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This 2.10.3 update lays the groundwork for the full Season 12 launch coming up on April 30th, while also introducing the first pirates on PlayStation®5 to the world of Sea of Thieves during an Early Access period. Be sure to extend a warm welcome if you meet them on the seas!
Fates of Fortune
Chest of Fortune
Hit Registration Improvements
New Outpost Stock!
Report a Player
Gameplay
Open Crew Matchmaking Temporarily Disabled
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This 2.10.3 update lays the groundwork for the full Season 12 launch coming up on April 30th, while also introducing the first pirates on PlayStation®5 to the world of Sea of Thieves during an Early Access period. Be sure to extend a warm welcome if you meet them on the seas!
Fates of Fortune
Chest of Fortune
- 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.
Hit Registration Improvements
- 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.
New Outpost Stock!
- 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. Pirate Legends can also pick up Merrick’s Tankard and Grimm’s Jacket.
- The time-limited Ancient Gold items, however, remain exclusive to players who participated in Season Five.
Report a Player
- 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 players 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.
Gameplay
- 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.
- Shipwrights should now consistently deliver purchased supplies to Captains.
- Players losing treasure during the Merchant Alliance or Order of Souls Tutorial Voyages will now find the Voyage cancelled.
- Players can no longer use a cannon to generate additional throwables.
- 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.
- 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.
Open Crew Matchmaking Temporarily Disabled
- Due to an issue discovered in this update, players will not currently have the option to select and join an Open Crew session from the front end menu. The team are working to resolve this issue and restore Open Crew matchmaking as part of our full Season 12 update on April 30th.
Download and Installation
Download Size:
- Steam: 8.3GB
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