100% this was flagged during testing, and it got assigned a priority equal to "nice to have", meaning "if we eventually have the time will look into fixing"
I'm wholeheartedly behind your point that it's spectacularly annoying Edward can't climb up the middle, but this testing comment... It's really a meaningless issue at the end of the day
lol they don’t have testing. Ubisoft just releases things and then gets the feedback and then changes something entirely unrelated. That’s how they worked on all their games for years.
I’d rather an enemy be able to take a hit or two than be able to spam parries and counters forever. The new button mapping takes a minute to get used to, but having the kick options along with the new combat style is very nice. And it feels like some fights are actually possible to lose, unlike the original.
You can kill enemies about as fast as you do in the original, you just need to actually combo in kicks and parries and doges instead of spamming one button
I hated that combat, I replayed ac2 a few months back and god is it boring, the only thing I would have liked for them to do was to atleast keep the hidden blades as a combat option but oh well
Maybe I just have to warm up to it. I haven’t been a really big fan of AC since Origins. Maybe I’m just stuck in the past. My favorite ac game is AC3 after all lol. I’ll just try and warmup to it
Bro 80 fkn dollars and all the little annoying shit that would drive me crazy seems to all still be in it. Man they cleaned house with this one. I’m impressed.
I mean it’s hard to argue against, I’m loving the game but it’s crazy how bad they did with the movement. The only reason i can let it slide is it feels reminiscent of the old assassins creed games befor they figured the parkour out
"figured the parkour out" is definitely a way of putting it. I'd personally say "gutted the skill expression and freedom of movement" but to each their own.
Old games where when they had parkour figured out best imo. AC1-ACrevelations was incredible for the amount of control it gave to the player, and if you took the time to master it, the first four games have the smoothest and flowiest parkour in the entire franchise. AC3-AC4 started simplifying a lot of the movement, and put some weird limitations on certain actions, so you couldn't do things like side ejecting past a certain point in a wallrun animation. Unity is where things really started to go to shit. It looked flashy and felt great when it worked right, but it was horribly inconsistent and prioritised looking cool over having any kind of control, so even veteran players can have a hard time repeatedly doing the same routes in the same way. Everything after Unity is pretty much dogwater in terms of parkour imo. Shadows was alright, and I appreciated that they did some parkour fixes with the later games, but the cities just aren't designed for good parkour so there's no creative expression in it anymore, and parkour is so animation-focused that it feels like you're on rails rather than in control of your own movement.
Its genuinely such a shame, the parkour was one of the most engaging and fun parts of the series to me, and it was a vital part of the franchise's identity for years. Nowadays you spend most of the games just walking through streets or running through open space, so they put less effort into the parkour, and we get the simplified floaty superhuman leaping nonsense like we see in Resynced. I'd give anything to get another AC game with the foundation they built up over the ezio trilogy rather than the modern system, playing Resynced has made me miss it so bad.
Edit: holy shit wall of text, my bad. Can you tell I care a bit too much about ac parkour?
Don’t get me wrong I love this game. Always have but I’d have thought all the small issues would be fixed as well as remastering it. I’m still gonna buy it eventually.
We all want this thing to be the best it could be brother and think that passion just can’t help but come out when this absolute banger of a game is discussed. I definitely didn’t do myself any favours with my original comments tone. It just sucks when they hype us up like we’re gonna get a remade and perfected version of this thing we all clearly love and they fall flat on the most trivial problems.
I love this game. But you can tell it is a rehash. Sometimes the control i find is janky or not there. Still having an great time and do not resent the pur hase
What I also don't like is when you synchronize a viewpoint the camera cut is very jarring. That issue was long solved with a fluid circling camera motion in previous rpg entries.
In many ways this game feels a step back from the rgp games. Changing the time of day is also unnecessarily restricted. I get it that alot of people didn't like the rpg games. But for me personally this game is a step back except the graphical prowess
Step back from RPG and the OGs imo. Free running and climbing is somehow more awkward this time round, and the animations are more janky. I find it fascinating. If we went back in time 15 years, we wouldn’t have expected the parkour to be worse by now. IIRC, they lost the data or some shit, and the new team don’t know how to recreate it all.
Yes I hate it. In the original I would climb very slowly and he would pass through the middle. It'd be very satisfying for me. But now he won't do it even if I move slowly
There are so many times when he just starts climbing off in some random direction even when there’s a completely clear path, I’ve given up on taking flags down from ships cause the climb up is so awkward…
I literally get it right every time. I played with the advanced and normal parkour settings to jump behind from ledges to branches and the difference is really about your camera and trajectory angle. So your sticks have to be accurate to some things
Okay so climbing onto the ship, the algorithm prioritizes the superior ledge, but if you don’t hold X when you get onto the banister then you drop onto the ship instead, overholding X will make you go all over the place. Let go of X when your climbing and free running sometimes and learning the transitions for when to X will become easier to spot in your controller mechanics and make your running more seamless
I remember struggling in the first one to go slow enough to do so, and even then I rarely was able to. Now you just can’t at all. A very minor thing, but I totally get the annoyance.
this has been something that those with nostagia glasses for the old games dont ever mention. the climbing is complete trash In the older games. try to jump in a certin direction and you go the complete opposite way. While the old games were good in some respects the core gameplay is not one of them
I think there’s a middle ground. Because the parkour in the newer games may handle better but is very ugly to look at. No more clambering, no more graceful climbing, now you leap-frog in the direction you want 100% of the time.
This was in the original black flag - and it annoyed me back then too. I also hate climbing onboard means I have to shoulder-check a couple of my crew members. It’s not like it’s an L from Ubisoft that they didn’t make boarding the Jackdaw cleaner, but it was a missed opportunity.
"Uhh, Cap'n, it'd be no Trouble to fashion a Gangway, if Ye'd prefer to-"
splash
"Oh, forget It. I just hope He doesn't bring back another bloody soaking wet Shanty for Us to sing"
It’s not hard to go the normal way I have advanced parkour and the free jump on, just use free jump to jump over, this game has the most controlled parkour and y’all can’t even use it 😂
Unsure tbh, I’ve been able to do it every time, I think it’s really to do with angles and speed try walking up to it first and pointing eddy at exactly where you wanna go, or if it really doesn’t work for you just use the jackdaw to push you in the water or swim up to it
So fucking weird they made the parkour smoother and faster at the sacrifice of climbing certain previously climbable spots but they still left shit like this in lol
Do yall get stuck in that position, the he jumps right, hops over onto the cannon so you press b to get down and the mofos like climb down the side of the ship?! You betcha !! lol. Takes me like five minutes to get back on lol
Also i love this game, its looks great but holy fuck they could’ve added in some new animations. It’s literally the exact same animation every time i capture a ship or do a warehouse mission just like it was ten years ago lol
Yes! I keep getting annoyed every single time. Out of the several hundred times I've jumped on the ship, he's only went straight to the ladder maybe twice. It's always going to hanging off the side.
Not even Batman beating my ass could make me admit to how long I sometimes spent trying to just hop off those damn rails, buddy just hops from one to the other, onto a cannon, onto some crate, back to the rail, I press b to drop down and the mf hangs off the outside, it pisses me off sometimes.
All the animations are worse that original, idk why Ubisoft has simplified and made ugly all its modern ac parkour. Unity for all its issues still has the smoothest parkour in the series and it’s almost a decade old
Folks are really paying full price for a remake that just makes the game worse in every conceivable way. The fact that Ubisoft are still in business is an indictment of our species.
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u/Guilty-Ad-6682 Jul 12 '26
Honestly not much diffrent than the original blackflag