In Skull & Bones, which launches on November 8 for Xbox Series X|S, players can explore a fictitious version of the Indian Ocean during the Golden Age of Piracy. However, piracy didn’t appear overnight. It benefited from a thriving commerce in hot goods like silks, spices, and other items for Europeans in the 17th century. Pirates discovered a new business opportunity as a result of these profitable pickings: their own covert smuggling networks.
The Skull and Bones team provided some further information about these networks during Ubisoft Forward. These networks are only revealed after you have earned the right to know about them. To do that, you must increase your Notoriety and eventually gain access to The Helm, your personal pirate hideout, which will serve as the hub of your smuggling operations. Here, you can produce valuable products like rum and opium, which you can then sell to the people with the biggest wallets. From this point on, you’ll also have greater freedom to pick and choose your own contracts as opposed to being reliant on other pirate Kingpins.
Additionally, the Ubisoft Forward presentation included more information on the ship-building and customization options. The Sambuk gives players employing fire weapons an advantage, while the Brig—an already powerful ship—can deliver even more damage when it is anchored. Each ship class is targeted toward different kinds of playstyles, whether you’re searching for mobility, power, or cargo capacity. And that’s just the beginning; players can customise each ship to do particular missions and make it wholly their own by equipping it with a variety of guns, ammunition, armour, furniture, and cosmetics.
Stockpiling cannonballs is only one aspect of arming your ship; you also need to take your objectives into account. Do you like to scuttle enemy ships and take their submerged wreckage? Then you’ll need piercing ammunition, which pierces armour and allows water pour in, or fire ammunition, which can do a variety of damage on a large wooden structure. However, tearing ammunition will quickly dismantle a ship’s sails if you wish to disable it for simple boarding. You can choose from a wide array of cannons, ballistae, mortars, rocket launchers, and even torpedoes, all of which have distinct damage kinds to keep your opponents guessing.
However, each weapon also has a form of armour that can block it. For instance, you wouldn’t employ a flamethrower against a ship covered in leather panels because leather is resistant to fire damage. One of several strategies for surviving at sea is to learn what your adversaries use to defend themselves and use a weapon that can fully destroy it in return.
Skull & Bones needs an Xbox account and an Xbox Live Gold membership to play because it is entirely online. Do you possess the necessary skills to endure and rise to the rank of pirate Kingpin on the high seas? Learn more on November 8 when Skull & Bones for Xbox Series X|S is released.