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Post by n7double07 on Apr 25, 2024 19:56:50 GMT
Honestly this game isn't even about assassins and templars anymore. Just make a new franchise already. More superpowers? I'm over it. I believe this game might end up being a hard pass for me, I'll be a fuddy duddy and stick with the older games. Also the fear mechanic in the jack the ripper dlc was lame and annoying
Aside from that I hope everyone is doing well!
When I first heard about Hexe, I assumed it would be about Templars using the Witch Trials as a guise to hunt Assassins. I still think this is the case.
As far as the "magic" goes, the German Assassins could have mastered certain Isu artifacts. I'd be fine with this if it allows for more environmental manipulation, as with the cat example. We know from the Apples of Eden that controlling living beings isn't outside the scope of Isu technology. The lack of environmental manipulation (in comparison to say, Hitman) is a glaring weakness of the series.
Edit: So I'm seeing that leaks refer to the protagonist explicitly as "supernatural". Unclear if this characterization is wrong and the people who viewed the footage were assuming this based off the limited information they might have had, or if they were told so directly by Ubisoft.
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Rino @rinothebouncer UPDATE: Assassin’s Creed Codename Red seemingly confirmed to launch this year, according to Ubisoft Korean & Japan General Manager, Ozan Kocoglu🚀
⚔️Franchise Development:
✅Assassin’s Creed franchise as a whole isn’t moving to a new engine
✅Will be using a substantial evolution of the current one named the ‘Anvil Pipeline’
✅Anvil Pipeline allows all Assassin’s Creed studios to work from one unified branch
✅Assassin’s Creed will benefit visually from the lines of ray-traced global illumination and virtual geometry, with better graphics than ever
✅Teams completely overhauled everything in the series, including animations, parkour, dynamic weather, and more.
✅Assassin’s Creed Red will be the first of a gigantic leap the whole franchise is taking
✅Codename Red will be the last of the fantasy/RPG formula introduced in Origins
🎮Gameplay:
✅Combat in Codename Red is similar to Valhalla, but with more gore, including blood, and decapitations
✅Stealth plays a major role in Red, akin to Splinter Cell
✅Players extinguish torches to hide their shadow, hide bodies in tall grass, sneaks through bushes, go prone..etc
✅Major evolution to the settlement system from Valhalla
✅Players build their settlement in a big way named the ‘Hideout’
✅Hideout allows players to build, at their own will, the likes of an armory, dojo, alter, and more
✅Hideout buildings are customizable, too, from picking building location, to choosing roof design, the interior layout and display your weapons and armor
✅Fewer map markers, which encourages players to explore ✅The map is than that of Valhalla, but smaller than Odyssey
✅Utilize grappling hook tools, similar to Sekiro & Ghost of Tsushima
✅Choose different stances
✅NPCs defend themselves
✅Recruit enemies as spies
✅Yasuke is adept at sumo wrestling
✅Naoe wields kunai, shuriken, smoke bombs, and bells, likely suggesting she’ll be a much more agile, stealthier character than
✅Each of the two characters has their own unique traits and weapons
✅May involve naval combat/exploration as job listings for Ubisoft Singapore hint working on “Naval 3C” for “Assassin’s Creed Red”
📜Story/Characters:
✅Featuring 2 leads
✅Male lead is based on the real-life African samurai Yasuke
✅His story rewritten to align with the game’s story and direction
✅Yasuke was a slave traveling on a slave ship when it was attacked and everyone was killed, including his lover, but he survived
✅Yasuke was then rescued and brought to Japan, where he learned the way of the samurai under Nobunaga’s service
✅Female lead is Naoe Fujibayashi, daughter of the legendary real-life Fujibayashi Nagato, considered to be one of the three greatest Iga jōnin
✅Naoe is a shinobi
✅Both characters’ stories start with a personal tragedy
✅At the beginning of the game, Naoe and Yasuke are fierce enemies, but later become allies on their desire for Japan’s unification
✅Historical characters make appearance; Fujibayashi Nagato (Naoe’s father), Oda Nobunaga, Akechi Mitsuhide, Hattori Hanzo (returning character), Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Kōdai-in (Hideyoshi’s wife), Oichi, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Akechi Kagemitsu, and more
Launch:
✅Launching projected for 2024 since Ubisoft Business Development and Brand Partnership teams have been seeking sponsorship partners for 2024, plus reports from Tom Henderson
✅Years of post-launch support and content which will coexist with Codename Hexe
✅Developed by Ubisoft Quebec (Assassin’s Creed Odyssey)
✅Rumored to have its world premier revealed between May and June with launch sometime in Fall/November
✅Labeled “biggest blockbuster of 2024” by Arisa Lagunzad (Business Development & Brand Partnership) on LinkedIn
Sources: @insidergamingig / @_Tom_Henderson_ (most points) John Harke from ResetEra (being the last of the Origins formula), @xj0nathan & @_L3vi3
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Post by dazk on Apr 27, 2024 22:48:07 GMT
More exited for this that Hexe. Japan is not a big excitement thing for me but did have some fun in Valhalla with the Japanese set of swords (they were super fast) and armour. If it is being done by the same team as Odyssey hope the female character has a similar personality to Kassandra.
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Post by n7double07 on Apr 28, 2024 1:26:23 GMT
These points sound mostly promising. One that has me confused is Red supposedly being the last of the RPGs (unless they're referring only to the fantasy aspect, or the purely "RPG" elements such as dialogue choice, looting mechanics, etc. but not the larger scale, activities, and some degree of freedom with progression in certain areas. The source refers to it as the "Origins formula" and not the "RPG" formula). I heard rumors that Red is essentially supposed to showcase the future direction of that format, which seems more realistic. Ubisoft said they're no longer committed to a singular format, and Mirage was seemingly a homage to fans of the old style of AC, to which they're going to diverge from a decent amount of the time in the future but not totally abandon. It's odd, then, that they would scrap the RPG template completely after putting so much effort into it with this installment (which could potentially become a fan favorite that leads to requests for more of the same in the future) and switch between the old style, whatever Hexe is going to present as, and other, more constrained styles in a similar tone to those.
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Post by dazk on Apr 28, 2024 2:07:09 GMT
These points sound mostly promising. One that has me confused is Red supposedly being the last of the RPGs (unless they're referring only to the fantasy aspect, or the purely "RPG" elements such as dialogue choice, looting mechanics, etc. but not the larger scale, activities, and some degree of freedom with progression in certain areas. The source refers to it as the "Origins formula" and not the "RPG" formula). I heard rumors that Red is essentially supposed to showcase the future direction of that format, which seems more realistic. Ubisoft said they're no longer committed to a singular format, and Mirage was seemingly a homage to fans of the old style of AC, to which they're going to diverge from a decent amount of the time in the future but not totally abandon. It's odd, then, that they would scrap the RPG template completely after putting so much effort into it with this installment (which could potentially become a fan favorite that leads to requests for more of the same in the future) and switch between the old style, whatever Hexe is going to present as, and other, more constrained styles in a similar tone to those. I think they are only referring to the Fantasy aspect.
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Post by n7double07 on Apr 28, 2024 2:25:12 GMT
These points sound mostly promising. One that has me confused is Red supposedly being the last of the RPGs (unless they're referring only to the fantasy aspect, or the purely "RPG" elements such as dialogue choice, looting mechanics, etc. but not the larger scale, activities, and some degree of freedom with progression in certain areas. The source refers to it as the "Origins formula" and not the "RPG" formula). I heard rumors that Red is essentially supposed to showcase the future direction of that format, which seems more realistic. Ubisoft said they're no longer committed to a singular format, and Mirage was seemingly a homage to fans of the old style of AC, to which they're going to diverge from a decent amount of the time in the future but not totally abandon. It's odd, then, that they would scrap the RPG template completely after putting so much effort into it with this installment (which could potentially become a fan favorite that leads to requests for more of the same in the future) and switch between the old style, whatever Hexe is going to present as, and other, more constrained styles in a similar tone to those. I think they are only referring to the Fantasy aspect. I hope so, because I'm warming up to the RPG format (from my experiences with Origins and Valhalla; I don't think Odyssey highlights the strengths of this type of game particularly well) and find it to be a welcome change of pace. *hides in cover* I don't want ALL of AC to be this way moving forward, but a schedule of one roughly every n-th release is fine.
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Post by dazk on Apr 28, 2024 3:03:33 GMT
I think they are only referring to the Fantasy aspect. I hope so, because I'm warming up to the RPG format (from my experiences with Origins and Valhalla; I don't think Odyssey highlights the strengths of this type of game particularly well) and find it to be a welcome change of pace. *hides in cover* I don't want ALL of AC to be this way moving forward, but a schedule of one roughly every n-th release is fine. Same I wouldn't want them to remove the RPG stuff. Odyssey is one of my all-time favourite games not just in the AC game series, I just hope that the player characters have good personalities as Eivor didn't really do it for me male or female.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Apr 28, 2024 6:37:43 GMT
I hope so, because I'm warming up to the RPG format (from my experiences with Origins and Valhalla; I don't think Odyssey highlights the strengths of this type of game particularly well) and find it to be a welcome change of pace. *hides in cover* I don't want ALL of AC to be this way moving forward, but a schedule of one roughly every n-th release is fine. Same I wouldn't want them to remove the RPG stuff. Odyssey is one of my all-time favourite games not just in the AC game series, I just hope that the player characters have good personalities as Eivor didn't really do it for me male or female. Kass is definitely tops, but I did like - female - Eivor (no shade on male, just didn’t try him). I think Kass is just a little more upbeat in general, despite Eivor never having been thrown off a mountain by their dad…. Which is another way of saying Eivor is a bit of an edge lord, but not enough to make me dislike them. I really liked some of the things they added/tried to do to Valhalla. Not all of it came off, but I wouldn’t want them to remove the RPG elements, for sure.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Apr 28, 2024 19:02:00 GMT
One thing with the combat I hope is that unlike Valhalla they’ll have non-lethal combat be a viable way to play like the other AC games.
Also curious if we’ll be forced to play as both and if so what will the split be. Would hate is Naoe is only like 20% of the game since I want to be a ninja far more than a samurai.
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Post by n7double07 on May 2, 2024 6:18:28 GMT
One thing with the combat I hope is that unlike Valhalla they’ll have non-lethal combat be a viable way to play like the other AC games. Also curious if we’ll be forced to play as both and if so what will the split be. Would hate is Naoe is only like 20% of the game since I want to be a ninja far more than a samurai. Agreed on that. As it stands, I'm more excited to play Naoe. I heard some (unsubstantiated as far as I know) rumor a while back that it'll be 40% Naoe, 60% Yasuke. I'd rather it be the other way around.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on May 3, 2024 1:03:51 GMT
One thing with the combat I hope is that unlike Valhalla they’ll have non-lethal combat be a viable way to play like the other AC games. Also curious if we’ll be forced to play as both and if so what will the split be. Would hate is Naoe is only like 20% of the game since I want to be a ninja far more than a samurai. Agreed on that. As it stands, I'm more excited to play Naoe. I heard some (unsubstantiated as far as I know) rumor a while back that it'll be 40% Naoe, 60% Yasuke. I'd rather it be the other way around. Hope that’s not true because if it is eww. If I want an open world RPG with a samurai, I’ll play Ghost of Tsushima. Even Syndicate let us use Evie for all the open world stuff and Jacob only for his story missions.
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Post by Gileadan on May 3, 2024 8:10:26 GMT
Why do we need a samurai - one of the epitomes of the honourable warrior supposedly - in a game that has "assassin" in its name? Shouldn't we be a ninja 100% of the time? It really really didn't work with vikings, and here we go again...
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Post by n7double07 on May 4, 2024 7:17:56 GMT
Why do we need a samurai - one of the epitomes of the honourable warrior supposedly - in a game that has "assassin" in its name? Shouldn't we be a ninja 100% of the time? It really really didn't work with vikings, and here we go again... I wouldn't have an issue with it if we got to try out purely a different combat style with each character, and everything else functioned the same. According to some (unsubstantiated also) rumors, Naoe will have a number of tools that Yasuke will not, which is souring me on dual protagonists, as it means stealth is probably gonna be worse for Yasuke. Hopefully Yasuke's story will be well-written to justify his inclusion if this is the case. A unique activity associated with being a Samurai (i.e. the Monastery/River Raids in Valhalla) could help along with that.
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Post by dazk on May 4, 2024 9:07:03 GMT
I am just really not a fan of the dual protagonist unless it is a choice of different characters with different abilities for you to play the game differently as just one of them.
I hated the chop and change in Syndicate with Evie and Jacob and their different abilities and Origins with Bayek and Aya (or whatever her name was) was even worse.
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Post by Hrungr on May 5, 2024 0:47:25 GMT
Yeah, I'm not huge fan of dual protags either.
I liked Syndicate, though you could largely stick to one character in the game.
Origins was an odd one. Aya/Amunet had the most famous kills (Caesar, Cleopatra) but was just a bit player in the game. Worse, she didn't have anywhere near the capability Bayek and was like switching from a high-level character to a 1st level one when we did play as her.
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Post by dazk on May 5, 2024 1:17:16 GMT
Yeah, I'm not huge fan of dual protags either. I liked Syndicate, though you could largely stick to one character in the game. Origins was an odd one. Aya/Amunet had the most famous kills (Caesar, Cleopatra) but was just a bit player in the game. Worse, she didn't have anywhere near the capability Bayek and was like switching from a high-level character to a 1st level one when we did play as her. Yeah I enjoyed playing far more as Evie and I just hated that some missions were gated and could only be played by Jacob. The Aya thing was infuriating especially as most of it was so late in the game.
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Post by Hrungr on May 5, 2024 1:30:01 GMT
Yeah, I'm not huge fan of dual protags either. I liked Syndicate, though you could largely stick to one character in the game. Origins was an odd one. Aya/Amunet had the most famous kills (Caesar, Cleopatra) but was just a bit player in the game. Worse, she didn't have anywhere near the capability Bayek and was like switching from a high-level character to a 1st level one when we did play as her. Yeah I enjoyed playing far more as Evie and I just hated that some missions were gated and could only be played by Jacob. The Aya thing was infuriating especially as most of it was so late in the game. Yeah, these too... Well, we'll see what they come up with in Red. If nothing else, I'm sure it'll at least look decent.
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Post by dazk on May 5, 2024 1:35:58 GMT
Yeah I enjoyed playing far more as Evie and I just hated that some missions were gated and could only be played by Jacob. The Aya thing was infuriating especially as most of it was so late in the game. Yeah, these too... Well, we'll see what they come up with in Red. If nothing else, I'm sure it'll at least look decent. I am itching to play another AC game, I just hope they deliver one that I want to play. After the high of Odyssey and the good but not great Valhalla which was definitely not worth replaying with no NG+, I am hoping for a winner this time.
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Post by Sanunes on May 5, 2024 5:06:32 GMT
I tried the free trial for Mirage a few weeks ago. My opinion on the franchise is still the same, I am not buying an AC game until they can prove to me that I can play for more than 20min without the game crashing for it takes so much of my system resources with the Uplay client. I have low expectations of any Ubisoft game right now going forward for they are still having system resource issues and even before the game crashing it freezes every few min and gets worse until it crashes. I didn't have these problems when Valhalla was first released, but when they updated the Uplay client it started and never relented so even if Red is on a new game engine I don't expect that to fix the problem.
It doesn't matter how good the gameplay is if the technical aspects are subpar, especially when I can play any other game out there even if I have to lower the settings they don't crash like Ubisoft software. I have recently played the remake of Dead Space and even Fallen Order without anything close to the issues I have with Ubisoft.
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