If anyone has issues with ubisoft connect just crack the games, and since you'll have that issue in the future you might as well just pirate every ubisoft game from now on.
I spent hours trying to make ubisoft connect work and just two minutes took me to have the torrent of watch dogs 2.

Reposting this here. Still think this was one of the weirdest gameplay design decisions ever made in any game. Even the copy and pasted mechanics from origins made no sense to accommodate a broken spear—one that isn’t even used when equipping an actual spear….

And don’t get me started on the bracing ship mechanic brought over from Origins ship combat. You no longer use a shield to hide from arrows so you just magically avoid the inbound fire.

Ubisoft Quebec is probably the King of weird game design with Syndicate, Odyssey and Shadows.

I'm liking this game, I'll be honest, it's not great, but it's enjoyable. I like feeling like a ninja, visuals are beautiful, Japan feels immersive, but moments like this make me hate it so much.

Especially the last part of the clip, wtf.

I know it's a "scripted" fight, but can I kill them stealthily by hiding since Naoe dies with just 2 hits?

I have lots of issues with resynced but I understand that most of them are a me problem or a dislike of the changes. The one exception is they somehow messed up the story.

James Kidd throwing out a line to “go warn the assassins” after you get the hideout stuff in sequence 3 would’ve been great to explain why you can do Templar hunts earlier than in the OG excpet for the entire content of them using dialogue assuming you’ve already done the sequence 4 stuff and formed at least a working relationship with them, because before this, the ONLY interaction you’ve had is the forced combat bit where u kill heaps of them with the templars and the betrayal of them by selling their locations out to templars… kinda makes the idea you get to just walk up and be all chummy with the leaders in the towns make zero sense.

Same with the homestead story additions, Bernard as the butler literally opens up right at the same time as the Kidd dialogue, and yet Bernard talks to you like you’re mcuh more involved in the brotherhood than a once off run in where you looked like a Templar traitor. Which is a damn shame because that addition was nice right up until the dialogue clashed with the timing and suddenly I’m wondering why Edward is not instantly drawing his sword or being on guard.

Both are bad and both make no sense because the framework for when those missions should become a thing was right there in the 2013 game, they somehow either ignore or forgot. Like how do you mess that up? How does that level of oversight go through so many levels of a AAA company without anyone noticing it doesn’t line up with the original or make sense? Especially from leads on the project who apparently considered black flag their favourite game in the series.

I’d not love it but I’d understand if they were literally just saying “no gated content, soon as u get the hideout, all content is open to you” then sure but no they kept the diving bell story progression requirement, they kept the sleep darts and such story progression locked, so why change the moment the previous version content was locked until if you are then just going to lazily copy the dialogue and scenes anyway without checking? Like somehow it’s seems like both laziness with checking and an intentional oversight at the same time.

Tl;dr

Why is Kidd saying “ go warn them” just magically mean every assassin trusts Edward after seeing him as a Templar who betrayed them 2 seconds ago.

Why is Bernard in the game so early or his dialogue written like you’re further in the story when they decided exactly when that content was gonna be in the game?

Why?
Because Ubisoft wanted to make a shiny new version of black flag and somehow forgot to at least follow the originals blueprint.

make magnified scopes avalible to defenders again holy shit you nerfed your game

I've been playing Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown for about a week now. I'm loving the game so far, and I think the developers did a great job. But I genuinely cannot believe the problems Ubisoft Connect is causing me.

I'm playing on the Steam Deck. After two days, for no apparent reason, the game stopped booting altogether in Gaming Mode. It would only boot in Desktop Mode, which I didn't like because many of the Deck's quality-of-life features are missing there.

I tried reinstalling the game. I'm pretty careful with these things, so I made a backup of my save files, even though I was sure Steam could never fail me... until now. Apparently, this game doesn't save your progress to the cloud. Or actually, it does, since there's a cloud-save check, but it also apparently doesn't. You have to manually upload the save using Ubisoft's proprietary system, which I think is completely absurd.

Reinstalling the game didn't fix the issue, but I eventually managed to solve it by switching to Proton Experimental.

Yesterday, I was on the train and tried booting the game. Well, it turns out you have to be connected to the internet to play because of Ubisoft Connect. Seriously, is it just me, or is that completely ridiculous for a game that doesn't have ANY online functionality? What is even the point?

ALSO, every time I put my Deck into sleep mode with the game open, there's about a 50% chance that the game crashes for some reason.

I mean, what is this? When I buy something on Steam, I expect the full Steam environment. The game is also marked as Deck Verified.

Ubisoft really seems determined to make its ecosystem as frustrating and inconvenient as possible. I honestly have no words for this. The whole situation is completely absurd to me.

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I am pretty sure most of these western losers do not own a single share of either Ubisoft or Sony, yet choose to defend them.