"As a pirate captain, you can team up with other pirate captains to raid some convoys or to attack some fortresses," Pellen said, adding that players will be able to choose between two different kinds of servers and social rules. If other players join you, they sail along in ships of their own. We're playing by Black Flag rules here: When you're out on the water, your ship is the character. This isn't like Rare's Sea of Thieves, the Xbox pirate sim that turns each player into an individual crew member.
The character you create at the start of the game is your human avatar in the world of Skull & Bones, but the action is almost entirely ship-based.
Naval combat is the engine powering that loop. That's the basic feedback loop we're looking at here: Do pirate things to earn more resources and blueprints, and then use those assets to build the tools you'll need to become a more successful pirate. As word of your deeds spreads across the Indian Ocean and your Infamy total increases, new blueprints for ships, weapons, and armor become available. That's reflected in-game by the amount of "Infamy" you've earned for engaging in all kinds of piratical behavior, like clearing contracts, raiding forts, or embarking on treasure hunts. But as you take on contracts for other pirates and engage in all manner of sea crimes, you amass a stockpile of resources and your reputation, your ability to leave a mark on the world, grows.Īs you take on contracts for other pirates and engage in all manner of sea crimes, your ability to leave a mark on the world grows. You start out as a shipwreck survivor armed with little more than a spear and a small sailing vessel. 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. You're going to regret it if you can't keep your crew happy in Skull & Bones.
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