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    Congrats UbiSoft on A Brilliant Concept!!

    I have to tip my hat and give credit where it's due. You have taken a faithful player of this game and completely turned and soured him. I played both beta's and was a preorder sucker. You see...I absolutely love the concept of this game. As a fan of military history (particularly the middle ages), a fantasy novel author, and a video game aficionado this game concept was a blessing.

    So where did it go wrong. Well lets talk connectivity.

    You see I can accept that there are balance issues and things that in the overall scope of things are minor. I can accept that the story is lame, short, and basically a character by character tutorial. Which is too bad because the depth of the world as evidenced by the observables in each level really hints at a broad world with a rich history that could provide the backdrop for an epic campaign with some amazing dlc expandables. But..no...dropped the ball there. But still, I can live with it.

    So it all comes back to connectivity. I didn't notice any problems during the beta's, a drop here or there that I dismissed because, well it was a beta so that was part of the disclaimer right? But now...almost three weeks into the "finished' product and my drop rate is INCREASING. I'm dropping more now than I ever had before. I have 16 completed Dominion matches for the challenge over the weekend. Want to guess how many dropped on me. 17! I was dropped out of more matches than I was able to complete. Sometimes it'd be a few seconds into a match, sometimes it'd be right at the end as one team broke. Do you honestly know how frustrating it is to play for 9-10 mins and finally have another team on the edge and then get that lovely error message 00600037 or something to that effect? I should have it memorized how often I've seen it. No rewards, no experience or steel. Just 10 mins I'll never get back. I keep trying to console myself and say well it was 10 min of live practice, but that's wearing thin. Today I recruited a Valkyrie to fulfill the "complete 5 skirmish matches with a hybrid", I dueled a bot for a while and learned the basic mechanics and then jumped in, ready to be meat to the slaughter (especially since all my opponents were consistently rep 1 or higher, usually 3 or above with heroic gear so I'm a one hit and dead wonder). Here's the funny thing, after 7 attempts at "completing" a skirmish I still don't have the order completed. Know why? Six of those matches disconnected. The last five in a row.

    I love this game. The concept is brilliant and the potential to make a phenomenal, market breaking franchise is there. But you're screwing it up and hemorrhaging players like a 108 gear, Rep 3+ Nobushi bleeds out my poor "noob" Valkyrie. (And for the record I'm not a noob, my Warlord main is a Rep 5 101 and I have a Rep 1 Warden...I'm just a noob to the Valk)

    Brilliant concept. I just wish Naughty Dog had come up with it. Then we'd have one of the deepest stories in gaming and a company that cared enough to provide it's player base with the online PvP experience they deserve and are begging for.

    For what it's worth; after my fifth skirmish disconnect in a row I came here to rant and vent. So instead of playing your game, buying steel or the season pass, I'm on the forum taking a break so my PS4 controller doesn't end up through my TV and I have to explain that to the wife.
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    You have to commend Ubi. They come up with fantastic concepts for games, build the hype and then completely ruin it with poor design choices and releasing it before it's ready. I'm looking forward to their next patch that will make the game completely unplayable.
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  3. #3
    Originally Posted by Bob__Gnarly Go to original post
    You have to commend Ubi. They come up with fantastic concepts for games, build the hype and then completely ruin it with poor design choices and releasing it before it's ready. I'm looking forward to their next patch that will make the game completely unplayable.
    i hope sony doesnt approve the patch, then everyone will just play PK, the only reason id want it is because im a valk main and without the patch shes mediocre with low dmg. Granted the only thing they did to PK was actually fix her to where she should've been in the first place. But it will bring forth all the AC weebs from their dens.
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    Originally Posted by Bob__Gnarly Go to original post
    You have to commend Ubi. They come up with fantastic concepts for games, build the hype and then completely ruin it with poor design choices and releasing it before it's ready. I'm looking forward to their next patch that will make the game completely unplayable.
    I loved AC Black Flag...but every other Ubi title has been "meh" at best...I really thought with all the hype and the idea behind this one it'd break the mold. Sadly disappointed....
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