14 October 2024

Y1S3.2 Patch Notes

Update 3.2 introduces multiple gameplay improvements, including a further increase to the warehouse space. This update also sees plenty of bug fixes, addressing many of the key issues reported by the Skull and Bones community.

Highlights

Warehouse Inventory Increase

Increased warehouse space by 50, to a maximum cap of 300.

Gameplay Updates

Activities & Events

Staggered countdowns for World Events.
- World Events will now start at different times.
Added Seasonal Event rewards and Smuggler Pass rewards as a possible option to the Recommended Activities pop-up.

Refinery

Added Sinew String for crafting at the Refinery.

Contracts

Increased Silver reward of the job board contract "Sink Merchant Convoys".
Reduced the difficulty of the job board contract "Hunt Phoenix Talon" from the range of 8-12 Phoenix's Talon warships down to the required range of 5-8 Phoenix's Talon warships.
Rebalanced rewards of Telok Penjarah job board contracts to be proportional to the difficulty of each contract.

Improvements and Bug Fixes

Voice and Text Chat

Added an option for small text size in chat settings.
Disabled the chat button in the main menu when the player is not in a group.
[LUNA] Increased voice chat volume on the Luna platform.

UI for Mouse and Keyboard Controls

Dev note: Following the PC/Mouse & Keyboard changes released as part of Season 3, we observed a slight difficulty increase in navigation while hovering over items. Previously, players could preview tooltip information by simply hovering but were now required to click on the item before they could view its details. With this change, we hope to reduce the friction needed to access key information while still retaining the PC/Mouse & Keyboard improvements released in Season 3.

Added the ability to preview tooltips in various menus when hovering over the mouse in the Cargo and Warehouse menus.
- Clicking on an item will continue to "lock" the tooltip in place.

Bounties

Fixed an issue where bounties were automatically accepted and immediately failed.

Ship Upgrade

Fixed an issue where the Hulk unlocks the auxiliary slot at level 2 instead of level 3.
- Players who currently have a weapon equipped on the auxiliary slot of a level 2 Hulk will have the weapon returned to their inventory.

Combat

Fixed an issue where the Battle Junk's "Endure" perk did not correctly reduce the damage of incoming attacks while bracing.
Fixed an issue where the "Immortal Vessel" armour perk did not fully charge after a player disembarks or respawns.
Fixed an issue where the player's ship accelerates beyond the acceptable speed limit after being rammed by Li Tian Ning's ship.
Fixed an issue where the repair mortar does not heal another player when both players have PVP mode enabled while not being in a group together.
Fixed some cases where players were occasionally unable to shoot cannons or execute crew boarding in combat.

Contract

Fixed an issue where contracts obtained from Blackwood can only be submitted at the Telok Penjarah den.
Fixed an issue where players were able to submit the contract "Procure Croc Skins" to the Hawker at Sainte-Anne instead of delivering the items to a Rempah settlement.
Fixed an issue in the contract "Flaming Quarry", where players were able to sail around in the contract Battle Junk ship when attempting the contract as a group, before the other group members have swapped to the contract Battle Junk.
Fixed an issue where players who have the contract "Flaming Quarry" were not able to progress if other players destroyed the intended target.
Fixed an issue where the text for the objective "Swap to the stolen Battle Junk at Sitrana" in the main contract "Flaming Quarry" was unclear.
Fixed an issue where the interaction prompt to dig up treasure chest was missing in certain cases while participating in multiple contracts, including "Engulfing Storm" and "Scarlet Heist".
- Please reach out on our Bug Reporter platform if you continue to encounter issues with retrieving treasure after Patch 3.2.
Fixed an issue where the second clue for the "Burning Tower" was located outside of the designated search area for the contract "Trail of Ashes".
Fixed an issue in "Trail of Ashes" where objectives of shared contracts were not updated for some group members, despite the group members meeting the objectives.
Fixed an issue where seasonal contracts were not available after completing "Calming Cadence".
Fixed an issue where the contract "Breaking It Down" is completed after accepting "Lost and Haunted" contract from Blackwood.

Achievements

Fixed an issue where players were unable to claim the reward for the seasonal event achievement "Ghoul's Bane".

UI

Updated various text descriptions of furniture.
- Note - The functionality remains unchanged.
Fixed an issue where the icons for "Flooding Demi-Cannon I" and "Sloop Blueprint" rewards were not present after completing the main contract "The Devil's Gambit".
Fixed an issue where the icons for "Restoration Kit" and "Cutter Blueprint" rewards were not present after completing the main contract "Unwelcome Aboard".
Fixed an issue where the icon for Bedar were not present after acquiring the ship from the main contract "A Seaworthy Ship".
Fixed an issue where the "Smuggler's Mark earned" notification is displayed before the player unlocks the Smuggler's Pass.
Fixed an issue where the UI icon for "Phoenix's Crest blueprint" reward was not present after completing the main contract "Engulfing Storm".
Fixed an issue where some tutorial pop-ups overlapped with the Recommended Activities screen upon entering the Indian Ocean.
Fixed an issue where the selected indicator in the vendor filter was overlapping with the text "Time-Limited Items" when language changed to Arabic.
Fixed an issue where placeholder text was displayed on the contract Battle Junk ship inventory while participating in the contract "Flaming Quarry".
Fixed an issue where the Smuggler's Mark counter did not update.
Fixed an issue where the previews of multiple weapons were displayed in low resolution while crafting at the Blacksmith.
Fixed an issue where ship customization screens displayed separate stacks of the same equipment when the same equipment was present in both Cargo and Warehouse inventories.
Fixed an issue where players were unable to quit the interaction or were missing certain interaction prompts after interacting with NPC William Blackwood at the Smuggler's Network.
Fixed an issue if the player already owns the manufactory that is being rewarded, the reward details will no longer display the owned manufactory as part of the available reward.
Fixed an issue where the "select" prompt was not displayed when the player has less than three items in the Cargo Hull.
Fixed an issue where the "Manufactory Buyout" opportunity was displayed as a multiplayer event under "Recommended Activities".
Fixed an issue where the subsequent accepted Bounty contract description is not displayed after accepting a Bounty contract.
Fixed an issue where the world event description is not displayed when player press "view in map" button from notification.
Fixed an issue where the health bar of the Shadowbeast is displayed for players that are not participating in the event and are outside the event zone.
Fixed an issue where the infamy reward is not displayed on the target's tooltip when a player uses the spyglass on the Rogue Ship.