I played the 'Skull and Bones' ENDGAME early...
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Skull and Bones is an upcoming action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Singapore and published by Ubisoft. The game is set to be released in February 2024 for Amazon Luna, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. A version for Google Stadia was planned before the service's shutdown. The game revolves around piracy and naval warfare with a fantastical setting during the late 17th century, the peak of the historical Golden Age of Piracy. As of 2017, Skull and Bones was marketed as a tactical action game set in an open world environment and played from a third-person perspective. Players take control of a customizable pirate ship, and may choose to sail the Indian Ocean by themselves and set off on a single-player campaign, or gather up to five other players to ally in player versus player gameplay in Disputed Waters.
Wind positioning can be assessed to gain an advantage in battle. Players may collect additional ships throughout the game, such as sloops-of-war, frigates and brigantines, whose weapons include mortars, broadside cannons, and rockets. Ships can be charged into with brute force and boarded. The rate of inflicted damage is gauged by the health bar. A core component is the multiplayer mode Loot Hunt, where two groups of players are challenged in treasure hunting to further accumulate their riches. Each given ship's crow's nest is scalable for use as a lookout point, and spyglasses will be available. Microtransactions will be included.
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Okay!
Do a poll to see who is actually interested in the game, I see a lot of hate, but surely there's a silent group of people that this was built for.
cmon bro its not 2008 anymore
i don't know why you didnt give Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League half the chance you gave this game(i mean you pointed out how the ign and other big outlets reviewed it even though normally you are more critical or should i say septic of/about their reviews while almost every independent reviewer i could find had mostly positive things to say about this game even those who would have preferred if they made a game that was a bit more like the Arkham series and didnt like marvel avengers so you trying to paint it as if only people who liked marvel marvel avengers would like this game is a bit deceptive( thought i would give you the benefit of the doubt and say its probably because of a negative bias toward the game that the big review outlets seems to share with you for some reason that you got this false impression because i as someone who watched a few of your videos i don't think you are the kind of guy would deceive their own audience on propose out of spite just because maybe they didnt like the game)and to be honest i think the game is gone be good and that the live service stuff will mostly only impact the end game but i am still sceptic😉 about it )
Ah yes my favorite archetype when I want to rp a pirate… the healer ship
here take your 100th like
Gotta mitigate the poison debuff you always see in traditional naval battles
@@umphreak9999 famously yes, it’s in all the movies
Maybe the problem was your expectation to rp as a pirate ?
I don't know, it feels weird to me to highlight so much what the game doesn't have to offer, while it actually has a lot to offer.
@@ingeniussoul8390 the idea behind this game was from the beginning for the AC Black flag lovers. That game is pretty universally considered one of ACs best games and the best naval combat system. I agree this game isn’t about the AC pirate/ship combat loving crowd anymore… but it’s funny to consider that’s how it started and that’s how they want it advertised. They still want and think they are going to get that audience and I doubt they will. Development Hell has had its way with this game, from what we have seen… who knows it could come out and I could be completely wrong… but that seems like a big “could be”
I got accepted to the closed beta and forgot to play it 💀
Lol, that says A LOT
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Literally same bruh hahahahaha
Same brother🤣
They would double down on their lame product & release season passes for years like For Honor but not going to make a new splinter cell!
It’s gonna fail and Ubisoft is going to chalk it up to “Well, guess pirates just aren’t popular right now”
Or they're gonna pull out a Blizzard: "We're sorry YOU didn't like the game we made, sorry that YOUR expectations were TOO HIGH for us" Fucking blame shifting.
PIrate fatigue just like Marvel Movies. Blame the players.
Their game is trash. The beta was the biggest waste of an hour I ever played. The ship combat is way too fluid and arcadey.
Please just make Black Flag without assassins.
@@Dest74if you only played for one hour don’t think you have enough baseline to make an opinion.
@Dest74 play it for more than an hour, lol. It's a fun game. It may not meet the expectations of most people, myself included, but it's a fun game
I watched a pirate doc awhile back and it talked a lot about how 99% of pirate life was tedious, boring, back breaking, and mostly horrible. Even if they spotted a ship they might’ve chased it for days making no progress. Sounds like Ubisoft captured it well.
hahahah, also the wood chopping they had to do to repair their ship etc. foraging for provisons
you got a point there!
99% of life before the 20th century is what you're describing
@@runman85 and now we have it in the 21st century with Skull and Bones by Ubisoft 😂😂😂
and yet somehow Red Dead took a very tedious life of 1899 and made it exciting
I’m more excited to watch the reviews of this game, than I am to actually play the game.
So far reviews from betas is quite positive.
@@Denzamusic im not so pessimistic as to assume its a pile of garbage on every level. I’m sure it’ll do good when it releases cuz it’s infamous at this point, that popularity is going to keep it alive for a little while. But overall I think based on what I’ve seen it’s a mediocre game.
@@Denzamusicno they arent😂😂😂 most have said it’s really boring
@@Denzamusic they are all sponsored
Yep, like the newest very bad tv shows or movies.
It's so bad it now just an opportunity for satire content creators to rise.
"Captain! We can't keep up this speed!"
"Why?"
"Well, half the crew are standing behind the sails and they're really blowing really hard. The other half are swimming behind the ship and pushing it really hard. We're all just...really tired."
"DAMN IT! Feed those men some roasted sea monster meat."
"Ah, yes! Food. The best and only way to instantly make people not tired anymore. Great idea, Captain. We're back up to max speed."
"Great, now we'll make it in time to shoot our friends with healing cannonballs."
"Wait, Captain. I see an island with some trees in the distance."
"DAMN IT! We have to go cut those trees down. We're pirates, after all, and pirates cut down trees. Our friends will understand. Prepare my magical, telekinetic, invisible tree cutting tool that I can control from the ship with a mini-game."
"Good idea installing that tool, sir."
"I know. I basically never need to the leave the ship."
😂😂😂
Brilliant!😂
seriously it pisses me off so much that the stamina bar makes ABSOLUTE ZERO SENSE
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😂😂😂
This game is a stunning achievement in that they looked at Black Flag and created a game that looks roughly similar but still manages to omit nearly every element that made it a good pirate game to begin with while simultaneously adding in a massive amount of mechanics that aren't even enjoyable in a basic MMO.
Imagine being the guy who demanded that we have "Time Click Mini Games" for harvesting in 2024...... wtf is this a cellphone game.?!
@@ryankrogel9589 you can turn it off if it bothers you that much
I swear Black Flag even looks better. Idk wtf they are thinking.
But.... but... It is a QUADRUPLE A GAME!
quadruple ASS game.
@@lemming9984 Lmao, that's an AVGN quote if ever I heard one!
its bad af
The main ingredient missing is being able to "play as a pirate" as opposed to "play as a ship". A simple flaw that could have been fixed by adding ground combat, really putting you in the shoes of the pirate captain the game is so focused on making the player create.
It is easy to say add an extensive developmentally expensive feature and it will be better. I think the better answer for them is the game should have focused solely on ship combat and been $10-$20.
Really should of scraped all this game and did a AS black flag 2 as that is really what i want and many others as in black flag you can do so much more then this game. A 11 year old game is better and has more to do then this new one says it all really.
Sea of Thieves was a great skeleton for a pirate game that was never realized. Literally nobody wants to make that game because the reality is that the gameplay revolves around being mean to others. Which means the publisher/developer will want everyone to be banned for playing as intended because sissy modern developer nonsense.
its funny. the ship combat is nearly the exact same as Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
And dont forget. It is going to be $70 (with battle pass, paid cosmetics,etc. All the monitization Bingo) because its a... 'Quardruple A' Game. The CEO literally said that.
@jackmiddleton2080 you can't fix messes like this
boats that have stamina....
why. why cant they just do something fun?
Isn’t it just the Ramming speed? That also had a stamina in AC4
How can Ubisoft sell you stamina booster if you don't have stamina?
ah yes because my sail boat gets tired of having the wind move it around.
what?
@@CRAZYMUGMAN For a moment I read snail boat instead of sail boat lol
and honestly having sea animals as boats would at least make sense of the stamina bar lol
@@MizzterFuNo in the video luke says its used to flee for the "faster ships" so maybe it ties into ramming speed but it has multiple uses it seems like, if i had to wager a guess id say ramming speed/power also depends on the size of your ship.
Thus making this a dumb stamina mechanic, even luke says that during the end game it has little bearing on anything other then little ships that use it to flee as the bigger ships will never be able to catch up, so whats the point of ramming?
This is ram speed done worse. aka.... your standard stamina bar.
What I really like about Skull and Bones, and this is a MASSIVE PRO - is that it made me install AC Black Flag and play it again.
ah, yes, the furniture on the enemy ship that makes my crew raise their hands and say "boss they have a sea monster leather arm chair on deck, our ship is flooding faster to the sight of it, we are doomed". Man what the fuck have they been smoking in that studio?
Try telling that to the Cannon biblical weapons of mass destruction peepered throughout the series. Devs honestly stoped caring once atlantis and valhalla was shoved down our throats.
@@kuttinoaldridge682 well at least the weapons of valhalla kinda makes sense as they are supposed to be lost weapons of isu era adding that fantasy element to it but this definitely doesn't make sense how does a chair gonna add a buff to my ship
Ah yes, sea monsters meat that refills ship stamina, classic pirate life
What annoys me the most is that Ubisoft could fix some issues easily, like the fast speed issue.
Just give a speed penalization. That's it.
@@strikeforce1500so you’re punished for doing what your ship is meant to do
Nah screw that let’s just face it they didn’t think too hard on this game and it’s just ass
Pirate ship giving off poison damage…Ubisoft lol
Could work if it damages the crew
@@TilDrill i know you was in them small classrooms with 3 teachers 😭
@@apathycollective My parents dont believe in school i never went to one
@@TilDrill that explains everything
My brother in Christ it’s a video game 😭
Imagine if Black Flags world was expanded, assassin stuff/animus stuff was removed, you were allowed to pick different types of ships, and obv a new story.
It's literally all ubisoft had to do.....how have they failed so much with such a simple concept where 99% of the work had already been done
Basically described ‘pirates of the Caribbean 2003’ which they should’ve made the sequel to the game by now
This is the first video of yours that I've seen, and I just wanted to say that I appreciate your candid but kind approach to reviewing games. Very helpful and informative
I've been a huge fan of AC Black Flag and AC Rogue but Skull & Bones looks like it just misses the mark for what people actually would want in a pirate game. Things like fighting enemies during boarding action, jumping off your ship to fight on land when attacking those forts/castles... oh yeah the things you CAN do in the other two games from 10 years ago! WTF Ubisoft have just gone backwards. A hard pass from me which I'm sad about cos I really wanted this game to be awesome!
They're not capable of doing it. They have to sell the title to T2 (Rockstar)
That's what I want to do in a pirates game, do the same things like black flag in a new game but ubisoft cant do it!
completely missed the mark.....waaaay off
Me personally really want a pirate game like rdr2 , open world characters with interesting character development, story rich with an open world aspect , maybe an end game with raids , pirate stuff to do after
@@honoredsage4946 Yeah that would be amazing. I agree 100%
When you talk about the ship speed balancing, I think Sea of Thieves has already solved this problem. The max speed for different types of ships are determined by what type of wind they're getting. Like the brig, the mid size ship moves fastest in cross wind compared to the other ships, while the sloop moves the fastest going against the wind compared to the others. It makes it so you can't just pick a direction and go forever, as the wind will change as you move through the map, and gives competent players who understand this mechanic many chances to catch up to people by catching different types of wind.
While I get your point, SoT, while the system is fine, is still using nothing but square sails to show it, so there is no visual for guidance. It also isn't something you are told, you have to look it up elsewhere, so I can't really complement them on a key system for navel battles that they have hidden. At the moment though, I doubt SaB will have it. But until we get are hands on it and can fully monkey with it, we won't know if they have a system like this. From the early stuff I played I don't think it will. The first proper ship would be using Close Hull to Broad Reach (Running would actually be horrible with it) because of the massive junk gaff and staysail it uses but it seemed to follow standard Running wind that most games use for its fastest speed (which is technically wrong as Broad Reach would be the fastest). Still, it is something that can easily be added so we'll see.
If you want an actual GOOD look into wind speeds with ship type and direction I recommend Pirates of the Burning Sea.
@@trathanstargazer6421 There are multiple visual guides for it though. There are very visible wind gusts that show what direction the wind is blowing, there's a tiny musical sound queue when your sails pick up wind at full speed, and your sails flap. They even have you adjust sails in a tutorial that walks you through the mechanic. I'd agree however, with anyone who says though that it's un-intuitive for a new player to figure out that turning the sails perpendicular to wind in a Sloop makes you sail faster when being chased by a Galleon, and that there should be some ingame tutorials or info on advanced pvp techniques.
Well yeah, but Sea of Thieves devs actually made a game, Ubsioft just recycles old games and makes them worse while charging a premium.
just got SoT over the holidays and the flag on your ship will also show wind direction, my gf picked up on the sound queue right away, and the sails will look visibly 'fuller'.@@someguy5418
@@someguy5418 Aye there are multiple guides for wind direction but that isn't what I meant. My fault for not explaining properly. What I meant was that there is no visual indication for these ships when moving in their preferred direction. For instance, the Brig which does have the fastest speed when in Broad Reach, doesn't show that. So in game there is no visual for this. Also, I'm sorry but I am going to have to dispel a rumor. The Sloop is not the fastest in any direction, people have tested Sloop vs Brig against the wind and the Brig is still faster. You can check UA-cam if you don't believe me. Maybe the actual stat is higher for Sloop, but in practice, a Brig will still catch you eventually. My theory is that the Brig touches the water more when going over waves so it keeps its speed better. But yeah, at least you can outpace a Galleon into the wind with a Sloop.
I also went back into Maiden Voyage to check just how much the game teaches you anything about these. The only thing it teaches you, is how to raise and lower your sails. Nothing about wind direction, or even how to turn them, though granted learning to turn a sail is not hard to figure out. So no, Maiden Voyage does not teach you those mechanics. You either know, or have figure them out.
On a different note with SaB. I did find out that different ships have differnt wind requirements. The last ship during the open beta, the Pedwakeng I think it was called, was fastest when the wind was coming on its side. You still have good speed when the wind was behind you but there was a small gap if it was directly behind you where you would have worse speed. So it is nice to see different ships behave differently in different winds.
From what I understand they were legally obligated to finish the game. Some type of agreement with the country this studio was set up at. A developer for the game said another studio would have canceled it 3 times by now
It probably should have been. It looks horrible
@@kokobeatz7222They couldn’t cancel it because they were forced to release it.
Of all the things I thought... It never crossed my mind that Skull and bones is gonna be mmorpg'ish
Healing ship, DPS ship, Tank ship?!
It's a shame Ubisoft doesn't put more effort into these games since they have so much potential but they waste it with bad mechanics and production.
Ubisoft has made some of the best-looking games of all time, but they're paired with samey gameplay mechanics and tropes that people get bored with quickly. If they could capture some of the gameplay magic of games like Darkest Dungeon, Satisfactory, Like A Dragon or Valheim, they'd be one of the most well-loved studios in the world.
I've always said Ubisoft is the king of good concepts but horrible executions. It's like after what happened with AC unity and Watch Dogs 1 they just committed to doing the absolute bare minimum. No pushing their limit, no over promising and no high expectations...just the BARE MINIMUM and they still fail at that 😂
The Uncle Phil M$ is never gonna beat Soyny move @@streetside2833
This game had such a shit storm of a production that I feel bad for ubi for once. But since this game is doa they could have tried to go ham and tried something new, since there's no way it makes it's money back anyway.
Its the fault of the devs trying to reimagine pirates its so stupid. The only thing they should do to make the game good is copy black flag and enhance it and use real life story of pirates as campaign.
Why does the ship combat in Black Flag look better to me? It's over 10 years old now.
Because it is, also the ship movement in the sea and weather/waves are better in Black Flag. Not to mention Black Flag has actual boarding and melee combat. Skull and Bones is like a cheap knockoff, really shows how modern AAA has fallen when a company cannot repeat something it did 10 years ago.
Because it's a lot slower. In BF you feel the weight of the ship and you gotta adjust for it accordingly. Even though it's arcadey it feels somewhat believable. The ships in S&B seem like they have a jet engine mounted in the rear.
And obviously the weapons and cosmetics are a lot more down to earth. You can't emerge in realism when a bright pink sailing yacht comes at you at full speed while blasting a greek fire in your face.
Realism has taken a backseat for wacky cosmetics and weaponry. Modern gaming.
@@KnodsilMemeMakerwasn’t ac3 the game that introduced the ship combat?
@@matthewwilliams3827 yes it was in fact, seems that a lot of people forget that. I'm actually playing through AC3 currently and honestly even that naval combat looks more appealing to me because you actually have to angle your ship in a way that cannons are facing the enemy while here it looks like you can just aim wherever you want which is bizarre
because is made by a chinese company who makes cellphone games
Seems like whenever Skull and Bones is coming out with a trailer or press around the game the fans are asking "Can we please do some boarding combat, free roam on foot, and go on a swashbuckling adventure" and Ubisoft goes like "LOOK YOU CAN MINE ROCKS WITH YOUR CANNONS!!!" "HEY WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO ANOTHER MISSION JUST SHOOTING CANNONS AT STUFF!?"
Boarding was a massive part of pirating, arguably more so than sailing. The fact that they've made a game focused around piracy, based off a 10 year old game that had proper boarding action, and the boarding is just a loot prompt is awful. Worse than the fact the ships feel like your driving rubber dingies with dps focused combat.
got accepted to the closed beta. saw the 'stare at tree to harvest' was still a thing and lost all motivation to even install it
I played the beta. Got tired of them showcasing all the ways they're going to milk players for money and went to play some black flag which amazed me at how much better the ship combat feels in a 10 year old game, not to mention how much being able to actually walk around your ship and take part in boarding action elevates game play from just being a bland turn in circles and click to shoot fest to actually feeling like a pirate on a lived in ship with a working crew.
They already had a pretty great base with ACIV where the pirating and ship battles were universally loved by fans. All they had to do was take that as a base, expand on it with additional newer ideas and you got yourself a solid pirate game. But again, it's Ubisoft... so.
Im convinced this game is money laundering
@@YeetThyBabybeen a lot money laundering schemes within the last year huh lmao
@@lechugastudiosyt7465 every Ubisoft game "loses" money, they're on the verge of bankruptcy so I wouldn't be surprised. Heaps of games cancelled which can be claimed as a tax write off too
"take that as a base, expand on it with additional newer ideas and you got yourself a solid pirate game"
It seems to me that's exactly what they did ...
@@DVAtedexcept they took away most of what made AC4 good, making S&B look even more arcady than World of Warships
I remember when this game was announced back in... 2014... holy shit
2017
@@dr.loomis4221 You're right. I couldn't tell you why I thought 2014. I do remember reading that the game was initially planned as an expansion for Black Flag in 2013 or the following year. My mind probably mixed its conception date for its announcement. I Appreciate the correction
@@user-wc4mh6lz5cits the same as assassin Creed Pirates. That's probably what you confused it for.
And ppl hate AoC being in development for years, this crap is taking way too long for what it offers. I'm taking 10y of a MMO development all day
@@dr.loomis4221 the game started getting developed in 2013.
The more cargo you have should = the slower your ship moves.
Yeah it should decrease you max speed based on your % load up to a max decrease amount, with smaller ships having a higher cap on reduced speed.
if your cargo is at its weight limit you can't go full speed
It sounds cool but I imagine that would be exceptionally tedious especially if you have PVP disabled, and if you have PVP enabled that would be the meta to only carry very small loads of cargo and make grinding even slower
I think someone forgot to tell Ubisoft that ships in that time period run on wind power and not rowing, because a crew being tired would have no effect on the speed of the ship since no one is exerting any energy, the wind is just pushing the ship along. You know what would slow a ship down? Raising the sails or not sailing with the wind.
Shows you know nothing about wind powered ships, in the real world even today in sailing a tall ship reliant on wind power, it requires strength and stamina to maintain that speed and to maintain the sails with the wind and the direction of the wind, it's why it requires a crew to sail in a tall ship, to pull ropes in moving sails into the wind, to up the sails and retract the sails. Of course a crew will get tired in the maintaining the speed in keeping the sails with the wind for the ship to maintain speed.
@@Dr-Shite-Kickeryou've never been on a sail ship before huh?? You set a course and unless you're in combat that happened almost never when compared to the time sailing it wasn't super back breaking compared to the average construction job nowadays
I just want Black Flag 2, or RDR2 but with pirates! 🏴☠️⚔️🏝️ ..a mature/ gripping story, interesting characters, taverns, land exploration, sword fighting, boarding etc
Oh man Rockstar would make an incredible pirate game!!
Why do game makers not listen as that is what i would of wanted and many others just a black flag 2 would of smashed this game out of the water. Game makers just want to make stuff no one wants while leaving behind all the stuff we all want as players they all do it like need for speed wanting a new unground instead they make something different and say it like the old while not having anything good what made the old games so good.
Your ship's crew needs stamina to maintain full speed?....like what is the Crew doing? holding the sales down?
"Game mechanic" LOL
What are they sellin? Spices?
pretty sure its called "cutting the sails", kinda like flying a kite.
@@rayriffle1147HAHA I had to read it twice for that
actually is true, to go max speed you have to pomp sails with the ropes using your muscle to get better angle that must cant reach, also everything become more unstable and you have to use a rope to anchor yourself, is litteraly the stamina off the crew
I thought this was going to be like "Sea of Thieves".
All we got was "Sea of Disappointments" instead.
As a historian myself today and a kid amazed with historic things, i used to be hyped for ubi games... But as time passes i just cant no more. I took a break off on "healer ship" and the gameplay... Oh man 😢 theres so much they could have done.
I do seriously dislike it is so fantasy oriented. I am also biiig in to naval history, but I gave the game a try and I am shockingly enjoying it quite a bit. It is fun. It isn't what I wanted, but I am genuinely enjoying it, quite a bit at that honestly. If only naval action wasn't ruined by its devs, but here we are.
Honestly, I’m hyped for Dragons Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin, Prince of Persia, and Black Myth Wukong, instead of this. Thanks Luke for playing this game early
Prince of Persia is out my dude
Wukong is going to be terrible. Random Chinese dev with no track history making a souls copy? Lol no thanks
Nice profile picture
@@Antonyt13there have been bigger surprises in gaming, many studios first games have been great, there’s no evidence this game won’t be good yet so how about a bit of cautious optimism instead of straight negativity
Stellar blade is also looking great
Skull & Bones makes me think of a tired old dog fetching a ball: it's kinda sad but it's trying its best for the few people that still want it around. I have no ill wishes for the people that made this game but I do feel sympathy for them considering how bad the game industry has been with mass layoffs
I just feel sorry for the old dogs you say are barely wanted. That's my only takeaway from reading this.
I honestly can't even imagine how horrible it must be to work on a single game for almost 9 years and still deliver something that's mediocre at best.
Companies should change their strategy to shorter and cheaper games, instead of these huge, long and boring worlds with repetitive missions.
@@legoforbeginners6950 dude exactly my thoughts lol
I love my old tired dogs :(
@@spicynoodles2742 it's funny how the game doesn't even look like something that was worked on for 9 years. You'd expect somethingn ambitious with multitude of different mechanics and aspects kinda like Star Citizen or something but this game looks more limited than a lot of indie games
@@spicynoodles2742 It really wasn't worked on for 9 years though. The initial director they had leading the project and the first replacement were not the person for the job. It wasn't until 2020 when they got someone in charge who could actually put together a coherent vision for a final product. Until then, they were essentially trying to make 3 different games (a single player story, an arena mode and the open world live service) in one package, but all they had was a bunch of prototypes because their resources were stretched thin. Elizabeth pulled some straight up miricle work to consolidate everything into a coherent final produce, but this version of the game has really only been in development since early 2020.
Nice content man . True and straightforward covered all things
The chase sections reminds me of All Point Bulletin on release. The only thing that you could do to stop a runaway car was to get lucky with the runaway car missing a corner... And they corrected that down the road by just hardcapping your speed when you're escaping so that it became just impossible x)
The fact that this game actually is coming out… I was 17 when it was announced 😂
I planned to play it with people I haven’t spoken to in 5 years 🤣🤣
@@ConnorDoesRugby right 💀
Congrats on your upcoming 40th birthday! Are you doing anything to celebrate?
How old are you now?
I was already a bit older (20 years old), but you were 17 at that time? Thats just insane!!!!
don't worry about speed Luke, speed boost foods will be available at $4.99
Ubisoft games, while graphically stunning, will never be fun or lack an uninspired repetitive gameplay loop.
Graphically stunning? Lmfao when
off topic, but that room you recorded in is really sick and the decor gives it such a nice vibe!!
I love how the cannons don’t rotate in this game but you can shoot like 45 degrees to both sides
you forget about it very fast while you play the game
@@basilismasterI don’t think we will be playing this game
@@kokobeatz7222 why?
@@basilismaster
Why would you play it lol?
@@asain3586 because i enjoyed it?
Ubisoft be literally like "no bro you have to play 100 hours then it gets good!"
"Also you don't own this by the way. Wait why is everyone pirating our games?"
I want a game like this to have an underlying physics model for wind dynamics. I don't even care if it's a recursive pattern so long as it's complex enough. Ideally it would be a dynamic model that took things like coastline and mountains into consideration. You outmaneuver your enemy because you're a better captain, reading the landscape and riding the wind.
Just play sea of thieves. Their wind and sea engine is impressive. So much so that if you get stuck in a storm you will get lost
It would be a start if the ships felt remotely like a ship rather than a speed boat with a ships skin
Thanks for the video!
If I can't leave the ship then I'm gonna quit.
If I can't swim to shore then I will surely get bored.
Play sot 😂
@@1kulik I doing s fotd as we speak
@@triniscout enjoy?
@@1kulik spent a few hours doing hour glass was great fun, I kegged a galleon as a solo sloop hiding at a fort.
@@triniscout nothing unusual
Thanks for showing this! Not that I had to be convinced before, but I definitely won't be picking this up even when it goes FTP.
😂😂
The fact I felt like monetisation was been shoved in my face in the beta, which doesn't have monetisation yet is a clear sign it's one to avoid.
For such a bland game that doesn't capture many of the most interesting aspects of the age of sail, which were in a 10 year old game, it seems clear they're going to milk the whales using sunk cost fallacy to keep them spending money on new trinkets to their meta ship doesn't lose the edge against everyone else using identical builds.
Man your 4K is sutunning :) nice jobbbbbb
I downloaded the Open Beta and watched a Stream while doing it, I stopped at 30% and decided this game is nothing like what the Players wanted.
I even called out that the game might not deliver, I was fronted because of that but now the voices have fallen silent.
After seeing the combat footage, I'm out. When this was announced so many years ago in the heels of Black Flag, I was sold on the 'just the naval' element of Black Flag it was claimed to be. I don't even know what they're going for with this game now, but it's definitely not what I was looking forward to.
It is honestly crazy to think about, they had the perfect game made all they had to do was copy it and take out the assassin parts.. who’s idea was it to make a pirate ship cut down trees …
This is going to be Ubisoft's version of Duke Nukem Forever
No duke nukem forever is it’s own category, a shit game like aliens fire team elite looks like a masterpiece compared to that game.
No their actual duke nukem forever (if they don't decide to can it) is Beyond Good and Evil 2 lmao
New follower here! I love ur room😍
For the chassing issue, I think a good way to balance it would be to require ships to slow down significantly for the crew to "eat". It would solve the problem and also make sense thematically, since if your crew is eating, you don't have as many hands on deck.
09:00 Back when for honor was released, assassins used to run much faster than the other heroes, thus creating the same frustrating situation where when they would start running there would have be no chance of getting them
I’m gonna go play black flag instead
Completely different game but ok
@@Vandy-tc3lj At least it has competent ship combat unlike this dog turd game
Hahaha enjoy it
@@Vandy-tc3lj You can actually board ships like a pirate in Black Flag
Yeah, this game is just World of Warships, set in the 17 to 1800, nothing pirate about it
A decade or more ago there was a game named Silkroad. This game would have been insane with that concept.
All I want is BlackSails (team on one ship), with each player also getting a private skiff like Skull and Bones, and territory control PVP. Some port cities that sway faction based on control, and some neutral port cities. No crafting. No quests. You get money/new ships via piracy. I could say a lot more, but I feel I've wasted enough time.
This game is a tax writeoff at this point. Ubi will be looking to make their money back using this technology for a Black Flag remake.
Didn't skull and bones start as a black flag spin off ?
the game or most of the development cost is actually subsidised by singapore goverment as they wanted to get AAA studios there, get the game develop market growing and get more devs to come there so they partned with ubisoft to open "Ubisoft Singapore", there is a whole lot to read up about it
They already are working on a Black Flag remake.
@@markadams5009 Do you happen to know the studio working on it?
@@paralleluniverse99 From what I've read online it's also Ubisoft Singapore.
Why not do a re-skin of Black Flag with a new story, upgraded graphics and more upgrades? Boom! Done.
That was honestly supposed to be the idea 10 years ago, somehow they couldn't pull that together. Ubisoft can't even copy its own homework.
Yes let’s just re-skin every game….because only little kids have that short of a memory span…..
@@Kikoama you're right, this is better lmao
@@Faust_saint it’s 100X better than crap they have reskinned lately. Like TLOU2 vomit…
@@Kikoama tlou2 isnt a bad reskin what ur on about?
Can’t wait for this! Played the closed beta and loved it, ended up pre-ordering the $100 version.
Surprised how much I enjoyed the open beta, and pre-ordered. I look forward to playing it tonight as it's already launched, but I have to go to work damn it!
I had completely forgot about this game until you brought it up. I think I'll call it "UI simulator"
I think this guy literally keeps the game afloat. He has made so many videos on it, which is why Ubisoft invites him to play the game; he is their biggest indirect advertiser.
I can see this appealing to a small niche of players, particularly players that don't mind being in a ship/vehicle for most of the gameplay. Thinking about the people that also like to play games like World of Tanks, World of Warships, and Warthunder, but also it seems Ubisoft has executed the barebones nature of it while those games have more in depth mechanics, plus it seem most Ubisoft players like to explore on foot and this game doesn't seem to scratch that itch at all...
I play war thunder and this is not appealing at all. That pirate themed april's fools event we had years ago was more appealing than this.
@@QUIROPTEROHOLLOW when a limited time game mode made as a joke for a free game is better than a AAA standalone game you know something has gone terrible wrong
I play war thunder and world of warships and I want nothing to do with this game lol. All this game had to be was sea of thieves with realistic graphics and more ships and maybe some other things to do and they some how decided to make a hero based ship game where you can’t leave the boat💀💀💀
Lol what, this is nothing like WoT or WT. While the combat may look similar, WT fanbase is really into playing as different historical vehicles and the technicality matters a lot. This combat system looks less realistic than Pirates of the Caribbean movies while also being rather unfun from what it seems
Dredge was pretty damn good and generally being stuck in vehicles isn’t my idea of fun
i liked it and had to buy it i cant wait to see what happens over the year the sounds are amazing . huge map to explore.
damn that sucks
Mate your gaming room is amazing
"Skull and Bones" = Lackluster Black Flag Spin-Off 🎯
It doesn't look like anything Black Flag was going for in terms of immersive ship combat. Fans weren't playing Black Flag imagining this nessfest.
@joppekim 100% agree. I'm a huge AC fan (especially Black Flag). Skull and Bones gives off the "feel" that they're trying to capture the "magic" of naval combat (that many loved in AC IV and Odyssey). But, the execution is very half-hearted. Guarantee many would rather re-play Black Flag, over devoting hours into this game
If they say "dozens of dozens of hours" they probably mean exactly 24hrs, backed by their legal team.
I wasn’t surprised you were talking about skull and bones
I think one of the major issues with skull and bones is being bound to your ship, sure its fun to sail around and do naval battles but the boarding mechanic could be so much better. If they added more opportunities for melee combat I personally think the game would be so much better
They need to have an off ship gameplay thing. Idk what exactly but making a whole game around a single aspect of a previous game that had more to do was never going to work.
Maybe some kinda base building where you make a coastal fort and can play on foot as you defend it from enemy ships, like AC4 forts but playing the opposite side. Straight ship battles was always gon get old fast.
It needed boarding. A massive part of what made pirating in the age of sail interesting and unique was boarding. It doesn't help the actual ship combat feels so arcadey, but at least if they had added in even a dumbed down version of black flags boarding combat it wouldn't feel so much like a bland indie game where they don't have the experience to make the ships feel like actual ships, not inflatable speed boats with a ship skin.
Wouldve made more sense to balance the fast vs slower ships by giving larger ships rowing paddles that can give you a speed boost based on a stamina meter. Make it so turning is really difficult when doing this. Fast ships would be naturally fast, but still gives other ships a way to catch up at the risk of putting themself out of position. Just a flat stamina meter sounds dumb lol
I played the recent open beta and I loved it. Definitely things they should’ve included like maybe some type of land battle (swords and pistols). Maybe they’ll add it later on who knows. Overall it was enjoyable. We will see where it goes from here. Thanks for your review it only made me want it more
cant believe they f*cked it up so hard. all they had to do was to build on the awesome blueprint they had with black flag -.-
bro can’t wait for Ubisoft releases so he can get them sweet rage views
Major question that you touch upon...how tf long will we be expected to do mundane resource farming? "The game gets better at 100 hours!!"
To roughly quote Josh Strife Hayes:"If the first few hours of your game are filled with boring stuff, you should remove/change the first few hours of your game."
on the beta you farm for 30 min maximum, after that you no longer need it since the resources are obtained by eliminating boats or buying them in different outposts
@@GaB-qy3qx only 30 minutes? I doubt that until I see it lol
it's a tutorial. In any case on the beta it was like that, we'll see in the final game if we use it more often @@YourMomMyBed8000
@@GaB-qy3qx Fair enough. And for what follows, I'm not trying to dunk on you. I'm trying to shit on Ubisoft for messing up this game when they had a perfect blueprint with AC Black Flag ready to go (at least they reused most of the sea shanties lol). During the closed beta, my friend and I were doing the introductory "this is how you can get (some?) materials" quests for maybe half an hour to an hour max, after which we did some other stuff, like checking out those fortresses with the waves of ships.
But even then, why include those 30 minutes of boring material farming? If it's ultimately pointless and the material gain overshadowed by almost any other activity in-game, then you could leave out this entire gathering system and have yourself start with the materials you would have gotten thirty minutes in.
The only way I could see them rebalancing the speed would be by making the stamina bar deplete slower and faster depending on the ship type, like a bigger ship has more stamina so it's slow but can go faster for longer while the smaller agile ship can go very fast for a shorter time, food can restore stamina to full but there should be a cooldown or something so it isn't spammed.
for min 5..yes there is an old game with idea for hunting sea monsters, Warhammer Man O' War: Corsair Hunting Sea Monsters
They could just have made a Sid Meyer - Pirates with 2024 graphics and naval and land combat with story missions and progression and parallel treasures and random missions with towns capture and fort capture, sea routes for the ships you capture and go crazy in single player even with with RPG rewards. Add that single player experience with pvp 1vs1, 2vs2 up to you name it (as much as the server can add in one instance) and PVE coop... add battle pass with PVE (sea monsters, dungeons etc) and PVP combat... LvL ups for crew, LVL ups for the ship intems and character gear and abilities and cosmetic rewards (an in game shop could be added, only with cosmetic rewards that are not 3 tiers higher fidelity and design over what can be gained in game). But no ... they had to do this nonsense that doesn't even look like a game... more like a 20% of a wanna be game.
I... think I remember a game called "Skull and Bones" lol
They are making a "ship game" with the mechanics of a "character game". Gathering woods, stamina bar, etc. And they managed to do it without giving you the actual character to board an enemy ship.
Dude, Valheim managed to have a ship mechanic through the minimalistic wind direction affecting the speed of the ship. And it's not even a ship game. smh...
And how long have they been developing this?
a speed boost food would not fix the issue it would compound the problem, the fast ship would just use that and youd be back at square one or even worse if ppl chasing dont have it. there needs to be a cooldown for food.
I realy enjoyed your video I pre ordered I will be playing this regardless of the outcome I have good hopes especially now since watching the year 1 video just solidify my thoughts on this game especially pvp trade routes I reckon alot of people are holding back especially on console after playing cod for 2 years straight I need this hahaha keep up the content cheers from New Zealand
Oh boy you’ll be disappointed
Just bankin me the money man
a game with amazing endgame can still be held back by terrible progression until you reach said gameplay. I've played the closed-beta/demo for a few hours and it felt very tedious and monotonous. though I still hope its improved and fun when it FINALLY releases......... eventually................
I rushed the beta 5 times, each time more and more, and in my last session I was almost ready in terms of the video, I'll tell you in 10h-15h by playing quietly you will have more than the level of this video.
Sounds funny when you said La Peste. Interesting video
Nothing like taking 1 step forward, and getting in your car and driving 3 miles backwards.
I wonder if the game will be barebones
So there is no Man o war ship to fight or to ride thats great
Well, the beta showed that they're listening at least.
There's speed boosting items now like drinks and some furniture that if you time right can give you some big temporary bursts of speed to catch up to people. If the other person knows exactly what they're doing and doesn't mess up their boosts you won't be catching up to them but at least there's a margin of error and some skill in it now instead of just trimming your sails and pressing the eat food button every few seconds.
So here's hoping they'll keep that ball rolling with feedback and after awhile, nabbing S&B on a sale will be super worth it. Like how Division 2 is nowadays.
This had sm potential. Wish they made a further in depth open world pirate game building off AC4
I have the feeling that this isn't for me in the end. Might like to test it, doesn't look like it I would pour time into it. But I have to say, the implementation of water is phenomenal!
Try sea of thieves
well it sucks that you cant use big ships, like a frigate that they have modeled and was in a previous iteration of the game. or the corvette and there was another big ship but I cant remember what that was.
we can, and even on the beta we could
@@GaB-qy3qx can you though? Frigate, Brig, corvette and ghanjah are all the "big" ships and they are non playable ships, what we have been using om the betas are medium sized ships. And there will be (at the moment) 6 small ships and 5 or 6 medium ships that are playable.
I got really bummed when I asked the S&B discord about big ships but they said that we wont be able to use them, at this point in time at least
there was the mission where he took control of the pirate leader's boat. it looks like a huge frigate@@Frisken96
the water you can get increases your sail speed so the dev was incorrect that there is not a food that will help you catch up or close the gap
The food items have a timer that limits how fast you can use them. I think an easy fix is lengthening the timer of the fleeing ship while reducing the timer for following ships maybe decreasing the timer more for the farther ships allowing a rubber band effect. Rubber banding is bad for racing games because it punishes skill but for a game mode like this I think it would make sense. Another thought I had is that this might be a problem in a low player server but in a possibly more crowded server there’s a much higher possibility of another ship being close enough to cut off the fleeing ship and forcing it into a fight allowing more people to catch up and then it’ll be a free for all to get possession and try to break away which sounds fun if it could play out that way with some adjustments.
Can you even walk around your ship!?
no
At this rate it’s just gonna be another Sea of Theives
A worse Sea of Thieves.
But in Sea of Thieves you only control the character. Even sailing and shooting are done by manually walking to the things that sail and shoot. This game is the exact opposite of that.
The game looks like I would just get up and walk away after 2 hours at that event.
I genuinly dont understand why they didnt just remove the blackflag story, change the map, focus it more on ship content with some gameplay on foot, and release that. All they really would have had to do was expand the sailing upgrades and enemy types, giving it an endgame. Blackflag did it soooo well, but we do want a little bit of running around, feeling like jack sparrow.
Honestly the gameplay looks lackluster, I want a master and commander esque game that's semi realistic vs. Hp bars, healing ships and stamina gauges and having to aim goofy weaponry. Thanks for going over the game, saved me 70 bucks
Boat simulator 2024 looks amazing. Some weirdos out there like to play as a pirate, but for me, I've always have been fascinated with the idea of playing from the POV of a boat.
World of Warships is free
I'm posting this on february 6, 2024 and the open beta is allowing preloads now for everyone and you'll be able to play the game from the 7th to the 11th and I'm going to give it a shot. I was hyped about this game but after seeing some of it in videos like yours I'm a lot less hyped but we'll see I guess.