Just two days after delaying Skull and Bones yet again, this time into early 2023-24, Ubisoft has posted a new developer stream showcasing the oft-delayed pirate adventure's « narrative gamep
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Just two days after delaying Skull and Bones (opens in new tab) yet again, this time into early 2023-24, Ubisoft has posted a new developer stream showcasing the oft-delayed pirate adventure’s « narrative gameplay. » The video takes players through an « investigation, » described by narrative director Joel Jannise as « a way to tell a story through a series of steps. »
« The player follows a trail of something that they think is going to be interesting and likely going to lead to some kind of treasure or some kind of score, » Janisse explains in the video. « But it also tells a story about our factions and our world, and we do that by finding, for example, messages in bottles, scraps of lost journals, sometimes talking to different characters in the world, and through that we’re able to tell a story. »
The investigation seen in the video is centered on a beef between a brother and sister, both of whom believe they’re the proper heir to the throne of a small kingdom. You, as a pirate, don’t particularly care about the politics of the situation, but thrones come with crowns, and crowns are worth a lot of money.
The action begins with a mission to plunder a local settlement, and this is where I start to tune out. The act of plundering is simply a matter of pulling up close enough to the port in question, pushing the « plunder » button, and then sailing around within a bounded area blasting at enemy ships while a timer ticks down, signaling the progress your off-screen crew is making.
