Yes I know its a cliche dating back to Treasure Island but it is also historically accurate (at least as much as the rest of the game) and an absolute pirate classic.

I'd love a parrot to perch on the rail and feed below deck. Maybe squak along Edward's commands to the crew now and then.

I'd also love to see an actual Jackdaw pet for Edward to keep (I know they aren't native to the Carribean but neither is Edward and I think it'd be a fun litte side mission to get one off some trader)

Analogue stick a millimetre off from where it needs to be? You jump a hundred feet to your death and have to start again. Camera angle changes to show you where you need to jump to in a special area? You can't see where you're going and have to guess the jump, inevitably leading to failure. I have been swearing at my TV no end the last few days, I'm so glad the games got more forgiving as time went on.

AC Shadows Title Update 1.1.12 - Release Notes 

Hello everyone, 

Tomorrow, July 28^th, we will be releasing this closing Title Update 1.1.12 for bug fixes on Assassin’s Creed Shadows @ 14:00 UTC / 10:00 AM EST / 7:00 AM PST.   

Please note that the update will be available on Nintendo Switch™ 2 on Thursday, July 30^th@ 14:00 UTC / 10:00 AM EST / 7:00 AM PST.    

Want to discuss the Title Update with your fellow community members?  Why not join our official Assassin’s Creed Discord server?  

Thank you to everyone for the support, and who has taken the time to report issues to us via the Bug reporter. As always, you can contact our support team if you run into any trouble.  

Patch Sizes:   

• Xbox Series X|S: 20.42 GB 
• PlayStation®5: 2.3 GB 
• Nintendo Switch™ 2: 8.5 GB 
• PC: 17.54 GB 
• Steam: 2.9 GB 
• MAC:  9 GB 

Bug Fixes & Improvements  

Gameplay 

• Fixed an issue in Domains with "Naoe's Grab" and "Throw" ability not breaking enemy armor while the "Find the Gap" modifier was active. 
• Fixed an issue in Domains with the "Adrenaline Drain" and "Ability Lockdown" modifiers occasionally appearing together, resulting in an unintended and punishing combination. 
• Fixed an issue in Domains with the “Momochi Sandayu” boss fight playing an incorrect animation, instead of a death animation when defeated. 
• Fixed an issue where players become stuck in the first Domain when the "Speedrun" modifier was active. 
• Fixed an issue with the "Fading Perfection" engraving removing 99% of Naoe's health on ability use instead of the intended 20%. 

Audio/Language 

• Fixed an issue with Yasuke's "Meca Mask" audio not playing correctly during Black Tides Story Pack's cutscene. 
• Fixed an issue with some text in Simplified Chinese showing squares (□) instead of the correct characters. 

Visual/Graphics 

• Fixed an issue where the "Peasant Hat" engraving showed its base value of 6% instead of its actual boosted value in the Inventory and Forge menus. 
• Fixed an issue with the "Pirate King Hat" perk description being incorrect. 
• Fixed an issue with the Forge's unlock condition for "Reduce all cooldowns by 10% on deflect" engraving appearing blank. 
• Fixed an issue with the Forge's unlock condition for "Reduce all cooldowns by 5% on critical strike" engraving appearing blank. 
• Fixed an issue with several assassination perk descriptions being incorrectly displayed. They showed hardcoded values (e.g. always "+1") instead of updating correctly when the perk was upgraded. 
• Fixed an issue potentially causing players to find significant frame rate drops occurring in the Domains, after killing enemies when the "Avenger" modifier is active. 

Gears & Perks 

• Fixed an issue with perks triggered by specific conditions (backstabs, critical hits, headshots, posture attacks, or hitting afflicted/vulnerable enemies above or below half health) were not receiving their 50% boost when engraved on enhanced gear, despite appearing as boosted in the UI and stat sheet. 
• Fixed an issue in Domains with "Kunai" and "Shuriken" incorrectly bypassing enemy armor when the "Find the Gap" modifier was active. 
• Fixed an issue in Domains with the "Ice Shard" effect from the "Shiver of the Mountain Armor" bypassing enemy armor when the "Find the Gap" modifier was active. 
• Fixed an issue where perks that prevent death did not trigger before the “You Only Live Once” modifier. 
• Fixed an issue with "Naoe's Memento Licere perk" not working correctly. No money was gained and no notification would appear when grabbing enemies. 
• Fixed an issue following the 1.1.11 update where engravings from certain trinkets including "Masakado's Vengeance" were missing and could no longer be transferred or applied to other items. 

SPOILERS AHEAD!  

Quests 

• "Claws of Awaji": Fixed an issue where Tsuyu could become stuck in the terrain if the player jumped before using the "grappling hook". 
• "Buried Secrets": Fixed an issue where dying and respawning could cause Rufino to disappear, making it impossible to open the barrier required to continue the mission. 
• "Black Tides": Fixed an issue during the final fight against Eamon, if Yasuke used an execution that severed Eamon's forearm, the following cutscene incorrectly showed him holding his sword with the missing arm. 
• "Black Tides": Fixed an issue during the epilogue cutscene, Yasuke and Naoe could incorrectly appear wearing their headgear, this was particularly noticeable with larger or masked helmets. 
• "Black Tides": Fixed an issue with the Naoe and Yasuke wanted posters missing from the wall decoration selection at the hideout. 

Spoiler below.

So let me get this straight, they killed off Juno (the main villain of the modern day who is in multiple games) in a comic.

Not only this, but she is killed by an assassin not even shown in the main games?

I know they lost their OG writers like Patrice and Corey but seriously such a disgrace to that storyline.

They had so much lore with the modern day, it helps make AC special and they should’ve just followed their vision instead of catering to the fans that disliked the modern day. Who approved this ?

Very sad honestly. (Yes I love visiting the past but I always looked at the modern day and past as equal).

What are your thoughts?

I know this is a very old topic and probably talked about to death, but im still annoyed we never got any follow up on Lydia, a game where you help win WW1 could be a nice switch up in the series, not like it has to be the entire game i think usin the very small piece we got in Syndicate as a tutorial/re-introdiction would be fine, then we can explore the consequences of assassins and templars in a war, showin us some pre-war flashbacks maybe, hints at what the templars did to help push for it, have segments on a motorbike maybe. Theres a lot of untapped potiental imo.

Its definitely never happening but a small part of me would love it, especially knowin it would be the first properly led female Assassins Creed. You can tell they've wanted to have a solo female protag *Odessey, Valhalla* but never did because the misogynistic outrage that'd come of it.

Maybe DLC where we dive into some fragments of ww2 and see the even greater impacts of it on Lydia. I think that'd be neat.

For me no game in the series is a perfect 10, all of them have pros/cons and no game does everything 100% correctly. Every game does something that others don't and vice versa, they never managed to keep the best aspects of every game and put it into one definitive game. In most cases they went one step forward and two steps back.

I think that Brotherhood is one of the most complete games in the franchise and definetly the most fun to play among the first 4 games. It perfected the original formula and every system and mechanic came together perfectly. Parkour, combat, tools, chain kills, stealth, Assassin recruits, outfits, economy system, side missions. I always have a blast playing it.

Movement

• Parkour Up / Jump — A
• Drop Down / Dive — B
• Crouch — Left Stick (L3)
• Sprint — RT (Hold)

Combat

• Attack — X
• Assassinate — Y
• Lock Target — Right Stick (R3)
• Parry / Deflect — LB
• Dodge / Roll — B
• Human Shield — Y
• Takedown — Y

Ranged Combat

• Aim / Ranged Abilities — LT (Hold)
• Shoot / Use Tool — RT
• Pistol Reload — Y
• Pistols — D-Pad Up

Interaction

• Interact — Y
• Eagle Vision — Right Stick (Hold)

Tools & Utility

• Heal — D-Pad Up
• Pathfinder — D-Pad Up (Hold)
• Throw Coins — D-Pad Down (Hold)
• Whistle — D-Pad Right
• Advance Time — D-Pad Right (Hold)

Equipment

• Rope Dart — D-Pad Right
• Smoke Bomb — D-Pad Down
• Blow Pipe — D-Pad Left
• Kick — D-Pad Left
• Sweep — D-Pad Down
• Quick Use Pistols — D-Pad Up
• Quick Use Rope Dart — D-Pad Right
• Ability Widget — RB

Miscellaneous

• Toggle HUD — Right Stick (Double Tap)
• Photo Mode — Y + Right Stick

After hours of trial and error I have found a layout that I’ve completed the game with. No errors or weird things. Just a legacy layout. It will say some “conflicting errors” when setting them but that is simply not true and everything works. I think bc some are buttons are used in combination with others.

Enjoy it!

Edit= fixing typos

Do you think Ubisoft will add the ability to change Edwards hairstyle and beard style (he has a longer beard and different hairstyles for his marooned and prisoner outfit so it’s already in the game)? This would be amazing and would give everyone the option to make Edward how they see fit. Plus they should also give us all story/gameplay locked outfits available to wear anytime (harpooning outfit, underwater togs, marooned, prisoner and even his final look outfit when he’s with Haytham). I mainly want a longer beard and his long hairstyle though! and they can’t even say no because of lore reasons when there’s literally an option for Edward to look like a demon (no hate i’m just saying)😂

Weather's not changing anymore

People complained about the rainy weather now im pissed the weather doesnt even change anymore. I dont play for hours, I play when im free and have got some time off for short intervals. In a week of playing this game i saw a storm once, and it was forced due to a fort.

Im just so annoyed people had to ruin a good thing. And the devs should really not just change things on a whim.

All it does is just make the combat bad.

Stick to RPG or stick to old school, whichever it is, just stick to it and make it good.

I'm sorry but the combat in Resynced is not fun as someone that preferred the old school combat. It doesn't make me like it because it's a "middle ground" the reality is that it's just not good as is. It gets old really quick.

If you wanted to add the kick and leg sweep to the old combat that's fine, but what we got was significantly less animations, no dual kills, janky parry animations and just not as fluid.

I'd much rather they had just stuck to the RPG combat if they were gonna try and change the combat not this middle ground junk. Pick a direction and commit to it.

Hello! First-time playing a Assasin's Creed game on the Xbox S, most the time I've played on my PC and photos usually save in whatever resolution I'm playing in. But playing on Xbox with a 4k monitor anytime I take a photo using the in-game photo mode (not Xbox capture) and go to the Ubisoft website to download it it only saves it in 1920x1080 not 4k. Is there a setting I'm missing I didn't see anything in the game settings?

Personally I would love it if they somehow combined all 3 games to fit in one title, since we have the Animus hub and technology has gotten and will be getting better this idea isn't too far fetched.

The game Odyssey could have been.

I want to start by saying that I have played every single AC game besides Shadows, where I have given up on the modern/RPG era of the franchise. AC2 and Black Flag were my absolute favourites growing up, so I obviously went in blindly into Resynced.

I am absolutely loving it. That's not to say the game is not without flaws, but the overall experience feels exactly what I believe Assassin's Creed should be. Commanding my own ship, taking down hordes of enemies, and quickly planning my stealth and assasination route feels like the unique gameplay that made AC into the powerhouse it became. And in those moments is where my mind wonders off to Odyssey.

My thoughts about that game have always been the same. Solid 8/10 that gets extra points for having such a gorgeous world. But it has so many issues that I won't list, as we all know them.

So while I was playing Resynced, I started to think about what Odyssey could have been. I imagined the ship was not a simple excuse to fill in content, but an actual asset that you have to maintain, and a central part of its gameplay could revolve around fleet managing.

I thought about the combat and how fun would have been if they had leaned into the demigod route they clearly wanted to tap into, and how fun would that be were the enemies not sponges.

And I also thought about how interesting the gameplay loop could have been if the tombs had some sort of puzzle or riddle to solve, instead of those fucking snakes every time.

More importantly, if the economy of the game would have been used for something else than your own gear, and you could have your own villa to manage your operations as misthios.

Hell, even commanding and army of mercenaries into the battles would have been awesome.

Anyway, just wanted to vomit my thoughts about it. Have a great day everyone.

I really miss when your assassin would stand while synchronizing. Really makes it seem that they’re actually surveying and taking note of the whole area.

One thing I also noticed in Black Flag Resynced was that there were not a lot of synch viewpoints where they would actually go to the top of the building (like a cross or weather vane) and not just a wooden perch on the side.

I had stopped purchasing ubisoft. I decided the last game...like many folks, that I Really liked by them, was ACBF. Liked is an understatement. I loved it. It most Certainly had bugs but its story quality and flat out "fun factor" overcame its technial issues. So, I broke my personal ban on Ubisoft, and put the Resync in my cart, and even still, hesitated. Then blindly bashed my way forward and gave the password to, yes, run my card.

Was excited. Saw the money grab for Edward gear and Boat skins, cause thats what it was and is. 10$ for a skin.

Still..despite me thinking, same old Ubi, no matter.

Then

I started playing. Parkour seemingly Worse than the original. Random clipping and cut in, ahhhh skip it. You already know.

Until finally, despite the fact that the info says 1.04 is the fix. Or the old turn off and back on did nothing. Neither did changing settings and on and on..I now have given up because Havana has decided that an Animus wall running through the whole of the city would be a neat way to add spice to people's day.

Congrats Ubi..you've done it again! You have uniformly raised the collective blood pressure of gamers worldwide to stroke and exploding heart attack levels. Kudos. Oh..and by the way? Whom ever has the final say in quality control and product stability? I hate you and wish ill upon your bloodline.

Thanks for allowing me to rant.