Been playing the closed beta and I know it's a beta but the game releases in 7 days. Not a whole lot you can do in that time.

The game is still really unpolished and feels jarring. The opening section has you in a rather large vessel but the thing turns on a dime. Only water craft able to turn like that is a jetski and even that didn't have the super tight turning radius this thing did. There was also no time in turning. It felt really jarring, especially when Black Flag did it so well.

The voice acting of the characters you start with is extremely uninspired. I don't blame the actors but the director who decided this was okay. It's so jarring and disconnected. Characters aren't even consistent on pronunciation of simple things.

The combat is hyper simplistic. It's just hold left trigger to aim and then hold right trigger to fire. A quote I said to my buddy while playing was "Huh. My pirate ship is fully automatic." The cannonballs just kept firing more and more until I needed a reload, then more and more. Everything is bulletspongey and nothing visually seems to change or update to sort of reflect the damage that you're doing. Most vessels you fight against have multiple giant red boxes where the helm is located and those boxes are explosive and almost guarantee a one hit kill. It just feels so basic and simple and boring. When you complete the opening battle and get your own small craft, you start getting attacked by sharks who are leaping out of the water to attack the boat. Not you. The boat. Because that makes sense. And you have to attack and kill the sharks by throwing harpoons at it, also super simple point and click. Think the fish fight in Resident Evil 4 Remake or even RE4 OG.

Walking around on the ground is painful. You can't sprint, for a start, and the character will either keep walking for another few feet when you stop or suddenly stop. This leads you to getting used to the trail so you stop preemptively and end up 5 feet away from the thing you need to do, forcing you to start walking again and that animation is also way too long.

One of the locations you have to go to at the start is called 'West Island'. I'm sorry but how simple and boring do you have to be at the start of the game to just lazily call it West Island because it's in the west?

This game is awful. It's a patchwork disaster which is only made more concerning by that article saying that the third creative director just left the game before it even launches.

vast and complete

'It's so finished you guys!' is a fucking bragging point now.

No thanks, pass. Games as a service with loot boxes and battle passes aren't my thing.

“People will really see how vast and complete that game is”

The fact that the CEO has to argue that the game is "complete" says so much about the whole debacle.

[x] Doubt

"Quadruple-A" lmao
Just the other day there was an article with the previous creative director saying that they had to axe the Single-player campaign because they just didn't have the team to do it

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They can barely make AAA these days though

Where is Ubisoft getting all this unearned confidence from? Their games have just been circling the toilet for the past 5 years or so.

That's a quadruple paaaass from me, dawg.

70 bucks AND i don’t get to own it? sign me up!

If this dude was a real gamer, he would have called it "S-tier".

Of course he would. Screw Ubisoft.

They make The Crew unplayable in a month, without any chance to ever play it again.

And they expect me to pay 70 € for this? What?

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, oh, no, you won't!

Leave it to Ubisoft to add an extra A to the already shitty landscape that is AAA gaming.

This game will be $40 in 6 weeks and discounted to $25 during a summer sale.

Lol

I played the closed beta. For 20min. I couldn't continue because it felt so incredibly boring. Insanely uninspired. Even Blackwake, the buggy mess with the simplest game loop was more interesting.

If their game was that good, we would read about it up and down the net. The fact that I read about it here for the first time tells a different story.

I want whatever Ubisoft is smoking. First they're telling people that we don't truly own their games and now they're making AAAA games? I wish I had that confidence in myself.

Just because the Ubisoft CEO comes up with new flashy words to describe something, it still won’t make up for the fact that this is an awful, unpolished, and unfinished game, just like pretty much anything else Ubisoft released in the last decade, as a first-party developer

Dang that's crazy. Anyway opens up Monster Hunter World

In case you needed another reason not to by this collage of shite, here's a reminder that Ubisoft is a hateful company run by a hateful man and no one should be buying their games anyway: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-has-reportedly-made-minimal-changes-following-abuse-allegations

Another A is crazy af lol. Ubisoft lives in their own world I guess.

Quadruple A must mean when you spend so many years in development hell that the game costed another A's worth of budget.

Ubisoft is ubisofting

I saw Ubisoft in the title and realized I don't care. It could be duodecillion-A and I still wouldn't give a flying fuck.

Hey guys, I'm developing a quintiple A game! It's real because I just said so! Also the price point for AAAAA games will be $145 cause that's how awesome it will make you feel.

p.s. - planned DLC releases during early access for only $99, what a bargain!

Halo 3, Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Mass Effect 2 were all triple A games. Whatever this game is that they are trying to peddle, is not better than any of the previous games I listed.

Never heard of this title before.

Can confidently say that we're winning the battle on this front.

The extra "A" stands for "Asshole"

Game is boring. Ubisoft somehow eclipsing EA at shitting the bed in every aspect.

So it has potential to be a quadruple fail and sink the company?

As a cannabis enjoyer, I feel in this case, as is usually the case in my world, quad claims are bullshit.

This game is a collab with the Singaporean government, their workforce has terrible salaries plus benefitting from generous federal subsidies. Is that not enough for you Yves?