Piracy game.
https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/skull-and-bones/
Cool link - thanks.
I've got to be honest - that looked da bomb! :notworthy:
If they make a pirate open world RPG style game like Far Cry or Wildlands, then this could very possibly tickle me fancy
Quote from: jomni on June 14, 2017, 02:36:16 AM
Piracy game.
https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/skull-and-bones/
I'm always amazed to see people go to a lot of trouble to seemingly model sailing ships and then give them power steering not to mention
guns that would capsize them or crush the deck. And why would they need a whole battery (and what pirate ever had a ship with more than 40 guns? -- none, not one -- these guys have 3-deckers with over 100 guns all over 24 pdrs) if one hit will completely disable the enemy? Never mind that just carrying what they are that high up would be the end of your own ship long before you brought them to a rocky coast for which you should be hung just for approaching -- never mind being a pirate -- they should all be hung for endangering their ships.
It's a game - not a historical simulator :P
Seriously though - it is a game.
Still hoping naval action well satisfy.
At least they captured the historical accuracy of all the hot women pirate captains. O0
Quote from: bbmike on June 14, 2017, 07:00:04 AM
At least they captured the historical accuracy of all the hot women pirate captains. O0
And also those thousand-foot-long squid.
oo-ar!
Pretty wenches with big cannons..
IIRC this is MP only - I will stick with Black Flag.
Bummer :arr:
Wait, this isn't "Ivy League Secret Society Simulator 2017"? Bummer.
Quote from: sandman2575 on June 14, 2017, 10:14:14 AM
Wait, this isn't "Ivy League Secret Society Simulator 2017"? Bummer.
Still has hot women with big cannons and thousand-foot squids, tho.
'BummAAARGH' 😎
Kind of interesting that this will be set in the Indian Ocean, but my head is thinking "Wait, does that mean this is a coastal game? Not many islands out there -- Ceylon, Socotra if that even counts as Indian Ocean..."
Pirates and Indians!! :bd:
Quote from: JasonPratt on June 14, 2017, 01:52:55 PM
Kind of interesting that this will be set in the Indian Ocean, but my head is thinking "Wait, does that mean this is a coastal game? Not many islands out there -- Ceylon, Socotra if that even counts as Indian Ocean..."
Let's not forget Indonesia, the place is nothing but islands. Still pretty wild and off the grid in many parts with piracy still going on in remote areas.
Quote from: JudgeDredd on June 14, 2017, 05:45:30 AM
It's a game - not a historical simulator :P
Seriously though - it is a game.
Sure, but why not steampunk it up? Why bother with quasi-sailing ships?
Quote from: Gusington on June 14, 2017, 08:08:03 AM
IIRC this is MP only - I will stick with Black Flag.
I got all squirmy and warm-loined when I saw this announcement, but then I saw the fine print and saw it was MP only.
I really loved the sailing in Black Flag, the feel of the ship, all the different wave states and so forth. I would love to see them start with that, tweak the realism up just a little (especially by adding wind direction!) and make a pirate RPG. Screw the Assassins' Creed series, that is some tired crap, story wise, but the gameplay in Black Flag would be a fine basis for a good pirate RPG.
^I'm with you.
If this lands, we may still get a singleplayer campaign some day.
Until then we always have Man-o-War. >:D
Quote from: Skoop on June 14, 2017, 02:52:25 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on June 14, 2017, 01:52:55 PM
Kind of interesting that this will be set in the Indian Ocean, but my head is thinking "Wait, does that mean this is a coastal game? Not many islands out there -- Ceylon, Socotra if that even counts as Indian Ocean..."
Let's not forget Indonesia, the place is nothing but islands. Still pretty wild and off the grid in many parts with piracy still going on in remote areas.
I would much prefer the Indonesia area for just that reason. But does that count as the Indian Ocean? ???
Quote from: JasonPratt on June 15, 2017, 12:52:24 PM
If this lands, we may still get a singleplayer campaign some day.
Until then we always have Man-o-War. >:D
Quote from: Skoop on June 14, 2017, 02:52:25 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on June 14, 2017, 01:52:55 PM
Kind of interesting that this will be set in the Indian Ocean, but my head is thinking "Wait, does that mean this is a coastal game? Not many islands out there -- Ceylon, Socotra if that even counts as Indian Ocean..."
Let's not forget Indonesia, the place is nothing but islands. Still pretty wild and off the grid in many parts with piracy still going on in remote areas.
I would much prefer the Indonesia area for just that reason. But does that count as the Indian Ocean? ???
The waters around Indonesia are various Seas (South China Sea, Java Sea, etc.) To the west coast of Indonesia is the Indian Ocean.
Plus I think that the bulk of piracy during the golden age of piracy was in the Indian Ocean proper, Caribbean and Red Sea, and not near Indonesia.