Skull & Bones (PS4, PC, Skull & Xbone) - Ubisoft pirate boat fighter

-There are no actual sailing mechanics. Remember Valheim? Yeah, forget it
-There's also no boarding. I mean, there's an animation that plays out when you close in on enemy ship and click "board", but that's it. It's also the same animation over and over.
-Blowing up ships magically transports their cargo to you
-Your ship has stamina that you can use for "sprinting", and replenish it with food.
-You can move on land with your captain (player character). But you can't do anything besides dressing him up and interacting with game mechanics, walking around is basically just obtuse interface
for some reason characters are speaking over modern loudspeakers, it's very jarring. Audio balance also seems to be all over the place, it's either very silent or deafening
-NPCs are super uncanny, their voice is desynced and the dialogue is very, very primitive

rinks wrote:FFS, Taf.

rinks wrote:FFS, Taf.

aayl1 wrote:From a reddit thread:

-You can move on land with your captain (player character). But you can't do anything besides dressing him up and interacting with game mechanics, walking around is basically just obtuse interface.

aayl1 wrote:From a reddit thread:

-There are no actual sailing mechanics. Remember Valheim? Yeah, forget it
-There's also no boarding. I mean, there's an animation that plays out when you close in on enemy ship and click "board", but that's it. It's also the same animation over and over.
-Blowing up ships magically transports their cargo to you
-Your ship has stamina that you can use for "sprinting", and replenish it with food.
-You can move on land with your captain (player character). But you can't do anything besides dressing him up and interacting with game mechanics, walking around is basically just obtuse interface
for some reason characters are speaking over modern loudspeakers, it's very jarring. Audio balance also seems to be all over the place, it's either very silent or deafening
-NPCs are super uncanny, their voice is desynced and the dialogue is very, very primitive

Yeah really sounds like a "Quadruple A game" ubisoft

How do you mess up AC Black Flag without the AC bits?! I was really in the mood for a good pirate game - just went through Black Flag (which was great when you ignore the AC bits!) and am reading Master and Commander. A crying shame.

Captain Kinopio wrote:

aayl1 wrote:From a reddit thread:

-You can move on land with your captain (player character). But you can't do anything besides dressing him up and interacting with game mechanics, walking around is basically just obtuse interface.

This is a really weird complaint.

BOR wrote:I'm sure it will come to Ubisoft+ one day.

rinks wrote:

BOR wrote:I'm sure it will come to Ubisoft+ one day.

It already is!

Cheeky Devlin wrote:I very much get the impression that if Ubisoft weren't legally obligated to release this it would have been quietly cancelled years ago.

PCGamer wrote:I like Skull and Bones but I also resent it. It has the makings of a great pirate game but it's hamstrung by live service orthodoxy. It doesn't compare favourably with the ten-year old game that inspired it, unless one's measure of a good game is the amount of hours it can occupy in one's life. Still, to expect a blockbuster game about sailing big clumsy boats to be anything else in 2024 is foolhardy. This will do. Don't hate the player, hate the game. There's no way Skull and Bones could exist right now in any other form.