Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has been formally announced by Ubisoft, and it's confirmed to be coming to Stadia so you will be able to stream it on Linux at release. For those of you hoping to grab it on Steam to play with Steam Play Proton, you're in for some disappointment there as it's going to the Epic Games Store instead. At least with Stadia, there's still a way to play right away.
More: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla throws players axe-first into ninth-century England, an age of warring kingdoms and Viking conquest. As Eivor, a fierce Viking raider, you’ll lead your clan to build a new home amid England’s fractured dominions.
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I'm a huge fan of the setting! I somewhat recently blitzed through the Vikings TV series and so this news has me personally quite pumped-up and excited. After playing quite a lot of Assassins Creed Odyssey on Stadia, which works impressively well, hopefully this will too. It's launching "Holiday 2020"
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So hidden axe instead of blade otherwise 0/10
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I don’t play these games, but if you play an Ubi game on Steam it launches Uplay after. Is the Uplay integration workable in Proton?
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The trailer in the article is region locked and doesn't work in the US.
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Mohandevir Apr 30, 2020
Is it a timed exclusive? If so, guess I'll wait for it to show on Steam and maybe I'll think about buying it, when it will be 50% off... Even then, I have Assassin's Creed Origins and never got through my first run. Whenever I play, I have a feeling of confusion and I gave up because of that. Lack of focus? I don't know, but I don't feel invested in it... It's probably just me though.
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robertosf92 Apr 30, 2020
I don’t play these games, but if you play an Ubi game on Steam it launches Uplay after. Is the Uplay integration workable in Proton?
Yes, at least Watch Dogs 2 worked for me.
Am I the only one who thinks that all that's left of the old Assassin's Creed are the name, the watchtowers and the hidden blades? I mean, we haven't heard from the order since Syndicate (it's well worked out, but I find it dissapointing nonetheless)
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The trailer in the article is region locked and doesn't work in the US.Oh sorry, seems I grabbed it from the UK YouTube, have switched it for their generic named channel which I assume doesn't have such issues.
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Granted, I haven't tried Stadia *snip*Well, right now you don't need to pay a penny when you sign up. You've got nothing to lose but time and possibly gain a new way to play games. Worth trying at least and keeping an eye on.
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I was really hyped about it. But again Epic only? Well thanks for saving me money i guess....
didnt ubisoft say that far cry new dawn will be the last game on steam for a while?
why are you surprised about AC then?
ghost recon, division 2, anno 1800... not epic only. you can buy it on uplay
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rustybroomhandle Apr 30, 2020
If it were something I'd want to play, I'd probably buy/play through UPlay/Wine directly, rather than the EGS store or Stadia.
Order of preference is:
UPlay direct purchase
EGS Store
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Stadi...naaaaaah.
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Order of preference is:
UPlay direct purchase
EGS Store
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Stadi...naaaaaah.
Last edited by rustybroomhandle on 30 April 2020 at 6:17 pm UTC
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Kimyrielle Apr 30, 2020
I got some of the Creed games from the Humble sub. Have yet to play any of them. So far I couldn't be bothered to set up UPlay in WINE in a way that I could redeem the Humble keys. I guess I am not THAT interested in Ubi's games, so no biggie for me if they jump ship to EGS. Not interested in Stadia either. Not sure why I'd want to waste multiple Gigabytes of bandwidth per hour just to stream a game my computer could render locally just as well, if not better.
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The trailer in the article is region locked and doesn't work in the US.Oh sorry, seems I grabbed it from the UK YouTube, have switched it for their generic named channel which I assume doesn't have such issues.
Looks like there isn't a version for everyone. Here is the North American version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Fr3cS3MtY
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walther von stolzing Apr 30, 2020
I'd probably buy/play through UPlay/Wine directly, rather than the EGS store or Stadia.
Same here; besides, the uplay store has regional pricing, & whenever there's a major sale on steam & elsewhere, they have an equivalent sale as well.
It's a pity that the windows version almost certainly won't be vulkan based; but I'd *love* to be wrong about that.
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I lost interest in the series after the few I played on the PS3, but this does seem like the worst possible way of doing things: go through the effort of porting the game to Linux & Vulkan, but then go specifically with Linux-hostile methods so they couldn't sell it to Linux customers even if they could be bothered to.
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I lost interest in the series after the few I played on the PS3, but this does seem like the worst possible way of doing things: go through the effort of porting the game to Linux & Vulkan, but then go specifically with Linux-hostile methods so they couldn't sell it to Linux customers even if they could be bothered to.
You can be sure, they do not even think a second about Linux. Stadia promises Money, Linux does not. So simple (and sad)
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I was really hyped about it. But again Epic only? Well thanks for saving me money i guess....except it wont be epic only as it require a u play account even from the epic store just like it would from steam so either way you have to go through uplay.
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I don’t play these games, but if you play an Ubi game on Steam it launches Uplay after. Is the Uplay integration workable in Proton?
Sort of depends on the game it seems however there is always lutris which handles u play without issue thus far
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Is it just me or is "Assassin's Creed" kind of an odd name for a game about Vikings?
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walther von stolzing Apr 30, 2020
Is it just me or is "Assassin's Creed" kind of an odd name for a game about Vikings?
It's the established brand name they slap on top of historical period dramas that probably would fare better without any of the convoluted & incoherent (beyond redemption) 'lore' and backstory that comes trailing behind that name.
I really can't fathom why they think the game wouldn't sell as well without the AC name attached to it; what a bizarre place to look for 'safety'.
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It's not like there aren't tons of interesting historical settings where assassins would fit just fine and you could call it "Assassin's Creed" and more or less mean it. You got your original Middle East Hashishin. The glory that was Rome (or shadows behind same); the political mazes of Byzantium. Imperial China. Plausibly the ancient Persian empire. Anywhere urban and sophisticated. Plenty of places you could do franchise entries with actual assassins.Is it just me or is "Assassin's Creed" kind of an odd name for a game about Vikings?
It's the established brand name they slap on top of historical period dramas that probably would fare better without any of the convoluted & incoherent (beyond redemption) 'lore' and backstory that comes trailing behind that name.
I really can't fathom why they think the game wouldn't sell as well without the AC name attached to it; what a bizarre place to look for 'safety'.
Viking England, not so much.
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