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dlpkl, do games w Skull And Bones Open Beta Review: It’s Meh, Matey

Give us a Black Flag remake you cowards.

Better yet, if someone just makes a Nvidia RTXRemixflexremasterDLSSqwertyuiop mod for the damn game we could drop Ubisoft altogether.

WEAPONX,

We need someone to get rid of mouse acceleration and 60 FPS lock.

OrangeCorvus, do games w Skull And Bones Open Beta Review: It’s Meh, Matey
@OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world avatar

The tutorial was shit but I played the beta for 12ish hours. Had no intention of playing it but it ended up being super fun. Won’t buy it, not worth the 70€ price tag. Got ubi+ for a month, should be enough. It was a pleasant surprise.

Poggervania, do games w Skull And Bones Open Beta Review: It’s Meh, Matey
@Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

AAAA gaming, folks. This is what a real AAAA-quality game looks like.

MeekerThanBeaker, do games w Skull And Bones Open Beta Review: It’s Meh, Matey

All they needed to do was make a Black Flag type game with more pirating stuff to do. That’s it.

dangblingus, do games w Skull And Bones Open Beta Review: It’s Meh, Matey

People forget, but Ubisoft had the same reputation 10 years ago they have today. Even 10 years ago the prediction was this game was gonna be ass. Delay delay delay, people have played Sea of Thieves to death and are onto new things, THEN Ubi drops a lacklustre beta where you can’t even get out of your ship. Yup. Sounds about right.

BruceTwarzen,

People wanted more black flag and ubisoft was like: got it, let's make black flag as bad as possible

prettybunnys,

It’s a fantastic game covered up by bad choices.

I don’t need to get out of my ship, but maybe you could let me direct my crew on how they attack. Let me arm my crew differently. Let me change my crew as an item. Let me hire individual crew members as “items”.

To me it seems like a “we gotta get SOMETHING out the door” scenario and they made a “cohesive” game out of what was finished and hope that it lives long enough to add the other stuff.

I found myself wanting to log on last night which shocked me, the setting and ship combat definitely works for me. I wish there was more but sea of thieves didn’t do it for me.

It’s like they took Black Flag and said “everyone wants a Sid Meier pirates remake … let’s try that” but they didn’t give us dancing or ship boarding.

There is so much potential and it’s wild that they seem to have created the “core” but it’s taken them this long to get there.

Kolanaki, do games w Skull And Bones Open Beta Review: It’s Meh, Matey
!deleted6508 avatar

So they really did copy Sea of Thieves. 🤔

Or is it even worse than that was on launch?

KingThrillgore, do games w Skull And Bones Open Beta Review: It’s Meh, Matey
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Ten years of development for this?

DrSleepless, do games w Skull And Bones Open Beta Review: It’s Meh, Matey

I downloaded it but then it wanted me to sign up with Ubisoft. No thanks.

Jagermo, do games w Skull And Bones Open Beta Review: It’s Meh, Matey

No, no, they said it’s “Quadruple A”, Ubisoft won’t lie to US??!?

Stamau123,

The extra A is for all the apathy

Jagermo,

Yeah, I 'm waiting until it’s free on Epic

hitmyspot,

Always another asset acquisition available. I count AAAAA

local_taxi_fix, do games w Skull And Bones Open Beta Review: It’s Meh, Matey

I played the beta for 20 minutes and was so disappointed I immediately launched sea of thieves to recover.

It just felt like a cash grab done as cheaply as possible.

prettybunnys, do games w Skull And Bones Open Beta Review: It’s Meh, Matey

There is a good game to be made out of this but it’s nuts that this is all they have to show for it given it doesn’t do pirating as well as Black Flag did….

Kaldo, do gaming w Subnautica 2 Devs Quickly Clarify That, No, It's Not A Live-Service Thing
@Kaldo@kbin.social avatar

They are still being vague about the monetization (it does seem like it will have MTX) and I'm am completely certain that designing it with co-op in mind is going to ruin the singleplayer vibe and progression. Hopefully I'm proven wrong though

bjmllr, do gaming w Subnautica 2 Devs Quickly Clarify That, No, It's Not A Live-Service Thing

Will it work offline though?

Oddbin, do gaming w Subnautica 2 Devs Quickly Clarify That, No, It's Not A Live-Service Thing

My pitchfork was out and my torch was almost lit but I’ve stowed both for the time being.

Subantica really was one of those games that just grabbed me, where I played eight hours and could have played more. I hope the next one is more of the same, expands on the building aspect and gives us another great big mystery.

Wahots, do gaming w Subnautica 2 Devs Quickly Clarify That, No, It's Not A Live-Service Thing
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

I hope Subnautica 2 is better than BZ. The original was so good, just was missing co-op with friends.

ArmoredThirteen,

A core part of the first game is how isolated you are though. I don’t usually say this with survival crafters, but for me coop would take away more than it would provide

madcaesar,

You don’t have to play co-op, but I wanted co-op so badly. I just want more good, ideally LAN co-ops, they are a dying breed.

SatouKazuma,
@SatouKazuma@lemmy.world avatar

I just want more co-ops in general. They, and the racing genre, are two things that are dying that I’m sad to see go.

PowerCrazy,

There is a mod that enables co-op for Subnautica. It was a pretty fun, but when I played it a few years ago, it didn’t really add anything, it was just that you could have two people going through the story together and harvesting resources etc.

ArmoredThirteen,

My thing about it is designing for both an isolated feel and a cohesive co-op may be impractical, and I’d prefer they focus on the part of it that makes it really stand out. There are also things like how do you progress world events, can either player trigger them, do they have to be in the same area together, etc which all adds design overhead.

I also want more good co-op games they’re a lot of fun. Personally I don’t think this is the right series to target for it though, but also idk what direction they’re taking it so co-op may fit well with the new one.

madcaesar,

They literarily didn’t need to change a single thing for me. Exact game just let a buddy forage and build with me. It would be amazing and relaxing!

Faydaikin,
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

All the more reason to keep it “quite” and expansive like the first game.

BZ was so noisy and tiny. That, combined with other players would be terrible.

I think OG Subnautica could be fun with a Co-op mode. But any more players than that would ruin it.

Wahots,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

I always enjoy a game solo at first, then do co op with friends. It was really fun solo. But I’d like to create a giant underwater farm with friends, and have various seamoths and other vehicles to use with buddies. The multiplayer mod works, it’s just buggy as mods are.

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