Sea of Thieves Patch Aims to Fix Frustrating Ship Spawns

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Sea of Thieves is admittedly a little empty right now, but it feels even more so when the person whose ship you’ve just sunk comes back to bother you five minutes later. Rare is addressing this issue as a part of their latest patch, 1.0.2, which is available now.

Sinking a ship is a difficult feat. It can require subterfuge, good aim, or a combination of both, but it also requires the enemy crew to fail at keeping it afloat. Combined with triumphant audio cues, sinking a ship is meant to feel like a big accomplishment. But players were quickly realizing that crews with nothing to lose would just attack other ships, sink, and race right back to the same spot.

Now, sunken ships will respawn much farther away or “outside of visible view of the ship that sank them,” according to the patch notes.

The change comes as a result of player feedback which claimed that this behavior was akin to “griefing,” and made fighting over a fort more frustrating than it needed to be.

The patch also made some changes to the mermaid teleport, performance, and some fixes for bugs concerning ship geometry, installing the game, and matchmaking.

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TOXICPosted:

Still havent had a chance to play this game yet but all my friends said its been amazing so far.

MushroomElmPosted:

Had this happen to me at a Fort, except we were the Griefers really. Went to a Fort, blew a Galleon out of the water in a few shots. They came back within a few minutes. Easily sunk them again.

Proof is on my YouTube channel :)

MazePosted:

Seems like a very good update, sounds like getting killed over and over in an FPS

SilkyPosted:

Not a huge fan of the game and even for someone like me who plays it not so often, this 'glitch' is noticeable

WLRPosted:

Good cause my ship stay be sinking cause the spawns

BPMPosted:

Its very inconsistent tho. Was sunk at Shark Fin Camp and spawned at Dagger Tooth Outpost which is beside the Camp.

RecessPosted:

We sunk a ship and it came back within 5 minutes. We got sunk and literally spawner on the other side of the map. Still a little inconsistnet. but better I guess

B19Posted:

Can confirm that this works better. I was literally tired of being in my sloop and a galleon I just sunk comes back to get my loot as well as theirs 5 min later. So happy they addressed this!