Luipadre
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The OLED is on its way!
I already thought the game looked damn near photorealistic with the Pro and a nice LED
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Assassin's Creed Shadows 💮|OT|💮 Play Stealthy for Me |づ ╸ . •́ )ﾒ
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Reizo Ryuu
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If you go to https://account.ubisoft.com/en-GB/transactions-history do you see the ubi+ payment?
If you don't see it check your receipt, you might be logging in to a different account.
If you do see it, scroll down on https://account.ubisoft.com/en-GB/account-information to see if your proper xbox account is linked.
Mattdaddy
Gold Member
Its still got that open world Ubi bloat for sure. But honestly I think its been reigned in a little bit compared to Valhalla or Odyssey.
I enjoyed Valhalla overall but holy shit, that was bloat critical mass. By the end it was just an absolute slog to get through, my gamer OCD was in overdrive trying to get through it.
This one has the same stuff, but feels like much less of it so far. Feels like I can more casually trot my horse along from A to B without getting just overly assaulted with side bloat.
But yeah there is still some of that same repetitive. "Clear this keep, get the treasure box." Rinse and repeat 4 times per region.
T4keD0wN
Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Unlocking Level 41 quests when I'm at Level 26.
Gonna give it a go, it should be fine ... right?
Gonna give it a go, it should be fine ... right?
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
You know what. This game is fucking bad ass. I'm really getting into it.
Even if I get 10 to 15 hours of solid gameplay I'll be happy.
Games gorgeous. Infiltrating Osaka and taking my time planning all the samurai assassinations and then getting legendary gear 5 hours into the game and not doing story stuff.
This is the best ac for me since black flag.
Games great so far.
Even if I get 10 to 15 hours of solid gameplay I'll be happy.
Games gorgeous. Infiltrating Osaka and taking my time planning all the samurai assassinations and then getting legendary gear 5 hours into the game and not doing story stuff.
This is the best ac for me since black flag.
Games great so far.
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yamaci17
Member
of course
because.. naoe is dope
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Reizo Ryuu
Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Editors note. It was not fine. One hit kills from enemies with skulls on their health bars.
bender
What time is it?
Reizo Ryuu
Member
Just got Yasuke.
Great intro; night, rain and great music
Yep, his re introduction scene was fire. The resolve between him and naoe was nice too. The skillup review video mentioned this in a negative way, but I thought it was fine and enough.
Indeed it is ridiculous, because he doesn't need it at all lol.
The seasonal changes and multiple sub-changes per season is some truly next-gen shit.
Never seen anything like it.
Unbelievable accomplishment.
This is the main reason I can't stop playing this game. Even my inner GoT fanboy can't deny this awesomeness. I'm really curious what yotei will bring to the table and if they can't up their weather effects to this level at least I will be instantly disappointed.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
You get access to the kick for all weapons. Plus this awesome move:The only reason to use yasuke for me are his heavy looking hits, so only kanabo for me
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Finished act 1 and unlocked my man, Yasuke. Cleared Nijo Castle in Osaka with him and it was such a breeze. He's basically a T800 who demolishes everything it comes his way lol.
Also, he's a bit cheeky with them winks, lol.
Also, he's a bit cheeky with them winks, lol.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Oh, and like I said yesterday, I can't seem to stop taking pictures in this game, lol.
These pics were taken on console... I can't imagine how good they might look on a high end PC with every setting in the game cranked up to max.
These pics were taken on console... I can't imagine how good they might look on a high end PC with every setting in the game cranked up to max.
Danteyke223
Member
I`ll be buying this game this year just cause of these tweets of them dunking on Grummz
TheTurboFD
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Get this Elon cuck out of my industry. Fake gamer doesnt even play video games.
Ashamam
Member
Actually calling him on his bullshit is necessary lest it become normalised.
TheChadOfGaming
Member
damn ubisoft paying a terrorist supporter to play their game, sad
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
The game has already gotten tedious for me and I haven't even gotten out of the first region. It's more AC's formula in general than this game specifically. The problem with AC games is having an open world is cool... but when all the interesting areas to explore or all the quest destinations are in danger zones, it's so fucking tedious. Sometimes I just want to casually walk around and explore without having to be in stealth or combat mode all the fucking time. And it gets so tedious after a while. I go into a danger zone and it's like ok I either have to take my time and go veeeeery slooooooowly through this area and very carefully, which hurts the pacing. Or I have to fight through everyone. And it's like goddammit man I just for once want to be able to explore without being nagged by enemies all the damn time.
I know that's what AC games are, but when you make the games open world you're encouraging exploration. But they made exploration as tedious as possible by making it essentially inseparable from having to clear the areas out or go through them very carefully which takes the fun out of the exploration.
Same thing here as in all AC games. I start off enjoying it and get burned out by hour 10 because I'm so sick of having to either fight a million guys, sneak around all the damn time and just end up losing patience and just run away from enemies and get sick of being chased everywhere I go.
I know that's what AC games are, but when you make the games open world you're encouraging exploration. But they made exploration as tedious as possible by making it essentially inseparable from having to clear the areas out or go through them very carefully which takes the fun out of the exploration.
Same thing here as in all AC games. I start off enjoying it and get burned out by hour 10 because I'm so sick of having to either fight a million guys, sneak around all the damn time and just end up losing patience and just run away from enemies and get sick of being chased everywhere I go.
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yamaci17
Member
I hope max settings mean something because I'm playing at 25-36 FPS because of them
Digital Foundry PC review cannot come soon enough
MMaRsu
Gold Member
Did you check optimized settings guide?
Gripsx
Member
They are COOKING
yamaci17
Member
yes but I cannot be sure
almost all optimized settings videos on this game tell you to turn off ray traced reflections but I personally find great value in it
alex (digital foundry) would probably say it is worth to enable (my guess)
alex's optimized settings often prefers higher fidelity which I really like
MMaRsu
Gold Member
I kept rt diffuse+spec
This video shows you the settings impact %
Very useful
I turned down water and shadows to low btw can hardly see the difference but makes fps a lot higher
So I didnt use his optimized settings either because rt makes a nice difference but some options can be turned down easily
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Killer8
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Got the game tonight and played about 3 hours.
I'll get it out the way that I don't have special feelings for the Assassins Creed franchise. I don't love them but I also don't hate them. I can count on one hand the number of games i've played and Origins was probably my favourite so far just because I love Egypt. I usually buy them if the setting interests me and i'm a sucker for Japan, so this was bound to lure me in. It's easily the most beautiful interpretation of the setting in a game to date (sorry Ghost of Tsushima). Playing on PS5 Pro in quality mode, I don't think any other game's visuals touch it on a technical level. The fact that this is a massive open world, yet just a random little shrine off the beaten path can look more holy shit than anything in a linear 10 hours long game, is just wild to me.
I had some trouble getting the HDR to look good due to the raised black levels (believe me, googling "Assassins Creed Shadows raised blacks issue" is a fucking task given the controversies). If anyone has an LG OLED, i'll save you some time: leave the in-game gamma setting at default, set in-game peak brightness at match your TV's (my C1 was 800), set TV HDR mode to HGiG, lower TV brightness to around 47, and adjust the Fine Tune Dark Areas setting to -3. Washed out shadows gone.
In terms of gameplay, combat is serviceable enough. It's difficult for me to be impressed as i'm on the last part of Rise of the Ronin, so i've been spoiled by 55 hours of Team Ninja's genre expertise. But it's also not a bad effort from a Western studio, and baby's first parry system is massively preferable to trying to be clever like Kingdom Come Deliverance, which ended up as a complete abortion. Where Shadows really shines is the stealth, and i'm guessing that is why Naoe feels like the unofficial main character of the two protagonists. Again, it's not reaching the highs of genre kings like Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory or Metal Gear Solid V by any means, but in combination with the setting this is as close to a new Tenchu game as we can possibly get. I think I spent a good chunk of my 3 hours just fucking about trying to beat that first castle. The sandbox of it wasn't even that interesting, and I barely had any abilities beyond assassination kills and kunai, but the stealth difficulty on normal mode feels very well tuned. You can't just one shot everyone and call it a day. I really had to chip away with hit-and-run tactics to beat that level, which was honestly pretty thrilling at times. Naoe's weakness really forces you to stay concealed and works as a great contrast to Yasuke, who in the 10 minutes I played of him felt like a walking tank. He can literally burst through doors like the fucking Kool-Aid man, it's wild.
The emotional impact of Naoe's story is also unexpectedly solid. I'm not the biggest fan of the way it's time jumping so much, and once again the Animus can fuck off when it sucks me out of the experience, but it's looking like it's finally settling down now that i've been let out into the open world. I also strongly advise that everyone plays in immersive mode as the Japanese voice acting is excellent, really selling the whole setting and also eliminates the poor voiceover criticism. I've gone with canon mode too to get the story experience the developers want me to have, and because I really think it works better. Just let the cutscenes play out as intended, like a movie, rather than stopping awkwardly every two minutes for the player to pick silly dialogue choices. Worth also mentioning some really inspired musical choices - it's not all generic orchestras, flutes and shamisens. The spaghetti western style music that accompanied the bad guys reveal gave me sort of Kill Bill vibes, which fits the revenge story of the game.
Overall, unbelievably surprisingly good game.
I'll get it out the way that I don't have special feelings for the Assassins Creed franchise. I don't love them but I also don't hate them. I can count on one hand the number of games i've played and Origins was probably my favourite so far just because I love Egypt. I usually buy them if the setting interests me and i'm a sucker for Japan, so this was bound to lure me in. It's easily the most beautiful interpretation of the setting in a game to date (sorry Ghost of Tsushima). Playing on PS5 Pro in quality mode, I don't think any other game's visuals touch it on a technical level. The fact that this is a massive open world, yet just a random little shrine off the beaten path can look more holy shit than anything in a linear 10 hours long game, is just wild to me.
I had some trouble getting the HDR to look good due to the raised black levels (believe me, googling "Assassins Creed Shadows raised blacks issue" is a fucking task given the controversies). If anyone has an LG OLED, i'll save you some time: leave the in-game gamma setting at default, set in-game peak brightness at match your TV's (my C1 was 800), set TV HDR mode to HGiG, lower TV brightness to around 47, and adjust the Fine Tune Dark Areas setting to -3. Washed out shadows gone.
In terms of gameplay, combat is serviceable enough. It's difficult for me to be impressed as i'm on the last part of Rise of the Ronin, so i've been spoiled by 55 hours of Team Ninja's genre expertise. But it's also not a bad effort from a Western studio, and baby's first parry system is massively preferable to trying to be clever like Kingdom Come Deliverance, which ended up as a complete abortion. Where Shadows really shines is the stealth, and i'm guessing that is why Naoe feels like the unofficial main character of the two protagonists. Again, it's not reaching the highs of genre kings like Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory or Metal Gear Solid V by any means, but in combination with the setting this is as close to a new Tenchu game as we can possibly get. I think I spent a good chunk of my 3 hours just fucking about trying to beat that first castle. The sandbox of it wasn't even that interesting, and I barely had any abilities beyond assassination kills and kunai, but the stealth difficulty on normal mode feels very well tuned. You can't just one shot everyone and call it a day. I really had to chip away with hit-and-run tactics to beat that level, which was honestly pretty thrilling at times. Naoe's weakness really forces you to stay concealed and works as a great contrast to Yasuke, who in the 10 minutes I played of him felt like a walking tank. He can literally burst through doors like the fucking Kool-Aid man, it's wild.
The emotional impact of Naoe's story is also unexpectedly solid. I'm not the biggest fan of the way it's time jumping so much, and once again the Animus can fuck off when it sucks me out of the experience, but it's looking like it's finally settling down now that i've been let out into the open world. I also strongly advise that everyone plays in immersive mode as the Japanese voice acting is excellent, really selling the whole setting and also eliminates the poor voiceover criticism. I've gone with canon mode too to get the story experience the developers want me to have, and because I really think it works better. Just let the cutscenes play out as intended, like a movie, rather than stopping awkwardly every two minutes for the player to pick silly dialogue choices. Worth also mentioning some really inspired musical choices - it's not all generic orchestras, flutes and shamisens. The spaghetti western style music that accompanied the bad guys reveal gave me sort of Kill Bill vibes, which fits the revenge story of the game.
Overall, unbelievably surprisingly good game.
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MMaRsu
Gold Member
Put stealth on expert difficulty and put guaranteed assassinations on in the gameplay > difficulty tuning menu. It makes for an EVEN more saitisfying stealth experience. Trust me.
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yamaci17
Member
thanks I will look into it tomorrow
yamaci17
Member
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Great post. Laughed at the abortion comment because thats exactly what that combat system is.
I actually am very surprised by the castles. They are huge compared to previous games which were mostly small far cry like outposts. These feel like mini cities. They all feel like their own mini MGS Ground Zeroes like maps. Hunting down Samurais instead of simply killing everyone is a great idea because you are encouraged to think outside the box. It also helps you finish these massive castles in 10-15 minutes instead of an hour where it might old.
Thanks for the HDR settings. I will try fine tuning the dark areas but on my CX that means turning off VRR. Oh well.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Killer8
Member
Ground Zeroes was exactly the sort of feeling I was getting too.
Personally i'm playing in quality mode which on PS5 Pro is only 30fps so I have no use for VRR myself.
I used this video for the HDR settings:
Some of the comments are useful, this was close to what I did:
The 47 number would just be the general TV brightness setting on my C1, I dropped it from 50 to 47 and it made a big difference.
On PC there are now some mods out for it too:
RenoDX - HDR Fix for Assassin's Creed Shadows
Partial rewrite of the game's DX12 graphics pipeline to fix issues in tonemapping and the appearance of UI in HDR
www.nexusmods.com
Topher
Identifies as young
I am so far behind everyone else. Just got to level 13. Definitely prefering playing as Naoe over Yasuke. He is big and powerful, but just not the playstyle I want in an AC game. Really wish Naoe had the bow though. I'll need to beef up the tools section.
Also, why is it that dual assassination isn't working for me? I have the perk. I stand over two guys right next to each other and I only get the option to assasinate one of them? Did they change this up?
Also, why is it that dual assassination isn't working for me? I have the perk. I stand over two guys right next to each other and I only get the option to assasinate one of them? Did they change this up?
yamaci17
Member
u need tanto equipped
Reizo Ryuu
Member
41 hours in and I finally get my first ally lol.
Topher
Identifies as young
Ah.....thank you.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Probably done with this one. Got 30 hours in and enjoyed every bit of it.
At the point where I want to advance story but it's very long in the tooth and cumbersome. I don't want to do 5-10 whole ass missions that take a long while to do just to finally make it to a target mission. Still have like 7 or 8 main people to off? Yeah no I'm good.
They really needed to focus these missions for people who just want to see the story. I did odyssey and that was enough long in the tooth AC for me.
At the point where I want to advance story but it's very long in the tooth and cumbersome. I don't want to do 5-10 whole ass missions that take a long while to do just to finally make it to a target mission. Still have like 7 or 8 main people to off? Yeah no I'm good.
They really needed to focus these missions for people who just want to see the story. I did odyssey and that was enough long in the tooth AC for me.
Reizo Ryuu
Member
KyoZz
Tag, you're it.
After 15 hours, it's ok. The game is totally caried by it's world as the story is boring and cliché as it can get. Infiltration is ok but nothing new or mind blowing, it's serviceable. RPGs elements are useless, they waste so much time and ressources on this just let this aspect die please. Overall a 6/10 game for now.
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Reizo Ryuu
Member
Alright I thought I was going crazy, but it seems the patch actually introduced a bug, every time I interact with something there's a stutter now, and people on reddit are saying the same:
It's very annoying and makes me almost not want to play anymore, I'll guess I'll go do something else and see if it gets fixed soon.
It's very annoying and makes me almost not want to play anymore, I'll guess I'll go do something else and see if it gets fixed soon.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Can't say I've noticed that on console.
But looks like the patch didn't fix the persistent issue I'm having where I'm not able to change equipment in a some scenarios (not while in combat mind you, just running around the world) , the one place that I can always reliably change equipment is on the horse, for some reason.
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