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[MMaRsu]

By removing the ability to attack anything within shrines, and removing blood from npc's.

Assassin’s Creed: Shadows Day One Patch will make certain shrine objects indestructible and eliminate civilian NPC bloodshed - AUTOMATON WEST

Ubisoft has revealed that Assassin’s Creed: Shadows’ day one patch will tone down NPC bloodshed and shrine destruction.

automaton-media.com

The day one patch will make tables and shelving located in in-game shrines indestructible and will reduce non-essential depictions of bloodshed taking place in shrines and temples. In addition, when attacking unarmed NPCs, there will no longer be depictions of blood.

Thx you grifters morons for actually making the game worse.

Ubisoft caving to this shit is ultimate retardation though

"Oh no, I can hack a table and shelves in a fictional shrine! Heresy!!"

Mod edit: Next time, use the headline provided by the article instead of editorializing it and providing zero context. Thanks.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

“worse”

 

[RetroGamingUK]

If Ubisoft had a shred of honour they would shut this game down and close the studio.

 

[Gonzito]

I understand your anger when it comes to censorship but at the same time, I understand Ubisoft decision because even the government in Japan has complained about this. I dont think that removing this will make the game any worse man, who wants to kill innocent people in a Assassins Creed game?

I am fine with this tbh

 

[MMaRsu]

“worse”

???

 

[Cyberpunkd]

You need your RTX shrine destruction for extra historical realism of playing as a black samurai and

Spoiler

giving Nobunaga's sister the BBC treatment

?

 

[DirtInUrEye]

I was going to get this, but now it's right out.

 

[ManaByte]

It'll just backfire because now they'll complain that it's not realistic enough where you can't destroy everything and kill everyone.

 

[consoul]

I dunno man. I feel like this is a bit more than YouTube outrage farmers. When the Japanese PM is weighing in, reconsidering seems kind of reasonable.

 

[MMaRsu]

I understand your anger when it comes to censorship but at the same time, I understand Ubisoft decision because even the government in Japan has complained about this. I dont think that removing this will make the game any worse man, who wants to kill innocent people in a Assassins Creed game?

I am fine with this tbh

The Japanese government shouldnt even have complained about it. Where is their beef with Nioh and a hundred other titles? Fuck those old dusty geriatric fools

Listen I wont go attacking random npc's but yes you are right this is censorship.

I dunno man. I feel like this is a bit more than YouTube outrage farmers. When the Japanese PM is weighing in, reconsidering seems kind of reasonable.

The only reason he is weighing in is because the grifters pushed this narrative to them and as hard as they could.

 

[ManaByte]

I understand your anger when it comes to censorship but at the same time, I understand Ubisoft decision because even the government in Japan has complained about this. I dont think that removing this will make the game any worse man, who wants to kill innocent people in a Assassins Creed game?

I am fine with this tbh

Remember when you trolled the OT wondering if Yasuke would be better at stealth at night because he was black?

 

[RafterXL]

So do these co-called "grifters" have power, or not? One minute people claim they have no relevance and don't matter, the next they're claiming that they have enough power to get games changed. Which is it?

 

[Gonzito]

Remember when you trolled the OT wondering if Yasuke would be better at stealth at night because he was black?

Yes. It was a joke about the double standards of Resetera, and it doesn't have anything to do with this subject

 

[SJRB]

non-essential depictions of bloodshed

lmao

 

[San Dan Glokta]

I'm sorry but this "Tolerance" and "Artistic Freedom" crap is a very American way of thinking. Most countries in the world have a very steadfast set of socially acceptable behaviors and whatnot that they rarely deviate from. And even if they were to accept change it has to come from within, from one of their own (See: Afghanistan)

I'm not saying that I completely agree with this but come on you're a foreigner don't be surprised when entire nations condemn you. "Grifting" only put a spotlight on it.

 

[MMaRsu]

So do these co-called "grifters" have power, or not? One minute people claim they have no relevance and don't matter, the next they're claiming that they have enough power to get games changed. Which is it?

Who says they have no relevance?

Every release these is outrage from these grifters. Doesnt matter what the game is.

As long as they can earn their engagement clicks.

 

[Guardian Monkey]

I understand your anger when it comes to censorship but at the same time, I understand Ubisoft decision because even the government in Japan has complained about this. I dont think that removing this will make the game any worse man, who wants to kill innocent people in a Assassins Creed game?

I am fine with this tbh

Yet 2 months after 9/11 metal gear solid 2 came out with Arsenal Gear shoving its ass up lower Manhattan. Not really that big a deal in the media.

But some damn shrines in a video game. Japan needs to just shut the fuck up. Absolute garbage.

 

[MMaRsu]

I'm sorry but this "Tolerance" and "Artistic Freedom" crap is a very American way of thinking. Most countries in the world have a very steadfast set of socially acceptable behaviors and whatnot that they rarely deviate from. And even if they were to accept change it has to come from within, from one of their own (See: Afghanistan)

I'm not saying that I completely agree with this but come on you're a foreigner don't be surprised when entire nations condemn you. "Grifting" only put a spotlight on it.

What? Im not an American.

Also I dont understand anything else you wrote. What does any of that have to do with a fictional setting?

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Yes. It was a joke about the double standards of Resetera, and it doesn't have anything to do with this subject

But thats not racist though; I knew a couple Somali guys that openly laughed about and admitted they would take their shirts off when running from guards after causing trouble, it would help them hide. Are they racist because they used being black at night to their advantage lol

 

[San Dan Glokta]

What? Im not an American.

Also I dont understand anything else you wrote. What does any of that have to do with a fictional setting?

I never said you were. The point still stands.

 

[MMaRsu]

I never said you were. The point still stands.

I literally have no idea what your point is brother.

 

[ManaByte]

Also I dont understand anything else you wrote. What does any of that have to do with a fictional setting?

Grifters are tourists who don't actually play the games they create performance outrage over. Assassin's Creed has been around for nearly twenty years, but none of these people have ever played one of the games. If they actually did they'd know it's never been a historical setting, but instead a VR simulation of memories being played from the future by two warring sides searching for future alien technology in the past.

 

[pudel]

this game, dude!

 

[MMaRsu]

Grifters are tourists who don't actually play the games they create performance outrage over. Assassin's Creed has been around for nearly twenty years, but none of these people have ever played one of the games. If they actually did they'd know it's never been a historical setting, but instead a VR simulation of memories being played from the future by two warring sides searching for future alien technology in the past.

Ahh I see. Yeah I just meant the outrage grifters who want to farm engagement and hate clicks, to get you mad and in their little engagement bubble.

 

[onQ123]

By removing the ability to attack anything within shrines, and removing blood from npc's.

Assassin’s Creed: Shadows Day One Patch will make certain shrine objects indestructible and eliminate civilian NPC bloodshed - AUTOMATON WEST

Ubisoft has revealed that Assassin’s Creed: Shadows’ day one patch will tone down NPC bloodshed and shrine destruction.

automaton-media.com

Thx you grifters morons for actually making the game worse.

Ubisoft caving to this shit is ultimate retardation though

"Oh no, I can hack a table and shelves in a fictional shrine! Heresy!!"

They will change uniforms then return to complain about this also lol

 

[Lokaum D+]

Remember when you trolled the OT wondering if Yasuke would be better at stealth at night because he was black?

 

[tamago84]

hilarious that both sides are crying over it. I could care less

 

[Danjin44]

I personally I never liked most Ubisoft games I never had any attention to get this game but the drama surrounding this game was fucking nonsense.

You don’t fucking go in to video games for historical accuracy or to be educational, they purely for entertainment only.

If devs lose the freedom to make what they want then this industry is truly fucked.

 

[John Bilbo]

How do you know someone is nonessential?

There's no blood when you kill them.

 

[whyman]

By removing the ability to attack anything within shrines, and removing blood from npc's.

Assassin’s Creed: Shadows Day One Patch will make certain shrine objects indestructible and eliminate civilian NPC bloodshed - AUTOMATON WEST

Ubisoft has revealed that Assassin’s Creed: Shadows’ day one patch will tone down NPC bloodshed and shrine destruction.

automaton-media.com

Thx you grifters morons for actually making the game worse.

Ubisoft caving to this shit is ultimate retardation though

"Oh no, I can hack a table and shelves in a fictional shrine! Heresy!!"

No. This is all on Ubi. If they had stuck closer to historical accuracy from the start, none of this would have been a problem. Outside the animus stuff there is no need to bend history to fit woke agenda. Truth is that people with deep historical knowledge and interest used to work on these games.

 

[MMaRsu]

No. This is all on Ubi. If they had stuck closer to historical accuracy from the start, none of this would have been a problem. Outside the animus stuff there is no need to bend history to fit woke agenda. Truth is that people with deep historical knowledge and interest used to work on these games.

Ive been playing since AC1 and the game was never about being historically accurate.

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

I love this. A company goes woke, then gets trolled by a bunch of people who actually don't give a shit but pretend they do just out of spite against the woke crazies, and they cave. That's what you get.

 

[whyman]

I personally I never liked most Ubisoft games I never had any attention to get this game but the drama surrounding this game was fucking nonsense.

You don’t fucking go in to video games for historical accuracy or to be educational, they purely for entertainment only.

If devs lose the freedom to make what they want then this industry is truly fucked.

Strongly disagree. Simulations are a genre. Educational is a genre. First games had people with historical knowledge working on them, that is what made them so amazing. Yes there was fantasy on top of that, sure, but you didn’t fly into Jerusalem on a dragon.

 

[Rudius]

Ubislop getting a taste of it's own medicine.

 

[ManaByte]

Ive been playing since AC1 and the game was never about being historically accurate.

No no no, you don't understand. A VR controlled assassin really DID fight the pope in Italy in the 15th century. It HAPPENED!

And George Washington really did declare himself king!

 

[whyman]

Ive been playing since AC1 and the game was never about being historically accurate.

Bullshit. Remember how they used to market it? Remember how “you can meet and interact with historical figures” was a selling point? Remember how they painstakingly recreated architecture?

 

[RafterXL]

Grifters are tourists who don't actually play the games they create performance outrage over. Assassin's Creed has been around for nearly twenty years, but none of these people have ever played one of the games. If they actually did they'd know it's never been a historical setting, but instead a VR simulation of memories being played from the future by two warring sides searching for future alien technology in the past.

A VR simulation of a historical setting. And you pulled this nonsense before and you're still wrong. The last 3 AC games have been used as historical teaching tools and even include a version that is specifically about learning history, not to mention that fact that Ubisoft has consistently talked about being historically accurate, so even they disagree with you. You're the tourist and you don't even realize it.

 

[ValiantInstance]

Ive been playing since AC1 and the game was never about being historically accurate.

Yes true, but they made an effort to be somewhat based in reality and tried to fill in historical gaps with the Templar/Assassin conspiracy. I remember researching the Borgia after playing Brotherhood to see if they were actually that crazy, and they were.

But somewhere around AC3 it became Forrest Gump. Every other mission the main character was accidentally taking a crucial role in important historical events like riding on Paul Revere's horse whilst he was warning the British were coming.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Bullshit. Remember how they used to market it? Remember how “you can meet and interact with historical figures” was a selling point? Remember how they painstakingly recreated architecture?

lol none of that means historically accurate. The games would be pretty boring if they were historically accurate.

 

[ManaByte]

who wants to kill innocent people in a Assassins Creed game?

Anyone who has ever played an AC game knows that part of the gameplay is the threat of "desynchronization", which is a mission fail. It's been in the game since the VERY FIRST GAME and killing NPCs cause desynchronization. It's part of the GAMEPLAY to avoid killing them. Making them invincible fundamentally changes a core element of the gameplay that's been in the game for nearly 20 years. But because rage grifter tourists have never played Assassin's Creed and UbiSoft is worried about them inciting their hate lemmings to go after their employees, they've altered a core gameplay function of the series to shut them up.

 

[MMaRsu]

Bullshit. Remember how they used to market it? Remember how “you can meet and interact with historical figures” was a selling point? Remember how they painstakingly recreated architecture?

Yes but it was also about the apple of Eden and about a man in a machine reliving the memories of his ancestor encoded into his DNA, and he saw strange symbols on the wall with his eagle vision.

 

[ManaByte]

You're the tourist and you don't even realize it.

I own and have played every AC game since the first.

 

[Danjin44]

Strongly disagree. Simulations are a genre. Educational is a genre. First games had people with historical knowledge working on them, that is what made them so amazing. Yes there was fantasy on top of that, sure, but you didn’t fly into Jerusalem on a dragon.

It up to devs themselves how much they want to be accurate, again at end of the day it’s their own fucking game and as far as I’m concerned they free to make them however they want.

FROM unlike their previous game they actively chose for Sekiro takes place in actual history time period but at the same time it had lot of fantasy elements and mythical beings because that’s how FROM chose to make Sekiro.

 

[RoboFu]

First.. who cares about any of this? Maybe 20 people?

Second why are you mad that you can't destroy tables and draw blood from npcs? Get therapy.

Third .. still not buying this but love watching the train wreck of backlash.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Anyone who has ever played an AC game knows that part of the gameplay is the threat of "desynchronization", which is a mission fail. It's been in the game since the VERY FIRST GAME and killing NPCs cause desynchronization. It's part of the GAMEPLAY to avoid killing them. Making them invincible fundamentally changes a core element of the gameplay that's been in the game for nearly 20 years. But because rage grifter tourists have never played Assassin's Creed and UbiSoft is worried about them inciting their hate lemmings to go after their employees, they've altered a core gameplay function of the series to shut them up.

The description makes it seem like you can still kill unarmed NPC’s, it just isn’t a brutal bloody affair.

 

[whyman]

Anyone who has ever played an AC game knows that part of the gameplay is the threat of "desynchronization", which is a mission fail. It's been in the game since the VERY FIRST GAME and killing NPCs cause desynchronization. It's part of the GAMEPLAY to avoid killing them. Making them invincible fundamentally changes a core element of the gameplay that's been in the game for nearly 20 years. But because rage grifter tourists have never played Assassin's Creed and UbiSoft is worried about them inciting their hate lemmings to go after their employees, they've altered a core gameplay function of the series to shut them up.

The problem is Ubisoft, not grifters. Blame the right people. Look at Kingdom Come deliverance 1, they didn’t cave, and it went great. Same with Hogwarts Legacy. Companies needs to hear when they cave to the wrong shit. There were legit complaints about this game and it should have been reworked from the ground up.

 

[whyman]

lol none of that means historically accurate. The games would be pretty boring if they were historically accurate.

No, like I’ve said in the thread, that was the base that they put fantasy and sci-fy on. But the idea that it had no connection to history is just as extreme.

 

[GymWolf]

Not surprising given how hollow boned ubisoft is.

Congratulation to these retards for making the game worse, even if by a little.

 

[Bernardougf]

I'm sorry but this "Tolerance" and "Artistic Freedom" crap is a very American way of thinking. Most countries in the world have a very steadfast set of socially acceptable behaviors and whatnot that they rarely deviate from. And even if they were to accept change it has to come from within, from one of their own (See: Afghanistan)

I'm not saying that I completely agree with this but come on you're a foreigner don't be surprised when entire nations condemn you. "Grifting" only put a spotlight on it.

Even more when this "tolerance" and "artistic freedom" go as far as their ideology permits.... hypocritical bullshiters and their supporters

 

[ManaByte]

Yes there was fantasy on top of that, sure, but you didn’t fly into Jerusalem on a dragon.

lol someone didn’t play Valhalla.