Cannot play offline on steam deck

[Bigby]

So that pinned comment is a lie, can't play offline, ubisoft connect just tells me to go off myself.

[SabraCadabra]

Hi,

= you have to start the game online...Then ingame just turn wifi off...thats it. When youre done playing always quit the game before going back online (lost save because of that). Other then that i can confirm it works just fine on steam deck playing offline.

Cheers,
Ash

[The Snacrifice]

You can play the game offline, but the connect launcher is a bit derpy.
Follow the Ubisoft instructions to launch the game offline(connect online first, get to main menu, turn off game, go into offline mode)
Launch game. Ubisoft launcher will complain about being offline. Hit X. You will hit a black screen. Hit B/exit the game.
Then launch the game again, it will launch into offline mode.

[chronicdog]

Horrible implentation

[.k3]

To play offline I had to follow these steps:

1. Turn off wifi on steamdeck
2. Start game and wait until you see the login screen
3. turn on wifi on steamdeck
4. Login in the ubisoft connect launcher (make sure that it is NOT in offline mode) and start the game
5. Wait for the game to start then close the game regularly through the game itself

Afterwards the game should be launchable both online and offline. However when starting offline the launcher will ask you to switch to offline mode (select with X). After doing this the application should start after a slightly longer loading time/black screen.

Switching between online/offline works without any further configuration then (however offline always requires you to go through the launcher.

Setting the "start launcher in offline mode" does appear to reset everytime I start the game.