Ubisoft’s pirate recreation Skull and Bones isn’t placing up the strongest participant numbers, however the writer is touting the sport’s “document participant engagement” because the title’s first season launches.
Based on Ubisoft, Skull and Bones gamers are spending, on common, greater than 4 hours within the recreation day by day. That is the second-highest every day playtime common for a Ubisoft recreation for the reason that firm was based 37 years in the past. Ubisoft didn’t say what the No. 1 title is.
As for Season 1 replace, the Raging Tides replace has gamers going through off in opposition to the fictional pirate Lord Philippe La Peste and his ship, La Potence, as a part of a brand new World Occasion. Gamers will struggle the evil pirate at his base of operators, the Blighted Bastion.
Gamers may also anticipate to come across new warships at sea that they will plunder, in addition to new bounties which have gamers preventing in opposition to Zamaharibu the ocean monster. There may be additionally a brand new Smuggler Cross that features each free content material like ship cosmetics, in addition to a “premium” monitor that comes with much more cosmetics and an allotment of digital forex.
After a rocky improvement that spanned a number of years, quite a few delays, and important management and artistic modifications, Skull and Bones was launched earlier in February. Despite Ubisoft providing all gamers an eight-hour free trial, the sport has reportedly not reached 1 million gamers. The sport isn’t getting the perfect evaluate scores, both. Right here at GameSpot, our Skull and Bones evaluate scored the sport a 4/10, and we mentioned it is “lifeless within the water.”