Players are meant to tread that same basic path in Skull & Bones. And then, step by step, they proceeded on a long journey to become a legendary kingpin, whether they were a woman or a man," Pellen said. We discovered that, at the end of the 17th century in the Indian Ocean, most of the pirates started as outcasts or castaways. "I wanted to understand everything about piracy. But becoming your own version of Blackbeard is the goal, not the starting point. Trope-y pirate things like peg legs and parrots on shoulders are part of the fantasy wish fulfillment Skull & Bones offers. "Where do pirates come from? How did you become a pirate ?" Those were the basic questions Pellen put to the development team and the historians they worked with on the project. You spend most of your gameplay time directly controlling a boat, but Dens and Outposts let you see (and show off) your personally customized pirate captain. Black Flag's naval combat was fun, sure, but its pirate fantasy was the real hook. Translating those mechanics into a standalone game was the logical next step, but the original concept for Skull & Bones as a purely team-based, player-versus-player (PvP) experience missed the mark.
The Ubisoft Singapore team behind Skull & Bones also built the naval combat in 2013's Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, which powered its pirate fantasy with the help of some wildly compelling resource pillaging. The high seas action is still there, but it's been repackaged into a now-confirmed 2022 release that's best described as a pirate's life simulator. The Skull & Bones we're talking about today is built on the skeleton of the multiplayer-focused ship combat game Ubisoft first revealed in 2017, but it's been utterly transformed. Facing these trials earns you generous piles of booty that you'll of course use to fund your growing naval crimes operation. You'll also have to contend with exotic wildlife, deadly storms, pirate hunters, and, if you so choose, other players. Mutinous crewmates are among the many dangers the pirate captains of Ubisoft's Skull & Bones will face as they sail the Indian Ocean in search of treasure and infamy.
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Skull and Bones will exclusively be available on Epic Game Store and Ubisoft Store on PC as well as on Stadia, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S with both cross-play and cross-progression support.You're going to regret it if you can't keep your crew happy in Skull & Bones. In the meantime, we’ll just have to wait for the flood of previews that’s bound to come our way over the next few months.
Of course, this is all entirely based on a few minutes of gameplay footage and the game might look and play better when it comes out later this year.
Player crews are also noticeably absent and ships are controlled by just one player with NPCs doing the grunt work. Plundering is also a bit anti-climactic since it only requires players to navigate their ships to a certain area and wait for the progress bar to fill up. Never mind that Ubisoft reportedly spent over $200 million on its development. Skull and Bones initially started off as an expansion for 2013’s Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag and unfortunately it shows in the game’s underwhelming visuals, especially when compared to Rare’s Sea of Thieves.
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