Skull And Bones Season 1: Raging Tides Officially Begins With A Host Of New Content

Skull and Bones has kicked off its first official season and it couldn’t have come any sooner. The multiplayer pirate game has only been out for two weeks but players are already getting antsy about doing something other than filler quests, which is exactly what Season 1: Raging Tides is offering.

Season 1 is the first of four quarterly seasons planned for the year, each of which will be introducing a different pirate lord for players to defeat. For Season 1, that’s Philippe La Peste, a.k.a. the Plague King, and his Fleet of Pestilence.

“Plaguebringers, the Fleet of Pestilence’s advance guard, will spawn throughout the world. Defeat them to obtain ‘Plaguebringer Captain Heads’. As you sink more Plaguebringer ships, you progressively anger the Fleet of Pestilence. Past a certain hostility level, they might just send a mighty foe after you – it’s up to you to sink them and collect the rare item they carry.”

Season 1 will also introduce new Kingpin Bounties every three weeks, the first of which will drop on March 5. Players can also take on seasonal contracts and complete Smuggler missions to unlock limited-time rewards such as the Barque medium-sized ship, the Carronade cannon, the unique Wailing Ward ship, and La Peste Schematics.

There’s also a boatload of changes, tweaks, and fixes for various gameplay systems ranging from ships, ship perks, and ship equipment to contracts, world events, and the new player tutorial. You can dive into the details in the full patch notes here.