Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

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you just spend way too much time in canada in rogue and its even more boring in game than in real life

whereas you get to hang out with hookers and pirates in the Caribbean in black flag
 
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spronk said:
you just spend way too much time in canada in rogue and its even more boring in game than in real life

whereas you get to hang out with hookers and pirates in the Caribbean in black flag
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Sounds like not in the new PC version though
 
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spronk said:
you just spend way too much time in canada in rogue and its even more boring in game than in real life

whereas you get to hang out with hookers and pirates in the Caribbean in black flag
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Yes but my counter to that is the story. So great to see the Assassins collapse due to hubris by causing the EQ in Portugal.

And killing them

Sheay is awesome too
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May the father of understanding guide us “
 
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So Resync came out today. The Steam reviews are epic so far. Sounds like Ubisoft wants to go out with a bang. This was SUCH an easy win it baffles me how they are so out of touch with gamers in all aspects. Fucking just die already.

Have I bought DLC? No. Do you want to buy DLC? No. Do you want to buy DLC? NO!!! Menus are a cash grab for Assassins Creed Shadows... "Launch Shadows to see stats for item"... SERIOUSLY???
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The game contains quite a lot of bugs.
- Fail to render NPCS.
- Cannot load into cut scenes so press ESC to menu then back.
- Some times jumping from building to building or running to fast the game freezes to load in. (Might be my PC specs but doubt) so possible Rendering terrain problems.
I haven't found many more bugs than that but I hope they do a huge debugging.
I could be playable but not right now.
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This game is a broken mess. Textures don't always load, character don't spawn which then make the game unplayable. Pressing prompts don't always work. Terrible way to remake an amazing game.
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Bought the Deluxe Edition for £59.99 to have £76 of extra DLC advertised to me at launch. No thanks.

Remaster looks beautiful, but the audio has been heavily compressed so there's no dynamic range, everything is one harsh volume level. As a result, every character sounds like they're on a podcast. After recently replaying the original game, its unbearable to listen to.

Refund requested. Play the original instead until this goes on sale.
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I really wanted to like this. Black Flag is one of my favourite Assassin’s Creed games, so I definitely went into this with a lot of nostalgia. And to be fair, the game looks beautiful. The ocean, lighting and atmosphere are all genuinely impressive, maybe even a little too polished at times.

But after playing for a bit, I started asking myself what I actually paid for. The price is already hard to justify, and then you get DLC, microtransactions, editions and all the usual modern Ubisoft stuff on top of it. Add Denuvo to a single-player game as well, and it just leaves a bad taste. I bought this because I wanted to enjoy Black Flag again, not because I wanted to be reminded of everything people dislike about Ubisoft in 2026.

Maybe I was blinded by nostalgia, because "Black Flag but prettier" sounded like an easy win. But for this price, I just can’t justify keeping it, especially when the original game still exists.

There is still a great game underneath because Black Flag was already great. But as a full-price launch package, this feels way too greedy.

Refunding it, sadly.

Maybe worth it later on a big sale, but not right now.
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Well, as soon as the game became available, I was excited - until I saw the pile of DLCs. At first I thought, “Okay, it’s probably just cosmetics, whatever.” But after looking more carefully at each DLC, you realize that some of it is actually small pieces of gameplay: exactly the kind of rare items or mechanics you used to hunt for back when the game first came out.

I’ve honestly never had such a strong urge to refund a game and pirate it instead. Ubisoft really outdid themselves here. With a move like this, I feel like a lot of people are going to do exactly what I’m tempted to do right now.
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So my question is: what the hell is the point of forcing people to connect a separate Ubisoft account to a game they already bought on Steam, when you can’t even make your own launcher, registration system, or login process work properly? Why is this done so badly that people can’t even simply start the game they paid for? You’re not just making the experience worse - you’re making even the most basic act of launching the game unnecessarily complicated.
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Buy the premium edition and well.... Pony up!

Unable to start the game due to Ubisoft Connect. Also $80 worth of cosmetics already not included in premium edition.
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What a fucking hilarious fuck up (again)

They really have an item that says you cannot see the stats unless you own Shadows :p :p Who the hell dreamed up that one :p
 
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They got laid off an hour after the game launched.

I am guessing they are going to shit out whatever it is they have in the hopper and then they will pretty much be fucked.
 
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Some of the character packs (almost all) have unique gameplay advantages.
 
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just $85 worth of gameplay-affecting DLC on day 1, neat
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Yeah there is even more in the in game store - including their "Let's nerf XP gains into the ground so you will need to buy this character XP pack to get back to how we designed progression" crap they have been pulling for years.
 
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Also if you can't stay away anyway, just subscribe to Ubi+ for a month for 17 bucks and play it for a month and cancel. Zero need to spend 60 bucks.
 
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I’ll wait for the Resynced Replugged edition that has all that shit for 19.99 next year.
 
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I enjoyed the fuck out of Black Flag the first go around, so I was eyeing this like a junky two days out of rehab staring at a crack pipe.

I know I shouldn't because fuck Ubisoft, but I do love me some pirates.

However I recently played quite a bit of Windrose which curbs the urge. Kind of like methadone.
 
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Gutterflesh said:
I enjoyed the fuck out of Black Flag the first go around, so I was eyeing this like a junky two days out of rehab staring at a crack pipe.

I know I shouldn't because fuck Ubisoft, but I do love me some pirates.

However I recently played quite a bit of Windrose which curbs the urge. Kind of like methadone.
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just play the original again you retard
 
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It does look REALLY good graphically. Especially compared to the original ps4 version. But graphics aren’t usually the problem with Ubisoft.
 
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