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Maintenance 22nd September – Damage calculation & compensation

Captains, a Skull and Bones maintenance is incoming 🛠️ 

 📅 Tuesday 22nd September 

⏰ 8AM CEST / 4PM AET / 11PM PT (21st Sept) 

⏳ ~ 1h

Fixes and Improvements

Perks

  • Fixed an issue where the damage calculation for the Blowback perk was incorrectly applying the modifier multiplier twice.

Additional maintenance compensation (17 September)

All players will be receiving the following as compensation for the additional maintenance (17 September) and consequential server downtime:

  • 3x Wicked Harvest
  • 3x Smuggler’s Fortune

❗To note: The compensation will remain available for players to claim until our next scheduled maintenance

Top Community Feedback under investigation

  • Frustration with the limited new content added in the game.
  • Storage space filing up too fast.
  • Dislike for the Seasonal Mastery Reset due to grind associated.
  • Balance pass on Kraken difficulty and scaling.

Top bugs under investigation

  • Cannot complete Bloodsoaked Silver – Invisible traitors
  • Reachwarden’s Touch of Argus stacks do not consume correctly after reaching maximum on Corvette.
  • Title screen and store have no music/UI Audio
  • Physician ledger doesn’t apply damage properly with weapons that have soulmending.
  • Events Playing Incorrect Music - Or No Music At All.
  • Some sea Shanties fail to trigger when sailing.
  • Missing cosmetic rewards after completing Freeman's Investigations (Grave News, Crown of Ukuta, etc).

Please note that the list above is not exhaustive and represents only a selection of the top issues currently being investigated by the team. If you encounter an issue, or would like to view the full list of reported issues, please visit Bug Reporter:

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/skull-and-bones/bug-reporter

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