Ubisoft game editions question...ubisoft connect, steam, epic game store etc

[EdgeUHF]

HI sorry if this has been asked before but I was wondering...

I have all the assassin creed games on ubisoft connect, and some I got via the epic game store on discount ages ago (for example gold version of Odyssey).

My question is, if I run for example I run an assasin creed game I have on steam, will it launch ubisoft connect and run a version with all the dlc I previously bought on the epic game store, or do I have to launch it from the epic game store..or will launching from steam be enough?

[Kargor]

Frist of all, most (all?) Ubisoft games require the UPlay client even when bought on other platforms -- they basically use Steam like an alternative download source, but they always give you an UPlay-version.

Beyond that, I don't know how purchasing different packs on different 3rd-party platforms plays out. One would assume that, for example, an Epic purchase and a Steam purchase of the same game will mash together on UPlay, so you end up with the combined content from both purchases. Whether or not that translates back to launching a game from Steam and seeing the DLCs you've bought on Epic, I don't know.

You should be able to always launch via the UPlay client directly, to get whatever Ubisoft knows you have. Along the same lines, you cannot launch a game through the Steam client if you've never bought the Steam version of it. UPlay is not actually integrated into the Steam client to access both libraries, it's still an entirely separate thing.

Have you actually tried any of these things, if you actually have this case? Why not just look at what happens when you launch the game via the various platforms?

[StickyPawz]

Typically, you can't *mix* platform content.

For example: if you own the dlc on Epic, then you gotta launch the base game on Epic to access.

[Lithurge]

I'm going to say no it won't work that way.

I don't own any Ubisoft games through Epic, but the ones I own on Steam that use the Ubisoft client all show up with a Steam tag in my library on there. I suspect (and you can check this by launching the Ubisoft client) that the EGS ones will have an EGS label on them. So it sees them as separate entities.