Skull and Bones to Add Land Combat This Fall as Ubisoft Outlines Year 2 Content Plans

Ubisoft is plotting a people to marque Skull and Bones Year 2 the pirate multiplayer game’s biggest yet acknowledgment to large contented additions similar caller modes, ships, a Kraken, and thing fans person begged for since launch: onshore combat.

Ubisoft opened its treasure thorax of plans for the adjacent twelvemonth of updates during a peculiar Year 2 showcase that premiered yesterday. Its presumption was packed with contented to look guardant to, but it’s Season 3: Guts and Glory that promises the onshore combat diagnostic players person hoped to spot included since Skull and Bones primitively launched past February.

During Season 3 this fall, Ubisoft volition yet let players to instrumentality the enactment distant from the sea, meaning you’ll beryllium capable to swordfight and adjacent gully your firearms against others. It’s each portion of Season 3’s Rogue Warlord additions, which volition spot players mounting ft connected sandy beaches and damp caves to rescue skilled crewmembers known arsenic Officers. A video teasing the diagnostic showed a spot of what players tin expect, but it’s wide we’ll person to hold until aboriginal this twelvemonth to spot however it each works.

While onshore combat is by acold the biggest summation coming with Skull and Bones Year 2, the presumption had plentifulness much to support players digging passim 2025. Season 1 sets sail today, April 15, with Ascent into Chaos, which adds a loot-enhancing point ascension feature, challenging World Tiers, a caller Schooner mean ship, and the team-based Death Tides PvP mode. Season 2: Oaths of War, which launches summertime 2025, includes highlights specified arsenic Megaforts and the gargantuan Frigate ample ships, with Season 4: Eye of the Beast acceptable to present the Kraken, Hunter’s Guild, and Corvette ample vessel this winter.

If everything you’ve heard sounds enticing capable to dive in, you’ll beryllium blessed to cognize Skull and Bones volition motorboat a escaped play successful conscionable a fewer days. From April 17 – 21, players tin rise sails to effort retired pirate PvP for themselves and besides acquisition the crippled astatine a reduced terms (which has yet to beryllium announced).

Skull and Bones launched February 16, 2024, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S (we gave it a 7/10 successful our review). Although Ubisoft has been reluctant to stock authoritative income stats for its latest pirate escapade game, it did tease that it managed to bring successful “record subordinate engagement” soon aft its release. Interestingly, the motorboat of Skull and Bones besides coincided with a 200% summation successful Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag players.

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