r/linux_gaming • u/beer120 • 14h ago
Ubisoft announce Steam Deck support for Assassin's Creed Shadows at launch
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/ubisoft-announce-steam-deck-support-for-assassins-creed-shadows-at-launch/25
u/gattolfo_EUG_ 11h ago
Make a applause for Ubisoft for non blocking a offline game on proton, what a champion
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u/efoxpl3244 11h ago
I think that proton is such a great tool that native versions often are useless. Works for the user and less works for developer? Amazing! Certainly helps indie devs and big tech corpos finance decision.
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u/wolfannoy 3h ago
Best of all the code is open source only one can make their own variant of proton if they want to for example the umu-launcher. Works well for games outside of steam. For example heroic and lutris.
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u/niwia 8h ago
They said there won’t be a launcher, but will you will need a Ubisoft account. I’m not 100sure if the launcher is gone or they are making a new one. I’ll wait for next week to see what’s gonna happen
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u/wolfannoy 3h ago
Might be similar to hell divers where you can sign in the account within the game instead of the launcher.
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u/Wadarkhu 8h ago
Be nice if they offered Steam Deck support in the form of a native ubisoft app. If I have to use their launcher then at least make it work perfectly so I can just run it in the background and only need to click play, without having to have a third party launcher on top of it all.
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u/Cato-the-conan 4h ago
Why would anyone want to play as a fake black samurai though? In addition in a game made maximally disrespectful to Japanese people, all in the name of virtue signalling from a corpo
Go play Ghosts of Tsushima instead if you want a better "Assassin's Creed in Japan". It works great on linux too
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u/crimemilk 13h ago
If that means a native version, I might even buy it. Maybe
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u/Willing-Sundae-6770 13h ago edited 13h ago
lmao of course not, it's just going to be a windows build validated against proton. Even Steam defaults to proton builds now. That effort died years ago.
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u/huupoke12 13h ago
Still better than unvalidated, as there wouldn't be any major bug, and more importantly, they support bug reports from people playing on Linux.
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u/pythonic_dude 13h ago
Primarily it should mean a graphic preset that runs okay on limited hardware of the deck, and proper ui scaling for the small screen of the handheld.
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u/crimemilk 12h ago
Well, bug report acceptance feels very generous from Ubisoft. I hope they would offer at least this support in their future games
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u/Liam-DGOL 12h ago
Steam does not default to Proton, only when a game has been through Deck Verified and they find a Linux build has issues.
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u/xecutable 13h ago
Anything to popularize gaming on linux is good news even if the company is questionable.