Sea of Thieves BUG LIST

18 I suspect is often when players dont leave the game properly, rage quit by just closing it
19 is an exploit
21 i wouldn't consider an exploit, people learning blackscreen spots isn't unintended game behaviour.
22 I assume is intentional, some valuable loot just isn't stackable in chests, like emissary flag etc

When I play on ping I too often get a desync where im stuck unable to move on deck and crewmate has to blunderbomb me (im actually on cannon but not on my screen)
You buy captaincy (usually fruit) and it doesnt appear in barrel, buying something else sometimes reveals it
Being unable to use ammo crate on enemy ships
Merchant manifest ships not spawning
Fort waves of skellies not spawning
Loot getting stuck in the deck and needing to be harpooned out

Thanks, added yours.

Regarding your first point its just general desync issue so i guess cant list that as a bug.
About manifests, some quests dont have ships at the end intentionally, if the last note says someting about storm you will be able to find only floating manifest and no shipwreck.
Players learning blackscreen spots aint a problem, problem is the blackscreen spots themvelves as they provide more advanced players with unfair advantage - quick way to return to ship instead of lurking for mermaid for minutes.
For reaper urns, their lesser versions not that much cheaper but can be placed into a chest, also its "small item", you can run with them. So its clearly a bug that they cant be placed into a chest.

@coopers-rum is it an unfair advantage if it is something accessible to everyone? It's not like they are using any software or hardware that means others cant do the same. The only 2 consistent blackscreens i use are the barrels you mention at outpost and the tower at fort of the damned

@hiradc
It is using game bug\glitch at the end of the day.

@coopers-rum blackscreen is an intended mechanic where if you get stuck the game sends you back to ship. I guess only devs can decide as whether deemed an exploit. Just a pity you can get accidentally stuck and need blunderbomb to escape it doesnt even blackscreen you 🤣

@hiradc
Indeed, but various spots give you 100% blackscreen which should be adjusted not to give that opportunity. e.g - put monkey island barrels closer or further from each other so you cant get between them so proc blackscreen on demand. Same goes for fotd tower etcetera.

13 will be gone when the season ends. 15 isn't a bug shhhhhh. 21 is something they can't patch really. The way this game treats blackscreens, they would have to get rid of all geometry that isn't 90 degree angles or higher. Even then, if two parallel planks are close enough to each other, you can use the dock to blackscreen. You can use most of the trading company posts to blackscreen too. The only way to fix black screens like that is to fully change how they work. 26 is a silly one. How is it that we have so many loot items that sit below the deck when we put them down? Even emissary flags just fully disappear a lot of the time. It seems like the only parts of the boat with proper collision are the bowsprit end and the railings.

Added 27) Players climbling island ladders are invisible. At least teammates.

"Sometimes" "Some"
Some key words that means doesnt happen and wouldnt be counted.

and a lot of these are so unheard of, even searching for evidence proves they dont exist.

@keylessword4029
Cant confirm for LeChuck, but for the rest its your Win issues not the game.

To add: When you grapple to a ladder and it doesn't let you grab despite you mashing f (I know I'm not grabbing and letting go because the reload animation for grapple isn't interrupted)
Hourglass music playing twice, slightly offset, so it sounds like an echo

@potatosord
Yeah, those are good ones.

Added

30. When teammate leaving, current weapon plays reequip animation and ammo gets refilled for both guns.

@coopers-rum if you remove the monkey island blackscreen spot it just requires more game knowledge to know a unique blackscreen spot for every outpost, having the opposite effect that you want out of removing it

@potatosord

To add: When you grapple to a ladder and it doesn't let you grab despite you mashing f (I know I'm not grabbing and letting go because the reload animation for grapple isn't interrupted)

That was their way of fixing the issue that you got tp'd to the center of the map when grabbing ladders while reeling in :p

The bug can't happen if they just disable interactions entirely 😊

@captain-knyt Classic Rare. Can't fix a bug so they just technically disable it. Long dogs when you take fall damage? They still get long for a second, and then the game forces you to drop them.

@captain-knyt
And its their work to narrow them down.
No need to change how blackscreen works, need to change special environment spots at most populated areas like outposts and forts, move objects closer, put invisible walls etc. Its a flaw that allows some players to have advantage and should be fixed.

Anyway, its probably least valuable issue on the list.

@coopers-rum said in Sea of Thieves BUG LIST:

@captain-knyt
And its their work to narrow them down.
No need to change how blackscreen works, need to change special environment spots at most populated areas like outposts and forts, move objects closer, put invisible walls etc. Its a flaw that allows some players to have advantage and should be fixed.

Anyway, its probably least valuable issue on the list.

Perhaps move the return place from the ship to the Ferry, so there is a delay of 20-30 seconds, nullifying mostly the advantage people have who do it on purpose.

The ones I get regularly:
1 (arm loads after a second or so), 4, 6, 10, 12 (Ferry fixes this), 23, 27.

13 seems intentional for this Season, though I wish they'd tone it down a tad.
15 has been a known issue since the start of the year and really should have been fixed by now.

A lot of these seem like memory issues, so I'm hoping the loading optimisations they are working on will help in these areas as well.

@lem0n-curry said in Sea of Thieves BUG LIST:

@coopers-rum said in Sea of Thieves BUG LIST:

@captain-knyt
And its their work to narrow them down.
No need to change how blackscreen works, need to change special environment spots at most populated areas like outposts and forts, move objects closer, put invisible walls etc. Its a flaw that allows some players to have advantage and should be fixed.

Anyway, its probably least valuable issue on the list.

Perhaps move the return place from the ship to the Ferry, so there is a delay of 20-30 seconds, nullifying mostly the advantage people have who do it on purpose.

Honestly, this is actually a genius idea.

@coopers-rum if you want an example of rare trying to narrow down the amount of blackscreen spots just try swimming around in the pirate legend tavern, there are invisible blocks on every piece of wood to stop you from blackscreening, yet you can still find blackscreen spots despite the effort. It's not possible to get rid of them all

@lem0n-curry that would be very infuriating, when the game basically 'kills' you at random times, it's not unheard of to blackscreen midcombat. Letting go on a galleon ladder will get you blackscreened if it's too tilted, and using a horn of fair winds on someone into a corner can blackscreen them. You would be getting punished for doing nothing wrong.

It's already a mild annoyance to get blackscreened now, but imagine if it caused you to sink because you stepped on a rock the wrong way

@captain-knyt said in Sea of Thieves BUG LIST:

@lem0n-curry that would be very infuriating, when the game basically 'kills' you at random times, it's not unheard of to blackscreen midcombat. Letting go on a galleon ladder will get you blackscreened if it's too tilted, and using a horn of fair winds on someone into a corner can blackscreen them. You would be getting punished for doing nothing wrong.

It's already a mild annoyance to get blackscreened now, but imagine if it caused you to sink because you stepped on a rock the wrong way

If you're sunk because you stepped on a rock the wrong way, you probably would be too late to safe your ship if you'd have to swim to your mermaid anyway.

Obviously, I'd rather they fix the black screen spots, but what's would be the ratio of getting blackscreened by the scenarios you listed and the purposefully blackscreen to your ship ? I suspect the latter happens more often and those give an unfair advantage as the designed way to get back to your ship when it's out of range is the mermaid.

@captain-knyt

@coopers-rum if you want an example of rare trying to narrow down the amount of blackscreen spots just try swimming around in the pirate legend tavern, there are invisible blocks on every piece of wood to stop you from blackscreening, yet you can still find blackscreen spots despite the effort. It's not possible to get rid of them all

Right, but contineously patching those that are most consistent and actively used by community a way to go.
Its a process, not a single patch thing.

Also, in pirate legends hideout they put invisible walls not to stop you from blackscreens, but to stop you from going to guardians place and out of bounds.

Yay they nailed one down.

Reaper Warrior’s Urns can now be placed inside Treasure Chests.

I don't know if this was intentional by Rare or if it's a bug, but two days ago the following happened: I was sailing a Streak 4 in Hourglass when the ancient, dreaded Redmaw suddenly appeared next to me. So far, nothing too serious. But when it attacked, my ship was catapulted about 10 meters into the air and ended up upside down in the water. The hull was above water, and it refused to right itself. I couldn't swim into the ship because it was upside down, so there was nothing I could do but watch it sink.