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I wish I had known how fucking terrible Ubisoft has become. I haven’t bought any of their games in ages. I picked up Black Flag Resync because Black Flag was one of my favorite games ever. I’ve enjoyed the Resync…when it works.
But I can’t get it to run on my Steam Deck without just a black screen, despite being “verified” on the Steam Deck, so I have to stream it from the PC if I want to play on the handheld, and it frequently won’t start up because of their stupid Ubisoft Connect bullshit “not able to activate” which is so fucking absurd since it should activate once and then be activated forever.
For an alternate stealth agility game I recommend the Styx series.
For sailing and bashing heads I recommend Valheim.
For actual sailing and trading I recommend Sailwind.
For another singleplayer pirate experience I recommend Salt 2: Shores Of Gold.
Windrose also looks promising.
Blazing Sales looks like a blast of a PvP Battle Royale pirate game.
Blackwake is a free and straightforward pirate ship PvP game. Very fun but low server population numbers at odd hours.
Steam is they type of company to grant a refund if you tell them you're upset that the game lied about steam deck compat and offline mode, even if you're over 2 hours
Thank you for the suggestion. I won’t seek a refund, because I am enjoying the game very much when I do get to play it, the story additions and mechanic updates and new graphics are worth it to me personally, but it will very likely be the last Ubisoft title I purchase (until they remake Black Flag again in 2039).
Ubisoft has always been bad. They basically invented the whole „singleplayer must be online“ shtick.
Yeah, I did that once because my crew was into The Division for a while. It was MMO lite with a mandatory online connection even for single player.
It had bunches of other problems (some of which were typical of Ubisoft titles, but the obligatory online thing was the final dealbreaker, especially since the servers would stall or go down frequently.
Whole new level of living under a rock just dropped. Lol.
lol I’m “relatively” inexperienced in the PC gaming world. My (very limited) Ubisoft experience was on console where I never had an issue. But also I haven’t really wanted to play anything from Ubisoft in ages. Honestly I think the last Ubisoft game I played was Black Flag on the Switch (Black Flag on the go? Yes please!) and before that probably Black Flag on Xbox 360.
I had no idea just how awful they were on PC.
No worries, they haven't been a decent company since the early 2000s.