Game News This hilarious Skull & Bones bug makes players laugh a lot. A real failure in the management of dubbing
Published on 02/19/2024 at 07:04
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Seven years after its announcement and multiple postponements, Skull & Bones is finally available. A game dedicated to piracy, exploration and naval combat, it was presented as a blockbuster by Ubisoft. However, a management error in the dubbing has been making waves on social networks for several days.
Skull & Bones: a difficult journey to the Indian Ocean
First presented at E3 2017, Skull and Bones has had a very complicated journey. Playable at the show the following year, the title seemed attractive and expectations rose a notch around this title born from the naval battles of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Developed in the Singapore studio, the game was quickly pushed back to 2020, before leaving the schedule outputs to only appear in the accounting balance sheets. Reimagined numerous times, Skull & Bones finally made its return in July 2022 with a release expected for November 8 of the same year.
But in September 2022, the Ubisoft title is once again postponed. The collision is then scheduled for March 9, 2023 before yet another postponement is announced, and that the output is not limited to a window based on the following fiscal year. Finally, on the night of December 7 to 8, Skull & Bones was announced for February 16, 2024, a date which, this time, will not be affected. Far from the shipwreck feared by everyone, Skull & Bones has some nice arguments to make, although it takes time before it reveals its full potential. But no matter, the title is finally here, and we are now waiting to see how the follow-up will be ensured.
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A small bug or an oversight is making the rounds on the Web
Offering quests across the Indian Ocean, customization in every direction and epic naval battles, Skull & Bones offers a new approach to the pirate game. Players certainly have to deal with redundant missions before reaching a pleasant endgame but, although it is not THE pirate game, Skull & Bones is not a failure. Despite everything, the title suffers from numerous bugs in the interface and missions, or even at the dialogue level. Since the day of release, a video, recorded by Pauline, journalist in charge of the test for our colleagues at MGG, has been running and makes the players laugh as much as it makes them despair.
During one of the few third-person phases on dry land, we see a player’s character chatting with a Scurlock guard. At that moment, we realize that the team responsible for integrating the dialogues simply forgot to do it, or a bug prevents the audio track from being played correctly. Instead, we are entitled to a text-to-speech, that is to say a automatic line readinga tool often used by developers to get a good idea of the final result before integrating dubbing.
We briefly hear the voice of the voice actor at the very end of the video, before the sequence glitches, preventing the character from saying the word “kingpin”, which translates to “baron” in the sense of “crime lord”. Widely covered and commented on, notably on X, this video somewhat undermines the discourse around the game, presenting the title like a AAAA.
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