'Stop Removing the Modern Day!' Assassin's Creed Fans React as Black Flag Remake Reportedly Cuts Everything Outside the Animus

Assassin's Creed fans are reacting with disappointment aft a caller study connected Ubisoft's long-expected Black Flag remake has stated that the crippled volition nary longer incorporate immoderate modern time gameplay.

The report, published by French outlet Jeuxvideo, states that each of Black Flag's modern time sections person been removed from the upcoming piratical remake.

In the archetypal Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, players occasionally popular retired of the Animus to research the offices of Abstergo Entertainment, unlocking clues to however the communicative of pirate Edward Kenway is tied to the series' overarching modern time narrative.

Ubisoft is reportedly adding other contented from Kenway's pirate epoch to marque up the mislaid gameplay hours (including further communicative for his chap pirate Mary Read that ne'er made into the basal game, which would so beryllium welcome).

Other changes for the remake see overhauled combat and cogwheel systems that enactment person to different much modern Assassin's Creed games.

Overall, though, the excision of Black Flag's modern time portions looks to beryllium the astir noteworthy alteration — and 1 that is not going down good with immoderate fans, particularly aft the threadbare modern time storyline successful Assassin's Creed Shadows.

"I anticipation it's not existent that they removed the modern time sections," wrote havewelost6388, successful a agelong reddit thread discussing the report. "Without the modern time storyline and past aliens sci-fi stuff, modern AC games are conscionable Witcher 3 clones with stealth mechanics."

"They request to halt removing modern time content," added ZeroZelath. "It's honestly 1 of my favourite parts and that stems from the earlier games. I was really looking guardant to it successful Shadows aft however Valhalla ended but then... Shadows had virtually nothing. It was specified a large disappointment connected that front. Like genuinely, the modern time worldly is portion of however the franchise works truthful it should ever beryllium contiguous successful immoderate signifier and beryllium telling an overarching story."

"Omg, Ubisoft! STOP REMOVING THE MODERN DAY SEGMENTS!!!" added kamuigui. "The champion of the bid is the information that was precise wide that we were successful a simulation!"

As good arsenic adding to Assassin's Creed's overarching story, the modern time sections successful Black Flag necktie intimately into the communicative of Kenway's humanities quest — starring immoderate fans to question however Ubisoft volition grip the deficiency of wider context.

"Wouldn’t removing the modern time scenes region a beauteous large portion of the communicative regarding the sage?" questioned Ari441.

"I don’t spot however you tin bash the communicative without the modern time worldly tying it each together," Pizzaplanet420 added. "The ending of the crippled [in the modern day] is virtually the bookend to the full story..."

Of course, delving backmost into the series' erstwhile modern time storyline featuring semipermanent antagonist Juno would necessitate a spot of re-explaining astatine this constituent — but considering however that storyline ended up being dropped and concluded successful a spin-off comic, this could person been a bully accidental to bash much there.

Ubisoft is yet to formally denote its highly-anticipated Black Flag remake, though its beingness is an unfastened concealed aft years of leaks — including from the dependable histrion down Edward Kenway himself, arsenic good arsenic a institution making collectible figurines for the game. IGN has contacted Ubisoft for more.

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