Skull and Bones Update 1.000.006 Patch Notes

• The threat caused by Ambushers (Rogues and Plaguehunters).
  Coming with tomorrow’s update:
  • Rogues & Plaguehunters should be automatically de-spawning when their target enters “out of combat” mode.
  • Reduction of the aggressive behaviour of the Rogue Ambushers and the La Peste Plaguehunters.
    They will disengage after a shorter period of time once you enter a den’s safe zone. They will also stop pursuing you if you manage to create a significant distance with them & they will focus on the player that triggered them unless you attack them.
  • The spawn rate of Plague Prince as a reinforcement has also been reduced from 50% to 25% chance.
    You will need more Plaguebringer Captain’s Heads to reach the maximum spawn rate and their spawn frequency has been reduced.
    When at the lowest level of hostility, we increased the spawn intervals from 200s to 360s.
    To reach the max level of hostility, you will now require 10 heads instead of 7. The spawn interval will remain at 90s.

Implemented this change to allow a gradual raise in difficulty between each level of hostility in the initial stages of spawning Plaguehunters.

• Scaled the difficulty of Rogue Ambushers.
  The ship rank of the Rogue ships spawning will be proportionate to the number of Pieces of Eights you carry. (previously the number of pieces of eight carried would increase the frequency of the spawn for Rogue Ships)

• Fixed a bug where only La Peste Plaguehunters were spawning as reinforcements when player carry Pieces of Eight. After the update, either Rogue Ambushers and La Peste Plaguehunters may spawn as reinforcements when players carry Pieces of Eight.
• In addition, all Rogue Ambushers should now drop loot.
• Improvements and changes made to PvP activities (Helm Wager/Cutthroat Cargo).

While monitoring early feedback around Cutthroat Cargo, we identified the challenge some players had to catch up with the player carrying the legendary treasure map.

We’ve made recent changes to mitigate this issue, facilitate more encounters and ensure the Pieces of Eight/Legendary treasure map changes hands more often.

We first implemented a speed debuffs which affects the player carrying the item:

• Maximum ship speed reduced by 20%
• Stamina depletion speed increased by 150%

After monitoring the situation, we further reduced the speed debuff on carriers for Helm Wager to lower it to 5%.

We are actively monitoring your feedback on PvP activities, including the use of Fast Travel to gain an advantage, and are working on more long-term solutions to make PvP a more balanced experience for all.

• Quality of life improvements:
  • Weapon display in the Ship management menu
    We’ve changed the way weapons are sorted in the menu to the following order:
    • Currently equipped in the slot (first)
    • Currently equipped in other slots on the ship (second)
    • Not equipped to anything (third)
    • Equipped on other ships (last)

We’ve also created additional categorisations which will group weapons by type by descending gear score.

• Player’s name display
  We made improvements to the way players’ name display to ensure they are always readable no matter the background image.
• Server Stability
  We’re also improving the server stability with tomorrow’s update which should significantly improve your experience playing the game.
• Change to the automated ban criteria
  We made some improvements and changes to prevent abuse of the reporting tool and avoid players getting banned unfairly.
• Vocal and text chat disabled in game
  We are unfortunately unable to reactivate the chat and voice features in the game yet as we still need to fully resolve the technical issue that forced us to deactivate them.

Download free SAB update 1.000.006 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.