Sea of Thieves replace Ashen Winds has Ashen Lords who spit hearth, scorched pets, extra

Dealing Damage Through the Environment

• All melee and ranged weapons at the moment are prevented from dealing harm by way of the stable surfaces of the ship. This means gamers can duck behind the mast for canopy throughout a ranged weapon face-off, or sink under deck to make use of the surroundings and a few fast footwork to achieve a bonus in sword fight.
• Shots from ranged weapons can nonetheless cross by way of ship railings, stairs, and decking grates, offering tactical alternatives to interact rival gamers on totally different ranges of the ship.

Inactive Ships in The Arena

• If a rival crew leaves an energetic contest, their ship now begins to sink immediately, stopping any additional silver acquire from damaging it.

World Event Encounters

• The frequency of Ashen Lord encounters is elevated at some point of the Ashen Winds replace.

Skeleton Ship Restocking

• Defeating a Skeleton Ship will now reward gamers with a storage crate containing meals, wooden, and cannonballs.

Skeleton Fort Waves

• New waves of skeletons seem way more rapidly after the horn is sounded.

Swapping Between Emotes

• Players now retain entry to the Emote Radial whereas performing an emote, permitting them to modify to a different emote simply.

Mute Voice Chat Keybind

• Players at the moment are in a position to set a keybind for the ‘Mute All Other Crews’ choice, permitting sooner entry to muting others when wanted.

Barrel Inventory Mouse Navigation

• Opening a barrel stock will reset the mouse cursor to the middle of the display. This setting is now configurable throughout the Accessibility Settings underneath ‘Recenter Mouse in Menus’.

Korean and Polish Support

• Sea of Thieves now options Korean and Polish localization throughout the whole game.

‘My Crew’ Visibility

• The in-game crew administration menu will now present gamers that take up a slot in a crew even when they aren’t presently in-game. This ought to higher visualize gamers who’re nonetheless within the means of becoming a member of a game or misplaced their connection however have a reserved slot.
• The choice to ask associates will now be disabled if the crew is full.

Emissary Meter

• The Emissary meter within the nook of the display show now has a revised round design.

Emissary Wallet

• When representing as an Emissary and cashing in rewards, this exhibits the bottom worth together with the bonus worth earned from the Emissary multiplier.

Settings Screens

• Updates have been made to Gameplay and Accessibility Settings display layouts to enhance navigation.

Single-Stick Control

• The capacity to play with a single analog stick can now be enabled within the Accessibility Settings menu. This assigns motion and turning to 1 analog stick chosen by the participant, in addition to enabling auto-center for the digicam, auto-float, and glued place interplay factors.

Auto-center Camera

• While the auto-center digicam is enabled by default when utilizing single-stick controls, this function is accessible individually from Accessibility Settings. Options are supplied to configure the delay earlier than centering, together with the digicam motion pace.

Auto-Float Accessibility

• Auto-float is enabled by default when utilizing single-stick management and can be toggled on individually. When enabled, gamers will at all times float routinely to the water’s floor. Note that this does stop swimming down by way of water.

Accessibility Settings Reset

• The Accessibility Settings menu now has a reset choice to alter all accessibility choices again to their default values.

‘Let Games Read to Me’ Improvements

• When the ‘Let Games Read to Me’ choice is enabled, there at the moment are enhanced narration directions whereas navigating menus and settings.
• Status messages in menus equivalent to ‘Reporting for Duty’ and ‘Searching the Seas’ together with error message pop-ups at the moment are narrated to enhance accessibility.
• Each radial menu has additionally obtained enhanced narration and can determine the present choice together with the variety of choices on the radial menu.

Speech-To-Text Override

• Within the Accessibility Settings menu, gamers can now override the Xbox platform setting and allow speech-to-text.

Default Settings for New Players

• New gamers coming into Sea of Thieves will now discover that the ‘Text Chat in Menus’ setting is enabled by default, guaranteeing that gamers who require speech-to-text for his or her expertise will now obtain messages whereas navigating in-game menus. Existing gamers is not going to have their settings modified.

Gameplay

• When a participant is within the water and a mermaid has appeared, the mermaid will now stay till the participant’s ship reaches a a lot nearer proximity.
• Ashen Key Masters will now emergently spawn on islands.
• Killing a participant shortly after they’re revived after which reviving them once more will not trigger animation points.
• The Ghost Lantern now casts a inexperienced gentle over the encompassing space.
• Obstructions to visibility whereas utilizing the Blighted Cannons have been eliminated.
• Emissary Grade meter UI now exhibits for gamers who be a part of a crew of energetic Emissaries.
• Fixed progress monitoring for Curse of the Foul Grog and Curse of the Dancing Demon Commendations.
• Fixed progress monitoring for Commendations tied to handing in widespread and unusual Athena’s Treasures.
• The ‘Mute All Other Crews’ choice will not mute crewmates on Windows 10.
• Players will not lose the flexibility to speak when utilizing in-game voice chat.
• Crew slots occupied by gamers who exit to desktop on Windows 10 will not keep energetic.

Combat and Hit Registration

• Improved chain shot hit registration on ship masts.
• Improved projectile and melee hit registration throughout all areas of the Sloop.
• Improved hit registration when gamers are engaged in melee fight whereas swimming on the floor and underwater.
• Gunpowder Kegs being carried by rival gamers whereas they climb a ladder will be blown up.
• Improved hit registration when attacking rival gamers who’re standing on a ship’s yardarm.
• The Rowboat now blocks any melee assaults from under.
• Blunderbombs and firebombs can be utilized at any depth throughout underwater fight.
• The ship’s wheel now solely blocks photographs fired at its central picket construction.
• The rear partitions of the Sloop across the hatches now block projectiles fired by way of the hull.

Radial Menus

• Quick Select will now accurately equip the earlier merchandise held when wielding a weapon or holding nothing.
• Items geared up through hotkey will likely be remembered when subsequent utilizing Quick Select.
• There is now a contextual Non-Verbal Radial when climbing up the ladder to the crow’s nest.
• Fixed on-screen message delay when Quick Selecting a non-verbal communication phrase from the radial.
• When reconfiguring the Non-Verbal Radial to not use the A Button or the Space Bar, gamers at the moment are in a position to bounce.
• The Non-Verbal Radial will now show the proper phrases when holding a pet.
• The radial supervisor keybinding names at the moment are according to the setting names.

Ghost Ships

• Treasure dropped by a sunken Ghost Ship and the phantoms that circle it’s going to persist if a participant migrates to a brand new server.
• The bounty goal location in an energetic Ghost Ship Voyage will refresh if the participant migrates to a brand new server throughout a Ghost Ship encounter.
• Flameheart’s taunts to gamers colliding with Ghost Ships will solely play for the crew whose ship is being broken.

The Arena

• The Arena vote tally format has been modified to be extra seen.
• After muting a participant in a rival crew in The Arena, they now keep muted even after different gamers be a part of their crew.

Visual and Audio

• Fixed cases of devices taking part in with out audio when switching between devices or shanties.
• Scraping a ship towards a floor ought to not trigger the grinding audio impact to persist after crusing away.
• Placing ghostly loot on a Rowboat docked to a ship will not trigger the ghostly impact to stutter when the ship is shifting.
• Players swimming underwater throughout Tall Tales and Ghost Ship encounters will be capable of hear Flameheart’s voice extra clearly when he speaks.
• Previously set quantity settings now persist when returning to the entrance finish after leaving the game.
• Collision has been improved on partitions alongside the picket walkway within the Pirate Legend Hideout.
• Updated Sea of Thieves boot-up picture.
• References to ‘Sail Hoist’ on sail interplay factors and the Pirate Chat Radial have been modified to ‘Sail Length’.
• Ghosts Ships now persistently set off an implosion impact when destroyed.
• Fixed brightness of sunshine mirrored off a spyglass when taking a look at loot and different gamers at night time.
• Opening crates now performs a sound.
• The camp on Cannon Cove is not illuminated at night time.

Accessibility

• The ‘Game Transcription Override’ setting now persists throughout classes.
• Improved textual content visibility for longer reward merchandise names within the contextual Non-Verbal Radial.
• When utilizing ‘Let Games Read to Me’ upon returning to the entrance finish after taking part in, the display is now narrated.
• When utilizing ‘Let Games Read to Me’, the narrator will not loop within the ‘Choose your Experience’ display earlier than the Maiden Voyage, or if a participant backs out from Crew Setup.
• When utilizing ‘Let Games Read to Me’, altering the keybindings within the Settings menu will now be narrated accurately.

Performance and Stability

• Steam – urgent Alt+Tab in-game not causes lengthy pauses when returning to the game.
• Steam – efficiency has been improved round Outposts and world occasion encounters for lower-spec machines.
• Performance optimizations applied to scale back texture loading points on Devil’s Thirst for lower-spec machines.
• Improved server stability when gamers are utilizing Quick Select to return to their final used gear.
• Improved game stability when returning to a ship the place a participant is concurrently being revived.
• Players experiencing a corrupt set up on UWP or Steam will now be notified by a pop-up when trying to launch the game.

Players Impacted Following Server Migration

• We are presently monitoring plenty of player-impacting points which may happen following a server migration. These embody crews migrating close to Outposts discovering themselves moved to a location the place one other ship is already current, and points with ship interplay factors following a migration.

Increased Latency and Server Correction

• In instances of excessive server density, some servers can exhibit efficiency hits resulting in elevated latency. This could lead to lag spikes throughout gameplay, rubberbanding, and server correction.

Ranged and Melee Weapon Hit Detection

• In areas of intense motion, gamers could discover themselves firing photographs or touchdown strikes that don’t trigger harm to their targets. While enhancements proceed to be delivered throughout our content material updates, this continues to be a key precedence for the workforce.

Stuck UI Menus

• When interacting with a barrel and shifting rapidly by way of its stock, gamers could discover that the barrel’s state isn’t up to date as gadgets are eliminated. Players also can expertise the Game Options turning into caught on-screen when exiting a barrel on this state.