In the new Sea of Thieves update, the spawn distance of sunken ships has been changed, avoiding griefers in the game.
Today, on April 4th, the Sea of Thieves servers were unavailable for a few hours due to maintenance. The servers are now back up, and the developers explain what has changed in the game. Among other things, they are taking action against players who had a negative impact on the gaming experience, known as griefers.
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The new Sea of Thieves update with version number 1.0.2 is now available and is about 450MB in size – this applies to PC and Xbox One. The update brings the following changes to Sea of Thieves:
- Ship Respawn Distance
- When a ship sinks, it will now respawn significantly further away. Ships will now spawn outside the view of the attackers who sunk the ship. This change comes from feedback the developers observed in recent weeks.
- With the “old” respawn distance, opposing crews could easily sink the ships repeatedly, taking the fun away from many pirates in Sea of Thieves.
- Mermaid Teleport:
- It is no longer possible to accidentally teleport to the ship through the mermaid while holding treasures. The developers received feedback where players described that they accidentally left treasures in the sea.
These changes aim to improve the quality of the game.
Additionally, the developers fixed the following issues in Sea of Thieves:
- [PC Only] Players should no longer receive the 0x80070005 error or get stuck at 99% of the installation.
- Players can no longer fall through the ship into the sea when jumping on treasure chests or barrels in the middle of the deck.
- The voyage image on the captain’s table now displays the rank in the upper right corner.
- When accepting a game invitation while matchmaking, the game no longer freezes temporarily.
- Bounty Captains should now no longer spawn multiple times.
Performance Improvement
- Multiple server and client crashes have been fixed. Work is still ongoing for improvements and optimizations.
Known Bugs and Issues
- Player character details such as hair color and scars could be displayed incorrectly.
- Achievements earned before March 29 will be unlocked with a delay. Once the fix for this issue is activated, these achievements will be credited to you.
- Some players may not be able to equip a second weapon.
- As a possible workaround, players should go to a weapon crate, equip the flintlock pistol in the first weapon slot, and then kill themselves in the game. After that, you should be able to equip a second weapon again.
- Some players have yet to receive their Black Dog Pack code. Due to this issue, they should contact the retailer where they purchased the game.
- Some players cannot see content redeemed through codes.
- Some bounty quest skeletons do not spawn or cannot be found.
- As a possible workaround, you should move out of sight of the island and then approach it again so that the banner with the island name reappears.
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