Overview

• The Smuggler’s League faction and associated smuggling missions are now available alongside a new season UI tab that tracks rewards and activities across three acts.
• Quality-of-life improvements include the option to opt out of cross-server matchmaking for hourglass battles, secondary-function controller rebinding and a fix for ship-approach stuttering, plus regional servers in France, South Africa and India to reduce latency.
• The season’s new battle pass and Pirate Emporium cosmetics accompany the Plunder Pass and Pirate Profiles feature for extra characters without resetting existing progress.
• Rare’s creative director Drew Stevens has outlined ongoing investigations into water desync, lengthy loading times, world-event frequency during conflicts and repeated single-crew sinkings.
• Players can look forward to a midseason artwork-stealing heist in September and the transformation of skeleton forts into Flameheart’s reaper forts in October under the new three-month schedule.