Overview

• Rare Ltd activated Season 17 today, marking the start of a standardized three-month content cadence for the live-service pirate sandbox
• The Smuggler’s League faction and its smuggling missions challenge crews to discreetly transport contraband across multiple outposts
• A new season UI tab tracks the three seasonal acts and their rewards, and a launch patch adds cross-server opt-out, secondary controller rebinding, ship-approach stutter fixes and servers in France, South Africa and India
• Creative director Drew Stevens released a developer video outlining ongoing investigations into water desync, long load times, world-event frequency and repeated single-crew sinkings
• Mid-season updates will roll out a September artwork-theft mission for crews and convert skeleton forts into more challenging Flameheart reaper forts in October