Since last update, a large number of issues have come back or cropped up

@nofears-fun My crew saw the return of the “Hey, you’re a glowing green skeleton” bug last session. Good times.

@genuine-heather Added that to the list, LOL. Good times.

I don't think many of these things went away.

The short lag stutters can be annoying when it hits and it's almost certainly a server issue - my crew have always experienced it at the same time.

I've seen the floating rocks on Devil's Ridge too. They looked kinda cool.

Also, had a lot of the Nvidia graphics rendering bug until I found the support page about it suggesting to lower model settings to common... not ideal but seemed to sort it out. That one is particularly annoying when it hits.

I've had various audio bugs, including still hearing some random mic chat in the water. One time the person was playing reggae music constantly. That was very trippy. I was the only one in my crew who could hear it, and I jumped off the ship and swam to the "source" location. Sure enough, there was nothing there.

Starting to think my pirate is drinking spiked grog... Never should've trusted that barmaid.

@knifelife said in Since last update, a large number of issues have come back:

@genuine-heather I got the green skelly last night to! Made my sneak attack against a ship very problematic.

Tbh in the end it made me Rage, everything was determined to go wrong yesterday. It felt like I was in Summits personal fanboy server.
I’ve had to put the game down untill they sort it out it’s all but unplayable for me.

I understand. I've had a couple sessions like that recently.

Ahoy mate! I have not seen all these issues. I have experienced the random conversations being heard while standing in the crow’s nest. Same near islands. No ships or pirates in sight. A couple times the conversations were quite foul. The other issue that I do see frequently is sporadic pausing of everything for 1-4 seconds. The stuttering is the worse of the bugs. I have a high end PC and a connection with extremely low ping. Should not happen.

For the most part Shrouded Spoils brought many great things and fixes. Sadly bugs have popped back up since the last update. There is so much to do now. The only exception is Pirate Legend specific content. Adding way overdue commendations to grind out is not the content was greatly needed. Until there is more in that regards we just sail where the wind takes us.

Overall the game is in a much better place. The are cool things on the horizon. You are right there are still bugs to fix. Hopefully they will be fixed very soon. I would prefer Rare return to a more frequent update schedule even if it was just small incremental updates addressing issues without long wait. The one thing that has been an issue is we have been seeing a lot of new players that are very toxic since it has been unfortunately popularized lately.

@solestone563412 That is the exact same spot that I saw them in. Even the snake was there. LOL. Kidding about the snake, but yest, the back of the island, same location, same rocks. It was so surreal. LOL

@marsmayflower Most if not all of the issues I mentioned were gone/fixed issues. It was my favorite thing about Shrouded Spoils, all of the quality of life improvements and fixes.

@Goedecke-Michel Agreed, Rare really needs to hire a full time team for quality assurance. Their reliance on volunteer Pioneers, and not giving said volunteers enough time to break down the game and find these issues is appalling. They should only rely on Pioneers for feedback on game play, and if what is being added to the game or changed in the game is fun and adds value to the game. Rare needs to hire full time, employed QoS personnel.

And I agree, I think in the last update, it feels to me, like the person adding the update added it to the older, broken version of the game, rather than adding the changes to the newer, corrected version.

Edit: I would also add that I am sure Rare are aware of many of these issues, yet they won't fix them until the next update of the game. I also find this appalling. If you know of a problem, and have a fix, then fix it. I don't think anyone will mind a weekly update that fixes ongoing bugs in the game.

@nofears-fun said in Since last update, a large number of issues have come back:

Edit: I would also add that I am sure Rare are aware of many of these issues, yet they won't fix them until the next update of the game. I also find this appalling. If you know of a problem, and have a fix, then fix it. I don't think anyone will mind a weekly update that fixes ongoing bugs in the game.

This. So much this.

I think part of the problem is they actually rushed the update to end the campaign for Shrouded Spoils. More regular updates is not the issue, in my opinion, it's the opposite.

We had similar bugs creeping in regularly after launch when Rare were updating the game every week pretty much because the updates weren't properly tested in advance. They changed the frequency around the summer time to a slower update schedule so they could test each patch before sending it out.

I don't know what went wrong with it this time, perhaps something as simple as being understaffed over the holidays.

In any case, I think they probably should have extended the Shrouded Spoils by a couple of weeks and done some more work on the update to end it.

Anyone still experiencing the issue when taking a mermaid, instead of returning to your boat, you end up in a completely random location? This weekend, I was off the boat, and my mate had to make a hasty retreat from the volcano that started erupting. The boat was hit, knocking the driver off the boat. We both took a mermaid which should have given us enough time to patch the boat and save the loot. Instead, his mermaid took him to mermaids hideaway, and my mermaid put me in the row boat on the back of the galleon that was the other half of our alliance. Needless to say, our little tank of a sloop was done for after that.

@d3adst1ck said in Since last update, a large number of issues have come back:

There is also the ping hiccup that occurs when another crew gets within a certain range. Ping will usually spike as the server is trying to send you all the data about the other crew's cosmetic gear.

Oh yeah, well used to that tell... it's a great alarm bell sometimes

@phantaxus said in Since last update, a large number of issues have come back:

@solestone563412 I doubt it, I am still waiting for an in game bonerscope t-shirt. - surprised Duke didn't sell this, the bug was hilarious. I would have paid doubloons for one

I can confirm I had the hearing another crew that is not there bug.

I was on Ancient Spire and I could hear them talking quite clearly but they could not hear me. Through headphones I could also hear them move behind me as I passed through them.

Ghosts of dead pirates with unfinished business are haunting Ancient Spire!

That's close to Devil's Ridge, so maybe the floating stones are linked to it!

Seriously though, that bug is scary when you are solo slooping, it's night time, you have headphones on, and suddenly you hear random voices really close to you

@Sshteeve Thanks mate, I forgot those, and added them to the list.
@Galactic-Geek I have not experienced that, but then again, I don't normally dock a rowboat with GPB on board. Added it to the list anyways.
@D3ADST1CK Yeah, I am sure there are a plethora of things going on to cause these issues. But the main point was to make a list of problems, most of which were fixed, and have now returned. Just gets frustrating knowing that these issues are out there.
@OGDirtyApe I have never experienced that, but added to list.
@RealStyli I agree, but also disagree. I agree they need to do more testing and as I said, paid staff for Quality Assurance is desperately needed. Full time people that run the game through its paces. Find and fix the problems before giving it to us. But I disagree that if there is a problem, or a rash of problems like there are now, then Rare should not wait for some update to fix them. We had problems for up to 2 months where the game was barely playable and got no fixes, because Rare stated they wanted to wait for the next update to include the patches in. In my opinion that is unacceptable. If you know the problem and have the fix for it, and it affects the game that much, then issue the fix ASAP. Don't delay. Delaying only increases the amount of frustration people have.

@knifelife said in Since last update, a large number of issues have come back:

@genuine-heather I got the green skelly last night to! Made my sneak attack against a ship very problematic.

Tbh in the end it made me Rage, everything was determined to go wrong yesterday. It felt like I was in Summits personal fanboy server.
I’ve had to put the game down untill they sort it out it’s all but unplayable for me at the moment.

There are no way too many of his fanboys running around lately. Some are very cult like followers just like we have seen in the forums. Definitely can sour anyone’s voyages. Good news is we have been teaching them what it is like to swim with the sharks without a ship.

True pirates rule the Sea of Thieves, not posers. Never say die!

@nofears-fun said in Since last update, a large number of issues have come back:

@RealStyli I agree, but also disagree. I agree they need to do more testing and as I said, paid staff for Quality Assurance is desperately needed. Full time people that run the game through its paces. Find and fix the problems before giving it to us. But I disagree that if there is a problem, or a rash of problems like there are now, then Rare should not wait for some update to fix them. We had problems for up to 2 months where the game was barely playable and got no fixes, because Rare stated they wanted to wait for the next update to include the patches in. In my opinion that is unacceptable. If you know the problem and have the fix for it, and it affects the game that much, then issue the fix ASAP. Don't delay. Delaying only increases the amount of frustration people have.

Ideally, yes. But the issue is that in deploying a fix for one problem the patch could create multiple other new issues and it could create problems trying to fix the other known problems later.

@realstyli My assumption in saying release the fix ASAP is that you found the problem, fixed it, and fully tested it. Again, having a full time team dedicated to Quality Assurance would help in this.

@iceman-0007 Forgot that one, I changed the original post to add new problems that have come up in last update and added this to the list.

I also moved the enlisting pirate over to new problems since that is a most recent issue.

@knifelife

You are cool mate! Sometimes you need someone to talk to and that is why all of us are here. I know that the double gun/macro issue is on Rare’s radar. It is not a game bug like @NoFears-Fun started this post about. Just hope a resolution for it does not take long with these bug fixes because of the long gaps in updates now.

The players using this method are the bugs in this case. A bunch of annoying foul mouthed little gnats sailing around wanting to ruin the fun for everyone else. Following the hive mind commands to be bad players. The rest of us just need to keep swatting at them with cannonballs.

Once many of them cannot use a single gimmick technique to inflate themselves, they will return to dry land to crawl under a rock. That is until they unfortunately see the next video to rally the toxic troll brigade.

Play music on the ferry when enter the portal and sometimes the music keeps playing on the ferry the rest of the session :D

Great list, Fears! Here’s another glitch I had last night, the water in the legendary hangout was missing!

I accidentally fell off the dock down there, normally nbd, but this time I landed with a hard thud on the ground??? I could see the graphics of water way above my head, but there was no water to swim through or drown me, and I had to run around trying to find the one ladder I could jump to & reach from the ground down there. 🤔🤔🤔