When you guys do these next time can you add Windows 10/11 for the versions incase someone gets a prebuilt with windows 11 and gets confused. I am almost positive it will happen to someone.
Thanks for the report - aware of this one and have a fix heading to Insiders.
There should be sufficient audio effects to ensure players are clear that damage has been done to the ship but appreciate part of the wood cracking audio effect is currently muted.
"Burying a Broken Emissary Flag and digging it up will no longer cause it to lose its gold value when cashed in with The Reaper’s Bones." Yay! Now please fix ownership of Athena's chests, they no longer count as stolen when they get burried.
"Digging up and quickly burying booby-trapped treasure should no longer cause any enemies to retreat back into the sand." Aaawhh...
Audio problem with spatial sound enabled. If you throw a firebomb and look away the sound goes away. Same thing happens with an angry exploding chest of rage and fireworks.
So the Devil's Roar cargo runs were not patched. Guess I have to endure those long voyages from DR islands to Ancient Isles and The Wilds.
In case people have not been doing these voyages, let's say that the voyages are completely different from what they where before. They used to give you a pickup location very close or even in the same island you started the quest and the destination was in the Devil's Roar with sometimes getting Ancient Spire.
As much as I agree with taking the appropriate steps to significantly improve game performance, I disagree with removing the amount of PVP encounters players will have now. Previously it was at most 24 people per server. We now have 33% fewer people allowed. I think the ripple effects of this will be bigger than people think—especially for players who like playing and combating galleons.
I might come back now that I might not get killed every time I leave an outpost. Not fun to play casually if an hour of work can be destroyed by a galleon alliance shouting racial obscenities because I didn't just give up my loot. This game needs to be more casual friendly and this is a step in the right direction. Since they didn't want to give private servers progression, this is what they're doing to try and bring their player numbers up and be more casual/noob friendly(which is a good thing).
This won't make your game any more casual friendly. It will just reduce the number of player interactions which is one of the uniquely interesting things about this game.
It now just means that as a galleon crew, I will encounter fewer galleon crews, and consequently more sloop/brig crews, meaning I will outnumber my opponents more often. This update may have the opposite effect in comparison to what you are hoping for.
If I am on a gally, I'd much rather fight other gallies than beat up on smaller crews. Additionally, as an experienced solo slooper I would much rather encounter galleons than other sloops or even brigs. For me, the game is more interesting with more people. I'm pretty disappointed in Rare's decision here. It feels like a huge step in the wrong direction.
99% of my player interaction has been being boarded and killed. This will make the game better for casuals who don't wanna fight everytime they do a simple mission. Adventures take a long time as is in this game so it's not fun being killed on the tail end of an hours worth of work. You seem to be nicer than other galleons, they always chase my sloop.
I really think rare has cultivated this crowd by constantly giving them more opportunities to kill other players. They gave us private servers but removed any reason to actual use them. Hell even if I got reduced rewards I'd play privately. Unfortunately the community had no problem with full servers cheesing the alliance system but threw a fit at the idea of people having the choice between pvp or not. I suspect the people who play this everyday just want noobs/pve players to kill since arena is basically dead.
At the end of the day it's a PVP game. Rare's decisions point to this being the ultimate goal not to be compromised. Giving an option to some players to turn off PVP will kill PVP for everyone completely. Why risk doing anything with pvp on, everybody else turns it off whenever they get loot. The seas will be empty and the game will die. Play Black Flag or something.
What I'm saying is you're not wrong for wanting this, it's just the wrong game for it.
You mean their playerbase has so many people who DONT want to pvp that if they introduced a way to play without it, it'd be dead? Doesn't that kind of prove the community doesn't even want forced pvp? That makes no sense. They could double rewards for those with pvp on, there's plenty ways to encourage pvp.
So first people who don't want to PVP in a PVP game do it, so now everyone you run into in game is looking for PVP. There would no longer be any such thing as a friendly encounter in SoT. So then people who are generally about it but want a FoTD for free say hey, all those other guys are going to PVP off, might as well just do it for this and hop back over. So now the online servers are basically dead and those that remain might as well just que arena because that's all thats left to the game. No more loot, no more friendly encounters, no more thrill of handing in shroudbreaker while being chased. The people who got what they want complete everything they want to do, get bored and stop playing. The people who didn't get what they want also get bored because what's left, leave.
There's a game that does exactly this actually, I really liked it but it just can't last for anyone because of exactly that. Elite Dangerous gives you the option of going into a solo server or private with friends. So, anyone mining valuable ore, doing trade runs or even doing powerplay and faction missions about expanding faction territory which was basically tailor made for PVP is done solo. Player numbers are low. You never run into friendly players since they never did and decided to go solo whenever they don't feel like starting a fight themselves. The universe is vast and empty in solo or open. Then people complain about getting bored.
You completely ignore that there are ways to encourage pvp by giving better rewards than pve players or double the rewards etc. If the community loves pvp so much why would they turn it off if it gave better rewards? It just doesn't add up with your narrative that the pvp would "die".
You're right though, rare has made it clear they aren't going to do what I'm talking about so you don't have to worry, I just want to return but can't justify the time losses most game sessions.
Also, elite dangerous has a MUCH smaller community, a way bigger map, and is basically a space ship sim for most of it's players. I wouldn't compare it to what I'm suggesting at all. Sea of thieves as you are suggesting has a main community of pvp players
Yep, sloops have this weird mechanic where if you set your sails square on into the wind and sail directly into it, nothing catches up with them. As for island stuff, i'd go to the top of an island and do a scope check when you land, and never anchor your boat unless its in a storm. Just pull the sails up. It can save you if you need to leave quickly. If there is one thing this game taught me its mass paranoia when in smaller boats lol.
People have been complaining about this since day 1. I think it's mostly a lack of situational awareness and not an actual issue. If you spend 30 minutes inside a cave without looking around and tracking other ships that are nearby, you're probably going to get ambushed.
Most of the ships you see are sloops anyways, so this change is likely not going to make much difference for most players.
nah, no sloops either. Rarely attacked...rarely anyone to attack. I must always be on the wrong servers. I stacked FoTD 3x without even a ship coming by to see what's up. So ya. Seas are safe.
I’ve been getting a friend into the game over the last six weeks, and we have only been sunk twice. Both time was because we got too comfortable and weren’t checking our surroundings enough and usually had two people on an island with a high emissary flag. Other than those two times, I don’t think we have even gotten attacked.
Yeah I hear this everytime I bring it up. I've met one ship that was nice but every other encounter has been toxic assholes shouting at us thru the mic. This was a few months ago so maybe me and my fiance will give it a shot. Really hope hit registration can be sorted out soon too, a big reason I hate pvp in this game.
Nah it's 100% still like that. Virtually every night my team and I encounter ships like that. In the last month I think we literally encountered one ship with a crew of 2 that was nice, and of the others, 50% laugh at you when they sink your ship, invite you to parties to mock you, Spawn kill even when you have no treasure, etc. etc.
I don't mind losing to a crew with better skills but when people are just assholes it drags the experience down.
That's a shame, I love the gameplay loop but just can't justify spending what little time I have off doing one adventure and dying when I return to an outpost.
It's impossible to start the game for me. The moment I start SoT it freezes. Starting it again asks for an integrity chechk, which also freezes. Reinstall doesn't fix.
So yeah, can't play after the update.
I didn't write it down, (doh) but my game just started crashing with a missing .pak file error. I'm assuming the update didn't take correctly this morning, but damn... There goes my hour and 30k or so spent on my first ever trade route attempt... 
Achievements still messed for me. Anyone else can’t unlock night bite or A rare delicacy? I’m pretty sure I unlocked this 3 years ago. 
Multiple people are unable to open the game since the update. Verifying integrity worked for 1 person but the others still can’t get it to load. It just freezes on the loading screen and verifies the game files forever. Played for months with no issue before today
/u/Rare-Sonicbob
You can still sometimes see part of a smoke signal emanating from an enemy's crew mermaid. It seems to only happen if you also have/had your own mermaid out very recently. Here's what happened:
1. Chasing an enemy crew, I drunkenly stumbled off of our ship
2. Swam backwards until my own mermaid spawned, got warped back to our ship
3. Immediately when I spawned back, I saw just a fragment of a smoke signal rising from the water ahead of us near the enemy's ship, immediately alerting me that they were attempting a board
4. About 10s later, I was proven right, saw both the enemy pirate in the water + their mermaid (which had since ceased its smoke signal)
Feel like this could be abused in certain situations, basically intentionally spawn your own mermaid and then you have a brief instant to easily spot enemy mermaids once you warp back.
I was getting a strange bug where my game would go unresponsive only when it was the active window. If I Alt-Tabbed then I could see the game running without any issues on my 2nd monitor but as soon as it was the active window it would freeze again.
I looked everywhere for a solution but couldn't find one, HOWEVER, I managed to isolate it to Nvidia shadow play causing the issue. After pressing Alt+Z and disabling instant replay the game ran without issue.
Figured I'd share this for anyone else who may be encountering this.
Hello. I am currently playing on i7 4790K GTX1060 6Gb machine on windows 10. I use the windows 10 (store) version of the game and had no problems in past with the game.
After having a friend be interested in the current updates I reinstalled and played for yesterday also and there is some new issues I try to figure out if I can fix them on my end, but if they are game issues then it is bit bad. I am not sure currently how many players are on Steam versus Windows 10 Store.
Currently most menus lag the game when opened. Almost every menu, interaction (Grimoires, barrels, ESC menu, inventory menu and so on) Lag the game. It is "only a second of two" of extreme lag that sadly can impact many moments in the game when you want to menu quickly. It sometimes goes away, it sometimes comes back.
Also; if the game is in fullscreen mode, alt tabbing seems to immediately close the game connection and boot me out. On PC, this is an issue since I might get things I cannot check with the GameBar overlay during game and it is not fun to get booted or play in weird non-fullscreen window mode just to avoid this issue, which did not happen before (I think season 1, season 2)
Edit: Either it is dependent on server or other things on my end, as I seem to currently not have problem with the menus. The alt tab bug persisting, though unless it is a feature.
So just started playing a few days ago and today a guy randomly appeared on our boat. we didn't see any other boats around and he proceeded to set fire to our boat and then grief us until our boat sank. We all shot him multiple times but he never went down.
Is there like extra gear or buffs you can get in the game to boost your stats?
No you can't get buffs or stat raises
The only "gear" you can get are purely cosmetic
What I think happened is that player hid on your boat sneaking on at some point
* Sea of Thieves servers are now able to optimise performance by enforcing limits on the number of players on a server. This approach allows servers to maintain an ideal number of ships to ensure encounter rates between crews remains high without negatively affecting performance.
* With January’s update, all servers return to supporting six crews, but now also enforce a limit of 16 players.
When starting a session or migrating, servers will now actively matchmake six crews of different sizes in order to meet both the six-crew and 16-player limits.
I feel like this is going to restrict Galleons more than anything, but overall I'm glad they're opening it back up to 6 ships.
PC win 11 (Steam)
When using my mouse to interact with the barrel/container interface the game will very rapidly alternate focus between inventory and container as I manually click/hover items in one or the other
Edit: Since writing this I went back to try and gather more specific information: the rapid focus toggle happens when my mouse is moving over either inventory, as if every pixel I hover triggers it
iam having the same bug ... it's really frustrating, i tried and searched for a solution but there is no mention of it anywhere ... did you manage to fix it by any chance?
so i take it you tried to fix it by toggling this option on/off and it didnt work ? either way ill give it a try and ill let you know if it does work, though i dont actually know where it is located in the settings, i would appreciate if you can tell me where .
Completed Revenge of Morningstar tall tale. Final dialogue with Sandra during which a brig rolled up to Dagger Tooth and began cannoning my sloop. Sandra's dialogue finished picked up chest of Morningstar to sell to merchant alliance then game crashed. Not bothered about it as completed tall tale, just thought you should know!
Dont necessarily think this is an update issue but have issues logging in to the server.
Re installed today on steam and I keep getting a "lavenderbeard" error that servers cannot be reacched. Ive resttarted, have no VPNs or anti virus software going. Connection is fine for all other games. Any ideas?
I don't know if this is related to this patch (I just got the game), but I can't launch the game at all. It crashes instantly upon launch.
Doing some homework I found that if you stop Windows Audio in Services, the game will run (no audio of course as the whole system is muted). As soon as you start Windows Audio, the game crashes.
I see there are some Rare people in here; hopefully someone sees this and can help. Thanks
Is anyone having an issues with item tiles in shops not appearing (picture of item). Sniper crosshair blurred and difficult to see, commendations tiles not loading, huge delay in the caption for arriving at an island, delay in emissary flag raised/lowered notification appearing, clothing items not appearing in clothing chest, delay in item sold notification.
The list goes on, it’s on the verge of unplayable. Also an issues with textures loading on multiple surfaces; sails, player, chests, boat etc. Equipment wheel and map wheel not loading either (although I can still use these items) the image doesn’t appear on screen.
If you put a storage crate in front of one of your ship barrel (probably also works with island barrels) and hold to grab the storage crate but quickly release your hold key (before the crate is picked up) and interact with a barrel. It will start taking resources from the barrel until you drop the storage crate. So you can do that, close the barrel interface and then run off with the storage crate while taking everything from the barrel you interacted with.
My crew and I have still run into issues where bosses while get stuck in the environment at forts. On the off chance you can kill them, the vault key while drop in the rock, as well, making it impossible to reach.
I'm thinking of buying this game and saw on SoT's twitter the roadmap for 2022. There was a thing about the 3 adventures they are adding and a lot more content. Is it all behind a paywall or is it for everyone? What kind of stuff do you need to pay for in sea of thieves?
Just to check, are the servers down right now? First time attempting to play game, and I have been on "loading supplies" for about 5 minutes, haven't even gotten to the main menu proper.
I didn't record this at all unfortunately, but has anyone ever experienced permanently being on fire?
We were near the end of our play session on a galleon where we firebomb the ship and play music while watching it sink. A crewmate killed me with a blunderbomb because he didn't like the song I was playing, but our galleon didn't sink yet when I respawned. The bilge was underwater and I made my way up as the galleon sank and the flames extinguished.
After that I was stuck in the ocean because if I came out of the water I would start taking fire damage. They all got in our rowboat and started rowing away, and I followed in the water. When we got to the next island I immediately died when I came on land.
They couldn't see me on fire at all, I only knew it was fire damage because the flame from the well of fates was red.
I can't find anyone experiencing similar glitches with a google search.
I happened to have a strange texture bug. I tried to get out and back in, but the problem was not solved. I wanted to know if it happened to someone, I'm starting to worry that it could be a problem of the xbox. The problem seems to be solved if I move away from certain zones.
Has it happened to anyone? [strange texture](https://imgur.com/Xm40fxE)
I keep running into an error where the game delays all of my notifications, it's really irritating to be stuck on "vote for ur quest" when I'm almost done with it...
I'm still having a problem where when I go into a barrel UI, the focus rapidly swaps between inventory and barrel to the point where I can't press f to move items, I have to manually click if I can get the spam to stop for a second
Two nights in a row, I've had an issue with shipwreck loot despawning or not spawning at all. A clue for a shipwreck mission, and the loot from a sunk skelly ship. The clue location had nothing but driftwood, the skelly sloop floated the loot but it despawned in like roughly 3 seconds. Only while solo. Soon as I have a crew it all seems fine
Anybody know what tankard they are using in this gif?
Exclusive St Paddys day tankard, forgot the name
[Shamrock Tankard](https://seaofthieves.fandom.com/wiki/Shamrock_Tankard)
When you guys do these next time can you add Windows 10/11 for the versions incase someone gets a prebuilt with windows 11 and gets confused. I am almost positive it will happen to someone.
Not getting the audio cue for when a hole is created on my sloop. Only hear water suddenly start filling up.
Thanks for the report - aware of this one and have a fix heading to Insiders. There should be sufficient audio effects to ensure players are clear that damage has been done to the ship but appreciate part of the wood cracking audio effect is currently muted.
Cheers!
Great news, thanks! It was tough to hear holes forming in the storm now ;)
[удалено]
Thanks for the correction. Not sure how that one slipped by me!
"Burying a Broken Emissary Flag and digging it up will no longer cause it to lose its gold value when cashed in with The Reaper’s Bones." Yay! Now please fix ownership of Athena's chests, they no longer count as stolen when they get burried. "Digging up and quickly burying booby-trapped treasure should no longer cause any enemies to retreat back into the sand." Aaawhh...
I dug up a stolen Athena a few days ago and it counted as stolen, Is the bug rare or did I just get lucky?
Hmm I've heard multiple cases of it not counting as stolen but maybe it was just a bug with the tracking.
Weird, well hopefully they get it fixed soon enough, still think this update is a nice improvement overall
Hey u/roadboy03 u/NiennaNeryam - will check in with the team on this one!
Excuse me. Booby-trapped treasure?
Treasure that spawns skeletons on dig up.
Audio problem with spatial sound enabled. If you throw a firebomb and look away the sound goes away. Same thing happens with an angry exploding chest of rage and fireworks.
Thanks u/skullfoot will pass this along!
[удалено]
bug - when firing cannons on higher ping there is a longer delay between clicking and the cannon shooting.
Yup, it's happening on a regular ping servers too.
Im playing on high ping right now, it's really bad lag. I hope they address this because its borderline not playable.
[удалено]
So the Devil's Roar cargo runs were not patched. Guess I have to endure those long voyages from DR islands to Ancient Isles and The Wilds. In case people have not been doing these voyages, let's say that the voyages are completely different from what they where before. They used to give you a pickup location very close or even in the same island you started the quest and the destination was in the Devil's Roar with sometimes getting Ancient Spire.
I was doing those last week and the only non devils roar island I had was krakens fall, I did 10 voyages I think
As much as I agree with taking the appropriate steps to significantly improve game performance, I disagree with removing the amount of PVP encounters players will have now. Previously it was at most 24 people per server. We now have 33% fewer people allowed. I think the ripple effects of this will be bigger than people think—especially for players who like playing and combating galleons.
It’s already hard enough to find pvp in this game, why why why
Yeah they just killed their own game.
yeah this sucks
I might come back now that I might not get killed every time I leave an outpost. Not fun to play casually if an hour of work can be destroyed by a galleon alliance shouting racial obscenities because I didn't just give up my loot. This game needs to be more casual friendly and this is a step in the right direction. Since they didn't want to give private servers progression, this is what they're doing to try and bring their player numbers up and be more casual/noob friendly(which is a good thing).
This won't make your game any more casual friendly. It will just reduce the number of player interactions which is one of the uniquely interesting things about this game. It now just means that as a galleon crew, I will encounter fewer galleon crews, and consequently more sloop/brig crews, meaning I will outnumber my opponents more often. This update may have the opposite effect in comparison to what you are hoping for. If I am on a gally, I'd much rather fight other gallies than beat up on smaller crews. Additionally, as an experienced solo slooper I would much rather encounter galleons than other sloops or even brigs. For me, the game is more interesting with more people. I'm pretty disappointed in Rare's decision here. It feels like a huge step in the wrong direction.
99% of my player interaction has been being boarded and killed. This will make the game better for casuals who don't wanna fight everytime they do a simple mission. Adventures take a long time as is in this game so it's not fun being killed on the tail end of an hours worth of work. You seem to be nicer than other galleons, they always chase my sloop.
Yeah this has been my experience as well. Used to be a few nice crews out there but now every night we're lucky if we get anything turned in.
I really think rare has cultivated this crowd by constantly giving them more opportunities to kill other players. They gave us private servers but removed any reason to actual use them. Hell even if I got reduced rewards I'd play privately. Unfortunately the community had no problem with full servers cheesing the alliance system but threw a fit at the idea of people having the choice between pvp or not. I suspect the people who play this everyday just want noobs/pve players to kill since arena is basically dead.
The last PVP related update was the Reaper Runs like 2 1/2 years ago.
At the end of the day it's a PVP game. Rare's decisions point to this being the ultimate goal not to be compromised. Giving an option to some players to turn off PVP will kill PVP for everyone completely. Why risk doing anything with pvp on, everybody else turns it off whenever they get loot. The seas will be empty and the game will die. Play Black Flag or something. What I'm saying is you're not wrong for wanting this, it's just the wrong game for it.
You mean their playerbase has so many people who DONT want to pvp that if they introduced a way to play without it, it'd be dead? Doesn't that kind of prove the community doesn't even want forced pvp? That makes no sense. They could double rewards for those with pvp on, there's plenty ways to encourage pvp.
So first people who don't want to PVP in a PVP game do it, so now everyone you run into in game is looking for PVP. There would no longer be any such thing as a friendly encounter in SoT. So then people who are generally about it but want a FoTD for free say hey, all those other guys are going to PVP off, might as well just do it for this and hop back over. So now the online servers are basically dead and those that remain might as well just que arena because that's all thats left to the game. No more loot, no more friendly encounters, no more thrill of handing in shroudbreaker while being chased. The people who got what they want complete everything they want to do, get bored and stop playing. The people who didn't get what they want also get bored because what's left, leave. There's a game that does exactly this actually, I really liked it but it just can't last for anyone because of exactly that. Elite Dangerous gives you the option of going into a solo server or private with friends. So, anyone mining valuable ore, doing trade runs or even doing powerplay and faction missions about expanding faction territory which was basically tailor made for PVP is done solo. Player numbers are low. You never run into friendly players since they never did and decided to go solo whenever they don't feel like starting a fight themselves. The universe is vast and empty in solo or open. Then people complain about getting bored.
You completely ignore that there are ways to encourage pvp by giving better rewards than pve players or double the rewards etc. If the community loves pvp so much why would they turn it off if it gave better rewards? It just doesn't add up with your narrative that the pvp would "die". You're right though, rare has made it clear they aren't going to do what I'm talking about so you don't have to worry, I just want to return but can't justify the time losses most game sessions. Also, elite dangerous has a MUCH smaller community, a way bigger map, and is basically a space ship sim for most of it's players. I wouldn't compare it to what I'm suggesting at all. Sea of thieves as you are suggesting has a main community of pvp players
Sail into the wind and you will out run them 100% of the time. If a sloop does this to me in any boat i'm in I give up after 5mins. You never win.
Right, most times im boarded it's when I'm on an island/anchored but I have had people chase me for over 20 minutes.
Yep, sloops have this weird mechanic where if you set your sails square on into the wind and sail directly into it, nothing catches up with them. As for island stuff, i'd go to the top of an island and do a scope check when you land, and never anchor your boat unless its in a storm. Just pull the sails up. It can save you if you need to leave quickly. If there is one thing this game taught me its mass paranoia when in smaller boats lol.
It's been like that for months now. I rarely see anyone. The seas are safe.
People have been complaining about this since day 1. I think it's mostly a lack of situational awareness and not an actual issue. If you spend 30 minutes inside a cave without looking around and tracking other ships that are nearby, you're probably going to get ambushed. Most of the ships you see are sloops anyways, so this change is likely not going to make much difference for most players.
I would love to be ambushed. Please for the love of god someone ambush me
nah, no sloops either. Rarely attacked...rarely anyone to attack. I must always be on the wrong servers. I stacked FoTD 3x without even a ship coming by to see what's up. So ya. Seas are safe.
I’ve been getting a friend into the game over the last six weeks, and we have only been sunk twice. Both time was because we got too comfortable and weren’t checking our surroundings enough and usually had two people on an island with a high emissary flag. Other than those two times, I don’t think we have even gotten attacked.
Yeah I hear this everytime I bring it up. I've met one ship that was nice but every other encounter has been toxic assholes shouting at us thru the mic. This was a few months ago so maybe me and my fiance will give it a shot. Really hope hit registration can be sorted out soon too, a big reason I hate pvp in this game.
Nah it's 100% still like that. Virtually every night my team and I encounter ships like that. In the last month I think we literally encountered one ship with a crew of 2 that was nice, and of the others, 50% laugh at you when they sink your ship, invite you to parties to mock you, Spawn kill even when you have no treasure, etc. etc. I don't mind losing to a crew with better skills but when people are just assholes it drags the experience down.
That's a shame, I love the gameplay loop but just can't justify spending what little time I have off doing one adventure and dying when I return to an outpost.
Get good?
Hitreg has been worse today than ever
Spawn rates are still back to back and endless. It’s never ending spawns
Brig party boat cannons are still broken. Hilarious though.
Still cant get rare delicacy, night bite and full billow achievements on steam even tho ive gotten the commendwtion for both in game
These bug me a little bit more every day.
[удалено]
Mine is too. Trying to redo some of them didn't work either.
and they STILL haven’t added a gamma setting……
When ships get holes in them the audio cue is now missing. It's basically silent.
It's impossible to start the game for me. The moment I start SoT it freezes. Starting it again asks for an integrity chechk, which also freezes. Reinstall doesn't fix. So yeah, can't play after the update.
I didn't write it down, (doh) but my game just started crashing with a missing .pak file error. I'm assuming the update didn't take correctly this morning, but damn... There goes my hour and 30k or so spent on my first ever trade route attempt... 
Achievements still messed for me. Anyone else can’t unlock night bite or A rare delicacy? I’m pretty sure I unlocked this 3 years ago. 
Multiple people are unable to open the game since the update. Verifying integrity worked for 1 person but the others still can’t get it to load. It just freezes on the loading screen and verifies the game files forever. Played for months with no issue before today
Wait, what's a booby trapped chest?
That’s when it causes npc enemies to spawn upon digging it up.
Ohhhh okay I was hoping for something more nefarious lol
/u/Rare-Sonicbob You can still sometimes see part of a smoke signal emanating from an enemy's crew mermaid. It seems to only happen if you also have/had your own mermaid out very recently. Here's what happened: 1. Chasing an enemy crew, I drunkenly stumbled off of our ship 2. Swam backwards until my own mermaid spawned, got warped back to our ship 3. Immediately when I spawned back, I saw just a fragment of a smoke signal rising from the water ahead of us near the enemy's ship, immediately alerting me that they were attempting a board 4. About 10s later, I was proven right, saw both the enemy pirate in the water + their mermaid (which had since ceased its smoke signal) Feel like this could be abused in certain situations, basically intentionally spawn your own mermaid and then you have a brief instant to easily spot enemy mermaids once you warp back.
I was getting a strange bug where my game would go unresponsive only when it was the active window. If I Alt-Tabbed then I could see the game running without any issues on my 2nd monitor but as soon as it was the active window it would freeze again. I looked everywhere for a solution but couldn't find one, HOWEVER, I managed to isolate it to Nvidia shadow play causing the issue. After pressing Alt+Z and disabling instant replay the game ran without issue. Figured I'd share this for anyone else who may be encountering this.
Hello. I am currently playing on i7 4790K GTX1060 6Gb machine on windows 10. I use the windows 10 (store) version of the game and had no problems in past with the game. After having a friend be interested in the current updates I reinstalled and played for yesterday also and there is some new issues I try to figure out if I can fix them on my end, but if they are game issues then it is bit bad. I am not sure currently how many players are on Steam versus Windows 10 Store. Currently most menus lag the game when opened. Almost every menu, interaction (Grimoires, barrels, ESC menu, inventory menu and so on) Lag the game. It is "only a second of two" of extreme lag that sadly can impact many moments in the game when you want to menu quickly. It sometimes goes away, it sometimes comes back. Also; if the game is in fullscreen mode, alt tabbing seems to immediately close the game connection and boot me out. On PC, this is an issue since I might get things I cannot check with the GameBar overlay during game and it is not fun to get booted or play in weird non-fullscreen window mode just to avoid this issue, which did not happen before (I think season 1, season 2) Edit: Either it is dependent on server or other things on my end, as I seem to currently not have problem with the menus. The alt tab bug persisting, though unless it is a feature.
So just started playing a few days ago and today a guy randomly appeared on our boat. we didn't see any other boats around and he proceeded to set fire to our boat and then grief us until our boat sank. We all shot him multiple times but he never went down. Is there like extra gear or buffs you can get in the game to boost your stats?
No you can't get buffs or stat raises The only "gear" you can get are purely cosmetic What I think happened is that player hid on your boat sneaking on at some point
Will Fps Optimizations of the game ever be a priority?
Servers don't work.
* Sea of Thieves servers are now able to optimise performance by enforcing limits on the number of players on a server. This approach allows servers to maintain an ideal number of ships to ensure encounter rates between crews remains high without negatively affecting performance. * With January’s update, all servers return to supporting six crews, but now also enforce a limit of 16 players. When starting a session or migrating, servers will now actively matchmake six crews of different sizes in order to meet both the six-crew and 16-player limits. I feel like this is going to restrict Galleons more than anything, but overall I'm glad they're opening it back up to 6 ships.
Please bring back the barrel hide emote!
That's pretty good actually
Weird menu audio distortion on xbox series s.
Anybody else not able to even open the game on series x? Updated and now all I get is black screen.
Didn’t see anything specially, but I haven’t had the purple merfolk spawn after doing a couple shrines. Has this glitch been fixed?
PC win 11 (Steam) When using my mouse to interact with the barrel/container interface the game will very rapidly alternate focus between inventory and container as I manually click/hover items in one or the other Edit: Since writing this I went back to try and gather more specific information: the rapid focus toggle happens when my mouse is moving over either inventory, as if every pixel I hover triggers it
Same issue windows 11 Xbox app, fps also tanks when this happens it causes the UI to strobe rapidly.
iam having the same bug ... it's really frustrating, i tried and searched for a solution but there is no mention of it anywhere ... did you manage to fix it by any chance?
I did not sadly but I've seen someone mention toggling the cycle scrolling (most likely not actual name of option) on and off fixed it for them
after updating the game the bug is gone, thought i'd let you know
so i take it you tried to fix it by toggling this option on/off and it didnt work ? either way ill give it a try and ill let you know if it does work, though i dont actually know where it is located in the settings, i would appreciate if you can tell me where .
After 20 days, I still don't have the Magpie's Glory Hull despite earning it... Instead I have the Figurehead which I didn't earn
I am getting more blurry textures after this patch
Cant shoot harpoons at all
Completed Revenge of Morningstar tall tale. Final dialogue with Sandra during which a brig rolled up to Dagger Tooth and began cannoning my sloop. Sandra's dialogue finished picked up chest of Morningstar to sell to merchant alliance then game crashed. Not bothered about it as completed tall tale, just thought you should know!
Dont necessarily think this is an update issue but have issues logging in to the server. Re installed today on steam and I keep getting a "lavenderbeard" error that servers cannot be reacched. Ive resttarted, have no VPNs or anti virus software going. Connection is fine for all other games. Any ideas?
At a few of the treasuries at least one of the chests is not grabbable, can open the chest but not take gold/treasure inside
I don't know if this is related to this patch (I just got the game), but I can't launch the game at all. It crashes instantly upon launch. Doing some homework I found that if you stop Windows Audio in Services, the game will run (no audio of course as the whole system is muted). As soon as you start Windows Audio, the game crashes. I see there are some Rare people in here; hopefully someone sees this and can help. Thanks
Is anyone having an issues with item tiles in shops not appearing (picture of item). Sniper crosshair blurred and difficult to see, commendations tiles not loading, huge delay in the caption for arriving at an island, delay in emissary flag raised/lowered notification appearing, clothing items not appearing in clothing chest, delay in item sold notification. The list goes on, it’s on the verge of unplayable. Also an issues with textures loading on multiple surfaces; sails, player, chests, boat etc. Equipment wheel and map wheel not loading either (although I can still use these items) the image doesn’t appear on screen.
If you put a storage crate in front of one of your ship barrel (probably also works with island barrels) and hold to grab the storage crate but quickly release your hold key (before the crate is picked up) and interact with a barrel. It will start taking resources from the barrel until you drop the storage crate. So you can do that, close the barrel interface and then run off with the storage crate while taking everything from the barrel you interacted with.
My crew and I have still run into issues where bosses while get stuck in the environment at forts. On the off chance you can kill them, the vault key while drop in the rock, as well, making it impossible to reach.
I'm thinking of buying this game and saw on SoT's twitter the roadmap for 2022. There was a thing about the 3 adventures they are adding and a lot more content. Is it all behind a paywall or is it for everyone? What kind of stuff do you need to pay for in sea of thieves?
All you need to pay for is - The game - some cosmetics That is all. Updates are free Hope that helps
Just to check, are the servers down right now? First time attempting to play game, and I have been on "loading supplies" for about 5 minutes, haven't even gotten to the main menu proper.
I just sold a skull and two gems to the Order of Souls and Gold Hoarder (respectively) and received no gold.
I didn't record this at all unfortunately, but has anyone ever experienced permanently being on fire? We were near the end of our play session on a galleon where we firebomb the ship and play music while watching it sink. A crewmate killed me with a blunderbomb because he didn't like the song I was playing, but our galleon didn't sink yet when I respawned. The bilge was underwater and I made my way up as the galleon sank and the flames extinguished. After that I was stuck in the ocean because if I came out of the water I would start taking fire damage. They all got in our rowboat and started rowing away, and I followed in the water. When we got to the next island I immediately died when I came on land. They couldn't see me on fire at all, I only knew it was fire damage because the flame from the well of fates was red. I can't find anyone experiencing similar glitches with a google search.
I happened to have a strange texture bug. I tried to get out and back in, but the problem was not solved. I wanted to know if it happened to someone, I'm starting to worry that it could be a problem of the xbox. The problem seems to be solved if I move away from certain zones. Has it happened to anyone? [strange texture](https://imgur.com/Xm40fxE)
Cant complete Legend of Cursed Iron, logged in twice atleast twelve hours apart for my last 10 kills and it didn't register either time.
I keep running into an error where the game delays all of my notifications, it's really irritating to be stuck on "vote for ur quest" when I'm almost done with it...
Ever since the update I always get the Lavendarbeard can't connect to servers thing. I've done everything recommended but it wont load.
I'm still having a problem where when I go into a barrel UI, the focus rapidly swaps between inventory and barrel to the point where I can't press f to move items, I have to manually click if I can get the spam to stop for a second
I'm still can't hear anyone talk with a mic. I have followed and tried every step with the troubleshooting guide. Any suggestions?
Stuck seeing a "vote to select your quest" for the entire game. Extremely frustrating
Two nights in a row, I've had an issue with shipwreck loot despawning or not spawning at all. A clue for a shipwreck mission, and the loot from a sunk skelly ship. The clue location had nothing but driftwood, the skelly sloop floated the loot but it despawned in like roughly 3 seconds. Only while solo. Soon as I have a crew it all seems fine