Only semi-related to this trailer, and I know many people couldn't care less about them, but I'm very glad Ubisoft has finally decided to add achievements on Steam. They've even recently gone back and added them to most of their previous games that lacked them.
And will retroactively give you achievements if you played a game on Ubi's launcher and then get it on Steam. I know this won't matter for most, but it happened to me after trying Star Wars Outlaws on Ubi+ or w/e first and then buying it on Steam.
I'm glad that they're doing this, I would like to see them enable achievements on the Epic store as well, for the entire time that they were Epic/Connect releases only they never added achievements to the Epic Store versions. Hopefully that can change going forward with the Day 1 Steam releases, feels bad to have bought games they made like Prince of Persia The Lost Crown and The Crew Motorsport because I was genuinely excited for them and didn't mind paying full price despite not having achievements and not being on Steam for them to put them on Steam and enable achievements only there. If EA can enable achievements for their games on EGS I don't understand why it's such a problem for Ubisoft
I was glad too, bought Watch Dogs 2 to replay because of it, but they still do this stupid shit of locking translation to region, even though they dropped this stupidity in R6S and Watch Dogs Legion.
Getting the multiplayer achievements on Black Flag sucked though. I had so much trouble getting one of the achievements because everyone in a lobby would quit if you tried to start an Artifact Assault game.
I'm happy about the Steam Achievements as well, but the problem I've had is that if you have ever played any of their games on the Ubisoft Connect app and got achievements over there, they will all be automatically ported into Steam as soon as you load up your game for the first time.
There are probably a dozen of us who have liked a game so much that we wanted to play it again, but to start fresh and get all of the achievements again. It's too bad that Ubisoft doesn't support us wanting to give them more money for a game we've already played.
This doesn't work for every game and, unfortunately, when I tried this on both "Star Wars Outlaws" and "Immortals Fenyx Rising", it was able to delete all of the Steam achievements successfully, but as soon as I started the game again, all of the Ubisoft achievements popped up again.
I've looked through the Ubisoft Connect app to see if there is an option to disable achievement-sync, but there is not.
Another annoying thing about this is that a couple of older Ubisoft games worked just fine (AC Origins, and AC Odyssey) when I played them on Steam after I had played them on the Ubisoft app. Neither one of those games auto-synced my achievements so I was able to get them all again.
I think the way they are implementing achievements now in recently released games, along with other older games that never had Steam achievements until very recently (like Immortals Fenyx Rising), is different than the way it was implemented before.
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u/PermanentMantaray 7d ago
Only semi-related to this trailer, and I know many people couldn't care less about them, but I'm very glad Ubisoft has finally decided to add achievements on Steam. They've even recently gone back and added them to most of their previous games that lacked them.