled by this system, with further events to follow in future updates.

- In addition to the above areas, this update includes a range of smaller optimisations to game performance that provide improvements across the broader experience.

- Players navigating to Frame Rate Lock within the Video settings will now find supporting information clearly advising them to lock their frame rate for a more consistent experience.

- Traps can now be placed in and around the Outpost taverns, allowing crews to lie in wait for unsuspecting players.

- Players triggering a nearby trap when arriving in the tavern at the start of their game session will remain unharmed and not suffer damage while ‘waking up’.

- Players grappling to a location will now have a unique animation, showing their pirate flailing as they’re pulled through the air.

- Mighty Lightbearer Flag, Hull, Collector’s Figurehead and Collector’s Sails

- Silent Lightbearer Flag, Hull, Collector’s Figurehead and Collector’s Sails

- Dire Dark Warsmith Weapons: Double Barrel Pistol, Throwing Knives, Grapple Gun and Blowpipe

- The Outposts now stock equipment, instruments and a range of weapons from the Azure Scout set, available for purchase at their respective shops.

- When browsing bundles within the Pirate Emporium, players can now navigate directly to the ‘Browse All’ menu from a shortcut at the bottom of the screen.

- Players who suffer from emetophobia (fear of vomit/vomiting) can now turn off all vomit-related audio effects from the Audio settings, including sounds made by players and pets.

- Players grappling to a ship’s ladder should no longer find themselves temporarily appearing in a different location.

- Items dropped in various areas of Siren Shrines and Treasuries will no longer float up to unreachable locations.

- Items dropped into shallow pools on islands will now float properly instead of hovering high above the surface.

- Reaper’s Chests hidden within shipwrecks will once again show their tell-tale beacon from across the seas, and no longer require a crew to approach before they become visible.

- All blowpipes have been reviewed and their aiming improved to ensure shots now align with the tip of the blowpipe when fired.

- Players can no longer grapple treasure through the open storeroom windows of Sea Forts.

- Tall Tale items from locations within the Sea of the Damned can no longer be brought back to the Sea of Thieves.

- Melee attacks from a throwing knife below the deck of the ship should no longer appear to hit an invisible surface in various locations.

- The Dance Off Danger Commendation will now progress when players use a Bone Caller to target Obsidian Skeletons.

- Captains can now place up to five Banner of the Hunter and Merrick Shipmate Trinkets on their ship once unlocked.

- The Orb of Secrets can now be sold to The Hunter’s Call for the same price as other Trading Companies.

- Hunter’s Call treasure sold to The Reaper’s Bones no longer increases progress towards Call of the Hunter Commendations.

- Players with a Treasured Fish on their line should no longer see the fish reappear in the water when crouching or swapping items before retrieving it.

- The fishing spots at Isle of Last Words have been moved further away from the shore to ensure crews can fish successfully.

- Frenzied fishing spots now fade away once all fish are caught and a Voyage is completed.

- Fishing spot visual effects no longer appear inside the ship’s hull if the ship stops on the fishing spot.

- Commendation progress for defeating Ancient Megalodons is now awarded to all crews participating in the encounter by dealing damage, not just the crew that lands the final hit.

- While attacks by Ancient Megalodons can occasionally overturn a ship, the frequency of this occurrence has now been reduced.

- Ancient Megalodons should now be able to navigate smoothly around the Fort of the Dammed.

- Defeating an Ancient Megalodon will now be recorded in the Captain’s Logbook.

- Firing a Grapple Gun at the Barnacled Dread will no longer cause the tether to attach to a distant location.

- Crews can now progress the Who Needs a Bigger Boat? Commendation when attacking an Ancient Megalodon with a Cannon Rowboat.

- Captains defeating an Ancient Megalodon will now progress The Feared Pirate Milestones and Ship Milestones.

- Crews defeating an Ancient Megalodon should now consistently find the Hunter of the Feared Redmaw and Hunter of the Barnacled Dread Commendations progress correctly.

- Players stroking a pig while jumping will now appear to stroke the pig correctly after landing and the pig will remain in the correct position.

- Crews performing multiple server migrations during a single session should no longer experience rubberbanding and server desync.

- Further improvements have been made to game stability to reduce scenarios where players unexpectedly exit the game or become disconnected from their session.

- Players who were previously unable to save changes to their game settings should now find that these are saved consistently when leaving a session, and no longer need to be changed at the start of a new session.

- Players attempting to open their game settings and the Quest Table at the same time should no longer become stuck.

- Using the back button while navigating the Pet Chest with a virtual keyboard on consoles will no longer cause the menu to become stuck, preventing further input.

- Browsing many pages of the spotlighted sections in the Pirate Emporium will no longer cause the menu to become unresponsive.

- In multiple areas of the experience where a player’s gamertag is shown within a menu, a shortcut button can now be used to summon the player profile on supported platforms.

- Switching pirates within the pirate selection screen on the front end should no longer cause the lighting to flicker.

- Players using the ship’s wheel on a Brigantine will no longer have their game chat muffled when speaking.

- Multiple crews gathering to join the Legend of Glitterbeard will now find the visual effects light consistently with the music.

- Players using a disguise while wearing a Curse with visual effects will no longer find those effects give away their disguise by appearing briefly when other players approach.

- Players wearing a Stately Shirt should now find that all hairstyles appear correctly.

- Players with tattoos wearing a Stately Shirt should now find the tattoos appear correctly.

- Previewing a disguise within the Vanity Chest now correctly shows the pirate inside the disguise.

- The Hidden in Plain Sight and Be Alluring to Get Ahead Trophies are now correctly sized and positioned when previewed in the shipwright’s shop or a player’s Trinket collection.

- Switching from crouching to standing while holding a fishing rod will no longer cause the rod to momentarily appear in the middle of the screen.

- The belt of the Dark Adventurers Jacket no longer merges through the pirate when performing emotes.

- Players performing the Swashbuckling Story Emote should now correctly see the sword.

- Further improvements have been made to a range of existing hairstyles, ensuring they remain visible when wearing certain costumes.

- The Party Boat Jacket and Gloves now appear correctly on pirates of all body sizes.

- Players wearing Carla’s Costume should now find the medallion appears correctly on pirates of all body sizes.

- During the Ritual of the Flame sequence, the liquid in the chalice will now drain correctly.

- During the Ritual of the Flame sequence, glowing eyes will no longer be visible on the skeleton during the transition.

- The Pirate Lord now displays the correct visual effects when banging his staff during tutorial sequences.

- The lower jaw of the Obsidian Ashen Winds Skull now shows the correct material when being fired.

- Players using a disguise while wearing the Burning Eyepatch of the Ashen Dragon should no longer see visual effects floating above the disguise when moving.

- Glint effects on nearby treasure now appear consistently when moving in and out of range.

- After a Skeleton Fort Key is inserted into the Vault door, it will no longer appear to float in the air.

- Players wearing the Intrepid Explorer Jacket now appear correctly when performing a range of emotes.

- Crews equipping the Fog-Piercing Frog Lantern will now find the visual effects appear correctly after diving.

- Performing the Scrappy Weapon Pose or Menacing Weapon Pose Emote with a blowpipe should now trigger the correct emote.

- The flowers on Forest’s Blessing Costumes are no longer affected by nearby storms.

- The Ghost Ship’s Crest now appears correctly in the Ship Customisation Chest preview.

- All Skeleton Vaults have received a polish pass, ensuring their contents are completely hidden from the outside and the cracks in the flooring blend with the environment.

- Mercy’s End Fortress now has an Armoury for players to change their loadout.

- Players making their way onto a Skeleton Sloop will now find they can safely navigate the ship without hitting invisible surfaces.

- Walking into skeletons found deep within The Reaper’s Lair should no longer cause the player’s camera to stutter.

- When descending to the Shrine of Flooded Embrace, players should no longer find they can pass through certain doors before they are unlocked.

- After players dive to and complete a Raid Voyage for The Hunter’s Call, the Captain’s Logbook will now correctly record the arrival location instead of always displaying Discovery Ridge.

- Speicherverbrauch von 100,4 GB auf 100,9 GB erhöht (nur für Xbox Series X|S)

- The Outpost weaponsmiths have begun teasing an elusive new dart for the blowpipe that will allow players to hide in plain sight and confuse their enemies.

While this new dart type is not yet ready to be stocked by the weaponsmiths, a delivery is expected to arrive later in the Season.

- If you encounter this bug, a potential work around is to sail away from the island until it’s out of range,

- Joining a player whose ship is parked at an active skeleton fort will prevent the joining player’s radial menus being opened.

- Rare Lore Items throughout the world will read in English, regardless of current language settings.

- Players may experience details of their pirate (such as hair colour / scars) looking different from their initial selection.

- Achievements earned prior to March 29th are delayed, but will be awarded once our fix is applied.

- Some players are unable to equip a second weapon. For a potential workaround see our Support Article.

For an update on these three issues, please read our Launch Update written by Executive Producer, Joe Neate.

If you pre-ordered from the official Microsoft Store, please submit a Support ticket through Support.

If you pre-ordered from another retailer, please contact them to receive your code.

- Some players cannot see their downloadable content in game. Please read our Support Article for a potential workaround for this issue.

If you encounter this bug, a potential work around is to sail away from the island until it's out of range,

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