Sea of Thieves gamers: say farewell to your spyglass willies as a result of they’ve been patched out.
Sea of Thieves has been patched to take away a difficulty with spyglasses induced with replace 1.2.4. Hopefully, you had loads of enjoyable making spyglass wangs and took tons of screenshots earlier than it was fastened.
Along with right this moment’s patch, Rare offered perception into why it modifications had been made to the Barrel system, one thing with didn’t please many gamers. You can hear design director Mike Chapman focus on the topic within the newest developer video posted above the patch notes.
Patch 1.2.5 provides the primary of many high quality of life enhancements to the barrel system right this moment:
- Bilge Rat Doubloons – To reward pirates who hold the skeleton scourge at bay, Doubloons for Cursed Crews Commendations will stay obtainable to earn even after the Cursed Crews Bilge Rat Adventure ends.
- Empty Barrel Tooltip – Barrels now show a tooltip to point they’re empty. Players will not have to work together with a barrel with a view to uncover there’s nothing inside.
- Resource Balancing – Barrels are much less more likely to be discovered empty on the planet, serving to to lowering the time taken to restock ships.
- Quick Menu – The “Equipment” and “Resources” tabs inside the Quick Menu have been swapped round because the “Resources” tab is used mostly and must be the simplest to entry.
- Here, Take This… Too! – Players can now give and share treasure gadgets in the identical method they provide and take cannonballs and bananas! Gunpowder Kegs and the Chest of a Thousand Grogs will nonetheless must be dropped to be exchanged.
“These improvements to empty barrel identification and resource level increases are the first of many improvements we have planned for future updates,” reads the replace.
Additional notes for patch 1.2.5:
- Fixed situation with telescope clipping.
- Caged pigs can now be fed once more.
- Bounty Skulls that are washed up on islands can now be picked up.
- The Hunter Jacket and Trousers now show with their right colors.
- Solo sailor crews can now entry Crew Privacy settings.
- Items positioned on the bow of the Brigantine can now be picked again up.
- It is not attainable to be kicked out of the ship’s Cannonball Barrel stock because of the ship’s motion on the waves.
- Players hit by the Emote Cursed Cannonball will not expertise the hit animation when the impact wears off.
- It is not attainable to scroll by means of the UI on the Ship Selection Menu.
- Shooting a Blunderbuss underwater will now show the proper VFX.
Known points:
- Merchant Alliance crates on board a ship which sinks is not going to float to the floor and can’t be picked up. Issue recognized, repair within the works.
- Gold Metal Skeletons can’t be affected by buckets of water. Fix coming in a future replace.
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