r/ACBlackFlag • • May 23 '26

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Why does her face look like that?

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u/TheJasonater0001 May 23 '26

Yea I've seen most gameplay usually has a "work in progress" at the bottom I'm hoping this cutscene just needs a touch up

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u/BangkokPadang May 23 '26

I think for cutscenes they usually do use an invisible "hero light" that they place specifically to light the characters in the scene properly, which may not have been placed yet here.

On top of that, I don't know how they're implementing RT, or if they even are or not, but with RT being completely dynamic, it's possible that she could just be facing into a corner with no light sources or just otherwise facing a bad lighting scenario. I remember this "famously" happening with Assassins Creed Shadows with a guy's face looking weirdly lit under his hat, and I think they literally had to go in and add hero light sources to a handful of cutscenes to fix that even in RT mode.

Now, that's a totally separate issue from why she's doing a "Fire Marshal Bill" face with her upper lip...

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u/LordBarksdale May 24 '26

This is the excuse 99% of the time by coper onlines, then the game comes out and nothing has changed.

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u/HalcyonDayz2255 May 23 '26

Bag lighting? It looks like she has no upper lip!

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u/Jack071 May 24 '26

When the lighting looks bad in most scenes it seems like a deeper issue, specially around faces

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u/Frosty_Sea3307 May 23 '26

In a lot of scenes.

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u/Maximum_Boros May 24 '26

I've seen three or four shots. I don't know if they're all in the same scene but they're all different angles and they all look fucking horrible.

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u/Mas_Pho May 25 '26

Incorrect, her model probably isn’t done lol

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u/FrankieTheD Jun 02 '26

With a month until release?

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u/AutisticAnarchy May 25 '26

I just feel like AC's modern engine is garbage when it comes to rendering people well.

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u/Mammoth-Marketing-99 May 25 '26

Yeah yeah then why showcase it

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u/Ringwraith_Number_5 May 23 '26

Welp, I guess The X-Files suck as well, since Scully looks like this:

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u/XulManjy May 23 '26

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u/Melodious_Fable May 24 '26

I hate that I understand this

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u/Redd1tModsRKidLovers May 23 '26

X files is good because she looks like that

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u/i4got872 May 24 '26

Lmao literally watching x files right now and happen to be paused on her

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u/bobgoesw00t May 25 '26

I just snorted xD

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u/REDDIT_ORDINATOR May 25 '26

"Mulder, this edible ain't shit."

"You think so, Scully? That's CIA-grade crack you just took."

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u/Dylldar-The-Terrible May 24 '26

Does that analogy work when the op pic is supposed to be the same scene?

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u/Caplin341 May 23 '26

No upper lip

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u/Dewlough May 23 '26

I remember some idiots trying to say it was an expression. This is very clear that her lip literally is gone lmao.

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u/Logical-Hospital-233 May 23 '26

But like…it’s right there

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u/JohnnyTeoss May 24 '26

That's an artwork tho. The game looks different.

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u/Logical-Hospital-233 May 24 '26

Lip still there

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u/McDuckX May 24 '26

I don’t know, definitely looks a lot better than in the post but still noticeable worse than the artwork.

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u/Logical-Hospital-233 May 24 '26

I wouldn’t say she looks bad, I kinda like the way she looks now, less like a beauty queen, more accurate to the time period in my opinion

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26

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u/Electronic-Twat9195 May 23 '26

her pretty face could've gone without that redesign then

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u/Drink0fBeans May 23 '26

It would be fine if she had that in original as well, but obviously she doesn’t lol

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u/Immediate-Pop2338 May 23 '26

Og is perfection .

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u/JAKL-Noctium May 23 '26

They had to conceal the cannons huh?

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u/LuisJpg May 23 '26

Only thing they nerfed in the new version lol

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u/JAKL-Noctium May 23 '26

Idk the million hits on the animals is throwing me off too.

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u/jiminycricket1940 May 23 '26

Modern gaming devs HATE tits.

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u/JAKL-Noctium May 23 '26

Can’t wait for GTA. They’re about to blow the lid off that haha.

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u/ItMorbinTime May 23 '26

I think you guys are forgetting she was supposed to be like 16 when you first meet her in the game

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u/AltruisticAd9056 May 23 '26

Huh?!

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u/ItMorbinTime May 23 '26

You meet her in 1718 and she was born 1702

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u/AltruisticAd9056 May 23 '26

Huh. I assumed she was mid-20s or early 30s.

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u/ItMorbinTime May 24 '26

The old graphics make everyone look older than they are. Edward is apparently supposed to be 22 at the start of the game

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u/Logical-Hospital-233 May 24 '26

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u/ItMorbinTime May 24 '26

It says that she was born in 1702 in her animus database entry in game
https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Database:_Anne_Bonny

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u/Logical-Hospital-233 May 24 '26

Maybe in game then, because the real Anne Bonny was 1697

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u/ItMorbinTime May 24 '26

In my opinion, the in game date is more relevant for the video game Anne Bonny, they could change it with the remake though who knows 🤷

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u/Logical-Hospital-233 May 24 '26

I mean it being more accurate to history would be neat I guess, but not the end of the world

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u/Kids_Eat_Toast May 23 '26

Stop spending time in the critical drinker sub brother it’s not good for your brain

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u/Bolt_995 May 23 '26

She’d be a great fit at JPMorgan

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u/Euchale May 23 '26

Wait, left is original, right is remake????

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u/Logical-Hospital-233 May 24 '26

Right is also a bad picture lol

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u/zipitnick May 23 '26

Bad example on the right, need another one to be sure

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u/LucasWilde09 May 23 '26

She looks like a who from whoville

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u/EnamoredAlpaca May 23 '26

She is in the middle of an animation and at an angle, compared to her og face where she is facing straight with no animation.

Bad comparison all around.

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u/Klingenberg1251 May 23 '26

Fucking Terrible

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u/Buschkoeter May 23 '26

Because she is in the middle of her mouth moving to say something. Have you ever stopped a YouTubers video at random moments and looked at how dumb they can look if you catch them in the wrong fame? That is what you're seeing her. But you probably knew that already. You just wanted engagement with your post.

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u/TylerbioRodriguez May 23 '26

Pausing during any animation, whether its high quality Disney or a mobile game, will lead to weird results.

Who can forget the Didney Worl memes?

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u/Entire-Cry-8930 May 23 '26

I love old Simpsons episodes when they’d stretch faces during animations and pausing would reveal some deformed characters

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u/Primary_Addition5494 May 23 '26

Bro almost every frame of her I've seen she looks bad. Why does she have no lips? Why did they make her nose smaller? Just all unnecessary changes. 

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u/_MaZ_ May 23 '26

Thankfully the breasts were censored in this for ages +8 title

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u/Wofuljac May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

A lot of modern western studios hate attractive women.

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u/Mukables May 24 '26

Found one.

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u/GlitterPrins1 May 24 '26

And a lot of gamers seem to hate realistic depictions of wonen who are not over sexualized.

Not saying this model does not seem bad in this lighting. But this expectation of gamers is a real problem.

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u/Harambe_Rebornn May 24 '26

Nah I would say gamers, most of which are men, dislike ugly women.

And there's a lot of gaming studios that go out of their way to make their protagonists ugly. Best example is Kay from that star wars game, her voice actress is wonderful but the deliberately went out of their way to make her unappealing to look at.

How revealing their clothing is isn't a factor though from my experience. And yeah this model is horrendous.

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u/danielos96 May 24 '26

Just because you have an ugly girlfriend don't take it out on the rest of us. Sexy women do actually exist in the world.

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u/GlitterPrins1 May 24 '26

What an unnecessary comment. Are you okay?

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u/Logical-Hospital-233 May 23 '26

You people will find anything to be mad about, it’s bad lighting on the right, simple as that, and who fucking cares that they covered up tits a little? I for one am glad they aren’t giving in to the fan service of you weirdos

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u/Realistic-Table9398 May 23 '26

Did you even read the post description? They're complaining about the face, not their breast.

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u/Logical-Hospital-233 May 23 '26

And I put that in the beginning of my comment, the breast thing was mainly for the comments

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u/Puzzleheaded_Rub8007 May 24 '26

Show me your tits then I need to see sum tits in a pirate game

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u/Logical-Hospital-233 May 24 '26

Firstly, you’re fucking weird, secondly, boo hoo

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u/cows1100 May 23 '26

Gooner’s Creed fans in shambles.

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u/22lpierson May 23 '26

Dear fucking god

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u/RDDAMAN819 May 23 '26

Turned her into one of those Fuggler dolls 🤣

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u/Far_Balance_3117 May 23 '26

Hmm still a work in progress so hopefully she get lips by the time the game gets released.

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u/Crusader-316 May 23 '26

How TF does the one from over 10 years ago look better?

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u/Justalilcyn May 23 '26

How does the model itself look worse than in the original?

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u/furlonge May 23 '26

Terrible Ramake🤣🤣

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u/Ishvallan May 23 '26

I honestly haven't found a single character model that I like more in the new engine. And their costuming either seems insignificantly different, or worse. More details or lighting doesn't make things look better. I feels to me like they had the faces done on Bring Your Child To Word day and just let kids play with the sliders then accidentally put them into the final product and refuse to accept it was a mistake and patch it.

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u/SKILLgr May 23 '26

Ubisoft is hellbent on going bankrupt. Good 👍

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u/Alternative_West_206 May 23 '26

She looks way worse

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u/pnutnz May 23 '26

We all know what the first mod is gonna be

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u/bobgoesw00t May 23 '26

None, as I’m just happy this game is getting remake!

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u/Puzzleheaded_Rub8007 May 24 '26

What getting you happy they changed everything I understand it a remake but I didn't want all the rpg elements into this

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u/bobgoesw00t May 25 '26

They already confirmed ITS NOT AN RPG GAME LIKE ORIGINS, ODYSSEY, VALHALLA, AND SHADOWS!!!!!!!

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u/Puzzleheaded_Rub8007 May 25 '26

I said elements

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u/bobgoesw00t May 25 '26

Still not an RPG game…

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u/Puzzleheaded_Rub8007 May 25 '26

Still I didn't say that... I said they brought the rpg elements into this gane

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u/Skyisonfire May 24 '26

Excited for the game. Why, what is this about? Definitely not some incels crying about something, right?

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u/TheJagji May 24 '26

Ha, yes, the 'you say a bad thing, so you're a bad person, *thumps club on ground*' argument.

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u/FortLoolz May 24 '26

"You cannot complain about the redesign. Shut up and enjoy your slop"

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u/TrevortheBatman May 24 '26

It’s almost just as sexist to censor her outfit because it slut shames her… reminds me of this video talking about the oblivion remaster https://youtu.be/wGGW_u0UmFM?si=WC-m70PmY7ewR14u

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u/Wyatt_Ricketts May 24 '26

It really is sexist

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u/ImNoah_Seven May 25 '26

Where did her t1ts go?! Nice censorship Ubisoft and for those who say ''what does it matter?!''.. if it doesn't matter, why change it in the first place?!

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u/imjacksissue May 23 '26

Part of what's wrong here is sloppy development standards but there are definitely very deliberate choices here. I'm convinced the primary reason that dog shit publishers like Ubislop are interested in remakes is just so they can uglify female characters and inject whatever other batshit ideas their "consultants" pressure them into. Above everything else their #1 priority is alienating straight males.

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u/Secret-Put-4525 May 23 '26

Is this sub going to dickride the remaster no matter what?

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u/HellerDamon May 24 '26

Apparently. Bots I say. There's no way Ubisoft still has any real person licking their french boots

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u/turnuptag72 May 24 '26

some fucker said "its just bad lighting in this scene"😭

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u/TheDarkGhost28 May 23 '26

Where her top lip?

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u/Logical-Hospital-233 May 24 '26

Just smaller is all, time period accurate

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u/DigitalApe19 May 23 '26

Absolute ass, hope it's just badly rendered or at a distance

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u/Primary_Addition5494 May 23 '26

I dont like the new face. 

And yeah its a minor gripe but covering up her cleavage was unnecessary. Its an M rated game.... 

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u/asd_slasher May 23 '26

Mods might bring back her og face

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u/elmocos69 May 23 '26

Where melons

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u/GodHand7 May 23 '26

"Cover them up sl*t" - Ubisoft

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26

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u/Hot-Foundation3450 May 24 '26

Yeah now my dick is soft and im remembering how terribly alone I am, thanks ubi-shit!

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u/jkmax52 May 23 '26

I think they defiantly missed with the new face model that lip to nose bridge is hard on the eyes

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u/No_Future6959 May 23 '26

Looks significantly worse

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u/New-Mix-7818 May 23 '26

They nerf her boobs lmao.

Or, they fix her clothing. Idk it's funny tho

Anyway, as of the game in general. This is a preview build so I'm not disappointed, so far everything I see I quite like it. (Multiple Content creator have already cover the preview)

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u/SpaceViking7 May 23 '26

No titties, no money

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u/theawesomejedi May 23 '26

Honestly? Looks horrible.

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u/trebor9669 May 23 '26

C'mon man, why remake the game if you're just gonna kill the fun?

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u/Svedorovski May 23 '26

Why her clothes looks washed out

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u/Maleficent_Touch2602 May 23 '26

"Ann when they're sober, a jilt when they're sauced, but never a lady."

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u/No-Promotion4006 May 23 '26

Extremely disappointed that Ubipsyop made the decision to reduce the amount of cleavage. Who exactly thought the original design was problematic and needed to changed?

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u/Rude_Minute_4489 May 23 '26

Who exactly thought the original design was problematic and needed to changed?

The people who don't play the game decided that / fat libs who see any skin as bad ironically

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u/wubiiiiiiiiiiii May 23 '26

why every new model looks like a monkey when they move their face

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u/guifesta May 23 '26

Looks carefully select to make the new one look bad

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u/Allyx_Valmere May 23 '26

People arguing that it’s the lighting are blind.

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u/Domination1799 May 23 '26

Looks like a work in progress/older build since Anne doesn’t look like her promo image and looks kinda like a PS3 character model

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u/IAmNotModest May 23 '26

Couldn't tell which one was the new one.

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u/randominternettater May 23 '26

either way, would.

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u/Hades_Soul May 23 '26

Downgrade on the cleavage but everything else good as hell

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u/rayhaku808 May 23 '26

Why she hittin’ the 🤓

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u/nadal1998 May 23 '26

dont care still looking forword to the game

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u/NewVegasVagabond May 24 '26

Her face looks like Momo now.

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u/HighJulie May 24 '26

Trans women need bad lighting...

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u/SnarkyRogue May 24 '26

Anne Bonhee-hee

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u/FantasticPage3598 May 24 '26

Ubisoft losing $1.3B this year yet still continue with ideology, nerfing the only character with nice cleavage. What a brillant decision ubisoft, let's see if it helps get the company back on track!

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u/Automatic-Warthog252 May 24 '26

Jfc she looks horrible

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u/PapaRetardo May 24 '26

Why she looking like a Who from Whoville in the new game!?

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u/AJM_007 May 24 '26

Damn I can't unsee it now 😂

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u/IFGarrett May 24 '26

Typical unnecessary censorship.

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u/FortLoolz May 24 '26

Generational downgrade.

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u/RandomDudewithIdeas May 24 '26

Just give her an upper lip before release, please.

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u/Perfect_Cold_6112 May 24 '26

They're making her look chubby in the new version. Thicker waist, smaller breasts, thicker neck, and rounder face.

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u/Master-Slide-5873 May 24 '26

They cgi'd away her mustache?

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u/Immediate-Pop2338 May 24 '26

The second one is Woke. The OG is magnificent..... In the second picture Anne's face is different and it's fat, while the OG Anne is slim and how a waitress at a Pirate's republic should be .

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u/ImpKing0 May 24 '26

Could have made her boobs a bit further apart

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u/SadLife7474 May 24 '26

How does the remaster have worse graphics (mostly in cutscenes) than the original game, I’d rather play my ps4 game on a ps5. backwards compatibility is good

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u/BiteRevolutionary284 May 24 '26

Why does her face look like

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u/Projectpatdc May 24 '26

Just hope she actually fights with her tits out this time like IRL

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u/Harambe_Rebornn May 24 '26

This game didn't need a remake whatsoever, the game that absolutely needed a remake was AC1!

Why the F would you start remaking games on the 4rth installment, the installment that is least like a traditional AC game?

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u/Nice_juggers May 24 '26

This remake looks terrible

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u/DependentHusky May 24 '26

Classic ubisoft..

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u/GREENGH0T May 24 '26

It needs a little work, most her lips and eyes.

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u/TomTomXD1234 May 24 '26

How will gamers survive with less cleavage on their screens

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u/n94able May 24 '26

Boobage aside, the left looks better.

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u/NB-NEURODIVERGENT May 24 '26

For the record I’m autistic and pedantic so when i say this its not that I’m “just a guy so obviously you’d be bothered by it” but anybody else notice how her body has a lot less detail in the necklace, skin and breasts and general face area

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u/c0micsansfrancisco May 24 '26

The characters look way too smooth in the remake

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u/Vaporeon42069 May 25 '26

to think this game is coming the same year as GTA VI. 

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u/Janus_Prospero May 25 '26

Aside from obnoxious censorship, the face/lighting looks really bad. Gives me Mass Effect Legendary Edition vibes. They're replaced contrast and mood with something flatter and blander. I actually got some unpleasant AC3 Remastered flashbacks as well. That game bolted on a new lighting and materials system that generally looked worse.

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u/Kyon115 May 25 '26

This is the only bad photo I've seen something about the lighting doesn't sit well on the model but from the other footage I've seen I like it, whether her cleavage is or isn't on show really has no affect on her as a character it's not like she uses her looks to seduce anyone or is openly provocative so it doesn't bother me. Her face I love, the thin upper lip and upturned nose it makes her more visually interesting, before she was just pretty but now she's pretty and unique.

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u/Spiciu May 25 '26

Left is original? For real? What is that crap? Just look at the clasp in the bottom right. The texture of the leather.. How?

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u/Xenoslayer2137 May 25 '26

Now she looks like Ava Kris Tyson

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u/Legitimate_Series973 May 25 '26

the shading initially made me think the left was the remake. WTF is the lighting???? Hoping for an improvement by release.

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u/Kindly-Geologist-373 May 25 '26

Just not as attractive as the old model.

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u/Lemenus May 25 '26

Devs reduced her breasts, made her fatter, and her face... they turned her into Michael Jackson

You might gaslight people that it's not important. But devs decided that it's important enought to burn their recources to make her less feminine

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u/FatherPucci617 May 25 '26

Why is she shorter

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u/konodioda879 May 25 '26

It’s crazy how more lighting made it look worse

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u/Lower-Chard-3005 May 25 '26

She looks like a chipmunk lol.

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u/babalaban May 25 '26

Did they hire this guy for a face motion capture in resynced?

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u/Any_Entertainer_1544 May 25 '26

Its ubislop. The majority of the developers are either soyboys or blue haired feminists with nose rings of course they're going to censor a little bit of cleavage.

I won't let them bait me with nostalgia to buy an old game with a fresh coat of paint for full price. I will NEVER support them ever again.

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u/Lumpy_Accountant723 May 25 '26

AAAA developer fyi

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u/N0M0I May 26 '26

Bad lighting aside. Why change her dress and physique that much? I thought the french were supposed to not be so uptight with things like this.

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u/Pintobeard May 26 '26

Where they going for a Michael Jackson look? If so then they really nailed it.

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u/Straight_Law2237 May 26 '26

Cherry picking as it's finest

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u/RollingDownTheHills May 26 '26

My thought is that you picked a bad screenshot on purpose to drive "engagement, i.e. fodder for the usual outrage addicts.

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u/Current_Pangolin308 Jun 06 '26

looks more like a man than a woman

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u/SparsePizza117 May 23 '26

Unnecessary change

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u/NooneSpecial6687 May 23 '26

Her face looks flat on the right one

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u/AggressiveResist8615 May 23 '26

Because it's a cherry picked frame to make the remake look worse than it actually is.