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[Assassin's Creed] Shadows | Now arriving on 2/14/25 with day 1 Steam release
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Also, they were wizards because it looks better than games released last year and loads super quick on the PS5.
Just wrapped up Legacy of the First Blade and ugh… that just did not work for my Kassandra. Even the ‘fix’ they did, didn’t really change much. It put me off the game until now where I forced myself to finish it.
Now, on to the mythical DLC.
Edit - tying it all up with Aya being the direct descendant was really good though.
I wish we got an Aya based game.
That part was really weird because she had to
She didn't! There's no reason that had to happen during the time span of the game itself.
Is there anywhere online where I could find maps by area and tablet solutions? I’ve already completed the base game and I’d like to experience everything. Ostraka solutions would also be really good. I’ve seen the world maps with everything, but I’d prefer something with pictures I could save to my tablet and use like an atlas and go region by region.
Thanks in advance!
I can has cheezburger, yes?
I don't own Watch Dogs Legion (or any of the other Watch Dogs games). The series has never interested me. But that trailer does interest me. Maybe if they put Legion on sale soon I'll pick it up and snag the AC expansion pack. That's likely the only bit of content I'd even bother to play. I just don't really care about modern day "hack anything" gameplay. Not my cup of tea.
But if this is an in-canon Assassin's Creed story set in the modern world, I'm all in for that. Is there a feature list anywhere, or product details? I guess I'll go snooping on UbiSoft websites to see what I can find and learn more about it.
Black Flag had a file on Blume Corporation on one of the computers you could hack. Origins had a photo that was pretty clearly Aidan Pierce in one of the files you can open. In the first Watch Dogs there’s a mission to kill the chief creative officer of Abstergo Entertainment, who was also in Black Flag until he left to go to Chicago (where Watch Dogs 1 is set).
But they always denied they were the same universe and they were just fun little Easter eggs. Guess not anymore.
I'm not gonna spend $20 for the base game for a game I wasn't interested in, and then another $20 for DLC if they're not gonna share any details about it.
Collider have an article up that says the paid part of the DLC is just Darcy, an assassin, is a recruitable operative for use in the main game. There's also a free update with 2 missions, which are likely involving the Assassin tomb they showed in the trailer.
My guess is you do these two missions and then if you've bought the DLC, you get her as a recruit after completing them.
So it's barely worth getting if you're not interested in Watch Dogs, which is a shame because it's probably the closest we're getting to a proper modern day Assassins Creed.
Rumours for the next game is a more global jaunt with a lot of mini world maps. Set after the third crusade, it takes place in/on: a Greek island, Ragusa (Sicily?), Vienna, Jeruselem, Normandy, Venice and Constantinople.
I also heard they wanted to make is a GAAS in which case booooooourns.
Also ugh, fine, I guess some people wanted more crusades era stuff. But personally that sounds blegh.
Ah well, I guess eventually they’ll do China and such. I hope if they do try any gaas stuff it fails hard, but then again that won’t stop them trying it over and over
I guess the marketplaces in odyssey and Valhalla must do well
It's going to be brought up as a comparison no matter what they do.
I'd really like to see them tackle some more modern (but not too modern) settings. I loved the idea of the Russian WW1 setting for that Chronicles game.
If they want to do more crusades era stuff, they should do a remake+ of Assassin's Creed 1, staring Altair. Not just a 1:1 remake with better graphics. I want Remake Plus. Expand the world map. Add more content. Improve the combat to something more akin to the modern games. Improve the parkour. Add a ton of side assassinations. Give us more weapons, armor, and things to collect and improve our character. Add more side characters and flesh out that world.
If anything, HZD was a better AC-like, and that had like 0-verticality (not like modern AC games have any either)
In the recent AC games I don’t find it fun at all so I build for bows and just sit on a high place Predator Shotting everyone.
I dunno, you can do exactly this as well, and with the right charms get back 2 arrows for every headshot. It gets kind of ridiculous.
But honestly, unless it picks up later, I'm not exactly feeling the stealth game in GoT. It can sometimes be incredibly tricky to actually climb onto buildings and get the high ground, but I can see that being offset by how powerful the high ground is. But... right now I'm completely incentivized to charge in the front gate, easily wipe out 5 enemies in a quick QTE, which potentially terrifies more enemies. And then slaughter the rest of the camp in melee combat. Maybe later on this will be incredibly stupid? Right now it's going pretty well.
It should be noted though that while the game lets you choose how to play, mixing it up is absolutely how they want you to play and you’re still not being detected.
Doing a successful stand-off at the front gate usually doesn’t alert the rest of the guards because everyone is dead, drop into stealth to pick off enemies, ranged to take out archers, smoke to get away when you’re detected or to chain assassinate a group, then plough into the camp boss with full adrenaline bar as enemies cower around you.
The mechanics of the enemy AI rewards you for being a scary as shit assassin.
The only time you end up swamped by enemies is you either wanted to, or you fucked up.
But climbing is like, half of the point of AC's gameplay loop (even if the latest games don't really have it). The other half is the social stealth....which the new games also don't have.
Yup.
I don't know if I'll ever play another AC game. Ubisoft finally burnt me out on AC (and probably Far Cry).
Edit: Oh, and I don't even think I understood the ending... need to look at the wiki.
I didn't know it'd be the last AC game I'd ever play when I bought it, but it looks like it will be unless Ubisoft drop their NFT plans which offend me on a fundamental level.
I definitely forgot/missed a bunch of this Isu stuff from older games. Who even follows that stuff.
I half wonder if you play the game like an hour a day or something around that much the game is much less offensive. I had a friend who was nursing the game for a full year and loved it. I tried to get it done in about a week and it just wore thin.
There is absolutely a burnout potential on those games, especially if you play them like a job.
Yeah I have a problem playing more than a couple games at once. I noticed that if moved to another game then I had like 40 games where I'm 80% complete lol. So I have a rule of 3 or 4 games going on at once. So when I started AC I had to finish it to move on to my other PS5 games.
That's why I couldn't get into it when it first came out. I had accelerated my playthrough to be ready for literally the night Valhalla released, but then the map was broken (opals you collected would remain on the map even though there was nothing to loot) and they took an extremely long time to fix that. I more or less completely lost interest in the game in that time, but it triggered my OCD so badly I just couldn't get through it.
It's to help them get away from their entire business model depending on enormous sales of single games costing 100's of millions of dollars to produce, presumably. It's risky AF and the price of games is not inflating at the same rate of cost of development.
Male Eivor was definitely the way to go in this one.
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