Skull and Bones offers a wide variety of settings on PC and Console for you to tweak and optimize your gameplay experience. Check out the best gameplay, graphics, and controller settings for PC and Console in our guide!

Best Gameplay Settings

Turn Off Auto Harvester

Leaving Auto Harvester on Off disables the timing mini game when harvesting resources. This means that you will slowly farm resources automatically upon interacting with them without any additional effort on your part.

Disable Crossplay to Connect to Servers Easily

If you're having trouble connecting to the Skull and Bones online servers, a good temporary fix is to turn off Crossplay. This is a well-known solution that works in other games that also have the Crossplay feature.

What To Do When No Server Available

Best Graphics Settings

Recommended Graphics Settings

For Graphics Mode, we recommend setting it to Performance to prioritize higher framerates for smoother gameplay in exchange for lower resolution and graphics detail. This also reduces the workload of your console and prevents it from overheating.

Depth of Field and Motion Blur can both be set to Off, since these two options offer no gameplay advantage and are only cinematic effects that can easily be ignored.

Best Controller Settings

Enable Aim Assist

Console players are highly recommended to turn on Aim Assist as aiming with a controller is a lot more difficult compared to using a Mouse and Keyboard. Players can also adjust the sensitivity of the Auto-Lock feature to their own liking.

Toggle Auto-Orientation On

When Vertical and Horizontal Auto-Orientation is enabled, the third-person camera follows the player character's movements. This makes it easy to follow your character vision and you won't have to manually use the Right Analog Stick to adjust to your character's point-of-view.

Best PC Settings

Recommended PC Settings

For PC graphics settings, we recommend setting most of it to High to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Skull and Bones. However, for Shadows and Water settings, you can set these to Low as these two will negatively impact your framerates and performance, as well as putting a heavy strain on your gaming rig.

Turn On Ray Tracing for Powerful GPUs

GPUs that are part of the RTX series will have access to Ray Tracing, a feature that greatly improves lighting quality when enabled. We only recommend this for RTX GPUs that are powerful enough to handle it (those that are part of the 30 and 40 series).

Best PS5 and Xbox Settings

Set Graphics Mode to Performance for Higher Framerates

Setting the Graphics Mode to Performance will lower the quality and resolution of the game, but will increase its framerate and smoothen out the overall gameplay experience.

Set Graphics Mode to Quality for Better Resolution

Setting the Graphics mode to Quality will provide a much more crispier resolution of the game, best suited for those who enjoy exploring while admiring the beautiful scenery that Skull and Bones has to offer.

Enable Aim Assist to Auto-Lock on Targets

Aim Assist allows Console players to auto-lock on their targets when aiming on the controller. This is a feature primarily helpful in combat as aiming with an Analog stick is proven to be a lot more difficult compared to a Mouse and Keyboard.

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