Ubisoft promises a second year of content «that will change everything» in Skull and Bones. To begin with, the first season that is already available introduces the new Item Ascension function, which allows players to improve their equipment to increase power and add modifications that affect the gameplay. In local vendors, the option to retouch the statistics is offered and modify the booty ascended with materials and silver, in order to create multiple versions of the same weapon adapted to different situations. It can also be used to adjust the desired game style weapon.
Another novelty is the introduction of the World Tiers, optional levels of difficulty for the challenges of the world. When the rank is the greatest, the better the rewards, including more powerful rising weapons. In this first season you start with the World Tier 2. Likewise, there are improvements for the command experience. Now players can produce different articles in their factories in addition to smuggling, while a new skill tree offers more flexibility when shaping the pirate empire. This will be the last season in which factory levels are restarted.
For JCJ lovers, Ascent Into Chaos introduces Death Tides, a new team mode that will arrive in the middle of the season. In it, players can use their personalized equipment or choose one of the predetermined ships, each with their own game style, and reach victory in one of the four maps (Brimstone, Sanctuary, Sunken Ruins and Mukiti Falls) taking control points. In this mode there are special skills such as invoking Kuharibu or the Mortars of the plague. All rewards and experience won will be transferred to the main game and the pass of the smuggler.
During the rest of the second year of content skull and bones players can expect the following novelties.
- Season 2: Oaths of War will enter the frigate as the first large playable ship. It will also add additional weapons positions, while the story will advance after the first season the Dutch mercantile company has managed to get a strong of the Royal Compagnie. Players must choose Bando.
- Season 3: Guts and Glory will present a new threat, while players will have the option to assign their ship to any officer who rescue from the hands of Rogue Warlord. In this season the land combat will also come.
- Season 4 Eye of the Beast: The town of the sea will abandon its neutrality and invoke the Kraken to purge the waters. To fight this creature you can unlock the corvette, a new large ship. The hunter's guild will also arrive, which will allow players to become masters marine creatures hunters.
For those who doubt the duty of Ubisoft with Skull and Bones, the company ensures that its commitment is to support the game «over the next few years.»