Possible to play offline?

[Kail]

Like the title says: I live in a rural area where my internet tends to cut in and out, and is often just down for half the day during network congestion. I like playing large, open-world single-player games like Assassins Creed, but lately it's been hard with their forced always-online stuff. Is this game able to be played offline, or will it just waste my time and money? It's already 70 dollars, so I do expect a ninja to hand-deliver a copy to my house for that price...

[Bubblegum Flavour]

Publicado originalmente por CrilbusFX:

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Oh ok, thats not as bad. Still its probably once every 5 days isnt it ?

denuvo is horriible 5 different devices aswell i got locked out when i was messing with proton on my steamdeck

Thats why I dont buy anything with Denuvo on it xD

[Rinneh]

Publicado originalmente por Mortilla:

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The other fella says the opposite xD Neither of you has the game on steam ;p

Which is it ?XD

Second guy got it right.

Online activation is required (installation and first boot), but you don't need to always be online in order to play.

This is incorrect, just tried to launch it on my Ally X in offline mode. It doesnt work it keeps looping when you click the "continue offline" button. It restarts uplay and then asks it again.

[Rinneh]

Publicado originalmente por Dagtag:

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on steam deck when i click go offline on the ubisoft connect screen it goes black for a few seconds then displays the message again and repeats. on pc doing this works as expected. but im never offline on my pc anyway. i want to play on my steamdeck on my commute to work. this is not currently possible that i have found. only work around which isnt good enough is starting the game at home. loading in to the world. then putting the deck to sleep. waking from sleep and playing. this wont always be possible so im keen on a solution, because all the solutions ive tried have been unsuccessful.

Im afraid the steamdeck is one of the few exceptions because of the linux OS.

It generally doesn’t play nicely with denuvo.

Also on Windows with the Ally X. Maybe if you run Uplay separately. But the steam version has the launcher embedded.

[Dagtag]

Publicado originalmente por Rinneh:

Publicado originalmente por Dagtag:

Im afraid the steamdeck is one of the few exceptions because of the linux OS.

It generally doesn’t play nicely with denuvo.

Also on Windows with the Ally X. Maybe if you run Uplay separately. But the steam version has the launcher embedded.

Interesting. I was under the impression the ally x wouldn’t suffer from that issue because of the windows OS.

[Derah]

Publicado originalmente por Bubblegum Flavour:

The other fella says the opposite xD Neither of you has the game on steam ;p

Which is it ?XD

Take it from someone who actually HAS the game has has played it in a remote region with spotty internet access: The game can be played offline. Obviously you won't get access to the weekly animus quests without an internet connection, nor be able to progress on the battlepass-like animus projects either, but that's like a 0.5% of the content the game has to offer.

The remaining 99.5% can be played entirely offline, so long as you do get an internet connection every week or so, you'll be fine.

[Kail]

Publicado originalmente por Derah:

Publicado originalmente por Bubblegum Flavour:

The other fella says the opposite xD Neither of you has the game on steam ;p

Which is it ?XD

Take it from someone who actually HAS the game has has played it in a remote region with spotty internet access: The game can be played offline. Obviously you won't get access to the weekly animus quests without an internet connection, nor be able to progress on the battlepass-like animus projects either, but that's like a 0.5% of the content the game has to offer.

The remaining 99.5% can be played entirely offline, so long as you do get an internet connection every week or so, you'll be fine.

There are times we're on off-grid power and our internet is completely down for over a week at home. Most of the time it's just a good portion of every day. So yeah, I tend to prefer offline games unless I happen to be staying in town for a bit, at which point I only have an old gaming laptop that struggles with Witcher 3.

I just don't understand the whole "You need to check in with us once a day/week or you can't play the game". Stuff like this rewards pirates and game crackers, while punishing legitimate users.

[Bubblegum Flavour]

Publicado originalmente por Kail:

Stuff like this rewards pirates and game crackers, while punishing legitimate users.

You said it XD