Sea of Thieves Season 14 sails into troubled waters
Season 14 in Sea of Thieves started final week, and it has been fairly tough crusing. The Season 14 replace, which added eight new achievements to unlock, was supposed to vary the best way Sea of Thieves was performed perpetually by introducing quite a few new stealth mechanics, resembling crouching, the flexibility to set traps, and using disguises. Nonetheless, simply earlier than Season 14 went reside, Uncommon introduced it was disabling traps and a brand new ledge-hanging capability (together with their related Xbox achievements) because the group had encountered some main points with these options.
Now, Uncommon has needed to disable each crouching and disguises in Sea of Thieves after discovering issues with these two mechanics.
In a video replace about Season 14’s troubled launch, manufacturing director Drew Stevens stated that “after monitoring bug stories and suggestions over the weekend, we have seen that crouching has launched various knock-on results to the broader expertise, such because the return of fast switching, air management from cannons, and even an invincibility exploit. Whereas it actually pains me to say it, as I’ve seen so many humorous tales from it already, to forestall these points from impacting our wider group, we’re quickly disabling crouching and disguises whereas we work to handle these points.”
Uncommon can even transfer again the Chest of Fortune to its right location within the Fort of the Damned whereas the sport is offline.
“I admire that this takes a giant a part of the Season’s instrument set away from gamers,” Stevens added. “Nonetheless, we really feel like that is the appropriate name to guard and stabilize the expertise in reside forward of additional hotfixes. Our dedication is to deliver these options again as quickly as we are able to.”
Stevens goes on to elucidate {that a} hotfix will not be coming to Sea of Thieves this week because the group is taking its time to get the replace proper. Consequently, crouching and disguises will return in a bigger hotfix subsequent week. An additional replace in November will introduce extra enhancements and fixes and reenable traps and hanging from ledges.
With crouching and disguises now disabled in Sea of Thieves, the Snug Sneaker and Hidden in Plain Sight Xbox achievements have been quickly discontinued.
In different Uncommon information, Uncommon studio boss Craig Duncan has been named as the brand new head of Xbox Recreation Studios and can exchange the retiring Alan Hartman in November.