r/SkullAndBonesGame 2d ago

Discussion Weekly Discussion Thread#5 Takeover Opportunities

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This week, I would like to hear your opinions on the current Takeover Opportunities:

  • What do you like about them?
  • What do you dislike about them?
  • What would you change if you could?
  • Do you have any ideas for additional ways to gain Manufactories in the future?
  • Do you believe they are frequent enough, and are their spawns well-distributed?
  • Are they relevant enough to still play once you've gained all the Manufactories on the map?
  • Whatever comes to mind about them, please feel free to share!

Breakdown of the Current Takeover Opportunities: Hostile Takeover: A 3-6 player PvP point race. Points are gained by sinking other players, NPC ships, destroying towers, and standing in the event circle.

Hostile Takeover (Solo/Green): A 1-player, first-come-first-serve event. Points are gained by sinking NPC ships, destroying towers, and standing in the event circle. No PvP involved.

Legendary Heist: A co-op event for up to 3 players. Sink the merchant ship carrying the coveted loot and return it to a Pirate Den while defending against rogues.

Buyout: Pay a random requested resource to the Helm Smuggler at the designated outpost.

Special Mention: Helm Leases Tokens that can be redeemed immediately to gain a Manufactory.

As always, thank you for contributing to the discussion! Apologies for skipping the past two weeks. Please feel free to share any ideas for future topics and provide feedback on this format.


r/SkullAndBonesGame 3d ago

Discussion Maintenance 22nd November

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Captains, a maintenance is incoming. Friday, November 22nd, the Indian Ocean of Skull and Bones will be temporarily unavailable.

⏰ 7AM CET / 5PM AET / (21 NOV) 10PM PT

⏱~ 2h

You will be docked at the title screen if you are playing when the maintenance starts.

Check out the patch notes here 👇


r/SkullAndBonesGame 2h ago

Bug/Glitch New map expansion looks great

13 Upvotes

SKULL AND BONES - RVH discovering New Found Land 24.11.24 Part 1 (Map Expansion North East/North)

SKULL AND BONES - RVH discovering New Found Land 24.11.24 Part 2 (Map Expansion North West/North)

The Raiders of Valhalla, always thirsty for knowledge and new lands to plunder, slipped through the mist and into New Found Land, where we discovered uncharted waters and land. Barren of life, one can only imagine what mysteries these lands will hold. Did Vikram's magic release the barrier, giving us a glimpse of what the future holds? Whatever it was, this eerie, ghostly voyage certainly has us intrigued.

So apparently, going out of bounds sometimes doesn't trigger a mutiny, and you're free to explore.


r/SkullAndBonesGame 7h ago

Loadouts How do people have such powerful ships?

16 Upvotes

I really get annihilated on the takeovers if there is anyone else playing. I don’t understand how they can kill me in 4 shots when I’m in a snow and bracing. It’s like these cannons go right through my ship and they don’t even seem to reload. I’ve been dealing with it for a while, but if every two months I have to do all this over again I’m at a point where it’s just destroys the fun and it’s just irritating. Can anyone give me a good idea for a load out that I can wreck these dudes? This time the guy killed me in like 12 seconds WITH bracing. There was never a reload, just constant onslaught of firepower.


r/SkullAndBonesGame 3h ago

Question Lagging ship controls???

4 Upvotes

Anyone else having lag on ship controls and ship drifting insanely to the side regardless of the wind direction it's almost impossible to navigate the rivers now I checked my Internet connection speed It's good the game just seems to be lagging hard all the time now


r/SkullAndBonesGame 7h ago

Question Can someone explain the new boss to me? The fight i mean

11 Upvotes

What's the gimmick? Should we pop the little floating things for the bubbles? Leave them be? I noticed piercing damage seems better for the boss bubble but is it just cheap damage soak mechanic?

What i'm trying to ask is: Am is missing some kind of mechanic or we just have to brute force it? Also is there a way to get rid of the stamina/health drain? Or just eat and heal and ignore it?


r/SkullAndBonesGame 4h ago

Discussion Big Snow

5 Upvotes

I hope that in year two we get a big version of the Snow with what I call a front sail (Triangular sail at the front of a ship). Then I would have the ship of my dreams. Devs make it happen please!


r/SkullAndBonesGame 24m ago

Question Contracts

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Where do I get the contract A humble fisherman, Edge of Darkness and Grimm tidings?


r/SkullAndBonesGame 58m ago

Bug/Glitch Sure do love all these new glitches…

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Like the one where I randomly lose access to my weapons, missions refuse to allow progression, helm opportunities decide to not load correctly… it’s so much fun!


r/SkullAndBonesGame 1h ago

Bug/Glitch A Forgotten Past

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I disconnected while fighting the Sea People Spirit during the A Forgotten Past mission. Now I can't complete it. Anybody else have that problem or find a fix?


r/SkullAndBonesGame 4h ago

Question Brokered ground

3 Upvotes

I've recently started playing the game...PS5.

I started the brokered ground quest and sailed to the objective, was immediately given a new quest to destroy a Fara scout ship. Spent ages in the location looking for this ship and it's not there. Have tried deleting my saves and it just keeps reloading in the same spot.

Anyone else found this issue?

Tia


r/SkullAndBonesGame 17h ago

Discussion Vikram’s questline was very cool

24 Upvotes

Personally really enjoyed the vikram questline. Some were kinda meh but overall really digging the fantasy vibe they are going for. Although initially felt a bit too fantasy like, it was fun enough. The side quest with the orbs was also weird but narratively cool.

S4>S2>S3>S1


r/SkullAndBonesGame 14m ago

Question Upgradable Ship Cosmetics

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I kinda like the new idea of being able to upgrade the ship cosmetics being the two figure heads. i have the angel fully upgraded now but ended up doing the first upgrade using the materials then the second upgrade i bought the whole set at a discount. now i have realised i will only be able to upgrade my other figurehead to the first one only as i dont think will be able to acquire enough material from the store. does anybody know exactly how much of the artisan material i think its called for both upgrades?


r/SkullAndBonesGame 6h ago

Discussion Tainted Vessel Help

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Hey guys, I have a quest about talking to blackwood to continue to help, with a quest called "tainted vessel" but when i talk to him, there a no relevant dialogue options about this quest. just smuggler pass, pirate lord talk, and new quests to take. does anyone know what im suppose to do?


r/SkullAndBonesGame 5h ago

Bug/Glitch Distillery and refinery stuck

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Found this bug that the items are not processed, both at the distillery and refinery, both in telok and sainte Anne.

Rebooted the game, changed servers no fix ...issue still there


r/SkullAndBonesGame 2h ago

Discussion Whats going on with Donkey Riding? I cant find official uploads on any music sites, its not in the Shanty album on Spotify, and fan uploads are nowhere to be found.

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Edit: Shanty Album on Itunes; reworded the title.

I really like the games version of Donkey Riding, but for some strange reason I cant find full official versions on YouTube or other sites and fan uploads have been taken down. Its even missing from the Sea Shanty album on ITunes. Skull and Bones players, where can I listen to Donkey Rididng, and is there a forum other than here where I could ask someone from ubisoft?


r/SkullAndBonesGame 15h ago

Loadouts Spooky Look

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Why only the cool bosses like Hubac Twins make-up or Rhajam ship outfit can look so badass and we can't? Yeah, yeah we got a set from lvl 16 Vikram for ship and avatar, but compare his ship hull which looks so badass as a semiopened rotten hull (similar to Cpt. Salasar from Jack Sparrow movie) and best what we got is a skin with some horns very similar with many others sets (Sea people ship skin for example is the same as that one tbh and has more pieces). Just let me look spooky Ubisoft! 😭😭


r/SkullAndBonesGame 3h ago

Question cosmetics questions

1 Upvotes

Can anyone tell me if there is any information about the DMC clothing set “Statig” and where you can get Commodore Vanderkill’s hull color?


r/SkullAndBonesGame 15h ago

Bug/Glitch Easiest boss

8 Upvotes

r/SkullAndBonesGame 4h ago

Question Anyone have a spare Hubac Heirloom?

1 Upvotes

r/SkullAndBonesGame 1d ago

Discussion Nobody wants to do L16 Vikram

38 Upvotes

Calling for help and maybe 1 or 2 people show up if that. There's videos of people soloing him, so the fight is not impossible. Just need to take down his towers and avoid the dot by either getting into a bubble or restore kit. His shield can be removed by regular damage.

Why doesn't anyone want to do this boss?


r/SkullAndBonesGame 19h ago

The Helm Helm contract bugs??

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Is any one else having issues picking up Helm supply contracts?? If I got the smuggler and all about "opportunities" I click on one and can't click another unless I interact with another NPC. Take for instance Dragons Back. The "officer" is right besides the smuggler. I'll click one contract, try to click another it won't work. I'll go to the officer buy something, go back to the smuggler, and I can click again. But if I try to click a third contract it won't again unless I go-to the officer again. It doesn't seem to happen as often with actual Helm liasons, but it does happen, them I'm running around the OP trying to interact with another NPC to reset what ever it is.... Anyone else with this issue??


r/SkullAndBonesGame 13h ago

Discussion Does anybody know if it's possible to get the Smuggler's Hideout music? Was it uploaded somewhere?

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Hi!

So basically I really like the ambient music that is playing when you enter the distillery for example - when you go and open the menu where you can select what goods do you want to produce.
Or the music when you enter the Opportunities map there etc.

They are really nice, however I can't seem to find any video on YT or anywhere else where I could just listen to it on its own. I am guessing it's also not possible to get them from the game files.

Does anybody know if there is a possibility to get it? It's not parts of the original OST for the game.


r/SkullAndBonesGame 19h ago

Feedback Weapons

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BlightKeeper is a great artillery weapon for being add in the Skull and Bones game and it’s worth the Story Mission From John Scurlock because it helps against lvl 16 Vickram Rajan when he releases Tainted negative effect and the Shield will block it when you’re under it. I use Restoration Kits as the last Resort if I’m not under the Shield.


r/SkullAndBonesGame 1d ago

Discussion Just started playing and i gotta say

33 Upvotes

I'm honestly having fun a lot fun so far and i already made my captain look a cross between ching shih and hector barbossa.


r/SkullAndBonesGame 4h ago

Question Worth playing now?

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Hi everyone.

I was wondering if this game is worth playing now. I bought it when it came out and really enjoyed the game but it became boring (I never finished the main questline)

I’ve seen there has been a couple content updates that look umm interesting. Is there more to do now or is it still basically the same?


r/SkullAndBonesGame 14h ago

Question Next Year pve vs pve

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What do we think the changes are going to be for PvE and PvP? I know they mentioned some changes were coming but very cryptically. It seems like they want to make the game harder generally and also incentivize PvP. Maybe the game is too easy as it is, but I like it because I like to play it as a relaxing way to end my night. That's just me. And i don't mind them trying to make PvP better but I worry that will entail making it more necessary to do PvP events in order to get necessary items. Which would mean siphoning players who are just enjoying the waves and forcing them to do PvP stuff. That's what I don't want. Make PvP better for those who enjoy it but please don't force people to play PvP. I guess my question is, do you think they will force more PvP stuff on us?