Murderer’s Creed Shadows, the subsequent mainline sport in Ubisoft’s long-running historic fiction franchise, is almost right here after a couple of delays, a leak, and plenty of on-line yelling. And if you happen to had been planning to play the sport on Steam, effectively, I’ve acquired some excellent news and in addition, some dangerous information for Steam Deck homeowners.
On February 28, Ubisoft revealed a technical-focused Q&A about Murderer’s Creed Shadows. Within the publish, they answered over a dozen fan questions on how the upcoming open-world stealth sport will carry out on consoles, specs wanted on PC, upscaling and raytracing choices, and extra. And on this new publish, Ubisoft confirmed that Murderer’s Creed Shadows on Steam received’t, like previous many Ubisoft PC video games, require gamers to obtain and set up Ubisoft Join.
So sure, right here’s the excellent news: In accordance with Ubisoft, you received’t have to muck about with a separate launcher when taking part in Shadows through Steam. The corporate says that Shadows features a “lite embedded model” of Ubisoft Join in it.
Nevertheless, you’ll nonetheless have to hyperlink your Steam account to a Ubisoft Join account to play Shadows. Ubisoft guarantees it is a “one-time” factor and when you hyperlink the accounts you may be good to go, however it’s nonetheless a bizarre barrier between Steam customers and the sport. And for these nervous that this implies you must be on-line to play Shadows, that’s not the case. Ubisoft confirmed you solely want an web connection to put in the sport. Then you possibly can play offline.
Now for some dangerous information: Steam Deck customers received’t be taking part in Murderer’s Creed Shadows at launch. In at present’s tech Q&A, Ubisoft very bluntly responded to a query about Shadows on Steam Deck with:
At launch, the sport won’t be suitable with Steam Deck, because of the reality it’s beneath our minimal specs for PC.
This isn’t shocking, as increasingly video games are struggling to run on the getting older Steam Deck. Nevertheless, the truth that Ubisoft specified it received’t be playable at launch is attention-grabbing. Maybe in a future replace the corporate will add some Steam Deck choices to make it playable on Valve’s transportable PC. However if you happen to don’t have a pc that may play Shadows and depend on a Steam Deck to play PC video games, I’d maintain off on shopping for the brand new Murderer’s Creed.
Murderer’s Creed Shadows is almost right here. The sport launches on Xbox Collection X/S, PS5, and PC on March 20.
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