Trading Company and Emissary Balancing
In addition to the balancing change details below, Design Director Mike Chapman has put together a post on our Forums to provide additional context: Balancing Emissaries Developer Update
- Cashing In Emissary Flags – Gold and Reaper’s Bones reputation earned when cashing in Emissary Flags at The Reaper’s Hideout have now been rebalanced. Although higher-grade Emissary Flags now award less gold and reputation, lower-grade Emissary Flags award more.
- Reaper’s Bones Reputation – While Reaper’s Chests and Reaper’s Bounties remain unchanged, the reputation earned when cashing in all other treasure with The Reaper’s Bones has now been reduced.
- Ending an Emissary Session – The gold and reputation awarded when ending an Emissary session via the voting table has now been reduced across all Emissary Grades and Trading Companies.
- Reaper’s Bones Emissary Grade Progression – As a Reaper’s Bones Emissary, acquiring loot will be slightly less effective at advancing Emissary Grade. However, acquiring other crews’ Emissary Flags and defeating other Emissaries remains as effective as ever.
- Athena’s Fortune Emissary Grade Progression – As an Emissary for Athena’s Fortune, crews will now be required to perform more actions to advance their Emissary Grade.
- Athena’s Fortune Emissary Quest – The Athena’s Fortune Emissary Quest earned at Grade 5 will now require crews to sail for longer distances to earn their legendary rewards.
Fixed Issues
General
- Players attempting to rejoin their active session following disconnection should no longer be left waiting at the “Searching the Seas” message.
- Players attempting to join another crew from an invite should no longer be left waiting at the “Searching the Seas” message.
- Improved Windows 10 PC game stability following compatibility issues with third party software.
- Improved server stability.
- Wielding a fishing rod with bait attached should no longer cause game instability for surrounding players.
- Crews engaging in ship-to-ship combat will now earn increased silver when damaging an opponent’s ship.
- On reaching Emissary Grade 5 with a Trading Company, crews should no longer receive an Emissary Quest from a different Trading Company.
- Company Commendations requiring crews to reach specific Emissary Grades now progress by the correct amount when reaching the required criteria.
- Players hit with Cursed Cannonballs while awaiting revival by a crewmate should no longer experience issues that cause their character animations to become stuck.
Known Issues
- Joining a Session: Players Receiving Groomedbeard – Some players may find that upon attempting to join a session either via session rejoin, an invite or joining in progress, they receive a Groomedbeard error and are unable to join.
- Ship Combat: Incorrect Cannonball Loading – When using the radial to switch between cannonball types during ship combat, selecting a new type too quickly may result in a regular cannonball being loaded instead.
- Visual Issues: Nvidia RTX GPUs – An issue has been identified on a range of Nvidia RTX GPUs that causes gridlines to be visible in the sea when the game is set to Mythical graphics quality.
- Reaper's Bones Rank 50 – Players are currently unable to reach Pirate Legend by hitting Rank 50 in The Reaper's Bones alongside two other Trading Companies.
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