Only three years off from a full decade of the game being announced, Skull and Bones is nearing its long-awaited launch. Of course, this title was met with plenty of setbacks over the years since its reveal back in 2017. Planned to ship in 2019, the game was faced with a delay entering into 2020. And, of course, this trend continued. And even after a promised 2023 release, it was again pushed off once more.
By late summer, Skull and Bones did feature a closed beta for players to feel the waters for what the game will be. But even still, no release date was set. However, it was reported that February 2024 is looking to be the final goal post for Skull and Bones. In December at The Game Awards, Ubisoft confirmed February is to deliver Skull and Bones finally.
This week, Ubisoft revealed its plans for the post-launch of Skull and Bones with its first year of add-on content. You can watch the trailer in the video below:
“Philippe La Peste, the main villain of Season 1: Raging Tides, is a poisonous presence on the ocean, invading from the Caribbean to sow discord and disease with his pestilant crew. Throughout the season, La Peste will send increasingly difficult fleets of attacking ships to the Indian Ocean, culminating in a boss fight with La Peste at the end of Raging Tides. The Tides of Terror world event that we took on was that climactic boss fight, and it was time to remove his presence from our waters.
“After seeing the damage the Tylosaurus did to our party, I decided to switch it up to a healing class, equipping the Barque with healing bombards so I could reinforce my teammates’ hulls from a distance. La Peste’s ship is a massive, glowing green vessel, and deals heavy damage by raining poison down from the sky. Periodically, his ship would deploy floating bombs in the water, critical to dispatch before they sank one of our ships.
“Agility was key in this fight to avoid poison mortars, floating bombs, and, occasionally, friendly ships. It was a brutal fight, but after a brutal barrage of cannon fire and flood-inducing firepower, we sent La Peste to the depths. La Peste is just the first pirate lord who will invade in Skull and Bones Year 1: Rise of the Kingpins. Season 2, Chorus of Havoc, will introduce the Hubac twins, who have been sent by the King of France to eliminate pirates from the region.
“With two additional seasons planned, Into the Dragon’s Wake and Shadows of the Deep, each season in Skull and Bones brings a new threat who have come to take a piece of your empire, complete with the own slate of world events. With the arrival of each pirate lord, local merchants and factions will become aware of their presence, and adjust their order of operations accordingly – which in turn will affect what commodities are valued most.”
What has you most engaged for Skull and Bones post-launch roadmap thus far?
Skull and Bones ships on February 16th, 2024 for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC.
Source: Ubisoft
