Currently, Season 14 of Sea of Thieves is running, which was supposed to bring a lot of great new features related to stealth. However, the developers now have to retract the update and even apologize.
What was supposed to be included in Season 14? Season 14 of the pirate MMO Sea of Thieves was supposed to be the big stealth update. Here’s an overview of the main innovations:
- New weapons: boarding hook rifle and blowgun
- Disguises, e.g., as a chest or barrel
- Crouching
- Mermaid
This should make it possible to outsmart other players and mobs. It would make the game even more exciting and fun. The mermaid, for instance, allows the very conspicuous mermaid that is supposed to lead you to the freshly spawned ship to disappear.
You can see how all of this was supposed to look in the trailer for the season. Unfortunately, much of it is no longer left in the game at the moment.
The Return of Exploits
Why is everything being retracted? In a video update on YouTube on October 22, Production Director Drew Stevens announced downtime and hotfixes for Sea of Thieves. Over the weekend of October 19 and 20, they monitored the gameplay and dealt with incoming bug reports.
Unfortunately, with the new features, a whole number of old, already fixed bugs have re-entered the gameplay. Among them is Quick Switching
, an exploit that allows players to use two pistols simultaneously instead of just one. Another recurring bug is Air Control
, which allows players to fire cannonballs with extreme precision. In addition, an invincibility exploit has returned.
To avoid tarnishing the player experience with problems that were actually already fixed, the team has decided to retract the features. Here is the full message from the team, in which they apologize to the players:
What happens next? According to Drew Stevens, the team does not plan to release a hotfix with adjustments this week. Instead, they would take their time to examine and eliminate the problems and their backgrounds thoroughly.
Stabilizing the game is their top priority, even though they want to bring the new features live again as quickly as possible. The larger hotfix is planned for the week of October 28. At that time, disguises and the ability to take cover should also return to the game.
In conclusion, Stevens states that the team wants to improve their quality assurance in response to the current issues. This would affect the upcoming hotfix as well as the trapdoor update in November.
In fact, Sea of Thieves is currently not the only game where an update is causing problems. The developers of GTA 5 have decided to change a feature related to highways in a new update: The new update in GTA 5 ruins one of the best features of the highway – players protest against the change
