Skull and Bones Will Launch This November 8, New Gameplay Revealed
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In Ubisoft’s mini Ubisoft Forward event, which focused solely on the company’s new game Skull and Bones, they announced that the open world pirate game will launch on November 8, 2022 for the PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
The company also released a gameplay overview video that’s around 7-minutes long and covers what you can expect from this pirate game. But if you want to see the game in action, you can check out the livestream event as devs showed some co-op action.
In an IGN interview with Skull and Bones director Ryan Bernard, it revealed a few key pieces of information about the game.
The biggest takeaway is how there will be no story campaign as the game is designed as a live-service game with a variety of activities in the game’s open world. It’s also worth noting that all combat will be ship battles as the only time you can walk around outside your ship will be in outposts, the game’s player hubs where you can do crafting, take contracts fro NPCs, make upgrades, and interact with other players.
It is said that Skull and Bones can be played entirely solo with the option to play with up to two other players for co-op play. PvP can also be enabled if you want to make things a bit more challenging.
Skull and Bones is being developed by Ubisoft Singapore with the support from other Ubisoft studios.
Pre-orders are now available and doing so will score you cosmetic items such as the “Highness of High Sea Pack” and the “Notoriety Garb Captain Outfit”. And since this is a Ubisoft game, Skull and Bones will have two editions to choose from - a Standard Edition and Premium Edition. The Standard just comes with the base game while the Premium includes “The Ballad of Bloody Bones Collection” cosmetic, two additional missions, a digital art book, the game’s soundtrack, and a Smuggler Pass Token (used to unlock a premium tiers in the game’s battle pass for one season).
Based on the reveal today, it seems like Skull and Bones will not be available in last-gen consoles, such as the PS4 and Xbox One.
