AC Shadows bugs

[Elite Spanker]

I've noticed several bugs during gameplay. In combat, the skillsets become unresponsive. The only way to fix them was to die in combat and reload. For the Katana on Naoe, the weapon would also become unresponsive for approximately 5 seconds and then autoswitch to my secondary, set to Tanto. This has caused delays in avoidance and intermittent. Restarting the game has not helped.

Additionally, I did have one audio bug where the clashing of swords kept playing until I restarted the game. I've got about 45 hours into the game.

AMD Ryzen 9800x3D
AMD Radeon RX 6900XT
64GB DDR5 RAM 6000MHz
Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB
2TB Samsung 970 EVO NVME SSD
ASUS TUF Gaming X870-Plus WiFi
Win 11 (fresh install)
(so I know it's not me, it's the game)

[Elite Spanker]

I would also mention that I did NOT hit R to switch to the other weapon. I do not use controllers.

[Elite Spanker]

Found another.... If behind two enemies and they are too close together, Naoe cannot initiate a Double Assassination unless a smoke bomb is used. It doesn't give the option. Their elbows were touching... for proximity.

[Elite Spanker]

While in Nagahama Castle, Naoe goes in for silent ground assassination next to clay water pot, breaks the pot, gets discovered. Not a good bug.

[Elite Spanker]

*sigh* I think the game broke. At Teppo Factory near Nagahama Castle, I jumped on a boat and hit E to use. Naoe is stuck staring into the sky at 30° angle with hands down to side and stuck. The boat won't move and I can't disengage.

[Elite Spanker]

I lost the entire Nagahama campaign. I didn't need to save and Autosave didn't kick in at all. An hour of lost work, a level up, and 5 Mastery Points.

[Elite Spanker]

Started the game up this morning after bringing computer out of sleep and restarting Ubisoft Connect services. I now have this issue: "saving is not currently available due to gameplay context(s)" (This is to retry Nagahama again.)

[Elite Spanker]

Oh, yeah. The Shinobi Bell skill failed on three attempts to attract enemies. This caused me to reset my points to reclaim them and use elsewhere. All three bells were within 3m radius of enemies.

[Elite Spanker]

Completed Nagahama castle again, checked autosave logged prior to completion but near end, hit up discovery for Teppo Factory, jumped on same boat at dock nearby and still froze in character. This time, I fell into the boat, character froze, hips intersected with top plane of boat and arms spread at 30° from hips. *sigh* Reloading from autosave because the Manual Save is blocked for some reason.

[Elite Spanker]

Damnit! The autosave saved BEFORE I entered Nagahama and now have to do the castle for the 3rd time!!! And Manual Save is back again.

[Elite Spanker]

During Lightning Kicks, Naoe went from Katana to Tanto mid-animation for the ground attack. I believe is not as intended -> bug.

[Elite Spanker]

After executing someone with katana on throat, my white dot for focus disappeared. Noticed during Eagle Vision. Saved and reloaded. No white dot. Restarting computer.

[Elite Spanker]

Upon restart, white dot came back. Entered tower at Nagahama. Had to engage a Daimo and both mouse buttons and Alt refused to operate until Daimo was allowed to perform unblockable attack. Thankfully, I was at sufficient level that it was not an instant hit but I've had encounters like that where input functions ceased, resulting in instant death and reload.

[Elite Spanker]

Over 50 hours in, I'm STILL getting Tutorials like Observation on the Tool Tip popups. No way to turn these off.

[Elite Spanker]

Performed manual saves as I went. Got to Teppo Factory and cleared. Went to dock and tried boat again but saved before hand. It worked this time.

What I'm seeing are the bugs are not related to the reboot of PC but are intermittent. If one (software) function messes up, it affects other functions. It's likely a variable bit dependency.

[Elite Spanker]

The giant barge in the bay lead to an interesting experience. Upon killing one, it switched from Tanto to Katana. Next fight, it switched back to Tanto mid-fight.