Rare added a long awaited update this week that added the among other things the following features:
- This seat is taken - two crew type options available to them, Open and Closed Crews.
- Open Crews: This option works in the same way you're used to. For the Galleon, an open crew will match four players together while also replacing players who leave during a game. For the Sloop, two players will be matched together, with a leaving player being replaced when possible.
- Closed Crews: This option allows a single player to begin a game on either a Galleon or a Sloop, allowing friends to join in when they're available. You can now play with any configuration of players up to the limit on each ship, which is 4 players on the Galleon and 2 players on the Sloop, as well as preventing non-friends from being able to join you. This option replaces the 3 player Galleon and Solo Sloop options in the Main Menu.
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- Here, take this! - Imagine the scene, skeletons surround your crew, your crew-mate has been bitten by a snake, they have no bananas and there are no resource barrels in sight! Now you can help them cronch their way to full health by handing them a banana! This also works with wooden planks and cannon balls. You helpful pirate you!
- Who goes there? - When swimming underwater, gamertag and Player Titles are no longer visible. Now you can #BeMoresneakyPirate!
This all sounds very good and definitely a step in the right direction, but everything turned out wrong soon after the patch went live.
2 or 3 hours later after the servers went bacn up videos about a very consistent game breaking bug related to resource sharing started to spread. So Rare reacted and made an emergency maintainance break to remove said feature
Around 6 or 7 hours after the original patch went live another issue surfaced, servers started to crash out of nowhere kicking out everyone and making them lose their progress.
Rare took their time but reacted again with yet another emergency maintainance break
That's all three features removed to try and solve these issues. Then when the servers went back up they said everything was back to normal. Now people are starting to report that the server crashes continue to happen even after the roll back, which I can confirm.
It's also worth mentioning that this patch was supposed to come out a week earlier but was supposedly delayed by a bug that affected PC players.
All in all, a complete mess by Rare and a small showing of how bad they've handled this game so far.