Skull and Bones Season 2 is on the method after what Ubisoft referred to as a “super response” from the sport’s group.
Skull and Bones launched in February on PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X and S, anbd PC (however not on Steam) after years of delays and was thought to have suffered from low participant numbers. IGN’s Skull and Bones evaluate returned a 7/10. We mentioned: “Skull and Bones is a maritime RPG with a powerful basis, even when it looks like a live-service first draft.”
Season 1 quickly adopted, and now Ubisoft has confirmed what to count on from Season 2. “Allow us to start by saying how wonderful it has been for all of us engaged on Skull and Bones to witness the super response from our complete group since the launch of our sport,” Ubisoft mentioned in a blog post.. “From the methods our gamers interact with our sport and content material, to the ton of screenshots, movies and livestreams shared throughout social media, Discord and Reddit.”
“It’s thanks to your unimaginable engagement, that we have been ready, all through Season 1, to observe, hear, perceive, and extra importantly react to your suggestions on a weekly foundation,” Ubisoft continued. “Our dedication continues to stay the identical – to create and replace our sport collectively, with our group. This would not have been potential with out the ardour and dedication you have proven to Skull and Bones.”
Throughout its most up-to-date monetary report, Ubisoft failed to say what number of copies Skull and Bones offered since happening sale at full worth on February 16. But it surely did say the sport noticed “robust engagement”, with the second-best every day playtime for a Ubisoft sport. That included a median of 4 hours in the first weeks following launch. Ubisoft put this down to end-game content material that launched with Season 1.
“We goal to additional enhance this retention and enlarge the participant base with the upcoming launch of Season 2, Refrain of Havoc, that may proceed to enrich the end-game with the addition of latest bosses, world occasions and ship upgrades,” Ubisoft added. “Season 2 may also carry new PvE & Solo sport modes.”
Ubisoft has dedicated to at the least one full yr of content material for Skull and Bones, divided up into 4 seasons. Will probably be attention-grabbing to see if the sport will get a second yr of assist.
Ubisoft additional detailed Season 2 in the weblog put up. Listed below are the notes:
Skull and Bones Season 2 key options and enhancements preview
With Season 2, we’re bringing many enhancements to our finish sport loop, changes to our seasonal components and a ton of latest content material which we imagine will deal with some key considerations from the group.
- Ship Upgrades, which can permit you to improve your ships to enhance ship stats and achieve new perks.
- Fleet Administration, which can permit you to assign ships to manufactories to routinely gather items of eight.
- Helm Leases, which can permit you to purchase a manufactory of your selection.
- New PvE & Solo Game Modes
- Balancing the prices of our Manufactories
These modifications come as well as to the new content material (new boss combat, new sea monster, new ship, weapons, armors and furnishings) that might be launched and communicated to you thru further dev updates and devblogs, in the upcoming days/weeks on Discord, Reddit, Social Media and our web site.
Seasonal reset
With Season 2 proper round the nook, a lot of you’ve got been keen to discover out what precisely goes to change when Season 1 ends.
Rewarding your achievements and making ready for season 2
Our seasonal mannequin on Skull and Bones is designed round the concept that gamers combat in opposition to seasonal antagonists, Sea Monsters and different Ghost Ships to defend The Helm’s smuggling actions and develop each their revenue and affect in the Indian Ocean.
Every new season in Skull and Bones sees the arrival of a brand new menace, coming to disrupt and drive the Helm and its associates to adapt the method they function and handle their buying and selling community.
With Season 1, we intentionally took the time we wanted to fastidiously monitor and perceive your suggestions and the method you interact with our sport content material. The learnings we gathered all through the season helped us make the crucial changes and balancing to our finish sport financial system, options, and methods. Now that Season 2 is coming, we will share extra particulars on the full record of rewards that might be handed out to the most profitable Kingpins from Season 1.
The very first thing we introduced throughout a earlier livestream of The Deck was that everybody who reached the Diamond Rank on the leaderboards by the finish of Season 1, would obtain the beauty set at the starting of Season 2.
As well as, we may also be rewarding these of you who efficiently and considerably grew their empire, with a few of the new objects coming with our Season 2 replace: World Helm Leases and Ship Improve Components. These two objects will turn out to be key in rising your fleet of ships, buying the manufactories of your selection, and get a head begin in shaping your empire to your technique.
As said above, with the finish of every season, and the arrival of a brand new antagonist, comes vital disruption to The Helm and their smuggling operations. In consequence, all gamers will see their ranks on the leaderboards, their manufactories, and upgrades be reset. Not all is misplaced nevertheless, as your efforts have been recognised by The Helm’s consultant, who will belief you with new instruments to re-build your empire and show your price as a Pirate Kingpin as soon as once more.
Final however not least, we is not going to be absolutely resetting the variety of Items of Eight collected all through Season 1 however making use of a smooth reset as a substitute to all gamers who gathered greater than 300,000 Items of Eight. Successfully, most of you’re going to get to preserve all of your Items of Eight in your pockets, whereas a number of will see their steadiness lowered to that quantity.
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