Did they take achievements off AC2?

[Unseen]

Just wondering I can see revelations achievements and the farcry games I got but AC2 doesn't seem to have an achievement menu now. Sucks I was kinda proud of unlocking all the achievements in this, not that its a big deal was just wondering.

[MBK]

AC2 never had achievements on Steam, only on Uplay/Ubisoft Connect

[Unseen]

Originally posted by MBK:

AC2 never had achievements on Steam, only on Uplay/Ubisoft Connect

That's what I mean the Uplay ones aren't showing up for me anymore.

[Bee4Me]

Originally posted by Unseen:

Originally posted by MBK:

AC2 never had achievements on Steam, only on Uplay/Ubisoft Connect

That's what I mean the Uplay ones aren't showing up for me anymore.

You kinda overslept the age didn't ya ? :D So Uplay does not exist anymore, platform got renamed and achievement system disabled in almost every game. People went very mad about it and I agree it was stupid decision. But they did not revert it. Some games got their achievements kept such as For Honor, Rainbow Six Siege and some few other ''old'' ones. The rest went into the trash...Basically removed every achievement and old exp system from them in exchange of unlocking all rewards you could unlock with Ubisoft units (those golden coins). This ''exchange'' of all rewards was meant as prevent system, because of lack of coins, which would you otherwise get from almost every title to unlock these rwards. That being said, almost every Ubisoft game got everything unlocked. But exp system from these games was pernamently disabled. So no coins or xp for your profile. Alongside with discarding those ''badges''. So yeah, everyone was so mad and the best part is not here yet...They deactivated also AC 2 server (I think you could see that you cannot connect to servers for extra rewards). But the deactivation of servers also affected some other AC games and many other titles as well. Anyway as you could also see from news, Ubisoft is hard struggling with money and it seems it is getting worse. Recently they went to close 1 of their offices somewhere ? I am not sure what exactly it was. But it seems they might be closing even more. Ubisoft is in very hard spot right now and it is only their fault...So they just keep milking the old game series that were succesfull and they also delayed and discarded many of their game projects. Anyway I managed to see that on AC 2 some achievement pop ups were in game, but it is just an automatic message which does not prove anything. It also wrote ''uplay achievement unlocked'' or something, but launcher is not named like this anymore (as I wrote renamed). With this I just wanna say, that message it might show is just ''error'' cuz game is not even supported anymore. Sorry for this essay, but it looked like you needed a whole explanation. If you need ask on anything else or something connected to it, just let me know. But I am pretty surprised, that you did not know even about achievements. Btw your profile level and already earned coins remained. Also already earned badges in these ''unsupported games''. So I hope I was a bit of help and have a nice time in whatever you gonna do :).

[Unseen]

Ok thanks for the info I still see achievements for Farcry primal/blood dragon, and AC revelations so I was a little confused as to why AC2's were gone. And no I don't keep up with a lot of game news I just buy cool games and follow releases. But that's to bad to hear about Ubi they are one of the oldschool companies been here since nintendo and I just bought scott pilgrim. I agree the client isn't ideal but its not as bad as origin or epic least imo.
I really think if people are fans of ubi or their games they need to try and stop I dunno, needlessly criticizing a company that makes amazing games. I do think they might need to calm down on the AC games and FC because they are great games, but look how many they got. They have classic games as well that really need to be ported better such as AC1, Splinter cell, and beyond good and evil.

I really think ubisoft needs to get some kind of deal going with steam, scrap the client entirely but keep all their games, and rework everything for steam. The client idea is always a bad idea not just for ubi but everything. The only company I think could make a client work is nintendo cause they never even jumped on pc before people would download and buy nintendo like crazy. Ubi should really consider it has fans, it has very awesome detailed games. Hell AC series is the best for action history realism. I really think ubi will survive they been doing this since prince of persia on pc and nes. The whole client thing is a trap imo and I don't even know how EA makes so much money I'am not impressed by most of their games.

[Bee4Me]

Originally posted by Unseen:

Ok thanks for the info I still see achievements for Farcry primal/blood dragon, and AC revelations so I was a little confused as to why AC2's were gone. And no I don't keep up with a lot of game news I just buy cool games and follow releases. But that's to bad to hear about Ubi they are one of the oldschool companies been here since nintendo and I just bought scott pilgrim. I agree the client isn't ideal but its not as bad as origin or epic least imo.
I really think if people are fans of ubi or their games they need to try and stop I dunno, needlessly criticizing a company that makes amazing games. I do think they might need to calm down on the AC games and FC because they are great games, but look how many they got. They have classic games as well that really need to be ported better such as AC1, Splinter cell, and beyond good and evil.

I really think ubisoft needs to get some kind of deal going with steam, scrap the client entirely but keep all their games, and rework everything for steam. The client idea is always a bad idea not just for ubi but everything. The only company I think could make a client work is nintendo cause they never even jumped on pc before people would download and buy nintendo like crazy. Ubi should really consider it has fans, it has very awesome detailed games. Hell AC series is the best for action history realism. I really think ubi will survive they been doing this since prince of persia on pc and nes. The whole client thing is a trap imo and I don't even know how EA makes so much money I'am not impressed by most of their games.

I agree with that Ubisoft really does not deserve so much hate (if you look Twitter, forums, Youtube comments) peoplee just legit goes insane about how bad their company is...Tho some of Ubisoft mistakes were so bad, that they deserve some thinking about it...But no reason for so much hate with no real reasons inside of these hateful comments. Anyway from what I saw Ubisoft tried to even get ''bought'' as company to get out of this situation...But noone was interested (even Microsoft). In the title was also someone laughed about this ''try of being bought'' as well. Anyway I am currently finishing last bits of AC 2 and planning to go through entire franchise (already beat AC 1). So soon I am going for brotherhood. And I must say, I am looking forward to newer AC games so much :). Never played them before. Also about that Steam idea, I think you saw more Ubisoft exlusive games went back on Steam and many others came back as well. That says a lot about their situation as well. They really should reconsider all options, because I don't think their company should be in such position for making so many good games for such a long time.

[Unseen]

They need to stay away from publishers like EA, Micro and Lucasarts they don't care about their fans. Even as much as I love bethesda games they are also kind of like that as a publisher. They focus on skyrim and TES online and don't even look back at morrowind or fallout3.

Lucasarts is even worse they don't do a thing with their old classic starwars games. I honestly prefer indie companies these days cause even with small budgets they go out of their way to include new features and update their games. Not all of course but most of the good ones do. I just don't get making art then abandoning it, morrowind is imo one of the greatest games ever made and it has never gotten any kind of update or remaster.

AC I really like the altair/enzio storyline the rest are a bit to much there's just to many sequels. I tend to like the odd ones out, cry freedom looks like one I'd be interested in along with black flag.

But I can understand criticism I really didn't think I was gonna like AC at first lot of people recommended it to me, but I was under the assumption that it was gonna be another mindlessly edgy game glorifying violence. But it really doesn't, it shows the negatives of both sides the assassin order and the templars. And even in the first one the assassin guild is pretty much worse than the templars. Which is what I liked so much about it, it told a story of a guy who recognized corruption in his own guild and fought his own figures of authority against it. Ezio is also a good arc, he didn't ask for what happened to his family, and the people who did were evil and even when it was that guys time to suffer a slow burning death ezio didn't want that. There is a lot of good about the games and questions of right and wrong, done in a subtle way to make people think. Even in revelations, some of the stuff is a little different sided and ezio stresses to his acolytes not to judge everything to quickly and to look at things for what they are..

I think to many games these days just paint enemies and agendas, I think what AC was doing was putting together an era spanning drama with no real evil badguys except the ones who are clearly evil. Like the ones who killed ezios family members. And of course presenting that in a fun, historically impressive sandbox with a lot of cool stuff to do. No one should want to assassinate people, that's kind of the point of the games I think. Even in desmonds flashbacks in revelations it doesn't look like a positive or good existence. That's what I'd like to see more of in games.

As far as criticism of companies and developers go, as gamers and customers we all have opinions but in my view, at first I didn't like uplay to much. But compared to other clients its really not that bad. The downloads and updates are barely over 100 mbs and they do remember the offline setting and my password. So can't really say its worse than origin which was way to heavy. And epic which just looked cheap and spammy. As I say everyone deserves to have an opinion, but look how many games have openly ripped off AC's system since 1. And microsoft laughing at ubi is pretty hypocritical to me considering how much of a pain they turned the halo collection into with a 6gb download every month.

Ok ranting over now.

[The Dukenator]

Freedom Cry is Black Flag dlc that was made stand alone.

Liberation remastered has been included as part of ac3 remastered. The original version is the hd release from 2014. It was a remake of the vita version from 2012.

[Johnny Stokino]

by the way I still get uplay action completed messages in game, I got several. I just got one a few seconds ago. I turned off the ubi ingame layout so I"m not sure if it would tell me what action I completed, but that's all I got right now

[Bee4Me]

Originally posted by Kitty Pryde:

by the way I still get uplay action completed messages in game, I got several. I just got one a few seconds ago. I turned off the ubi ingame layout so I"m not sure if it would tell me what action I completed, but that's all I got right now

Hello, I mentioned it in my message. It is just some kind of error because game servers were shut down and game propably still think that Uplay still exist and achievement system as well. Yet as I wrote, platform got renamed, achievements system completely reworked. That being said, it is not connected in any way to current launcher or won't even show any progress in launcher overlay as well. So basically it is just propably some kind of error which remained after game achievement system stopped working alongside with shut downed servers :). Either way, I got this as well (I think 3 times for whole game?) So basically most likely as I mentioned error or remainings of previous system.

[The Dukenator]

https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Ubisoft_Connect - shows what rewards/challenges existed for each game.

The challenges were removed from UbiConnect, but left in the game as they are hardcoded.
These are different from the achievement lists that exist.
AC2 did not have any achievements on UbiConnect from what I've seen. Brotherhood had them in game under stats.

[Xamalion]

Originally posted by Bee4Me:

Originally posted by Kitty Pryde:

by the way I still get uplay action completed messages in game, I got several. I just got one a few seconds ago. I turned off the ubi ingame layout so I"m not sure if it would tell me what action I completed, but that's all I got right now

Hello, I mentioned it in my message. It is just some kind of error because game servers were shut down and game propably still think that Uplay still exist and achievement system as well. Yet as I wrote, platform got renamed, achievements system completely reworked. That being said, it is not connected in any way to current launcher or won't even show any progress in launcher overlay as well. So basically it is just propably some kind of error which remained after game achievement system stopped working alongside with shut downed servers :). Either way, I got this as well (I think 3 times for whole game?) So basically most likely as I mentioned error or remainings of previous system.

I can still buy items for AC Valhalla with Upoints. There is a lot of free stuff, but also many weapons and mounts for Upoints. So it isn't completely down.

[Bee4Me]

Originally posted by Xamalion:

Originally posted by Bee4Me:

Hello, I mentioned it in my message. It is just some kind of error because game servers were shut down and game propably still think that Uplay still exist and achievement system as well. Yet as I wrote, platform got renamed, achievements system completely reworked. That being said, it is not connected in any way to current launcher or won't even show any progress in launcher overlay as well. So basically it is just propably some kind of error which remained after game achievement system stopped working alongside with shut downed servers :). Either way, I got this as well (I think 3 times for whole game?) So basically most likely as I mentioned error or remainings of previous system.

I can still buy items for AC Valhalla with Upoints. There is a lot of free stuff, but also many weapons and mounts for Upoints. So it isn't completely down.

Hello, of course. Because Valhalla was not affected by this ''server shut down'' also if I am correct even some other AC games were not affected as well. But the most of older ones, were servers shut downed=useless dlcs-content of those was linked to servers which allowed their usage-either outfits, some additional maps etc. etc. There was a GIANT list of games that Ubisoft planned to ''cut down'' like this...Kinda shame, if you ask me. So as Valhalla stands as of the newest title AC (if I am correct ?), then it would be nonsense to put servers or anything off. That is why items to these games, you still CAN buy with Uplay Coins (same goes with some other tittles as well). But mostly the new ones, or those which was not affected by the Ubisoft silly move of ''achievements and launcher remake''. That caused the most of the games achievements went gone and all items auto unlocked by free (no need to redeem them too). But yeah, it was not affected for some games, yet the list of them can be counted on fingers XD.

[Unseen]

I don’t really care about the added content I still got my Altair uniform in 2. I just don’t see the point in removing the achievements since we earned them. Not that it matters much the ac2 achievements were pretty easy.