Skull & Bones seems luxurious in its newest developer video, however there’s nonetheless no launch date

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Make no bones about it: Ubisoft’s perennially delayed Skull & Bones remains to be coming. A brand new developer video proves that, providing a contemporary take a look at some luxurious seas throughout a hunt for an Ungwanan renegade. The most attention-grabbing a part of Skull & Bones remains to be its tortured historical past, with a current sixth delay pushing it even additional again from the unique 2018 launch date – however oh, possibly I do need to be a ship in spite of everything. At least for a bit.


Bones started as a multiplayer-focused growth for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, however it’s since morphed into its personal optionally-multiplayer open world pirate ’em up. You can clearly see the Creediness within the footage above, although you will solely cease off on islands for purchasing and exploring reasonably than stabbing.

The devs discuss how each ship you see wil belong to its personal faction, with visible clues to tip you off to how a lot cargo they’re carrying. You’ll have your individual fleet of ships, too, constructed to totally different sizes for various functions. The devs equip themselves for a success and run mission, heading off ships in a harbour whereas the crew rampages by way of a city on the lookout for the clue they should observe down a bounty goal.

Alice Bee wasn’t too impressed along with her Skull & Bones preview from final July, fearing that each one its crafting bobbins and finickity techniques might act as “a bulwark to the type of immediate pleasure on the open water that Sea Of Thieves facilitates”. “You can see, I believe, the legacy of earlier rounds of improvement in every thing they’ve tried to cram in right here”, she stated.

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Ubisoft say they will announce the game’s newest, hopefully actual launch date “very quickly”. There’s a beta incoming, too.

Apropos of nothing, do you know Blackbeard only lasted as a pirate for 15 months?

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