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Drbreen, do games w Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements

They should set themselves their own achievement to release another fucking SC game. Don’t worry about us, we’ve already played the shit out of these games.

Kjell,
@Kjell@lemmy.world avatar

As long as they make as good as previous SC games. I have a feeling that a new SC game would be significantly worse than the older games. When was the last time Ubisoft created something good?

TankovayaDiviziya,

I heard Assassin’s Creed Shadows is decent if not good. But overall, it looks like AC Origins is the last properly good Ubisoft game.

Kjell,
@Kjell@lemmy.world avatar

I can imagine Shadows being decent and on the limit to good. Now I have not played any AC since Origins, but I can’t imagine it has changed much. Except that they have different seasons in Shadows, which is a nice feature. And it is fine if a game sticks to a concept, for example CoD have not changed much and they still sell plenty of games every year. However, if Ubisoft delivers good games, around 80 on metacritic, with their cash cows and they perform worse with other games then that does not bode well for a new Splinter Cell.

With that being said, of course I hope that a new SC is released and that it is really good.

Drbreen,

Yeah this is my only fear

MajesticElevator, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game

We need more stardew valley 👀

More content

Mooooooorrrrreeeeee

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

Artwork is never truly finished, it is abandoned

MajesticElevator,

My dad must have considered me as artwork then

orenj, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game
@orenj@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Nice. I’ll look forward to news about 1.7 soon.

sirico, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

X for doubt it’s become such an amazing project for him and us. He must still have plenty of ideas even now

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements
  • And also patching in their spyware they just got fined for, which will likely mean they have to patch the game again soon to remove it or add a disclaimer for it
MajesticElevator,

Wait wait what?

MazonnaCara89,
@MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml avatar

Can you link a source for this?

moosetwin, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game
@moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Terraria

bungle_in_the_jungle, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game

Lol. I feel like I’ve heard this before.

Super excited, no doubt, but the man can’t help himself with Stardew it seems.

yesterday, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game

Let him cook

drmoose, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game

I’m not big on Stardew Valley but this dude is an absolute gem!

CaptDust, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game

Sweet I’m excited to see what he cooks up with haunted chocolatier

supernicepojo, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game

I think someone should write a book about CA

ampersandrew, do games w Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

They ought to patch out the need for Ubisoft’s launcher. Same goes for EA’s back catalog, for that matter. At least EA’s newest releases don’t come with the launcher.

leave_it_blank,

Doesn’t EA still require the steam launcher?? I’m not up to date anymore. What kind of DRM do they use now?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Even when you buy their games on Steam, there’s an EA launcher there in addition to Steam. This is the case for It Takes Two, for instance, but not for Split Fiction. Split Fiction only uses Steam if you bought it on Steam.

any1th3r3,

You’re right, they do - this Steam DRM-free games list shows Jedi Fallen Order is the most recent DRM-free EA published game on Steam afaict.
Same goes for DRM-free games on the EA app.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Jedi Fallen Order says right on the Steam page that it incorporates EA DRM.

any1th3r3,

I can’t confirm for Steam, since I only have the game on EA app, but the game’s wiki page on PCGW shows the same DRM-free info (with correct launch steps).

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

I believe it was added after launch. I distinctly remember trying to play this game on the Steam Deck on a train with no internet, and the EA app complained about it and wouldn’t let me launch the game. It’s quite possible that this can be sidestepped by specifically putting the Steam Deck in offline mode, rather than just severing the internet connection, but I didn’t know to try that at the time, and it’s definitely DRM.

leave_it_blank,

So just that I understand this correctly: I need steam to buy it, but after that it launches without steam after I download the installer? Like on gog?

If yes, holy shit, I would have never expected this from EA!! Last time I checked this company was pure scum, but this is a surprisingly nice move!

any1th3r3,

Not exactly, you need Steam to install it, but then per PCGW’s wiki:

DRM-free when launched directly via <path-to-game>\SwGame\Binaries\Win64\SwGame-Win64-Shipping.exe while EA app is not installed.

leave_it_blank,

Bummer… Thank you, I was seriously considering buying it this evening, thanks for the heads-up!

Bezier,
@Bezier@suppo.fi avatar

Wait what, I can play EA games without their shitty launcher now?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Only the newest ones. They haven’t gone back to remove the requirement from their back catalog, but Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Split Fiction don’t require it now. Meanwhile, Madden 26 still requires it, so I guess it isn’t universal.

Bezier,
@Bezier@suppo.fi avatar

Oh, that sucks. I’m only interested in their back catalog.

NutinButNet,

I think that’s why they’re doing it only for the new ones lol. Nobody cares to play their new crap so nobody is noticing

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Split Fiction is definitely a game people care about, and disappointing numbers for a Dragon Age title is still several million people.

pycorax,

EA’s games that released on Steam after Origin was a thing still launch a mini EA launcher when you press Play on Steam, much like how Ubisoft’s does on Steam. That’s at least how it seems the last time I tried it with Fallen Order.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Right, but that extra launcher causes problems, so I tend to avoid games that still have it. It’s why I still haven’t played A Way Out but played Split Fiction.

pycorax,

Yea I get that, just wanted to say that EA has the same issue too.

OldGrumpy, do games w Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements

Patch for poorly implemented gamepad in SC Blacklist, SC Conviction, Far Cry 4 and 5 still not available, but who would want that - getting achievements with effed up controls is even more satisfying. Good job Ubisoft.

LostWanderer, do games w 'Stories are our bread and butter': Larian is building a special team to lay out the plot of its games years in advance

Larian Games is one of the few that actually care about their games enough to assemble a team for making coherent stories!

EA or Ubisoft could never, even though their bottom lines would be improved by making games with compelling stories.

pycorax,

Ubisoft always had such a team for AC at least. AC Origins had a pretty good story and AC Odyssey was alright. Haven’t finished or played the newer ones yet so I can’t judge those yet but if there’s one thing Ubisoft does right, it’s that.

LostWanderer,

AC Origins was a return to form for them, since the Brotherhood days (great story, glitchy climbing and parkour). They trusted that their main historical protagonist would thrive, so the story they told was solid. AC Odyssey had issues because they didn’t trust in Cassandra being the historical MC; Alexios felt like an added on character because they thought a female lead wouldn’t sell well. The more recent games were mid because the narratives felt kinda messy; I watched a play through of Valhalla in parts it wasn’t great, Mirage had a lukewarm response, and AC Shadows had some writing issues (two MCs go from having beef to suddenly trusting one another two hours in). Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed team has fallen asleep at the wheel, the storytelling isn’t quite up to snuff with the latest games.

I feel the modern world story should’ve been resolved, as it interferes with quasi historically accurate storyline (one can only approximate in these situations, we will never have the full truth as it’s lost to time). The modern world story has dragged on for far too long and needs to be put to rest; we need a game set purely in the modern era, to resolve what is happening. I’d love to see AC games that spin into exploring approximated history, without the burden of a world ending in slow-motion…

If only Ubisoft actually cared.

KokoSabreScruffy,

Valhalla is such a weird beast in the narrative. I just completed the base main story and then end was kinda… awkward.

At the end of it I still havent uncovered the leader of the order, hell I think less than half of the members are part of the main story. I like that each region was its own thing and the pacing was fine though in writing nothing was really groundbreaking. Replacing side quests with the smaller mysteries was also a good decision but OH MY LORD, can we be done with the modern world or maybe get a team to release a walking sim that resolves it and just go make “historically” - based games with checklist open world.

LostWanderer,

Yeah, when I was watching Valhalla I noticed the strangeness of the narrative…They did try something different, making each region a self-contained story. The pacing wasn’t terrible either, it’s just that they didn’t try hard enough to make certain areas of the game better. That’s what hurt Valhalla in my opinion, the wealth of very average writing; the fact they had smaller mysteries could’ve been awesome had it been better executed. Ironically, that’s similar to how Odyssey handles the cult; you don’t figure out the leader until the post game, after killing cultists who weren’t part of the main story. I feel Valhalla’s story structure was inspired by Odyssey, most regions have their own self-contained story that connects to the overarching story. Except Valhalla goes for smaller mysteries in place of the overwhelming amount of Side Quest that Odyssey has (still not finished with half of them, thankfully they can be done post game).

I feel the modern world story should be handled with a bit of care, to make that a particularly memorable experience. Going out with a bang is better than ending on a whimper. Walking sims aren’t bad in their own right, but Ubisoft wouldn’t let a writing and dev team handle it with the care it needs (not until they figure out why Larian Studios is so beloved).

HeyJoe,

But at the very least we can see that the same developers who worked at Ubisoft are better than they are allowed to be. Clair Obscur Expedition 33 deserves the same love that this got and features mostly Ubisoft employees (only 30 people in total) and shows the company truly hinders how good a game can be.

LostWanderer,

That’s why I fault Ubisoft itself…The developer team is only as good as Ubisoft allows their devs to be. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a breakout hit, as that is an example of a dev team that is free from the oppressive weight of a corporation. I’m going to be buying Clair Obscur because I want to send a message that more games from their team would be appreciated!

HeyJoe,

You are in for a treat if you enjoy RPGs with modern takes on an old system. I have been playing games for over 30 years and lately haven’t had the funds to buy much of anything in the past year, but I made an exception for this and it thankfully was a good as I was hoping it would be. Holding my interest is getting harder as well, but thankfully, due to this game and a few others, I am starting to realize it’s most likely because I crave something different and unique sometimes.

LostWanderer, (edited )

I can’t wait…Though I got a backlog of games that currently are in progress, so I won’t be playing Clair Obscur immediately. Modern games are simply hit or miss, if it’s made by a big studio…Often it’s a blueprint of what’s trended a few years ago because games are so much bigger, it takes a while to make them.

I feel Indie devs have the most freedom to do something unique, interesting, and fresh without super long development times. I’ve been choosing to play cozy or indie games as of late because a lot of the mainstream games haven’t caught my attention too. Hell, right now I’m playing Oblivion Remastered, and it’s got me in a stranglehold of nostalgia. It’s basically the same game but with a prettier aesthetic (there are some graphical issues that need resolving due to the quirks of Unreal 5). Nothing that Bethesda would be able to produce today that’s a right mix of banal, goofy, lore heavy, and fun.

HeyJoe,

I also can’t wait to play Oblivion remastered as well. I just couldn’t see picking up yet another remake/remaster over something original first. I figured the small team could benefit way more from as many sales as they could, plus I just wanted something new, haha. Can’t wait though, I haven’t played it since like 2007.

LostWanderer,

As I said: Nostalgia has me in a stranglehold, that’s the only reason why Oblivion Remastered was first on my list. I had a craving for Oblivion again; Clair Obscur being priced reasonably means I can buy it this payday! Though, I will finish Jedi: Survivor before starting a full playthrough of Clair Obscur.

Gradually_Adjusting, do games w 'Stories are our bread and butter': Larian is building a special team to lay out the plot of its games years in advance
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks to Larian for negotiating an end to the 2007 writers strike.

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