Skull and Bones has opened the seas to new pirates as part of preorder head start. Ubisoft is also sharing some stats from the recent open beta, from how many pirates were sea monster lunch to how many kilometers everyone sailed over the three day event.
When it comes to Skull and Bones, if you’ve been following things for any length of time, there were numerous delays and some shifts in direction. With that development history behind them, Ubisoft Singapore is goiing to open the Indian Ocean for those with the preorder early start. For those jumping into the game, there should also be even more of a head start from data saved from open beta, if they participated.
As for that open beta, the first to reach the beta cap Infamy cap of Brigand was a player called Oldfaux. The captain with the most PvP kills was someone called Lordiee, though they don’t say how many kills were enough for that recognition. Collectively, there were 14,920,525 km sailed during the 3-day open beta, which the team notes translates would be more than 370 times sailing around the world.
Everyone collectively played over 3.2 million hours and fought over 40 million naval battles.There were also more than 2.4 million hours of Skull and Bones beta Twitch streams. Giving insight into some of the choices people made, beta players took part in over 540,000 Cutthroat Cargo events and made over 27 million deals with deadly pirates out in the world.
During this time, 44 million ships were sunk. and 180,351 pirates found themselves eaten by sea monsters.
Skull and Bones will be released for everyone else on February 16th.
