Assassin's Creed Ashraf Ismail was fired from Ubisoft |
- Ashraf Ismail was fired from Ubisoft
- Why can’t we use hidden blades as weapons anymore?
- I just finished the Ezio trilogy for the first time
- Another (!) new report about toxicity and sexual abuse at Ubisoft from Gamasutra. Includes comments about Marc-Alexis-Cote and( Creative Director of Syndicate) and Jonathan Dumont (Creative Cirector of Odyssey)
- Harpooning in AC4 is genuinly terrifying
- Assassin's creed odyssey should have told the story of the origins of the order of ancients/templars.
- A Cool Experience Playing Unity
- We live to fight another day! My Eivor cosplay from AC Valhalla. I hope you are same hyped as me on Eivor. Photo by omachiab IG Cosplay silvercos IG
- Stupid question, did Odyssey always have the visible breath when in the cold or is that new?
- I just realized I had a major Mandela Effect moment with AC IV
- I finally played the Odyssey DLC and I take back everything bad I've ever said about current AC storyline.
- NG+ In the Ezio Collection
- Another picture from my OC photoshoot ^-^
- Do you think their will be gods/isu in Valhalla (spoilers for Fate of Atlantis)
- Challenge Runs for Black Flag
- I don’t need sleep I need answers on the potentially biggest Assassins Creed plot hole.
- [Odyssey] Northern Traveler Set and the Dane Axe have been released for free via Ubisoft Club
- Are health bars a part of the animus or just classic video game stuff?
- My logo concept for possibly AC Japan Game
- What's everyone's favorite lesser-known track from any game? Like beside Ezio's family
- [Spoilers] The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire: - Common Setting Discussions
- What is the beast heavy blade in Origins? (No DLC)
- How The Hell Do You Defeat That Last Legendary Ship In Rogue?
- Question about AC Odyssey (ending and dlc spoiler)
| Ashraf Ismail was fired from Ubisoft Posted: 14 Aug 2020 06:06 AM PDT
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| Why can’t we use hidden blades as weapons anymore? Posted: 14 Aug 2020 06:20 PM PDT Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe AC Rogue was the last game this feature was in. Why can't we equip and fight with our hidden blades in newer games? It sucks. Some of my favorite times were playing as ezio and Edward and countering with the hidden blades and assasinating mid-combat. Idk why we can't do this anymore, it doesn't seem like it would be too hard to code [link] [comments] | ||
| I just finished the Ezio trilogy for the first time Posted: 14 Aug 2020 02:00 PM PDT feel like I lost a friend. I guess it's because you watch Ezio grow up? Did not expect to get this emotional. Also watched Embers and cried. I wish these games were longer. Now off to AC3. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2020 08:28 AM PDT This one is largely about the Quebec studio and is a pretty lengthy article. It comes after Ashraf's firing, so it just came out. At this point every single creative director that had something to do with AC has turned out to be a bag of dicks, except for Patrice Desilets and Jean Guesdon. So far. Edit: Goddamn sorry for fucking up the thread title like that. [link] [comments] | ||
| Harpooning in AC4 is genuinly terrifying Posted: 14 Aug 2020 10:59 PM PDT Idk what it is. I'd like to say I don't scare easily but who knows really. However, I felt myself genuinely scared, more than any horror game, when harpooning. Does anyone else feel this way? The first time the great white jumped up I fell out of my seat I got so surprised [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2020 07:40 PM PDT It would have fit so well as a trilogy if we're calling these 3 games that. Origins was the origins of the brotherhood oddysey was the origins of the templars and valhalla was the transitional period for both of them. And the Peloponnesian war actually would fit pretty decently into the conflict, it was buried between nationalism and bloodshed but there was a pretty decent conflict of order or chaos. Just imagine a game that starred kasandra like the devs wanted and fit around her realizing the needs of order and structure, maybe a Alexios dies halfway through by outlaws and she than uses the spear of Leonidas matched with some Atlantis miguffin to "put all of mankind in their structured place" [link] [comments] | ||
| A Cool Experience Playing Unity Posted: 14 Aug 2020 10:47 PM PDT I just played the sequence 9 mission where you have to assassinate Marie Levesque. The atmosphere in this game is just breathtaking, the best in the series. I really like how the beginning of the mission shows you different opportunities for optional objectives. I freed these prisoners, like 10 of them, and then they helped me get rid of like 20 guards. I then ran through the palace, dispatching any guards I came across until I finally got my target. The Luxembourg Palace is breathtaking, you can basically explore the entire thing and man, the graphics and lighting are amazing. Unity was the pinnacle for graphics in AC. After doing the assassination I escaped, running away on the rooftops. I thought of it as Arno wanting to now go home and get some rest as he's probably tired from that whole mission and it'll be morning soon. I run through the Sorbonne area of the Latin Quarter until I reach the river, I then ran along the buildings overlooking the Seine, the Notre Dame looming ominously and getting bigger and bigger as I pass it. I look to the side and I can see the other Paris landmarks vague outline: the Tuileries Palace, the Hotel de Ville. The fluidity of freerunning makes traversing the rooftops look cool and fun. I keep sprinting adjacent to the river until I reach the poor Bievre district, the area has a less developed and dirty atmosphere to it. I got to get out of here fast, lots of enemy guards here. I then cross the bridge into the posh Ile Saint Louis district. I hop the rooftops until I reach home, the Cafe Theatre. I go in and collect my money, go to the kitchen where Arno warms his hands over the fire, pass by the different people who work in the building like the architect, the cook, the trainer and then head upstairs. The whole building has such great detail and has me wanting to live there myself, haha. I'd say Paris was the best city they have done, the variety of districts, huge and explorable (on the inside) landmarks, the extreme detail, crowd density and multitude of freerunning oppurtunities seal the deal. They really did a wonderful job of creating an immersive city and great atmosphere. Some of the games in AC did a great job of pulling me into the world, making me fully immersed and wanting to know more about the time period, namely in AC2, AC4 and Odyssey. I feel they really should try to go for an immersive experience in their games because thats when AC really shines. And lastly, a small but probably one of the best details in this game is the option to hold R3 to get rid of the HUD, it really allows you to soak in the environment. [link] [comments] | ||
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| Stupid question, did Odyssey always have the visible breath when in the cold or is that new? Posted: 14 Aug 2020 04:18 PM PDT The only place you can see it is on top of those snowy mountains. I dont remember it [link] [comments] | ||
| I just realized I had a major Mandela Effect moment with AC IV Posted: 14 Aug 2020 11:36 PM PDT (spoilers if you care about spoilers for a 7 year old game) I just finished replaying Black Flag for second time since I first played it close to release some years ago. I could have sworn I remembered Stede Bonnet being skewered on a boat or somewhere during a mission, but his death was never actually touched upon in a cutscene, other than his ghost. It's crazy how vivid I remembered his death too. Must have melted his death together with Blackbeard's death scene. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2020 03:58 AM PDT After AC3, I thought the story went to crap and the gameplay got better and better with each game. I finally reached a level of acceptance that the awesome AC stories were at an end and I felt, for the most part, the same after the main campaign of Odyssey. After playing the DLC I feel way differently. That was so awesome and I cannot wait to see what they have in store for us in Valhalla. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2020 02:21 PM PDT Does anybody else wish there was NG+ in games like AC2 or Brotherhood? I really want to replay the game, but my completionist blood will have me collecting 100 feathers for the 4th time to get a cape that gives constant notoriety because it "looks cool". I want to experience the story again without all the sides stuff i've done multiple times already. [link] [comments] | ||
| Another picture from my OC photoshoot ^-^ Posted: 14 Aug 2020 04:34 AM PDT
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| Do you think their will be gods/isu in Valhalla (spoilers for Fate of Atlantis) Posted: 14 Aug 2020 02:41 PM PDT In Fate of Atlantis DLC for Odysssy we see the Greek Gods are members of the Isu precursor race that humans took to be gods. Do you think we will see something along the lines of this for Valhalla with the Nordic gods. I could see it being quite cool. Eivor dies at the end of the second act and is sent to Valhalla where he meets Odin or Thor or maybe the whole games events are set in motion by Loki. Something like that. Maybe it's too similar to God Of War 2018. I think they really missed a beat not putting gods in Origins, Egyptian Mythology is neat. Now that I'm thinking of it, maybe some Arthurian legend could make it in such as Excalibur, Nimue and Merlin [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 14 Aug 2020 07:27 PM PDT Hello So I recently got the rebel collection for switch and have 100 percented both games and the dlc. I want to replay black flag but with a challenge run. For instance I saw someone doing a cover gear only run in order of the series. Does anyone have any ideas for a challenge that could also be fun? [link] [comments] | ||
| I don’t need sleep I need answers on the potentially biggest Assassins Creed plot hole. Posted: 14 Aug 2020 10:53 PM PDT Ok so me and my roommate are watching the AC movie. We were goofing around and made a realization. So the genetic memories of a person' ancestors is passed down from generation to generation. So that means that The genetic memory would end at the point of either conception or birth of the next person in a families lineage. So how tf do we see Altair's life in revelations or Arno's childhood in rogue? This needs to be explained if it's not already and if it is someone please help because this realization has potentially ruined the franchise for me. I was willing to suspend disbelief but not to this degree. Please help. [link] [comments] | ||
| [Odyssey] Northern Traveler Set and the Dane Axe have been released for free via Ubisoft Club Posted: 14 Aug 2020 06:02 AM PDT
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| Are health bars a part of the animus or just classic video game stuff? Posted: 14 Aug 2020 03:58 PM PDT Title explains it all however if health bars are animus related then why would the animus do that? Edit: including enemy health bars [link] [comments] | ||
| My logo concept for possibly AC Japan Game Posted: 14 Aug 2020 07:16 AM PDT
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| What's everyone's favorite lesser-known track from any game? Like beside Ezio's family Posted: 14 Aug 2020 07:11 AM PDT Right now some of my favorites are: Homestead (AC 3) Winds of Cyrene (Origins) The Rogue main theme On the Horizon (AC4) The British Empire (AC4) A Leap of Faith (Unity) Desmond's Destiny (AC 3) [link] [comments] | ||
| [Spoilers] The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire: - Common Setting Discussions Posted: 14 Aug 2020 02:46 AM PDT A common trait Assassin's Creed groups have is the constant theorizing about future settings, because historical tourism is one of the best parts of the series. This series of posts will act as a counter to my Mildly Obscure setting discussions, but rather than looking at a single point, I will be taking a broad setting that is popular and looking at several potential settings to explore within it. Today's setting is the Roman Empire. Augustus The Final War of the Roman Republic saw previous allies (and political rivals) Octavian and Marc Antony square off throughout Greece and Egypt. The result was in 30bce, Marc Antony killed himself and Amunet killed Cleopatra during the Siege of Alexandria with an asp; or Cleopatra poisoned herself… Either way, Cleopatra's son with Caesar, Caesarion became Amunet's prodigy; though in real life Octavian put him to death 3 days later. Perhaps that's still accurate. Within a few years Octavian changed his name to Augustus and despite a show of civility and granting power to the senate, he used his immense wealth to dominate society and slowly force through his own legislation to become the first Emperor of the Roman Empire. Augustus would spend the rest of his life securing power and strengthening the borders by conquering more of Asia Minor and Germania. There's plenty of room for a direct sequel to Bayek and Aya in Rome during this time period. Both would be around 50 or so in 30bce and 16 years later when August died would be the late 60s to early 70s. It's not common but not unheard of for the Ac universe. We can see how they lived if they got back together as suggested by being buried together if they had any other children and the challenges of starting the Hidden Ones in the midst of the rise of Augustus. Caligula Caligula, a nickname earned from Roman Soldiers as a young boy, was the sole male survivor of Augustus' granddaughter Agrippina. He took power in 37ce after the death of Tiberius and despite the first 6 months starting well, turned quickly into a tyrant subjecting people to his sadistic and extravagant tendencies with sexual perversions. Eventually, the senate decided to have him assassinated and Cassius Chaerea, a Roman soldier, stabbed him. In AC, this man was Leonius and used a knife to kill Caligula in an underground corridor beneath Palatine Hill. I feel like this could really work well as a story similar to Cesare and Ezio, where Ezio dismantled Borgia power and influences over the city before killing Cesare. Ezio even compared Caligula to Cesare! Nero Claudius was declared Emperor by the Senate the day Caligula was killed. Nero was the son of Caligula's sister and was later adopted by Claudius. Nero went on to marry his stepsister at 16 years old, and 3 years later in 54ce Claudius died, with many believing Nero's mother poisoned him. Nero's mental condition began deteriorating quickly though. In 55ce he had his brother in law executed. 4 years later he killed his mother. What followed was a massive amount of exiles and banishments. He began putting trusted advisors on trial for treason. In 62ce after the death of his advisor Burrus, Nero divorced his wife and banished her. Due to people's disapproval, Nero proclaimed she had cheated on him and had her executed instead. Just 2 years later he married a man named Pythagoras and took the role of the bride during the wedding ceremony. A few months after the wedding a massive fire broke out in Rome. Historians of the time widely alleged Nero started it with some propaganda from later the Flavian Dynasty and plays saying that Nero sang "the Sack of Ilium" or played a fiddle while watching the fire he started just to build a larger palace. Nero always denied this, saying it was started by Christians. Nero responded by tax increases and massive building projects that were intended to help rebuild Rome and the faltering economy, but instead only made people angrier. In turn, the Governor of Gallia Lugdunensis (France) rose up in rebellion in 68ce. Nero commanded the governor of Germania Superior (Germany) to defend Rome. Gallia Lugdunensis then asked Hispania Terraconensis (Eastern Spain) to join them, and they did, defeating Germania Superior in battle and marching on Rome. Nero, in fear for his life, fled Rome to a villa near Ostia where he planned to sail to Syria. He changed his mind at the last minute instead, deciding to fling himself before the people and beg forgiveness. His first night back in Rome and he found that his guards had all abandoned him. Feeling alone, he rushed into the streets looking for a refuge where a man named Phaon took him to his villa where some companions were. He ordered them to dig a grave for him expecting to commit suicide but was unable to work up the nerve. He then received a notice from an ally that the Senate had declared him an enemy of the state and was to be beaten to death. This was not true, as the current deliberation in the senate was to keep him alive to produce an heir. Fearing the consequences though, Nero forced Epaphroditos to kill him and bled to death as horsemen from the senate reached him. He died on the anniversary of his wife's execution. While the fire of Rome would be difficult for a game focused on parkour most focused on Rome the city, the descent into madness by Nero could make for a fantastic character drama if we played an assassin close to him, perhaps similar to Ezio mistakenly killing Tarik for Suleiman in Revelations but played to the extreme. Maybe we could see that Nero's madness was fair. Part of me would love to see a Norman Bates/ Psycho take on Nero's relationship with his mother. There's a ton of room for a character-driven piece in Ac on Nero though. Alternatively, rather than focusing on Nero as a whole, Nero's insanity and the fire could just be the early part of the game, giving need for the Liberalis Circulus to assassinate Nero and instead, giving rise to the chaos that followed during the Year of the Four Emperors and the founding of the Flavian Dynasty under Vespasian, who returned to Rome from Judea fighting the First Jewish-Roman War. Vespasian again makes a fantastic Villain as he ordered even more buildings and construction projects including building the Colosseum. There was always a ton of mystery surrounding him and the propaganda campaigns he held against Nero, and many conspiracy theories always floated about him. Especially if he and his son Titus were after the apple in Jerusalem, we could see a really dark take on Vespasian's totalitarian dictatorship. Marcus Aurelius and Commodus Popularized by Gladiator, Marcus Aurelius was known as the "Last Good Emperor" and a philosopher-king which was mentioned by Aspasia in Odyssey. Marcus Aurelius began ruling with his son Commodus in 177ce and died in 180 just after Commodus became 18. Commodus' sister began circulating rumors and conspiracies about the situation 2 years later to impress her brother's consort. With this though, Commodus lost some of his father's advisors and instead became close to Cleander, a freedman who would end up becoming the commander of the Praetorian Guard and ultimately selling the highest offices of the Roman State to the highest bidder. Cleander would be executed in 190, but not after years of damage, and Commodus' megalomania reaching a new high. In 191 he would rename the city of Rome to Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana and put new art and massive statues of himself all over the city. The following year in 192 he held the "Plebeian Games" where, for sport, he hunted animals and brawled as a gladiator and always winning. He eventually decided to declare a new year himself, and with that his prefects Laetus and Eclectus decided to assassinate him. They initially failed with poisoning Commodus as it caused him to vomit, and instead took to strangling him in the bath to supplant their ally, Pertinax. The senate declared Commodus an enemy of the state and the Year of the 5 emperors began, eventually leading to the ascension of Septimius Severus. Crisis of the 3rd Century Just 40 years later Rome had been militarily depleted. Germanic Tribes were constantly raiding Germania and Emperor Severus Alexander was on the front lines leading his men. The issue was that the troops had no become more reliant on money than land as Septimius Severus and others of the Severan Dynasty began to slowly whittle down the land ownership by the legions. Facing threats from Syria, Severus Alexander agreed to negotiate at a great cost to Rome. This became too much for the legions to bear, already stressed with the germanic raids, and they killed their emperor in 235ce starting the crisis of the third century. What followed was 50 years of raids from barbarians and the goths, civil war, peasant rebellions in Africa, and plague, natural disasters, and economic downturn. This all began to change when Diocletian became Emperor in 284. He defeated his rival for the empire, Carinus, at the Battle of the Margus in modern-day Serbia the following year. In 286 he appointed himself ruler of the Eastern Empire and in the West, his ally Maximian would rule. This was the first step in the creation of the tetrarchy and dividing the Roman Empire in half. He would fail to curb inflation and attempt to eradicate Christianity by using the Diocletian Persecution edicts that ultimately failed due to the empire's split and unevenness of use. It would start to be undone a decade later anyway with Constantine I becoming a Christian and years later holding the first Council of Nicea that helped the creation of the Christian Canon and with Constantine formally bring Christianity into Rome. The Gothic War The decline of Rome became apparent around 375 with the start of the Migration Period of barbarian tribes entering Rome. Visigoths would take control of Iberia with the Suevi. Angles and Saxons began to invade Britain and Germany as the Legions retreated to Italia. Rome ended up being sacked in 410 and 455 by Visigoths and Vandals with Atilla the Hun coming close during his invasion of Gaul in the early 450s (Atilla actually wielded a sword of Eden in lore, which has strong ties to many settings including the 100 years war, French revolution, Mongolia, and Feudal Japan). Rome's weakening status came to a head in 476ce when Odoacer, a leader of germanic barbarians entered Rome and deposed Romulus Augustulus and declared himself Rex Italae, king of Italy. This is formally known as the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, leaving just the Byzantine Empire; thus ending the ancient era according to most historians. Odoacer was eventually killed by Theodoric the Great who used the gap to form the Ostrogothic Kingdom. In 527 Justinian I became emperor of the Byzantine Empire and began swiftly moving for the good of the whole Empire. He immediately made an "Eternal peace" with the Sasanian Empire in 532 and followed it up by the Vandalic War with his general Belisarius. In 534 they destroyed the Vandal Kingdom by seizing Carthage and using it as a staging area for his next venture. He then invaded Italy starting a 19-year long war to remove the Ostrogoths. Despite taking the capital of Ravenna in 540 the Ostrogoths remained and continued to come back. The Ostrogoth King Totila would sack Rome in 546 and still, it would take another 8 years, losing Rome 3 more times, and retaking Spania (Southern Spain) until the final battle was won in 554 at the Battle of Capua when an army of Franks and Alemanni entered Italia. With the war finally over, Justinian attempted to reorganize Italy's governing systems, which immediately collapsed due to the migration period. The Lombards entered Italia and formed the Lombard Kingdom, different parts of the Italian Peninsula remained loyal to Lombards vs the Byzantines, and for the first time in nearly 1000 years, the Italian peninsula was divided. Despite not officially being part of the Roman Empire anymore, I think this setting could be really interesting as a base if they went for my "greatest hits" idea for Rome, allowing us to see many important points in history. This would also be an interesting way to show the transition between Ancient Roman Europe and the beginning of the Dark Ages which we see in Valhalla. It easily ties into Charlemagne who would later conquer the Lombards and King Arthur who rose up to challenge the Angles and Saxons invading during the migration period following Rome's fall. Despite the plotline being largely dropped, there was also a sage around the Byzantine Empire at this time. This setting also has the most built-up cities of Rome, Ravenna, Venice, Florence, Milan, Genoa, Carthage, Constantinople, etc. [link] [comments] | ||
| What is the beast heavy blade in Origins? (No DLC) Posted: 14 Aug 2020 02:48 PM PDT I'm currently using "Nebuchadnezzar's wrath" but i wonder if there are any other good legendary heavy blades that are not from DLCs. [link] [comments] | ||
| How The Hell Do You Defeat That Last Legendary Ship In Rogue? Posted: 14 Aug 2020 09:41 AM PDT I've read that you need to come up behind it but no matter how many times I try it always seems to shift so I'm heading straight for it's broadsides. I've tried about 15 times and only defeated the main ship once, then of course the other 2 ships showed up and killed me immediately. I was enjoying the game but now I'm totally stuck at 98%. [link] [comments] | ||
| Question about AC Odyssey (ending and dlc spoiler) Posted: 14 Aug 2020 12:26 PM PDT I had this question since I finished LOTFB: Why did Kassandra decided to have only one child (Elpidos) I mean, she has been immortal for almost 2500 years, why having just one child if she herself stated that she did that to continue to perpetuate her lineage of "tainted ones" (plus knowing that her lineage stopped most likely after Aya, if we assume she didn't had any other child after Khemu) It's not a matter of "the staff of Hermes makes you sterile after you exceed normal human life expectancy while holding it" or something like that, becouse we know that old dirty man Phytagoras made bum bum with Myrrine while holding a staff in each hand (if you know what I mean) [link] [comments] |
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