The new Sea of Thieves-update fixes issues and brings quality-of-life improvements. You can now see when you are speaking. Additionally, you will find more lore and can trade items again. We will show you the main changes here.
With a new update, the developers from Rare are smoothing out the pirate adventure Sea of Thieves. These are important preparations so that the upcoming Hungering Deep-DLC can be released next week without issues.
Sea of Thieves Server Down – Kiwibeard Error
On Wednesday, May 23, from 10:00 AM to around 1:00 PM, the servers of Sea of Thieves were not accessible. The reason for this is the new update with version number 1.0.8 that is being implemented.
The maintenance was completed about two hours earlier than planned.
Sea of Thieves Patch – What’s Included?
The new Sea of Thieves update is about 800MB in size and is relatively small across all platforms (PC, Xbox One, Xbox One X). It brings features that players have been asking for a long time. For example, it should now be easier to cancel voyages, and you can now adjust the target sensitivity. There’s also something in the patch for colorblind players.
Patch Notes: What’s Changed
- Players can now cancel unwanted voyages via the quick menu
- If you speak in-game with your microphone, it will now be indicated by an icon
- During your adventures, you will now encounter lore books more frequently
- If you hold chests for resources, other players can now take or fill items
- Chickens in cages now make less disturbing sounds and are more tolerable
- The music played when entering the legendary hideout has been updated
- The voices of legendary NPCs Tavernkeeper Louise, the Pirate Lord, and Olivia from the Soul Order now sound more ghostly
- There are visual overhauls when weapons shoot on grass or cannonballs fall into water
- The UI of the chests has been updated to make operation easier for players
- Some cosmetic items will be removed by the merchants. Players complained that these did not stand out enough from other items
- In the Sea of Thieves forum these items are addressed
- The special sniper that was only briefly in the game has now been removed again
… and here’s what you can now adjust:
There is now a high-contrast version of the treasure map “X” that can be activated in the settings. This changes the red X to a white X with black outlines. Players with red-green color blindness can then recognize it more easily.
You can now specifically set the sensitivity for different weapons. The Blunderbuss, pistol, and Eye of Reach now each have a slider to adjust sensitivity. Additionally, more mute options have been added to “My Crew”. This includes the ability to block voices, text chat, and non-verbal communication.
Issues and Performance
Many performance improvements are also included. Latency is said to be reduced, and many crashes have been fixed. After the last update, there were issues when players wanted to exchange items with each other – this works again now. Additionally, bounty skeletons are now supposed to spawn as intended. You can find a list of all bug fixes in the official patch notes from Rare.
Set sail! On to the content islands
After this update, the game should be ready to activate its first major content patch. Players have been waiting a long time for this, as Sea of Thieves has always been criticized for the lack of long-term motivation and missing content.
Now the developers are planning six major updates this year, three of these Sea of Thieves updates will be released this summer.
