Sea of Thieves (SoT) Update 2.10.2 Patch Notes

Easy Anti-Cheat

• Sea of Thievesis 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 ofSea of Thieves’regular update schedule to keep in sync with cheat developers.

Safer Seas Solo Play

• Players who own a copy ofSea of Thievesare 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 inSea of Thieves, this is not an offline experience and is still connected to servers hosted in the cloud.

Virtual Keyboard Support

• 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.

Message of the Day

• 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 ofSea of Thieves.

Adventures Tab

• The Adventures tab has been hidden from the Quick Menu for a more streamlined navigation experience.

Report a Player

• 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 theSea of ThievesSupport site.

GDK Integration

• 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.

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New Items – Now in Stock!

• Stone Islehopper Outlaw Ship Collection
• Stone Islehopper Outlaw Weapon Bundle
• Stone Islehopper Outlaw Costume
• Stone Islehopper Outlaw Banjo
• Roaring Grog Emote Bundle
• Gold Curse Whippet
• Spartan Ship Collection (returning from time-limited promotion)
• Ravenwood Costume Set (returning from Season Eight Plunder Pass)
• Sea of Thieves: A Pirate’s LifeBig Bundles
• Blow Bubbles Emote (free!)

Introducing the Classics Range

• 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.

New Outpost Stock!

• 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.

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.
• 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.
• Buried treasure will no longer migrate with the crew across servers.
• 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.
• Players should now consistently have access to their earned Guild cosmetics.
• 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.

Environment

• 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.
• Environment textures are now displayed correctly at Devil’s Ridge.
• 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.

User Interface

• 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 Quest Table will now update to show Liked Voyages after being liked.
• The prompt to use the Quest Table is no longer visible when a Voyage is active.

Visual and Audio

• 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.
• Skeletons should always flinch when successfully hit by a sword.
• 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.
• Flags on Sea Forts have now returned to their original colours.
• 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 art on the splash screens has now been updated to the Season 11 artwork.
• 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 Capsize Charters tent is now present on buried treasure maps.
• The Maestro Banjo icon has been resized so that the item is no longer cut off at the top.
• Chest keys will no longer appear to sink into players’ hands.
• The Reaper’s Heart Equipment Bundle now appears with the correct artwork.
• Jumping while holding a fishing rod will no longer cause the player to appear incorrectly when viewed by others.

Text and Localisation

• 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.
• Merchant Crates all now have consistent naming.
• ‘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.

Performance and Stability

• 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.
• Improved Steam client stability when playing on Custom Servers.