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Skull & Bones may become a live service gameAll about the crew
All about the crew
In all this talk about Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s viking blokes in boats, I’d almost forgotten about Ubisoft’s other boats game. Ships, pardon me.Skull & Bonesis the pirate-themed naval combat game they announced yonks back in 2017. It’s not scuttled yet, apparently, but may be changing course to a live service game.
When it was first announced, Skull & Bones was planned as a sort of team ship fighting game more aboutbeing a ship than a pirate, a sort of spinoff of the naval combat fromAssassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.
In a new report,Video Games Chroniclespoke with anonymous development sources who suggested that Ubisoft Singapore have been changing tack for the pirate ‘em up. “Skull & Bones had been struggling to carve itself a unique position among Ubisoft’s existing portfolio ofopen-world games,” VGC report.
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“The game will now feature a persistent game world with quests, characters and storylines that will drastically evolve and change over time based on the collective actions of the community,” VGC say, and that “the rebooted Skull & Bones would have a stronger focus on collaboration.” They cite Fortnite’s ongoing storytelling as inspiration for the new direction.
The fact that it might be setting course for live service territory might suggest more PvP and less of things that are not PvP, though a focus on collaboration could mean the opposite. I just want to sail a ship in pretty oceans. Who shall let me? Until Ubisoft come out with more firsthand information though, it’s all guesses as to what you’ll be player versus-ing most.
Ubisoft didn’t mention Skull & Bones during yesterday’s livestream, but they did saythey’ll be doing another Ubisoft Forwardshowcase in the future.
They also didn’t dedicate time to acknowledging the numerousaccusationsof sexual harassment, abuse, and discrimination within Ubisoft that have been reported in recent weeks. The company have vowed to investigate reports and to fix their culture. Another three executivesresigned todayin the wake of the allegations.
