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Assassin's Creed Shadows hits 2 million players, putting it on track to be the series' most successful game yet (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Ever AC since black flag was terrible in my opinion, with the exception of Valhalla, which was a shit AC, but a damn fun brawler. So I don't put a lot of faith into this one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Valhalla was shit too. Raiding a place? Couldn't even kill innocents. Didn't they do any research into vikings? They struck gold with black flag, the rest was all shit and massive bug simulators.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Valhalla combat was very fun. Raiding a place with your viking troop did feel really good.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Such a basic ass response and let's be honest, black flag? It's not that great, it was just a cool pirate fantasy, shite AC game. AC origins, mirage and unity were infinitely better than black flag as ac games

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, Unity, the one which was literally unplayable due to all the bugs. I received a free Far Cry game because they were so sorry it was so shit. Origins was ok, except for the bugs, but missed the ships aspect which black flag had and riding through the desert took waaaay to long. Travel times increased with the bigger maps but not the content value. They just add more collectibles, making the games terribly tedious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah bud, you just wanted a pirate game, you don't know what assassin's creed even is, granted the Devs don't either half the time, but I doubt you do. Played every single one since the beginning of the franchise and ac4 was a fun pirate game, not a good AC game, unity and origins are decent to great AC games because they embody what it is. Sure there WERE bugs at launch which has nothing to do with the argument whatsoever of what makes a good AC game. You ac4 and Valhalla dorks are what's enshitifying the franchise

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Oh yeah, should've said that. AC wasn't a good AC, but a great game, unlike everything that followed it except valhalla.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I got excited after hearing how much people love this one, I usually play every ~5 or so they release and just pick out the best, but sadly the performance was so bad I had to refund it. I have a bit better than the minimum specs on steam (and the minimum specs are a ryzen 5 and gtx 1070, shouldn't this be the standard target?) and ran everything at low, 1080p, and couldn't get past 15fps.

There are better looking games from ~5-10 years ago I can run at 1440p or even 4k 60fps on high settings, I wish game studios would stop trying to go for the most intensive possible graphics effects with how diminished the returns are for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are you running, I was playing this on my steam deck and it looked really good with a solid 30 fps. I have a B580 in my main pc and have been bumping settings up from medium to a mix of medium high with ambient and specular RT on and I'm still getting 75fps without framegen or upscaling at 1080p. Xess and FG hits 120+. Not bad for a £250 card.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I also play on SteamDeck but it isn’t constant 30 fps at all. Still completely playable without question but I get a lot of drops down to 20 fps as stuff loads in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you playing from an SD card? I get a couple of little drops but no extended issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yes from a class 10 micro sd card (64 GB model, which is painfully limiting due to shader caches having to be on the ssd)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

players, not sales. big difference

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Mac users are excited too, it came out day one.

Ubisoft themselves admit it didn’t get the optimization work it needs tho, and that they plan to do further updates.

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