Ubisoft has announced that the Closed Beta Testing for Skull and Bones will begin this December. The Closed Beta will begin on December 15th and it will last until December 18th. Moreover, the French company shared a new trailer that you can find below.
Skull and Bones lets you play your way, starting as a nobody and working your way up to become the most feared pirate. You can create different kinds of ships, and make surprising alliances. You’ll also be able to join exciting naval battles to beat the odds and cause chaos on the seas.
In August 2022, Ubisoft claimed that the PC version will support Ray Tracing Global Illumination (RTGI). Now I don’t know whether this is still the case. After all, this game has been in development hell for a while. Furthermore, Skull and Bones will support both NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR at launch.
You can register for the Closed Beta via this link. Since this is a Closed Beta, it will have an NDA. So, don’t expect to see gameplay footage from it. That is unless someone leaks some from it.
Ubisoft plans to release Skull and Bones on February 16th, 2024. In theory, we should also expect an Open Beta phase prior to the game’s release.
Stay tuned for more!
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Beta in late December… It will never released in February. “Need further polishing and balancing for the best player experience”
Beta in late December… It will never released in February. “Need further polishing and balancing for the best player experience”
Damn. It looks like Ubisoft is really going to release the game this time.
they gotta release it they took money from the government of Singapore.
Reckon in about 20 years of bug fixing what the beta testers found, or just release it anyway and let everyone beta test it for years to come! Not that the early adopters will learn anyway and throw the money at them the next time anything is announced.
Six hour beta test ?
waiting for the next push to 2025
I had hopes for this game… back in 2017. After the creator left and it was in development hell for years, I decided to stop paying attention to it. Since then there have been so many promises and delays it’s just laughable. The game has such a bad reputation and is still unreleased that there really isn’t much they can do to fix it in most minds.
I will say there is still a way back, I mean, look at No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk, games that were so condemned and most people love them (After years of devotion to fixing it).
However, Skull and Bones just seems like a bad investment, it really is nothing more than a flimsy MMO ship battle game and the few streams I watched, most were saying two hours was more than enough. I just don’t see this game being worth anyone’s time. They best thing I think is just to put this out as “Early Access” and continue to let a small dev team built a community and improve the game. There is always a community around a game, no matter how bad it is, so they should just do that. To try and recover this as a “AAA Game” is just insane. Put it out in Early Access and let people who want to waste their time with it, and let everyone else move on.
Still lacking any kind of real time ship boarding mechanics or land based combat so it’s really still just half of a pirate game ….. It’s impossible to be a swashbuckler without any swords and black powder pistols …..
We still haven’t gotten a look at the microtransaction store to see if it’s a Pay to Win type MMO which will make it even worse (but more profitable)
Actually you are wrong about an NDA
“As the Closed Beta is not restricted by an NDA, all content from this beta can be streamed, captured, and shared publicly. So feel free to share your first taste of pirate life with the community!”
In fact the first people they choose are people who stream or make YouTube content. The “Sign up for the beta” is really just to fill out the field if necessary and to judge how much interest there still is in the game but a large percentage have already been chosen
hmm send me a beta key ubisoft.