I have thoroughly enjoyed the beta of Skull and Bones and bought the Deluxe edition to play it 3 days earlier! Cant wait! Love to sail around, do quests, do the story and explore on my own pace with no pvp threat or forced pvp.
I absolutely love the game, I mainly bought it because I just wanted to be a big merchant kind of pirate or a leader of a large trading ring and was throughly happy to realize that there was a smuggling ring:>
I’ll be honest, it reminds me a lot of Sid meiers pirates and I absolutely loved playing it growing up and so this game so far really made me feel nostalgic a little and enjoyed the game overall.
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In Sid Mayers Pirates You had option to form a large fleet, You had option to land Your troops and invade forts in land combat. During a boarding scene You had a rather good swordfight minigame. In the early version of the game You even had to navigate without a map - You had to calculate Your position by using a sextant.
@ I wouldn't say the swordfight was good, decent, but not good. You could easily cheese it with the rapier lunge which kinda trivializes the whole thing. Not to mention I find the boarding in Sid Meier's Pirates kinda silly. Like you can get the war canoe, the smallest ship in the game and can somehow board a ship of the line, the largest ship in the game, kill the captain and take it over without firing a single cannon. Which is so silly. Still! It is a great game! Worthy in any proper pirate list.
Go into town to grab fetch/kill quests, switch to ship mode to aim+shoot (with 0 other mechanics), and gather resources with left click minigame... That's the entire game, looks pretty initially, but insanely repetitive
You're a legend for being able to do what 100 other vidoes have failed to do, even skull & bones themselves in just the first couple minutes of the video & for that, I applaud you, and you deserve the sub
Hope you had a great time with the Open Beta Burke. Was playing it myself for all 4 days for as much time as I could, and honestly I wish I had more time to grind out some of the end-game stuff. Saw players with rank 9 and 10 ships and I'm just "What did they do to even *get* to that rank?" while I'm over here sitting on rank 8 still with the best stuff I could craft, and even some quest rewards of locked blacksmith items. In any case, if I may, I would like to voice a handful of improvements and criticisms that I do hope will at least be looked into or at least acknowledged. In regards to the PvP pop-up when a Cutthroat treasure map appears: Please change the key to join the event. Why on earth they decided to put it on the escape key of all keys if baffling to me considering if you press the Enter key to view it, you would instinctively press the escape key to close the map, but guess what? You just opted into that PvP event. You can opt-out of course, but you have to reopen the map and scroll over to the event to opt-out. That would get very annoying to all players I imagine. Regarding the compass, I would appreciate points of interest to be displayed on the compass to maintain baring's easier rather than having to open the map every 15 seconds to make sure you're going in the right direction. Alternatively, a pathing line to your marked destination wouldn't hurt either. A similar thing regarding that, if the player marks a merchant route on the map, having some sort of visible trail showing the merchants route would be very helpful to avoid excessively opening and closing the map to make sure you're staying on the path or prevent confusing one route for another when they overlap each other. For ship combat, this may vary from person to person, but I would personally like to see Brace armor increased or enemy weapon damage decreased because the brace armor to me breaks easier than tin foil and from there the health bar melts once the brace shield is gone. Alternatively, a fixed cooldown rate for repair kits no longer than 60 seconds would be nice. It doesn't take much to melt 27000 hit points apparently. Even for ships that are 2 ranks lower than your ship which leads me to my last improvement. Enemy ships that are 3 or 4 ranks lower than my ship should not under any circumstance survive a hit by any high damage dealing weaponry when an enemy that is 2 ranks higher than me can sink my ship in 2 or 3 volleys from hull health (Looking at you rank 10 privateer sloop in the East Indies you annoying little bugger.) Which also feeds into my recommendation of increased brace armor/lowered enemy damage in that regard to balance out the player vs. enemy damage scaling.
These are some decent points but I would like add my opinion on some of them if I may. On navigation for me anyway I didn’t have any issues there’s only a few places where the water ways narrow and twisted to a point in which I need to reopen the map to check which direction I was going. A guiding line would be a little too much for me but I have no issues if they made in optional As for the bracing in combat I pretty much didn’t have any issues I stuck with the first tank vessel you’re abled to use and I was able to tank anything that wasn’t 4 lvls higher than me (my hulk vessel was lvl 5). I feel like Ubisoft really wants you to play as a rpg. Building your ship for the specific task can make your life that much easier. You can clearly just muscle it as well by just grinding and buy the strongest ship and equipment but for me it was fun just messing with the different buffs and status effects. My build was HULK + iron hull 3 + ragout meal. If I had better furniture I probably could have mitigated a lot more damage. But those meal are definitely a game changer. I wasn’t able to out run any ships on the smuggle runs but I could tank most of everything they threw at me they were lvl 7. The only thing that gave me trouble were the dmc ships with their flood mortars sometimes flame throwers ships. I could block the damage until those status effects kicked in and my restoration kit was down. Flooding is no joke. I just love how you can approach a fight in so many different ways. Took me 20 hrs of being stubborn until I switched out my torpedoes before going plundering lol. The one issue I did have was the helm keep on placing a bounty on my head claiming that I crossed them. It might have just been a bug because it would constantly remind me for a minute straight. It was pretty annoying and I had no idea what I did to deserve that. Other than that love the game put 30hrs into the beta I can easily see me putting at least 200 hrs into this game can’t wait till the 13th
For the bracing I found something out. While I was online I did some looking at the available ships we could look at and ones we couldn't get. Seeing as the Pen... whatever, the last ship we could get over in the East Indies, was our last ship at only level 5, so I have no idea how you found players over rank 8. I only hit rank 7 with the crafted stuff. Lots of AI above us but not players from what I saw. My guessing is they found treasure maps that gave the GOOD stuff. Regardless, I was looking at the Bracing strength and I agree with you mostly, though I found it really depended on what the hit was, and the strength of it. Sometimes my brace would hold with barely a scratch and other times it crashed in one volley. Looking through the ships though I found something interesting, as the next ship over, the Snow I think it was, was a tank class, and it had over 20k brace. I think that was about 3x times the amount of the Pen-alksdjfal;ks which was about 7k I think. Not to mention it even had a perk to improve its brace. My guess being is that they are pushing good quality brace to the tanking ships, which makes sense to me. And seeing as we only had 1 tank class during the open beta, lvl 2, we didn't get a good chance to see what a good brace looks like. Given the odd level requirements looking at those unavailable ships I'm going to bet ships were hidden from us. Like the only healer available was the lvl 2 Cutter. We'll see on Friday, or Tuesday if you bought up. I'm looking forward to it!
@@trathanstargazer6421 you can get higher level equipment through treasure maps. these were higher than the ones you could craft. So you could get higher than level 8.
@@trathanstargazer6421 depending on what area you’re in you’ll find higher lvl ships. From what I remember seeing is that the area doesn’t lvl with you. So in the open beta the East Indies had the strongest ships. There was always a lvl 10 rogue ship patrolling the open seas and lvl 9 red “pirativee”(I think that’s the name) ship in the East Indies near the second pirate den you can go to. At the end of the beta I turn that lvl 2 ship to a lvl 6. I only found 4 bury treasure chest. Most of the items I bought out right. I got the iron hull 3 from a lvl 5 mission from the vendor in the second pirate den in the East Indies which from what I seen was the highest based armor you could get in the beta. So iron hull 3 increased my base defense plus 34% explosions damage reduction Ragout meal mitigated hull damage by 30% brace strength increased by 50% + 20% less brace stamina. Hulk tank ship also had 50% mitigated hull damage 20% less stamina reduction while bracing Plus the pirate totem that give you a 20 minute stamina boost plus grilled hippo meat 50% instant stamina recovery. It all stacks up. (Numbers and perks may vary I’m going over memory now) So in my opinion you can go and build the “meta build” ship that just gives you the highest lvl ship or you could build how you play and still have lower level ships that still packs a punch and have their uses
I would love a complete pirate RPG with both elements of manning a boat, upgrading and customizing both a person and boat... which you sail and battle other pirates ans quest on islands, etc.... that would be so cool. Especially after watching black sails. LOL
Hollywood dramatised pirates to the point they aren’t recognisable. An actual pirate would be malnourished, have scurvy, missing limbs etc and would carry a 1 shot pistol. A strong breeze could beat them in a fight hence why they used ships and attacked until the white flag was raised and their powder was dumped in water so they could sail up besides them and take their stuff. Everything else Hollywood dramatised to make it more interesting
@@1kulik it doesn’t matter how much a game costs, it could be billions of dollars, it could be millions, it could be trillions. That doesn’t always impact the quality of the game. Just because you make a game and call it AAAA doesn’t mean it deserves to be bought, much less valued as such, because the game costs a lot. We seem to be in a generation where we all assume that pretty graphics and lots of money spent means the game is good, it’s not. I don’t expect the game to be free, but you’re being sold a game at full price for what is a “game of the year contender” for the base game, and with a micro transaction store inside, and your hounding me about it? Imagine a world where the products you buy was based on the time and money spent on it. It sounds nice on paper, until businesses start scraping ideas back to back, taking decades to release their products due to ineptitude, in a half baked state, and then charging full price, expecting you to spend more after you buy said product. Especially when shady stuff has been said in the recent past by the company you’re choosing to support. Idk, maybe I’m not the one you should be hunting after.
Hey Burke, you can spam spacebar to get out of the boarding cutscene fast. It does still fully stop your ship, but at least you can get to playing the game faster!
they could have made boarding a 2 or 3 minutes time limited third person death match, whoever draws more blood or kills the other opponent wins, and make the ships immune to all attacks from other ships and monsters during the boarding match.
This. Yes. Like maximum 2 minute closed battle where you are immune to outside damage. Whoever does better wins. A chance for the boarder to loot and sink the ship, and a chance for the person getting boarded to defend and save some stuff. Even if it’s like a little mini game where you tap buttons and stuff, better than a cutscene if they aren’t going full melee combat. Then it also has you make the decision like ‘do I board and take the extra minute or do I keep myself in the fight to take out more ships’. And put a few seconds of immunity to come out of the boarding phase and back into the fight so that when it ends you don’t get rinsed by cannons and stuff
I can aready see people exploiting this. Imagine you are PvPing and losing. All you have to do is find a bunch of AI ships and board them since they are easy to destroy. Your enemy then have to wait while you prolong the boarding, then just repeat.
I could see this completely taking the momentum away from the actual combat. Also there’s nothing more painful than thinking about pvp sword fighting in an assassin Creed game lol. Or that bunny hopping sea of thieves bs.
@@ObiMookKenobi in my opinion how fast pace the naval combat is in the game that would only hurt combat not make it better. Like black flag land combat systems in a pvp game doesn’t sound fun at all maybe that just me.
@@2ndexplosivebullet yeah I guess I didn’t think about that. Those are all very good points. After playing for a few more days now, I’m of the opinion that melee does NOT need to be in the game. Maybe they could add a PvP event like a sword fight with For Honor style combat, like captain vs captain, 1v1. But ship boarding melee, I don’t think this game needs. The movement is really janky on foot anyway, like they didn’t design the game with ‘moving on foot’ in mind. It’s about the ship and I’m totally okay with that.
Played the Beta for a few hours. I think some people were expecting it to be something else but for me I enjoyed it. A bit of arcade action, it is a bit samey but I hope the full game will open up some more stuff. But I really enjoyed it and you summed it up perfectly. Will probably wait to see if it appears on GamePass as I'm not sure it's worth me spending the full RRP on it.
I brought it because i like the genre i couldent give 2 solid FUCKS if its compaired to Assadsins creed its not assassins creed it is Black Flag The reason theres haters is because they try to compaire it to assassins creed this game is entirly different to assassins creed THIS GAME IS NOT ASSASSINS CREED i absoluitly love Skull and bones its just the game i have wanted to play and only when i completed Assassins creed did i want a naval based pirate game soo £94.99 cost was well worth it fuck you haters keep hating and ill keep playing
lol.. and you will stop in a month, but that's the point. By the time you realize how boring and stale it has gotten they will laugh their way to the bank. This is an asset flip on a game where they could not decide how to actually implement any of these things, so push them out in a half-baked game that has obviously had several reworks and still decides to go with level based resources so jute, bog iron, all the wood types will be valuable for literally an hour then becomes trash as soon as you upgrade your cannons to the level 2 or 3 version. which is hilarious. they never even added a reason for the cannon to be better, they just slap a "2" on it and buff the damage from 500-750. It's important to make the default start in big numbers, because it makes you feel like you are actually accomplishing a lot more than you actually are, and can trick kiddies into playing your live service game with 40 hours content before everything repeats endlessly. enjoy the trap kiddo, and try to learn something when you realize how badly these assets are put together.
People are “hating” on it because it is advertised as a pirate themed action adventure game but you can’t explore your own ship, cant explore all the little islands you come across, there’s no sword combat and boarding is boiled down to an instant win cutscene. It’s an objectively awful pirate game especially compared to games that came out 10-20 years ago. Doesn’t mean people like you can’t enjoy it.
@sound4117 and how would you implement boarding in a shared world? Stop the ships where they are and they get destroyed by players and NPC that aren’t stuck in the boarding. Put the ships in limbo so no one can attack them and when you put the ship back in the world someone crashes into it and dies? If you want an assassin game where you go around killing people go play an assassin game. That part is specifically left out to be a pirate game and not AC4 part 3 (part 2 was a DLC adawales chapter where you had a new ship and new captain/weapons).
Skull and Bones is a good game! I played the entire beta! and I liked the game! The author correctly says that many people do not quite understand and do not perceive this game correctly! they expect to play Assassin but this is a different game! it's about ships! and that's cool! I have already pre-ordered the top version of the game and will enjoy sea battles! I think the developers did the right thing by focusing on ships! This is a cool game about pirates!👍😊
The ship combat was the best aspect of Assassins Creed Black Flag. This game just takes that aspect of the game and throws away the Assassin Creed part.
@@sarahhillary7698 it does an even worse job of what black flag did because you can’t look around your own ship, can’t manually explore all the little islands you come across, there’s no sword combat and you can’t manually board the ships you defeat.
Ok. Go play Sea of Thieves (different style of game) or Black Flag (single player game) then. Also, the manual boarding would conflict with the naval combat system in a live service game that has PvP events. The game doesn't stop because you board a vessel. Your ship will not be defendable while you are on board someone else's vessel. @@sound4117
they have made a big map then only opened half of it and blocked out the rest with some weird barrier but the map is actually there because you can sail into it although you do get a time out timer and mutiny for going out of bounds but it is there which suggests to me DLC or add on's at some point, they also have a season pass which again suggests DLC or big updates, they even said that a lot of the stuff in the game is only at time of release, for example they specifically said the ship boarding cutscene was just how it was being launched and that it will eventually upgrade or change over time so maybe there will be some actual fighting to board the ship, i guess we'll see how well it does or if it gets cancelled for a new assassins creed lol.
Wat? When did they say they might change the boarding cutscene? It's a looter shooter naval combat game. The only improvement to that cutscene is them removing it *and* my ship not even stopping from boarding. Boarding is a loot multiplicator in this game.. and it should just be that imho. Then again, since you swim in most ressources other than boss battle stuff, it's not like i would mind boarding taking a bit longer.. but manual boarding with combat doesnt feel like it would fit into the game imho.
I played open beta with my friend. I love this game! Ill be getting it soon. The only thing im not too thrilled about is the season passes they want to sell (at least what im hearing) along with the game, if you pay full price for a game, you should be able to earn everything in said game aside from dlc.
There's Africa, East Indies, multiple biomes. When you die, if you did not retrieve your previous corpse, you lose your loot. If you die with no maximum hp left you spawn at a port.
Don’t know if you noticed but different sea shanties for different areas too. Africa has African shanties, red isles is what black flag had and India has a mix of both
Still don’t have the full map upon release. A mission brings up Arabia and that area is on the map with devs saying they’re adding a PVP arena so maps gonna increase again
I enjoyed the beta but several aspects were very arcady. Wish they more features of SoT and AC4 like the wind direction, sails position, avatar abilities, diving, crew management....
It all sounds very fun and I like that you make comparison to this game and see if the to really clear up that they are two different games. And to be honest, I really want to buy it, but what is it that makes this game worth 70 is my complaint
while in all honesty i dont think 70 is the right price, for the game itself is really good, and id have honestly recommend playing the free beta, but its over so.
@@ghostlyguy. I already played what I could and it was enjoyable, something I’d put time into. But after having played a game like Diablo 4, it was lacking for the price it had, and then there was a battle pass to pay extra for. SnB should be at least 40-50, but I digress giving how big the game really is, like the scale of ocean we get to go into and how vast the content that will be available, hard to say.
@@Sov-Ryn15 honestly i agree, but considering that 70 isnt going to have battle passes tossed ontop of it which cost 10 pound each i think its worth it,
Just get Ubisoft premium sub for less than 20 bucks per month and you get access to the premium version of Skull and Bones and by the time the first month or two is up (if you're still playing) then it might be on a discount (as Ubisoft tends to heavily discount their new games quite quickly after release). If you get bored and move on before that then just cancel the subscription and you've most likely saved money overall. That's my strategy, and I recommend you do the same.
Played the whole beta weekend, and the game is SO MUCH FUN!! I absolutely love everything about it. Definitely gonna sail the seas in skull & bones for MANY hours to come!
I'm looking for a sid meiers pirates like game : I mean really similar, especially the fact that you can capture and actually swap your ship with one you captured and cargo management where you can actually trade ressources stolen with different prices at different places. (yes I've played AC4 Black Flag, and I have Windward but haven't played it yet, is Caribbean Legend any good ?)
Played the open beta this weekend, and placed the preorder today, have been waiting for years for this game, since my friend mentioned it back in 2017-18ish i think, so def gonna get it and play with him friday :), loved the beta once i fugured out the different things you can do along the way, and prob did'nt find out everything tbh, but we enjoined the the game a lot :)
Feels like the NFS, of pirate games. I was very skeptical but after the beta. I confess myself impressed. The progression system where you gradually unlock ships is very reminiscent of previous NFS titles. Struck a good chord.
I remember when Star Trek online launched and even WITH ground combat and exploration, there was unhappiness because everyone was their own captain and while 'visiting' another players ship is possible, that is it. Any co-op in space will have one ship per player working together instead of a single ship with multiple players manning different stations. The universe didn't end. On this game: The only thing that drives me crazy is the wind direction changing sporadically. Tackmaster 3000
Assassin's Creed Black Flag is an infinitely better game just talking about how the naval aspects play out... And it can out nearly 11 years ago. This game will be abandoned by Ubisoft in a year.
Didn't heard or saw from the game before. Hopped onto open beta on the last day of it. Without those biased opinion about how the game should be because another game also had pirate stuff in it i really enjoyed it. The only thing I'm a bit sceptical about is that it might gets fast repetitive. So for me - I had great 9h in that beta and will give it a try. And alot of hope that it is not a waste of money.
I played the Beta for 3 days and all i can say is: This game is boring and much worse than AC:Black Flag. This is not a pirate game its an arcade ship simulator. You cant jump off the ship, most of the resorses to upgrade your ship are some stupid QTE where you need to hit green panel by staying on ship, most quest are go kill something and bring what it left or just simply bring me something that is one the other side of the map, 2 types of enemys: 1st - weak, few shots they sink and 2nd - a f.... tank that you will shoot and shoot and shoot for 15 minutes and get killed by some shity ship that got some splash damage when you shoot a little to close to the mf..... This game is not worth 70$ and your time. It would be better to all of us if we got remastered version of Black Flag with HD graphics etc. on 10 years anniversary than this pile of garbage.
I really like this game a lot of people, too many people, are hating on this game purely because it's ubisoft which is just stupid. If you've played it and didn't like it, that's fair. But I've seen mostly positive reviews on this game
Finally someone who says the right thing... In Blackflag, you play a character, Edward Kenway, that use a boat just as another weapon (a big one, but it's just that: a weapon that he handles).. while Skull & Bones you are a boat... that's why there is no manual boarding or plundering... they only thing Ubisoft should do is remove the boarding cutscene that is pretty much useless and break the continuity of combat. Just like when you see another player boarding, there is no cutscene. You see them pulling the ship and when they are done looting it's over. Should be the same for a player boarding. Your ship should pull the other boat, you get a popup to loot and then you keep playing. Cutscene is completely useless and making people think they are playing a character instead of a boat. That's there mistake on this one.
The beta was able to reel me in, looking forward to playing it soon. I thought I would be able to play until midnight yesterday, was sad when the beta ended around 6pm 😅
I have been enjoying it. Wish it had voice chat and more people playing. On console some of the interface is a little rough, but ultimately the game is pretty and fun. It would also be nice to be able to have groups larger than 3. Since you can’t communicate with your team currently, it doesn’t really matter. Looking forward to more content releases for it and life improvements updates.
Great video, Burke 👍For those who have watched the whole video (as you should), aside from harvesting predators and shoreline materials, you can crack open wrecks, salvage loot dropped from AI battles, Escort missions for ships lost, or support a damaged ship with supplies - all for coin, or materials you can refine for trade, to better upgrade your ship. After you gain experience, there are also bounties for Elite targets that threaten your temporary allies and fellow pirates, and the Black Market offers contracts to produce Rum and other premium goods for better profits.
im honestly so down for the pirate version of the division. i just won't pay $70 for it when i still enjoy playing division 2 on and off. but when that 50% sale hits ubisoft, i'll be there.
Honestly check the stores for a physical copy. I paid $100 at launch (Australia) but saw it in store today for $70, anytime in the next 3 months will do though don’t wanna miss special season weapons/ships etc
My honest opinion: Isn't it what everyone does? Sony, whoever people are dealing with. I am not upset about that. That makes the game more special in a sense. Well, let me pull it like this... I kind of like this game. But I give it a 5 out of 10. I know that may seem unfair or disrespectful, but they have put lots of time and effort into this game. For their dedication and devotions, it would be plus positive infinite. I know that PlayStation console at least will pay or have paid $80 for the standard edition and $100 for the premium edition compared to PC is 60 and 80, I know Ubisoft has nothing to do with that. I give it a 5 out of 10 because: it's full of an online game, which many issues will come with it. someone can't really enjoy the game that way besides being bullied by other players or NPCs. Secondly, why doesn't the character have a voice, or did my character lose hear after being capsized and lost at sea. The character is one the most important factors of the game. It helps us understand how our character feels. Or we should not need a character..., the graphic is an issue on land, storage issues, and being able to select whatever ship we want with having to deal with the headache or the boat being too small, so players be able to manage, being kicked out of the server or some other issues...and more character customization options and different pets options like a bird or something, I kind of like the cat...and a few more things. But well done if it was a first-person shooter prospective. I would not care about it, thanks for that. Hope this message gets to the team behind this game. I am not against you, and I appreciate all the time the team has put into this game, but if those things could be fixed, that would be great... I know it may be beyond your control after this game comes out and just abandoning the game. Lots of developers in different fields have done that.
I absolutely loved Black Flag. It was my favorite Assassin's Creed game and my top 10 most beloved games I ever played. This is not it for me, unfortunately. I hoped it would be when I saw the first trailers all these years ago, but it turned into something that doesn't scratch that Black Flag itch.
yet another overly hyped game by ubisoft. games have gone backward in terms of what is offered and have been dumbed down beyond basics. seems ubisoft is trying to cash in on the short attention spans people have now. The gaming world has become so dumbed down they will probably make a game where people match colors and shapes then market it as a AAA title. No doubt from ubisoft the trailer contains 95% of stuff you will never see or actually be able to do. I await the onslaught of hate from the fanboys for me daring to spout facts.
The game looks worse than Assassin's Creed Odyssey... a game that came out 7 years ago. The ship mechanics are worse than Assassin's Creed Odyssey... a game that came out 7 years ago. The interface of this game is one of the worst I've ever seen in gaming. The sailing is terrible and not fun. Fighting feels like an arcade shooter. No true ship management. Uninteresting/non existent story.
I feel like if they had land combat the game is 10xs better. With that being said I thought it was a fantastic game and I hope they listen to the players and either make changes or take this game and use it to develop a really great game in a year or 2
This actually is what I like about it. I don't want a super complicated simulation requiring many humans to play. To me this largely feels like a single player open world game like most ubi-soft games and I am all for it. I didn't catch the beta but I assume most of game is PVE and you just see other players questing, this is good in my opinion, makes it feel like world is alive in that way while still letting me play at my pace. I may try some pvp but pve is largely what I am here for. i also am all for the fantasy elements, it all sounds fun and again I want to have fun not play a simulator. Only thing that worries me is lack of difficulty like in the other games, i always played hardest difficulty so hopefully it's not too easy, that's the only thing that would lose me or bore me if it's too easy.
Pvp here sucks rbh. I am very hyped for pve content. Well if you think anything is easy just put away your armors and put the most shittiest equipment then you can make it a challenge 😂. I am just kidding. I had few " I am in trouble" moments when I was in a area where I wasnt supposed to be. Dodging torpedos and cannon shot like crazy like Neo from Matrix
@@daviddaily3969 Yep, i do! that's why Pacific Drive is also huge on my list of games to play, the scavenging is the primary focus of that game. I also love when space games have scavenging mechanics that are fun
@@zengrath I’ll also say one thing, the game is difficult. The starting area, ya not so much. You might die a time or two but you’ll learn quickly. But once you venture out, oh boy the game ramps up in difficulty and in fun. Scavenging and mining and new materials while trying to avoid privateers is nerve wracking. I enjoyed it thoroughly and can’t wait to get the full game.
@@daviddaily3969 it was quite funny when I accidentally bumped into another ship in a tight river and then whole nation was after me. I died like 3 times getting my stuff back lmao. I was dodging torpedos left and right. Privateers lvl 10 oof we were fighting one ship with 2 other people in a storm. That was crazy.
If you want a mix of hand-to-hand combat with naval then play SoT. If you only like and want naval combat play S&B. If you strictly only want PvE play Safer Seas on SoT. Or if you want PvEvP then play High Seas on SoT. S&B offers PvE with the option to engage in PvP. Both games have a good mix of PvEvP with the player deciding what they want.
I think this is the right place to ask: I'm looking a game about pirates like Sea of Thieves but more customizable, a game where you can change the weapons, unblock items and upgrades... something like Atlas but well done. Yes a combination of the gameplay of SoT but with the progresion and customization of Atlas or Skull and Bones. Is this game a dream or someone knows about it?
One or the other atm with a port Royale blend of not controlling anyone or a ship just doing trade routes on the outliers. Whole bunch of pirate games coming soon though
I guess the devs have to defend somehow. Ubisoft isnt the best doing it tho they need to work with lawyers more. If the game isnt profitable the studio will go down sadly.
Because it is not AC Black Flag. Also, Black Flag was a single player game which allows for more liberties with game mechanics. Some of the stuff in Black Flag would not be easy to implement in a multiplayer, live service game with PvP events because the mechanics would then conflict. For example, in a single player, the game is able to be stopped around you for manual boarding and melee combat. In a live service, the game does not stop for you. The AI and other players would take advantage of those mechanics and sink your ship.
I had a lot of fun playing the beta, but I worry about the game's staying power. There are a lot of different activities you can do, but none of them seem particularly deep. If it was free to play or $20-30 USD, I would be a lot more comfortable recommending it to people. The full $60-70 USD price tag with microtransactions and battle pass on top is a hard pill to swallow. There are a lot of great games that just came out, so I may hold off until I can pickup Skull and Bones on sale.
I actually really liked the beta and I’m definitely gonna get the game don’t know why everyone says this game sucks maybe it’s a stigma because of all the delays
In a game where you’re the boat you cannot have a friend be a boat on your boat unfortunately. But in sea of thieves you’re a person and you can invite another person onto your boat
Which is better? Note I haven't played Sea of thieves yet. Wasn't sure if I was going to like this game as much as I did during the beta. Haven't really played another pirate themed game before.
@@TLives1 if you want a game where you play as a pirate, play sea of thieves. If you want a game where you literally just play as the boat, play skull and bones. You can’t manually explore all the islands and there’s no sword combat in skull and bones. You also can’t manually board ships and take them over like a pirate would.
@@TLives1 you won’t like sea of thieves. I think there’s a lot to polish with skull and bones but essentially think “world of tanks” “world of warships” “war thunder” type game
@hyperi0nn no it can be a lot more with 20+ teams of 3 and NPC ships all converging on the same place. The comparison was to the action though as WoW etc you control the ship not the captain same as this game
I’ve honestly wanted this game for ages and yes I’ve seen the negatives from literally everybody but I’m gonna give it a go I won a cheeky football ⚽️ bet today so that’s paying for it up the Manchester United haha nice video man thanks
I played closed beta and enjoyed it. I made a lot of mistakes and died a lot. I just played open beta and did much better. Only got sunk once. Did all mission to get gear. I already have 3 ships in my fleet. I just pre-ordered game.
I wish more people did what you do. Instead of judging the game based on SoT or Black Flag, you are judging the game based on what the game gives you. I understand why people are upset, but damn is it nice to hear an opinion that isn't so heavily biased for a change.
No it was the whole map. It's confirmed in the welcome to the beta message and also a Ubisoft rep said so. However this doesn't mean they won't expand upon it
A nautical game....set in the indian ocean.....And the beta didnt include.. 1. India.....and 2. British Navy. Not to mention the way India is casually obscured by a different fog to the edges of the map. And in the distillery/opium den, you can literally see parts of India and Sri Lanka, loosly covered with a canvas cloth, with literal trade routes drawn on to it.@@tomaldred6271
Thank you for being straightforward about the game, I honestly think it’s a cool game it’s just different. Like you said your focused on the ship not the person.
Played the beta and so far I’ve really enjoyed it. The real question is how long will that repeat playability last before it becomes stale and repetitive?
The game is a good time and that’s all I was hoping for. I got lost for 6 hours straight yesterday on it beta and I haven’t played a game for that long in some time.
Well, would not have put it that way, even though I dislike the fact that my character doesn't have a voice, this is what happen when you capsized and lost at sea.
I really really love the game, ngl. It's fantastic. Seriously immersive, lots of depth, and honestly, some missions were genuinely hard if I got caught up from open world shenanigans mixing in, storms etc.
What’s immersive about a pirate game where you can’t look around your own ship, can’t explore all the little islands you come across, there’s no sword combat and boarding ships is boiled down to an instant win cutscene?
Tbh skull and bones for me was very boring because there is just not much to do. It feels like I'm grinding for something but I never feel fulfilled. Also not being able to walk around your ship or really stop sailing and go adventure on foot really makes the experience a lot less open than I was expecting. All in all assassins creed black flag just has more to offer
To me, this is more like EveOnline, without the learning curve, complexity, or the punishments. I love S&B's Missions, upgrades, resource gathering, scavenging, crafting and some very seriously fun combat. I thoroughly enjoyed this beta. Had some entertaining battles, best in a while There is a lot here, and a lot of potential as well for future stuff
I thought it was gonna suck, played the beta and it wasnt actaully half bad.. The main things that bugs me is the no pvp combat. I would like to pick this game up at some point but £70 for a dimmed down version of black flag (Combat wise) isnt justifiable for me personally
I played about 3 hrs yesterday and I got so engaged in it I lost track of time that's what I like about it its not black flag and that's OK.the only thing they don't have is sword fighting and gun fighting but I'm getting it for sure
I thought I had made my mind up no during the closed beta but gave it another chance this weekend. I stopped comparing it to other pirate games on the market and with that I actually had a great time and can’t wait to play it again when it comes out
@@daviddaily3969 ok sweet as. I'm not that much into partying up online 🤣 I much prefer the single player modes. I absolutely LOVED the gameplay of ac black flag when on the ship
@@chasepursche3678 so another thing, you’ll see other players. You can ask for help with a press of a button and all the players nearby get a notification and can help you. No need to party up at all and all players get their own loot.
You can do everything without ever entering PVP just be careful when players are fighting for bases. As a mechanic to save against griefers whoever is in the PVP event can attack anyone that enters the zone whether you have joined or not. If you didn’t join you can’t even fight back so be careful of that if you play
