Ubisoft’s salty multiplayer shipfighter Skull & Bones won’t launch this autumn, as had been the plan, as a result of Ubisoft have delayed it for a good whereas. They need additional time to verify it’s correct good, yeah? Wouldn’t wish to launch a ship then have the front fall off or, like Sea Of Thieves, realise the entrance was by no means even there. Ubi now count on to launch Skull & Bones within the 2019-20 monetary 12 months, which runs from April 1st, 2019 by to March 31st, 2020.
“In line with previous practices and in view of the acceleration of our digital transformation, growth in back-catalog sales and excellent momentum of recent releases,” the corporate stated throughout yesterday’s annual earnings report, “Ubisoft has decided to give itself more time to develop Skull & Bones to offer players an even more engaging experience.”
I just like the phrase “digital transformation.” Sounds like an an old Front Line Assembly lyric or a line from The Lawnmower Man. Ubisoft have gotten the web.
Our dearly departed Adam had a play of Skull & Bones following the sport’s announcement throughout E3 in June 2017:
“There was a sinking feeling within the room when the sport was introduced, following the quick excessive of ‘MORE BLACK FLAG YES PLEASE’. People wish to be pirates, not pirate ships, however Skull and Bones has sufficient tactical nuance in its course-plotting and interceptions to offer me hope that it’ll be a implausible sport of ship-to-ship fight. And if there are different modes as sturdy because the hunt, in addition to a good development system, I’ll gladly faux to be a ship for some time.
“Despite appearances, it’s probably better to think of dogfighting than pirate simulation. In fact, more than anything, Skull and Bones reminds me of the rather obscure pretend dogfighting game Cult of the Wind. For all of its visual fidelity, it’s really a big old toybox, even if it does have the best water I’ve ever seen.”
I do like Ubisoft beginning to re-use bones of their outdated sandbox video games reasonably than binning every part after a 12 months. It all the time appears such a horrible waste of labor that builders crunched so laborious on, in addition to taking us away from settings we would wish to discover extra. Yes, extra pirates, ta. They’ve lobbed bits of Watch Dogs and outdated Far Cries and Assassin’s Creeds into the Far Cry 5 map editor too. Do one thing with with the London of Ass Syn subsequent, okay?
Skull & Bones is being made by Ubisoft Singapore with assist from Blue Byte and Ubisoft Chengdu. The Steam page is already up, for wishlisting and whatnot.
