playing at Lethal difficulty really does encourage stealth gameplay though. I consider that difficulty canon tbh. Parry timings are so narrow they're essentially impossible to repeatedly pull off, and only one or two mistakes is enough to kill you. Mix that with the thirty strong camps, and suddenly the Ghost tools are absolutely essential
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for youThose are just artificial ways to make stealth more challenging, though. Doing something as simple as giving guards actual long-range and peripheral vision and sharp hearing would be a much more realistic way to create more realistic stealth, but I don't think most players would like that.
I think the harsh truth is that realistic stealth just isn't all that fun.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesJust saw a video pointing out that the game's new release date, 20th of March, is the same as the date of the Tokyo subway terrorist attack
. To put it nicely: Well, this is awkward...
As a heads-up, and I've had this problem before, but that avatar signature is stretching the entire page.
Anyway, AC stealth is... I at least don't remember having a lot of issues with it, but I feel like it was very formulaic. I never expected a whole lot out of it. But, that was back in the AC 2 days and enemy AI wasn't "there" yet anyway.
Edited by FOFD on Jan 11th 2025 at 12:17:32 PM
It's clearly not a problem considering Japanese studios who have themselves released games on that date. (Heck, on more google search, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released worldwide march 20, 2020. I guess Nintendo is just disrespectful of Japan this way).
Like, this is performative outrage.
There's plenty of actual stuff Ubisoft does one can get offended at, there's no need for this.
Nintendo is releasing Xenoblade X on March 20, a game which opens with the on-screen annihilation of the Earth, features the limited population of one city as the sole remaining population of humanity, and features multiple instances of terrorism throughout the game.
Shadows releasing on the same day is not a controversy. Go back far enough and literally every day of the year will have some tragedy or atrocity associated with it. Most countries do not venerate the qnniversaries of terrorism like the US does 9/11, and 9/11 was worse than the Tokyo subway attack by entire orders of magnitude (and I want to be clear that I am in now way trying to diminish or dismiss the suffering of the victims of the saren attack and their families).
This really feels like people looking for a reason to hate on Shadows for the sole purpose of hating on Shadows.
PSN ID: FateSeraph | Switch friendcode: SW-0145-8835-0610 Congratulations! She/TheyI was listening to a gaming podcast, and apparently the predictions are that Ubisoft won't last much longer than this year, and will likely be bought up soon. They are apparently not doing well.
One reason seems to be that the live service model was a disaster. When a normal game flops, there is at least some financial recovery from sales, but when a game is free, like with a live service, and the game flops, there is no income whatsoever.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesUbisoft's pretty dire and Tencent is circling around.
There's also rumors the Guillermots want to rebuy most of the company (And some more conspiracy saying they've purposefully mismanaged it to lower the stock price and make this easier, which would be turbo illegal).
I don't think Ubisoft is in "About to vanish" level, but I'd not be surprised if it got bought before the end of the year, or had a major shakeup in its ownership. 2023 and 2024 has been kind of a disaster, with only Mirage being a major financial success.
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Not sure if you were responding to me or just generally but in at least my case I was saying that the release date thing is more funny than anything to be outraged about. The only reason there's any noise at all is because Ubisoft has been making so many mistakes with Assassin's Creed Shadows that something that should be purely benign just comes off as another in a string of failures that has plagued the company.
if ubisoft is counting on the sales of Ass Creed Shadow to save them perhaps the kindest thing to do is let it die
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for youMortismal Gaming has a video with some thoughts about the game:
He mentions the difference between the two main characters, the Wanted system (with the change of seasons clearing any bounties the characters have on them, though he doesn't know the details of how that works), and a few other things, such as the scouts system.
Skill Up has a video as well:
He too mentions the difference between the two characters, with him finding Yasuke too limited (due to more limited parkour and stealth options, such as only having brutal assassinations) while Naoe was more fun. Oddly enough he seems to have not encountered the Wanted system Mortismal mentioned. Shortly after the 13:00 mark of his video he brings up the lack of responsiveness when he started murdering random people in cold blood, so either he did not encounter the Wanted system, did not notice it, or encountered some sort of bug with it. Or maybe the Wanted system is only for particular areas of the world, no idea.
Other things he mentioned: the Scouts system (seems like he wasn't a fan of it), and the story and writing (he found the characters lifeless and robotic). He emphasized that this is all based on just five hours of the game and the final product could be better.
Luke Stephens also has a video, but it is 74 minutes long, so I haven't watched it yet. I'll just quote his own comment:
EDIT: ACG also has a video:
Edited by shadowblack on Jan 23rd 2025 at 12:38:00 PM
Apparently the entire game of Assassin's Creed Shadows got leaked.
This game is cursed.

It's the same as police systems like in GTA, really. You either have police that are ridiculously easy to lose once you break line of sight, or police who seem to be drawn to your location no matter how well you hide.
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