Ubisoft Pirates theme online game "Black Sails" recently leaked a demo video, some players found that it seems that there are only sea ships fighting, no personal perspective of the infantry gameplay. And the well-known "uncle party" Tom Henderson also broke the news: "Blue Sea Black Sail" really only has a naval combat gameplay, and the combat system is likely to disappoint!
Henderson said he learned in 2021 that Black Sail doesn't have a man-to-man combat gameplay on land, but at the time he thought it was just Ubisoft that part of it. And now he found that "Black Sails" actually has no one-on-one foot combat gameplay, not even the sea boarding battle can not be personally involved, unlike "Assassin's Creed: Black Flag", the player can control the protagonist alone to fight against other NPCs.
"Blue Sea Black Sail" sea ship battle gameplay
Assassin Black Flag Boarding Battle controls the protagonist's infantry
Not only that, in "Blue Seas and Black Sails", the player collects land resources instead of disembarking to collect, but driving the ship to the vicinity of the resources, and then tapping a few buttons to harvest the resources; looting the settlement can not get off the ship to fight, can only use the ship's artillery to destroy the fortifications, and then the crew will go down and automatically occupy the settlement. During the game, the player basically stays on the ship, although they can also get off the ship, but there is no battle content after disembarking, and they can only talk and trade with NPCs.
Black Sail was built on the basis of Black Flag assassins, and now it seems that it completely removes the other gameplay in Black Flag, only retaining ship naval battles, players can only control ships and enemy ships, and use weapons such as artillery to attack enemy ships. At present, another popular pirate game on the market, "Sea of Thieves", has both naval combat gameplay and land infantry combat gameplay. Tom Henderson thinks there may be a lot of players who are unhappy with the Black Sails.
It is worth mentioning that Antoine Henry, the chief designer of "Blue Sea Black Sail", left Ubisoft in January this year, and he has been producing "Blue Sea Black Sail" since 2014.